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The Sun4Cast® Solar Power Forecasting System: The Result of the...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) led a partnership to advance the state-of-the-science of solar power forecasting by designing, developing, building,...- publication PDF
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Convectively induced secondary circulations in fine-grid Mesoscale numerical...
Mesoscale numerical weather prediction models using fine-grid [O(1) km] meshes for weather forecasting, environmental assessment, and other applications capture aspects of...- publication PDF
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Large-eddy simulations of a drizzling, stratocumulus-topped marine boundary layer
Cloud water sedimentation and drizzle in a stratocumulus-topped boundary layer are the focus of an intercomparison of large-eddy simulations. The context is an idealized case...- publication PDF
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Precipitation from African easterly waves in a coupled model of the tropical...
A regional coupled climate model is configured for the tropical Atlantic to explore the role of synoptic-scale African easterly waves (AEWs) on the simulation of mean...- publication PDF
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Anomalously low solar extreme-ultraviolet irradiance and thermospheric...
Solar activity during 2007-2009 was very low, and during this protracted solar minimum period, the terrestrial thermosphere was cooler and lower in density than expected....- publication PDF
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Drivers of last millennium Antarctic climate evolution in an ensemble of...
Improved understanding of the drivers of climate variability, particularly over the last millennium, and its influence on Antarctic ice melt have important implications for...- publication PDF
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The effect of modeling choices on updating intensity-duration-frequency...
Intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves, commonly used in stormwater infrastructure design to represent characteristics of extreme rainfall, are gradually being updated to...- publication PDF
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Modeling the hydrologic influence of subsurface tile drainage using the...
Subsurface tile drainage (TD) is a dominant agriculture water management practice in the United States (US) to enhance crop production in poorly drained soils. Assessments of...- publication PDF
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Retrieval of eddy dissipation rate from derived equivalent vertical gust...
Some of the Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) data include a turbulence metric of the derived equivalent vertical gust (DEVG), in addition to wind and temperature. As...- publication PDF
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The status and future of small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) in...
The boundary layer plays a critical role in regulating energy and moisture exchange between the surface and the free atmosphere. However, the boundary layer and lower atmosphere...- publication PDF
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Thermospheric density perturbations produced by Traveling Atmospheric...
Thermospheric mass density perturbations are commonly observed during geomagnetic storms and fundamental to upper atmosphere dynamics, but the sources of these perturbations are...- publication PDF
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Superstrong photospheric magnetic fields in sunspot penumbrae
Context. Recently, there have been some reports of unusually strong photospheric magnetic fields (which can reach values of over 7 kG) inferred from Hinode SOT/SP sunspot...- publication PDF
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Asynchronous warming and δ18O evolution of deep Atlantic water masses...
The large-scale reorganization of deep ocean circulation in the Atlantic involving changes in North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) and Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) played a...- publication PDF
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An ensemble-based four-dimensional variational data assimilation scheme:...
Applying a flow-dependent background error covariance (B matrix) in variational data assimilation has been a topic of interest among researchers in recent years. In this paper,...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric air intrusions promote global-scale new particle formation
New particle formation in the free troposphere is a major source of cloud condensation nuclei globally. The prevailing view is that in the free troposphere, new particles are...- publication PDF
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A statistical inference method for interpreting the CLASP observations
On 2015 September 3, the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter (CLASP) successfully measured the linear polarization produced by scattering processes in the hydrogen Ly...- publication PDF
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Enhancing sub-seasonal soil moisture forecasts through land initialization
We assess the relative contributions of land, atmosphere, and oceanic initializations to the forecast skill of root zone soil moisture (SM) utilizing the Community Earth System...- publication PDF
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Melting layer detection and observation with the NCAR Airborne W-Band Radar
A melting layer detection algorithm is developed for the NCAR 94 GHz airborne cloud radar (HIAPER CloudRadar, HCR). The detection method is based on maxima in the linear...- publication PDF
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Modeling Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet distribution during MIS 5 and MIS 7...
The present manuscript compares Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5, 125-115 kyr BP) and MIS 7 (236-229 kyr BP) with the aim to investigate the origin of the difference in ice-sheet...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of 24-h forecast dryline position and structure to boundary...
Recent NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiments have emphasized the sensitivity of forecast sensible weather fields to how boundary layer processes are...- publication PDF