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Large vertical gradient of reactive nitrogen oxides in the boundary layer:...
An often used assumption in air pollution studies is a well-mixed boundary layer (BL), where pollutants are evenly distributed. Because of the difficulty in obtaining vertically...- publication PDF
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Kuroshio pathways in a climatologically forced model
A high-resolution ocean model forced with an annually repeating atmosphere is used to examine variability of the Kuroshio, the western boundary current in the North Pacific...- publication PDF
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An assessment of winter orographic precipitation and cloud-seeding potential...
This paper presents an evaluation of the precipitation patterns and seedability of orographic clouds in Wyoming using SNOTEL precipitation data and a high-resolution multiyear...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of NLDAS-2 evapotranspiration against tower flux site observations
The North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2) has run four land surface models for a 30-year (1979-2008) retrospective period. Land surface...- publication PDF
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Operational hydrological data assimilation with the recursive ensemble Kalman filter
This paper describes the design and use of a recursive ensemble Kalman filter (REnKF) to assimilate streamflow data in an operational flow forecasting system of seven catchments...- publication PDF
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Geolocation, calibration and surface resolution of CYGNSS GNSS-R land observations
This paper presents the processing algorithms for geolocating and calibration of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) level 1 land data products, as well as...- publication PDF
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A 2 year forecast for a 60-80% chance of La Niña in 2017-2018
Historical observations show that one in two La Nina events last for two consecutive years. Despite their outsized impacts on drought, these 2 year La Nina are not predicted on...- publication PDF
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The warm-core structure of Hurricane Earl (2010)
The warm-core structure of Hurricane Earl (2010) is examined on four different days, spanning periods of both rapid intensification (RI) and weakening, using high-altitude...- publication PDF
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Improving the representation of supercooled liquid water in the...
A realistic representation of mixed-phase clouds in weather and climate models is essential to accurately simulate the model's radiative balance and water cycle. In addition, it...- publication PDF
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Polarimetric radar and aircraft observations of saggy bright bands during MC3E
Polarimetric radar observations increasingly are used to understand cloud microphysical processes, which is critical for improving their representation in cloud and climate...- publication PDF
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Improving ensemble-based quantitative precipitation forecasts for...
In this paper, a modified probability-matching technique is developed for ensemble-based quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPFs) associated with landfalling typhoons over...- publication PDF
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Updated tropospheric chemistry reanalysis and emission estimates, TCR-2, for...
This study presents the results from the Tropospheric Chemistry Reanalysis version 2 (TCR-2) for the period 2005-2018 at 1.1 degrees horizontal resolution obtained from the...- publication PDF
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CAM-chem: Description and evaluation of interactive atmospheric chemistry in...
We discuss and evaluate the representation of atmospheric chemistry in the global Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) version 4, the atmospheric component of the Community Earth...- publication PDF
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The drivers of active region outflows into the slow solar wind
Plasma outflows from the edges of active regions have been suggested as a possible source of the slow solar wind. Spectroscopic measurements show that these outflows have an...- publication PDF
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PDRMIP: A precipitation driver and response model intercomparison...
As the global temperature increases with changing climate, precipitation rates and patterns are affected through a wide range of physical mechanisms. The globally averaged...- publication PDF
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Isohaline salinity budget of the North Atlantic salinity maximum
In this study, the salinity budget of the North Atlantic subtropical salinity maximum region for control volumes bounded by isohaline surfaces is analyzed. The authors provide...- publication PDF
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Fabry-Pérot versus slit spectropolarimetry of pores and active network:...
We discuss spectropolarimetric measurements of photospheric (Fe I 630.25 nm) and chromospheric (Ca II 854.21 nm) spectral lines in and around small magnetic flux concentrations,...- publication PDF
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Sulfate geoengineering impact on methane transport and lifetime: results...
Sulfate geoengineering (SG), made by sustained injection of SO2 in the tropical lower stratosphere, may impact the CH4 abundance through several photochemical mechanisms...- publication PDF
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New empirical formulation for the sublimational breakup of graupel and dendritic snow
Ice fragments are generated by sublimation of ice particles in subsaturated conditions in natural clouds. Conceivably, such sublimational breakup would be expected to cause ice...- publication PDF
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Magnetic structure and propagation of two interacting CMEs from the Sun to Saturn
One of the grand challenges in heliophysics is the characterization of coronal mass ejection (CME) magnetic structure and evolution from eruption at the Sun through heliospheric...- publication PDF
