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The essential role of local context in shaping risk and risk reduction...
Climate change-induced shifts in snow storage and snowmelt patterns pose risks for adverse impacts to people, the environment, and irrigated agriculture. Existing research...- publication PDF
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Characteristic scales of complexity and coherence within interplanetary...
Many aspects of the 3D structure and evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) remain unexplained. Here, we investigate two main topics: (1) the coherence scale...- publication PDF
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Do ultrafine cloud condensation nuclei invigorate deep convection?
Numerical simulations of the impact of ultrafine cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) on deep convection are analyzed to investigate the idea proposed by Fan et al. that addition of...- publication PDF
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Characteristics and trends in various forms of the Palmer Drought Severity...
The Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) has been widely used to study aridity changes in modern and past climates. Efforts to address its major problems have led to new...- publication PDF
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A water resources model to explore the implications of energy alternatives...
This letter documents the development and validation of a climate-driven, southwestern-US-wide water resources planning model that is being used to explore the implications of...- publication PDF
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The role of solar wind density in cross polar cap potential saturation under...
The role of solar wind density in the cross polar cap potential (CPCP) response under northward interplanetary magnetic field is investigated with observation-based global...- publication PDF
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Two perspectives on amplified warming over tropical land examined in CMIP6 models
Climate change projections show amplified warming associated with dry conditions over tropical land. We compare two perspectives explaining this amplified warming: one based on...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of meteorological skill to selection of WRF-Chem physical...
Ozone concentrations in excess of health-based standards occur along the coastline of Lake Michigan. A complex pattern of ozone precursor emissions interfaces with a complex...- publication PDF
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Two-year dynamical predictions of ENSO event duration during 1954-2015
El Nino and La Nina events show a wide range of durations over the historical record. The predictability of event duration has remained largely unknown, although multiyear...- publication PDF
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Dust radiative effects on atmospheric thermodynamics and tropical...
This study investigated the dust radiative effects on atmospheric thermodynamics and tropical cyclogenesis over the Atlantic Ocean using the Weather Research and Forecasting...- publication PDF
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Event-based climatology and typology of fog in the New York City region
The character of fog in a region centered on New York City, New York, is investigated using 20 yr of historical data. Hourly surface observations are used to identify fog events...- publication PDF
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Slender Ca II H fibrils mapping magnetic fields in the low solar chromosphere
A dense forest of slender bright fibrils near a small solar active region is seen in high-quality narrowband Ca II H images from the SuFI instrument onboard the SUNRISE balloon-...- publication PDF
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The NCAR Land Surface Model (LSM Version 1.0) Coupled to the NCAR Community...
The NCAR land surface model (LSM version 1.0) was coupled to a modified version of the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM) - a greatly modified version of the CCM2 and precursor...- publication PDF
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Nitrogen oxides emissions, chemistry, deposition, and export over the...
We examine the distribution and fate of nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the lower troposphere over the Northeast United States (NE US) using aircraft observations from the Wintertime...- publication PDF
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Application of postprocessing to watershed-scale subseasonal climate...
Subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) climate forecasting has become a central component of climate services aimed at improving water management. In some cases, operational S2S climate...- publication PDF
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U-Surf: a global 1âkm spatially continuous urban surface property dataset...
High-resolution urban climate modeling has faced substantial challenges due to the absence of a globally consistent, spatially continuous, and accurate dataset to represent the...- publication PDF
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Increased diversity and concordant shifts in community structure of...
Both coral-associated bacteria and endosymbiotic algae (Symbiodiniaceae spp.) are vitally important for the biological function of corals. Yet little is known about their co-...- publication PDF
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Systematic over-crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program
Carbon offsets are widely used by individuals, corporations, and governments to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions on the assumption that offsets reflect equivalent climate...- publication PDF
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Resolving tropical cyclone intensity in models
In recent years, global weather forecast models and global climate models have begun to depict intense tropical cyclones, even up to category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. In...- publication PDF
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"Morning-glory" disturbances and the environment in which they propagate
Results of a field experiment carried out in 1991 to gather upper-air data on the morning-glory environment are presented. The data include daily early morning radiosonde...- publication PDF