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Pacific interdecadal climate variability: Linkages between the tropics and...
This study examines the tropical linkages to interdecadal climate fluctuations over the North Pacific during boreal winter through a comprehensive and physically based analysis...- publication PDF
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Daytime oxidized reactive nitrogen partitioning in Western U.S. wildfire smoke plumes
The Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption, and Nitrogen (WE-CAN) deployed the NSF/NCAR C-130 aircraft in summer 2018 across the western U.S. to...- publication PDF
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Large-scale temperature response to external forcing in simulations and...
Understanding natural climate variability and its driving factors is crucial to assessing future climate change. Therefore, comparing proxy-based climate reconstructions with...- publication PDF
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Mixing characteristics within the tropopause transition layer over the Asian...
The structure of the tropopause transition layer (TTL) over the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) anticyclone is analyzed on the basis of high-resolution balloon soundings of...- publication PDF
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Significant chlorine emissions from biomass burning affect the long-term...
Biomass burning (BB) is a major source of trace gases and particles in the atmosphere, influencing air quality, radiative balance, and climate. Previous studies have mainly...- publication PDF
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Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise in...
Satellite data reveal widespread changes in Earth's vegetation cover. Regions intensively attended to by humans are mostly greening due to land management. Natural vegetation,...- publication PDF
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Thermal structure of intense convective clouds derived from GPS radio occultations
Thermal structure associated with deep convective clouds is investigated using Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation measurements. GPS data are insensitive to the...- publication PDF
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An intercomparative study of the effects of aircraft emissions on surface air quality
This study intercompares, among five global models, the potential impacts of all commercial aircraft emissions worldwide on surface ozone and particulate matter (PM2.5). The...- publication PDF
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The microphysics of ice and precipitation development in tropical cumulus clouds
The rapid glaciation of tropical cumulus clouds has been an enigma and has been debated in the literature for over 60 years. Possible mechanisms responsible for the rapid...- publication PDF
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Analysis of the global atmospheric background sulfur budget in a multi-model...
A growing number of general circulation models are adapting interactive sulfur and aerosol schemes to improve the representation of relevant physical and chemical processes and...- publication PDF
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The Impacts of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on...
This study quantifies the impacts of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) on the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) under anthropogenic warming by comparing...- publication PDF
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Increasing the usability of drought information for risk management in the...
Tools are needed that can add value to existing drought information and customize it for specific drought management contexts. This study develops a generalized framework that...- publication PDF
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On North American decadal climate for 2011-20
The predictability of North American climate is diagnosed by taking into account both forced climate change and natural decadal-scale climate variability over the next decade....- publication PDF
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On the effectiveness of nitrogen oxide reductions as a control over ammonium...
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) have fallen steadily across the US over the last 15 years. At the same time, NOx concentrations decrease on weekends relative to weekdays, largely without...- publication PDF
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Evaluating the accuracy and uncertainty of atmospheric and wave model...
Various uncertainties exist in a hindcast due to the inabilities of numerical models to resolve all the complicated atmosphere-sea interactions, and the lack of certain ground...- publication PDF
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An intercomparison of statistical downscaling methods used for water...
Information relevant for most hydrologic applications cannot be obtained directly from the native-scale outputs of climate models. As a result the climate model output must be...- publication PDF
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How would the twenty-first-century warming influence Pacific decadal...
Decadal climate variability of sea surface temperature (SST) over the Pacific Ocean can be characterized by interdecadal Pacific oscillation (IPO) or Pacific decadal oscillation...- publication PDF
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Research data and metadata curation as institutional issues
Research data curation initiatives must support heterogeneous kinds of projects, data, and metadata. This article examines variability in data and metadata practices using...- publication PDF
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Description of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model (CAM 5.0)
This report presents the details of the governing equations, physical parameterizations, and numerical algorithms deï¬ning the version of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model...- publication PDF
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Impact of changes to the atmospheric soluble iron deposition flux on ocean...
Iron can be a growth-limiting nutrient for phytoplankton, modifying rates of net primary production, nitrogen fixation, and carbon export - highlighting the importance of new...- publication PDF
