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Evaluating seasonal orographic precipitation in the interior Western United...
There are several high-resolution (1-12 km) gridded precipitation datasets covering the interior western United States. This study cross validates seasonal orographic...- publication PDF
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A comprehensive framework for tourism and recreation drought vulnerability reduction
The effects of drought are vast, but loss statistics often do not reflect the impacts on the tourism and recreation sector, which for many places is one of the most critical...- publication PDF
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On the relationship of polar mesospheric cloud ice water content, particle...
The distribution of ice layers in the polar summer mesosphere (called polar mesospheric clouds or PMCs) is sensitive to background atmospheric conditions and therefore affected...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric ozone response to sulfate aerosol and solar dimming climate...
This study assesses the impacts of stratospheric aerosol intervention (SAI) and solar dimming on stratospheric ozone based on the G6 Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project...- publication PDF
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Lidar and CTIPe model studies of the fast amplitude growth with altitude of...
Four years of lidar observations at McMurdo reveal that the fast amplitude growth with altitude of diurnal temperature tides from 100 to 110 km during Antarctic winters,...- publication PDF
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Comparison of groundwater storage changes from GRACE satellites with...
GRACE satellite data are widely used to estimate groundwater storage (GWS) changes in aquifers globally; however, comparisons with GW monitoring and modeling data are limited....- publication PDF
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Tracking urban footprint on extreme precipitation in an African megacity
This study contributes to the body of current knowledge about the urban effect on extreme precipitation (EP) by investigating the city-EP interaction over Lagos, Nigeria. This...- publication PDF
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Limitations of one-dimensional mesoscale PBL parameterizations in...
Mesoscale models are considered to be the state of the art in modeling mountain-wave flows. Herein, the authors investigate the role and accuracy of planetary boundary layer...- publication PDF
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The Southern Westerlies during the last glacial maximum in PMIP2 simulations
The Southern Hemisphere westerly winds are an important component of the climate system at hemispheric and global scales. Variations in their intensity and latitudinal position...- publication PDF
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Improvement of OMI ozone profile retrievals in the upper troposphere and...
Motivated by the need of obtaining a more accurate global ozone distribution in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS), we have investigated the use of a...- publication PDF
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Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere:...
The performance of 18 coupled Chemistry Climate Models (CCMs) in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) is evaluated using qualitative and quantitative diagnostics. Trends in...- publication PDF
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Investigating the influence of cloud radiative effects on the extratropical...
Recent studies have focused on the role of cloud radiative effects (CRE) in governing the mean atmospheric circulation and its response to climate change. This study instead...- publication PDF
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Relationships between extratropical precipitation systems and UTLS...
This study characterizes the relationship between extratropical precipitation systems to changes in upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) temperature and tropopause...- publication PDF
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Numerical Prediction of the Performance of High Altitude Balloons
This report presents the equations governing the vertical motion of a balloon and reviews recent advances in heat transfer experimentation and theory pertinent to the processes...- publication PDF
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The observed influence of local anthropogenic pollution on northern Alaskan...
Due to their importance for the radiation budget, liquid-containing clouds are a key component of the Arctic climate system. Depending on season, they can cool or warm the near-...- publication PDF
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A gridded solar irradiance ensemble prediction system based on WRF-solar EPS...
The WRF-Solar Ensemble Prediction System (WRF-Solar EPS) and a calibration method, the analog ensemble (AnEn), are used to generate calibrated gridded ensemble forecasts of...- publication PDF
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Dependence of lunar tide of the equatorial electrojet on the wintertime...
The lower atmospheric forcing effects on the ionosphere are particularly evident during extreme meteorological events known as sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs). During SSWs,...- publication PDF
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Improving the representation of hail in the Thompson microphysics scheme
Methods to improve the representation of hail in the Thompson-Eidhammer microphysics scheme are ex-plored. A new two-moment and predicted density graupel category is implemented...- publication PDF
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Uncertainty Analysis of a Radome Flush Orifice Air Motion System for the...
This analysis is intended to establish a detailed measurement uncertainty for the present radome air motion systems used at NCAR and to provide a working document that may be...- publication PDF
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The influence of near-surface, high-entropy air in hurricane eyes on maximum...
Using a time-dependent axisymmetric numerical model, the authors evaluate whether high-entropy air near the surface in hurricane eyes can substantially increase hurricanes'...- publication PDF
