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Impact of temporal data resolution on parameter inference and model...
This study presents quantitative and qualitative insights into the time scale dependencies of hydrological parameters, predictions and their uncertainties, and examines the...- publication PDF
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Techniques employed in the processing of particle size spectra and state...
This document describes the computer software developed to process particle size spectrometer and thermodynamic data obtained with the T-28 "hail" research aircraft. Five...- publication PDF
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Predicted impacts of climate and land-use change on surface ozone in the...
This paper studies the effects of climate change under future A1B scenario and land use change on surface ozone (Oâ) in the greater Houston, Texas, area. We applied the...- publication PDF
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Toward a physically based gravity wave source parameterization in a general...
Middle atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) must employ a parameterization for small-scale gravity waves (GWs). Such parameterizations typically make very simple...- publication PDF
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Improving global weather prediction in GFDL SHiELD through an upgraded GFDL...
We describe the third version of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory cloud microphysics scheme (GFDL MP v3) implemented in the System for High-resolution prediction on...- publication PDF
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Rocket-borne in situ measurements of meteor smoke: Charging properties and...
Rocket-borne observations of meteoric smoke particles (MSPs) are presented from three campaigns at polar latitudes (69?N) in September 2006, and in the summers of 2007 and 2008....- publication PDF
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Confidence Intervals for Forecast Verification
The manuscript is an attempt to present in a single document the various types of confidence intervals, their assumptions, and other issues as they pertain to forecast...- publication PDF
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Improving GPS surveying with modeled ionospheric corrections
We model the ionospheric delay of Global Positioning System (GPS) signals with high precision and use it to correct single frequency (L1) GPS baseline estimations. We find that...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of the surface climatology over the conterminous United States in...
Surface air temperature, precipitation, and insolation over the conterminous United States region from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP)...- publication PDF
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The NCAR CSM Flux Coupler
The purpose of this document is to describe in detail the code known as the CSM Flux Coupler. This code was developed to serve two specific functions within the NCAR Climate...- publication PDF
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Numerical modeling of the global changes to the thermosphere and ionosphere...
During the minimum of solar cycles 23-24, the Sun was extremely quiet; however, tropospheric deep convection was strong and active. In this paper, we model the gravity waves...- publication PDF
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When less is more: Opening the door to simpler climate models
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Grid spacing sensitivities of simulated mid-latitude and tropical mesoscale...
The main objective of this study is to observationally constrain processes in tropical and midlatitude mesoscale convective systems (MCSs), and to use these constraints for...- publication PDF
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Mirrored changes in Antarctic ozone and stratospheric temperature in the...
Observed and modeled patterns of lower stratospheric seasonal trends in Antarctic ozone and temperature in the late 20th (1979-2000) and the early 21st (2000-2014) centuries are...- publication PDF
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Quality assurance in atmospheric modeling
This paper summarizes a number of best-practices associated with the use of numerical models of the atmosphere, and is motivated by the rapid growth in the number of model...- publication PDF
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Influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on entry stratospheric water...
The connection between the dominant mode of interannual variability in the tropical troposphere, the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the entry of stratospheric water...- publication PDF
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A proposed mechanism for asymmetric duration of El Niño and La Niña
El Niño and La Niña exhibit significant asymmetry not only in their spatial structure but also in their duration. Most El Niños terminate rapidly after maturing near the end...- publication PDF
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First results for Solar Soft X-Ray irradiance measurements from the...
Three generations of the Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) have flown on small satellites with the goal "to explore the energy distribution of soft X-ray (SXR)...- publication PDF
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Contrasts between urban and rural cimate in CCSM4 CMIP5 climate change scenarios
A new parameterization of urban areas in the Community Climate System Model version 4 (CCSM4) allows for simulation of temperature in cities where most of the global population...- publication PDF
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Low-cloud feedback in CAM5-CLUBB: Physical mechanisms and parameter...
The physical mechanism of low-cloud feedbacks is examined by using perturbed-parameter ensemble experiments in a unified scheme of boundary layer turbulence and shallow...- publication PDF