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Equatorial signatures of the Pacific Meridional Modes: Dependence on mean...
Extratropical atmospheric variability can impact tropical climate in the Pacific sector via the Pacific Meridional Modes (PMMs). The South PMM (SPMM) has a larger equatorial...- publication PDF
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Progress in observations and simulations of global change in the upper atmosphere
Anthropogenic increases of greenhouse gases warm the troposphere but have a cooling effect in the middle and upper atmosphere. The steady increase of CO₂ is the dominant cause...- publication PDF
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Dynamics and predictability of tropical cyclone rapid intensification in...
Hurricane Patricia (2015) over the eastern Pacific was a record-breaking tropical cyclone (TC) under a very favorable environment during its rapid intensification (RI) period,...- publication PDF
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Does regional hydroclimate change scale linearly with global warming?
Many aspects of climate change scale linearly with global warming. However, nonlinear changes are possible, especially in the context of hydroclimate, and under emissions...- publication PDF
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Analysis of a dryline during IHOP: Implications for convection initiation
A detailed analysis of a dryline that formed on 22 May 2002 during the International H₂O Project (IHOP) is presented. The dryline was classified as a null case since air parcels...- publication PDF
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A longer vernal window: The role of winter coldness and snowpack in driving...
Climate change is altering the timing and duration of the vernal window, a period that marks the end of winter and the start of the growing season when rapid transitions in...- publication PDF
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Influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on entry stratospheric water...
The connection between the dominant mode of interannual variability in the tropical troposphere, the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the entry of stratospheric water...- publication PDF
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A link between the hiatus in global warming and North American drought
Portions of western North America have experienced prolonged drought over the last decade. This drought has occurred at the same time as the global warming hiatus—a decadal...- publication PDF
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MAPR wind profiler observations of tropical storms for the Clouds and...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) operated an Integrated Sounding System (ISS) in Miami, Florida, for the CPS (Clouds and Precipitation Study) in late summer...- publication PDF
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Daytime oxidized reactive nitrogen partitioning in Western U.S. wildfire smoke plumes
The Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption, and Nitrogen (WE-CAN) deployed the NSF/NCAR C-130 aircraft in summer 2018 across the western U.S. to...- publication PDF
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Previously neglected effects of strong horizontal winds on raindrop...
Persistent strong winds are a common feature within the near‐surface layer of tropical cyclones, which can induce pronounced horizontal motion as raindrops descend....- publication PDF
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Near-surface water vapor over polar sea ice is always near ice saturation
During our yearlong participation in the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean experiment (SHEBA), we found the measured relative humidity, figured for saturation with respect...- publication PDF
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An inter-comparison of the mass budget of the Arctic sea ice in CMIP6 models
We compare the mass budget of the Arctic sea ice for 15 models submitted to the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), using new diagnostics that have not been...- publication PDF
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Critical load exceedances for North America and Europe using an ensemble of...
Exceedances of critical loads for deposition of sulfur (S) and nitrogen (N) in different ecosystems were estimated using European and North American ensembles of air quality...- publication PDF
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Use of FLUXNET in the Community Land Model development
The Community Land Model version 3 (CLM3.0) simulates land-atmosphere exchanges in response to climatic forcings. CLM3.0 has known biases in the surface energy partitioning as a...- publication PDF
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Simulations of the equatorial thermosphere anomaly: Field-aligned ion drag effect
In this paper the impact of the field-aligned ion drag on equatorial thermosphere temperature and density is quantitatively investigated on the basis of the National Center for...- publication PDF
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Comparisons of snowfall measurements in complex terrain made during the 2010...
Solid precipitation (SP) intensity ( Rs ) using four automatic gauges, Pluvio, PARSIVEL (PArticle, SIze and VELocity), FD12P and POSS, and radar reflectivity factor ( Z ) using...- publication PDF
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Impact of the 2015/2016 El Niño on the terrestrial carbon cycle constrained...
Evaluating the response of the land carbon sink to the anomalies in temperature and drought imposed by El Nino events provides insights into the present-day carbon cycle and its...- publication PDF
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Modeling impact of FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 mission on ionospheric space weather...
For the past decade, the paucity of ionospheric observations has made it almost impossible to reconstruct the three-dimensional structures of global ionospheric electron...- publication PDF
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Comparison of aerosol chemistry transport model simulations with lidar and...
The ability of the aerosol chemistry transport model CHIMERE to simulate the vertical aerosol concentration profiles at a site near the city of Paris is evaluated using routine...- publication PDF
