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Convective injection into stratospheric intrusions
Stratospheric intrusions (tropopause folds) are known to be major contributors to stratosphere-troposphere exchange. The specific mixing processes that lead to irreversible...- publication PDF
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West coast forecast challenges and development of atmospheric river reconnaissance
Water management and flood control are major challenges in the western United States. They are heavily influenced by atmospheric river (AR) storms that produce both beneficial...- publication PDF
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Improving NOAA NAQFC PM2.5 predictions with a bias correction approach
Particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 mu m (PM2.5) is a critical air pollutant with important impacts on human health. It is essential to...- publication PDF
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Persistent longitudinal features in the low-latitude ionosphere
Various longitudinal wave patterns exist in the low-latitude ionosphere, but the investigation has been limited to the wave number (WN) 3 and 4 patterns. This study extends the...- publication PDF
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A conservative semi-lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin scheme on the cubed sphere
The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods designed for hyperbolic problems arising from a wide range of applications are known to enjoy many computational advantages. DG methods...- publication PDF
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New insights on the impact of ozone-depleting substances on the...
It has recently been recognized that, in addition to greenhouse gases, anthropogenic emissions of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) can induce long-term trends in the Brewer-...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of tropospheric moisture characteristics among COSMIC-2, ERA5 and...
Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) receivers onboard the recently-launched COSMIC-2 (C2) satellite constellation provide an unprecedented number of...- publication PDF
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DCMIP2016: the splitting supercell test case
This paper describes the splitting supercell idealized test case used in the 2016 Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP2016). These storms are useful test beds for...- publication PDF
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Effect of isoprene emissions from major forests on ozone formation in the...
Ambient surface level concentrations of isoprene (C(5)H(8)) were measured in the major forest regions located south of Shanghai, China. Because there is a large coverage of...- publication PDF
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Workshop Review: Management of Data Collected in GRAMP (Gulf Region...
In response to the demolition and subsequent burning of the Kuwait oil fires this report summarizes a workshop that was held July 24-26, 1991 at the National Center for...- publication PDF
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AMSR2 all-sky radiance assimilation and its impact on the analysis and...
A method to assimilate all-sky radiances from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) was developed within the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model's data...- publication PDF
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Effects of Thermal Cycling on Biaxially Stressed Balloon Films
This report presents the results of an examination of the biaxial strength properties of two commercial balloon films. 0.75 mil VisQueen X-124 and 0.7 mil Winzen StratoFilm were...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric factors governing banded orographic convection
The three-dimensional structure of shallow orographic convection is investigated through simulations performed with a cloud-resolving numerical model. In moist flows that...- publication PDF
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Soil moisture memory in AGCM simulations: Analysis of global land-atmosphere...
Soil moisture memory is a key aspect of land-atmosphere interaction and has major implications for seasonal forecasting. Because of a severe lack of soil moisture observations...- publication PDF
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The representation of alkalinity and the carbonate pump from CMIP5 to CMIP6...
Ocean alkalinity is critical to the uptake of atmospheric carbon in surface waters and provides buffering capacity towards the associated acidification. However, unlike...- publication PDF
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Implementation and evaluation of dynamic subfilter-scale stress models for...
The performance of a range of simple to moderately-complex subfilter-scale (SFS) stress models implemented in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is evaluated in...- publication PDF
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The impact of wind corrections and ocean-current influence on wind stress...
Bias correction of reanalysis-based wind stress using scatterometer derived equivalent neutral wind has been a common practice in producing the forcing datasets used in recent...- publication PDF
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A dynamics-weighted principal components analysis of dominant atmospheric...
This paper describes a framework for identifying dominant atmospheric drivers of ocean variability. The method combines statistics of atmosphere-ocean fluxes with physics from...- publication PDF
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Tropical land carbon cycle responses to 2015/16 El Niño as recorded by...
The outstanding tropical land climate characteristic over the past decades is rapid warming, with no significant large-scale precipitation trends. This warming is expected to...- publication PDF
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Hurricane simulation using different representations of atmosphere-ocean...
Three approaches to represent sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in atmospheric models have been investigated using the Weather Research and Forecasting model: (1) prescribing SSTs...- publication PDF
