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Population exposure to hazardous air quality due to the 2015 fires in Equatorial Asia
Vegetation and peatland fires cause poor air quality and thousands of premature deaths across densely populated regions in Equatorial Asia. Strong El-Niño and positive Indian...- publication PDF
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Long-term variability and tendencies in non-migrating diurnal tide from...
This study reports the long-term variability and tendencies in important non-migrating (DE3, DW2, DW3) and stationary (DS0) diurnal tides using a three-member ensemble of...- publication PDF
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Source contributions to sulfur and nitrogen deposition â an HTAP II...
With the rising anthropogenic emissions from human activities, elevated concentrations of air pollutants have been detected in the hemispheric air flows in recent years,...- publication PDF
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An evaluation of WRF simulations of clouds over the southern ocean with...
The representation of the marine boundary layer (BL) clouds remains a formidable challenge for state-of-the-art simulations. A recent study by Bodas-Salcedo et al. using the Met...- publication PDF
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Optical properties of shallow tropical cumuli derived from ARM ground-based...
This paper presents results from ground-based remote sensing of optical properties of shallow convective clouds over the Nauru ARM site using the technique developed by...- publication PDF
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The role of the stratosphere in subseasonal to seasonal prediction: 2....
The stratosphere can have a significant impact on winter surface weather on subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) timescales. This study evaluates the ability of current operational S2S...- publication PDF
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Reduced ENSO variability at the LGM revealed by an isotope-enabled Earth system model
Studying the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the past can help us better understand its dynamics and improve its future projections. However, both paleoclimate...- publication PDF
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Forest disturbance feedbacks from bedrock to atmosphere using coupled...
The mountain pine beetle (MPB) has dramatically influenced high-elevation pine forests of western North America, with recent infestations causing millions of acres of forest...- publication PDF
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Terrestrial sources of summer arctic moisture and the implication for arctic...
Sea ice melt and ocean heat accumulation in the Arctic are strongly influenced by the presence of atmospheric water vapor during summer. While the relationships between water...- publication PDF
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QBO modulation of traveling planetary waves during northern winter
This study analyzes geopotential height data from the ERA-40 and ERA-Interim reanalyses for the period of 1958-2009 to provide some new insights on the stratospheric Quasi-...- publication PDF
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Image instabilities and polarization crosstalk
We expand on our previous study of the impact of atmospheric seeing on polarization crosstalk, and show how the formalism that was developed in that work can be applied to treat...- publication PDF
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The structure of a fair weather boundary layer based on the results of...
A fair weather boundary layer (BL) with light winds and scattered cumulus to 1100 m is examined in the GATE C-scale triangle using data from tethered balloons, surface...- publication PDF
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Effects of horizontal and vertical grid spacing on mixing in simulated...
The sensitivity of an idealized squall line to horizontal Îh and vertical Îv grid spacing is investigated using a new approach. Simulations are first performed at a horizontal...- publication PDF
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Underestimation of the impact of land cover change on the biophysical...
The Arctic and Boreal Region (ABR) is subject to extensive land cover change (LCC) due to elements such as wildfire, permafrost thaw, and shrubification. The natural and...- publication PDF
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Evaluation and process-oriented diagnosis of the GEFSv12 reforecasts
Three levels of process-oriented model diagnostics are applied to evaluate the Global Ensemble Forecast System version 12 (GEFSv12) reforecasts. The level-1 diagnostics are...- publication PDF
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Wind gust detection and impact prediction for wind turbines
Wind gusts on a scale from 100 m to 1000 m are studied due to their significant influence on wind turbine performance. A detecting and tracking algorithm is proposed to extract...- publication PDF
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The influence of ozone precursor emissions from four world regions on...
Ozone (Oâ) precursor emissions influence regional and global climate and air quality through changes in tropospheric Oâ and oxidants, which also influence methane (CHâ)...- publication PDF
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Celebrating 50 Years since GATE
The Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) took place from June to September 1974. It remains the largest field campaign in atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Spherepack 2.0: A Model Development Facility
SPHEREPACK 2.0 is a collection of FORTRAN programs that facilitates computer modeling of geophysical processes. The package contains programs for computing certain common...- publication PDF
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The relative importance of geoeffective length versus Alfvén wing formation...
We compare the relative importance of two competing mechanisms (Alfven wing vs. magnetosheath force balance) in determining the saturation of the reverse convection potential...- publication PDF