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Process-oriented analysis of dominant sources of uncertainty in the land carbon sink
The observed global net land carbon sink is captured by current land models. All models agree that atmospheric CO2 and nitrogen deposition driven gains in carbon stocks are...- publication PDF
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Identifying sensitivities in flood frequency analyses using a stochastic...
This study employs a stochastic hydrologic modeling framework to evaluate the sensitivity of flood frequency analyses to different components of the hydrologic modeling chain....- publication PDF
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Evaluation of a stochastic mixing scheme in the deep convective gray zone...
A stochastic horizontal subgrid-scale mixing scheme is evaluated in ensemble simulations of a tropical oceanic deep convection case using a horizontal grid spacing (Delta h) of...- publication PDF
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Interannual variability of winds in the Antarctic mesosphere and lower...
The mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) plays a critical role in linking the middle and upper atmosphere. However, many General Circulation Models do not model the MLT and...- publication PDF
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Rapid Intensification of Typhoon Chanthu (2021) induced by topographic...
Typhoon Chanthu (2021) underwent a unique rapid intensification (RI) when it moved northward offshore east of Taiwan under a northerly vertical wind shear. The recirculating...- publication PDF
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Seasonal surface urban energy balance and wintertime stability simulated...
The performance of three urban land-surface models, run in off-line mode, with their default external parameters, is evaluated for two distinctly different sites in Helsinki:...- publication PDF
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Validation of methane and carbon monoxide from Sentinel-5 Precursor using...
The Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P) mission with the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on board has been measuring solar radiation backscattered by the Earth's atmosphere...- publication PDF
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Climate drivers of Southern Ocean phytoplankton community composition and...
Southern Ocean phytoplankton production supports rich Antarctic marine ecosystems comprising copepods, krill, fish, seals, penguins, and whales. Anthropogenic climate change,...- publication PDF
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Validation and error estimation of AIRS MUSES CO profiles with HIPPO, ATom,...
Single-footprint retrievals of carbon monoxide from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) are evaluated using aircraft in situ observations. The aircraft data are from the...- publication PDF
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On the seasonal occurrence and abundance of the Zika virus vector mosquito...
Introduction: An ongoing Zika virus pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean has raised concerns that travel-related introduction of Zika virus could initiate local...- publication PDF
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Anelastic and compressible simulation of moist dynamics at planetary scales
Moist anelastic and compressible numerical solutions to the planetary baroclinic instability and climate benchmarks are compared. The solutions are obtained by applying a...- publication PDF
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Coherence of the AMOC over the subpolar North Atlantic on interannual to...
Direct measurements of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) are necessary to understand its evolution in a context of climate change. International programs...- publication PDF
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Developing a strategy for the national coordinated soil moisture monitoring network
Soil moisture is a critical land surface variable, affecting a wide variety of climatological, agricultural, and hydrological processes. Determining the current soil moisture...- publication PDF
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CGILS: Results from the first phase of an international project to...
CGILS—the CFMIP-GASS Intercomparison of Large Eddy Models (LESs) and single column models (SCMs)—investigates the mechanisms of cloud feedback in SCMs and LESs under idealized...- publication PDF
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Ice-sheet configuration in the CMIP5/PMIP3 Last Glacial Maximum experiments
We describe the creation of a data set describing changes related to the presence of ice sheets, including ice-sheet extent and height, ice-shelf extent, and the distribution...- publication PDF
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A review of the anthropogenic influence on biogenic secondary organic aerosol
Because of the climate and air quality effects of organic aerosol, it is important to quantify the influence of anthropogenic emissions on the aerosol burden, both globally and...- publication PDF
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Supersaturation, buoyancy, and deep convection dynamics
Motivated by recent discussions concerning differences of convective dynamics in polluted and pristine environments, the so-called convective invigoration in particular, this...- publication PDF
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Thermosphere density variations due to the 15-24 April 2002 solar events...
Thermosphere densities near 410 km altitude between +/- 87 degrees latitude and near 0430 and 1530 local time from the accelerometer experiment on the CHAMP satellite are used...- publication PDF
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Discontinuous Galerkin transport on the spherical Yin-Yang overset mesh
A discontinuous Galerkin (DG) transport scheme is presented that employs the Yin-Yang grid on the sphere. The Yin-Yang grid is a quasi-uniform overset mesh comprising two...- publication PDF
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Mobile doppler radar observations of a tornado in a supercell near Bassett,...
This is Part II of a paper detailing an analysis of high-resolution wind and reflectivity data collected by a mobile, W-band Doppler radar; the analysis depicts the near-surface...- publication PDF