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False alarms and close calls: A conceptual model of warning accuracy
The false alarm rate ( FAR) measures the fraction of forecasted events that did not occur, and it remains one of the key metrics for verifying National Weather Service (NWS)...- publication PDF
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Diagnosing radial ventilation in dropsonde observations of Hurricane Sam (2021)
This study presents a method to diagnose radial ventilation, the horizontal flux of relatively low-9e 9 e air into tropical cyclones, from dropsonde observations. We used this...- publication PDF
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Eddy-mediated Hadley cell expansion due to axisymmetric angular momentum...
The poleward expansion of the Hadley cells is one of the most robust modeled responses to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. There are many proposed mechanisms for...- publication PDF
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Comparing partial and continuously cycling Ensemble Kalman Filter data...
Several limited-area 80-member ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) data assimilation systems with 15-km horizontal grid spacing were run over a computational domain spanning the...- publication PDF
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Detecting and sizing the Earth with PLATO: A feasibility study based on solar data
Context. The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will observe the same area of the sky continuously for at least two years in an effort to detect...- publication PDF
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Drop size distribution characteristics of seven typhoons in China
This study is the first attempt to investigate the characteristics of the drop size distribution (DSD) and drop shape relation (DSR) of seven typhoons after making landfall in...- publication PDF
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Emission factors for open and domestic biomass burning for use in atmospheric models
Biomass burning (BB) is the second largest source of trace gases and the largest source of primary fine carbonaceous particles in the global troposphere. Many recent BB studies...- publication PDF
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The influence of hygroscopic flare seeding on drop size distribution over...
This study presents measurements of the initial cloud-base droplet spectra of seeded and unseeded clouds observed during the Queensland Cloud Seeding Research Program field...- publication PDF
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Toward reliable ensemble Kalman filter estimates of CO₂ fluxes
The use of ensemble filters for estimating sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO₂) is becoming increasingly common, because they provide a relatively computationally efficient...- publication PDF
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Evaluations of BDA scheme using the Advanced Research WRF (ARW) model
A tropical cyclone bogus data assimilation (BDA) scheme is built in the Weather Research and Forecasting three-dimensional variational data assimilation system (WRF 3D-VAR)....- publication PDF
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Observation of the neutral-ion coupling through 6-day planetary wave
A westward 6 day oscillation with zonal wave number 1 is identified in the global maps of the ionospheric total electron content (TEC) during May 2003. This signature coincides...- publication PDF
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An updated Antarctic melt record through 2009 and its linkages to...
A 30-year minimum Antarctic snowmelt record occurred during austral summer 2008-2009 according to spaceborne microwave observations for 1980-2009. Strong positive phases of both...- publication PDF
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Recommendations on simple but transformative diversity, equity, and...
It is well established that, in order to perform at their peak ability, a person must feel accepted, safe, and valued at work. Therefore, it is imperative to bring Diversity,...- publication PDF
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Revisiting the parameterization of potential evaporation as a driver of...
We examine the effects of two different parameterizations of potential evaporation on long-term trends in soil moisture, evaporative flux and runoff simulated by the water...- publication PDF
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Observational constraints on recent increases in the atmospheric CH₄ burden
Measurements of atmospheric CH₄ from air samples collected weekly at 46 remote surface sites show that, after a decade of near-zero growth, globally averaged atmospheric methane...- publication PDF
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Robust land-ocean contrasts in energy and water cycle feedbacks
Building on recent observational evidence showing disproportionate increases in temperature and aridity over land in a warming climate, this study examines simulated land-ocean...- publication PDF
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Dimming/brightening over the Iberian Peninsula: Trends in sunshine duration...
This study analyzes the spatial and temporal changes in sunshine duration (SunDu) and total cloud cover (TCC) over the Iberian Peninsula (IP) and four subregions during 1961 -...- publication PDF
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Data-driven Radiative Magnetohydrodynamics simulations with the MURaM code
We present a method of conducting data-driven simulations of solar active regions and flux emergence with the MURaM radiative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code. The horizontal...- publication PDF
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The Model Intercomparison Project on the climatic response to Volcanic...
The enhancement of the stratospheric aerosol layer by volcanic eruptions induces a complex set of responses causing global and regional climate effects on a broad range of...- publication PDF
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Evaluating observational methods to quantify snow duration under diverse...
Forests cover almost 40% of the seasonally snow-covered regions in North America. However, operational snow networks are located primarily in forest clearings, and optical...- publication PDF