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Feature-based diagnostic evaluation of global NWP forecasts
With the resolution of global numerical weather prediction (NWP) models now typically between 10 and 20 km, forecasts are able to capture the evolution of synoptic features that...- publication PDF
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Intercalibration of the plasma density measurements in Earth's topside ionosphere
Over the last 20 years, a large number of instruments have provided plasma density measurements in Earth's topside ionosphere. To utilize all of the collected observations for...- publication PDF
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Scholarly resource linking: Building out a “relationship life cycle”
Scholarly resources, including publications, software, data sets, and instruments, are created in an iterative and interrelated fashion. Managing the relationships that exist...- publication PDF
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Microphysical characteristics of three convective events with intense...
Polarimetric radar and disdrometer observations obtained during the 2014 Observation, Prediction, and Analysis of Severe Convection of China (OPACC) field campaign are used in...- publication PDF
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Contamination of tea leaves by anthraquinone: The atmosphere as a possible source
The detection of anthraquinone in tea leaves has raised concerns due to a potential health risk associated with this species. This led the European Union to impose a maximum...- publication PDF
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Conservation of migratory species in a changing climate: Strategic behavior...
The protection of migratory animals requires cooperation among multiple decision-making entities. These may include individual resource users or property owners, different...- publication PDF
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Emergent constraints on the large scale atmospheric circulation and regional...
An emergent constraint (EC) is a statistical relationship, across a model ensemble, between a measurable aspect of the present-day climate (the predictor) and an aspect of...- publication PDF
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Geospace concussion: Global reversal of ionospheric vertical plasma drift in...
An interplanetary shock can abruptly compress the magnetosphere, excite magnetospheric waves and field-aligned currents, and cause a ground magnetic response known as a sudden...- publication PDF
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The climate impact of aviation aerosols
A comprehensive general circulation model (GCM) is used to estimate the climate impact of aviation emissions of black carbon (BC) and sulfate (SO4) aerosols. Aviation BC is...- publication PDF
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Measurements of light-absorbing particles on the glaciers in the Cordillera...
Glaciers in the tropical Andes have been rapidly losing mass since the 1970s. In addition to the documented increase in temperature, increases in light-absorbing particles...- publication PDF
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Rapid 20th century warming reverses 900-year cooling in the Gulf of Maine
The Gulf of Maine, located in the western North Atlantic, has undergone recent, rapid ocean warming but the lack of long-term, instrumental records hampers the ability to put...- publication PDF
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A comparison of methods used to populate neighborhood-based contingency...
As high-resolution numerical weather prediction models are now commonplace, "neighborhood'' verification metrics are regularly employed to evaluate forecast quality. These...- publication PDF
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Thermospheric winds around the cusp region
An equatorward wind has been observed first by the balloon-borne Fabry-Perot interferometer called High-Altitude Interferometer Wind Observation on the equatorward side of the...- publication PDF
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Probability distributions of land surface wind speeds over North America
Knowledge of the probability distributions of surface wind speeds (SWS) is essential for surface flux estimation, wind power estimation, and wind risk assessments. The two-...- publication PDF
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Snow cover duration trends observed at sites and predicted by multiple models
The 30-year simulations of seasonal snow cover in 22 physically based models driven with bias-corrected meteorological reanalyses are examined at four sites with long records of...- publication PDF
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The role of large-scale feedbacks in cumulus convection parameter estimation
Uncertainty in cumulus convection parameterization is one of the most important causes of model climate drift through interactions between large-scale background and local...- publication PDF
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Is shallow convection sensitive to environmental heterogeneities?
The key assumption underlying convection parameterizations is that rising plumes develop in a horizontally homogeneous environment. With this in mind, we investigate the impact...- publication PDF
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Coupled aqua and ridge planets in the Community Earth System Model
Idealized models can reveal insights into Earth's climate system by reducing its complexities. However, their potential is undermined by the scarcity of fully coupled idealized...- publication PDF
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Modeling wildland fires : A description of the Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland...
This work describes the Coupled Atmosphere Wildland Fire Environment (CAWFE) model, which is used to simulate wildland fires. CAWFE is comprised of a numerical weather...- publication PDF
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Radiative forcing and climate response to projected 21st century aerosol decreases
It is widely expected that global emissions of atmospheric aerosols and their precursors will decrease strongly throughout the remainder of the 21st century, due to emission...- publication PDF
