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Rapid emergence of climate change in environmental drivers of marine ecosystems
Climate change is expected to modify ecological responses in the ocean, with the potential for important effects on the ecosystem services provided to humankind. Here we address...- publication PDF
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Electron impact ionization: A new parameterization for 100 eV to 1 MeV electrons
We present a new parameterization of the altitude profile of the ionization rate in the Earth's atmosphere due to precipitating energetic electrons. Precipitating electrons are...- publication PDF
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Selected User Reference Papers
This slim volume represents an amalgam of different user experiences with the NCAR Graphics System. Each of the papers presented herein contains some special application or use...- publication PDF
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Analysis of the diurnal variation of the global electric circuit obtained...
This work analyzes different current source and conductivity parameterizations and their influence on the diurnal variation of the global electric circuit (GEC). The diurnal...- publication PDF
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Mesosphere and lower thermosphere temperature responses to the May 2024...
The storm‐time temperature difference with respect to its quiet‐time expectation (ΔT) in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere were studied during the extreme...- publication PDF
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Assessing the demographics of the 2021 and 2022 CEDAR workshop
The Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) community is made of engineers, scientists, physicists, and students with a mission to understand the...- publication PDF
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The response of the southern hemisphere middle atmosphere to the...
Using the specified-dynamics (SD) Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (SD-WACCM), the effects of the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) on the midwinter stratosphere and...- publication PDF
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Pulsation modes in rapidly rotating stellar models based on the...
Context: New observational means such as the space missions CoRoT and Kepler and ground-based networks are and will be collecting stellar pulsation data with unprecedented...- publication PDF
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Improved understanding of multicentury Greenland Ice Sheet response to...
The simulation of ice sheet‐climate interactions, such as surface mass balance fluxes, is sensitive to model grid resolution. Here we simulate the multi‐century...- publication PDF
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Variations in surface ozone and carbon monoxide in the Kathmandu Valley and...
Air pollution resulting from rapid urbanization and associated human activities in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal has been leading to serious public health concerns over the past...- publication PDF
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Assessing the near surface sensitivity of SCIAMACHY atmospheric COâ...
Satellite observations of atmospheric COâ offer the potential to identify regional carbon surface sources and sinks and to investigate carbon cycle processes. The extent to...- publication PDF
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Science communication during COVID-19: When theory meets practice and best...
This paper synthesizes the efforts of an interdisciplinary, University-convened communication task force in the U.S. that used science communication theory to develop an...- publication PDF
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Does regional hydroclimate change scale linearly with global warming?
Many aspects of climate change scale linearly with global warming. However, nonlinear changes are possible, especially in the context of hydroclimate, and under emissions...- publication PDF
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Temporal variations of atomic oxygen in the upper mesosphere from SABER
One of the atmospheric constituents that can be retrieved from observations by the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) instrument on the...- publication PDF
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Flea diversity as an element for persistence of plague bacteria in an East...
Plague is a flea-borne rodent-associated zoonotic disease that is caused by Yersinia pestis and characterized by long quiescent periods punctuated by rapidly spreading epidemics...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of Central Oklahoma convection forecasts to upstream potential...
The role of upstream subsynoptic forecast errors on forecasts of two different central Oklahoma severe convection events (19 and 31 May 2013) characterized by strong synoptic...- publication PDF
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Coupling of stratospheric warmings with mesospheric coolings in observations...
The vertical coupling between the stratosphere and the mesosphere is diagnosed from polar cap temperatures averaged over 60 degrees-90 degrees N with a new method: the joint...- publication PDF
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Projections of winter polynyas and their biophysical impacts in the Ross Sea...
This study investigates winter polynyas in the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica where several polynyas are known to form. Coastal polynyas are areas of lower sea ice concentration...- publication PDF
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Implementing plant hydraulics in the Community Land Model, Version 5
Version 5 of the Community Land Model (CLM5) introduces the plant hydraulic stress (PHS) configuration of vegetation water use, which is described and compared with the...- publication PDF
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On the numerical treatment of hydrometeor sedimentation in bulk and hybrid...
Hybrid bulk--bin microphysics schemes discretize particle size distributions into bins for calculating microphysical process rates, while retaining a limited number of bulk...- publication PDF