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Techniques for the Processing, Storage, and Exchange of Data
This document discusses selected aspects of the NCAR computer hardware systems and some of the considerations involved in choosing data formats. It also describe some of the...- publication PDF
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Towards the definition of a solar forcing dataset for CMIP7
The solar forcing prepared for Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) has been used extensively in climate model experiments and has been tested in various...- publication PDF
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Characterization of water-soluble brown carbon chromophores from wildfire...
Wildfires are an important source of carbonaceous aerosol in the atmosphere. Organic aerosol that absorbs light in the ultraviolet to visible spectral range is referred to as...- publication PDF
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Comparisons of line-of-sight water vapor observations using the Global...
Line-of-sight measurements of integrated water vapor from a global positioning system (GPS) receiver and a microwave radiometer are compared. These two instruments were...- publication PDF
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Impact of thermospheric wind data assimilation on ionospheric...
The upward plasma drift and equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) in the Earth's ionosphere are strongly influenced by the zonal electric field, which is generated by the wind...- publication PDF
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Rain in shallow cumulus over the ocean: The RICO campaign
Shallow, maritime cumuli are ubiquitous over much of the tropical oceans, and characterizing their properties is important to understanding weather and climate. The Rain in...- publication PDF
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Preliminary Design, ENCAR-1 Rocket-Borne Cryogenic Air Sampler
The NCAR Isotope Geochemistry Program is developing a cryogenic air sampler fitted into the nose cone of the Aerobee-150 rocket. This rocket-borne sampling system has been...- publication PDF
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Sudden stratospheric warmings
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are impressive fluid dynamical events in which large and rapid temperature increases in the winter polar stratosphere (similar to 10-50 km)...- publication PDF
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An observing system simulation experiment for the impact of MTG candidate...
An Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) was designed and developed to assess the potential benefit of the Infrared Sounding on the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG-IRS)...- publication PDF
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A moist static energy budget–based analysis of the Sahel rainfall response...
Climate models generate a wide range of precipitation responses to global warming in the African Sahel, but all that use the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory AM2.1...- publication PDF
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Anomalously low solar extreme-ultraviolet irradiance and thermospheric...
Solar activity during 2007-2009 was very low, and during this protracted solar minimum period, the terrestrial thermosphere was cooler and lower in density than expected....- publication PDF
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Machine learning for improving surface-layer-flux estimates
Flows in the atmospheric boundary layer are turbulent, characterized by a large Reynolds number, the existence of a roughness sublayer and the absence of a well-defined viscous...- publication PDF
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On the precipitation-induced uncertainties in process-based hydrological...
Numerous studies have examined the reliability of various precipitation products over the Mekong River Basin (MRB) and modeled its basin hydrology. However, there is a lack of...- publication PDF
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Assessing RRFS versus HRRR in predicting widespread convective systems over...
This study provides a comparison of the operational HRRR version 4 and its eventual successor, the experimental Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS) model (summer 2022 version),...- publication PDF
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Severe weather prediction using storm surrogates from an ensemble forecasting system
Probabilistic severe weather forecasts for days 1 and 2 were produced using 30-member convection-allowing ensemble forecasts initialized by an ensemble Kalman filter data...- publication PDF
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Dehydration and low ozone in the tropopause layer over the Asian monsoon...
Low ozone and high water vapour mixing ratios are common features in the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) anticyclone; however, low ozone and low water vapour values were observed...- publication PDF
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Effects of cloud microphysics on monsoon convection and its environments...
The Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model imposed by the large-scale advective forcing derived from observed data representing an average of gridded data fields over the South...- publication PDF
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Assimilating compact phase space retrievals of atmospheric composition with...
This paper introduces the Weather Research and Forecasting Model with chemistry/Data Assimilation Research Testbed (WRF-Chem/DART) chemical transport forecasting/data...- publication PDF
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The tropical forest and fire emissions experiment: Emission, chemistry, and...
Airborne and ground-based mixing ratio and flux measurements using eddy covariance (EC) and for the first time the mixed layer gradient (MLG) and mixed layer variance (MLV)...- publication PDF
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Nonlinear controls on the persistence of La Niña
A large fraction (35%-50%) of observed La Niña events last two years or longer, in contrast to the great majority of El Niño events, which last one year. Here, the authors...- publication PDF
