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Will perturbing soil moisture improve warm-season ensemble forecasts? A...
Current generation short-range ensemble forecast members tend to be unduly similar to each other, especially for components such as surface temperature and precipitation. One...- publication PDF
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A road map to success of international field campaigns in atmospheric and...
Understanding and predicting Earth's environment requires information and -knowledge of detailed physical, chemical, and biological processes directly from observations. Well-...- publication PDF
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The role of diffuse electron precipitation in the formation of subauroral...
The role of diffuse electron precipitation in the formation of subauroral polarization streams (SAPS) is investigated with the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE)...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of spring phenology to warming across temporal and spatial...
Disparate ecological datasets are often organized into databases post hoc and then analyzed and interpreted in ways that may diverge from the purposes of the original data...- publication PDF
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Importance of mid-level moisture for tropical cyclone formation in easterly...
This study explores the importance of midlevel moisture for tropical cyclone (TC) formation in monsoon and easterly environments over the western North Pacific in regional...- publication PDF
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Polarization lidar observations of backscatter phase matrices from oriented...
Oriented particles can exhibit different polarization properties than randomly oriented particles. These properties cannot be resolved by conventional polarization lidar systems...- publication PDF
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Resolving the controls over the production and emission of ice-nucleating...
The role of marine ice-nucleating particles (INPs) in modifying clouds and radiation balance over oceans is uncertain. While recent studies have advanced our understanding of...- publication PDF
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Blending of global and regional analyses with a spatial filter: Application...
A blending method to merge the NCEP global analysis with the regional analysis from the WRF variational data assimilation system is implemented using a spatial filter for the...- publication PDF
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A new scenario framework for climate change research: Background, process,...
The scientific community is developing new global, regional, and sectoral scenarios to facilitate interdisciplinary research and assessment to explore the range of possible...- publication PDF
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Monitoring air quality from space: The case for the geostationary platform
Air quality (AQ) is defined by the atmospheric composition of gases and particulates near the Earth's surface. This composition depends on local emissions of pollutants,...- publication PDF
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Importance of ice nucleation and precipitation on climate with the...
Cloud microphysics is critical for weather and climate prediction. In this work, we document updates and corrections to the cloud microphysical scheme used in the Community...- publication PDF
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Climate change and tropical marine ecosystems: A review with an emphasis on...
Climate change is usually associated with warming and weather extremes that impact the human environment and terrestrial systems, but it also has profound effects on the ocean,...- publication PDF
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Studying the transfer of magnetic helicity in solar active regions with the...
In the solar corona, magnetic helicity slowly and continuously accumulates in response to plasma flows tangential to the photosphere and magnetic flux emergence through it....- publication PDF
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Adaptive capacity to extreme heat: Results from a household survey in Houston, Texas
Extreme heat is the leading cause of weather-related mortality in the United States, suggesting the necessity for better understanding population vulnerability to extreme heat....- publication PDF
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The role of international resource sharing arrangements in managing fire in...
Changing global fire regimes including extended fire seasons due to climate change may increase the co-occurrence of high-impact fires that overwhelm national fire suppression...- publication PDF
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The dependence of mean climate state on shortwave absorption by water vapor
State-of-the-art climate models exhibit significant spread in the climatological value of atmospheric shortwave absorption (SWA). This study investigates both the possible...- publication PDF
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Health effects of climate and air pollution in Buenos Aires: A first time...
The impact of urban air pollution and temperature changes over health is a growing concern for epidemiologists all over the world and particularly for developing countries where...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of HY-2A scatterometer wind vectors using data from buoys,...
The first Chinese operational Ku-band scatterometer on board Haiyang-2A (HY-2A), launched in August 2011, is designed for monitoring the global ocean surface wind. This study...- publication PDF
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Accurate characterization of winter precipitation using multi-angle...
This article proposes and presents a novel approach to the characterization of winter precipitation and modeling of radar observables through a synergistic use of advanced...- publication PDF
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Emissions of volatile organic compounds inferred from airborne flux...
Toluene and benzene are used for assessing the ability to measure disjunct eddy covariance (DEC) fluxes of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) using Proton Transfer Reaction Mass...- publication PDF