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Closing the dimethyl sulfide budget in the tropical marine boundary layer...
Fourteen research flights were conducted with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) C-130 near Christmas Island (2° N, 157° W) during the summer of 2007 as part...- publication PDF
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Near-surface wind convergence over the Gulf Stream - The role of SST revisited
High-resolution observations have demonstrated the presence of strong time-mean near-surface wind convergence (NSWC) anchored across oceanic frontal zones, such as the western...- publication PDF
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Sources and properties of Amazonian aerosol particles
This review provides a comprehensive account of what is known presently about Amazonian aerosol particles and concludes by formulating outlook and priorities for further...- publication PDF
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A high-quality, homogenized, global, long-term (1993-2008) DORIS...
For the first time a high-quality, consistent, global, long-term data set of zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) and precipitable water (PW) is produced from Doppler orbitography...- publication PDF
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Anthropogenic control over wintertime oxidation of atmospheric pollutants
During winter in the midlatitudes, photochemical oxidation is significantly slower than in summer and the main radical oxidants driving formation of secondary pollutants, such...- publication PDF
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A numerical study of interactions between surface forcing and sea breeze...
High-resolution simulations from the Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting (ARW-WRF) model, coupled to an urban canopy model (UCM), are used to investigate impacts...- publication PDF
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The dry season intensity as a key driver of NPP trends
We analyze the impacts of changing dry season length and intensity on vegetation productivity and biomass. Our results show a wetness asymmetry in dry ecosystems, with dry...- publication PDF
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Rapid blue- and redshifted excursions in Hα line profiles synthesized from...
Context. Rapid blue- and redshifted excursions (RBEs and RREs) may play an important role in mass-loading and heating the solar corona, but their nature and origin are still...- publication PDF
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Comparison of land skin temperature from a land model, remote sensing, and...
Land skin temperature (Ts) is an important parameter in the energy exchange between the land surface and atmosphere. Here hourly Ts from the Community Land Model version 4.0,...- publication PDF
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Improving the representation of hail in the Thompson microphysics scheme
Methods to improve the representation of hail in the Thompson-Eidhammer microphysics scheme are ex-plored. A new two-moment and predicted density graupel category is implemented...- publication PDF
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Model-evaluation tools for three-dimensional cloud verification via...
Clouds pose many operational hazards to the aviation community in terms of ceilings and visibility, turbulence, and aircraft icing. Realistic descriptions of the three-...- publication PDF
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Crop Wind Energy Experiment (CWEX): Observations of surface-layer, boundary...
Perturbations of mean and turbulent wind characteristics by large wind turbines modify fluxes between the vegetated surface and the lower boundary layer. While simulations have...- publication PDF
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Spatial model fitting for large datasets with applications to climate and...
Many problems in the environmental and biological sciences involve the analysis of large quantities of data. Further, the data in these problems are often subject to various...- publication PDF
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Unexpected slowdown of US pollutant emission reduction in the past decade
Ground and satellite observations show that air pollution regulations in the United States (US) have resulted in substantial reductions in emissions and corresponding...- publication PDF
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Groundwater depletion during drought threatens future water security of the...
Streamflow of the Colorado River Basin is the most overallocated in the world. Recent assessment indicates that demand for this renewable resource will soon outstrip supply,...- publication PDF
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Balloon Shapes and Stresses Below the Design Altitude
Design data for natural-shape balloons, published in 1952, have been used to design thousands of balloons. These data, however, describe the balloon only at its float altitude....- publication PDF
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Dynamics of eddying abyssal mixing layers over sloping rough topography
The abyssal overturning circulation is thought to be primarily driven by small-scale turbulent mixing. Diagnosed water-mass transformations are dominated by rough topography...- publication PDF
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The NCAR Terabit Memory System
This document describes the features required in the software for the NCAR Terabit Memory System (TMS-4). The introductory materials include information regarding capacity,...- publication PDF
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Recent developments in tornado theory and observations
This article critically reviews research on tornado theory and observations over the last decade. From the theoretical standpoint, the major advances have come through improved...- publication PDF
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Dilution and photooxidation driven processes explain the evolution of...
Wildfires are an important atmospheric source of primary organic aerosol (POA) and precursors for secondary organic aerosol (SOA) at regional and global scales. However, there...- publication PDF
