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The ARPA/NASA/NSF CO-OP 3D Project: An experiment in distributed...
This technical report describes the distributed computing aspects of the CO-OP 3D project and involves the use of the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite to link...- publication PDF
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The National Hail Research Experiment Report on the Alberta Hail Project
The Alberta Hail Project conducts airborne silver iodide seeding to test hail suppression in an 1800 square mile target which experiences 55-65 hail days annually. Randomization...- publication PDF
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Impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering on meteorological droughts in...
This study assesses changes in meteorological droughts in West Africa under a high greenhouse gas scenario, i.e., a representative concentration pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5), and under...- publication PDF
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Distant effects of a recurving tropical cyclone on rainfall in a midlatitude...
Recent research has identified predecessor rain events (PREs), which are mesoscale regions of heavy rainfall that occur 1000 km poleward and downshear of recurving tropical...- publication PDF
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The improvement to the environmental wind and tropical cyclone circulation...
The ground-based velocity track display (GBVTD) was developed to deduce a three-dimensional primary circulation of landfalling tropical cyclones from single-Doppler radar data....- publication PDF
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The role of three-dimensional transport in driving enhanced electron...
Magnetic reconnection is an important driver of energetic particles in many astrophysical phenomena. Using kinetic particle-in-cell simulations, we explore the impact of three-...- publication PDF
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Ozone observations by the gas and aerosol measurement sensor during SOLVE II
The Gas and Aerosol Measurement Sensor ( GAMS) was deployed aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the second SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment ( SOLVE II). GAMS...- publication PDF
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Advantages of assimilating multispectral satellite retrievals of atmospheric...
The Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) is an ideal instrument to understand the impact of (1) assimilating multispectral and joint retrievals versus single...- publication PDF
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Statistical Closure to Derive a Subgrid-scale Modeling for Large Eddy...
A subgrid-scale modeling for the velocity field of threedimensional turbulence has been derived from a two-point closure by Chollet and Lesieur (1981); this model has been used...- publication PDF
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Job analyses of Earth Science data managers: A survey validation of...
The expansion of research data availability and production has highlighted the need for proper training in data stewardship. Recent years have seen both incentivized and...- publication PDF
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Air-sea interactions in light of new understanding of air-land interactions
Air-sea interactions are investigated using the data from the Coupled Boundary Layers Air-Sea Transfer experiment under low wind (CBLAST-Low) and the Surface Wave Dynamics...- publication PDF
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Precipitation from space: Advancing earth system science
Advances to space-based observing systems and data processing techniques have made precipitation datasets quickly and easily available via various data portals and widely used...- publication PDF
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Gargantuan hail in Argentina
On 8 February 2018, a supercell storm produced gargantuan (>15 cm or >6 in. in maximum dimension) hail as it moved over the heavily populated city of Villa Carlos Paz in...- publication PDF
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Improved dust representation in the Community Atmosphere Model
Aerosol-climate interactions constitute one of the major sources of uncertainty in assessing changes in aerosol forcing in the anthropocene as well as understanding glacial-...- publication PDF
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Recent advances in Arctic Ocean studies employing models from the Arctic...
Observational data show that the Arctic Ocean has significantly and rapidly changed over the last few decades, which is unprecedented in the observational record. Air and water...- publication PDF
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Pores resolving simulation of Darcy flows
A theoretical formulation and corresponding numerical solutions are presented for microscopic fluid flows in porous media with the domain sufficiently large to reproduce...- publication PDF
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Development of near-cloud turbulence diagnostics based on a convective...
We propose near-cloud turbulence (NCT) diagnostics for use in aviation turbulence forecasting, using a convective gravity wave drag (CGWD) parameterization scheme. The NCT...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of the GrellâFreitas convective scheme in the Hurricane Weather...
The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) tested two convective parameterization schemes in the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) Model and compared them in terms...- publication PDF
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On the asymptotic joint distribution of sample space-time covariance estimators
We study the asymptotic joint distribution of sample spaceâtime covariance estimators of strictly stationary random fields. We do this without any marginal or joint...- publication PDF
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Oceanic sources, sinks, and transport of atmospheric COâ
We synthesize estimates of the contemporary net air-sea COâ flux on the basis of an inversion of interior ocean carbon observations using a suite of 10 ocean general...- publication PDF