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Production of ice in tropospheric clouds: A review
Ice in the troposphere affects a variety of processes, including the formation of precipitation, and cloud lifetime, albedo, dynamics, and electrification. A lack of...- publication PDF
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A Description of the Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP) Instrument...
The Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP) and associated processing software were developed under a contract between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)...- publication PDF
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A unified approach to energy conservation and potential vorticity dynamics...
A numerical scheme applicable to arbitrarily-structured C-grids is presented for the nonlinear shallow-water equations. By discretizing the vector-invariant form of the momentum...- publication PDF
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The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) small explorer spacecraft provides simultaneous spectra and images of the photosphere, chromosphere, transition region, and...- publication PDF
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Weather forecast for the 35th America's Cup (2017) winners based on a...
The America's Cup (AC) is the oldest trophy in international sport and sailing regatta. The 35th AC occurred during spring 2017 in Bermuda. A new generation of sailing boats was...- publication PDF
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The Aerosol Module in the Community Radiative Transfer Model (v2.2 and...
The Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM), a sensor-based radiative transfer model, has been used within the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) system for directly...- publication PDF
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Statistics of convective collapse events in the photosphere and chromosphere...
Convective collapse, a theoretically predicted process that intensifies existing weak magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere, was first directly observed in a single event by...- publication PDF
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Assessing California wintertime precipitation responses to various climate drivers
Understanding how drivers of climate change affect precipitation remains an important area of research. Although several robust precipitation responses have been identified...- publication PDF
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An evaluation of WRF's ability to reproduce the surface wind over complex...
The performance of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to reproduce the surface wind circulations over complex terrain is examined. The atmospheric evolution is...- publication PDF
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Toward understanding the 3D structure and evolution of magnetic flux ropes...
In this work, we analyze the initial eruptive process of an extremely long duration C7.7-class flare that occurred on 2011 June 21. The flare had a 2 hr long rise time in soft...- publication PDF
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Satellite in situ electron density observations of the midlatitude storm...
Ionospheric storm enhanced density (SED) has been extensively investigated using total electron content deduced from GPS ground and satellite-borne receivers. However, dayside...- publication PDF
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Updraft and downdraft core size and intensity as revealed by radar wind...
This study explores the updraft and downdraft properties of mature stage mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) in terms of draft core width, shape, intensity, and mass flux...- publication PDF
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A multiscale and multidisciplinary investigation of ecosystem-atmosphere...
A significant fraction of Earth consists of mountainous terrain. However, the question of how to monitor the surface-atmosphere carbon exchange over complex terrain has not been...- publication PDF
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Accelerating advances in continental domain hydrologic modeling
In the past, hydrologic modeling of surface water resources has mainly focused on simulating the hydrologic cycle at local to regional catchment modeling domains. There now...- publication PDF
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Changes in precipitation variability across time scales in multiple global...
Anthropogenic changes in the variability of precipitation stand to impact both natural and human systems in profound ways. Precipitation variability encompasses not only...- publication PDF
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Results of the PMIP2 coupled simulations of the mid-Holocene and Last...
A set of coupled ocean-atmosphere(-vegetation) simulations using state of the art climate models is now available for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the Mid-Holocene (MH)...- publication PDF
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On trade wind cumulus cold pools
Shallow precipitating cumuli within the easterly trades were investigated using shipboard measurements, scanning radar data, and visible satellite imagery from 2 weeks in...- publication PDF
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Development of North Atlantic tropical disturbances near upper-level...
Tropical cyclone (TC) development near upper-level potential vorticity (PV) streamers in the North Atlantic is studied from synoptic climatology, composite, and case study...- 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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ClNO2 yields from aircraft measurements during the 2015 WINTER campaign and...
Nitryl chloride (ClNO2) plays an important role in the budget and distribution of tropospheric oxidants, halogens, and reactive nitrogen species. ClNO2 is formed from the...- publication PDF
