-
The SCD Graphics Utilities
This manual documents the Graphics Utilities used by the Scientific Computing Division (SCD) at NCAR. The utilities are listed alphabetically by utility name.- publication PDF
-
CCM Processor Users' Guide (UNICOS Version)
This document is a complete description of the capabilities of the CCM Processor, including all of the information needed to run the code on the Crays at NCAR. A few aspects of...- publication PDF
-
Megadrought: A series of unfortunate La Niña events?
Megadroughts are multidecadal periods of aridity more persistent than most droughts during the instrumental period. Paleoclimate evidence suggests that megadroughts occur in...- publication PDF
-
Magnetic cycles in global large-eddy simulations of solar convection
We report on a global magnetohydrodynamical simulation of the solar convection zone, which succeeds in generating a large-scale axisymmetric magnetic component, antisymmetric...- publication PDF
-
Progress, challenges, and future steps in data assimilation for...
In November 2021, the Royal Meteorological Society Data Assimilation (DA) Special Interest Group and the University of Reading hosted a virtual meeting on the topic of DA for...- publication PDF
-
Normalized hail particle size distributions from the T-28 storm-penetrating aircraft
Hail and graupel are linked to lightning production and are important components of cloud evolution. Hail can also cause significant damage when it precipitates to the surface....- publication PDF
-
Ionospheric response to CIR-induced recurrent geomagnetic activity during...
This paper presents an epoch analysis of global ionosphere responses to recurrent geomagnetic activity during 79 corotating interaction region (CIR) events from 2004 to 2009....- publication PDF
-
Global characteristics of occurrence of an additional layer in the...
Global observations of electron density profile (EDP) from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 satellites were used to investigate, for the first time, the additional stratification of the F2...- publication PDF
-
Intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of Arctic mixed-phase clouds:...
Large-eddy simulations of mixed-phase Arctic clouds by 11 different models are analyzed with the goal of improving understanding and model representation of processes...- publication PDF
-
Potential predictability sources of the 2012 U.S. drought in observations...
The 2012 drought was the most severe and extensive summertime U.S. drought in half a century with substantial economic loss and impacts on food security and commodity prices. A...- publication PDF
-
Cirrus cloud macrophysical and optical properties over north China from...
Two years of mid-latitude cirrus cloud macrophysical and optical properties over North China are described from Earth-orbiting Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization...- publication PDF
-
Analysis of plasmaspheric hiss wave amplitudes inferred from low-altitude...
Plasmaspheric hiss plays an important role in controlling the overall structure and dynamics of the Earth's radiation belts. The interaction of plasmaspheric hiss with radiation...- publication PDF
-
Microphysical processes of super typhoon Lekima (2019) and their impacts on...
The complex precipitation microphysics associated with super typhoon Lekima (2019) and its potential impacts on the consistency of multi-source datasets and radar quantitative...- publication PDF
-
Design and sampling characteristics of a new airborne aerosol inlet for...
Design of a new submicron aerosol inlet (SMAI) for airborne sampling of aerosol particles is introduced and its performance characteristics under a range of sampling conditions...- publication PDF
-
Geospace environment modeling 2008–2009 challenge: Dst index
This paper reports the metrics-based results of the Dst index part of the 2008-2009 GEM Metrics Challenge. The 2008-2009 GEM Metrics Challenge asked modelers to submit results...- publication PDF
-
A microphysics guide to cirrus – Part 2: Climatologies of clouds and...
This study presents airborne in situ and satellite remote sensing climatologies of cirrus clouds and humidity. The climatologies serve as a guide to the properties of cirrus...- publication PDF
-
Global responses of the coupled thermosphere and ionosphere system to the...
It is commonly believed that solar eclipses have a great impact on the ionosphere-thermosphere (I-T) system within the eclipse shadow, but little attention has been paid to the...- publication PDF
-
The Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud systems in the Tropics (PREDICT)...
The principal hypotheses of a new model of tropical cyclogenesis, known as the marsupial paradigm, were tested in the context of Atlantic tropical disturbances during the...- publication PDF
-
The sensitivity of tropical cyclone activity to off-equatorial thermal...
The sensitivity of global tropical cyclone (TC) activity to changes in a zonally symmetric sea surface temperature (SST) distribution and the associated large-scale atmospheric...- publication PDF
-
Ice crystal concentration in midlatitude cirrus clouds: In situ measurements...
This study reports on the concentration of ice crystals measured in midlatitude cirrus clouds by a balloonborne hydrometeor videosonde (HYVIS), which has the advantage of...- publication PDF
