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Intercomparison of integrated water vapor retrievals from SSM/I and COSMIC
Integrated water vapor (IWV) estimates derived from four different Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) algorithms are collocated and compared with IWV retrievals using...- publication PDF
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Measurement of HO₂NO₂ in the free troposphere during the Intercontinental...
The first direct in situ measurements of HO₂NO₂ in the upper troposphere were performed from the NASA DC-8 during the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment-North...- publication PDF
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Common warming pattern emerges irrespective of forcing location
The Earth's climate is changing due to the existence of multiple radiative forcing agents. It is under question whether different forcing agents perturb the global climate in a...- publication PDF
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The relative importance of chlorine and bromine radicals in the oxidation of...
Mercury is a toxic environmental contaminant originating from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) is relatively long lived in the...- publication PDF
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A spectral stochastic kinetic energy backscatter scheme and its impact on...
Understanding model error in state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction models and representing its impact on flow-dependent predictability remains a complex and mostly...- publication PDF
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Interaction of jets and submesoscale dynamics leads to rapid ocean ventilation
Ocean ventilation is the process by which climatically important tracers such as heat and carbon are exchanged between the atmosphere and ocean interior. In this paper a series...- publication PDF
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The Brewer-Dobson circulation during the last glacial maximum
The Brewer-Dobson circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is investigated in simulations using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model version 6. We examine...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric and mesospheric HO₂ observations from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder
This study introduces stratospheric and mesospheric hydroperoxyl radical (HO2) estimates from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) using an offline retrieval (i.e. run...- publication PDF
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Inferences of predictability associated with warm season precipitation episodes
Herein preliminary findings are reported from a radar-based climatology of warm season precipitation "episodes." Episodes are defined as time-space clusters of heavy...- publication PDF
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Why do models overestimate surface ozone in the Southeast United States?
Ozone pollution in the Southeast US involves complex chemistry driven by emissions of anthropogenic nitrogen oxide radicals (NOx = NO + NO2) and biogenic isoprene. Model...- publication PDF
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Verifying forecasts spatially
Numerous new methods have been proposed for using spatial information to better quantify and diagnose forecast performance when forecasts and observations are both available on...- publication PDF
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A hybrid ETKF-3DVAR data assimilation scheme for the WRF Model. Part I:...
A hybrid ensemble transform Kalman filter-three-dimensional variational data assimilation (ETKF-3DVAR) system for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is introduced....- publication PDF
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Giant sea-salt aerosols and warm rain formation in marine stratocumulus
The concentrations and sizes of smaller aerosols (radius smaller than 0.5 µm) in the marine atmosphere vary owing to natural and anthropogenic factors. The concentrations and...- publication PDF
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The role of surface heat fluxes on the size of Typhoon Megi (2016)
This study attempts to understand how surface heat fluxes in different storm regions affect tropical cyclone (TC) size. The Advanced Research version of the Weather Research and...- publication PDF
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Changes in freezing rain occurrence over eastern Canada using...
Freezing precipitation has major consequences for ground and air transportation, the health of citizens, and power networks. Previous studies using coarse resolution climate...- publication PDF
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Constraining emissions of volatile organic compounds from Western US...
The impact of biomass burning (BB) on the atmospheric burden of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is highly uncertain. Here we apply the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model (CTM)...- publication PDF
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Le projet Concordiasi en Antarctique
Au cours des printemps austraux de 2008, 2009 et 2010, des observations météorologiques in situ seront effectuées en Antarctique, incluant des radiosondages faits à Concordia et...- publication PDF
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Multidecadal variability in surface albedo feedback across CMIP5 models
Previous studies quantify surface albedo feedback (SAF) in climate change, but few assess its variability on decadal time scales. Using the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project...- publication PDF
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Global meridional overturning circulation inferred from a data-constrained...
Our current understanding of the global meridional overturning circulation (GMOC) is revisited using a surface-forced ocean model simulation constrained by global hydrographic...- publication PDF
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Can regional climate engineering save the summer Arctic sea ice?
Rapid declines in summer Arctic sea ice extent are projected under high-forcing future climate scenarios. Regional Arctic climate engineering has been suggested as an emergency...- publication PDF
