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Technical note: AQMEII4 Activity 1 - Evaluation of wet and dry deposition...
We present in this technical note the research protocol for phase 4 of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII4). This research initiative is divided...- publication PDF
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The Community Climate System Model, version 2
The Community Climate System Model, version 2 (CCSM2) is briefly described. A 1000-yr control simulation of the present day climate has been completed without flux adjustments....- publication PDF
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Developing an Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) for the global ocean
The Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) is a new United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development programme working to develop a practical,...- publication PDF
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Data Catalog for the 1970 Colorado Lee Wave Observational Program
The 1970 Colorado Lee Wave Observational Program provided the second period of intensive measurements of mountain-induced airflow over the central Rocky Mountains. The first...- publication PDF
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Managing Datasets and Programs at NCAR: The Mass Storage Subsystem
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Evaluation of PBL parameterizations in WRF at subkilometer grid spacings:...
Planetary boundary layer (PBL) parameterizations in mesoscale models have been developed for horizontal resolutions that cannot resolve any turbulence in the PBL, and evaluation...- publication PDF
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Pliocene warmth consistent with greenhouse gas forcing
With CO2 concentrations similar to today (410 ppm), the Pliocene Epoch offers insights into climate changes under a moderately warmer world. Previous work suggested a low zonal...- publication PDF
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Profiles of ionospheric storm-enhanced density during the 17 March 2015 great storm
Ionospheric F₂ region peak densities (NmF2) are expected to have a positive correlation with total electron content (TEC), and electron densities usually show an anticorrelation...- publication PDF
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Internal consistency of demographic assumptions in the shared socioeconomic pathways
A new set of alternative socioeconomic scenarios for climate change researches--the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs)--includes for the first time a more comprehensive set of...- publication PDF
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Multimodel surface temperature responses to removal of U.S. sulfur dioxide emissions
Three Earth System models are used to derive surface temperature responses to removal of U.S. anthropogenic SO2 emissions. Using multicentury perturbation runs with and without...- publication PDF
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Improved simulations of tropical Pacific annual-mean climate in the GFDL...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory has recently developed two global coupled general circulation models, the Forecast-...- publication PDF
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Constraining clouds and convective parameterizations in a climate model...
Cloud and convective parameterizations strongly influence uncertainties in equilibrium climate sensitivity. We provide a proof-of-concept study to constrain these...- publication PDF
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Assessing NARCCAP climate model effects using spatial confidence regions
We assess similarities and differences between model effects for the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) climate models using varying classes of...- publication PDF
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Test of a non-local excess phase delay operator for GPS radio occultation...
A physically-sound, non-local excess phase delay observation operator is developed for simulating excess phase delay measurements from GPS radio occultation (RO) missions. By...- publication PDF
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Field-deployable diode-laser-based differential absorption lidar (DIAL) for...
A field-deployable water vapor profiling instrument that builds on the foundation of the preceding generations of diode-laser-based differential absorption lidar (DIAL)...- publication PDF
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A comparison of the vorticity dynamics governing the oceanic bomb cyclone of...
Convection-allowing simulations of two warm seclusion cyclones are used to elucidate the vorticity dynamics that contribute to intensification of these systems. The rapidly...- publication PDF
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Tropospheric ozone decrease due to the Mount Pinatubo eruption: Reduced...
We quantify the relationship between Mount Pinatubo eruption in June 1991 and tropospheric ozone abundances. The ozone reduction in the stratosphere and troposphere following...- publication PDF
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Impacts of initial estimate and observations availability on...
The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) uses an ensemble of short-range forecasts to estimate the flow-dependent background error covariances required in data assimilation. The...- publication PDF
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Lessons learned through our climate change professional development program...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado has been offering professional development on climate change for middle and high school teachers since the...- publication PDF
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Albedo-Ice regression method for determining ice water content of polar...
High spatial resolution images of polar meso-spheric clouds (PMCs) from a camera array on board the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite have been obtained since...- publication PDF
