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Microphysical constraints on millimeter-wavelength scattering properties of...
A Bayesian optimal estimation retrieval is used to determine probability density functions of snow microphysical parameters from ground-based observations taken during four...- publication PDF
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Responses of Arctic black carbon and surface temperature to multi-region...
Black carbon (BC) emissions play an important role in regional climate change in the Arctic. It is necessary to pay attention to the impact of long-range transport from regions...- publication PDF
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Structure of offshore flow
The horizontal and vertical structure of the mean flow and turbulent fluxes are examined using aircraft observations taken near a barrier island on the east coast of the United...- publication PDF
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Potential impacts of radio occultation data assimilation on forecast skill...
This study assesses the potential influence of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) data assimilation on the forecast skill of tropical cyclone...- publication PDF
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Exploring a multi-resolution modeling approach within the shallow-water equations
The ability to solve the global shallow-water equations with a conforming, variable-resolution mesh is evaluated using standard shallow-water test cases. While our long-term...- publication PDF
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A potential enstrophy and energy conserving scheme for the shallow-water...
An energy and potential enstrophy conserving finite-difference scheme for the shallow-water equations is derived in generalized curvilinear coordinates. This is an extension of...- publication PDF
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A PDF-based parameterization of subgrid-scale hydrometeor transport in deep...
A parameterization scheme is proposed for the subgrid-scale transport of hydrometeors in an assumed probability density function (PDF) scheme. Joint distributions of vertical...- publication PDF
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The use of structure functions and spectra from numerical model output to...
The effective model resolution of three numerical weather prediction (NWP) models is determined from analyses of spatial structure functions and spatial spectra. In this paper,...- publication PDF
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SNICAR-ADv4: A physically based radiative transfer model to represent the...
Accurate modeling of cryospheric surface albedo is essential for our understanding of climate change as snow and ice surfaces regulate the global radiative budget and sea-level...- publication PDF
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Physical controls on orographic cirrus inhomogeneity
Optical depth distributions (P(σ)) are a useful measure of radiatively important cirrus (Ci) inhomogeneity. Yet, the relationship between P(σ) and underlying cloud physical...- publication PDF
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Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing
Aerosol-cloud interactions (ACIs) are considered to be the most uncertain driver of present-day radiative forcing due to human activities. The nonlinearity of cloud-state...- publication PDF
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Hyper-resolution global hydrological modelling: What is next?
Between 15 and 17 March 2010, a workshop was held at Princeton University entitled 'Meeting a Grand Challenge to Hydrology: The Global Monitoring of Earth's Terrestrial Water'....- publication PDF
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A comparative study of spectral auroral intensity predictions from multiple...
It is important to routinely examine and update models used to predict auroral emissions resulting from precipitating electrons in Earth's magnetotail. These models are commonly...- publication PDF
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On the role of airborne ice nucleating particles in primary and secondary...
Formation of ice in mixed-phase clouds may proceed via primary nucleation and secondary ice production (SIP). Primary nucleation involves the presence of ice nucleating...- publication PDF
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Pliocene warmth consistent with greenhouse gas forcing
With CO2 concentrations similar to today (410 ppm), the Pliocene Epoch offers insights into climate changes under a moderately warmer world. Previous work suggested a low zonal...- publication PDF
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On the theoretical equivalence of differently proposed ensemble/3D-Var...
Hybrid ensemble-three-dimensional variational analysis schemes incorporate flow-dependent, ensemble-estimated background-error covariances into the three-dimensional variational...- publication PDF
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Tropospheric sources and sinks of gas-phase acids in the Colorado Front Range
We measured organic and inorganic gas-phase acids in the Front Range of Colorado to better understand their tropospheric sources and sinks using a high-resolution time-of-flight...- publication PDF
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Research priorities in observing and modeling urban weather and climate
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Attribution and impacts of upper ocean biases in CCSM3
The largest and potentially most important ocean near-surface biases are examined in the Community Climate System Model coupled simulation of present-day conditions. They are...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of outgoing longwave radiative flux to the global vertical...
We calculate the sensitivity of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) to the global vertical distribution of tropospheric ozone using ozone profile estimates from Aura Tropospheric...- publication PDF
