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Increasing importance of temperature as a contributor to the spatial extent...
Widespread streamflow droughts can pose substantially greater societal challenges than spatially less extensive events because of the complex realities of trans-regional water...- publication PDF
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Assessing the use of subgrid land model output to study impacts of land cover change
Subgrid information from land models has the potential to be a powerful tool for investigating land-atmosphere interactions, but relatively few studies have attempted to exploit...- publication PDF
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Comparison of urban air quality simulations during the KORUS-AQ campaign...
Model intercomparison studies often report a large spread in simulation results, but quantifying the causes of these differences is hindered by the fact that several processes...- publication PDF
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Drivers of snowfall accumulation in the Central Idaho Mountains using...
The western United States region, an economic and agricultural powerhouse, is highly dependent on winter snowpack from the mountain west. Coupled with increasing water and...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of generating cells in wintertime orographic clouds
During the Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds: the Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE) field campaign, cloud -top generating cells were frequently observed in the very high...- publication PDF
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Global atmospheric forcing data for Arctic ice-ocean modeling
We compare three forcing data sets, all variants of National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) forcing, in global ice-ocean simulations and evaluate them for use in...- publication PDF
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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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Aircraft observations of cumulus microphysics ranging from the tropics to...
In situ data collected by three research aircraft in four geographical locations are analyzed to determine the relationship between cloud-base temperature, drop size...- publication PDF
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Impact of equinoctial high-speed stream structures on thermospheric responses
We examine thermospheric neutral density response to 172 solar wind high-speed streams (HSSs) and the associated stream interfaces during the equinox seasons of 2002â2008....- publication PDF
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The impact of stochastic perturbations in physics variables for predicting...
We present a probabilistic framework tailored for solar energy applications referred to as the Weather Research and Forecasting-Solar ensemble prediction system (WRF-Solar EPS)....- publication PDF
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On the seasonal prediction and predictability of winter surface Temperature...
The rapid day-to-day temperature swings associated with extratropical storm tracks can cause cascading infrastructure failure and impact human outdoor activities, thus research...- publication PDF
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A comparison of South American and African preferential pathways for extreme...
In the Southern Hemisphere, a relatively well-known preferential pathway along which cold air surges equatorward is situated to the east of the Andes Mountains. In this study, a...- publication PDF
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Quantification of structural uncertainty in climate data records from GPS...
Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation (RO) has provided continuous observations of the Earth's atmosphere since 2001 with global coverage, all-weather capability,...- publication PDF
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A thermal infrared instrument onboard a geostationary platform for CO and...
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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Increased quasi stationarity and persistence of winter Ural blocking and...
Part I of this study examines the relationship among winter cold anomalies over Eurasia, Ural blocking (UB), and the background conditions associated with Arctic warming over...- 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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Climate variability and change of Mediterranean-type climates
Mediterranean-type climates are defined by temperate, wet winters, and hot or warm dry summers and exist at the western edges of five continents in locations determined by the...- publication PDF
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What is the importance of climate model bias when projecting the impacts of...
Regional climate change impact (CCI) studies have widely involved downscaling and bias correcting (BC) global climate model (GCM)-projected climate for driving land surface...- publication PDF
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Observations pertaining to precipitation within the northeast Pacific...
Three genuine stratocumulus-to-cumulus transitions sampled during the Cloud System Evolution over the Trades (CSET) campaign are documented. The focus is on Lagrangian evolution...- publication PDF
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An eddy injection method for large-eddy simulations of tornado-like vortices
The structure and intensity of tornado-like vortices are examined using large-eddy simulations (LES) in an idealized framework. The analysis focuses on whether the simulated...- publication PDF
