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A comparison of methods used to populate neighborhood-based contingency...
As high-resolution numerical weather prediction models are now commonplace, "neighborhood'' verification metrics are regularly employed to evaluate forecast quality. These...- publication PDF
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High resolution coupled climate-runoff simulations of seasonal snowfall over...
Climate change is expected to accelerate the hydrologic cycle, increase the fraction of precipitation that is rain, and enhance snowpack melting. The enhanced hydrological cycle...- publication PDF
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Comparison of airborne reactive nitrogen measurements during WINTER
We present a comparison of instruments measuring nitrogen oxide species from an aircraft during the 2015 Wintertime INvestigation of Transport, Emissions, and Reactivity...- publication PDF
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A spatial analysis of multivariate output from regional climate models
Climate models have become an important tool in the study of climate and climate change, and ensemble experiments consisting of multiple climate-model runs are used in studying...- publication PDF
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Error analysis of Abel retrieved electron density profiles from radio...
This letter reports for the first time the simulated error distribution of radio occultation (RO) electron density profiles (EDPs) from the Abel inversion in a systematic way....- publication PDF
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Sensitivity study of cloud-resolving convective simulations with WRF using...
This study examines the relative importance of ice-phase microphysics and sedimentation velocity for hydrometeors in bulk microphysics schemes. The two bulk microphysics schemes...- publication PDF
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Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and annular mode variability in...
The internal variability and coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere in CCMVal-2 chemistry-climate models are evaluated through analysis of the annular mode patterns...- publication PDF
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Attributing air pollutant exposure to emission sources with proximity sensing
Biomass burning for home energy use contributes to negative health outcomes and environmental degradation. As part of the REACCTING study (Research on Emissions, Air quality,...- publication PDF
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Tropical Atlantic biases in CCSM4
This paper focuses on diagnosing biases in the seasonal climate of the tropical Atlantic in the twentieth-century simulation of the Community Climate System Model, version 4...- publication PDF
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Use of the Earth's surface as a reference to correct airborne nadir-looking...
A technique for correcting radar radial velocity Vr in airborne, nadir-pointing radar data using the surface of Earth as a reference is proposed and tested. Operating airborne...- publication PDF
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An observational and theoretical study of the longitudinal variation in...
In this paper, observations by thermosphere, ionosphere, mesosphere energetics and dynamics/Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry from 2002 to 2012 and...- publication PDF
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Lower Boundary Conditions for the NCAR Global Circulation Model: Ocean...
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An educational deployment of the NCAR Mobile Integrated Sounding System
The best way to train the next wave of observational talent is through direct experience. In 2012 and again in 2014, students at St. Cloud State University (SCSU) welcomed...- publication PDF
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Impact of assimilating IASI radiance observations on forecasts of two...
The impact of assimilating Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) radiance observations on the analyses and forecasts of Hurricane Maria (2011) and Typhoon Megi...- publication PDF
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CMIP5 scientific gaps and recommendations for CMIP6
The scientific gaps identified in the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) that guided the experiment for its next phase, CMIP6, are identified.- publication PDF
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A geometric perspective on the modulation of potential energy release by a...
The release of available potential energy by growing baroclinic instability requires the slope of the eddy fluxes to be shallower than that of mean density surfaces, where the...- publication PDF
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Quantifying uncertainties in projections of extremes: A perturbed land...
Uncertainties in the climate response to a doubling of atmospheric CO₂ concentrations are quantified in a perturbed land surface parameter experiment. The ensemble of 108...- publication PDF
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Inertia-gravity waves spontaneously generated by jets and fronts, Part 1:...
The spontaneous generation of inertia–gravity waves in idealized life cycles of baroclinic instability is investigated using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. Two...- publication PDF
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On the development of GFDL's decadal prediction system: Initialization...
Using GFDL's new coupled model SPEAR, we have developed a decadal coupled reanalysis/initialization system (DCIS) that does not use subsurface ocean observations. In DCIS, the...- publication PDF
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Using sonic anemometer temperature to measure sensible heat flux in strong winds
Sonic anemometers simultaneously measure the turbulent fluctuations of vertical wind (w') and sonic temperature (Ts'), and are commonly used to measure sensible heat flux (H)....- publication PDF