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The polar marine climate revisited
As an additional classification to Köppen's climate classification for polar (E) climates, the Polar Marine (EM) climate was presented nearly five decades ago and is revisited...- publication PDF
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Polarization calibration of the solar optical telescope onboard Hinode
The Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) onboard Hinode aims to obtain vector magnetic fields on the Sun through precise spectropolarimetry of solar spectral lines with a spatial...- publication PDF
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Scale interactions near the foothills of Himalayas during CAIPEEX
Scale interactions associated with small scale (<100 km) dynamics might play a crucial role in the distribution of aerosol in the Himalayan foothills region. Turbulence...- publication PDF
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Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: Improvements for version 3 of...
Historical reanalyses that span more than a century are needed for a wide range of studies, from understanding large-scale climate trends to diagnosing the impacts of individual...- publication PDF
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The Split-stream Harvesting Game
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Decadal variability in the northeast Pacific in a physical-ecosystem model:...
A basin-wide interdecadal change in both the physical state and the ecology of the North Pacific occurred near the end of 1976. Here we use a physical-ecosystem model to examine...- publication PDF
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Data science as an interdiscipline: Historical parallels from information science
Considerable debate exists today on almost every facet of what data science entails. Almost all commentators agree, however, that data science must be characterized as having an...- publication PDF
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The mysteries of Mammatus clouds: Observations and formation mechanisms
Mammatus clouds are an intriguing enigma of atmospheric fluid dynamics and cloud physics. Most commonly observed on the underside of cumulonimbus anvils, mammatus also occur on...- publication PDF
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Coupled chemistry climate model simulations of the solar cycle in ozone and...
The 11-year solar cycles in ozone and temperature are examined using new simulations of coupled chemistry climate models. The results show a secondary maximum in stratospheric...- publication PDF
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Techniques for the Processing, Storage, and Exchange of Data
This document discusses selected aspects of the NCAR computer hardware systems and some of the considerations involved in choosing data formats. It also describe some of the...- publication PDF
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Towards the definition of a solar forcing dataset for CMIP7
The solar forcing prepared for Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) has been used extensively in climate model experiments and has been tested in various...- publication PDF
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Characterization of water-soluble brown carbon chromophores from wildfire...
Wildfires are an important source of carbonaceous aerosol in the atmosphere. Organic aerosol that absorbs light in the ultraviolet to visible spectral range is referred to as...- publication PDF
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Comparisons of line-of-sight water vapor observations using the Global...
Line-of-sight measurements of integrated water vapor from a global positioning system (GPS) receiver and a microwave radiometer are compared. These two instruments were...- publication PDF
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Impact of thermospheric wind data assimilation on ionospheric...
The upward plasma drift and equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) in the Earth's ionosphere are strongly influenced by the zonal electric field, which is generated by the wind...- publication PDF
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Rain in shallow cumulus over the ocean: The RICO campaign
Shallow, maritime cumuli are ubiquitous over much of the tropical oceans, and characterizing their properties is important to understanding weather and climate. The Rain in...- publication PDF
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Preliminary Design, ENCAR-1 Rocket-Borne Cryogenic Air Sampler
The NCAR Isotope Geochemistry Program is developing a cryogenic air sampler fitted into the nose cone of the Aerobee-150 rocket. This rocket-borne sampling system has been...- publication PDF
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Sudden stratospheric warmings
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are impressive fluid dynamical events in which large and rapid temperature increases in the winter polar stratosphere (similar to 10-50 km)...- publication PDF
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An observing system simulation experiment for the impact of MTG candidate...
An Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) was designed and developed to assess the potential benefit of the Infrared Sounding on the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG-IRS)...- publication PDF
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A moist static energy budget–based analysis of the Sahel rainfall response...
Climate models generate a wide range of precipitation responses to global warming in the African Sahel, but all that use the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory AM2.1...- publication PDF
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Anomalously low solar extreme-ultraviolet irradiance and thermospheric...
Solar activity during 2007-2009 was very low, and during this protracted solar minimum period, the terrestrial thermosphere was cooler and lower in density than expected....- publication PDF