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A quest for effective hygroscopic cloud seeding
It is shown here that hygroscopic seeding requires two orders of magnitude more hygroscopic agent than can be delivered by flare technology for producing raindrop embryos in...- publication PDF
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Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by...
Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures over the past 8000 years have been paced by the slow decrease in summer insolation resulting from the precession of the equinoxes....- publication PDF
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A new process-based and scale-aware desert dust emission scheme for global...
Desert dust accounts for most of the atmosphere's aerosol burden by mass and produces numerous important impacts on the Earth system. However, current global climate models...- publication PDF
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Increasing the diversity of your graduate program: Translating best...
Despite awareness in the geosciences that our field has a substantial lack of diversity in our workforce and student body, and countless efforts to broaden participation,...- publication PDF
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Idealized simulations of the tropical climate and variability in the Single...
To explore the interactions among column processes in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM), the single-column version of CAM (SCAM) is integrated for 1000 days in radiative-...- publication PDF
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The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options...
This first paper of the two-part series describes the objectives of the community efforts in improving the Noah land surface model (LSM), documents, through mathematical...- publication PDF
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Poleward excursions by the Himalayan subtropical jet over the past four centuries
Since the 1980s, the subtropical jet stream has generally moved poleward, but its behavior varies by region and season. Here we examine the interannual variability and trends in...- publication PDF
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Modeled and observed multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic jet...
Multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic jet stream in general circulation models (GCMs) is compared with that in reanalysis products of the twentieth century. It is found...- publication PDF
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Formaldehyde column density measurements as a suitable pathway to estimate...
In support of future satellite missions that aim to address the current shortcomings in measuring air quality from space, NASA's Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from...- publication PDF
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Non-LTE Model Atmospheres for B and O Stars
This paper shows that very significant differences exist between the LTE and non-LTE models and the observable quantities predicted by these two sets of models. A significant...- publication PDF
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Meridional circulation dynamics in a cyclic convective dynamo
Surface observations indicate that the speed of the solar meridional circulation in the photosphere varies in anti-phase with the solar cycle. The current explanation for the...- publication PDF
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Analysis of GPS radio occultation data from the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC and...
This study investigates the noise level and mission-to-mission stability of Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation (RO) neutral atmospheric bending angle data at the...- publication PDF
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A shorter, sharper rainy season amplifies California wildfire risk
California has experienced increasingly severe autumn wildfires over the past several decades, which have exacted a rising human and environmental toll. Recent fire and climate...- publication PDF
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Intra-annual changes in abundance of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes...
We examined temporal changes in the abundance of the mosquitoes Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (L.) and Aedes (Ochlerotatus) epactius Dyar & Knab from June to October 2012 in one...- publication PDF
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The Saharan air layer and the fate of African Easterly waves--NASA's AMMA...
In 2006, NASA led a field campaign to investigate the factors that control the fate of African easterly waves (AEWs) moving westward into the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Aircraft...- publication PDF
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First simultaneous measurements of ozone, CO, and NOy at a high-altitude...
Simultaneous in situ measurements of ozone, CO, and NOy have been made for the first time at a high altitude site Nainital (29.37 degrees N, 79.45 degrees E, 1958 m above mean...- publication PDF
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Breaking the cloud-parameterization deadlock
A key factor limiting the reliability of simulations of anthropogenic climate change is the inability to accurately represent the various effects of clouds on climate. Despite...- publication PDF
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An evaluation of the performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis version 3
The performance of a new historical reanalysis, the NOAA-CIRES-DOE Twentieth Century Reanalysis version 3 (20CRv3), is evaluated via comparisons with other reanalyses and...- publication PDF
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Hyperspectral earth observation from IASI: Five years of accomplishments
The Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) forms the main infrared sounding component of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological...- publication PDF
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Emission estimates of HCFCs and HFCs in California from the 2010 CalNex study
The CalNex 2010 (California Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change) study was designed to evaluate the chemical composition of air masses over key source...- publication PDF
