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Decadal climate prediction: Opportunities and challenges
The scientific understanding of Earth's climate system is now sufficiently developed to show that climate change from anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing is already upon us,...- publication PDF
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Investigation of hydrostatic imbalance with field observations
The hydrostatic equilibrium addresses the approximate balance between the positive force of the vertical pressure gradient and the negative gravity force and has been widely...- publication PDF
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Comparison of NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM) Climates
The purpose of this project is to establish the climate record of four versions of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Model (CCM). All four...- publication PDF
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Drivers of phytoplankton blooms in Hawaii: A regional model study
The region around the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) is characterized by a permanent thermocline, and numerous processes have been proposed to facilitate phytoplankton blooms in...- publication PDF
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Effect of planetary rotation on oceanic surface boundary layer turbulence
A large-eddy simulation (LES) model is configured to investigate the effect of the horizontal (northward) component of Earth's rotation fh on upper-ocean atmosphere. oare the...- publication PDF
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Characterizing Internal Variability and Detecting Changes in Model and...
Ensembles of climate model projections enable better quantifying intrinsic climate variability and the resulting uncertainty in projected climate. This work uses a 100-year...- publication PDF
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Observation-based modelling of the energetic storm particle event of 14 July 2012
Aims. We model the energetic storm particle (ESP) event of 14 July 2012 using the energetic particle acceleration and transport model named 'PArticle Radiation Asset Directed at...- publication PDF
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The Gradient Velocity Track Display (GrVTD) technique for retrieving...
The ground-based velocity track display (GBVTD) technique was developed to estimate the primary circulations of landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) from single-Doppler radar...- publication PDF
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Recent results from Milagro Field Campaign 2006 in the Mexico megacity
The air quality in large urbanized regions represents one of the major threats to the public and the ecosystems health. A number of harmful compounds emitted to the atmosphere...- publication PDF
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Addressing numerical challenges in introducing a reactive transport code...
We explore coupling to a configurable subsurface reactive transport code as a flexible and extensible approach to biogeochemistry in land surface models. A reaction network with...- publication PDF
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Developing an Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) for the global ocean
The Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) is a new United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development programme working to develop a practical,...- publication PDF
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Developing a Department of Transportation winter severity index
Adverse weather conditions are responsible for millions of vehicular crashes, thousands of deaths, and billions of dollars per year in economic and congestion costs. Many...- publication PDF
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Assimilating compact phase space retrievals (CPSRs): Comparison with...
Assimilation of atmospheric composition retrievals presents computational challenges due to their high data volume and often sparse information density. Assimilation of compact...- publication PDF
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Diagnosed three-dimensional axisymmetric structure of the Mulhall Tornado on...
On 3 May 1999, an unusually large tornado that caused F4-level damage and killed several people was intercepted by the Doppler on Wheels (DOW) mobile radar near Mulhall,...- publication PDF
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Deep-learning-based gridded downscaling of surface meteorological variables...
Many statistical downscaling methods require observational inputs and expert knowledge and thus cannot be generalized well across different regions. Convolutional neural...- publication PDF
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A revised scheme for the WRF surface layer formulation
This study summarizes the revision performed on the surface layer formulation of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. A first set of modifications are introduced to...- publication PDF
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A curious local surface salinity maximum in the northwestern tropical Atlantic
Sea surface salinity (SSS) measurements from the Aquarius/SAC-D satellite reveal the seasonal development of a local salinity maximum in the northwestern tropical Atlantic in...- publication PDF
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Penetrating electric field during the Nov 3-4, 2021 geomagnetic storm
We simulated the Nov 3â4, 2021 geomagnetic storm event penetrating electric field using the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) model and compared with the NASA...- publication PDF
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Limitations of assuming internal mixing between different aerosol species: A...
Simulating the complex aerosol microphysical processes in a comprehensive Earth system model can be very computationally intensive; therefore many models utilize a modal...- publication PDF
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Modeling seasonal variations of auroral particle precipitation in a...
A variety of observations have shown strong seasonal variations in a vast array of magnetosphere-ionosphere parameters, including field-aligned currents, cross polar cap...- publication PDF