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Drivers of snowfall accumulation in the Central Idaho Mountains using...
The western United States region, an economic and agricultural powerhouse, is highly dependent on winter snowpack from the mountain west. Coupled with increasing water and...- publication PDF
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Measuring spatiotemporal variation in snow optical grain size under a...
The distribution of forest cover exerts strong controls on the spatiotemporal distribution of snow accumulation and snowmelt. The physical processes that govern these controls...- publication PDF
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Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition
Litter decomposition is a biogeochemical process fundamental to element cycling within ecosystems, influencing plant productivity, species composition and carbon storage....- publication PDF
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The impact of inhomogeneous emissions and topography on ozone photochemistry...
Global and regional chemical transport models of the atmosphere are based on the assumption that chemical species are completely mixed within each model grid box. However, in...- publication PDF
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Monitoring and understanding trends in extreme storms: State of knowledge
The state of knowledge regarding trends and an understanding of their causes is presented for a specific subset of extreme weather and climate types. For severe convective...- publication PDF
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Diagnosis and Sensitivity of the 200 hPa Circulation in NCAR Community Climate Models
The purpose of this report is to determine the nature of systematic errors in several different seasonal cycle versions of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)...- publication PDF
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The Holton-Tan mechanism under stratospheric aerosol intervention
The teleconnection between the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) and the Arctic stratospheric polar vortex, or the Holton-Tan (HT) relationship, may change in a warmer climate or...- publication PDF
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Wave activity in the tropical tropopause layer in seven reanalysis and four...
Sub-seasonal variability including equatorial waves significantly influence the dehydration and transport processes in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL). This study...- publication PDF
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Model biases in the simulation of the springtime North Pacific ENSO teleconnection
The wintertime ENSO teleconnection over the North Pacific region consists of an intensified (weakened) low pressure center during El Nino (La Nina) events both in observations...- publication PDF
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Grand challenges in the physics of the sun and sun-like stars
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Nonspherical and spherical characterization of ice in Hurricane Erin for...
In order to better understand the characteristics and physical-to-radiative relationships of frozen hydrometeors in hurricane systems, computed brightness temperatures (TB) from...- publication PDF
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Verification of large-scale rapid transport in the lower thermosphere:...
New analysis of the Doppler shift of O₂ airglow spectra recorded by the TIMED Doppler Interferometer (TIDI) and the High Resolution Doppler Imager (HRDI) have provided...- publication PDF
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A composite perspective of the extratropical flow response to recurving...
This study investigates the composite extratropical flow response to recurving western North Pacific tropical cyclones (WNP TCs), and the dependence of this response on the...- publication PDF
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Nonmigrating tidal impact on the CO2 15 μm infrared cooling of the lower...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) infrared emissions at 15m is the primary radiative cooling mechanism of the thermosphere in the altitude range of 100-135km. This paper explores the role of...- publication PDF
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Forecasts of opportunity for Northern California soil moisture
Soil moisture anomalies underpin a number of critical hydrological phenomena with socioeconomic consequences, yet systematic studies of soil moisture predictability are limited....- publication PDF
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A fuzzy logic method for improved moment estimation from doppler spectra
A new method for estimating moments from wind measurement devices that measure Doppler spectra as a function of range is presented. Quite often the spectra are contaminated by a...- publication PDF
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Evaluating contributions of urbanization and global climate change to urban...
This study develops a general method to evaluate the contributions of localized urbanization and global climate change to long-term urban land surface temperature (ULST) change....- publication PDF
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Evaluation of Fengyun-4A Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) performance during...
This study investigates the characteristics of space-borne Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) lightning products and their relationships with cloud properties using ground-based...- publication PDF
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Benchmark calculations of radiative forcing by greenhouse gases
Changes in concentrations of greenhouse gases lead to changes in radiative fluxes throughout the atmosphere. The value of this change, the instantaneous radiative forcing,...- publication PDF
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Technical Note: Review of methods for linear least-squares fitting of data...
The representation of data, whether geophysical observations, numerical model output or laboratory results, by a best fit straight line is a routine practice in the geosciences...- publication PDF
