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Programmer Training for Young Scientists - a Case Study
Each summer since 1966 the NCAR Computing Facility has conducted a Summer Fellowship Program to provide on-the-job training in computer programming and research for graduate...- publication PDF
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Space–time variability in UTLS chemical distribution in the Asian summer...
The Asian summer monsoon (ASM) creates a hemispheric-scale signature in trace-gas distributions in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). Data from satellite...- publication PDF
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Derivation of atmospheric reaction mechanisms for volatile organic compounds...
This paper describes the methods that are used in the SAPRC mechanism generation system, MechGen, to estimate rate constants and derive mechanisms for gas-phase reactions of...- publication PDF
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The press and pulse of climate change: Extreme events in the Colorado River Basin
Extremes in temperature and precipitation are associated with damaging floods, prolonged drought, destructive wildfires, agricultural challenges, compromised human health,...- publication PDF
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Modification of North Atlantic deep water by Pacific/upper circumpolar deep...
Much of the salty, high oxygen North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) leaving the Atlantic flows through the Argentine Basin, where it is diluted by fresher, low oxygen Circumpolar...- publication PDF
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Identifying climate change information needs for the Himalayan region:...
Here we present results of a workshop designed to bring together stakeholders from different states of the Indian side of the Himalayan arc and an international group of climate...- publication PDF
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Cloud and precipitation particle identification using cloud radar and Lidar...
This paper describes a technique for identifying hydrometeor particle types using airborne HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR) and High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) observations. HCR...- publication PDF
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Aquaplanets, climate sensitivity, and low clouds
Cloud effects have repeatedly been pointed out as the leading source of uncertainty in projections of future climate, yet clouds remain poorly understood and simulated in...- publication PDF
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Was magnetic storm the only driver of the long-duration enhancements of...
In this study, multiple data sets from Beidou geostationary orbit satellites total electron contents (TECs), ionosonde, meteor radar, magnetometer, and model simulations have...- publication PDF
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Estimation of total lightning from various storm parameters: A...
Because explicit prediction of the electrical activity in storms is computationally expensive and the processes are still poorly understood, an attractive way to predict...- publication PDF
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Wildfire smoke observations in the Western United States from the airborne...
During the summer of 2018, the upward-pointing Wyoming Cloud Lidar (WCL) was deployed on board the University of Wyoming King Air (UWKA) research aircraft for the Biomass...- publication PDF
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Ozone sonde cell current measurements and implications for observations of...
Laboratory measurements of the Electrochemical Concentration Cell (ECC) ozone sonde cell current using ozone free air as well as defined amounts of ozone reveal that background...- publication PDF
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Black carbon-induced snow albedo reduction over the Tibetan Plateau:...
We implement a set of new parameterizations into the widely used Snow, Ice, and Aerosol Radiative (SNICAR) model to account for effects of snow grain shape (spherical vs....- publication PDF
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Comparing radiosonde and COSMIC atmospheric profile data to quantify...
Collocated global atmospheric temperature, humidity, and refractivity profiles from radiosondes and from Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate...- publication PDF
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Statistical dependence of EMIC wave scattering on wave and plasma parameters
A recent statistical study (Qin et al., 2018, https://doi-org.cuucar.idm.oclc.org/10.1029/2018JA025419) has suggested that not all electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves can...- publication PDF
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Relationship of multiwavelength radar measurements to ice microphysics from...
Coincident radar data with Doppler radar measurements at X, Ku, Ka, and W bands on the NASA ER-2 aircraft overflying the NASA P-3 aircraft acquiring in situ microphysical...- publication PDF
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Universal time variations of the auroral hemispheric power and their...
This paper quantitatively analyzes the auroral hemispheric power (HP) and its interhemispheric asymmetry as a function of universal time (UT) for geomagnetically quiet...- publication PDF
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The probability distribution of land surface wind speeds
The probability density function (pdf) of land-surface wind speeds is characterised using a global network of observations. Daytime surface wind speeds are shown to be broadly...- publication PDF
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The Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) Framework v6
The Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) is a collection of physical atmospheric parameterizations for use in Earth system models and a framework that couples the physics to...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric amines and ammonia measured with a chemical ionization mass...
We report measurements of ambient amines and ammonia with a fast response chemical ionization mass spectrometer (CIMS) in a southeastern US forest and a moderately polluted...- publication PDF