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Rainbows and climate change: A tutorial on climate model diagnostics and...
Earth system models (ESMs) must represent processes below the grid scale of a model using representations (parameterizations) of physical and chemical processes. As a tutorial...- publication PDF
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The amplitude of lee waves on the boundary-layer inversion
This study presents an analytical model for the amplitude of lee waves on the boundary-layer inversion in two-dimensional flow. Previous linear lee wave models, in which the...- publication PDF
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Mapping high-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics with SuperDARN and AMPERE
An assimilative procedure for mapping high-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics is developed for use with plasma drift observations from the Super Dural Auroral Radar Network...- publication PDF
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Weather forecasts by the WRF-ARW model with the GSI data assimilation system...
This paper will first describe the forecasting errors encountered from running the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) mesoscale model (the Advanced Research Weather...- publication PDF
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The response of tropical cyclone statistics to an increase in CO₂ with fixed...
The effects on tropical cyclone statistics of doubling CO₂, with fixed sea surface temperatures (SSTs), are compared to the effects of a 2-K increase in SST, with fixed CO₂,...- publication PDF
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How much climate change can be avoided by mitigation?
Avoiding the most serious climate change impacts will require informed policy decisions. This in turn will require information regarding the reduction of greenhouse gas...- publication PDF
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Multimodel assessment of the factors driving stratospheric ozone evolution...
The evolution of stratospheric ozone from 1960 to 2100 is examined in simulations from 14 chemistry-climate models, driven by prescribed levels of halogens and greenhouse gases....- publication PDF
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Development and evaluation of Chemistry-Aerosol-Climate Model...
An advanced aerosol treatment, with a focus on semivolatile nitrate formation, is introduced into the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 with interactive chemistry (CAM5-chem)...- publication PDF
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Small-scale solar magnetic fields
As we resolve ever smaller structures in the solar atmosphere, it has become clear that magnetism is an important component of those small structures. Small-scale magnetism...- publication PDF
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Simulation and scaling of the turbulent vertical heat transport and...
Microstructure observations in the Pacific cold tongue reveal that turbulence often penetrates into the thermocline, producing hundreds of watts per square meter of downward...- publication PDF
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Surface observed global land precipitation variations during 1900-1988
The authors have analyzed global station data and created a gridded dataset of monthly precipitation for the period of 1900-88. Statistical analyses suggest that discontinuities...- publication PDF
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Asymmetric Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at Jupiter's magnetopause boundary:...
The multifluid Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry (MFLFM) global magnetosphere model is used to study the interactions between solar wind and rapidly rotating, internally driven Jupiter...- publication PDF
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Revisiting the Earth's sea-level and energy budgets from 1961-2008
We review the sea-level and energy budgets together from 1961, using recent and updated estimates of all terms. From 1972 to 2008, the observed sea-level rise (1.8 {plus minus}...- publication PDF
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Assessing the use of subgrid land model output to study impacts of land cover change
Subgrid information from land models has the potential to be a powerful tool for investigating land-atmosphere interactions, but relatively few studies have attempted to exploit...- publication PDF
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Downscaling SMAP brightness temperatures to 3 km using CYGNSS reflectivity...
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission only retrieved similar to 2.5 months of 3 km near surface soil moisture (NSSM) before its radar transmitter malfunctioned....- publication PDF
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Methodological intercomparisons of station-based gridded meteorological...
This study presents a gridded meteorology intercomparison using the State of Hawaii as a testbed. This is motivated by the goal to provide the broad user community with...- publication PDF
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Effect of aerosol size distribution changes on AOD, CCN and cloud droplet...
For the period of 1990 to 2000, atmospheric particulate mass concentrations have decreased in Central Europe. Simultaneously, the amount of shortwave radiation reaching the...- publication PDF
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Solar flare impacts on ionospheric electrodyamics
The sudden increase of X-ray and extreme ultra-violet irradiance during flares increases the density of the ionosphere through enhanced photoionization. In this paper, we use...- publication PDF
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Early Eocene ocean meridional overturning circulation: The roles of...
Here, we compare the ocean overturning circulation of the early Eocene (47-56 Ma) in eight coupled climate model simulations from the Deep-Time Model Intercomparison Project...- publication PDF
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Solar Energetic Proton Access to the Inner Magnetosphere During the...
The access of solar energetic protons into the inner magnetosphere on September 7-8, 2017 is investigated by following reversed proton trajectories to compute the proton cutoff...- publication PDF