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In-situ aircraft measurements of the vertical distribution of black carbon...
Due to rapid economic development in recent years, China has become a major global source of refractory black carbon (rBC) particles. However, surface rBC measurements have been...- publication PDF
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Aircraft observations of cumulus microphysics ranging from the tropics to...
In situ data collected by three research aircraft in four geographical locations are analyzed to determine the relationship between cloud-base temperature, drop size...- publication PDF
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Impact of equinoctial high-speed stream structures on thermospheric responses
We examine thermospheric neutral density response to 172 solar wind high-speed streams (HSSs) and the associated stream interfaces during the equinox seasons of 2002â2008....- publication PDF
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The impact of stochastic perturbations in physics variables for predicting...
We present a probabilistic framework tailored for solar energy applications referred to as the Weather Research and Forecasting-Solar ensemble prediction system (WRF-Solar EPS)....- publication PDF
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On the seasonal prediction and predictability of winter surface Temperature...
The rapid day-to-day temperature swings associated with extratropical storm tracks can cause cascading infrastructure failure and impact human outdoor activities, thus research...- publication PDF
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A comparison of South American and African preferential pathways for extreme...
In the Southern Hemisphere, a relatively well-known preferential pathway along which cold air surges equatorward is situated to the east of the Andes Mountains. In this study, a...- publication PDF
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Quantification of structural uncertainty in climate data records from GPS...
Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation (RO) has provided continuous observations of the Earth's atmosphere since 2001 with global coverage, all-weather capability,...- publication PDF
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A thermal infrared instrument onboard a geostationary platform for CO and...
This paper presents observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) to compare the relative capabilities of two geostationary thermal infrared (TIR) instruments to measure ozone...- publication PDF
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Increased quasi stationarity and persistence of winter Ural blocking and...
Part I of this study examines the relationship among winter cold anomalies over Eurasia, Ural blocking (UB), and the background conditions associated with Arctic warming over...- publication PDF
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The relation between dayside local Poynting flux enhancement and cusp reconnection
The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F15 satellite frequently observes an unusually high level of local Poynting flux when the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF)...- publication PDF
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Climate variability and change of Mediterranean-type climates
Mediterranean-type climates are defined by temperate, wet winters, and hot or warm dry summers and exist at the western edges of five continents in locations determined by the...- publication PDF
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What is the importance of climate model bias when projecting the impacts of...
Regional climate change impact (CCI) studies have widely involved downscaling and bias correcting (BC) global climate model (GCM)-projected climate for driving land surface...- publication PDF
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Observations pertaining to precipitation within the northeast Pacific...
Three genuine stratocumulus-to-cumulus transitions sampled during the Cloud System Evolution over the Trades (CSET) campaign are documented. The focus is on Lagrangian evolution...- publication PDF
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An eddy injection method for large-eddy simulations of tornado-like vortices
The structure and intensity of tornado-like vortices are examined using large-eddy simulations (LES) in an idealized framework. The analysis focuses on whether the simulated...- publication PDF
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Major modes of short-term climate variability in the newly developed NUIST...
A coupled earth system model (ESM) has been developed at the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) by using version 5.3 of the European Centre Hamburg...- publication PDF
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A probabilistic quantification of the anthropogenic component of twentieth...
This paper examines in detail the statement in the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report that "Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-twentieth...- publication PDF
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Understanding public hurricane evacuation decisions and responses to...
This study uses data from a survey of coastal Miami-Dade County, Florida, residents to explore how different types of forecast and warning messages influence evacuation...- publication PDF
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Opportunistic observations of Mount Erebus volcanic plume HCl, HF and SO2 by...
Opportunistic large bandwidth, high resolution, high signal to noise ratio mid-infrared solar occultation spectral measurements of the Mount Erebus (Ross Island, Antarctica)...- publication PDF
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The role of the Indian Ocean sector for prediction of the coupled...
Indian Ocean (IO) dynamics impact ENSO predictability by influencing wind and precipitation anomalies in the Pacific. To test if the upstream influence of the IO improves ENSO...- publication PDF
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Generating probabilistic forecasts from convection-allowing ensembles Using...
"Neighborhood approaches'' have been used in two primary ways to postprocess and verify high-resolution ensemble output. While the two methods appear deceptively similar, they...- publication PDF