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A User's Guide to Mauna Loa Solar Observatory's Coronal Data System
This report is intended to be a user's guide to those data products which are produced at the observing site at Mauna Loa, or those which have been stored at the sea-level base...- publication PDF
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Use of the parcel buoyancy minimum (Bmin) to diagnose simulated...
A method based on parcel theory is developed to quantify mesoscale physical processes responsible for the removal of inhibition energy for convection initiation (CI)....- publication PDF
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A frequent-updating analysis system based on radar, surface, and mesoscale...
The Variational Doppler Radar Analysis System (VDRAS) was implemented in Beijing, China, and contributed to the Beijing 2008 Forecast Demonstration Project (B08FDP) in support...- publication PDF
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The Northern Hemisphere extratropical atmospheric circulation response to...
Application of random sampling techniques to composite differences between 18 El Nino and 14 La Nina events observed since 1920 reveals considerable uncertainty in both the...- publication PDF
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Modeling and inverting radio occultation signals in the moist troposphere
Accurate modeling of radio occultation signals is performed by solving the Helmholtz equation with the use of a multiple-phase-screen technique. Refractivity is assumed...- publication PDF
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The characterization of ice cloud properties from Doppler radar measurements
The paper describes an original method that is complementary to the radar-lidar algorithm method to characterize ice cloud properties. The method makes use of two measurements...- publication PDF
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A global perspective on Langmuir turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer
The turbulent mixing in thin ocean surface boundary layers (OSBL), which occupy the upper 100 m or so of the ocean, control the exchange of heat and trace gases between the...- publication PDF
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Social science research needs for the Hurricane Forecast and Warning System
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic volatile organic compounds...
Anthropogenic secondary organic aerosol (ASOA), formed from anthropogenic emissions of organic compounds, constitutes a substantial fraction of the mass of submicron aerosol in...- publication PDF
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TV weathercasters' views of climate change appear to be rapidly evolving
Findings from the most recent surveys of TV weathercasterswhich are methodologically superior to prior surveys in a number of important wayssuggest that weathercasters' views of...- publication PDF
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Global observations of gravity wave intermittency and its impact on the...
Three years of gravity wave observations from the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder instrument on NASA's Aura satellite are examined. We produce estimates of the global...- publication PDF
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Timescale for detecting the climate response to stratospheric aerosol geoengineering
Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering could be used to maintain global mean temperature despite increased atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations, for example, to meet a...- publication PDF
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Electrification in mesoscale updrafts of deep stratiform and anvil clouds in Florida
Airborne observations in deep stratiform and anvil clouds showed extensive layers of 10- to 40-kV/m electric fields colocated with highly stratified uniform radar reflectivity...- publication PDF
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The growing threat of heat disasters
Heat is the number one weather-related killer in the United States and indoor exposure is responsible for a significant portion of the resulting fatalities. Evolving...- publication PDF
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Future risk of record-breaking summer temperatures and its mitigation
The probability that summer temperatures in the future will exceed the hottest on record during 1920-2014 is projected to increase at all land locations with global warming....- publication PDF
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Predictable decadal forcing of the North Atlantic jet speed by sub-polar...
It has been demonstrated that decadal variations in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) can be predicted by current forecast models. While Atlantic Multidecadal Variability...- publication PDF
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An Airplane-Mounted System for Sensing and Recording Radio Noise in Clouds
This document reports an instrumental development which solved certain problems in field research for NCAR staff scientists concerning the detection of electrification in...- publication PDF
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Snow coverage estimation using camera data for automated driving applications
In the U.S., over 38,000 fatalities occur every year due to automotive accidents where 24% of these accidents are attributable to inclement weather. Automated driving systems...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric water vapor and geoid measurements in the open ocean with GPS
We have conducted two experiments to determine precipitable water vapor (PWV) and sea surface heights from a cruising ship in the open ocean. During the first experiment (July...- publication PDF
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Biogenic emission measurement and inventories determination of biogenic...
During the NOAA Southern Oxidant Study 1999 (SOS1999), Texas Air Quality Study 2000 (TexAQS2000), International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and...- publication PDF
