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Impact of breaking wave form drag on near-surface turbulence and drag...
The effects of breaking waves on near-surface wind turbulence and drag coefficient are investigated using large-eddy simulation. The impact of intermittent and transient wave...- publication PDF
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The Energy Balance Experiment EBEX-2000. Part II: Inter-comparison of eddy...
The eddy-covariance method is the primary way of measuring turbulent fluxes directly. Many investigators have found that these flux measurements often do not satisfy a...- publication PDF
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Investigating the sensitivity to resolving aerosol interactions in...
In this work we present downscaling experiments with the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) to test the sensitivity to resolving aerosol-radiation and aerosol-cloud...- publication PDF
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Revisiting sensitivity to horizontal grid spacing in convection-allowing...
Hourly accumulated precipitation forecasts from deterministic convection-allowing numerical weather prediction models with 3- and 1-km horizontal grid spacing were evaluated...- publication PDF
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Preface to the December 2013 issue of Solar Physics
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A comprehensive view on climate change: Coupling of earth system and...
There are several reasons to strengthen the cooperation between the integrated assessment (IA) and earth system (ES) modeling teams in order to better understand the joint...- publication PDF
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Coupled atmosphere-mixed layer ocean response to ocean heat flux convergence...
The winter response of the coupled atmosphere– ocean mixed layer system to anomalous geostrophic ocean heat flux convergence in the Kuroshio Extension is investigated by means...- publication PDF
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The TropD software package (v1): Standardized methods for calculating...
Observational and modeling studies suggest that Earth's tropical belt has widened over the late 20th century and will continue to widen throughout the 21st century. Yet,...- publication PDF
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Multimodel estimates of atmospheric lifetimes of long-lived ozone-depleting...
We have diagnosed the lifetimes of long-lived source gases emitted at the surface and removed in the stratosphere using six three-dimensional chemistry-climate models and a two-...- publication PDF
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Decision-centric adaptation appraisal for water management across Colorado's...
A multi-step decision support process was developed and applied to the physically and legally complex case of water diversions from the Upper Colorado River across the...- publication PDF
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Estimates of the global water budget and its annual cycle using...
A brief review is given of research in the Climate Analysis Section at NCAR on the water cycle. Results are used to provide a new estimate of the global hydrological cycle for...- publication PDF
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A generalization of Lorenz's model for the predictability of flows with many...
In a seminal paper, E. N. Lorenz proposed that flows with many scales of motion in which smaller-scale error spreads to larger scales and in which the error-doubling time...- publication PDF
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The Airborne Infrared Spectrometer: Development, characterization, and the...
On 2017 August 21, the Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) observed the total solar eclipse at an altitude of 14 km from aboard the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V research...- publication PDF
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New model ensemble reveals how forcing uncertainty and model structure alter...
Climate simulation uncertainties arise from internal variability, model structure, and external forcings. Model intercomparisons (such as the Coupled Model Intercomparison...- publication PDF
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Morphological properties of slender Ca II H fibrils observed by Sunrise II
We use seeing-free high spatial resolution Ca II H data obtained by the SUNRISE observatory to determine properties of slender fibrils in the lower solar chromosphere. In this...- publication PDF
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Diagnosing observed stratospheric water vapor relationships to the cold...
Dehydration at the tropical cold point tropopause primarily controls the entry value of water vapor to the stratosphere, with additional (uncertain) contributions from...- publication PDF
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A characterization of the present-day arctic atmosphere in CCSM4
Simulation of key features of the Arctic atmosphere in the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4) is evaluated against observational and reanalysis datasets for the...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 2020 Improving Scientific Software Conference
The Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) is a loosely structured group of software engineers and scientists who write scientific software, mostly but not only at NCAR and mostly...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2016
Climate informatics is an emerging research area that combines the fields of climate science and data science (specifically machine learning, data mining and statistics) to...- publication PDF
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Coronal plasma diagnostics from ground-based observations
In this paper we discuss the potential of ground-based visible observations of the solar corona to address the key open problems in the physics of the solar atmosphere and of...- publication PDF
