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Improved diagnosis of precipitation type with LightGBM machine learning
Existing precipitation-type algorithms have difficulty discerning the occurrence of freezing rain and ice pellets. These inherent biases are not only problematic in operational...- publication PDF
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Origin of oxidized mercury in the summertime free troposphere over the...
We collected mercury observations as part of the Nitrogen, Oxidants, Mercury, and Aerosol Distributions, Sources, and Sinks (NOMADSS) aircraft campaign over the southeastern US...- publication PDF
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A box model to represent estuarine dynamics in mesoscale resolution ocean models
Representing the net freshwater flux at river mouths is challenging for global and regional scale ocean modelling. Although rivers are well known to affect both the coastal and...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric gravity waves excited by a propagating Rossby wave train-A...
Stratospheric gravity waves observed during the DEEPWAVE research flight RF25 over the Southern Ocean are analyzed and compared with numerical weather prediction (NWP) model...- publication PDF
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Beijing Climate Center Earth System Model version 1 (BCC-ESM1): Model...
The Beijing Climate Center Earth System Model version 1 (BCC-ESM1) is the first version of a fully coupled Earth system model with interactive atmospheric chemistry and aerosols...- publication PDF
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A model for quantifying oceanic transport and mesoscale variability in the...
The Indonesian Throughflow region (ITF) continues to pose significant research challenges with respect to its role in the global ocean circulation, the climate system, and the...- publication PDF
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A User's Guide to the VEMAP Phase 1 Database
The Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP) is an ongoing multi-institutional, international effort addressing the response of biogeography and...- publication PDF
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An outsized role for the Labrador Sea in the multidecadal variability of the...
Climate models are essential tools for investigating intrinsic North Atlantic variability related to variations in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), but...- publication PDF
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Equitable exchange: A framework for diversity and inclusion in the geosciences
We highlight a mechanism for the coproduction of research with local communities as a means of elevating the social relevance of the geosciences, increasing the potential for...- publication PDF
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Characterization of the Thermospheric Mean Winds and Circulation During...
Using the horizontal neutral wind observations from the Michelson Interferometer for Global High-resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI) instrument onboard NASA's Ionospheric...- publication PDF
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An overview of the International H?O Project (IHOP_ 2002) and some...
The International H?O Project (IHOP_2002) is one of the largest North American meteorological field experiments in history. From 13 May to 25 June 2002, over 250 researchers and...- publication PDF
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Cold fog amongst complex terrain
Cold fog forms via various thermodynamic, dynamic, and microphysical processes when the air temperature is less than 0°C. It occurs frequently during the cold season in the...- publication PDF
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Emission factors for open and domestic biomass burning for use in atmospheric models
Biomass burning (BB) is the second largest source of trace gases and the largest source of primary fine carbonaceous particles in the global troposphere. Many recent BB studies...- publication PDF
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Observed interhemispheric meridional heat transports and the role of the...
The net surface energy flux is computed as a residual of the energy budget using top-of-atmosphere radiation combined with the divergence of the column-integrated atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Turbulent transport of spray droplets in the vicinity of moving surface waves
A common technique for estimating the sea surface generation functions of spray and aerosols is the so-called flux-profile method, where fixed-height concentration measurements...- publication PDF
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A refractive index mapping operator for assimilation of occultation data
This paper describes the details of a fast, linear, forward-inverse refractive index mapping operator that can be used for assimilation of occultation data of various kinds into...- publication PDF
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The impact of internal climate variability on OH trends between 2005 and 2014
The hydroxyl radical (OH) lies at the nexus of climate and air quality as the primary oxidant for both reactive greenhouse gases and many hazardous air pollutants. To better...- publication PDF
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Error growth in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere based on hindcast...
The capability to forecast conditions in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere is investigated based on 30-day hindcast experiments that were initialized bimonthly during 2009...- publication PDF
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Global water vapor trend from 1988 to 2011 and its diurnal asymmetry based...
This study analyzes trends in precipitable water (PW) over land and ocean from 1988 to 2011, the PW-surface temperature Ts relationship, and their diurnal asymmetry using...- publication PDF
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Changes in freezing rain occurrence over eastern Canada using...
Freezing precipitation has major consequences for ground and air transportation, the health of citizens, and power networks. Previous studies using coarse resolution climate...- publication PDF