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Statistical analysis of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles climatology and multi-day...
This study develops a new Bubble Index to quantify the intensity of 2-D postsunset equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) in the American/Atlantic sector, using Global-scale...- publication PDF
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Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change
Approximately 1700 Pg of soil carbon (C) are stored in the northern circumpolar permafrost zone, more than twice as much C than in the atmosphere. The overall amount, rate, and...- publication PDF
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Eye of the storm: Observing hurricanes with a small unmanned aircraft system
Unique data from seven flights of the Coyote small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) were collected in Hurricanes Maria (2017) and Michael (2018). Using NOAA's P-3 reconnaissance...- publication PDF
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A user guide to a particle-growth and trajectory model (using...
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Impacts of coal dust from an active mine on the spectral reflectance of...
Light-absorbing particles (LAPs) in snow such as dust and black carbon influence the radiative forcing at the Earth's surface, which has major implications for global climate...- publication PDF
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Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators
Scientific institutions must create roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of climate change.- publication PDF
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Impact of mountains in Southern China on the Eocene climates of East Asia
Inconsistencies in the Eocene climates of East Asia have been revealed in both geological studies and simulations. Several earlier reconstructions showed an arid zonal band in...- publication PDF
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Integrating a water tracer model into WRF-Hydro for characterizing the...
Most current land models approximate terrestrial hydrological processes as one-dimensional vertical flow, neglecting lateral water movement from ridges to valleys. Such lateral...- publication PDF
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An instrument to measure coronal emission line polarization
We have constructed an instrument to measure the polarization of light emitted by the solar corona in order to constrain the strength and orientation of coronal magnetic fields....- publication PDF
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Object-based analog forecasts for surface wind speed
Analogs are used as a forecast postprocessing technique, in which a statistical forecast is derived from past prognostic states. This study proposes a method to identify analogs...- publication PDF
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Higher water loss on Earth-like exoplanets in eccentric orbits
The climate of a terrestrial exoplanet is controlled by the type of host star, the orbital configuration, and the characteristics of the atmosphere and the surface. Many rocky...- publication PDF
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Increased evaporation following widespread tree mortality limits streamflow response
A North American epidemic of mountain pine beetle (MPB) has disturbed over 5 million ha of forest containing headwater catchments crucial to water resources. However, there are...- publication PDF
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Seasonality and variability of snowfall to total precipitation ratio over...
The ratio of snowfall to total precipitation (S/P ratio) is an important metric that is widely used to detect and monitor hydrologic responses to climate change over mountainous...- publication PDF
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Thermosphere extension of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model
In atmospheric and space environment studies it is key to understand and to quantify the coupling of atmospheric regions and the solar impacts on the whole atmosphere system....- publication PDF
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The Energy Balance Experiment EBEX-2000. Part II: Inter-comparison of eddy...
The eddy-covariance method is the primary way of measuring turbulent fluxes directly. Many investigators have found that these flux measurements often do not satisfy a...- publication PDF
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Comparison between observed and simulated Agl seeding impacts in a...
A dry-air intrusion induced by the tropopause folding split the deep cloud into two layers resulting in a shallow orographic cloud with a supercooled liquid cloud top at around...- publication PDF
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Radiation dry bias of the Vaisala RS92 humidity sensor
The comparison of simultaneous humidity measurements by the Vaisala RS92 radiosonde and by the Cryogenic Frostpoint Hygrometer (CFH) launched at Alajuela, Costa Rica, during...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of tropical cyclone rainfall to idealized global-scale forcings
Heavy rainfall and flooding associated with tropical cyclones (TCs) are responsible for a large number of fatalities and economic damage worldwide. Despite their large...- publication PDF
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Assimilation of the AMSU-A radiances using the CESM (v2.1.0) and the DART...
To improve the initial condition ("analysis") for numerical weather prediction, we attempt to assimilate observations from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) on...- publication PDF
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Profile observations of the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer with the...
During the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, the Balloon-bornE moduLar Utility for profilinG the lower Atmosphere...- publication PDF