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Integrating anthropogenic heat flux with global climate models
Nearly all energy used for human purposes is dissipated as heat within Earth's land-atmosphere system. Thermal energy released from non-renewable sources is therefore a climate...- publication PDF
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Incorporating cooking emissions to better simulate the impact of...
Despite decades of emission control measures aimed at improving air quality, Los Angeles (LA) continues to experience severe ozone pollution during the summertime. We...- publication PDF
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Simulations of subtropical cyclones in a baroclinic channel model
The present study considers a variety of cyclone developments that occur in an idealized, baroclinic channel model featuring full condensation heating effects over an ocean with...- publication PDF
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Consequences of high effective Prandtl number on solar differential rotation...
Observations suggest that the large-scale convective velocities obtained by solar convection simulations might be over-estimated (convective conundrum). One plausible solution...- publication PDF
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Representing forecast error in a convection-permitting ensemble system
Ensembles provide an opportunity to greatly improve short-term prediction of local weather hazards, yet generating reliable predictions remain a significant challenge. In...- publication PDF
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Multi-decadal trends in the advection and mixing of natural carbon in the...
Multi-decadal trends in the advection, mixing, and air-sea flux of natural carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the Southern Ocean are investigated using output from a hindcast simulation of...- publication PDF
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Intensity of thunderstorm-generated turbulence revealed by large-eddy simulation
Thunderstorms are characterized by turbulent processes that constitute an important aviation hazard and cause vertical transport of atmospheric constituents. Turbulence occurs...- publication PDF
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Large-scale transport into the Arctic: The roles of the midlatitude jet and...
Transport from the Northern Hemisphere (NH) midlatitudes to the Arctic plays a crucial role in determining the abundance of trace gases and aerosols that are important to Arctic...- publication PDF
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In situ balloon-borne ice particle imaging in high-latitude cirrus
Cirrus clouds reflect incoming solar radiation, creating a cooling effect. At the same time, these clouds absorb the infrared radiation from the Earth, creating a greenhouse...- publication PDF
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Radio-star scintillations from ionospheric waves
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Comparison of Lagrangian super-droplet and Eulerian double-moment spectral...
Advanced microphysics schemes (such as Eulerian bin and Lagrangian superdroplet) are becoming standard tools for cloud physics research and parameterization development. This...- publication PDF
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The large-scale energy budget of the Arctic
This paper synthesizes a variety of atmospheric and oceanic data to examine the large-scale energy budget of the Arctic. Assessment of the atmospheric budget relies primarily on...- publication PDF
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A representative democracy to reduce interdependency in a multimodel ensemble
The collection of Earth system models available in the archive of phase 5 of CMIP (CMIP5) represents, at least to some degree, a sample of uncertainty of future climate...- publication PDF
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Greenland-wide accelerated retreat of peripheral glaciers in the twenty-first century
The long-term response of Greenland's peripheral glaciers to climate change is widely undocumented. Here we use historical aerial photographs and satellite imagery to document...- publication PDF
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Radar climatology of the COPS region
A climatology of convection initiation (CI) and convective enhancements (CE) has been developed using radar reflectivity data in southwestern Germany and eastern France over the...- publication PDF
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A Large-Eddy Simulation Study of Water Vapour and Carbon Dioxide Isotopes in...
A large-eddy simulation model developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is extended to simulate the transport and diffusion of C¹⁸OO, H₂¹⁸O and ¹³CO₂ in...- publication PDF
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Assessing the ensemble spread-error relationship
The potential ability of an ensemble prediction system (EPS) to represent its own varying forecast error provides strong motivation to produce an EPS over a less expensive...- publication PDF
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Kinematics of magnetic bright features in the solar photosphere
Convective flows are known as the prime means of transporting magnetic fields on the solar surface. Thus, small magnetic structures are good tracers of turbulent flows. We study...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale simulations of gravity waves during the 2008–2009 major...
A series of 24 h mesoscale simulations (of 10 km horizontal and 400 m vertical resolution) are performed to examine the characteristics and forcing of gravity waves (GWs)...- publication PDF
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Demonstration of a combined differential absorption and high spectral...
This work presents the first demonstration of atmospheric temperature measurement using the differential absorption lidar (DIAL) technique. While DIAL is routinely used to...- publication PDF
