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Eddy-modified iron, light, and phytoplankton cell division rates in the...
We examine the effects of Southern Ocean eddies on phytoplankton cell division rates in a global, multiyear, eddy-resolving, 3-D ocean simulation of the Community Earth System...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric water vapor affecting atmospheric circulation
Water vapor plays an important role in many aspects of the climate system, by affecting radiation, cloud formation, atmospheric chemistry and dynamics. Even the low...- publication PDF
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The influence of atmospheric tide and planetary wave variability during...
Numerical simulations are performed for a sudden stratosphere warming (SSW) under different atmospheric tide and planetary wave forcing conditions to investigate the tidal...- publication PDF
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Lower-tropospheric influences on the timing and intensity of afternoon...
A 50-member convection-allowing ensemble is used to examine effects of daytime PBL evolution and ambient flow interacting with modest terrain features on convection initiation...- publication PDF
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Infiltration from the Pedon to global grid scales: An overview and outlook...
Infiltration in soils is a key process that partitions precipitation at the land surface into surface runoff and water that enters the soil profile. We reviewed the basic...- publication PDF
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Causal link of the wave-4 structures in plasma density and vertical plasma...
We investigate the annual and local time variations of the wave-4 structures in the plasma density and vertical drift in the low-latitude F region by analyzing the measurements...- publication PDF
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Global Distribution of Total Cloud Cover and Cloud Type Amounts Over Land
This is the third of a series of atlases to result from a study of the global cloud climatology from ground-based observations. The first two atlases (NCAR/TN-201+STR and...- publication PDF
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An Introduction to Atmospheric and Oceanographic Data
The purpose of this NCAR Instructional Aid (IA) is to serve as a "data-primer" for students and those in other fields of research who are interested in carrying out research...- publication PDF
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Climatology and characteristics of medium-scale F region ionospheric plasma...
Medium-scale ionospheric ionization structures are a persistent global feature of the Earth's ionosphere. Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate...- publication PDF
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Simulation and observation of lunar tide effect on high-latitude,...
We investigate the high-latitude mesospheric and lower thermospheric winds during the 2013 sudden stratospheric warming event using ground-based optical Doppler remote sensing...- publication PDF
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Numerical prediction of an Antarctic severe wind event with the weather...
This study initiates the application of the maturing Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to the polar regions in the context of the real-time Antarctic Mesoscale...- publication PDF
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Model-space localization in serial ensemble filters
Ensemble-based data assimilation systems typically use covariance localization to dampen spurious correlations associated with sampling error while increasing the rank of the...- publication PDF
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A large eddy simulation intercomparison study of shallow cumulus convection
This paper reports an intercomparison study on undisturbed trade wind cumulus convection under steady-state conditions as observed during the Barbados Oceanographic and...- publication PDF
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Modeling the water systems of the Western US to support climate-resilient...
Electricity and water systems in the Western US (WUS) are closely connected, with hydropower comprising 20% of total annual WUS generation, and electricity related to water...- publication PDF
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For how long should what data be assimilated for mesoscale forecasting and...
Data assimilation is used among other things to constrain the initial conditions of weather forecasting models by fitting the model fields to observations made over a certain...- publication PDF
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Global seasonal distribution of CH2Br2 and CHBr3 in the upper troposphere...
Bromine released from the decomposition of short-lived brominated source gases contributes as a sink of ozone in the lower stratosphere. The two major contributors are CH2Br2...- publication PDF
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A systematic re-evaluation of methods for quantification of bulk...
Organic nitrate (RONO2) formation in the atmosphere represents a sink of NOx (NOx = NO + NO2) and termination of the NOx/HOx (HOx = HO2 + OH) ozone formation and radical...- publication PDF
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Spectral properties of one-dimensional diffusive systems subject to...
The vertical wavenumber and frequency spectra of horizontal wind and temperature in stochastically driven systems with diffusion, either due to uniform background eddy and...- publication PDF
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Comparison of two-moment bulk microphysics schemes in idealized supercell...
Idealized three-dimensional supercell simulations were performed using the two-moment bulk microphysics schemes of Morrison and Milbrandt - Yau in the Weather Research and...- publication PDF
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Climate intervention research in the World Climate Research Programme: A perspective
The 2023 World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Open Science Conference underscored the critical need for increased climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, along with...- publication PDF