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Twentieth century tropical sea surface temperature trends revisited
This study compares the global distribution of 20th century SST and marine air temperature trends from a wide variety of data sets including un-interpolated archives as well as...- publication PDF
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Stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review and synthesis
The notion that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) can have more than one stable equilibrium emerged in the 1980s as a powerful hypothesis to explain rapid...- publication PDF
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The diurnal cycle of clouds and precipitation along the Sierra Madre...
This study examines the spatial and temporal variability in the diurnal cycle of clouds and precipitation tied to topography within the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME)...- publication PDF
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The Common Land Model
The Common Land Model (CLM) was developed for community use by a grassroots collaboration of scientists who have an interest in making a general land model available for public...- publication PDF
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The spatiotemporal characteristics of near-surface water vapor in a coastal...
The radar-retrieved refractivity fields provide detailed depictions of the near-surface moisture distribution at the meso-gamma scale. This study represents a novel application...- publication PDF
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Probabilistic aspects of meteorological and ozone regional ensemble forecasts
This study investigates whether probabilistic ozone forecasts from an ensemble can be made with skill: i.e., high verification resolution and reliability. Twenty-eight ozone...- publication PDF
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The impact of emission and climate change on ozone in the United States...
Dynamical downscaling was applied in this study to link the global climate-chemistry model Community Atmosphere Model (CAM-Chem) with the regional models Weather Research and...- publication PDF
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Assessing clouds using satellite observations through three generations of...
Clouds are parameterized in climate models using quantities on the model grid-scale to approximate the cloud cover and impact on radiation. Because of the complexity of...- publication PDF
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TCMT Evaluation for the HFIP Reconnaissance Data Impact Tiger Team (RDITT)
In January 2013, the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP) established the Reconnaissance Data Impact Tiger Team (RDITT) to conduct a systematic investigation of the...- publication PDF
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Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Ambient Air in an Oxidation Flow...
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from ambient air was studied using an oxidation flow reactor (OFR) coupled to an aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) during both the wet...- publication PDF
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Impact of bay-breeze circulations on surface air quality and boundary layer export
Meteorological and air-quality model simulations are analyzed alongside observations to investigate the role of the Chesapeake Bay breeze on surface air quality, pollutant...- publication PDF
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The multi-thermal chromosphere
Context. Numerical simulations of the solar chromosphere predict a diverse thermal structure with both hot and cool regions. Observations of plage regions in particular...- publication PDF
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Impact of improved representation of volatile organic compound emissions and...
The fraction of urban volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions attributable to fossil fuel combustion has been declining in many parts of the world, resulting in a need to...- publication PDF
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An overview of interactions and feedbacks between ice sheets and the Earth system
Ice sheet response to forced changes such as that from anthropogenic climate forcing is closely regulated by two-way interactions with other components of the Earth system....- publication PDF
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Ms. Hisako Koyama: From Amateur Astronomer to Long-Term Solar Observer
The path to science for a girl of any nationality born in the early twentieth century was formidable-to-nonexistent. Yet paths were forged by a few. We present the little-known...- publication PDF
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Solar cycle response and long-term trends in the mesospheric metal layers
The meteoric metal layers (Na, Fe, and K)which form as a result of the ablation of incoming meteorsact as unique tracers for chemical and dynamical processes that occur within...- publication PDF
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CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation
This paper reports on the early mission performance of the radar and other major aspects of the CloudSat mission. The Cloudsat cloud profiling radar (CPR) has been operating...- publication PDF
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Impact of momentum perturbation on convective boundary layer turbulence
Mesoscale-to-microscale coupling is an important tool for conducting turbulence-resolving multiscale simulations of realistic atmospheric flows, which are crucial for...- publication PDF
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Extreme temperature events will drive coral decline in the Coral Triangle
In light of rapid environmental change, quantifying the contribution of regional- and local-scale drivers of coral persistence is necessary to characterize fully the resilience...- publication PDF
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Validation of OMPS Suomi NPP and OMPS NOAA-20 formaldehyde total columns...
We validate formaldehyde (HCHO) vertical column densities (VCDs) from Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Nadir Mapper (OMPS-NM) instruments onboard the Suomi National Polar-...- publication PDF