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Terrain and land use for the fifth-generation Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale...
This document discusses in detail the program TERRAIN and is intended to provide users of the PSU/NCAR MM5 with an overview of the data sources and methods used in TERRAIN. Some...- publication PDF
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Global radiative-convective equilibrium in the Community Atmosphere Model, version 5
In the continued effort to understand the climate system and improve its representation in atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs), it is crucial to develop reduced-...- publication PDF
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Regional and urban column CO trends and anomalies as observed by MOPITT over 16 years
Atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations have decreased since the beginning of the century, and the rate of decrease depends on the region. Depending on how regions are...- publication PDF
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Bimodal distribution of free tropospheric ozone over the tropical western...
A recent airborne field campaign over the remote western Pacific obtained the first intensive in situ ozone sampling over the warm pool region from oceanic surface to 15 km...- publication PDF
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Estimating the fraction of winter orographic precipitation produced under...
Annual precipitation increases of 10% or more are often quoted for the impact of winter orographic cloud seeding; however, establishing the basis for such values is problematic...- publication PDF
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Effects of irrigation on summer precipitation over the United States
Irrigation's effects on precipitation during an exceptionally dry summer (June-August 2012) in the United States were quantified by incorporating a novel dynamic irrigation...- 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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Retrievals of carbon monoxide profiles from MOPITT observations using...
Optimal estimation methods, such as the "maximum a posteriori" solution, are commonly employed for retrieving profiles of atmospheric trace gases from satellite observations. To...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms of along-valley winds and heat exchange over mountainous terrain
The physical mechanisms leading to the formation of diurnal along-valley winds are investigated over idealized three-dimensional topography. The topography used in this study...- publication PDF
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Sensitivities of the hydrologic cycle to model physics, grid resolution, and...
Precipitation distributions and extremes play a fundamental role in shaping Earth's climate and yet are poorly represented in many global climate models. Here, a suite of...- publication PDF
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The role of the solar irradiance variability in the evolution of the middle...
Recent measurements by the Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SIM) and the Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (SOLSTICE) onboard the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment...- publication PDF
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North American extreme precipitation events and related large-scale...
This paper surveys the current state of knowledge regarding large-scale meteorological patterns (LSMPs) associated with short-duration (less than 1 week) extreme precipitation...- publication PDF
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Torsional Alfvén wave embedded ICME magnetic cloud and corresponding...
Energy transfer during the interaction of large-scale solar wind structure and the Earth's magnetosphere is a chronic issue in space-weather studies. To understand this,...- publication PDF
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On the westward turning of Hurricane Sandy (2012): Effect of atmospheric...
Hurricane Sandy (2012) experienced an unusual westward turning and made landfall in New Jersey after its northward movement over the Atlantic Ocean. The landfall caused severe...- publication PDF
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On the realism of the rain microphysics representation of a squall line in...
A comparison between retrieved properties of the rain drop size distributions (DSDs) from multifrequency cloud radar observations and WRF Model results using either the Morrison...- publication PDF
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Improved simulations of atmospheric river climatology and variability in...
Atmospheric rivers (ARs), referring to long and narrow filamentary bands of intense water vapor transport in the atmosphere, can cause extreme precipitation, floods, and drought...- publication PDF
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Middle atmosphere temperature trends in the twentieth and twenty-rirst...
We use Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model simulations made under various climate change scenarios to study the evolution of the global-mean temperature trend in the late...- publication PDF
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Temporal variation of solar wind in controlling solar...
Periodic oscillations associated with Alfven waves with periods ranging from several tens of minutes to several hours are commonly seen in the solar wind. It is not yet known...- publication PDF
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Quantifying wintertime boundary layer ozone production from frequent profile...
As part of the Uinta Basin Winter Ozone Study, January-February 2013, we conducted 937 tethered balloon-borne ozone vertical and temperature profiles from three sites in the...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of the impacts of assimilating the TAMDAR data on 12/4 km grid...
An analysis of the impacts of assimilating the Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Report (TAMDAR) data with the Weather Research and Forecasting-(WRF-) real-time four-...- publication PDF
