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An instrument to measure coronal emission line polarization
We have constructed an instrument to measure the polarization of light emitted by the solar corona in order to constrain the strength and orientation of coronal magnetic fields....- publication PDF
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Atmospheric forcing of the upper ocean transport in the Gulf of Mexico: From...
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) was an environmental disaster, which highlighted the urgent need to predict the transport and dispersion of...- publication PDF
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Contrasting local and remote impacts of surface heating on polar warming and...
The polar region has been one of the fastest warming places on Earth in response to greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing. Two distinct processes contribute to the observed warming...- publication PDF
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Dynamics of rotor formation in uniformly stratified two-dimensional flow...
The coupling between mountain waves in the free atmosphere and rotors in the boundary layer is investigated using a two-dimensional numerical model and linear wave theory....- publication PDF
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Fast computation of absorption spectra for lidar data processing using...
We describe a principal component-based technique for approximating absorption and scattering spectra commonly needed for lidar signal processing. Where previously these...- publication PDF
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Predicting storm outages through new representations of weather and vegetation
This paper introduces new developments in an outage prediction model (OPM) for an electric distribution network in the Northeastern United States and assesses their significance...- publication PDF
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Ozone observations by the gas and aerosol measurement sensor during SOLVE II
The Gas and Aerosol Measurement Sensor ( GAMS) was deployed aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the second SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment ( SOLVE II). GAMS...- publication PDF
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Constraining ensemble forecasts of discrete convective initiation with...
Predicting when and where individual convective storms will develop remains an elusive challenge. Previous studies have suggested that surface observations can capture...- publication PDF
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Earth's energy imbalance
Climate change from increased greenhouse gases arises from a global energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere (TOA). TOA measurements of radiation from space can track...- publication PDF
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Capturing high-resolution air pollution features using the multi-scale...
The Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols (MUSICA) enables the study of atmospheric chemistry and aerosols at global to local scales. MUSICA version 0 (MUSICAv0)...- publication PDF
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Societal and economic research and applications for weather forecasts:...
Despite the meteorological community's long-term interest in weather-society interactions, efforts to understand socioeconomic aspects of weather prediction and to incorporate...- publication PDF
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Competing forecast verification: Using the power-divergence statistic for...
When testing hypotheses about which of two competing models is better, say A and B, the difference is often not significant. An alternative, complementary approach, is to...- publication PDF
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Performance of the Vaisala RS80 A/H and RS90 Humicap sensors and the...
In climate research there is a strong need for accurate observations of water vapor in the upper atmosphere. Radiosoundings provide relative humidity profiles but the accuracy...- publication PDF
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Model configuration versus driving model: Influences on next-day regional...
As part of NOAA's Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment (SFE) in 2020, an international collaboration yielded a set of real-time convection-allowing model...- publication PDF
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Differences in the Indonesian seaway in a coupled climate model and their...
A fully coupled general circulation model is used to investigate the hypothesis that during Pliocene times tectonic changes in the Indonesian seas modified the Indo-Pacific heat...- publication PDF
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Dynamical characteristics of drought in the Caribbean from observations and...
Climate models consistently project a significant drying in the Caribbean during climate change, and between 2013 and 2016 the region experienced the worst multiyear drought in...- publication PDF
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The heating efficiency of the exothermic reaction H + O3 in the mesosphere
An important source of heating in the mesosphere is the exothermic reaction of ozone with atomic hydrogen, which generates hydroxyl in a vibrationally excited state. Some of the...- publication PDF
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Marine wild-capture fisheries after nuclear war
Nuclear war, beyond its devastating direct impacts, is expected to cause global climatic perturbations through injections of soot into the upper atmosphere. Reduced temperature...- publication PDF
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GAMERA: A three-dimensional finite-volume MHD solver for non-orthogonal...
Efficient simulation of plasmas in various contexts often involves the use of meshes that conform to the intrinsic geometry of the system under consideration. We present here a...- publication PDF
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Energy-conserving physics for nonhydrostatic dynamics in mass coordinate models
Motivated by reducing errors in the energy budget related to enthalpy fluxes within the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), we study several physics-dynamics coupling...- publication PDF
