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Growth of cloud droplets by turbulent collision--coalescence
An open question in cloud physics is how rain forms in warm cumulus as rapidly as it is sometimes observed. In particular, the growth of cloud droplets across the size gap from...- publication PDF
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Forced and internal components of winter air temperature trends over North...
This study elucidates the physical mechanisms underlying internal and forced components of winter surface air temperature (SAT) trends over North America during the past 50...- publication PDF
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Seasonal variation in the correlation between anomalies of sea level and...
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current has highly energetic mesoscale phenomena, but their impacts on phytoplankton biomass, productivity, and biogeochemical cycling are not...- publication PDF
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Lagrangian velocity correlations and absolute dispersion in the midlatitude...
Employing daily wind data from the ECMWF, passive particle advection is performed to estimate the Lagrangian velocity correlation functions (LVCF) associated with the...- publication PDF
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Airborne observations of highly variable and complex freezing drizzle and...
Airframe icing caused by interactions with supercooled cloud droplets and precipitation can pose a risk to aviation operations and life safety. The In-Cloud Icing and Large-drop...- publication PDF
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Positioning infrastructure and technologies for low-carbon urbanization
The expected urbanization of the planet in the coming century coupled with aging infrastructure in developed regions, increasing complexity of man-made systems, and pressing...- publication PDF
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The quasi 2 day wave response in TIME-GCM nudged with NOGAPS-ALPHA
The quasi 2 day wave (QTDW) is a traveling planetary wave that can be enhanced rapidly to large amplitudes in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region during the...- publication PDF
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Quantifying sources and sinks of reactive gases in the lower atmosphere...
Atmospheric composition is governed by the interplay of emissions, chemistry, deposition, and transport. Substantial questions surround each of these processes, especially in...- publication PDF
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CCM Progress Report - June 1993
This report consists of: Brief reports required of all CCM users, both inside and outside of NCAR -- CCM Progress report on CCM2 along with details of the reports which document...- publication PDF
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Driving solar giant cells through the self-organization of near-surface plumes
Global 3D simulations of solar giant-cell convection have provided significant insight into the processes which yield the Sun's observed differential rotation and cyclic dynamo...- publication PDF
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Comments on "Indications of stratified turbulence in a mechanistic GCM"
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Effects of the September 2005 solar flares and solar proton events on the...
This work investigates middle atmosphere effects of the September 2005 solar flares and solar proton events (SPEs). X-17 and X-6.2 flares occurred on 7 and 9 September,...- publication PDF
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On the intermittency of hot plasma loops in the solar corona
A recent analysis has suggested that the heating of plasma loops in the solar corona depends not just on the Poynting flux but also on processes yet to be identified. This...- publication PDF
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Particle size distribution properties in mixed-phase monsoon clouds from in...
A comprehensive analysis of particle size distributions measured in situ with airborne instrumentation during the Cloud Aerosol Interaction and Precipitation Enhancement...- publication PDF
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Overcooling in the upper thermosphere during the recovery phase of the 2003...
Infrared radiative emissions by carbon dioxide (CO₂) and nitric oxide (NO) are the major cooling mechanisms of the lower thermosphere. During geomagnetically active periods, the...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms for quasi-stationary behavior in simulated heavy-rain-producing...
In this study, idealized numerical simulations are used to identify the processes responsible for initiating, organizing, and maintaining quasi-stationary convective systems...- publication PDF
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A radar reflectivity operator with ice-phase hydrometeors for variational...
A reflectivity forward operator and its associated tangent linear and adjoint operators (together named Radar-Var) were developed for variational data assimilation (DA)....- publication PDF
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The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project comments on the...
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Characterizing and optimizing precipitation forecasts from a...
Convection-permitting Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model forecasts with 3-km horizontal grid spacing were produced for a 50-member ensemble over a domain spanning...- publication PDF
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Current Global Land-surface Data Sets for Use in Climate-related Studies
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