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Development of the Ensemble Navy Aerosol Analysis Prediction System (ENAAPS)...
An ensemble-based forecast and data assimilation system has been developed for use in Navy aerosol forecasting. The system makes use of an ensemble of the Navy Aerosol Analysis...- publication PDF
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A stratospheric pathway linking a colder Siberia to Barents-Kara Sea sea ice loss
Previous studies have extensively investigated the impact of Arctic sea ice anomalies on the midlatitude circulation and associated surface climate in winter. However, there is...- publication PDF
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Reexamination of the state of the art of cloud modeling shows real improvements
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Zonally symmetric oscillations of the thermosphere at planetary wave periods
New mechanisms for imposing planetary wave (PW) variability on the ionosphere-thermosphere system are discovered in numerical experiments conducted with the National Center for...- publication PDF
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Implementing a new rubber plant functional type in the Community Land Model...
Rubber plantations are an economically viable land-use type that occupies large swathes of land in Southeast Asia that have undergone conversion from native forest to intensive...- publication PDF
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The climate impact of COVID-19-induced contrail changes
The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant economic disruption in 2020 and severely impacted air traffic. We use a state-of-the-art Earth system model and ensembles of tightly...- publication PDF
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Assessment of WRF land surface model performance over West Africa
Simulations with four land surface models (LSMs) (i.e., Noah, Noah-MP, Noah-MP with ground water GW option, and CLM4) using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model at...- publication PDF
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Northern Hemisphere atmospheric influence of the solar proton events and...
Solar eruptions in early 2005 led to a substantial barrage of charged particles on the Earth's atmosphere during the 16-21 January period. Proton fluxes were greatly increased...- publication PDF
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Ensemble-based data assimilation
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Magnetospheric cavity modes driven by solar wind dynamic pressure fluctuations
We present results from Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry (LFM) global, three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction. We use these...- publication PDF
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Hurricanes and climate: The U.S. CLIVAR Working Group on Hurricanes
While a quantitative climate theory of tropical cyclone formation remains elusive, considerable progress has been made recently in our ability to simulate tropical cyclone...- publication PDF
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Evolution of ice crystal regions on the microscale based on in situ observations
Microphysical properties of cirrus clouds largely influence their atmospheric radiative forcing. However, uncertainties remain in simulating/parameterizing the evolution of ice...- publication PDF
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The Energy Balance Experiment EBEX-2000. Part II: Inter-comparison of eddy...
The eddy-covariance method is the primary way of measuring turbulent fluxes directly. Many investigators have found that these flux measurements often do not satisfy a...- publication PDF
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Design Life Level: Quantifying risk in a changing climate
In the past, the concepts of return levels and return periods have been standard and important tools for engineering design. However, these concepts are based on the assumption...- publication PDF
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Acidity and the multiphase chemistry of atmospheric aqueous particles and clouds
The acidity of aqueous atmospheric solutions is a key parameter driving both the partitioning of semi-volatile acidic and basic trace gases and their aqueous-phase chemistry. In...- publication PDF
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Global Carbon Budget 2019
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere - the "global carbon budget"...- publication PDF
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A GRACE-based assessment of interannual groundwater dynamics in the...
The estimation of groundwater storage variations is important for quantifying available water resources and managing storage surpluses to alleviate storage deficiencies during...- publication PDF
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Systematic over‐crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program
Carbon offsets are widely used by individuals, corporations, and governments to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions on the assumption that offsets reflect equivalent climate...- publication PDF
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Whirlwinds and hairpins in the atmospheric surface layer
Vortices in the atmospheric surface layer are characterized using observations at unprecedented resolution from a fixed array of 31 turbulence sensors. During the day, these...- publication PDF
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On the eruption of coronal flux ropes
We present three-dimensional MHD simulations of the evolution of the magnetic field in the corona where the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube is driven at the lower...- publication PDF
