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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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Effect of trends of middle atmosphere gases on the mesosphere and thermosphere
We conducted model simulations to examine how changes in concentration of radiatively active trace gases in the middle atmosphere affect long-term changes in the upper...- publication PDF
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The 2015 and 2016 wintertime air pollution in China: SO2 emission changes...
Ambient pollutants and emissions in China have changed significantly in recent years due to strict control strategies implemented by the government. It is of great interest to...- publication PDF
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Temperature Control of Balloon Packages
The following report is a general guide of thermal packaging for ballooning. Since the electronics and battery power supply of the Interrogation Recording and Location Subsystem...- publication PDF
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Comparison of local and nonlocal observation operators for the assimilation...
In this study, an Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) is performed to evaluate the performance of a nonlocal excess phase operator and a local refractivity operator...- publication PDF
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Coevolution of down-valley flow and the nocturnal boundary layer in complex terrain
An enhanced National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) integrated sounding system (ISS) was deployed as part of the Vertical Transport and Mixing (VTMX) field experiment,...- publication PDF
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Effects of enhanced downwelling of NOx on Antarctic upper-stratospheric...
Ozone is expected to fully recover from the chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) era by the end of the 21st century. Furthermore, because of anthropogenic climate change, a cooler...- publication PDF
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Spatiotemporal prediction of fine particulate matter during the 2008...
Estimating population exposure to particulate matter during wildfires can be difficult because of insufficient monitoring data to capture the spatiotemporal variability of smoke...- publication PDF
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Widespread pollution from secondary sources of organic aerosols during...
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) from pollution sources is thought to be a minor component of organic aerosol (OA) and fine particulate matter beyond the urban scale. Here we...- publication PDF
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Can we constrain uncertainty in hydrologic cycle projections?
Climate change intensifies the Earth's hydrologic cycle, which has far-reaching consequences including water availability, agricultural production, and electric power...- publication PDF
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Warming of hot extremes alleviated by expanding irrigation
Irrigation affects climate conditions - and especially hot extremes - in various regions across the globe. Yet how these climatic effects compare to other anthropogenic forcings...- publication PDF
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Traps, pitfalls and misconceptions of machine learning applied to scientific...
In the last decade, Machine Learning has experienced a dramatic increase in performance on a wide variety of tasks, including computer vision, speech recognition, text parsing,...- publication PDF
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Leveraging environmental research and observation networks to advance soil...
Soil organic matter (SOM) is a critical ecosystem variable regulated by interacting physical, chemical, and biological processes. Collaborative efforts to integrate...- publication PDF
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Processing of Doppler spectra collected by an airborne cloud radar for the...
Observations from the HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR) are used to develop a methodology to calculate Doppler spectra from an airborne platform. The method removes spectral noise and...- publication PDF
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Improving air quality forecasting with the assimilation of GOCI aerosol...
The Korean Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) satellite has monitored the East Asian region in high temporal (e.g., hourly) and spatial resolution (e.g., 6km) every day for...- publication PDF
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A role for the equatorial undercurrent in the ocean dynamical thermostat
Reconstructions of sea surface temperature (SST) based on instrumental observations suggest that the equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient has increased over the twentieth...- publication PDF
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Soluble chromophores in marine snow, seawater, sea ice and frost flowers...
We measured light absorption in 42 marine snow, sea ice, seawater, brine, and frost flower samples collected during the OASIS field campaign between February 27 and April 15,...- publication PDF
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DART/CAM: An ensemble data assimilation system for CESM atmospheric models
The Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) has been interfaced to the Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART), a community facility for ensemble data assimilation. This provides a...- publication PDF
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On the determination of age of air trends from atmospheric trace species
Trace chemical species have been used in numerical models to calculate the age of air (AOA), which is a measure of the strength of the mean meridional circulation. The trend in...- publication PDF
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Assessment of the potential-allocation downscaling methodology for...
The IIASA gridded population downscaling methodology is one of only a few existing models for constructing spatially explicit global population scenarios. Furthermore, this...- publication PDF
