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Local mean state changes due to gravity wave breaking modulated by the diurnal tide
During gravity wave breaking, heating rates are determined by wave advection, turbulent diffusion, and turbulence dissipative heating. A series of numerical experiments show...- publication PDF
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Infrared phototransistor validation for atmospheric remote sensing...
An InGaAsSb/AlGaAsSb phototransistor has been validated for lidar atmospheric remote sensing. The validation was performed using the Raman-shifted eye-safe aerosol lidar (REAL)...- publication PDF
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Current and future U.S. weather extremes and El Niño
A global coupled climate model representative of the current generation of models is shown to simulate most first order aspects of El Niño events, their teleconnections over...- publication PDF
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Observed and simulated time evolution of HCl, ClONO₂, and HF total column abundances
Time series of total column abundances of hydrogen chloride (HCl), chlorine nitrate (ClONO₂), and hydrogen fluoride (HF) were determined from ground-based Fourier transform...- publication PDF
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The spacing of orographic rainbands triggered by small-scale topography
A combination of idealized numerical simulations and analytical theory is used to investigate the spacing between convective orographic rainbands over the Coastal Range of...- publication PDF
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Air quality simulations of wildfires in the Pacific Northwest evaluated with...
Evaluation of a regional air quality forecasting system for the Pacific Northwest was carried out using a suite of surface and satellite observations. Wildfire events for the...- publication PDF
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Determinants of urban growth during demographic and mobility transitions:...
Understanding how and why urban populations grow over time is fundamental for a variety of scholarly and policy arenas including migration, economic development, and...- publication PDF
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Uncovering the pattern of forced sea level rise in the satellite altimeter record
The continuous and near-global coverage of satellite altimeters has provided an improved understanding of sea level rise on both global and regional scales. With its relatively...- publication PDF
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Consistent impacts of surface enthalpy and drag coefficient uncertainty...
Several previous studies have demonstrated the significant sensitivity of simulated tropical cyclone structure and intensity to variations in surface-exchange coefficients for...- publication PDF
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Ozone fluxes over a patchy cultivated surface
This study examines the spatial variability of ozone fluxes over flat heterogeneous terrain consisting of a patchwork of irrigated and nonirrigated surfaces. Fluxes of ozone and...- publication PDF
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Impact of the SST and topography on the development of a large-hail storm...
On July 10, 2019 an unusual and severe weather event hit Italy: a trough extending southward from northern Europe affected Italy and the Balkans, as it advected cold air over...- publication PDF
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Interdependencies and risk to people and critical food, energy, and water...
This paper examines the interdependencies mediating the cascading negative consequences triggered by the September 2013 flood, in Boulder, Colorado, USA. By illustrating the...- publication PDF
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Diagnosis of tropical biases and the MJO from patterns in the MERRA analysis...
The Modern-Era Reanalysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) is realistic, including its Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO), which the underlying model [Goddard Earth Observing...- publication PDF
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An observation-based, reduced-form model for oxidation in the remote marine...
The hydroxyl radical (OH) fuels atmospheric chemical cycling as the main sink for methane and a driver of the formation and loss of many air pollutants, but direct OH...- publication PDF
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Assessing the impact of stochastic perturbations in cloud microphysics using...
In this study, infrared brightness temperatures (BTs) are used to examine how applying stochastic perturbed parameter (SPP) methodology to the widely used Thompson-Eidhammer...- publication PDF
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Balancing water reuse and ecological support goals in an effluent dominated river
Flows in urban rivers are increasingly managed to support water supply needs while also protecting and/or restoring instream ecological functions, goals that are often in...- publication PDF
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OH, HO2, and RO2 radical chemistry in a rural forest environment:...
The hydroxyl (OH), hydroperoxy (HO2), and organic peroxy (RO2) radicals play important roles in atmospheric chemistry. In the presence of nitrogen oxides (NOx), reactions...- publication PDF
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Evidence of tropospheric effects on the ionosphere
A new paradigm in upper atmospheric and ionospheric physics has begun to emerge, starting with discoveries from observations taken with the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora...- publication PDF
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Diurnal variation of the potassium layer in the upper atmosphere
Measurements of the diurnal cycle of potassium (K) atoms between 80 and 110 km have been made during October (for the years 2004-2011) using a Doppler lidar at Kühlungsborn,...- publication PDF
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Global gridded crop model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and...
Crop models are increasingly used to simulate crop yields at the global scale, but so far there is no general framework on how to assess model performance. Here we evaluate the...- publication PDF