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Evaluation of the surface climatology over the conterminous United States in...
Surface air temperature, precipitation, and insolation over the conterminous United States region from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP)...- publication PDF
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On the mechanisms of rain formation in an idealized supercell storm
Deep convective storms produce raindrops through three mechanisms: condensation and coalescence growth of cloud liquid droplets (i.e., warm processes), melting of ice...- publication PDF
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Analysis of the development mechanisms of a large-hail storm event on the...
A severe weather event is analyzed in terms of cell development, dynamics, and thermodynamics. The Mediterranean region is sporadically affected by severe weather events causing...- publication PDF
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The chromospheric telescope
We introduce the Chromospheric Telescope (ChroTel) at the Observatorio del Teide in Izana on Tenerife as a new multi-wavelength imaging telescope for full-disk synoptic...- publication PDF
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Regional and urban column CO trends and anomalies as observed by MOPITT over...
Atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations have decreased since the beginning of the century, and the rate of decrease depends on the region. Depending on how regions are...- publication PDF
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A simple model for the anomalous counterclockwise turning of the surface...
A recent study found that surface hodographs over the Great Plains of the United States turn in a counterclockwise direction with time. This observed turning is opposite of the...- publication PDF
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First eddy covariance flux measurements by PTR-TOF
The recently developed PTR-TOF instrument was evaluated to measure methanol fluxes emitted from grass land using the eddy covariance method. The high time resolution of the PTR-...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric stability influences on coupled boundary layer and canopy turbulence
Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layers interacting with a coupled and resolved plant canopy reveals the influence of atmospheric stability variations from neutral...- publication PDF
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A Barometric Survey of National Hail Research Experiment Mesonet Station Heights
The mesoscale meteorological surface network established for the support of the National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE) 1973 field experiment has been barometrically surveyed....- publication PDF
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Nonparametric methodology to estimate precipitating ice from...
In this study, a nonparametric method to estimate precipitating ice from multiple-frequency radar observations is investigated. The method does not require any assumptions...- publication PDF
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Scale-dependent representation of the information content of observations in...
Global data assimilation systems for numerical weather prediction (NWP) are characterized by significant uncertainties in tropical analysis fields. Furthermore, the largest...- publication PDF
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Upper mesospheric lunar tides over middle and high latitudes during sudden...
In recent years there have been a series of reported ground- and satellite-based observations of lunar tide signatures in the equatorial and low latitude ionosphere/thermosphere...- publication PDF
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Evolution processes of a group of equatorial plasma bubble (EPBs)...
This paper for the first time reports conjugate observations of a group of evolving equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) generated in the longitudinal sector of China on 4/5...- publication PDF
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Model improvement via systematic investigation of physics tendencies
Deficiencies in forecast models commonly stem from inadequate representation of physical processes; yet, improvement to any single physics component within a model may lead to...- publication PDF
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Severe weather prediction using storm surrogates from an ensemble forecasting system
Probabilistic severe weather forecasts for days 1 and 2 were produced using 30-member convection-allowing ensemble forecasts initialized by an ensemble Kalman filter data...- publication PDF
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Culture change to address climate change: Collaborations with Indigenous and...
What humankind actually requires is a climate change -- a cultural climate change, a change in our thinking and actions -- if we are to have any reasonable expectation that we...- publication PDF
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Can convection-permitting modeling provide decent precipitation for offline...
Accurate precipitation estimates are critical to simulating seasonal snowpack evolution. We conduct and evaluate high-resolution (4-km) snowpack simulations over the western...- publication PDF
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Characterization of the mean and extreme Mediterranean cyclones and their...
Extratropical cyclones are important meteorological phenomena in the Mediterranean and are essential for local water supplies, yet they also pose significant hazards for the...- publication PDF
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Quantifying climate feedbacks using radiative kernels
The extent to which the climate will change due to an external forcing depends largely on radiative feedbacks, which act to amplify or damp the surface temperature response....- publication PDF
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Annual and seasonal precipitation and their extremes over the Tibetan...
Based on daily precipitation data from 115 climate stations, seasonal and annual precipitation and their extremes over the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings (TPS) in...- publication PDF