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In-situ aircraft measurements of the vertical distribution of black carbon...
Due to rapid economic development in recent years, China has become a major global source of refractory black carbon (rBC) particles. However, surface rBC measurements have been...- publication PDF
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Variability of springtime transpacific pollution transport during 2000-2006:...
We analyze the transport of pollution across the Pacific during the NASA INTEX-B (Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment Part B) campaign in spring 2006 and examine how...- publication PDF
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Arctic mercury depletion and its quantitative link with halogens
Gas phase elemental mercury (Hg°) was measured aboard the NASA DC-8 research aircraft during the Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and...- publication PDF
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Last Glacial Maximum pattern effects reduce climate sensitivity estimates
Here, we show that the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) provides a stronger constraint on equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS), the global warming from increasing greenhouse gases,...- publication PDF
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To assess marine cloud brightening's technical feasibility, we need to know...
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Estimating observation and model error variances using multiple data sets
In this paper we show how multiple data sets, including observations and models, can be combined using the "three-cornered hat" (3CH) method to estimate vertical profiles of the...- publication PDF
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Community-developed geoscience cyberinfrastructure
Discoveries in the geosciences are increasingly taking place across traditional disciplinary boundaries. The EarthCube program, a community-driven project supported by the U.S....- publication PDF
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Polarization lidar at summit, Greenland, for the detection of cloud phase...
Accurate measurements of cloud properties are necessary to document the full range of cloud conditions and characteristics. The Cloud, Aerosol Polarization and Backscatter Lidar...- publication PDF
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Spatiotemporal evolution of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice
Melt ponds on sea ice play an important role in the Arctic climate system. Their presence alters the partitioning of solar radiation: decreasing reflection, increasing...- publication PDF
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Variability and trends in the global tropopause estimated from radiosonde data
This study examines global tropopause variability on synoptic, monthly, seasonal, and multidecadal timescales using 1980-2004 radiosonde data. On synoptic and monthly...- publication PDF
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Global distributions of tropospheric and stratospheric gravity wave momentum...
Based on 20-day control forecasts by the 9-km Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) for selected periods of...- publication PDF
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New DMSP database of precipitating auroral electrons and ions
Since the mid-1970s, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft have operated instruments for monitoring the space environment from low Earth orbit. As the...- publication PDF
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Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment: Daily Operations Summary
The Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment, TAMEX, is a research program undertaken by scientist from the Republic of China and the United States to improve, through enhanced...- publication PDF
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Response of winter fine particulate matter concentrations to emission and...
The winter haze is a growing problem in North China, but the causes are not well understood. The chemistry version of the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF-Chem) was...- publication PDF
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Progress towards an autonomous field Deployable Diode-Laser-Based...
A laser transmitter has been developed and incorporated into a micro-pulse differential absorption lidar (DIAL) for water vapor profiling in the lower troposphere as an...- publication PDF
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Scattering polarization in the Fe I 630 nm emission lines at the extreme...
Spectro-polarimetric observations with the Solar Optical Telescope onboard Hinode reveal the emission spectrum of the Fe I 630 nm lines at the solar limb. The emission shell...- publication PDF
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Climate change projections of the North American Regional Climate Change...
We investigate major results of the NARCCAP multiple regional climate model (RCM) experiments driven by multiple global climate models (GCMs) regarding climate change for...- publication PDF
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Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change
Warming experiments are increasingly relied on to estimate plant responses to global climate change. For experiments to provide meaningful predictions of future responses, they...- publication PDF
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Supercell low-level mesocyclones in simulations with a sheared convective...
Simulations of supercell thunderstorms in a sheared convective boundary layer (CBL), characterized by quasi-two-dimensional rolls, are compared with simulations having...- publication PDF
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Exploring Earth's atmosphere with radio occultation: Contributions to...
The launch of the proof-of-concept mission GPS/MET in 1995 began a revolution in profiling earth's atmosphere through radio occultation (RO). GPS/MET; subsequent single-...- publication PDF
