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Wind profiles in tropical cyclone stratiform rainbands over land
Observations of 14 stratiform periods in outer tropical cyclone rainbands are used to evaluate wind structure using a velocity–azimuth display (VAD) technique applied to KAMX...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of PERSIANN-CCS rainfall measurement using the NAME event rain...
Robust validation of the space–time structure of remotely sensed precipitation estimates is critical to improving their quality and confident application in water cycle–related...- publication PDF
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Physics-dynamics coupling with element-based high-order Galerkin methods:...
Atmospheric modeling with element-based high-order Galerkin methods presents a unique challenge to the conventional physics-dynamics coupling paradigm, due to the highly...- publication PDF
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Land processes can substantially impact the mean climate state
Terrestrial processes influence the atmosphere by controlling land‐to‐atmosphere fluxes of energy, water, and carbon. Prior research has demonstrated that parameter...- publication PDF
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Research needs and directions of regional climate modeling using WRF and CCSM
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Near-surface vortex structure in a tornado and in a sub-tornado-strength...
As part of the Second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX2) field campaign, a very high-resolution, mobile, W-band Doppler radar collected...- publication PDF
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Late-twentieth-century simulation of Arctic sea ice and ocean properties in the CCSM4
To establish how well the new Community Climate System model version 4 (CCSM4) simulates the properties of the Arctic sea ice and ocean, we here compare results from six CCSM4...- publication PDF
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A simple technique for creating regional composites of sea-surface...
This paper describes a simple technique for creating regional, high-resolution, daytime and nighttime composites of sea surface temperature (SST) for use in operational...- publication PDF
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Feature-based diagnostic evaluation of global NWP forecasts
With the resolution of global numerical weather prediction (NWP) models now typically between 10 and 20 km, forecasts are able to capture the evolution of synoptic features that...- publication PDF
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The impact of probabilistic tornado warnings on risk perceptions and responses.
Many warnings issued to members of the public are deterministic in that they do not include event likelihood information. This is true of the current polygon-based tornado...- publication PDF
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Stomatal conductance influences interannual variability and long-term...
Ambient ozone uptake by plant stomata degrades ecosystem and crop health and alters local-to-global carbon and water cycling. Metrics for ozone plant damage are often based...- publication PDF
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Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones
Owing to the limited length of observed tropical cyclone data and the effects of multidecadal internal variability, it has been a challenge to detect trends in tropical cyclone...- publication PDF
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A large-eddy simulation study of the influence of subsidence on the stably...
The influence of the large-scale subsidence rate, S, on the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) over the Arctic Ocean snow/ice pack during clear-sky, winter...- publication PDF
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The emerging technological revolution in Earth observations
A technology revolution in Earth observation sensor design is occurring. This revolution in part is associated with the emergence of CubeSat platforms that have forced a de...- publication PDF
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Variability of water vapor in the tropical middle atmosphere observed from...
Water vapor in the middle atmosphere plays an essential role in global warming, ozone depletion, and the formation of polar stratospheric and mesospheric clouds. We show that...- publication PDF
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Effects of organized convection parameterization on the MJO and...
Mesoscale organization of convection is typically not represented in global circulation models, and hence its influence on the global circulation is not accounted for. The...- publication PDF
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Nowcasting challenges during the Beijing Olympics: Successes, failures and...
The Beijing 2008 Forecast Demonstration Project (B08FDP) included a variety of nowcasting systems from China, Australia, Canada and the United States. A goal of the B08FDP was...- publication PDF
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The Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research Model (ICAR)
With limited computational resources, there is a need for computationally frugal models. This is particularly the case for atmospheric sciences, which have long relied on either...- publication PDF
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Optimizing Genetic Algorithm Parameters for Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Modeling
A main source of atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO) variability in the Southern Hemisphere is large burn events, making CO a useful proxy for fires. Therefore, predictive CO...- publication PDF
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Variability of tropical cyclone track density in the North Atlantic:...
Interannual--decadal variability of tropical cyclone (TC) track density over the North Atlantic (NA) between 1979 and 2008 is studied using observations and simulations with a...- publication PDF
