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MODIS retrievals of cloud effective radius in marine stratocumulus exhibit...
Satellite retrievals of cloud effective radius re are frequently validated using aircraft in situ measurements. Past intercomparisons have found a significant bias toward larger...- publication PDF
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Characterizing summertime chemical boundary conditions for airmasses...
The objective of this study is to analyze the pollution inflow into California during summertime and how it impacts surface air quality through combined analysis of a suite of...- publication PDF
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Associations between respiratory health and ozone and fine particulate...
Wildfires have been increasing in frequency in the western United States (US) with the 2017 and 2018 fire seasons experiencing some of the worst wildfires in terms of...- publication PDF
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Winter targeted observing periods during the Year of Polar Prediction in the...
The Year of Polar Prediction in the Southern Hemisphere (YOPP-SH) held seven targeted observing periods (TOPs) during the 2022 austral winter to enhance atmospheric...- publication PDF
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On the seasonal prediction and predictability of winter surface Temperature...
The rapid day-to-day temperature swings associated with extratropical storm tracks can cause cascading infrastructure failure and impact human outdoor activities, thus research...- publication PDF
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Specification of wet-day daily rainfall quantiles from the mean value
The characteristics associated with an exponential distribution is used as a yard stick to assess distributions for 24-hr precipitation records from 13 771 rain gauges from...- publication PDF
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Global warming pattern formation: Sea surface temperature and rainfall
Spatial variations in sea surface temperature (SST) and rainfall changes over the tropics are investigated based on ensemble simulations for the first half of the twenty-first...- publication PDF
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Enhancing wildfire spread modelling by building a gridded fuel moisture...
Wildland fire decision support systems require accurate predictions of wildland fire spread. Fuel moisture content (FMC) is one of the important parameters controlling the rate...- publication PDF
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The impact of Los Angeles Basin pollution and stratospheric intrusions on...
In this work, the impact of Los Angeles Basin pollution transport and stratospheric intrusions on the surface ozone levels observed in the San Gabriel Mountains is investigated...- publication PDF
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Sensitivities of land cover-precipitation feedback to convective triggering
The land surface state can be an important factor in the triggering of precipitation, whose depiction in Earth system models (ESMs) crucially relies on the representation of...- publication PDF
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Biogeophysical effects of land-use and land-cover change not detectable in...
Land-use and land-cover changes (hereafter simply "land use") alter climates biogeophysically by affecting surface fluxes of energy and water. Yet, near-surface temperature...- publication PDF
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Observations and simulations of the peak response time of thermospheric mass...
In this study, the mass densities from Challenging Minisatellite Payload and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites and the simulation results from the Thermosphere...- publication PDF
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Effects of aging on organic aerosol from open biomass burning smoke in...
Biomass burning (BB) is a large source of primary and secondary organic aerosols (POA and SOA). This study addresses the physical and chemical evolution of BB organic aerosols....- publication PDF
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Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa, 1990–2009
Recent studies concerning the possible relationship between climate trends and the risks of violent conflict have yielded contradictory results, partly because of choices of...- publication PDF
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Use-inspired, process-oriented GCM selection: Prioritizing models for...
Dynamical downscaling is a crucial process for providing regional climate information for broad uses, using coarser-resolution global models to drive higher-resolution regional...- publication PDF
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On the dynamics of the East African Jet. II: Jet transients
A barotropic, primitive equation model on an equatorial beta plane is used to investigate the transient behavior of the East African jet. Both analytic and numerical solutions...- publication PDF
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Decline and recovery of total column ozone using a multimodel time series analysis
Simulations of 15 coupled chemistry climate models, for the period 1960–2100, are presented. The models include a detailed stratosphere, as well as including a realistic...- publication PDF
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Impact of irrigation on farmworker’s heat stress in California differs by...
Farmworkers, the frontline workers of our food system, are often exposed to heat stress that is likely to increase in frequency and severity due to climate change. Irrigation...- publication PDF
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A class of nonhydrostatic global models
A Cartesian, small- to mesoscale nonhydrostatic model is extended to a rotating mountainous sphere, thereby dispensing with the traditional geophysical simplifications of...- publication PDF
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Awareness and support of release of genetically modified "sterile"...
After a dengue outbreak in Key West, Florida, during 2009-2010, authorities, considered conducting the first US release of male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes genetically modified to...- publication PDF
