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The Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX):...
The Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX) used three P3 aircraft aided by high-resolution numerical modeling and satellite communications to investigate...- publication PDF
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Time-splitting methods for elastic models using forward time schemes
Two time-splitting methods for integrating the elastic equations are presented. The methods are based on a third-order Runge-Kutta time scheme and the Crowley advection schemes....- publication PDF
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Effects of the 2006 El Niño on tropospheric composition as revealed by data...
The Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) is unique in providing multi-year coincident tropospheric profiles of CO, O₃ and H₂O. TES data show large differences in these gases...- publication PDF
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The improvement to the environmental wind and tropical cyclone circulation...
The ground-based velocity track display (GBVTD) was developed to deduce a three-dimensional primary circulation of landfalling tropical cyclones from single-Doppler radar data....- publication PDF
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Multi‐point observations of modulated whistler‐mode waves and energetic...
In this study, we present simultaneous multi-point observations of whistler-mode waves detected by RBSP-B, associated with conjugate electron precipitation observed through...- publication PDF
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Simulating the Pineapple Express in the half degree Community Climate System...
Atmospheric rivers are recognized as major contributors to the poleward transport of water vapor. Upon reaching land, these phenomena also play a critical role in extreme...- publication PDF
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The fall speed variability of similarly sized ice particle aggregates
The terminal velocity (Vt) of ice hydrometeors is of high importance to atmospheric modeling. Vt is governed by the physical characteristics of a hydrometeor, including mass and...- publication PDF
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Statistics and dynamics of aircraft encounters of turbulence over Greenland
Historical records of aviation turbulence encounters above Greenland are examined for the period from 2000 to 2006. These data identify an important flow regime that contributes...- publication PDF
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Causes of the longitudinal differences in the equatorial vertical E × B...
During stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) periods large changes in the low-latitude vertical drift have been observed at Jicamarca as well as in other longitudinal sectors. In...- publication PDF
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Tropospheric water vapor profiles obtained with FTIR: Comparison with...
Retrievals of vertical profiles of key atmospheric gases provide a critical long-term record from ground-based Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) solar absorption measurements....- publication PDF
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Satellite-based analysis of CO seasonal and interannual variability over the...
The Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite record is applied to study the geographical and temporal variability of carbon monoxide (CO) from biomass...- publication PDF
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Ground subsidence effects on simulating dynamic high-latitude surface...
Simulating surface inundation is particularly challenging for the high-latitude permafrost regions. Ice-rich permafrost thaw can create expanding thermokarst lakes as well as...- publication PDF
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Impact of warmer sea surface temperature on the global pattern of intense...
Intense convection (updrafts exceeding 10 m s(-1)) plays an essential role in severe weather and Earth's energy balance. Despite its importance, how the global pattern of...- publication PDF
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Day-to-day variability of midlatitude ionospheric currents due to...
As known from previous studies on the solar quiet (Sq) variation of the geomagnetic field, the strength and pattern of ionospheric dynamo currents change significantly from day...- publication PDF
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Effects of spectral resolution on simple magnetic field diagnostics of the...
We study the effects of finite spectral resolution on the magnetic field values retrieved through the weak-field approximation (WFA) from the cores of the Mg ii h and k lines....- publication PDF
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Terminal velocities and kinetic energies of natural hailstones
The physical properties of 2295 hailstones that developed in Great Plains (US) storms were measured, including their maximum dimension, mass, and cross-sectional area. Using...- publication PDF
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Hybrid mass coordinate in WRF-ARW and its impact on upper-level turbulence...
Although a terrain-following vertical coordinate is well suited for the application of surface boundary conditions, it is well known that the influences of the terrain on the...- publication PDF
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The role of sulfur dioxide in stratospheric aerosol formation evaluated by...
Stratospheric aerosols (SAs) are a variable component of the Earth's albedo that may be intentionally enhanced in the future to offset greenhouse gases (geoengineering). The...- publication PDF
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Amplification of future energy demand growth due to climate change
Future energy demand is likely to increase due to climate change, but the magnitude dependson many interacting sources of uncertainty. We combine econometrically estimated...- publication PDF
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A general approach for deriving the properties of cirrus and stratiform ice...
A new approach is described for calculating the mass (m) and terminal velocity (Vt) of ice particles from airborne and balloon-borne imaging probe data as well as its...- publication PDF