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Normalized hail particle size distributions from the T-28 storm-penetrating aircraft
Hail and graupel are linked to lightning production and are important components of cloud evolution. Hail can also cause significant damage when it precipitates to the surface....- publication PDF
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Estimating soil respiration in a subalpine landscape using point, terrain,...
Landscape carbon (C) flux estimates help assess the ability of terrestrial ecosystems to buffer further increases in anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Advances in...- publication PDF
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Variability in the sensitivity among model simulations of permafrost and...
A significant portion of the large amount of carbon (C) currently stored in soils of the permafrost region in the Northern Hemisphere has the potential to be emitted as the...- publication PDF
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An intercomparison of T-REX mountain-wave simulations and implications for...
Numerical simulations of flow over steep terrain using 11 different nonhydrostatic numerical models are compared and analyzed. A basic benchmark and five other test cases are...- publication PDF
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Assimilation of IASI satellite CO fields into a global chemistry transport...
This work evaluates the IASI CO product against independent in-situ aircraft data from the MOZAIC program and the POLARCAT aircraft campaign. The validation is carried out by...- publication PDF
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Large-aspect-ratio structures in simulated ocean surface boundary layer...
Alarge-eddy simulation (LES) initialized and forced using observations is used to conduct a process study of ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) turbulence in a 2-km box of...- publication PDF
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ClimateNet: An expert-labeled open dataset and deep learning architecture...
Identifying, detecting, and localizing extreme weather events is a crucial first step in understanding how they may vary under different climate change scenarios. Pattern...- publication PDF
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A comparison study of NO cooling between TIMED/SABER measurements and TIEGCM...
We investigate the latitudinal and longitudinal variations of thermospheric nitric oxide (NO) cooling rate from 2005 to 2016. We compare the maximum of the NO cooling rate and...- publication PDF
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Modernizing the open-source community Noah with multi-parameterization...
The widely used open-source community Noah with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) land surface model (LSM) is designed for applications ranging from uncoupled land...- publication PDF
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Modeling European hot spells using extreme value analysis
Atmospheric blocking in mainland Europe is often cited as the cause of extremely high temperatures lasting several days. By definition, extreme temperatures are rare, and yet...- publication PDF
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WACCM-D Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with D-region ion chemistry
Energetic particle precipitation (EPP) and ion chemistry affect the neutral composition of the polar middle atmosphere. For example, production of odd nitrogen and odd hydrogen...- publication PDF
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Dominant modes of variability in large-scale Birkeland currents
Properties of variability in large-scale Birkeland currents are investigated through empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of 1 week of data from the Active Magnetosphere...- publication PDF
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Role of lateral terrestrial water flow on the regional water cycle in a...
Recent developments in hydrometeorological modeling aim toward a more sophisticated treatment of terrestrial hydrologic processes. The objective of this study is to investigate...- publication PDF
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The pre-depression Investigation of cloud-systems in the tropics field...
The pre-depression investigation of cloud-systems in the tropics (PREDICT) field experiment successfully gathered data from four developing and four decaying/non-developing...- 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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Analysis of single-Alter-shielded and unshielded measurements of mixed and...
Although precipitation has been measured for many centuries, precipitation measurements are still beset with significant inaccuracies. Solid precipitation is particularly...- publication PDF
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Spatial dependence of floods shaped by spatiotemporal variations in...
Floods often affect large regions and cause adverse societal impacts. Regional flood hazard and risk assessments therefore require a realistic representation of spatial flood...- publication PDF
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The impact of North American anthropogenic emissions and lightning on...
We analyze the contribution of North American (NA) lightning and anthropogenic emissions to ozone concentrations, radiative forcing, and export fluxes from North America during...- publication PDF
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Observational evidence of 3-D cloud effects in OCO-2 CO2 retrievals
The standard deviations of the distributions of Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) measurements of CO2 (i. e., XCO2) increase in size in the presence of clouds. XCO2 and...- publication PDF
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S2S prediction in GFDL SPEAR: MJO diversity and teleconnections
A subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction system was recently developed using the GFDL Seamless System for Prediction and Earth System Research (SPEAR) global coupled model....- publication PDF