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Two limits of initial-value decadal predictability in a CGCM
When the climate system experiences time-dependent external forcing (e.g., from increases in greenhouse gas and aerosol concentrations), there are two inherent limits on the...- publication PDF
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Shower thoughts: why scientists should spend more time in the rain
Stormwater is a vital resource and dynamic driver of terrestrial ecosystem processes. However, processes controlling interactions during and shortly after storms are often...- publication PDF
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Simulating the Pineapple Express in the half degree Community Climate System...
Atmospheric rivers are recognized as major contributors to the poleward transport of water vapor. Upon reaching land, these phenomena also play a critical role in extreme...- publication PDF
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Climate change projections of the North American Regional Climate Change...
We investigate major results of the NARCCAP multiple regional climate model (RCM) experiments driven by multiple global climate models (GCMs) regarding climate change for...- publication PDF
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Mixing characteristics within the tropopause transition layer over the Asian...
The structure of the tropopause transition layer (TTL) over the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) anticyclone is analyzed on the basis of high-resolution balloon soundings of...- publication PDF
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Arctic sea ice in two configurations of the CESM2 during the 20th and 21st centuries
We provide an assessment of the current and future states of Arctic sea ice simulated by the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2). The CESM2 is the version of the CESM...- publication PDF
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Orogenic propagating precipitation systems over the United States in a...
In the lee of major mountain chains worldwide, diurnal physics of organized propagating convection project onto seasonal and climate time scales of the hydrologic cycle, but...- publication PDF
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The UserDoc Collection
This technical note is a set of four documents describing the steps in using SCD computing. Introductory. The Primer : Version 2.2 is the first technical manual you read about...- publication PDF
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An approach for retrieving marine boundary layer refractivity from GPS...
The global positioning system (GPS) radio occultation (RO) technique has demonstrated the ability to precisely probe earth's atmosphere globally with high vertical resolution....- publication PDF
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On the parameter dependence of the whistler anisotropy instability
The evolution of the whistler anisotropy instability relevant to whistler-mode chorus waves in the Earth's inner magnetosphere is studied using kinetic simulations and is...- publication PDF
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Quantitative precipitation estimation of the epic 2013 Colorado flood event:...
The accuracy of rain-rate estimation using polarimetric radar measurements has been improved as a result of better characterization of radar measurement quality and rain...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale field-aligned irregularity structures (FAIs) of airglow associated...
n this paper, we report the evolution (generation, amplification, and dissipation) of optically observed mesoscale field-aligned irregularity structures (FAIs) (~150 km)...- publication PDF
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A study of the Arctic NOy budget above Eureka, Canada
Four years of trace gas measurements have been acquired using the Bruker 125HR Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer installed at the Polar Environment Atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Human-driven greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions cause distinct regional...
Attribution studies have identified a robust anthropogenic fingerprint in increased 21st century wildfire risk. However, the risks associated with individual aspects of...- publication PDF
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Improving the physical basis for updraft dynamics in deep convection...
This article presents a new deep convective parameterization that determines cloud characteristics based on a specified cloud size distribution. The vertical profiles of cloud...- publication PDF
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An observationally based constraint on the water-vapor feedback
The increase in atmospheric concentrations of water vapor with global warming is a large positive feedback in the climate system. Thus, even relatively small errors in its...- publication PDF
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The atmospheric oxidizing capacity in China - Part 1: Roles of different...
Atmospheric oxidation capacity (AOC) characterizes the ability of the atmosphere to scavenge air pollutants. However, the processes involved in China, where anthropogenic...- publication PDF
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Determining ave-turbulence interactions in the stable boundary layer
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Paleoclimate changes in the Pacific Northwest over the past 36,000 years...
Since the last glacial period, North America has experienced dramatic changes in regional climate, including the collapse of ice sheets and changes in precipitation. We use...- publication PDF
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Does increased horizontal resolution Improve hurricane wind forecasts?
The representation of tropical cyclone track, intensity, and structure in a set of 69 parallel forecasts performed at each of two horizontal grid increments with the Advanced...- publication PDF
