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Transport of nitric oxide in the winter mesosphere and lower thermosphere
Nitric oxide (NO) plays key roles both in thermospheric energetics and upper‐lower atmosphere coupling. However, mesospheric NO in the polar night region has often been...- publication PDF
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Development of North Atlantic tropical disturbances near upper-level...
Tropical cyclone (TC) development near upper-level potential vorticity (PV) streamers in the North Atlantic is studied from synoptic climatology, composite, and case study...- publication PDF
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Turbulent collision-coalescence in maritime shallow convection
This paper discusses cloud simulations aiming at quantitative assessment of the effects of cloud turbulence on rain development in shallow ice-free convective clouds. Cloud...- publication PDF
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Response of tropical deep convection to localized heating perturbations:...
A cloud-system-resolving model is used to investigate the effects of localized heating/cooling perturbations on tropical deep convection, in the context of the aerosol...- publication PDF
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Flare location on the solar disk: Modeling the thermosphere and ionosphere response
Solar flare enhancements to the soft X-ray (XUV) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectral irradiance depend on the location of the flare on the solar disk. Most emission lines in...- publication PDF
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Implementing dynamic rooting depth for improved simulation of soil moisture...
The study postulates that crop rooting depth representation plays a vital role in simulating soil-crop-atmospheric interactions. Rooting depth determines the water access for...- publication PDF
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Typhoon forecasts with dynamic vortex initialization using an unstructured...
A dynamical vortex initialization (DVI) scheme is implemented on unstructured meshes for the global model MPAS for typhoon forecasts. The DVI extracts the departure vortex...- publication PDF
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Incoherent scatter radar measurements and modeling of high-latitude solar...
A 9-year database of sunlit E region electron density altitude profiles (N-e(z)) measured by the Sondrestrom incoherent scatter radar (ISR) has been partitioned over a parameter...- publication PDF
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Intermittency assessed through a model of kurtosisâskewness relation in...
Intermittency as it occurs in fast dynamos in the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) framework is evaluated through the examination of relations between normalized moments at third...- publication PDF
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Carbon dioxide trends in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere
We investigated trends of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the upper atmosphere, using data from the Atmosphere Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer and from the Sounding...- publication PDF
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Energy transfer during intense geomagnetic storms driven by interplanetary...
The interaction of the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere is complex, and the phenomenology of the interaction is very different for interplanetary coronal mass ejections...- publication PDF
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The data conservancy instance
Digital research data can only be managed and preserved over time through a sustained institutional commitment. Research data curation is a multi-faceted issue, requiring...- publication PDF
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Robust analysis of future climate change impacts on water for agriculture...
As part of the 2006 Climate Change Report to Governor Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature, an application of the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) system in the...- publication PDF
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Thermospheric density: An overview of temporal and spatial variations
Neutral density shows complicated temporal and spatial variations driven by external forcing of the thermosphere/ionosphere system, internal dynamics, and thermosphere and...- publication PDF
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Forecasting remote atmospheric responses to decadal Kuroshio stability transitions
Based on observational estimates and global ocean eddy-resolving coupled retrospective initialized predictions, we show that Kuroshio Extension variability affects rainfall...- publication PDF
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Strength Characteristics of Grace Cryovac YH Polypropylene Film
This report is part of a series prepared for the Materials Research Project of the NCAR Scientific Balloon Facility in order to extend the reliability and capabilities of...- publication PDF
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Real-time monitoring and prediction of modes of coherent synoptic to...
A technique of near-real-time monitoring and prediction of various modes of coherent synoptic to intraseasonal zonally propagating tropical variability is developed. It involves...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of axisymmetric tropical cyclone spinup time to dry air aloft
The sensitivity of tropical cyclone spinup time to the initial entropy deficit of the troposphere is examined in an axisymmetric hurricane model. Larger initial entropy deficits...- publication PDF
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Numerical modeling and measurement of Apis mellifera radar scattering properties
This study investigates a means through which commercially available computational electromagnetic modeling software can be used to predict radar cross sections (RCSs) of...- publication PDF
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Validation of 10-year SAO OMI Ozone Profile (PROFOZ) product using...
We validate the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) Ozone Profile (PROFOZ) product from October 2004 through December 2014 retrieved by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory...- publication PDF