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Ionospheric perturbation (The roles played by the ionosphere in geomagnetic...
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The impact of the North American glacial topography on the evolution of the...
Modeling studies have shown that the continental-scale ice sheets in North America and Eurasia in the last glacial cycle had a large influence on the atmospheric circulation and...- publication PDF
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Understanding the factors controlling MJO prediction skill across events
The prediction skill for individual Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) events is highly variable, but the key factors behind this remain unclear. Using the latest hindcast...- publication PDF
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A comparison of carbon monoxide retrievals between the MOPITT satellite and...
Measurements of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) is an instrument on NASA's Terra satellite that has measured tropospheric carbon monoxide (CO) from early 2000 to the...- publication PDF
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A comparison of the stability and performance of depth-integrated...
In the last decade, the number of ice-sheet models has increased substantially, in line with the growth of the glaciological community. These models use solvers based on...- publication PDF
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Probability distributions of land surface wind speeds over North America
Knowledge of the probability distributions of surface wind speeds (SWS) is essential for surface flux estimation, wind power estimation, and wind risk assessments. The two-...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric Rivers in the eastern and midwestern United States associated...
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) significantly impact the hydrological cycle and associated extremes in western continental regions. Recent studies suggest ARs also influence water...- publication PDF
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Projected twenty-first-century changes in temperature, precipitation, and...
Results from a suite of ensembles of twenty-first-century climate projections made using the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4) are analyzed to document model...- publication PDF
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Response of orographic precipitation to subsaturated low-level layers
In orographic precipitation events, there are times when subsaturated low-level layers are observed to be below saturated, nearly moist-neutral, upper-level layers. By...- publication PDF
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A quest for effective hygroscopic cloud seeding
It is shown here that hygroscopic seeding requires two orders of magnitude more hygroscopic agent than can be delivered by flare technology for producing raindrop embryos in...- publication PDF
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Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by...
Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures over the past 8000 years have been paced by the slow decrease in summer insolation resulting from the precession of the equinoxes....- publication PDF
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A new process-based and scale-aware desert dust emission scheme for global...
Desert dust accounts for most of the atmosphere's aerosol burden by mass and produces numerous important impacts on the Earth system. However, current global climate models...- publication PDF
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Increasing the diversity of your graduate program: Translating best...
Despite awareness in the geosciences that our field has a substantial lack of diversity in our workforce and student body, and countless efforts to broaden participation,...- publication PDF
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Idealized simulations of the tropical climate and variability in the Single...
To explore the interactions among column processes in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM), the single-column version of CAM (SCAM) is integrated for 1000 days in radiative-...- publication PDF
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The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options...
This first paper of the two-part series describes the objectives of the community efforts in improving the Noah land surface model (LSM), documents, through mathematical...- publication PDF
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Poleward excursions by the Himalayan subtropical jet over the past four centuries
Since the 1980s, the subtropical jet stream has generally moved poleward, but its behavior varies by region and season. Here we examine the interannual variability and trends in...- publication PDF
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Modeled and observed multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic jet...
Multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic jet stream in general circulation models (GCMs) is compared with that in reanalysis products of the twentieth century. It is found...- publication PDF
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Formaldehyde column density measurements as a suitable pathway to estimate...
In support of future satellite missions that aim to address the current shortcomings in measuring air quality from space, NASA's Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from...- publication PDF
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Non-LTE Model Atmospheres for B and O Stars
This paper shows that very significant differences exist between the LTE and non-LTE models and the observable quantities predicted by these two sets of models. A significant...- publication PDF
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Meridional circulation dynamics in a cyclic convective dynamo
Surface observations indicate that the speed of the solar meridional circulation in the photosphere varies in anti-phase with the solar cycle. The current explanation for the...- publication PDF