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Evaluating large-storm dominance in high-resolution GCMs and observations...
Extreme precipitation events are projected to increase in frequency across much of the land-surface as the global climate warms, but such projections have typically relied on...- publication PDF
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Advancing weather and climate forecasting for our changing world
Our world is rapidly changing. Societies are facing an increase in the frequency and intensity of high-impact and extreme weather and climate events. These extremes together...- publication PDF
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The 6.5-day wave and its seasonal variability in the middle and upper atmosphere
The zonal wave number 1 planetary wave of period near 6.5 days is a robust feature in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region with prominent seasonal variability as...- publication PDF
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GNSS radio occultation data in the AWS cloud
Radio occultation (RO) by the Earth's atmosphere of the transmitted signals of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems' satellites has improved numerical weather prediction, has...- publication PDF
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Parameterizing total storm conduction currents in the Community Earth System Model
Electrified clouds are known to play a major role in the Global Electric Circuit. These clouds produce upward currents which maintain the potential difference between Earth's...- publication PDF
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User's Guide to NCAR CCM0B
This document describes the general program design and data organization of the version of NCAR Community Climate Model designated CCMOB. The basic adiabatic model was acquired...- publication PDF
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The balance between heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation of ice clouds...
We present a modification to the Community Aerosol and Radiation model for Atmospheres (CARMA) sectional ice microphysical model where we have added interactive nucleation of...- publication PDF
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When is a trend meaningful? Insights to carbon cycle variability from an...
Internal climate variability (ICV) creates a range of climate trajectories, which are superimposed upon the forced response. A single climate model realization may not represent...- publication PDF
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ENSO-driven energy budget perturbations in observations and CMIP models
Various observation-based datasets are employed to robustly quantify changes in ocean heat content (OHC), anomalous ocean-atmosphere energy exchanges and atmospheric energy...- publication PDF
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Comparisons of GPS/MET retrieved ionospheric electron density and ground...
The Global Positioning System/Meteorology (GPS/MET) mission has been the first experiment to use a low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellite (the MicroLab-1) to receive multi-channel...- publication PDF
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Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Extratropics
A multimodel assessment of the performance of chemistry-climate models (CCMs) in the extratropical upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) is conducted for the first time....- publication PDF
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The ocean response to climate change guides both adaptation and mitigation efforts
The ocean's thermal inertia is a major contributor to irreversible ocean changes exceeding time scales that matter to human society. This fact is a challenge to societies as...- publication PDF
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Parameterizing the impact of unresolved temperature variability on the...
Unresolved temperature and salinity fluctuations interact with a nonlinear seawater equation of state to produce significant errors in the ocean model evaluation of the large-...- publication PDF
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Quality of mobile air temperature and atmospheric pressure observations from...
The 2010 Development Test Environment Experiment (DTE10) took place from 28 January to 29 March 2010 in the Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan area for the purposes of collecting...- publication PDF
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Total volcanic stratospheric aerosol optical depths and implications for...
Understanding the cooling effect of recent volcanoes is of particular interest in the context of the post-2000 slowing of the rate of global warming. Satellite observations of...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of a simulated midlatitude squall line to parameterization of...
This paper describes idealized simulations of a squall line observed on 20 June 2007, in central Oklahoma. Results are compared with measurements from dual-polarization radar...- publication PDF
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Iodine chemistry in the troposphere and its effect on ozone
Despite the potential influence of iodine chemistry on the oxidizing capacity of the troposphere, reactive iodine distributions and their impact on tropospheric ozone remain...- publication PDF
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Solar irradiance nowcasting case studies near Sacramento
The Sun4Cast solar power forecasting system, designed to predict solar irradiance and power generation at solar farms, is composed of several component models operating on both...- publication PDF
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Particle-Based Lagrangian Filtering for Locating Wave-Generated Thermal...
Tides and tidally generated waves play a key role in modulating the heat budget of the nearshore environment, which can significantly affect the ecology of the coastal and reef...- publication PDF
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The influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on lightning in the Gulf coast...
Cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flashes from the National Lightning Detection Network are analyzed to determine if the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle influences...- publication PDF
