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Robust response of the Amundsen Sea Low to stratospheric ozone depletion
The effect of stratospheric ozone depletion on the Amundsen Sea Low (ASL), a climatological low-pressure center important for the climate of West Antarctica, remains uncertain....- publication PDF
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Transport of Asian ozone pollution into surface air over the western United...
We use an ensemble of aircraft, satellite, sonde, and surface observations for April-May 2006 (NASA/INTEX-B aircraft campaign) to better understand the mechanisms for...- publication PDF
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The future of winter orographic cloud seeding: A view from scientists and...
A panel of experts representing various sectors and roles in winter orographic cloud-seeding research and operations discussed its vision for the future of the field.- publication PDF
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The Northern Hemisphere extratropical atmospheric circulation response to...
Application of random sampling techniques to composite differences between 18 El Nino and 14 La Nina events observed since 1920 reveals considerable uncertainty in both the...- publication PDF
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Hydrologic model parameter estimation in ungauged basins using simulated...
In situ gauge networks are often used in hydrologic model calibration, but these networks are limited or nonexistent in many regions. The upcoming Surface Water Ocean Topography...- publication PDF
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Influences of the mid-level vortex on the formation of Tropical Cyclone Toraji (2013)
This study analyzes the influences of the mid-level vortex on the formation of Tropical Cyclone Toraji (2013). A rare case of a tropical cyclone that formed near Taiwan involved...- publication PDF
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Development of an ESMF based flexible coupling application of ADCIRC and...
To enable flexible model coupling in coastal inundation studies, a coupling framework based on the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) and the National Unified Operational...- publication PDF
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Spatial hierarchical modeling of precipitation extremes from a regional climate model
The goal of this work is to characterize the extreme precipitation simulated by a regional climate model (RCM) over its spatial domain. For this purpose, we develop a Bayesian...- publication PDF
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The diurnal and semidiurnal tides over Ascension Island (8° S, 14° W) and...
Horizontal winds in the mesosphere have been measured over Ascension Island (8° S, 14° W) in the tropical mid-Atlantic region throughout the years 2002–2011. The observations...- publication PDF
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The microphysical properties of ice fog measured in urban environments of...
The microphysical properties of ice fog were measured at two sites during a small field campaign in January and February of 2012 in Interior Alaska. The National Center for...- publication PDF
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Do ultrafine cloud condensation nuclei invigorate deep convection?
Numerical simulations of the impact of ultrafine cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) on deep convection are analyzed to investigate the idea proposed by Fan et al. that addition of...- publication PDF
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A new look at ocean ventilation time scales and their uncertainties
A suite of eddy-resolving ocean transient tracer model simulations are first compared to observations. Observational and model pCFC-11 ages agree quite well, with the eddy-...- publication PDF
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First zonal drift velocity measurement of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs)...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) satellite takes far-ultraviolet images of the Earth from...- publication PDF
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Revealing differences in GCM representations of low clouds
Aquaplanet configurations of four atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) are compared with standard, Earth-like configurations and observations. The focus here is on...- publication PDF
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A tethered-balloon PTRMS sampling approach for surveying of landscape-scale...
Landscape-scale fluxes of biogenic gases were surveyed by deploying a 100 m Teflon tube attached to a tethered balloon as a sampling inlet for a fast-response proton-transfer-...- publication PDF
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Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methodology
Recent projections of climatic change have focused a great deal of scientific and public attention on patterns of carbon (C) cycling as well as its controls, particularly the...- publication PDF
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Partitioning of semivolatile surface-active compounds between bulk, surface...
We present a model study demonstrating that surface partitioning of volatile surfactants enhances their uptake by submicron liquid droplets. In submicron-sized droplets, surface...- publication PDF
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The operational mesogamma-scale analysis and forecast system of the U.S....
Output from the Army Test and Evaluation Command's Four-Dimensional Weather System's mesoscale model is used to drive secondary-applications models to produce forecasts of...- publication PDF
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GISandbox: A science gateway for geospatial computing
Science gateways provide easy access to domain-specific tools and data. The field of Geographic Information Science and Systems (GIS) uses myriad tools and datasets, which...- publication PDF
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Impact of airborne Doppler radar data assimilation on the numerical...
Accurate forecasting of a hurricane's intensity changes near its landfall is of great importance in making an effective hurricane warning. This study uses airborne Doppler radar...- publication PDF
