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Trigonal ice crystals in Earth's atmosphere
We are all familiar with the hexagonal shape of snow and ice crystals, and it is well established that their sixfold symmetry is derived from the arrangement of water molecules...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of the use of a commercially available cavity ringdown absorption...
Real time, atmospheric NO2 column profiles over the Mid-Atlantic states, during the July 2011 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Deriving Information on...- publication PDF
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Thermohaline Circulation Variability in the NCAR Climate System Model (CSM)
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Fast and slow shifts of the zonal-mean intertropical convergence zone in...
Previous modeling work showed that aerosol can affect the position of the tropical rain belt, i.e., the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ). Yet it remains unclear which...- publication PDF
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Global estimates of water-vapor-weighted mean temperature of the atmosphere...
Water-vapor-weighted atmospheric mean temperature, Tm, is a key parameter in the retrieval of atmospheric precipitable water (PW) from ground-based Global Positioning System...- publication PDF
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Precipitation variability increases in a warmer climate
Understanding changes in precipitation variability is essential for a complete explanation of the hydrologic cycle's response to warming and its impacts. While changes in mean...- publication PDF
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Observations and Simulations of Eddy Diffusion and Tidal Effects on the...
We use the National Center for Atmospheric Research TIEGCM (Thermosphere Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model) model to investigate the eddy diffusion and tidal...- publication PDF
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Antarctic ice-sheet meltwater reduces transient warming and climate...
Coupled global climate models (GCMs) generally fail to reproduce the observed sea-surface temperature (SST) trend pattern since the 1980s. The model-observation discrepancies...- publication PDF
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Energy transfer during intense geomagnetic storms driven by interplanetary...
The interaction of the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere is complex, and the phenomenology of the interaction is very different for interplanetary coronal mass ejections...- publication PDF
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The relation between dayside local Poynting flux enhancement and cusp reconnection
The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F15 satellite frequently observes an unusually high level of local Poynting flux when the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF)...- publication PDF
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What drives the spread and bias in the surface impact of sudden...
This study evaluates the representation of the composite-mean surface response to sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) in 28 CMIP6 models. Most models can reproduce the...- publication PDF
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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
