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Mechanisms contributing to the warming hole and the consequent U.S....
A linear trend calculated for observed annual mean surface air temperatures over the U.S. for the second half of the 20th century shows a slight cooling over the southeastern...- publication PDF
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Recent progress in the fundamental understanding of tropical cyclone motion
While the fundamental understanding of tropical cyclone (TC) movement is fairly mature, notable advancements are still being made. This paper summarizes new concepts and updates...- publication PDF
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The Paris warming targets: Emissions requirements and sea level consequences
The Paris Agreement states that, relative to pre-industrial times, the increase in global average temperature should be kept to well below 2 A degrees C and efforts should be...- publication PDF
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Analyzing the image warp forecast verification method on precipitation...
Image warping for spatial forecast verification is applied to the test cases employed by the Spatial Forecast Verification Intercomparison Project (ICP), which includes both...- publication PDF
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The downward influence of uncertainty in the Northern Hemisphere...
General circulation models display a wide range of future predicted changes in the Northern Hemisphere winter stratospheric polar vortex. The downward influence of this...- publication PDF
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Quantifying Poynting flux in the Quiet Sun photosphere
Poynting flux is the flux of magnetic energy, which is responsible for chromospheric and coronal heating in the solar atmosphere. It is defined as a cross product of the...- publication PDF
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Optimization of linear signal processing in photon counting lidar using...
Photon counting lidar signals generally require smoothing to suppress random noise. While the process of reducing the resolution of the profile reduces random errors, it can...- publication PDF
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The influence of atmospheric grid resolution in a climate model-forced ice...
Coupled climate-ice sheet simulations have been growing in popularity in recent years. Experiments of this type are however challenging as ice sheets evolve over multi-...- publication PDF
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Improving earth system model selection methodologies for projecting...
The rapid expansion of Earth system model (ESM) data available from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) necessitates new methods to evaluate the...- publication PDF
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Transient evolution of Langmuir turbulence in ocean boundary layers driven...
A large-eddy simulation (LES) model, which adopts wave-averaged equations with vortex force, is used to investigate Langmuir turbulence and ocean boundary layer (OBL) dynamics...- publication PDF
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Exploring the impacts of physics and resolution on aqua-planet simulations...
The nonhydrostatic Model for Prediction Across Scales (NH-MPAS) provides a global framework to achieve high resolution using regional mesh refinement. Previous studies using the...- publication PDF
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GPS meteorology: Remote sensing of atmospheric water vapor using the global...
We present a new approach to remote sensing of water vapor based on the global positioning system (GPS). Geodesists and geophysicists have devised methods for estimating the...- publication PDF
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Impact of GPS radio occultation data assimilation on regional weather predictions
The impact of GPS radio occultation (RO) data assimilation on severe weather predictions in East Asia is introduced and reviewed. Both the local observation operator that...- publication PDF
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Evaluating stratospheric ozone and water vapour changes in CMIP6 models from...
Stratospheric ozone and water vapour are key components of the Earth system, and past and future changes to both have important impacts on global and regional climate. Here, we...- publication PDF
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Optimization of an enclosed gas analyzer sampling system for measuring eddy...
Several initiatives are currently emerging to observe the exchange of energy and matter between the earth's surface and atmosphere standardized over larger space and time...- publication PDF
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Diagnosing observed stratospheric water vapor relationships to the cold...
Dehydration at the tropical cold point tropopause primarily controls the entry value of water vapor to the stratosphere, with additional (uncertain) contributions from...- publication PDF
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The transient atmospheric circulation response to North Atlantic SST and sea...
The objective of this study is to investigate the transient evolution of the wintertime atmospheric circulation response to imposed patterns of SST and sea ice extent anomalies...- publication PDF
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Results of the PMIP2 coupled simulations of the mid-Holocene and Last...
A set of coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations using state of the art climate models is now available for the Last Glacial Maximum and the Mid-Holocene through the second phase...- publication PDF
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Twentieth century tropical sea surface temperature trends revisited
This study compares the global distribution of 20th century SST and marine air temperature trends from a wide variety of data sets including un-interpolated archives as well as...- publication PDF
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A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Model Version 4.3
The Advanced Research WRF (ARW) model is a configuration of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. This technical note describes the scientific and algorithmic ap-...- publication PDF
