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Representing agriculture in Earth System Models: Approaches and priorities...
Earth System Model (ESM) advances now enable improved representations of spatially and temporally varying anthropogenic climate forcings. One critical forcing is global...- publication PDF
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Tropospheric water vapor profiles obtained with FTIR: Comparison with...
Retrievals of vertical profiles of key atmospheric gases provide a critical long-term record from ground-based Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) solar absorption measurements....- publication PDF
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In-situ chemical characterization of aged biomass burning aerosols impacting...
During the Ice in Clouds Experiment–Layer Clouds (ICE-L), aged biomass-burning particles were identified within two orographic wave cloud regions over Wyoming using single-...- publication PDF
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Climate responses to the splitting of a supercontinent: Implications for the...
Reconstructing deep time climate often relies on a limited number of data points, which can hinder inference of the large-scale climate state. Here we use an Earth system model...- publication PDF
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Defining the internal component of Atlantic multidecadal variability in a...
The canonical index of "Atlantic Multidecadal Variability" (AMV) is the low-pass filtered timeseries of sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) averaged over the North...- publication PDF
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Evaluating the impact of chemical complexity and horizontal resolution on...
A new configuration of the Community Earth System Model (CESM)/Community Atmosphere Model with full chemistry (CAM-chem) supporting the capability of horizontal mesh refinement...- publication PDF
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Effects of macro vs. micro initialization and ocean initial-condition memory...
“Single Model initial-condition Large Ensembles” (SMILEs) conducted with Earth system models have transformed our ability to quantify internal climate variability...- publication PDF
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Granular-scale magnetic flux cancellations in the photosphere
We investigate the evolution of five granular-scale magnetic flux cancellations just outside the moat region of a sunspot by using accurate spectropolarimetric measurements and...- publication PDF
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Global expansion of wildland-urban interface (WUI) and WUI fires: insights...
Fires in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are an important issue globally. To understand the change of WUI, we develop a 9 km worldwide unified wildland-urban interface...- publication PDF
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Cloud System Evolution in the Trades (CSET): Following the evolution of...
The Cloud System Evolution in the Trades (CSET) study was designed to describe and explain the evolution of the boundary layer aerosol, cloud, and thermodynamic structures along...- publication PDF
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Turbulence vertical structure of the boundary layer during the afternoon transition
We investigate the decay of planetary boundary layer (PBL) turbulence in the afternoon, from the time the surface buoyancy flux starts to decrease until sunset. Dense...- publication PDF
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Detection and attribution of anthropogenic forcing to diurnal temperature...
Observations show that the surface diurnal temperature range (DTR) has decreased since 1950s over most global land areas due to a smaller warming in maximum temperatures (T max)...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of the surface climatology over the conterminous United States in...
Surface air temperature, precipitation, and insolation over the conterminous United States region from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP)...- publication PDF
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Austral summer foehn winds over the McMurdo dry valleys of Antarctica from Polar WRF
Foehn winds are a prominent feature of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDVs) climate, and are responsible for periods of strong winds and warming. The foehn mechanism determined from a...- publication PDF
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Projected wetland densities under climate change: Habitat loss but little...
Climate change poses major challenges for conservation and management because it alters the area, quality, and spatial distribution of habitat for natural populations. To assess...- publication PDF
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A 3-D RBF-FD solver for modeling the atmospheric global electric circuit...
A numerical model based on radial basis function-generated finite differences (RBF-FD) is developed for simulating the global electric circuit (GEC) within the Earth's...- publication PDF
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Riverine nitrogen flux and its response to management, climate, and other...
The rate and extent of anthropogenic alteration of the global nitrogen cycle over the past four decades has been extensive, resulting in cascading negative impacts on riverine...- publication PDF
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Observations of Quasi-Two-Day wave by TIMED/SABER and TIMED/TIDI
Seasonal and interannual variations of the Quasi-Two-Day wave s = −3 (W3) and s = −4 (W4) modes were studied with global temperature and wind data sets during 2002–2012,...- publication PDF
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Mapping Asian anthropogenic emissions of non-methane volatile organic...
An accurate speciation mapping of non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) emissions has an important impact on the performance of chemical transport models (CTMs) in...- publication PDF
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The role of the mean state on MJO simulation in CESM2 ensemble simulation
This study examines the role of the mean state in the propagation of the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) over the Maritime Continent (MC). We use an ensemble of simulations made...- publication PDF