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Assessing the impact of surface and wind profiler data on fog forecasting...
Because fog is a high-impact weather phenomenon, there has been increased demand for its accurate prediction. Both surface data and wind profiler data possess great potential...- publication PDF
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Understanding the recent increase in multiyear La Niñas
Five out of six La Nina events since 1998 have lasted two to three years. Why so many long-lasting multiyear La Nina events have emerged recently and whether they will become...- publication PDF
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Enhancing extreme precipitation predictions with dynamical downscaling: A...
Precipitation in the Southern Plains of the United States is relatively well depicted by the Community Earth System Model (CESM). However, despite its ability to capture...- publication PDF
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The role of isotope-enabled GCM complexity in simulating tropical...
Stable water isotopes are data-rich tracers of the hydrological cycle, and, recently, the advent of isotope-enabled climate models has allowed for investigations into the...- publication PDF
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An improved convection parameterization with detailed aerosol-cloud...
A new microphysical treatment that includes aerosol–cloud interactions and secondary ice production (SIP) mechanisms is implemented in the convection scheme of the...- publication PDF
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An analytical test case for snow models
This paper develops general analytical solutions for examples of water movement through snow and compares the derived analytical solutions to numerical simulations from a...- publication PDF
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Arctic sea ice simulation in the PlioMIP ensemble
Eight general circulation models have simulated the mid-Pliocene warm period (mid-Pliocene, 3.264 to 3.025 Ma) as part of the Pliocene Modelling Intercomparison Project...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of OMI operational standard NO₂ column retrievals using in situ...
We assess the standard operational nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) data product (OMNO₂, version 2.1) retrieved from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) onboard NASA's Aura satellite...- publication PDF
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Operational hydrological data assimilation with the recursive ensemble Kalman filter
This paper describes the design and use of a recursive ensemble Kalman filter (REnKF) to assimilate streamflow data in an operational flow forecasting system of seven catchments...- publication PDF
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The role of stratospheric polar vortex breakdown in Southern Hemisphere...
This paper investigates the connection between the delay in the final breakdown of the stratospheric polar vortex, the stratospheric final warming (SFW), and Southern Hemisphere...- publication PDF
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Satellites measure recent rates of groundwater depletion in California's...
In highly-productive agricultural areas such as California's Central Valley, where groundwater often supplies the bulk of the water required for irrigation, quantifying rates of...- publication PDF
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A radar radial velocity dealiasing algorithm for radar data assimilation and...
Automated and accurate radar dealiasing algorithms are very important for their assimilation into operational numerical weather forecasting models. A radar radial velocity...- publication PDF
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Envisioning U.S. Climate predictions and projections to meet new challenges
In the face of a changing climate, the understanding, predictions, and projections of natural and human systems are increasingly crucial to prepare and cope with extremes and...- publication PDF
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Effect of hydrophobic primary organic aerosols on secondary organic aerosol...
Semi-empirical secondary organic aerosol (SOA) models typically assume a well-mixed organic aerosol phase even in the presence of hydrophobic primary organic aerosols (POA)....- publication PDF
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Maintenance of polar stratospheric clouds in a moist stratosphere
Previous work has shown that polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) could have acted to substantially warm high latitude regions during past warm climates such as the Eocene (55 Ma)....- publication PDF
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Automatic near-real-time detection of CMEs in Mauna Loa K-Cor coronagraph images
A simple algorithm has been developed to detect the onset of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), together with speed estimates, in near-real time using linearly polarized white-light...- publication PDF
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Beyond the basics: Evaluating model-based precipitation forecasts using...
While traditional verification methods are commonly used to assess numerical model quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPFs) using a grid-to-grid approach, they generally...- publication PDF
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The minimum wind speed for sustainable turbulence in the nocturnal boundary layer
The collapse of turbulence in the nocturnal boundary layer is studied by means of a simple bulk model that describes the basic physical interactions in the surface energy...- publication PDF
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Kilometer-scale multimodel and multiphysics ensemble simulations of a...
Kilometer-scale climate model simulations are useful tools to investigate past and future changes in extreme precipitation, particularly in mountain regions, where convection is...- publication PDF
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Modeling the day-to-day variability of midnight Equatorial Plasma Bubbles...
It is well-known that equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) are highly correlated to the post-sunset rise of the ionosphere on a climatological basis. However, when proceeding to the...- publication PDF