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The impacts of Taiwan topography on the predictability of Typhoon Morakot's...
In this study, we examine the impact of Taiwan topography on the extreme rainfall of Typhoon Morakot and the predictability of this rainfall with a high-resolution (4-km)...- publication PDF
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An updated Antarctic melt record through 2009 and its linkages to...
A 30-year minimum Antarctic snowmelt record occurred during austral summer 2008-2009 according to spaceborne microwave observations for 1980-2009. Strong positive phases of both...- publication PDF
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Modeling the air pollution and aerosol-PBL interactions over China using a...
Modeling air quality has always been a challenge in global models constrained by coarse grids. Here, the variable-resolution Community Atmosphere Model with full chemistry based...- publication PDF
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WRF-Chem simulations of a typical pre-monsoon dust storm in northern India:...
The impact of a typical pre-monsoon season (April-June) dust storm event on the regional aerosol optical properties and radiation budget in northern India is analyzed. The dust...- publication PDF
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Merged cloud and precipitation dataset from the HIAPER GV for the Cloud...
The Cloud System Evolution in the Trades (CSET) aircraft campaign was conducted in the summer of 2015 in the northeast Pacific to observe the transition from stratocumulus to...- publication PDF
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WRF-LES simulation of the boundary layer turbulent processes during the...
A real case long-term nested large eddy simulation (LES) of 25-day duration is performed using the WRF-LES modelling system, with a maximum horizontal grid resolution of 111 m,...- publication PDF
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Rapid 20th century warming reverses 900-year cooling in the Gulf of Maine
The Gulf of Maine, located in the western North Atlantic, has undergone recent, rapid ocean warming but the lack of long-term, instrumental records hampers the ability to put...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the imprints of stratospheric contributions to interhemispheric...
For trace gases destroyed in the stratosphere, mass flux across the tropopause can substantially influence observed surface hemispheric differences (NH-SH). Here, we quantify...- publication PDF
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Radiative forcing in the ACCMIP historical and future climate simulations
The Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP) examined the short-lived drivers of climate change in current climate models. Here we evaluate the...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of orographic cloud seeding using a bin microphysics scheme:...
The University of Pécs and NCAR Bin (UPNB) microphysical scheme was implemented into the mesoscale Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model that was used to study the impact...- publication PDF
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Is the detection of accelerated sea level rise imminent?
Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of MOPITT Version 7 joint TIRâNIR X CO retrievals with TCCON
Observations of carbon monoxide (CO) from the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument aboard the Terra spacecraft were expected to have an accuracy of...- publication PDF
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Objective tropical cyclone center tracking using Single-Doppler Radar
This study presents an extension of the ground-based velocity track display (GBVTD)-simplex tropical cyclone (TC) circulation center--finding algorithm to further improve the...- publication PDF
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Permafrost carbon-climate feedback is sensitive to deep soil carbon...
Permafrost soils contain enormous amounts of organic carbon whose stability is contingent on remaining frozen. With future warming, these soils may release carbon to the...- publication PDF
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Radiance-based retrieval bias mitigation for the MOPITT instrument: The...
The MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere) satellite instrument has been making nearly continuous observations of atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO) since 2000....- publication PDF
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Hillslope hydrology in global change research and Earth System Modeling
Earth System Models (ESMs) are essential tools for understanding and predicting global change, but they cannot explicitly resolve hillslope-scale terrain structures that...- publication PDF
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Influence of nonmigrating tides and geomagnetic field geometry on the...
In this study, equatorial electrojets (EEJs) simulated by the Thermosphere-Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIE-GCM) were compared with those observed by...- publication PDF
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Exploring the effects of rooftop mitigation strategies on urban temperatures...
This paper describes and evaluates physical parameterizations accounting for the effect of rooftop mitigation strategies (RMSs) on the urban environment, in the context of the...- publication PDF
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Intercomparison between surrogate, explicit, and full treatments of VSL...
Many Chemistry-Climate Models (CCMs) include a simplified treatment of brominated very short-lived (VSLBr) species by assuming CH3Br as a surrogate for VSLBr. However,...- publication PDF
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Thermodynamic environments of deep convection in Atlantic tropical disturbances
Conditional composites of dropsondes deployed into eight tropical Atlantic weather systems during 2010 are analyzed. The samples are conditioned based on cloud-top temperature...- publication PDF