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Global-scale ERA5 product precipitation and temperature evaluation
ERA5 (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis Fifth Generation) is a significant dataset in climate reanalysis. Conducting a global-scale accuracy...- publication PDF
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Tropical thin cirrus and relative humidity observed by the Atmospheric...
Global observations of cloud and humidity distributions in the upper troposphere within all geophysical conditions are critically important in order to monitor the present...- publication PDF
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Digital filter initialization for MM5
In this paper several configurations of the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research (PSU-NCAR) Mesoscale Model (MM5), which is...- publication PDF
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Climatology of mesopause region nocturnal temperature, zonal wind and sodium...
The University of Science and Technology of China narrowband sodium temperature and wind lidar, located in Hefei, China (32 degrees N, 117 degrees E), has made routine nighttime...- publication PDF
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The character and changing frequency of extreme California fire weather
Five of California's 10 largest wildfires occurred in 2020, with the largest complex exceeding the previous largest by more than 100%. The year follows a decade containing...- publication PDF
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Observed and bin model simulated evolution of drop size distributions in...
This study examines microphysical processes in developing high-based cumulus congestus over the United Arab Emirates using aircraft observations and a large-eddy-simulation...- publication PDF
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Performance of SEAM, a Spectral Element Atmospheric Model, on the HP Exemplar SPP2000
We describe the performance of a Spectral Element Atmospheric Model (SEAM) on the HP Exemplar SPP2000. SEAM uses spectral elements in the horizontal directions and sigma...- publication PDF
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Tropopause-Level NOx in the Asian Summer Monsoon
Deep convection within the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) transports surface level air into the upper troposphere-lower stratosphere (UTLS). This work aims to understand the...- publication PDF
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Modelling 60 years of glacier mass balance and runoff for Chhota Shigri...
Glacier mass balance and runoff are simulated from 1955 to 2014 for the catchment (46% glacier cover) containing Chhota Shigri Glacier (Western Himalaya) using gridded data from...- publication PDF
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Plant water use theory should incorporate hypotheses about extreme...
Plant water use theory has largely been developed within a plant-performance paradigm that conceptualizes water use in terms of value for carbon gain and that sits within a...- publication PDF
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Turnover in Gleissberg Cycle dependence of inner zone proton flux
The NOAA POES satellites orbit through the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) allowing access to the trapped inner belt high energy proton population. A previous study found a...- publication PDF
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Effects of under-resolved convective dynamics on the evolution of a squall line
Simulations of a squall line observed on 20 May 2011 during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) using 750- and 250-m horizontal grid spacing are...- publication PDF
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Assimilation of satellite-retrieved sea ice concentration and prospects for...
The current GFDL seasonal prediction system achieved retrospective sea ice extent (SIE) skill without direct sea ice data assimilation. Here we develop sea ice data...- publication PDF
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Evolution of the double-ITCZ bias through CESM2 development
The structure of the east Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) as simulated in the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) is greatly improved as compared to its...- publication PDF
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Constraining the large-scale analysis of a regional rapid-update-cycle...
This study examines the impact of a large-scale constraint (LSC) on the large-scale analysis and precipitation forecast of convective weather systems in a regional rapid-update-...- publication PDF
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Rural-to-urban labor migration, household livelihoods, and the rural...
Rural migration and its relationship to the rural environment have attracted increasing research interest in recent decades. Rural migration constitutes a key component of human...- publication PDF
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Potential non-linearities in the high latitude circulation and ozone...
The impacts of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) on the atmosphere and surface climate depend on when and where the sulfate aerosol precursors are injected, as well as on...- publication PDF
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User's Guide to NCAR CCM2
This User's Guide describes the overall design of the most recent version of the NCAR Community Climate Model, CCM2. In addition to in-depth information about running the CCM2...- publication PDF
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The Paris warming targets: Emissions requirements and sea level consequences
The Paris Agreement states that, relative to pre-industrial times, the increase in global average temperature should be kept to well below 2 A degrees C and efforts should be...- publication PDF
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Two perspectives on amplified warming over tropical land examined in CMIP6 models
Climate change projections show amplified warming associated with dry conditions over tropical land. We compare two perspectives explaining this amplified warming: one based on...- publication PDF