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Data Sets for Meteorological Research
The primary emphasis for this report is given to describing the data sets that are available for meteorological research. Conventional instrumental data and satellite data are...- publication PDF
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Instability and breakdown of a vertical vortex pair in a strongly stratified fluid
The dynamics of a counter-rotating pair of columnar vortices aligned parallel to a stable density gradient are investigated. By means of numerical simulation, we extend the...- publication PDF
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Improving coastal storm evacuation messages
Evacuation before severe coastal storms is a critical tool for keeping coastal residents safe. Effective messaging of evacuations could help save lives, but there is little...- publication PDF
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Energetic electron precipitation during sawtooth injections
We present simultaneous riometer observations of cosmic noise absorption in the nightside and dawn-noon sectors during sawtooth particle injections during 18 April 2002....- publication PDF
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Marine cloud brightening
The idea behind the marine cloud-brightening (MCB) geoengineering technique is that seeding marine stratocumulus clouds with copious quantities of roughly monodisperse sub-...- publication PDF
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Improving effectiveness of weather risk communication on the NWS...
The National Weather Service's (NWS) point-and-click (PnC) web page is a primary channel through which NWS directly provides routine and hazardous weather information to its...- publication PDF
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Trends in Arctic sea ice extent from CMIP5, CMIP3 and observations
The rapid retreat and thinning of the Arctic sea ice cover over the past several decades is one of the most striking manifestations of global climate change. Previous research...- publication PDF
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Formation of the summertime ozone valley over the Tibetan Plateau: The Asian...
The summertime ozone valley over the Tibetan Plateau is formed by two influences, the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) and air column variations. Total ozone over the Tibetan Plateau...- publication PDF
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Impact of sampling frequency in the analysis of tropospheric ozone observations
Measurements of ozone vertical profiles are valuable for the evaluation of atmospheric chemistry models and contribute to the understanding of the processes controlling the...- publication PDF
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Balloon Strain Relief System
A balloon strain relief system for use during pre-launch activities was developed and its effect on balloon tensile strength was examined. Various clamp materials and balloons...- publication PDF
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Equatorial waves, diurnal tides and small-scale thermal variability in the...
A new constellation of radio occultation satellites called COSMIC-2 (Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-2) is providing unprecedented dense...- publication PDF
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CAM6 simulation of mean and extreme precipitation over Asia: sensitivity to...
The Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6), released in 2018 as part of the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2), is a major upgrade over the previous CAMS that...- publication PDF
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Catalogue of Meteorological Data Obtained During the Line Islands Experiment...
The Line Islands Experiment, February-April 1967, was designed to provide comprehensive meteorological data in the oceanic part of the Equatorial Trough Zone. This document is a...- publication PDF
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The Chicxulub impact produced a powerful global tsunami
The Chicxulub crater is the site of an asteroid impact linked with the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction at similar to 66 Ma. This asteroid struck in shallow water and...- publication PDF
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An intercomparison of T-REX mountain-wave simulations and implications for...
Numerical simulations of flow over steep terrain using 11 different nonhydrostatic numerical models are compared and analyzed. A basic benchmark and five other test cases are...- publication PDF
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Black carbon-induced snow albedo reduction over the Tibetan Plateau:...
We implement a set of new parameterizations into the widely used Snow, Ice, and Aerosol Radiative (SNICAR) model to account for effects of snow grain shape (spherical vs....- publication PDF
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Injection of lightning-produced NOx, water vapor, wildfire emissions, and...
During the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) experiment in summer 2012, airborne measurements were performed in the anvil inflow/outflow of thunderstorms over the...- publication PDF
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The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign
The science of mountainous hydrology spans the atmosphere through the bedrock and inherently crosses physical and disciplinary boundaries: land-atmosphere interactions in...- publication PDF
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Simulations of the equatorial thermosphere anomaly: Physical mechanisms for...
Several mechanisms including heat transport due to zonal winds, chemical heating and field-aligned ion drag have been proposed to explain the formation of the Equatorial...- publication PDF
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Excitation of rainfall over the Tropical Western Pacific
The authors have examined 4 years of satellite-derived SST and rainfall data in anticipation of a relationship between SST structure and the excitation of convective rainfall....- publication PDF