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The global monsoon across timescales: Coherent variability of regional monsoons
Monsoon has earned increasing attention from the climate community since the last century, yet only recently have regional monsoons been recognized as a global system. It...- publication PDF
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Coupling of tree growth and photosynthetic carbon uptake across six North...
Linking biometric measurements of stand-level biomass growth to tower-based measurements of carbon uptake-gross primary productivity and net ecosystem productivity-has been the...- publication PDF
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Slowly sinking particles underlie dissolved iron transport across the Pacific Ocean
Continental shelf sediments are an important source of iron (Fe) in the oceans. Observational data suggest that basin-scale transport of sedimentary sourced Fe accompanies the...- publication PDF
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The mid-1970s climate shift in the Pacific and the relative roles of forced...
A significant shift from cooler to warmer tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures (SSTs), part of a pattern of basinwide SST anomalies involved with a transition to the...- publication PDF
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Observed temperature changes in the troposphere and stratosphere from 1979 to 2018
Temperature observations of the upper-air atmosphere are now available for more than 40 years from both ground- and satellite-based observing systems. Recent years have seen...- publication PDF
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Total column water vapor, [In "States of the Climate in 2014"]
Most of the dozens of essential climate variables monitored each year in this report continued to follow their long-term trends in 2014, with several setting new records. Carbon...- publication PDF
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Monitoring and understanding trends in extreme storms: State of knowledge [preprint]
The state of knowledge regarding trends and an understanding of their causes is presented for a specific subset of extreme weather and climate types. For severe convective...- publication PDF
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Uncertainty of tropical cyclone best-track information
With the growing use of tropical cyclone (TC) best-track information for weather and climate applications, it is important to understand the uncertainties that are contained in...- publication PDF
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How often does it rain?
Daily precipitation data from worldwide stations and gridded analyses and from 18 coupled global climate models are used to evaluate the models' performance in simulating the...- publication PDF
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Editorial: Horizons in astronomy and astrophysics
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Integrated land ecosystem-atmosphere processes study (iLEAPS) assessment of...
Long-term, continuous observations are needed for Earth system investigations and evaluation of simulations. The atmospheric and ecological communities have independently...- publication PDF
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Rapid 20th century warming reverses 900-year cooling in the Gulf of Maine
The Gulf of Maine, located in the western North Atlantic, has undergone recent, rapid ocean warming but the lack of long-term, instrumental records hampers the ability to put...- publication PDF
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Future changes in European severe convection environments in a regional...
The occurrence of environmental conditions favorable for severe convective storms was assessed in an ensemble of 14 regional climate models covering Europe and the Mediterranean...- publication PDF
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Extratropical tropopause transition layer characteristics from...
Accurate determination of the tropopause is important for applications such as dynamical analysis and forecasting, radiative transfer calculations, and the diagnosis of chemical...- publication PDF
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Source sector and region contributions to black carbon and PM2.5 in the Arctic
The impacts of black carbon (BC) and particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters less than 2.5 mu m (PM2 : 5) emissions from different source sectors (e.g., transportation,...- publication PDF
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Effects of high-latitude ionospheric electric field variability on global...
Effects of high-latitude ionospheric electric field variability on the Joule heating and mechanical energy transfer rate are investigated by incorporating realistic spatial and...- publication PDF
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Subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction of atmospheric rivers in the Northern Winter
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are characterized by intense lower tropospheric plumes of moisture transport that are frequently responsible for midlatitude wind and precipitation...- publication PDF
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Emission factors and evolution of SO2 measured from biomass burning in...
Fires emit sufficient sulfur to affect local and regional air quality and climate. This study analyzes SO2 emission factors and variability in smoke plumes from US wildfires and...- publication PDF
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Diagnosing scale-dependent energy cycles in a high-resolution isopycnal ocean model
Energy exchanges between large-scale ocean currents and mesoscale eddies play an important role in setting the large-scale ocean circulation but are not fully captured in...- publication PDF
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Why doesn't the ring current injection rate saturate?
For low values of the solar wind electric field, the response of the polar cap potential is essentially linear, but at high values of VBs, the polar cap potential saturates and...- publication PDF
