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Key challenges for tropospheric chemistry in the Southern Hemisphere
This commentary paper from the recently formed International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Southern Hemisphere Working Group outlines key issues in atmospheric composition...- publication PDF
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Comparing growth rates of simulated moist and dry convective thermals
The spreading rates of convective thermals are linked to their net entrainment, and previous literature has suggested differences in spreading rates between moist and dry...- publication PDF
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Towards decision-based global land use models for improved understanding of...
A primary goal of Earth system modelling is to improve understanding of the interactions and feedbacks between human decision making and biophysical processes. The nexus of land...- publication PDF
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Spatio-temporal transferability of environmentally-dependent population...
Ecological predictions are necessary for testing whether processes hypothesized to regulate species population dynamics are generalizable across time and space. In order to...- publication PDF
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Diurnal cycling of sea surface temperature, salinity, and current in the...
A simple scheme is developed to represent Sea Surface Diurnal Cycling (SSDC) in Coupled General Circulation Models (CGCM). It follows Zeng and Beljaars [2005], but in addition...- publication PDF
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Understanding the variability of nightside temperatures, NO UV and O₂ IR...
Venus Express (VEX) has been monitoring key nightglow emissions and thermal features (O₂ IR nightglow, NO UV nightglow, and nightside temperatures) which contribute to a...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale thermodynamic influences on convection initiation near a surface...
In this study, the authors examine initiation of severe convection along a daytime surface dryline in a 10-member ensemble of convection-permitting simulations. Results indicate...- publication PDF
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Examining the interaction of growing crops with local climate using a...
This paper examines to what extent crops and their environment should be viewed as a coupled system. Crop impact assessments currently use climate model output offline to drive...- publication PDF
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Advancing research on compound weather and climate events via large ensemble...
Societally relevant weather impacts typically result from compound events, which are rare combinations of weather and climate drivers. Focussing on four event types arising from...- publication PDF
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Delhi urbanization footprint and its effect on the earth's subsurface...
Urban land and its expansion have profoundly impacted the global environment, including the stress change in the earth's subsurface, even though urban land is a small fraction...- publication PDF
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Utilizing the Drake Passage Time-series to understand variability and change...
The Southern Ocean is highly under-sampled for the purpose of assessing total carbon uptake and its variability. Since this region dominates the mean global ocean sink for...- publication PDF
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Cloud-resolving model intercomparison of an MC3E squall line case: Part...
An intercomparison study of a midlatitude mesoscale squall line is performed using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model at 1 km horizontal grid spacing with eight...- publication PDF
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Quantifying process connectivity with transfer entropy in hydrologic models
Quantifying the behavior and performance of hydrologic models is an important aspect of understanding the underlying hydrologic systems. We argue that classical error measures...- publication PDF
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Multimodel simulations of carbon monoxide: Comparison with observations and...
We analyze present-day and future carbon monoxide (CO) simulations in 26 state-of-the-art atmospheric chemistry models run to study future air quality and climate change. In...- publication PDF
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Response of biogenic secondary organic aerosol formation to anthropogenic...
This study investigates the effects of anthropogenic nitrogen oxide (NOx) mitigation reduction on secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from monoterpene and sesquiterpene...- publication PDF
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Evolution of summer Arctic sea ice albedo in CCSM4 simulations: Episodic...
The albedo of Arctic sea ice is calculated from summertime output of twentieth century Community Climate System Model v.4 (CCSM4) simulations. This is compared with an empirical...- publication PDF
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Antarctic data impact experiments with Polar WRF during the YOPP-SH summer...
Data impact experiments are conducted employing the Polar Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model during the YOPP-SH summer special observing period (SOP) using the...- publication PDF
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ULF wave analysis and radial diffusion calculation using a global MHD model...
The 17 March 2015 St. Patrick's Day Storm is the largest geomagnetic storm to date of Solar Cycle 24, with a Dst of -223 nT. The magnetopause moved inside geosynchronous orbit...- publication PDF
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An atmospheric soliton observed with Doppler radar, differential absorption...
Airborne Leandre II differential absorption lidar (DIAL), S-band dual-polarization Doppler radar (S-Pol), and Goddard Lidar Observatory for Winds (GLOW) Doppler lidar data are...- publication PDF
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Wintertime pollution over the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains as observed from...
A large wintertime increase in pollutants has been observed over the eastern parts of the Indo Gangetic Plains. We use improved version 4 carbon monoxide (CO) retrievals from...- publication PDF
