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Wavelength-diverse polarization modulators for Stokes polarimetry
An increasing number of astronomical applications depend on the measurement of polarized light. For example, our knowledge of solar magnetism relies heavily on our ability to...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of generating cells in wintertime orographic clouds
During the Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds: the Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE) field campaign, cloud -top generating cells were frequently observed in the very high...- publication PDF
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Biosphere-atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS) Version 1e as Coupled to the...
This report describes the physical processes, current numerical parameterizations, and some of the code structure of BATSle. BATSle, a piece of software, that runs as an offline...- publication PDF
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Estimating individual Radio Occultation uncertainties using the observations...
Estimation of uncertainties (random error statistics) of radio occultation (RO) observations is important for their effective assimilation in numerical weather prediction (NWP)...- publication PDF
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Evolution of droplet size distributions during the transition of an...
A state-of-the-art Lagrangian microphysics scheme is used in a large-eddy simulation to investigate the stratocumulus transition from closed to open cell structure. Processes...- publication PDF
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Influence of convective adjustment time scale on the tropical transient activity
The influence of convective adjustment time scale (τ) in simulating the tropical transient activity is examined using the NCAR-Community Atmosphere Model (CAM). In the default...- publication PDF
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Statistical connection between the Madden–Julian oscillation and large daily...
This study focuses on the impact of the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO)-as monitored by a well-known multivariate index-on large daily precipitation events in West Africa for...- publication PDF
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The effect of atmospheric nudging on the stratospheric residual circulation...
We perform the first multi-model intercomparison of the impact of nudged meteorology on the stratospheric residual circulation using hindcast simulations from the Chemistry-...- publication PDF
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Turbulent pressure and velocity perturbations induced by gentle hills...
How the spatial perturbations of the first and second moments of the velocity and pressure fields differ for flow over a train of gentle hills covered by either sparse or dense...- publication PDF
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Climate base state influences on South Asian monsoon processes derived from...
The effects of differences in climate base state are related to processes associated with the present-day South Asian monsoon simulations in the Energy Exascale Earth System...- publication PDF
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A general N-moment normalization method for deriving raindrop size...
A general drop size distribution (DSD) normalization method is formulated in terms of generalized power series relating any DSD moment to any number and combination of reference...- publication PDF
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Influence of lateral and top boundary conditions on regional air qualify...
The sensitivity of regional air quality model to various lateral and top boundary conditions is studied at 2 scales: a 60 km domain covering the whole USA and a 12 km domain...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric lunar tide in the low latitude thermosphere-ionosphere
We present simultaneous, independent measurements of the atmospheric semidiurnal lunar tide in neutral winds and plasma velocities from NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer,...- publication PDF
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Global evaluation of radiosonde water vapor systematic biases using GPS...
In this study, we compare specific humidity profiles derived from Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) radio occultation (RO) from...- publication PDF
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Comparison of drift velocities of nighttime equatorial plasma depletions...
This is the first study to compare plasma depletion drifts with the ambient plasma drifts and neutral winds in the post sunset equatorial ionosphere using global-scale satellite...- publication PDF
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Modeling extreme precipitation over East China with a global...
The non-hydrostatic atmospheric Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS-A), a global variable-resolution modeling framework, is applied at a range of resolutions from...- publication PDF
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Comparison of two raindrop size distribution retrieval algorithms for X-band...
In this study the authors evaluate two algorithms, the so-called beta (β) and constrained methods, proposed for retrieving the governing parameters of the "normalized" gamma...- publication PDF
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How well do we know the surface impact of sudden stratospheric warmings?
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are key to understanding and predicting subseasonal Northern Hemisphere winter climate variability. Here we study the uncertainty in the...- publication PDF
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Observations of the rate and acceleration of global mean sea level change
Climate models and basic physical principles project that global mean sea level (GMSL) will increase and the rate of increase will accelerate under anthropogenic climate change...- publication PDF
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Meridional heat transport during atmospheric rivers in high-resolution CESM...
Meridional sensible and latent heat transport is evaluated for regions with landfalling atmospheric rivers using both MERRA-2 reanalysis and fully coupled CESM1.3 high-...- publication PDF
