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A Glossary on the Environmental Impact of a Nuclear War
This glossary defines a number or words, expressions and acronyms used in the description of the impact of nuclear war on the environment, and associated issues. Selected...- publication PDF
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A decade of Antarctic science support through AMPS
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The climate impact of aviation aerosols
A comprehensive general circulation model (GCM) is used to estimate the climate impact of aviation emissions of black carbon (BC) and sulfate (SO4) aerosols. Aviation BC is...- publication PDF
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Revising the ozone depletion potentials metric for short-lived chemicals...
Ozone depletion potentials (ODPs) are an important metric in national and international policy for evaluating the relative importance of different gases to affecting...- publication PDF
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Enhanced polar outflow probe ionospheric radio occultation measurements at...
This paper presents validation of ionospheric Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation measurements of the GPS Attitude, Positioning, and Profiling Experiment...- publication PDF
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On the interaction of internal gravity waves with a magnetic field - II....
We present results from numerical simulations of the interaction of internal gravity waves (IGW) with magnetic fields in the radiative interior of the Sun. In this second paper,...- publication PDF
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Constraining non-linear dynamo models using quasi-biennial oscillations from...
Solar magnetic activity exhibits variations with periods between 1.5 and 4 years, the so-called quasi-biennial oscillations (QBOs), in addition to the well-known 11-year Schwabe...- publication PDF
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How to engage and adapt to unprecedented extremes
What: : Facing the urgent challenge of extreme weather and climate-related events, our societal frameworks for "resilience" and "adaptation" are proving to be insufficient. This...- publication PDF
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Gravity waves simulated by high-resolution Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model
For the first time a mesoscale-resolving whole atmosphere general circulation model has been developed, using the National Center for Atmospheric Research Whole Atmosphere...- publication PDF
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A new view of the solar interface region from the Interface Region Imaging...
The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has been obtaining near- and far-ultraviolet images and spectra of the solar atmosphere since July 2013. IRIS is the highest...- publication PDF
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Vertical motions in orographic cloud systems over the Payette River Basin....
Updrafts in wintertime cloud systems over mountainous regions can be described as fixed, mechanically driven by the terrain under a given ambient wind and stability profile...- publication PDF
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Lessons learned through our climate change professional development program...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado has been offering professional development on climate change for middle and high school teachers since the...- publication PDF
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Oceanographic controls on the variability of ice-shelf basal melting and...
Ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea Embayment have thinned, accelerating the seaward flow of ice sheets upstream over recent decades. This imbalance is caused by an increase in the...- publication PDF
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Scientific objectives and capabilities of the Coronal Solar Magnetism Observatory
Magnetic influences increase in importance in the solar atmosphere from the photosphere out into the corona, yet our ability to routinely measure magnetic fields in the outer...- publication PDF
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A new perspective on quiet sun magnetism
The Hinode mission has provided us with a new, quantitative view of the magnetism of the quiet Sun. It has revealed that the quiet internetwork areas are blanketed by horizontal...- publication PDF
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Are the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Northern Annular Mode distinguishable?
This study addresses the question of whether persistent events of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Northern Annular Mode (NAM) teleconnection patterns are...- publication PDF
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Observed structure, evolution, and potential intensity of category 5...
Unprecedented observations of Hurricane Isabel (2003) at category 5 intensity were collected from 12 to 14 September. This study presents a detailed analysis of the inner-core...- publication PDF
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Monsoon circulations and tropical heterogeneous chlorine chemistry in the...
Model simulations presented in this paper suggest that transport processes associated with the summer monsoons bring increased abundances of hydrochloric acid into contact with...- publication PDF
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The impacts of changing Winter Warm Spells on snow ablation over Western...
An increase in winter air temperature can amplify snowmelt and sublimation in mountain regions with implications to water resources and ecological systems. Winter Warm Spells...- publication PDF
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Assessing turbulence and mixing parameterizations in the gray-zone of...
Multiscale numerical weather prediction models transition from mesoscale, where turbulence is fully parameterized, to microscale, where the majority of highly energetic scales...- publication PDF
