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Evolving Sahel rainfall response to anthropogenic aerosols driven by...
Sahel summertime precipitation declined from the 1950s to 1970s and recovered from the 1970s to 2000s. Anthropogenic aerosol contributions to this evolution are typically...- publication PDF
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The role of surface fluxes in the development of a tropical-like cyclone in...
Numerical simulations of a tropical-like cyclone in southern Italy have been performed with two different modelling systems (BOLAM-MOLOCH and WRF) with the aim of discussing the...- publication PDF
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Simulating and evaluating atmospheric river-induced precipitation extremes...
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are responsible for a majority of extreme precipitation and flood events along the U.S. West Coast. To better understand the present-day characteristics...- publication PDF
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Underestimation of multi-decadal global O 2 loss due to an optimal...
The global ocean's oxygen content has declined significantly over the past several decades and is expected to continue decreasing under global warming, with far-reaching impacts...- publication PDF
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The 3-4 week MJO prediction skill in a GFDL coupled model
Based on a new version of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) coupled model, the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) prediction skill in boreal wintertime (November-...- publication PDF
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Continental-scale temperature variability in PMIP3 simulations and PAGES 2k...
Estimated external radiative forcings, model results, and proxy-based climate reconstructions have been used over the past several decades to improve our understanding of the...- publication PDF
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Clouds, aerosols, and precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer: An ARM...
The Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer (CAP-MBL) deployment at Graciosa Island in the Azores generated a 21-month (April 2009-December 2010)...- publication PDF
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Improvement of mountain-wave turbulence forecasts in NOAA's Rapid Refresh...
Spurious mountain-wave features have been reported as false alarms of light-or-stronger numerical weather prediction (NWP)-based cruise level turbulence forecasts especially...- publication PDF
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The Feasibility of Long Duration Ballooning in Antarctica
This report outlines a plan for balloon operations in Antarctica as requested by Mr. Gordon Newkirk of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. It includes discussions of...- publication PDF
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The role of gravity wave breaking in a case of upper-level near-cloud turbulence
An observed turbulence encounter that occurred outside a mesoscale convective system over the central United States on 3 June 2005 is investigated using observations and high-...- publication PDF
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Hemispheric differences in the annual cycle of tropical lower stratosphere...
Transport in the tropical lower stratosphere plays a major role in determining the composition of the entire stratosphere. Previous studies that quantified the relative role of...- publication PDF
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Adjoint-derived observation impact using WRF in the western North Pacific
An increasing number of observations have contributed to the performance of numerical weather prediction systems. Accordingly, it is important to evaluate the impact of these...- publication PDF
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The High-resolution Urban Meteorology for Impacts Dataset (HUMID) daily for...
Many current gridded surface meteorological datasets are inadequate for quantifying near-surface spatiotemporal variability because they do not fully represent the impacts of...- publication PDF
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Inverse procedure for high-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics: Analysis of...
his paper presents an analysis of data from the magnetometers on board the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-15, F-16, F-17, and F-18 satellites and the Iridium...- publication PDF
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A review of global long-term changes in the mesosphere, thermosphere and...
The climate of the upper atmosphere, including the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere, is changing. As data records are much more limited than in the lower atmosphere and...- publication PDF
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A comparison of PMIP2 model simulations and the MARGO proxy reconstruction...
Results from multiple model simulations are used to understand the tropical sea surface temperature (SST) response to the reduced greenhouse gas concentrations and large...- publication PDF
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Seasonal tropospheric distribution and air-sea fluxes of atmospheric...
Seasonal change of atmospheric potential oxygen (APO ∼ O2 + CO2) is a tracer for air-sea O2 flux with little sensitivity to the terrestrial exchange of O2 and CO2. In this...- publication PDF
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Genesis of twin tropical cyclones as revealed by a global mesoscale model:...
In this study, it is proposed that twin tropical cyclones (TCs), Kesiny and 01A, in May 2002 formed in association with the scale interactions of three gyres that appeared as a...- publication PDF
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Emergent constraints on the large scale atmospheric circulation and regional...
An emergent constraint (EC) is a statistical relationship, across a model ensemble, between a measurable aspect of the present-day climate (the predictor) and an aspect of...- publication PDF
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Forcings and feedbacks in the GeoMIP ensemble for a reduction in solar...
The effective radiative forcings (including rapid adjustments) and feedbacks associated with an instantaneous quadrupling of the preindustrial CO₂ concentration and a...- publication PDF