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Future changes in boreal winter ENSO teleconnections in a large ensemble of...
The impacts of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are expected to change under increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, but the large internal variability of ENSO and its...- publication PDF
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Determining ULF wave contributions to geomagnetically induced currents: The...
Past studies found that large-amplitude geomagnetically induced current (GIC) related to magnetospheric Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves tend to be associated with periods...- publication PDF
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If the Sun is so quiet, why is the Earth ringing? A comparison of two solar...
Observations from the recent Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI) solar minimum campaign are compared to last cycle's Whole Sun Month (WSM) to demonstrate that sunspot numbers,...- publication PDF
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Wintertime transport of reactive trace gases from East Asia into the deep tropics
Unprecedented growth of East Asian economies has led to increases of anthropogenic pollutants in the regional atmosphere. This pollutant burden is transported into the global...- publication PDF
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Definitive NCAR Index for TeX for NCAR Scientists
This Index does not pretend to be an extension of Donald Knuth's comprehensive The TEXbook. It contains, instead, a condensation of the text-formatting output most frequently...- publication PDF
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Assessment of the GOES-16 clear sky mask product over the contiguous USA...
Cloud initialization is a challenge in numerical weather prediction. Probably the most relevant observations for this task come from geostationary satellites. These satellites...- publication PDF
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Investigating differences in DOAS retrieval codes using MAD-CAT campaign data
The differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) method is a well-known remote sensing technique that is nowadays widely used for measurements of atmospheric trace gases,...- publication PDF
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Weather forecasts by the WRF-ARW model with the GSI data assimilation system...
This paper will first describe the forecasting errors encountered from running the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) mesoscale model (the Advanced Research Weather...- publication PDF
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Design of the Stonehenge Launch System
This report provides the engineering data required for the construction and use of the Stonehenge Launch System. Because scientific ballooning payloads have become heavier, more...- publication PDF
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Groundwater depletion in the Middle East from GRACE with implications for...
In this study, we use observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission to evaluate freshwater storage trends in the north-central Middle...- publication PDF
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Scientific objectives and capabilities of the Coronal Solar Magnetism Observatory
Magnetic influences increase in importance in the solar atmosphere from the photosphere out into the corona, yet our ability to routinely measure magnetic fields in the outer...- publication PDF
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How does LCL height influence deep convective updraft width?
Previous studies have hypothesized that the width of deep convection should positively scale with lifting condensation level (LCL) height. To evaluate this hypothesis, we...- publication PDF
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Airborne polarimetric Doppler weather radar: Trade-offs between various...
NCAR EOL is investigating potential configurations for the next-generation airborne phased array radar (APAR) that is capable of retrieving dynamic and microphysical...- publication PDF
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Incremental analysis update (IAU) in the Model for Prediction Across Scales...
In a cycling system where data assimilation (DA) and model simulation are executed consecutively, the model forecasts initialized from the analysis (or data assimilation) can be...- publication PDF
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NASA's tropical cloud systems and processes (TCSP) experiment: Investigating...
In July 2005, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration investigated tropical cyclogenesis, hurricane structure, and intensity change in the eastern North Pacific and...- publication PDF
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Proneness of European catchments to multiyear streamflow droughts
Droughts can have severe ecological, social, and economic impacts. Some impacts are particularly severe if droughts last longer than 1 year and water stores are not fully...- publication PDF
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On the choice of calibration metrics for "high-flow" estimation using...
Calibration is an essential step for improving the accuracy of simulations generated using hydrologic models. A key modeling decision is selecting the performance metric to be...- publication PDF
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Polar thermospheric winds and temperature observed by Fabry-Perot...
Upper atmospheric neutral winds and temperature have been observed by the Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) which was installed at Jang Bogo Station (JBS), Antarctica, in 2014....- publication PDF
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New model ensemble reveals how forcing uncertainty and model structure alter...
Climate simulation uncertainties arise from internal variability, model structure, and external forcings. Model intercomparisons (such as the Coupled Model Intercomparison...- publication PDF
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Riparian zones attenuate nitrogen loss following bark beetle-induced...
A North American bark beetle infestation has killed billions of trees, increasing soil nitrogen and raising concern for N loss impacts on downstream ecosystems and water...- publication PDF