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Material Strength Properties of Visqueen X-124 Film
This report is part of a series prepared for the Materials Research Project of the NCAR Scientific Balloon Facility in order to extend the reliability and capabilities of...- publication PDF
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The influence of idealized heterogeneity on convective planetary boundary...
This report describes the development of a coupled model and the evaluation of the influence of that coupling by way of an investigation of heterogeneous surface forcing on...- publication PDF
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A regional climatography of West Nile, Uganda, to support human plague modeling
The West Nile region in northwestern Uganda is a focal point for human plague, which peaks in boreal autumn and is spread by fleas that travel on rodent hosts. The U.S. Centers...- publication PDF
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Snow in the McMurdo dry valleys, Antarctica
Snowfall was measured at 11 sites in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to determine its magnitude, its temporal changes, and spatial patterns. Annual values ranged from 3 to 50 mm water...- publication PDF
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The effect of horizontal resolution on simulation quality in the Community...
We present an analysis of version 5.1 of the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM5.1) at a high horizontal resolution. Intercomparison of this global model at approximately 0.25°,...- publication PDF
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Seasonal injection strategies for stratospheric aerosol geoengineering
Simulations of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering have typically considered injections at aconstant rate over the entire year. However, the seasonal variability of both...- publication PDF
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Formaldehyde columns from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument: Urban versus...
We combine aircraft measurements (Second Texas Air Quality Study, Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations, Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment:...- publication PDF
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Altitude variations in the thermosphere mass density response to geomagnetic...
Accelerometer data from coplanar orbits of Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites were used to study the...- publication PDF
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Do southern ocean cloud feedbacks matter for 21st century warming?
Cloud phase improvements in a state-of-the-art climate model produce a large 1.5K increase in equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS, the surface warming in response to...- publication PDF
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Saharan dust particles nucleate droplets in eastern Atlantic clouds
Many soil-derived particles dominated by insoluble material, including Saharan dusts, are known to act as ice nuclei. If, however, dust particles can compete with other...- publication PDF
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Initial conditions for convection-allowing ensembles over the conterminous...
Five sets of 48-h, 10-member, convection-allowing ensemble (CAE) forecasts with 3-km horizontal grid spacing were systematically evaluated over the conterminous United States...- publication PDF
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Comparison of polarimetric radar drop size distribution retrieval algorithms
Recently, two physically based algorithms, the "beta" (β) method and the "constrained-gamma" method, have been proposed for retrieving the governing parameters of the gamma drop...- publication PDF
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Source contributions to sulfur and nitrogen deposition – an HTAP II...
With the rising anthropogenic emissions from human activities, elevated concentrations of air pollutants have been detected in the hemispheric air flows in recent years,...- publication PDF
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Geographical and seasonal variations of gravity wave activities in the upper...
Geographical and seasonal variations of gravity wave events in the upper mesosphere were investigated using the nightglow imaging data obtained by the Visible and near-Infrared...- publication PDF
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Starnet: A deep learning model for enhancing polarimetric radar Quantitative...
Accurate and real-time estimation of surface precipitation is crucial for decision-making during severe weather events and for water resource management. Polarimetric weather...- publication PDF
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Precipitation data assimilation in WRFDA 4D-Var: Implementation and...
Precipitation data assimilation has been developed in the Weather Research and Forecasting model data assimilation system (WRFDA) using four-dimensional variational (4D-Var)...- publication PDF
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Diverging Northern Hemisphere trends in meteorological versus ecological...
Plant phenology regulates the carbon cycle and land-atmosphere coupling. Currently, climate models often disagree with observations on the seasonal cycle of vegetation growth,...- publication PDF
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Intercomparison of daytime stratospheric NO₂ satellite retrievals and model...
This paper evaluates the agreement between stratospheric NO₂ retrievals from infrared limb sounders (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) and High...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of idealized large-eddy simulations performed with the Weather...
We investigate the ability of the Weather Research and Forecasting model to perform large-eddy simulation of canonical flows. This is achieved through comparison of the...- publication PDF
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A center-median filtering method for detection of temporal variation in...
Events in the solar corona are often widely separated in their timescales, which can allow them to be identified when they would otherwise be confused with emission from other...- publication PDF
