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Defining uncertainties through comparison of atmospheric river tracking methods
Report on a two-day workshop with participants from various U.S. federal agencies/programs, national and international universities, and U.S. national laboratories met to...- publication PDF
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Assessing and understanding the impact of stratospheric dynamics and...
Advances in weather and climate research have demonstrated the role of the stratosphere in the Earth system across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Stratospheric...- publication PDF
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Orographic flow response to variations in upstream humidity
The effects of upstream relative humidity (RH) on low-level wind and precipitation patterns for low-speed, statically stable flows over a mountain are investigated using...- publication PDF
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As the wind blows? Understanding hurricane damages at the local level...
An understanding of the potential drivers of local-scale hurricane losses is developed through a case study analysis. Two recent category-3 U.S. landfalling hurricanes (Ivan in...- publication PDF
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Eddy covariance measurements of isoprene and 232-MBO based on NO+...
Isoprene and 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol (232-MBO) are the dominant biogenic VOCs released throughout the US, thus requiring simultaneous measurements. Recent measurements suggest the...- publication PDF
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Convective Transition Statistics over Tropical Oceans for Climate Model...
To assess deep convective parameterizations in a variety of GCMs and examine the fast-time-scale convective transition, a set of statistics characterizing the pickup of...- publication PDF
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Dryline on 19 June 2002 during IHOP. Part I: Airborne doppler and LEANDRE II...
The evolution and finescale structure of a dryline that initiated a line of thunderstorms is presented. Both the along-line variability and mean vertical structure were examined...- publication PDF
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Relationships among top-of-atmosphere radiation and atmospheric state...
A detailed examination is made in both observations and the Community Earth System Model (CESM) of relationships among top-of-atmosphere radiation, water vapor, temperatures,...- publication PDF
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Aquaplanet experiments using CAM's variable-resolution dynamical core
A variable-resolution option has been added within the spectral element (SE) dynamical core of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)–NCAR Community Atmosphere Model (CAM). CAM-SE...- publication PDF
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Snowflake size spectra retrieved from a UHF vertical profiler
This paper develops a technique for retrieving snowflake size distributions (SSDs) from a vertically pointing 915-MHz vertical profiler. Drop size distributions (DSDs) have been...- publication PDF
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An analysis of the momentum forcing in the high-latitude lower thermosphere
We analyze the dynamics of the high-latitude thermsopheric wind system below 170 km for negative IMF B z by using a fully nonlinear model with a realistic distribution of the...- publication PDF
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Changes of thermospheric composition and ionospheric density caused by quasi...
Using the thermosphere-ionosphere-mesosphere electrodynamics-general circulation model, we investigate the effect of quasi 2 day wave (QTDW) dissipation on thermospheric...- publication PDF
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The global warming hiatus: Slowdown or redistribution?
Global mean surface temperatures (GMST) exhibited a smaller rate of warming during 1998-2013, compared to the warming in the latter half of the 20th Century. Although, not a...- publication PDF
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Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) collection 4: Establishing a 17-year-long...
The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) was launched on 15 July 2004, with an expected mission lifetime of 5 years. After more than 17 years in orbit the instrument is still...- publication PDF
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Understanding diverse model projections of future extreme El Niño
The majority of future projections in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) show more frequent exceedances of the 5 mm day−1 rainfall threshold in the eastern...- publication PDF
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Trapped gravity waves and their association with turbulence in a large...
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-14 (GOES-14) 1-km visible satellite data with 1-min frequency revealed horizontally propagating internal gravity waves...- publication PDF
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Quantifying human contributions to past and future ocean warming and...
More than 90% of the Earth's energy imbalance is stored by the ocean. While previous studies have shown that changes in the ocean warming are detectable and distinct from...- publication PDF
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Global atmospheric forcing data for Arctic ice-ocean modeling
We compare three forcing data sets, all variants of National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) forcing, in global ice-ocean simulations and evaluate them for use in...- publication PDF
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Transport above the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone inferred from Aura...
Tracer variability above the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone is investigated using Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) measurements of carbon monoxide, ozone, water vapor, and...- publication PDF
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Use of airborne in situ VOC measurements to estimate transit time spectrum:...
Convective transport from the marine boundary layer to the upper troposphere (UT) is investigated using airborne in situ measurements of chemical species over the tropical...- publication PDF
