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Easterly wave contributions to seasonal rainfall over the tropical Americas...
Easterly waves (EWs) are important moisture carriers and their variability can impact the total May-November rainfall, defined as seasonal precipitation, over the Tropical...- publication PDF
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Contrasting the use of single-realization versus ensemble-average...
Chemical and biological (CB) defense systems require significant testing and evaluation before they are deployed for real-time use. Because it is not feasible to evaluate these...- publication PDF
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Dynamical structures of cross-domain forecast error covariance of a...
Understanding the dynamics of the flow-dependent forecast error covariance across the air-sea interface is beneficial toward revealing the potential influences of strongly...- publication PDF
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Numerical simulations of active region scale flux emergence: From spot...
We present numerical simulations of active region scale flux emergence covering a time span of up to 6 days. Flux emergence is driven by a bottom boundary condition that advects...- publication PDF
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Amplification of future energy demand growth due to climate change
Future energy demand is likely to increase due to climate change, but the magnitude dependson many interacting sources of uncertainty. We combine econometrically estimated...- publication PDF
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Persistent identifiers for instruments and facilities: Current state,...
Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are central to the vision of open science described in the FAIR Principles. However, the use of PIDs for scientific instruments and facilities is...- publication PDF
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The quasi 2 day wave and spatial-temporal variability of the OH emission and...
The quasi 2 day wave (QTDW) during January 2006 is investigated using Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) observations of OH airglow and...- publication PDF
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Wavenumber-frequency spectra of normal mode function decomposed atmospheric...
The study of tropical tropospheric disturbances has led to important challenges from both observational and theoretical points of view. In particular, the observed wavenumber-...- publication PDF
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Rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional...
Pakistan and India may have 400 to 500 nuclear weapons by 2025 with yields from tested 12- to 45-kt values to a few hundred kilotons. If India uses 100 strategic weapons to...- publication PDF
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Modulation of the diurnal cycle of warm-season precipitation by short-wave troughs
Traveling deep tropospheric disturbances of wavelengths ~1500 km (short waves) have long been known to play an important role in the initiation and maintenance of warm-season...- publication PDF
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Using Regionalized Air Quality Model Performance and Bayesian Maximum...
Estimates of ground-level ozone concentrations have been improved through data fusion of observations and atmospheric chemistry models. Our previous global ozone estimates for...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of mountain wave drag estimates on separation methods and...
Internal gravity waves (GWs) are ubiquitous in the atmosphere, making significant contributions to the me-soscale motions. Since the majority of their spectrum is unresolved in...- publication PDF
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Science of nowcasting Olympic weather for Vancouver 2010 (SNOW-V10): A world...
A World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) project entitled the Science of Nowcasting Olympic Weather for Vancouver 2010 (SNOW-V10) was developed to be associated with the...- publication PDF
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ESD Reviews: Model dependence in multi-model climate ensembles: weighting,...
The rationale for using multi-model ensembles in climate change projections and impacts research is often based on the expectation that different models constitute independent...- publication PDF
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Evidence for SSW triggered Q6DW-tide and Q6DW-gravity wave interactions...
An exceptionally strong westward propagating quasi-6-day wave (Q6DW) with zonal wavenumber 1 in connection with the rare 2019 Southern Hemispheric Sudden Stratospheric Warming...- publication PDF
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Future abrupt reductions in the summer Arctic sea ice
We examine the trajectory of Arctic summer sea ice in seven projections from the Community Climate System Model and find that abrupt reductions are a common feature of these...- publication PDF
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Space weather modeling capabilities assessment: Neutral density for orbit...
The specification and prediction of density changes in the thermosphere is a key challenge for space weather observations and modeling, because it is one result of complex...- publication PDF
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"Morning-glory" disturbances and the environment in which they propagate
Results of a field experiment carried out in 1991 to gather upper-air data on the morning-glory environment are presented. The data include daily early morning radiosonde...- publication PDF
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Last millennium climate and its variability in CCSM4
An overview of a simulation referred to as the "Last Millennium" (LM) simulation of the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4), is presented. The CCSM4 LM simulation...- publication PDF
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Evolution of radar meteorology in India and the latest trends
Weather radar is an indispensable tool in the continuous monitoring and warning of extreme events including tropical cyclones and thunderstorms. The India Meteorological...- publication PDF