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Overview of the Queensland cloud seeding research program
As a response to water shortages in Southeast Queensland brought about by reduced rainfall and increasing population, the Queensland government decided to explore the potential...- publication PDF
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Earth's Van Allen radiation belts: From discovery to the Van Allen probes era
Discovery of the Earth's Van Allen radiation belts by instruments flown on Explorer 1 in 1958 was the first major discovery of the Space Age. The observation of distinct inner...- publication PDF
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Damping acoustic modes in compressible horizontally explicit vertically...
Although the equations of motion for a compressible atmosphere accommodate acoustic waves, these modes typically play an insignificant role in atmospheric processes of physical...- publication PDF
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Rethinking failure: Time for closer engineer-scientist collaborations on design
Catastrophic failures in the built and natural environment resulting from climate extremes such as flooding have become all too familiar. Limit state design under changing...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 2023 Improving Scientific Software Conference
The Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) is a loosely structured group of software engineers and scientists who write scientific software, mostly but not only at NCAR and mostly...- publication PDF
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Multiple new-particle growth pathways observed at the US DOE Southern Great...
New-particle formation (NPF) is a significant source of aerosol particles into the atmosphere. However, these particles are initially too small to have climatic importance and...- publication PDF
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Causes of the weak emergent constraint on climate sensitivity at the Last...
The use of paleoclimates to constrain the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) has seen a growing interest. In particular, the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the mid-Pliocene...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms of a meteorological drought onset: Summer 2020 to Spring 2021 in...
By summer 2021 moderate to exceptional drought impacted 28% of North America, focused west of the Mississippi, with serious impacts on fire, water resources, and agriculture....- publication PDF
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Identifying and correcting interferences to PTR-ToF-MS measurements of...
Proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS) is a technique commonly used to measure ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in urban, rural, and...- publication PDF
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Observed and modeled mountain waves from the surface to the mesosphere near...
Four state-of-the-science numerical weather prediction (NWP) models were used to perform mountain wave (MW)-resolving hindcasts over the Drake Passage of a 10-day period in 2010...- publication PDF
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Plant water use theory should incorporate hypotheses about extreme...
Plant water use theory has largely been developed within a plant-performance paradigm that conceptualizes water use in terms of value for carbon gain and that sits within a...- publication PDF
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HTAP2 multi-model estimates of premature human mortality due to...
Ambient air pollution from ozone and fine particulate matter is associated with premature mortality. As emissions from one continent influence air quality over others, changes...- publication PDF
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Cloud phase and relative humidity distributions over the Southern Ocean in...
Cloud phase and relative humidity (RH) distributions at -67 degrees to 0 degrees C over the Southern Ocean during austral summer are compared between in situ airborne...- publication PDF
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Planetary Wave (PW) generation in the thermosphere driven by the...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research thermosphere-ionosphere-electrodynamics general circulation model (TIE-GCM) is used to conduct numerical experiments that isolate...- publication PDF
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Linear trends and closures of 10-yr observations of AIRS stratospheric channels
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) level-1b radiances have been shown to be well calibrated (~0.3 K or higher) and have little secular drift (~4 mK yrâ»Â¹) since operation...- publication PDF
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Solar rotational periodicities and the semiannual variation in the solar...
The behavior of a number of solar wind, radiation belt, auroral and geomagnetic parameters is examined during the recent extended solar minimum and previous solar cycles,...- publication PDF
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The genesis of Typhoon Nuri as observed during the Tropical Cyclone...
Aircraft reconnaissance data collected during the Tropical Cyclone Structure 2008 field campaign are used to examine further kinematical, dynamical, and thermodynamical aspects...- publication PDF
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Production of ice in tropospheric clouds: A review
Ice in the troposphere affects a variety of processes, including the formation of precipitation, and cloud lifetime, albedo, dynamics, and electrification. A lack of...- publication PDF
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NCAR Graphics Autograph: A Graphing Utility : Version 2.00
This report contains the technical manual for using the NCAR Graphics Autograph program.- publication PDF
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Seasonal predictability of extratropical storm tracks in GFDL's...
The seasonal predictability of extratropical storm tracks in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory's (GFDL)'s high-resolution climate model has been investigated using an...- publication PDF
