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Does organization in turbulence influence ozone removal by deciduous forests?
Dry deposition is an important sink of tropospheric ozone and influences background and episodic ozone air pollution. Plant canopies remove ozone through uptake by plant...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of planetary boundary layer simulation in GFDL atmospheric...
This study describes the performance of two Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) in simulating the climatologies of...- publication PDF
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The impact of inhomogeneous emissions and topography on ozone photochemistry...
Global and regional chemical transport models of the atmosphere are based on the assumption that chemical species are completely mixed within each model grid box. However, in...- publication PDF
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Impact of increased vertical resolution in WACCM on the climatology of major...
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are a major mode of variability of the winter stratosphere. In recent years, climate models have improved their ability to simulate SSWs....- publication PDF
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Near-surface water vapor over polar sea ice is always near ice saturation
During our yearlong participation in the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean experiment (SHEBA), we found the measured relative humidity, figured for saturation with respect...- publication PDF
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Ensemble filter based estimation of spatially distributed parameters in a...
The ensemble adjustment Kalman filter (EAKF) is used to estimate the erodibility fraction parameter field in a coupled meteorology and dust aerosol model (Coupled...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of the diurnal cycle in the atmospheric boundary layer over land...
We present the main results from the second model intercomparison within the GEWEX (Global Energy and Water cycle EXperiment) Atmospheric Boundary Layer Study (GABLS). The...- publication PDF
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The great Colorado flood of September 2013
During the second week of September 2013, a seasonally uncharacteristic weather pattern stalled over the Rocky Mountain Front Range region of northern Colorado bringing with it...- publication PDF
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Diagnosing observed stratospheric water vapor relationships to the cold...
Dehydration at the tropical cold point tropopause primarily controls the entry value of water vapor to the stratosphere, with additional (uncertain) contributions from...- publication PDF
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Assimilating observations with spatially correlated errors using a serial...
The serial ensemble square root filter (EnSRF) typically assumes observation errors to be uncorrelated when assimilating the observations one at a time. This assumption causes...- publication PDF
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Nonmigrating tidal variability in the SABER/TIMED mesospheric ozone
This paper presents for the first time evidence showing nonmigrating tidal variations in the mesospheric ozone (O₃) derived from the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband...- publication PDF
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The magnitude and causes of global drought changes in the twenty-first...
Atmospheric demand for moisture and dry days are expected to increase, leading to drying over land in the twenty-first century. Here, the magnitude and key drivers of this...- publication PDF
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Interdecadal variations in ENSO teleconnection to the Indo-Western Pacific...
Slow modulation of interannual variability and its relationship to El Niño--Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is investigated for the period of 1870-2007 using shipboard surface...- publication PDF
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A distinct magnetic property of the inner penumbral boundary
Context. Analyses of sunspot observations revealed a fundamental magnetic property of the umbral boundary: the invariance of the vertical component of the magnetic field.Aims....- publication PDF
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Evaluating the impacts of cloud processing on resuspended aerosol particles...
Aerosol particles undergo physical and chemical changes during cloud processes. In this work, we quantified the changes in aerosol mixing state using a particle-resolved model....- publication PDF
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Report of the Documentation Advisory Committee
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Rapid mixed layer deepening by the combination of Langmuir and shear...
Langmuir circulation (LC) is a turbulent upper-ocean process driven by wind and surface waves that contributes significantly to the transport of momentum, heat, and mass in the...- publication PDF
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Assessment of marine boundary layer cloud simulations in the CAM with CLUBB...
To assess marine boundary layer (MBL) cloud simulations in three versions of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM), three sets of short-term global hindcasts are performed and...- publication PDF
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An improved algorithm for low-level turbulence forecasting
A low-level turbulence (LLT) forecasting algorithm is proposed and implemented within the Graphical Turbulence Guidance (GTG) turbulence forecasting system. The LLT algorithm...- publication PDF
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Response time characteristics of the fast-2D optical array probe detector board
Two-dimensional optical array probes are commonly used for imaging raindrops and ice particles on research aircraft. The ability of these probes to accurately measure particle...- publication PDF