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The Ice Particle and Aggregate Simulator IPAS). Part III: Verification and...
The Ice Particle and Aggregate Simulator (IPAS) is used to theoretically represent the aggregation process of ice crystals. Aggregates have a variety of formations based on...- publication PDF
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Cover crops may cause winter warming in snow-covered regions
Cover crops, grown between cash crops when soil is fallow, are a management strategy that may help mitigate climate change. The biogeochemical effects of cover crops are well...- publication PDF
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On the inversion of limb radiance measurements. I: Temperature and thickness
The calculation of limb radiance as a function of tangent height is shown to require the vertical distribution of temperature and the pressure at one level. Conversely, given...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric chemistry signatures of an equatorially symmetric Matsuno-Gill...
Matsuno-Gill circulations have been widely studied in tropical meteorology, but their impact on stratospheric chemistry has seldom been explicitly evaluated. This study...- publication PDF
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Impact of desert dust radiative forcing on Sahel precipitation: Relative...
The role of direct radiative forcing of desert dust aerosol in the change from wet to dry climate observed in the African Sahel region in the last half of the twentieth century...- publication PDF
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A new K–ε turbulence parameterization for mesoscale meteorological models
A new one-dimensional 1.5-order planetary boundary layer (PBL) scheme, based on the K-epsilon turbulence closure applied to the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations,...- publication PDF
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Marine cloud brightening: Regional applications
The general principle behind the marine cloud brightening (MCB) climate engineering technique is that seeding marine stratocumulus clouds with substantial concentrations of...- publication PDF
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Comparison of rotational temperature derived from ground-based OH airglow...
Ground-based observations of the OH(9-4, 8-3, 6-2, 5-1, and 3-0) band airglows over Xinglong, China (40°24'N, 117°35'E) from December 2011 to 2014 are used to calculate...- publication PDF
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Space weather challenge and forecasting implications of Rossby waves
Rossby waves arise in thin layers within fluid regions of stars and planets. These global wave-like patterns occur due to the variation in Coriolis forces with latitude. In the...- publication PDF
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A wind tunnel investigation into the aerodynamics of lobed hailstones
The complex surface geometries of hailstones affect their fall behavior, fall speeds, and growth. Systematic experimental investigations on the influence of the number and...- publication PDF
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Van Allen Probes observations of multi-MEV electron drift-periodic flux...
Radiation belt electrons undergo frequent acceleration, transport, and loss processes under various physical mechanisms. One of the most prevalent mechanisms is radial...- publication PDF
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Air-sea interactions in light of new understanding of air-land interactions
Air-sea interactions are investigated using the data from the Coupled Boundary Layers Air-Sea Transfer experiment under low wind (CBLAST-Low) and the Surface Wave Dynamics...- publication PDF
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Description of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model (CAM 4.0)
This report presents the details of the governing equations, physical parameterizations, and numerical algorithms defining the version of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model des-...- publication PDF
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Small impact of stratospheric dynamics and chemistry on the surface...
Stratospheric dynamics and chemistry can impact the tropospheric climate through changing radiatively active atmospheric constituents and stratosphere-troposphere interactions....- publication PDF
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Societal decisions about climate mitigation will have dramatic impacts on...
Excessive nitrogen runoff leads to degraded water quality, harming human and ecosystem health. We examine the impact of changes in land use and land management for six...- publication PDF
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Solar flare effects on 150-km echoes observed over Jicamarca: WACCM-X simulations
Jicamarca Radio Observatory observations and Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with thermosphere-ionosphere eXtension (WACCM-X) simulations are used to investigate the...- publication PDF
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Higher measured than modeled ozone production at increased NOx levels in the...
Chemical models must correctly calculate the ozone formation rate, P(O3), to accurately predict ozone levels and to test mitigation strategies. However, air quality models can...- publication PDF
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Chloride (HCl ∕ Cl-) dominates inorganic aerosol formation from ammonia in...
The Winter Fog Experiment (WiFEX) was an intensive field campaign conducted at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) Delhi, India, in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) during...- publication PDF
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Estimating signal loss in regularized GRACE gravity field solutions
Gravity field solutions produced using data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission are subject to errors that increase as a function of...- publication PDF
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Antarctica: Surface mass balance [in "State of the Climate in 2008"]
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