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Serendipity : Research Career of One Scientist
Dr. Akira Kasahara reflects on his career of more than 65 years in the field of meteorology, specifically the fields of numerical weather prediction and computational modeling...- publication PDF
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Impact of sea ice on the marine iron cycle and phytoplankton productivity
Iron is a key nutrient for phytoplankton growth in the surface ocean. At high latitudes, the iron cycle is closely related to the dynamics of sea ice. In recent decades, Arctic...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the impacts of high-resolution urban information on the urban...
Detailed urban information, including land use/land cover (LULC), anthropogenic heat (AH) release, and urban canopy parameters (UCP), play critical roles in meteorological field...- publication PDF
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Ground-based GNSS and satellite observations of auroral ionospheric...
The 25-26 August 2018 space weather event occurred during the solar minimum period and surprisingly became the third largest geomagnetic storm of the entire 24th solar cycle. We...- publication PDF
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Priorities for boundary-layer meteorology research in China
Under the sponsorship of the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), a symposium on boundary layer meteorology was held at Nanjing University of Information Science and...- publication PDF
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Design Life Level: Quantifying risk in a changing climate
In the past, the concepts of return levels and return periods have been standard and important tools for engineering design. However, these concepts are based on the assumption...- publication PDF
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The First Moments of the Variance- and Cross-spectra of Standard and...
This Technical Note was prepared during the author's year-long research stay at NCAR's Atmospheric Technology Division (ATD). It is a translated, revised and slightly extended...- publication PDF
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A comparison of the vorticity dynamics governing the oceanic bomb cyclone of...
Convection-allowing simulations of two warm seclusion cyclones are used to elucidate the vorticity dynamics that contribute to intensification of these systems. The rapidly...- publication PDF
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The global budget of atmospheric methanol: New constraints on secondary,...
Methanol is the second-most abundant organic gas in the remote atmosphere after methane, but its sources are poorly understood. Here, we report a global budget of methanol...- publication PDF
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Wet scavenging in WRF-Chem simulations of parameterized convection for a...
Deep convection can transport surface moisture and pollution from the planetary boundary layer to the upper troposphere (UT) within a few minutes. The convective transport of...- publication PDF
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The Parker Magnetostatic Theorem
We demonstrate the Parker Magnetostatic Theorem in terms of a small neighborhood in solution space containing continuous force-free magnetic fields in small deviations from the...- publication PDF
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Tracking shallow convective mixing and its influence on low-level clouds...
Low-cloud feedbacks contribute large uncertainties to climate projections and estimated climate sensitivity. A key physical process modulating low-cloud feedbacks is shallow...- publication PDF
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Transport from the Asian Summer Monsoon anticyclone over the Western Pacific
The subseasonal scale dynamics of the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) upper troposphere (UT) anticyclone has been identified as a primary mechanism for convectively lofted Asian...- publication PDF
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Who bears the burden? An assessment of vulnerability and resilience to...
Climate-related disasters threaten urban areas worldwide, yet gaps remain in understanding how multiple stressors interact to shape resilience. This study examines exposure,...- publication PDF
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GOLD observations of thermospheric neutral temperature variability during...
The 14 October 2023 annular solar eclipse was visible from the US Pacific coast to Brazil's east coast. NASA's Global‐scale Observations of Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission...- publication PDF
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The impacts of climate, land use, and demography on fires during the 21st...
Landscape fires during the 21st century are expected to change in response to multiple agents of global change. Important controlling factors include climate controls on the...- publication PDF
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Data assimilation: A fully nonlinear approach to ensemble formation using...
Operational forecasting with simulation models involves the melding of observations and model dynamics to determine a set of initial conditions for each forecast. The Kalman...- publication PDF
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The decline in summer fallow in the northern Great Plains cooled...
Land management can moderate or intensify the impacts of a warming atmosphere. Since the early 1980s, nearly 116,000 km2 of cropland that was once held in fallow during the...- publication PDF
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Two-dimensional correlation functions for density and magnetic field...
Knowledge of multidimensional correlation functions is crucial for understanding the anisotropy of turbulence. The two-dimensional (2-D) spatial correlation functions (SCFs)...- publication PDF
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Improved understanding of multicentury Greenland Ice Sheet response to...
The simulation of ice sheet‐climate interactions, such as surface mass balance fluxes, is sensitive to model grid resolution. Here we simulate the multi‐century...- publication PDF