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Description of SOCRATES-a Chemical Dynamical Radiative Two-dimensional Model
This report presents the details of the most recent version SOCRATES (Simulation of Chemistry, Radiation and Transport of Environmentally important Species). Major changes in...- publication PDF
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The form and orientation of Langmuir cells for misaligned winds and waves
Large eddy simulations of the Craik-Leibovich equations are used to assess the effect of misaligned Stokes drift and wind direction on Langmuir cells in the ocean mixed layer....- publication PDF
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Evolution of ocean heat content related to ENSO
As the strongest interannual perturbation to the climate system, El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) dominates the year-to-year variability of the ocean energy budget. Here we...- publication PDF
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Spatial patterns of sea level variability associated with natural internal...
Sea level rise (SLR) can exert significant stress on highly populated coastal societies and low-lying island countries around the world. Because of this, there is huge societal...- publication PDF
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Isotopic variability in tropical cyclone precipitation is controlled by...
Tropical cyclones produce rainfall with extremely negative isotope values (delta O-18 and delta H-2), but the controls on isotopic fractionation during tropical cyclones are...- publication PDF
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Performance of the new NCAR CAM3.5 in east Asian summer monsoon Simulations:...
The performance of an interim version of the NCAR Community Atmospheric Model (CAM3.5) in simulating the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) is assessed by comparing model results...- publication PDF
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Coevolution of down-valley flow and the nocturnal boundary layer in complex terrain
An enhanced National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) integrated sounding system (ISS) was deployed as part of the Vertical Transport and Mixing (VTMX) field experiment,...- publication PDF
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Interactive ozone and methane chemistry in GISS-E2 historical and future...
The new generation GISS climate model includes fully interactive chemistry related to ozone in historical and future simulations, and interactive methane in future simulations....- publication PDF
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Balance characteristics of multivariate background error covariances and...
For variational data assimilation, the background error covariance matrix plays a crucial role because it is strongly linked with the local meteorological features, and is...- publication PDF
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Dynamical seasonal predictions of tropical cyclone activity: Roles of sea...
Climate models often show errors in simulating and predicting tropical cyclone (TC) activity, but the sources of these errors are not well understood. This study proposes an...- publication PDF
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Validation of spring wheat responses to elevated CO2 , irrigation, and...
The Community Land Model (CLM) started to incorporate crop growth models since version 4.0 in 2012. Since then, the crop model in CLM has been evolved remarkably, but some of...- publication PDF
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Directional storm surge in enclosed seas: The Red Sea, the Adriatic, and Venice
Storm surge is dependent on wind direction, with maximum surge heights occurring when strong winds blow onshore. It is less obvious what happens when a port city is situated at...- publication PDF
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Local time variations of the Equatorial Electrojet in simultaneous response...
Based on 1-year equatorial electrojet (EEJ) measurements from Swarm, and ion velocity from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, this study first examines the...- publication PDF
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Characterizing and optimizing precipitation forecasts from a...
Convection-permitting Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model forecasts with 3-km horizontal grid spacing were produced for a 50-member ensemble over a domain spanning...- publication PDF
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Influence of sea-ice anomalies on Antarctic precipitation using source...
We conduct sensitivity experiments using a general circulation model that has an explicit water source tagging capability forced by prescribed composites of preindustrial sea-...- publication PDF
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Greenhouse gas emissions: How to manage what cannot be measured
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Evaluating NARCCAP model performance for frequencies of severe-storm environments
An important topic for climate change investigation is the behavior of severe weather under future scenarios. Given the fine-scale nature of the phenomena, such changes can only...- publication PDF
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Global-scale observations of the limb and disk mission implementation: 1....
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission of opportunity designed to study how the Earth's ionosphere-...- publication PDF
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Recent tree die-off has little effect on streamflow in contrast to expected...
Recent bark beetle epidemics have caused regional-scale tree mortality in many snowmelt-dominated headwater catchments of western North America. Initial expectations of...- publication PDF
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Dual-polarization radar fingerprints of precipitation physics: A review
This article reviews how precipitation microphysics processes are observed in dual-polarization radar observations. These so-called "fingerprints" of precipitation processes are...- publication PDF
