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Information on the Geomagnetic Data Collected for the Lunar Current System Project
In order to make a worldwide analysis of the current system of the lunar daily geomagnetic variation, the geomagnetic data collected during the IGY/IGC period (July 1957 to...- publication PDF
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Continuing benefits of the Montreal Protocol and protection of the...
The protection of Earth's stratospheric ozone (O3) is an ongoing process under the auspices of the universally ratified Montreal Protocol and its Amendments and adjustments. A...- publication PDF
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The effect of mesh resolution on convective boundary layer statistics and...
A massively parallel large-eddy simulation (LES) code for planetary boundary layers (PBLs) that utilizes pseudospectral differencing in horizontal planes and solves an elliptic...- publication PDF
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Ecosystem-scale volatile organic compound fluxes during an extreme drought...
Considerable amounts and varieties of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) are exchanged between vegetation and the surrounding air. These BVOCs play key ecological and...- publication PDF
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Boundary layer versus free tropospheric CO budget and variability over the...
The regional Weather Research and Forecasting Model with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) version 3.2 is used to analyze the carbon monoxide (CO) budget and spatiotemporal variability over...- publication PDF
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Object-based verification of precipitation forecasts, Part I: Methodology...
A recently developed method of defining rain areas for the purpose of verifying precipitation produced by numerical weather prediction models is described. Precipitation objects...- publication PDF
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Source sector and region contributions to black carbon and PM2.5 in the Arctic
The impacts of black carbon (BC) and particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters less than 2.5 mu m (PM2 : 5) emissions from different source sectors (e.g., transportation,...- publication PDF
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Ducting and biases of GPS radio occultation bending angle and refractivity...
Radio occultation (RO) can provide high-vertical-resolution thermodynamic soundings of the planetary boundary layer (PBL). However, sharp moisture gradients and strong...- publication PDF
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Roles of deep and shallow convection and microphysics in the MJO simulated...
The November event of the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) during the Dynamics of North Atlantic Models (DYNAMO) field campaign was simulated using the global compressible...- publication PDF
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Dependence of the ice water content and snowfall rate on temperature,...
Cloud ice microphysical properties measured or estimated from in situ aircraft observations are compared with global climate models and satellite active remote sensor...- publication PDF
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Variability in the sensitivity among model simulations of permafrost and...
A significant portion of the large amount of carbon (C) currently stored in soils of the permafrost region in the Northern Hemisphere has the potential to be emitted as the...- publication PDF
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A cell-integrated semi-Lagrangian semi-implicit shallow-water model...
A Cartesian semi-implicit solver using the Conservative Semi-Lagrangian Multitracer (CSLAM) transport scheme is constructed and tested for shallow-water (SW) flows. The SW...- publication PDF
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Revealing differences in GCM representations of low clouds
Aquaplanet configurations of four atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) are compared with standard, Earth-like configurations and observations. The focus here is on...- publication PDF
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Evaluating simulated climate patterns from the CMIP archives using satellite...
An objective approach is presented for scoring coupled climate simulations through an evaluation against satellite and reanalysis datasets during the satellite era (i.e., since...- publication PDF
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NOAA's National Water Model: Advancing operational hydrology through...
The National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Water Prediction (OWP), in conjunction with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the NWS National Centers for...- publication PDF
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Bromine partitioning in the tropical tropopause layer: Implications for...
Very short-lived (VSL) bromocarbons are produced at a prodigious rate by ocean biology and these source compounds (SGVSL), together with their inorganic degradation products...- publication PDF
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Exploring the decision-making process in model development: Focus on the...
The Arctic poses many challenges for Earth system and snow physics models, which are commonly unable to simulate crucial Arctic snowpack processes,such as vapour gradients and...- publication PDF
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Ensemble spread behavior in coupled climate models: Insights from the Energy...
Assessing uncertainty in future climate projections requires understanding both internal climate variability and external forcing. For this reason, single-model initial...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale phenomena and their contribution to the global response: A focus...
An important question that is being increasingly studied across subdisciplines of Heliophysics is "how do mesoscale phenomena contribute to the global response of the system?"...- publication PDF
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A comprehensive observational study of graupel and hail terminal velocity,...
This study uses novel approaches to estimate the fall characteristics of hail, covering a size range from about 0.5 to 7 cm, and the drag coefficients of lump and conical...- publication PDF