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Running dry: The U.S. Southwest's drift into a drier climate state
Changes in precipitation have far-reaching consequences on human society and ecosystems as has been demonstrated by recent severe droughts in California and the Oklahoma region....- publication PDF
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Contrasting impacts of urban forms on the future thermal environment:...
This study investigated impacts of urban forms on the future thermal environment over Beijing, the capital city of China. Beijing is experiencing remarkable urban expansion and...- publication PDF
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Observational constraints on the formation of Cl2 from the reactive uptake...
We use observations from the 2015 Wintertime Investigation of Transport, Emissions, and Reactivity (WINTER) aircraft campaign to constrain the proposed mechanism of Cl-2...- publication PDF
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Broadening of modeled cloud droplet spectra using bin microphysics in an...
This study investigates droplet size distribution (DSD) characteristics from condensational growth and transport in Eulerian dynamical models with bin microphysics. A hierarchy...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of Noah‐MP performance with available soil information for...
The increasing availability of modern digital soil databases provides an opportunity to integrate these data into land surface models (LSMs), such as Noah‐MP, for a more...- publication PDF
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Validation of mountain precipitation forecasts from the...
Convection-permitting ensembles can capture the large spatial variability and quantify the inherent uncertainty of precipitation in areas of complex terrain; however, such...- publication PDF
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The role of snowmelt temporal pattern in flood estimation for a small...
Prior research confirmed the substantial bias from using precipitation-based intensity-duration-frequency curves (PREC-IDF) in design flood estimates and proposed next-...- publication PDF
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Using random forests to diagnose aviation turbulence
Atmospheric turbulence poses a significant hazard to aviation, with severe encounters costing airlines millions of dollars per year in compensation, aircraft damage, and delays...- publication PDF
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Diagnosing the influence of a receding snow boundary on simulated...
Previous research has found a relationship between the equatorward extent of snow cover and low-level baroclinicity, suggesting a link between the development and trajectory of...- publication PDF
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Generation of turbulence through frontogenesis in sheared stratified flows
The large-scale structures in the ocean and the atmosphere are in geostrophic balance, and a conduit must be found to channel the energy to the small scales where it can be...- publication PDF
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Global environmental change perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open,...
This article is composed of two independent commentaries about the state of Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) principles (Goldman et al., 2021, ) in Global...- publication PDF
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Ozone pollution: What can we see from space? A case study
Due to its impact on environment, tropospheric ozone received particular attention since several decades. Ground-based networks associated with regional chemical transport...- publication PDF
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Track deflection of Typhoon Chanthu (2021) near Taiwan as investigated using...
The Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) with variable resolution (60–15–1 km) is used to investigate the track deflection of Typhoon Chanthu (2021) near...- publication PDF
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Development and testing of polar WRF. Part III: Arctic land
A version of the state-of-the-art Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) has been developed for use in polar climates. The model known as "Polar WRF" is tested for land...- publication PDF
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Divergence and vorticity from aircraft air motion measurements
This paper considers the accuracy of divergence estimates obtained from aircraft measurements of the horizontal velocity field and points out an error that appears in these...- publication PDF
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In situ aerosol size spectra measurements in the austral polar vortex before...
Aerosol from the Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai (HT‐HH) volcanic eruption (20.6°S) in January 2022 were not incorporated into the austral polar vortex until the...- publication PDF
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Urban meteorological modeling using WRF: A sensitivity study
This study explores the sensitivity of high-resolution mesoscale simulations of urban heat island (UHI) in the Chicago metropolitan area (CMA) and its environs to urban physical...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of the atmospheric CO₂ signal as observed over the...
High resolution in situ measurements of atmospheric CO₂ were made from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment - North America (INTEX-...- publication PDF
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Snow nowcasting using a real-time correlation of radar reflectivity with...
This paper describes and evaluates an algorithm for nowcasting snow water equivalent (SWE) at a point on the surface based on a real-time correlation of equivalent radar...- publication PDF
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Observed World Ocean Seasonal Surface Currents on a 5 Degree Grid
A digitized ocean current data set for use in ocean model or diagnostic computer studies is described. Various sources of observed ocean currents are examined, and surface...- publication PDF