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Effects of convective momentum transport on the atmospheric circulation in...
Transport of momentum by convection is an important process affecting global circulation. Owing to the lack of global observations, the quantification of the impact of this...- publication PDF
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Global volcanic aerosol properties derived from emissions, 1990-2014, using...
Accurate representation of global stratospheric aerosols from volcanic and nonvolcanic sulfur emissions is key to understanding the cooling effects and ozone losses that may be...- publication PDF
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Toward emulating an explicit organic chemistry mechanism with random forest models
Predicting secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation relies either on extremely detailed, numerically expensive models accounting for the condensation of individual species or...- publication PDF
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Hydrological extremes across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a changing climate
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is projected to experience significant impacts from future climate change and these impacts include but are not limited to increases in extreme...- publication PDF
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Global sensitivity analysis of chemistry & climate model budgets of...
Projections of future atmospheric composition change and its impacts on air quality and climate depend heavily on chemistry-climate models that allow us to investigate the...- publication PDF
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Contrail cirrus supporting areas in model and observations
Contrails form and persist dependent on the surrounding moisture, temperature and pressure fields and on fuel and aircraft specific variables. After formation, contrail...- publication PDF
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Opinion: A critical evaluation of the evidence for aerosol invigoration of...
Deep convective updraft invigoration via indirect effects of increased aerosol number concentration on cloud microphysics is frequently cited as a driver of correlations between...- publication PDF
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An assessment of the flux profile method for determining air--sea momentum...
An analysis of the reliability of using dropsonde profile data to compute surface flux coefficients of momentum and heat is performed. Monin-Obukhov (MO) similarity theory forms...- publication PDF
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The potential impact of nuclear conflict on ocean acidification
We demonstrate that the global cooling resulting from a range of nuclear conflict scenarios would temporarily increase the pH in the surface ocean by up to 0.06 units over a...- publication PDF
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An application level parallel I/O library for Earth system models
We describe the design and implementation of an application level parallel I/O (PIO) library for the reading and writing of distributed arrays to several common scientific data...- publication PDF
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Generation and propagation of interia-gravity waves from vortex dipoles and jets
This study investigates gravity wave generation and propagation from jets within idealized vortex dipoles using a nonhydrostatic mesoscale model. Two types of initially balanced...- publication PDF
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HIRDLS observations of gravity wave momentum fluxes over the monsoon regions
Measurements from the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) on NASA's Aura satellite are used to quantify gravity wave momentum fluxes generated from monsoon regions...- publication PDF
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Review of wave-turbulence interactions in the stable atmospheric boundary layer
Flow in a stably stratified environment is characterized by anisotropic and intermittent turbulence and wavelike motions of varying amplitudes and periods. Understanding...- publication PDF
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The Relative Accuracy of ALPEX Aircraft Data / an Evaluation of the ALPEX...
During the ALPEX progran, three participating large research aircraft - the NCAR Electra, the NOAA P5, and the DFVLR Falcon - joined for an interccmparison flight. Using the...- publication PDF
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CO2 increase experiments using the CESM: Relationship to climate sensitivity...
We examine the response of the Community Earth System Model Versions 1 and 2 (CESM1 and CESM2) to abrupt quadrupling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations (4xCO2) and to 1% annually...- publication PDF
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The role of climate niche, geofloristic history, habitat preference, and...
Research Highlights: To better understand within-community variation in wood density, our study demonstrated that a more nuanced approach is required beyond the climate–wood...- publication PDF
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Observational constraints on glyoxal production from isoprene oxidation and...
We use a 0-D photochemical box model and a 3-D global chemistry-climate model, combined with observations from the NOAA Southeast Nexus (SENEX) aircraft campaign, to understand...- publication PDF
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Tidal-induced net transport effects on the oxygen distribution in the thermosphere
Through a series of numerical experiments performed with the National Center for Atmospheric Research Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation...- publication PDF
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Revised cloud processes to improve the mean and intraseasonal variability of...
The National Centre for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System (CFS) is being used for operational monsoon prediction over the Indian region. Recent studies...- publication PDF
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On the Interaction Between Mesoscale Eddies and Topography
Numerical experiments performed with the help of Bretherton and Karweit's mid-ocean model are described. Two layers in the vertical direction are included and the horizontal...- publication PDF
