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Improvement of solid precipitation measurements using a hotplate precipitation gauge
Accurate snowfall measurement is challenging because it depends on the precipitation gauge used, meteorological conditions, and the precipitation microphysics. Upstream of...- publication PDF
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How aerosols and greenhouse gases influence the diurnal temperature range
The diurnal temperature range (DTR) (or difference between the maximum and minimum temperature within a day) is one of many climate parameters that affects health, agriculture...- publication PDF
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A performance comparison between multiphysics and stochastic approaches...
A stochastic parameter perturbation (SPP) scheme consisting of spatially and temporally varying perturbations of uncertain parameters in the Grell-Freitas convective scheme and...- publication PDF
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Deployment and performance analyses of high-resolution Iowa XPOL radar...
This article presents the data collected and analyzed using the University of Iowa's X-band polarimetric (XPOL) radars that were part of the spring 2013 hydrology-oriented Iowa...- publication PDF
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Analysis of aerosol-cloud interactions and their implications for...
Aerosol and cloud microphysical measurements were collected by a research aircraft during August 2019 over the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The majority of scientific flights...- publication PDF
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Linearity of climate response to increases in black carbon aerosols
The impacts of absorbing aerosols on global climate are not completely understood. This paper presents the results of idealized experiments conducted with the Community...- publication PDF
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Potential predictability sources of the 2012 U.S. drought in observations...
The 2012 drought was the most severe and extensive summertime U.S. drought in half a century with substantial economic loss and impacts on food security and commodity prices. A...- publication PDF
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Assessing the ability to derive rates of polar middle-atmospheric descent...
We investigate the reliability of using trace gas measurements from remote sensing instruments to infer polar atmospheric descent rates during winter within 46-86 km altitude....- publication PDF
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Regional climate simulations with the Community Earth System Model
The spectral element (SE) variable-resolution (VR) mesh dynamical core is tested in developmental versions of the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2). The SE...- publication PDF
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Role of ocean and atmosphere variability in scale-dependent thermodynamic...
This study investigates the influence of oceanic and atmospheric processes in extratropical thermodynamic air-sea interactions resolved by satellite observations (OBS) and by...- publication PDF
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ENSO model validation using wavelet probability analysis
A new method to quantify changes in El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability is presented, using the overlap between probability distributions of the wavelet spectrum as...- publication PDF
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Hillslope hydrology in global change research and Earth System Modeling
Earth System Models (ESMs) are essential tools for understanding and predicting global change, but they cannot explicitly resolve hillslope-scale terrain structures that...- publication PDF
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Assessing the influence of microphysical and environmental parameter...
Microphysical (MP) schemes contain parameters whose values can impact the amount and location of forecasted precipitation, and sensitivity is typically explored by perturbing...- publication PDF
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Validation of MIPAS ClONOâ measurements
Altitude profiles of ClONO2 retrieved with the IMK (Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung) science-oriented data processor from MIPAS/Envisat (Michelson Interferometer...- publication PDF
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First global-scale synoptic imaging of solar eclipse effects in the thermosphere
A total solar eclipse occurred in the Southern Hemisphere on 2 July 2019 from approximately 17 to 22 UT. Its effect in the thermosphere over South America was imaged from...- publication PDF
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Taking the pulse of the planet
Humans have released carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in sufficient quantity to change the composition of the atmosphere (Figure 1). The result is an accumulation of...- publication PDF
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Structure and dynamics of axisymmetric tornado-like vortices simulated with...
No-slip boundary conditions are often employed in idealized axisymmetric models to study tornadoes. These boundary conditions result in a poor representation of near-ground...- publication PDF
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Strong longitudinal variations in the OH nightglow
Airglow from the hydroxyl Meinel bands, originating from about 87 km, gives a signature of the atmosphere that can be observed remotely. Analysis of long term global...- publication PDF
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Extra area effects of cloud seeding--An updated assessment
This paper examines the commonly-held hypothesis that cloud seeding reduces precipitation in regions adjacent to seeding target areas, sometimes referred to as "downwind" but...- publication PDF
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Iodine oxide in the global marine boundary layer
Emitted mainly by the oceans, iodine is a halogen compound important for atmospheric chemistry due to its high ozone depletion potential and effect on the oxidizing capacity of...- publication PDF
