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Systematic over-crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program
Carbon offsets are widely used by individuals, corporations, and governments to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions on the assumption that offsets reflect equivalent climate...- publication PDF
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Resolving tropical cyclone intensity in models
In recent years, global weather forecast models and global climate models have begun to depict intense tropical cyclones, even up to category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. In...- publication PDF
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"Morning-glory" disturbances and the environment in which they propagate
Results of a field experiment carried out in 1991 to gather upper-air data on the morning-glory environment are presented. The data include daily early morning radiosonde...- publication PDF
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The Colorado River Basin Operational Prediction Testbed: A framework for...
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) plays a central management role in the Colorado River Basin (CRB), with an increasing focus on meeting the needs of stakeholders during...- publication PDF
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Coupled insights from the palaeoenvironmental, historical and archaeological...
Many governments and organisations are currently aligning many aspects of their policies and practices to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Achieving the SDGs should...- publication PDF
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13 years of MOPITT operations: Lessons from MOPITT retrieval algorithm development
The Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument on the NASA Terra platform has now acquired over thirteen years of global tropospheric carbon monoxide (CO)...- publication PDF
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A User's Guide to Mauna Loa Solar Observatory's Coronal Data System
This report is intended to be a user's guide to those data products which are produced at the observing site at Mauna Loa, or those which have been stored at the sea-level base...- publication PDF
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An EOFs study of thermospheric nitric oxide flux based on TIEGCM simulations
The National Center for Atmospheric Research Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIEGCM) is a three-dimensional physics model of the Earth's upper...- publication PDF
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A multiscale four-dimensional variational data Assimilation scheme: A...
This study presents a multiscale four-dimensional variational data assimilation (MS-4DVar) scheme that aims to assimilate multiscale information from conventional and radar...- publication PDF
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Mountain-wave turbulence encounter of the research aircraft HALO above Iceland
Strong turbulence was encountered by the German High-Altitude Long-Range Research Aircraft (HALO) at flight level 430 (13.8 km) on 13 October 2016 above Iceland. In this event...- publication PDF
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Predictability of tropical Pacific decadal variability is dominated by...
Despite its pronounced global impacts, tropical Pacific decadal variability (TPDV) is poorly predicted by current climate models due to model deficiencies and a limited...- publication PDF
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An enhanced Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)...
Atmospheric evaporative demand is a key metric for monitoring agricultural drought. Existing ways of estimating evaporative demand in drought indices do not faithfully represent...- publication PDF
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A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Version 2
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Relationship between ozone and biologically relevant UV at 4 NDACC sites
Clouds and aerosols, as well as overhead ozone, can have large effects on ultraviolet (UV) irradiances. We use statistical methods to remove cloud effects and mean aerosol...- publication PDF
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AÂ steady-state continuous flow chamber for the study of daytime and...
Experiments performed in laboratory chambers have contributed significantly to the understanding of the fundamental kinetics and mechanisms of the chemical reactions occurring...- publication PDF
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Accuracy assessment and correction of Vaisala RS92 radiosonde water vapor...
Relative humidity (RH) measurements from Vaisala RS92 radiosondes are widely used in research and operational applications, but their accuracy is not well characterized as a...- publication PDF
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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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Offshore propagation of coastal precipitation
This work focuses on the seaward propagation of coastal precipitation with and without mountainous terrain nearby. Offshore of India, diurnal propagation of precipitation is...- publication PDF
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Retreat and regrowth of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the last interglacial...
During the Last Interglacial, approximately 129 to 116 ka (thousand years ago), the Arctic summer climate was warmer than the present, and the Greenland Ice Sheet retreated to a...- publication PDF
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How to embrace uncertainty in participatory climate change risk management-A roadmap
The Earth's future depends on how we manage the manifold risks of climate change (CC). It is state-of-the-art to assume that risk reduction requires participatory management...- publication PDF