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Seasonal effects of Indian Ocean freshwater forcing in a regional coupled model
Effects of freshwater forcing from river discharge into the Indian Ocean on oceanic vertical structure and the Indian monsoons are investigated using a fully coupled, high-...- publication PDF
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Importance of initial conditions in seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice extent
We present seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice extent (SIE) over the 1982-2013 period using two suites of retrospective forecasts initialized from a fully coupled ocean-...- publication PDF
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Bayesian upscaling of aircraft ice measurements to two-dimensional domains...
What is new in this manuscript is a method of using aircraft observations from a long horizontal path through an ice cloud to produce properly correlated 2D fields of particle...- publication PDF
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Gravity currents in confined channels with environmental shear
This study examines properties of gravity currents in confined channels with sheared environmental flow. Under the assumptions of steady and inviscid flow, two-dimensional...- publication PDF
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Validation of spring wheat responses to elevated CO2 , irrigation, and...
The Community Land Model (CLM) started to incorporate crop growth models since version 4.0 in 2012. Since then, the crop model in CLM has been evolved remarkably, but some of...- publication PDF
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Limited-area atmospheric modeling using an unstructured mesh
A regional configuration of the atmospheric component of the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS-A) is described and evaluated. It employs horizontally unstructured...- publication PDF
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Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by...
Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures over the past 8000 years have been paced by the slow decrease in summer insolation resulting from the precession of the equinoxes....- publication PDF
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Statistical-dynamical predictions of seasonal North Atlantic hurricane activity
Skillfully predicting North Atlantic hurricane activity months in advance is of potential societal significance and a useful test of our understanding of the factors controlling...- publication PDF
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Relating magnetic reconnection to coronal heating
It is clear that the solar corona is being heated and that coronal magnetic fields undergo reconnection all the time. Here we attempt to show that these two facts are...- publication PDF
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Limits to flood forecasting in the Colorado front range for two summer...
Flood forecasting in mountain basins remains a challenge given the difficulty in accurately predicting rainfall and in representing hydrologic processes in complex terrain. This...- publication PDF
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The Gradient Velocity Track Display (GrVTD) technique for retrieving...
The ground-based velocity track display (GBVTD) technique was developed to estimate the primary circulations of landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) from single-Doppler radar...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of climate model aerosol trends with ground-based observations...
This study presents a multiparameter analysis of aerosol trends over the last 2 decades at regional and global scales. Regional time series have been computed for a set of nine...- publication PDF
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Observations of a squall line and its near environment using high-frequency...
Rawinsonde data were collected before and during passage of a squall line in Oklahoma on 15 May 2009 during the Second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes...- publication PDF
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Budgets for nocturnal VOC oxidation by nitrate radicals aloft during the...
Industrial emissions in Houston, Texas, and along the U.S. Gulf Coast are a large source of highly reactive anthropogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs), principally alkenes,...- publication PDF
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Interpretable deep learning for spatial analysis of severe hailstorms
Deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks, utilize multiple specialized layers to encode spatial patterns at different scales. In this study, deep learning...- publication PDF
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Challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle
Understanding observed changes to the global water cycle is key to predicting future climate changes and their impacts. While many datasets document crucial variables such as...- publication PDF
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Arctic climate response to forcing from light-absorbing particles in snow...
The presence of light-absorbing aerosol particles deposited on arctic snow and sea ice influences the surface albedo, causing greater shortwave absorption, warming, and loss of...- publication PDF
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Multidecadal signal of solar variability in the upper troposphere during the...
Studies based on data from the past 25-45 years show that irradiance changes related to the 11-yr solar cycle affect the circulation of the upper troposphere in the subtropics...- publication PDF
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Evolution of ozone pollution in China: What track will it follow?
Increasing surface ozone (O3) concentrations has emerged as a key air pollution problem in many urban regions worldwide in the last decade. A longstanding major issue in...- publication PDF
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Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect
The rising atmospheric CO2 concentration leads to a CO2 fertilization effect on plants-that is, increased photosynthetic uptake of CO2 by leaves and enhanced water-use...- publication PDF
