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Monitoring and understanding changes in heat waves, cold waves, floods, and...
Weather and climate extremes have been varying and changing on many different time scales. In recent decades, heat waves have generally become more frequent across the United...- publication PDF
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Impact of Biomass Burning Aerosols on the Diurnal Cycle of Convective Clouds...
A coupled weather-aerosol model is used to study the effect of biomass burning aerosols on deep convection over the Borneo Island and surrounding oceans. Simulations are...- publication PDF
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Data reduction techniques for simulation, visualization and data analysis
Data reduction is increasingly being applied to scientific data for numerical simulations, scientific visualizations and data analyses. It is most often used to lower I/O and...- publication PDF
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Antarctic ice sheet response to sudden and sustained ice-shelf collapse (ABUMIP)
Antarctica's ice shelves modulate the grounded ice flow, and weakening of ice shelves due to climate forcing will decrease their 'buttressing' effect, causing a response in the...- publication PDF
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Strong persistent cooling of the stratosphere after the Hunga eruption
The 2022 eruption of the Hunga volcano was a major event that propelled aerosols and water vapor up to an altitude of 53-57 km. It caused an unprecedented stratospheric...- publication PDF
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Soil, plant, and transport influences on methane in a subalpine forest under...
Recent studies have demonstrated direct methane emission from plant foliage under aerobic conditions, particularly under high ultraviolet (UV) irradiance. We examined the...- publication PDF
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Validation of AIRS version 6 temperature profiles and surface-based...
During the 2010 Concordiasi field experiment, 635 dropsondes were released from the lower stratosphere providing in situ atmospheric profiles from the release height (~60âhPa)...- publication PDF
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Nearâearth reconnection contributing to recovery phase of geomagnetic storm
Recent observations show very near‐Earth reconnection (∼8–13R E ) could efficiently power the ring current during the main phase of geomagnetic storms, but...- publication PDF
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A numerical study of nighttime ionospheric variations in the American sector...
Variations of nighttime F-2 peak height (h(m)F(2)) over the American sector during the 28-29 October 2003 storm period were investigated using the National Center for...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of tropical cyclones in high-resolution models in the present climate
The global characteristics of tropical cyclones (TCs) simulated by several climate models are analyzed and compared with observations. The global climate models were forced by...- publication PDF
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Hemispheric comparison of cirrus cloud evolution using in situ measurements...
Cirrus clouds' radiative forcing is highly sensitive to their microphysical properties and evolution. However, there are very limited data sets with both microscale resolution...- publication PDF
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Improving the impact of radio occultation observations on numerical...
The Global Positioning System (GPS) Radio Occultation (RO) is an active remote sensing technique, which is complementary to passive microwave and infrared sounders and microwave...- publication PDF
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Impact of the hydrometeor vertical advection method on HWRF's simulated...
The impact of different hydrometeor advection schemes on TC structure and intensity forecasts is examined through the evaluation of HWRF's simulation of tropical cyclones using...- publication PDF
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Interhemispheric Coupling Mechanisms in the Middle Atmosphere of WACCM6
Simulations with the Community Earth System Model, version 2, using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model version 6 [CESM2(WACCM6)] configuration, show evidence of...- publication PDF
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The Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX):...
The Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX) used three P3 aircraft aided by high-resolution numerical modeling and satellite communications to investigate...- publication PDF
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On the importance of precipitationâinduced surface sensible heat flux for...
The Maritime Continent (MC) exhibits a pronounced diurnal cycle in precipitation, with many high‐resolution models overestimating the diurnal peak and predicting earlier...- publication PDF
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Solar energetic particle warnings from a coronagraph
We report here the concept of using near-real time observations from a coronagraph to provide early warning of a fast coronal mass ejection (CME) and the possible onset of a...- publication PDF
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A new lens for evaluating dynamic controls on shallow convection
Rising temperatures and changing dynamics can both moisten the air, making it difficult to disentangle these interrelated drivers of water cycle change. However, work by Camille...- publication PDF
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Integrating science and engineering to reduce vulnerability to climate extremes
How does our built environment make society vulnerable to climate extremes such as flooding? What knowledge is required by engineering designers and risk managers to address the...- publication PDF
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Assessment of temperature, trace species, and ozone in chemistry-climate...
Simulations of the stratosphere from thirteen coupled chemistry-climate models (CCMs) are evaluated to provide guidance for the interpretation of ozone predictions made by the...- publication PDF