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CASES 99 - A comprehensive investigation of the stable nocturnal boundary layer
The Cooperative Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Study?1999 (CASES-99) refers to a field experiment carried out in southeast Kansas during October 1999 and the subsequent program of...- publication PDF
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Climate forcing and trends of organic aerosols in the Community Earth System...
The Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) includes three main atmospheric configurations: the Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6) with simplified chemistry and...- publication PDF
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1.5 years of TROPOMI CO measurements: Comparisons to MOPITT and ATom
We have analyzed TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) carbon monoxide (CO) data acquired between November 2017 and March 2019 with respect to other satellite (MOPITT,...- publication PDF
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Relationships of biomass-burning aerosols to ice in orographic wave clouds
Ice concentrations in orographic wave clouds at temperatures between -24° and -29°C were shown to be related to aerosol characteristics in nearby clear air during five research...- publication PDF
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Dependence of turbulent velocities on wind speed and stratification
We examine the dependence of several turbulence quantities on the wind speed and stability using nocturnal data from the Shallow Cold Pool Experiment. The turbulent quantities...- publication PDF
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The form and orientation of Langmuir cells for misaligned winds and waves
Large eddy simulations of the Craik-Leibovich equations are used to assess the effect of misaligned Stokes drift and wind direction on Langmuir cells in the ocean mixed layer....- publication PDF
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Variations in flash flood–producing storm characteristics associated with...
The Mississippi River basin (MRB) is a flash flood hotspot receiving the most frequent flash floods and highest average rainfall accumulation of any region in the United States....- publication PDF
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Revisiting the relationship among metrics of tropical expansion
There is mounting evidence that the width of the tropics has increased over the last few decades, but there are large differences in reported expansion rates. This is, likely,...- publication PDF
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Investigating Alfvénic wave propagation in coronal open-field regions
The physical mechanisms behind accelerating solar and stellar winds are a long-standing astrophysical mystery, although recent breakthroughs have come from models invoking the...- publication PDF
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Simulation of prompt acceleration of radiation belt electrons during the 16...
We investigate the prompt enhancement of radiation belt electron flux observed by the Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope instrument on board Van Allen Probes following the...- publication PDF
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Seasonal to multi-year soil moisture drought forecasting
Soil moisture predictability on seasonal to decadal (S2D) continuum timescales over North America is examined from the Community Earth System Modeling (CESM) experiments. The...- publication PDF
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Global and Brazilian carbon response to El Niño Modoki 2011-2010
The El Nino Modoki in 2010 led to historic droughts in Brazil. In order to understand its impact on carbon cycle variability, we derive the 2011 - 2010 annual carbon flux change...- publication PDF
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Arctic and Antarctic sea ice mean state in the Community Earth System Model...
Arctic and Antarctic sea ice has undergone significant and rapid change with the changing climate. Here, we present preindustrial and historical results from the newly released...- publication PDF
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Intraseasonal tropical cyclogenesis prediction in a global coupled model system
Motivated by increasing demand in the community for intraseasonal predictions of weather extremes, predictive skill of tropical cyclogenesis is investigated in this study based...- publication PDF
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Simulation of polar stratospheric clouds in the specified dynamics version...
We evaluate the simulation of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) in the Specified Dynamics version of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model for the Antarctic winter 2005....- publication PDF
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Impacts of frequent assimilation of surface pressure observations on...
To investigate the impacts of frequently assimilating only surface pressure (PS) observations, the Data Assimilation Research Testbed and the Community Atmosphere Model...- publication PDF
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Implications for atmospheric dynamics derived from global observations of...
In this work absolute values of gravity wave (GW) momentum flux are derived from global temperature measurements by the satellite instruments High Resolution Dynamics Limb...- publication PDF
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Representing spatial variability of snow water equivalent in hydrologic and...
This paper evaluates the use of field data on the spatial variability of snow water equivalent (SWE) to guide the design of distributed snow models. An extensive reanalysis of...- publication PDF
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Aircraft-induced hole punch and canal clouds: Inadvertent cloud seeding
The production of holes and channels in altocumulus clouds by two commercial turboprop aircraft is documented for the first time. An unprecedented dataset combining in situ...- publication PDF
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Snow temperature changes within a seasonal snowpack and their relationship...
Snowpack temperatures from a subalpine forest below Niwot Ridge, Colorado, are examined with respect to atmospheric conditions and the 30-min above-canopy and subcanopy eddy...- publication PDF