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A collaborative effort to better understand, measure, and model atmospheric...
In this essay, we highlight some challenges the atmospheric community is facing concerning adequate treatment of flows over mountains and their implications for numerical...- publication PDF
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Interferences with aerosol acidity quantification due to gas-phase ammonia...
Measurements of the mass concentration and chemical speciation of aerosols are important to investigate their chemical and physical processing from near emission sources to the...- publication PDF
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Assessing RRFS versus HRRR in predicting widespread convective systems over...
This study provides a comparison of the operational HRRR version 4 and its eventual successor, the experimental Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS) model (summer 2022 version),...- publication PDF
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An Overview of the Scientific Computing Division
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The global distribution of supersaturation in the upper troposphere from the...
Satellite data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is analyzed to examine regions of the upper troposphere that are supersaturated: where the relative humidity (RH) is...- publication PDF
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Effect of mosaic representation of vegetation in land surface schemes on...
Energy and carbon balance implications of representing vegetation using a composite or mosaic approach in a land surface scheme are investigated. In the composite approach the...- publication PDF
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A hybrid coupled model study of tropical atlantic variability
A hybrid coupled model (HCM) is used to explore the underlying dynamics governing tropical Atlantic variability (TAV) and the dynamic regime that may be most relevant to TAV. By...- publication PDF
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Dynamical and microphysical retrieval from Doppler radar observations using...
The variational Doppler radar analysis system developed in part I of this study is tested on a Florida airmass storm observed during the Convection and Precipitation...- publication PDF
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Single Doppler radar observation of the concentric eyewall in Typhoon...
Landfalling Typhoon Saomai (2006) was observed by the CINRAD WSR-98D radar on the southeast coast of China. This study documents the formation and evolution of a concentric...- publication PDF
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Beijing Climate Center Earth System Model version 1 (BCC-ESM1): Model...
The Beijing Climate Center Earth System Model version 1 (BCC-ESM1) is the first version of a fully coupled Earth system model with interactive atmospheric chemistry and aerosols...- publication PDF
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Case Studies on Convective Storms / Case Study 4, 27 July 1976: First Echo Case
On 27 July 1976, a relatively small, weak storm was investigated by the NCAR/NOAA instrumented sailplane in coordination with NCAR Queen Air 306D. The potential instability was...- publication PDF
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Simulation of the polar cap potential during periods with northward...
In this paper we examine the response of the ionospheric cross-polar cap potential to steady, purely northward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) using the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry...- publication PDF
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Poynting flux-conserving low-altitude boundary conditions for global...
A method for specifying low-altitude or inner boundary conditions that conserve low-frequency, magnetic field-aligned, electromagnetic energy flux across the boundary in global...- publication PDF
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Evaluating tropospheric humidity from GPS radio occultation, radiosonde, and...
While water vapor is the most important tropospheric greenhouse gas, it is also highly variable in both space and time, and water vapor concentrations range over 3 orders of...- publication PDF
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Antarctic warming during Heinrich Stadial 1 in a transient isotope-enabled...
Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1) was the major climate event at the onset of the last deglaciation associated with rapid cooling in Greenland and lagged, slow warming in Antarctica....- publication PDF
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Verifying forecasts spatially
Numerous new methods have been proposed for using spatial information to better quantify and diagnose forecast performance when forecasts and observations are both available on...- publication PDF
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Impacts of Atlantic multidecadal variability on the tropical Pacific: A...
Atlantic multidecadal variability (AMV) has been linked to the observed slowdown of global warming over 1998-2012 through its impact on the tropical Pacific. Given the global...- publication PDF
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Emission and evolution of submicron organic aerosol in smoke from wildfires...
Despite increasing incidence of wildfires in the United States, wildfire smoke is poorly characterized, with little known about particle composition and emission rates....- publication PDF
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Description of NCAR Global Circulation Model
This report provides the basic equations, the physical processes, and the finite difference equations of the NCAR Global Circulation Model (GCM). These reported details of the...- publication PDF
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Benchmarking simulated precipitation variability amplitude across time scales
Objective performance metrics that measure precipitation variability across time scales from subdaily to interannual are presented and applied to Historical simulations of...- publication PDF