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Momentum flux spectrum of convectively forced internal gravity waves and its...
Impacts of a spectral parameterization of gravity wave drag (GWD) induced by cumulus convection (GWDC) in the NCAR Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM1b) are...- publication PDF
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Trends in the AMS Education Symposium and highlights from 2012
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Evaluating hydrologic model performance for characterizing streamflow...
Hydrologic models are the primary tools that are used to simulate streamflow drought and assess impacts. However, there is little consensus about how to evaluate the performance...- publication PDF
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Simulating marine ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemical cycling with...
Current representations of marine ecosystems in Earth System Models are greatly simplified, neglecting key interactions between dynamic food webs, biogeochemistry, and climate...- publication PDF
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Diurnal and seasonal characteristics of the longitudinal variations of...
The ionosphere experiences strong diurnal and seasonal changes. The longitudinal variations of electron density (Ne) in the ionosphere at the middle latitudes also show strong...- publication PDF
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The NCAR airborne 94-ghz cloud radar: Calibration and data processing
The 94-GHz airborne HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR) has been deployed in three major field campaigns, sampling clouds over the Pacific between California and Hawaii (2015), over the...- publication PDF
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Aggregate terminal velocity/temperature relations
Terminal velocities of snow aggregates in storms along the Front Range in eastern Colorado are examined with a ground-based two-dimensional video disdrometer. Power-law...- publication PDF
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Contributions of climate change and ENSO variability to future precipitation...
The El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) affects the occurrence frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation through modulations of regional heat and moisture fluxes....- publication PDF
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Calibration of machine learning-based probabilistic hail predictions for...
In this study, we use machine learning (ML) to improve hail prediction by postprocessing numerical weather prediction (NWP) data from the new High-Resolution Ensemble Forecast...- publication PDF
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Improving the representation of hail in the Thompson microphysics scheme
Methods to improve the representation of hail in the Thompson-Eidhammer microphysics scheme are ex-plored. A new two-moment and predicted density graupel category is implemented...- publication PDF
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Present-day mass loss rates are a precursor for West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse
Observations of recent mass loss rates of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) raise concerns about its stability since a collapse would increase global sea levels by several...- publication PDF
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Potential impacts of future warming and land use changes on intra-urban heat...
Extreme heat events in the United States are projected to become more frequent and intense as a result of climate change. We investigated the individual and combined effects of...- publication PDF
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Ozone production efficiencies in the three largest United State cities from...
Despite ongoing reductions in emissions of ozone (O3) precursors, nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), the three largest urban...- publication PDF
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Assessing a dry surface layer-based soil resistance parameterization for the...
The Community Land Model (CLM) exhibits biases in evapotranspiration (ET) and total water storage (TWS) in semiarid regions. The TWS seasonal cycle amplitude is too low, while...- publication PDF
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Examining the roles of visualizations in people's understanding of uncertain...
Maps and other forms of geovisualizations play a central yet complex role in communicating weather hazard risks and threats to the public. Through designing storm surge risk...- publication PDF
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Local and remote moisture sources both increase late twenty-first century...
Arctic precipitation increases in a warmer world as more moisture is available to condense. These increases in precipitation and moisture result from both local surface...- publication PDF
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Upper ocean O trends: 1958-2015
Historic observations of dissolved oxygen (O-2) in the ocean are analyzed to quantify multidecadal trends and variability from 1958 to 2015. Additional quality control is...- publication PDF
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A 10-year survey of tropical cyclone inner-core lightning bursts and their...
This study seeks to reconcile discrepancies between previous studies analyzing the relationship between lightning and tropical cyclone (TC) intensity change. Inner-core...- publication PDF
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A seasonal agricultural drought forecast system for food-insecure regions of...
The increasing food and water demands of East Africa's growing population are stressing the region's inconsistent water resources and rain-fed agriculture. More accurate...- publication PDF
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The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service: From research to operations
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), part of the European Union's Earth observation program Copernicus, entered operations in July 2015. Implemented by the...- publication PDF