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Visual comparator: An interactive tool for dynamic spatiotemporal...
Visualizations enable us to detect patterns, time-evolving features, and trends in complex datasets that might not be obvious by looking at the raw data. The visual exploration...- publication PDF
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Age spectra and other transport diagnostics in the North American monsoon...
The upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) region during the summer monsoon season over North America (NAM) is influenced by the transport of air from a variety of...- publication PDF
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A novel metric for coronal MHD models
In the interest of quantitatively assessing the capabilities of coronal MHD models, we have developed a metric that compares the structures of the white light corona observed...- publication PDF
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Workshop Summary: Aircraft Mission Measurement Strategies for the NASA...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has initiated a major program to assess the impact of tropospheric aircraft on the atmosphere. The Subsonic Assessment...- publication PDF
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Climate change projections in CESM1(CAM5) compared to CCSM4
Future climate change projections for phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) are presented for the Community Earth System Model version 1 that includes the...- publication PDF
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Global ionospheric total electron contents (TECs) during the last two solar...
The last solar minimum period was anomalously extended and low in EUV irradiance compared with previous solar minima. It can readily be expected that the thermosphere and the...- publication PDF
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CCM Modular Processor Users' Guide (Version PROC02)
This document is a complete description of the capabilities of the PROC02 version of the CCM Modular Processor, including all of the information needed to run the code on the...- publication PDF
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Effects of mesoscale surface thermal heterogeneity on low-level horizontal...
Using large-eddy simulation, we investigate characteristics of horizontal wind speed at 100 m above the ground, with surface heat-flux variations that are sinusoidal with...- publication PDF
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The influence of the stratosphere on the tropical troposphere
Observational and model studies suggest that the stratosphere exerts a significant influence on the tropical troposphere. The corresponding influence, through dynamical...- publication PDF
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The middle atmospheric ozone response to the 11-year solar cycle
Because of its chemical and radiative properties, atmospheric ozone constitutes a key element of the Earth's climate system. Absorption of sunlight by ozone in the ultraviolet...- publication PDF
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Regional climate models downscaling analysis of general circulation models...
A suite of eighteen simulations over the U.S. and Mexico, representing combinations of two mesoscale regional climate models (RCMs), two driving global general circulation...- publication PDF
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Aerosol optical depth assimilation for a size-resolved sectional model:...
An aerosol optical depth (AOD) three-dimensional variational data assimilation technique is developed for the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) system for which WRF-Chem...- publication PDF
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Developing a Department of Transportation winter severity index
Adverse weather conditions are responsible for millions of vehicular crashes, thousands of deaths, and billions of dollars per year in economic and congestion costs. Many...- publication PDF
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Effects of distant organized convection on forecasts of widespread clear-air...
Two cases of observed widespread moderate-or-greater (MOG) clear-air turbulence (CAT) in different synoptic patterns are investigated using a nested high-resolution NWP model....- publication PDF
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Comparison of UKESM1 and CESM2 simulations using the same multi-target...
Solar climate intervention using stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) has been proposed as a method which could offset some of the adverse effects of global warming. The...- publication PDF
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Observational study of convection initiation on 12 June 2002 during IHOP_2002
The International H₂O Project (IHOP_2002) was designed to sample the three-dimensional time-varying moisture field to better understand convective processes. Numerous research...- publication PDF
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A thermal infrared instrument onboard a geostationary platform for CO and O₃...
This paper presents observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) to compare the relative capabilities of two geostationary thermal infrared (TIR) instruments to measure ozone...- publication PDF
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Overestimated eddy kinetic energy in the eddy-rich regions simulated by...
The performance of eddy-resolving global ocean-sea ice models in simulating mesoscale eddies is evaluated using six eddy-resolving experiments forced by different atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Recent trends in the near-surface climatology of the northern North American...
We examined climate trends in the northern North American Great Plains (NNAGP) from 1970 to 2015, a period that aligns with widespread land-use changes in this globally...- publication PDF
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Evaluating ethane and methane emissions associated with the development of...
Sharp rises in the atmospheric abundance of ethane (C₂H₆) have been detected from 2009 onwards in the Northern Hemisphere as a result of the unprecedented growth in the...- publication PDF