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Scale interactions near the foothills of Himalayas during CAIPEEX
Scale interactions associated with small scale (<100 km) dynamics might play a crucial role in the distribution of aerosol in the Himalayan foothills region. Turbulence...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the contribution of thermally driven recirculation to a...
A high-ozone (O3) pollution episode was observed on 22 July 2014 during the concurrent "Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved...- publication PDF
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Resilience of persistent Arctic mixed-phase clouds
The Arctic region is particularly sensitive to climate change. Mixed-phase clouds, comprising both ice and supercooled liquid water, have a large impact on radiative fluxes in...- publication PDF
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Decadal climate variability, predictability and prediction: Opportunities...
The scientific understanding of Earth's climate system is now sufficiently developed to show that climate change from anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing is already upon us,...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric dynamical response and ozone feedbacks in the presence of SO2...
Injections of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere are among several proposed methods of solar radiation management. Such injections could cool the Earth's climate. However,...- publication PDF
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Use of spatially refined satellite remote sensing fire detection data to...
Large wildfires may grow for weeks or months from ignition until extinction. Simulating events with coupled numerical weather prediction (NWP)âwildland fire models is a...- publication PDF
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Source and meteorological influences on air quality (CO, CHâ & COâ) at a...
Wollongong, Australia is an urban site at the intersection of anthropogenic, biomass burning, biogenic and marine sources of atmospheric trace gases. The location offers a...- publication PDF
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Improvements in typhoon forecasts with assimilated GPS occultation refractivity
In this study, the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model (MM5) with three-dimensional variational data...- publication PDF
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Parameterization and explicit modeling of cloud microphysics: Approaches,...
Cloud microphysical processes occur at the smallest end of scales among cloud-related processes and thus must be parameterized not only in large-scale global circulation models...- publication PDF
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Understanding isoprene photooxidation using observations and modeling over a...
The emission, dispersion, and photochemistry of isoprene (C5H8) and related chemical species in the convective boundary layer (CBL) during sunlit daytime were studied over a...- publication PDF
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Air quality forecasting for winter-time PM2.5 episodes occurring in multiple...
Episodic air quality degradation due to particles occurs in multiple cities in central and southern Chile during the austral winter reaching levels up to 300-800âµg/m3 hourly...- publication PDF
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Metrics for Evaluation of Solar Energy Forecasts
This technical note summarizes metrics that have been defined to assess the quality of forecasts of solar irradiance and solar power production forecasting. A set of six base...- publication PDF
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Estimating individual Radio Occultation uncertainties using the observations...
Estimation of uncertainties (random error statistics) of radio occultation (RO) observations is important for their effective assimilation in numerical weather prediction (NWP)...- publication PDF
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Extremal dependence between temperature and ozone over the continental US
The co-occurrence of heat waves and pollution events and the resulting high mortality rates emphasize the importance of the co-occurrence of pollution and temperature extremes....- publication PDF
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Theoretical expressions for the ascent rate of moist deep convective thermals
An approximate analytic expression is derived for the ratio lambda of the ascent rate of moist deep convective thermals and the maximum vertical velocity within them; lambda is...- publication PDF
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Laboratory frequency redistribution function for the polarized λ-type...
We present the frequency redistribution function for a polarized three-term atom of the Lambda-type in the collisionless regime, and we specialize it to the case where both the...- publication PDF
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Uncertainties in long-term drought characteristics over the Canadian Prairie...
Projected changes to the severity, frequency and duration of long-term droughts for 47 watersheds in the Canadian Prairie provinces, as well as uncertainties associated with the...- 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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Climatology of velocity and temperature turbulence statistics determined...
The climatology of the spatial structure functions of velocity and temperature for various altitudes (pressure levels) and latitude bands is constructed from the global...- publication PDF
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Putting the clouds back in aerosol-cloud interactions
Aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI) are the consequence of perturbed aerosols affecting cloud drop and crystal number, with corresponding microphysical and radiative effects. ACI...- publication PDF
