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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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Decadal variability of the Indian and Pacific Walker cells since the 1960s:...
Previous studies have investigated the centennial and multidecadal trends of the Pacific and Indian Ocean Walker cells (WCs) during the past century, but have obtained no...- publication PDF
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Utilizing the Drake Passage Time-series to understand variability and change...
The Southern Ocean is highly under-sampled for the purpose of assessing total carbon uptake and its variability. Since this region dominates the mean global ocean sink for...- publication PDF
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The influence of aerosols on satellite infrared radiance simulations and...
For a variational data assimilation (DA) system that assimilates radiance observations, the simulated brightness temperature (BT) at the top of the atmosphere and the...- publication PDF
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Climate model genealogy: Generation CMIP5 and how we got there
A new ensemble of climate models is becoming available and provides the basis for climate change projections. Here, we show a first analysis indicating that the models in the...- publication PDF
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Direct constraints on secondary HONO production in aged wildfire smoke from...
Nitrous acid (HONO) mixing ratios measured in aged wildfire smoke plumes were higher than expected from known homogeneous chemical reactions. In a representative smoke plume,...- publication PDF
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CMIP5 scientific gaps and recommendations for CMIP6
The scientific gaps identified in the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) that guided the experiment for its next phase, CMIP6, are identified.- publication PDF
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Model simulations of global change in the ionosphere
Observations of secular trends in the E and Fâ regions of the ionosphere indicate that electron densities have increased, and that the height of the E-region peak has...- publication PDF
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ENSO and pacific decadal variability in the Community Earth System Model Version 2
This study presents a description of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Pacific Decadal Variability (PDV) in a multicentury preindustrial simulation of the Community...- publication PDF
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Twelve thousand years of dust: The Holocene global dust cycle constrained by...
Mineral dust plays an important role in the climate system by interacting with radiation, clouds, and biogeochemical cycles. In addition, natural archives show that the dust...- publication PDF
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Links between carbon monoxide and climate indices for the southern...
In the Southern Hemisphere and tropics, the main contribution to carbon monoxide (CO) variability is from fire emissions, which are connected to climate through the...- publication PDF
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A scheme to assimilate "no rain" observations from Doppler radar
Radar reflectivity observations contain valuable information on precipitation and have been assimilated into numerical weather prediction models for improved microphysics...- publication PDF
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Orogenic propagating precipitation systems over the United States in a...
In the lee of major mountain chains worldwide, diurnal physics of organized propagating convection project onto seasonal and climate time scales of the hydrologic cycle, but...- publication PDF
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The low resolution CCSM3
The low-resolution fully coupled configuration of the Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) is described and evaluated. In this most economical configuration, an...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric river contributions to ice sheet hydroclimate at the Last Glacial Maximum
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are an important driver of surface mass balance over today's Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Using paleoclimate simulations with the Community Earth...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity in the overland reintensification of tropical cyclone Erin...
This study investigates the impact of abnormally moist soil conditions across the southern Great Plains upon the overland reintensification of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone...- publication PDF
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Reconstruction of the South Atlantic subtropical dipole index for the past...
Climate indices based on sea surface temperature (SST) can synthesize information related to physical processes that describe change and variability in continental precipitation...- publication PDF
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A simple reclassification method for correcting uncertainty in land use/land...
With increasing computational resources, environmental models are run at finer grid spacing to resolve the land surface characteristics. The land use/land cover (LULC) data sets...- publication PDF
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The dependence of mean climate state on shortwave absorption by water vapor
State-of-the-art climate models exhibit significant spread in the climatological value of atmospheric shortwave absorption (SWA). This study investigates both the possible...- publication PDF
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The NCARâNOAA Global Hawk Dropsonde System
A new remotely controlled Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS) dropsonde system has been developed for and deployed on the NASA Global Hawk (GH) unmanned...- publication PDF
