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Transport from the Asian Summer Monsoon anticyclone over the Western Pacific
The subseasonal scale dynamics of the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) upper troposphere (UT) anticyclone has been identified as a primary mechanism for convectively lofted Asian...- publication PDF
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Who bears the burden? An assessment of vulnerability and resilience to...
Climate-related disasters threaten urban areas worldwide, yet gaps remain in understanding how multiple stressors interact to shape resilience. This study examines exposure,...- publication PDF
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GOLD observations of thermospheric neutral temperature variability during...
The 14 October 2023 annular solar eclipse was visible from the US Pacific coast to Brazil's east coast. NASA's Global‐scale Observations of Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission...- publication PDF
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The impacts of climate, land use, and demography on fires during the 21st...
Landscape fires during the 21st century are expected to change in response to multiple agents of global change. Important controlling factors include climate controls on the...- publication PDF
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Data assimilation: A fully nonlinear approach to ensemble formation using...
Operational forecasting with simulation models involves the melding of observations and model dynamics to determine a set of initial conditions for each forecast. The Kalman...- publication PDF
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The decline in summer fallow in the northern Great Plains cooled...
Land management can moderate or intensify the impacts of a warming atmosphere. Since the early 1980s, nearly 116,000 km2 of cropland that was once held in fallow during the...- publication PDF
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Two-dimensional correlation functions for density and magnetic field...
Knowledge of multidimensional correlation functions is crucial for understanding the anisotropy of turbulence. The two-dimensional (2-D) spatial correlation functions (SCFs)...- publication PDF
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Improved understanding of multicentury Greenland Ice Sheet response to...
The simulation of ice sheet‐climate interactions, such as surface mass balance fluxes, is sensitive to model grid resolution. Here we simulate the multi‐century...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the risk of extreme events under climate change
We are all familiar with the proverbial "100-year flood," a concept instrumental in engineering design for water resources management. This concept, generally termed a "return...- publication PDF
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Evidence for SSW triggered Q6DW-tide and Q6DW-gravity wave interactions...
An exceptionally strong westward propagating quasi-6-day wave (Q6DW) with zonal wavenumber 1 in connection with the rare 2019 Southern Hemispheric Sudden Stratospheric Warming...- publication PDF
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Antarctic sea ice area in CMIP6
Fully coupled climate models have long shown a wide range of Antarctic sea ice states and evolution over the satellite era. Here, we present a high-level evaluation of Antarctic...- publication PDF
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Nighttime chemical evolution of aerosol and trace gases in a power plant...
Nighttime chemical evolution of aerosol and trace gases in a coal-fired power plant plume was monitored with the Department of Energy Grumman Gulfstream-1 aircraft during the...- publication PDF
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Model hierarchies for understanding atmospheric circulation
In this review, we highlight the complementary relationship between simple and comprehensive models in addressing key scientific questions to describe Earth's atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Deep learning for spatially explicit prediction of synoptic-scale fronts
This paper describes the use of convolutional neural nets (CNN), a type of deep learning, to identify fronts in gridded data, followed by a novel postprocessing method that...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of land surface models in reproducing satellite-derived LAI over...
Leaf Area Index (LAI) represents the total surface area of leaves above a unit area of ground and is a key variable in any vegetation model, as well as in climate models. New...- publication PDF
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Subjective modeling decisions can significantly impact the simulation of...
It is generally acknowledged in the environmental sciences that the choice of a computational model impacts the research results. In this study of a flood and drought event in...- publication PDF
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Data assimilation for the Model for Prediction Across Scales - Atmosphere...
An ensemble of 3D ensemble-variational (En-3DEnVar) data assimilations is demonstrated with the Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI) with the Model for...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the role of ozone-caused damage to vegetation in the Earth...
Surface ozone (O3) is the primary air pollutant threatening global vegetation. It typically reduces the photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance, leading to changes in...- publication PDF
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Dynamic error estimation for radio occultation bending angles retrieved by...
Application of any measurement requires reliable error estimates; this is particularly the case when meteorological observations are assimilated into numerical weather...- publication PDF
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Dependence of lunar tide of the equatorial electrojet on the wintertime...
The lower atmospheric forcing effects on the ionosphere are particularly evident during extreme meteorological events known as sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs). During SSWs,...- publication PDF
