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Acceleration of the southern African easterly jet driven by the radiative...
The direct and semi-direct radiative effects of biomass burning aerosols (BBAs) are investigated over southern Africa and the southeastern Atlantic during the Aerosols,...- publication PDF
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Spatially coordinated airborne data and complementary products for aerosol,...
The NASA Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) produced a unique dataset for research into aerosol-cloud-meteorology...- publication PDF
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Seasonal climate information preserved in West Antarctic ice core water...
As part of the United States' contribution to the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE), a network of precisely dated and highly resolved ice cores was...- publication PDF
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Global atmospheric budget of acetone: Air-sea exchange and the contribution...
Acetone is one of the most abundant oxygenated volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmosphere. The oceans impose a strong control on atmospheric acetone, yet the oceanic...- publication PDF
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Cracking the MJO nut
The Madden-Julian oscillation poses great challenges to our understanding and prediction of tropical convection and the large-scale circulation. Several internationally...- publication PDF
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The Saharan air layer and the fate of African Easterly waves--NASA's AMMA...
In 2006, NASA led a field campaign to investigate the factors that control the fate of African easterly waves (AEWs) moving westward into the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Aircraft...- publication PDF
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Radiance-based retrieval bias mitigation for the MOPITT instrument: The...
The MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere) satellite instrument has been making nearly continuous observations of atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO) since 2000....- publication PDF
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Rapid recovery of thermosphere density during the October 2003 geomagnetic storms
Thermosphere densities from the CHAMP and GRACE satellites are utilized, for the first time, to study the recovery of the thermosphere as a function of latitude during the...- publication PDF
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A land surface soil moisture data assimilation system based on the dual-UKF...
Many studies have shown the deficiencies of the extended Kalman filter (EKF), even though it has become a standard technique used in nonlinear estimation. In the EKF method, the...- publication PDF
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Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their...
Results from the fully and biogeochemically coupled simulations in which CO2 increases at a rate of 1 % yr(-1) (1pctCO2) from its preindustrial value are analyzed to quantify...- publication PDF
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Survey of coastal emergency managers perspectives on NWS storm surge...
This NOAA-funded project aims to explore and assess (1) the public's awareness and understanding concerning storm surge and storm surge information, and (2) whether the NWS...- publication PDF
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Formation of polar ionospheric tongue of ionization during minor geomagnetic...
Previous investigations of ionospheric storm-enhanced density (SED) and tongue of ionization (TOI) focused mostly on the behavior of TOI during intense geomagnetic storms....- publication PDF
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Implementation and validation of a generalized actuator disk...
Fast and accurate large‐eddy simulation (LES) of the atmospheric boundary layer plays a crucial role in advancing wind energy research. Long‐duration wind farm...- publication PDF
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Bringing a lens of equity to geoscience qualifying examinations
Qualifying examinations are an important milestone in geoscience graduate programs, but students with marginalized identities are disproportionately lost from graduate programs...- publication PDF
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Building resilience in vulnerable coastal communities with the Southeast...
Coastal communities in the Southeast U.S.A. face increasing risks from storm surge, extreme rainfall, and rising sea levels, highlighting the need for effective monitoring and...- publication PDF
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Influence of Arctic stratospheric ozone on surface climate in CCMI models
The Northern Hemisphere and tropical circulation response to interannual variability in Arctic stratospheric ozone is analyzed in a set of the latest model simulations archived...- publication PDF
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Quasi-two-day wave coupling of the mesosphere and lower...
The Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIME-GCM) is used to simulate the quasi-two-day wave (QTDW) modulation of the ionospheric...- publication PDF
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Recent Antarctic sea ice trends in the context of Southern Ocean surface...
This study compares the distribution of surface climate trends over the Southern Ocean in austral summer between 1979-2011 and 1950-1978, using a wide variety of data sets...- publication PDF
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Exploring the geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulfate...
Aerosols produced in the lower stratosphere can brighten the planet and counteract some of the effects of global warming. We explore scenarios in which the amount of precursors...- publication PDF
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Characterizing the potential for drought action from combined hydrological...
Drought is a function of both natural and human influences, but fully characterizing the interactions between human and natural influences on drought remains challenging. To...- publication PDF