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Improved simulations of tropical Pacific annual-mean climate in the GFDL...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory has recently developed two global coupled general circulation models, the Forecast-...- publication PDF
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Digitized Global Monthly Mean Ocean Surface Temperatures
Monthly means of the global sea surface temperature have been produced in the form of composite charts for use with the NCAR general circulation model. These monthly charts are...- publication PDF
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Importance of the Antarctic Slope Current in the Southern Ocean response to...
We use two coupled climate models, GFDL-CM4 and GFDL-ESM4, to investigate the physical response of the Southern Ocean to changes in surface wind stress, Antarctic meltwater, and...- publication PDF
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Effects of ozone-vegetation coupling on surface ozone air quality via...
Tropospheric ozone is one of the most hazardous air pollutants as it harms both human health and plant productivity. Foliage uptake of ozone via dry deposition damages...- publication PDF
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Increases in extreme precipitation over the Northeast United States using...
Extreme precipitation is among the most destructive natural disasters. Simulating changes in regional extreme precipitation remains challenging, partially limited by climate...- publication PDF
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Understanding AMOC stability: The North Atlantic Hosing Model Intercomparison Project
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is an important part of our climate system. The AMOC is predicted to weaken under climate change; however, theories...- publication PDF
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Causes and implications of persistent atmospheric carbon dioxide biases in...
The strength of feedbacks between a changing climate and future CO₂ concentrations is uncertain and difficult to predict using Earth System Models (ESMs). We analyzed emission-...- publication PDF
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Measurements of atmospheric mercury in Shanghai during September 2009
We report on total gaseous mercury (TGM) measurements made in Pudong, Shanghai in August/September 2009. The average TGM was 2.7 ± 1.7 ng m⁻³. This represents about 90% of the...- publication PDF
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Tradeoffs between air pollution mitigation and meteorological response in India
To curb the staggering health burden attributed to air pollution, the sustainable solution for India would be to reduce emissions in future. Here we project ambient fine...- publication PDF
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Where, when, and why did it rain during PECAN?
The overarching goal of the Plains Elevated Convection At Night (PECAN) field campaign was to improve understanding of the processes contributing to the nocturnal precipitation...- publication PDF
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Groundwater depletion during drought threatens future water security of the...
Streamflow of the Colorado River Basin is the most overallocated in the world. Recent assessment indicates that demand for this renewable resource will soon outstrip supply,...- publication PDF
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Scaling individual tree transpiration with thermal cameras reveals...
Understanding tree transpiration variability is vital for assessing ecosystem water-use efficiency and forest health amid climate change, yet most landscape-level measurements...- publication PDF
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Integrated approach to simulate stream water quality for municipal supply...
To better plan for potential changes to stream water quality under climate change, an integrated approach to simulate paired streamflow and water quality under a range of...- publication PDF
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Response of the Amazon carbon balance to the 2010 drought derived with...
Two major droughts in the past decade had large impacts on carbon exchange in the Amazon. Recent analysis of vertical profile measurements of atmospheric CO₂ and CO by Gatti et...- publication PDF
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Evaluating the impacts of cloud processing on resuspended aerosol particles...
Aerosol particles undergo physical and chemical changes during cloud processes. In this work, we quantified the changes in aerosol mixing state using a particle-resolved model....- publication PDF
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Emissions of trace organic gases from western U.S. wildfires based on WE-CAN...
We present emission measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for western U.S. wildland fires made on the NSF/NCAR C-130 research aircraft during the Western Wildfire...- publication PDF
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The meridional mode in an idealized aquaplanet model: Dependence on the mean state
The meridional mode provides a source of predictability for the tropical climate variability and change on seasonal and longer time scales by transporting extratropical climate...- publication PDF
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Systematic comparison of convection-allowing models during the 2017 NOAA HWT...
The 2016-18 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) Spring Forecasting Experiments (SFE) featured the Community Leveraged Unified Ensemble (CLUE), a coordinated convection-allowing...- publication PDF
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Description and evaluation of tropospheric chemistry and aerosols in the...
The Community Atmosphere Model (CAM), version 5, is now coupled to extensive tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry, called CAM5-chem, and is available in addition to...- publication PDF
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The Improved Urbanization Projections of the NCAR Community Demographic Model (CDM)
The urbanization projections, as one important components of the NCAR Community Demographic Model, has been developed to meet the requirement of climate change research...- publication PDF