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Does positioning of the North Pacific Current affect downstream ecosystem...
Fluctuations in the positioning of major ocean currents can influence ecosystem dynamics, but previously the technology has been lacking to make direct observational...- publication PDF
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Mercury in vegetation and organic soil at an upland boreal forest site in...
We studied an upland boreal forest plot located in the Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada, to measure the total mercury content in vegetation and organic soil...- publication PDF
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Interplanetary Control of High-Latitude Thermospheric Winds: Results From...
Based on the observations from the balloon-borne instrument High-altitude Interferometer WIND experiment (HIWIND) and the simulations from the Thermosphere Ionosphere...- publication PDF
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The impact of convection on ENSO: From a delayed oscillator to a series of events
The NCAR Community Climate System Model, version 3 (CCSM3) exhibits persistent errors in its simulation of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) mode of coupled variability....- publication PDF
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Interactions between demography and environmental effects are important...
Climate change will affect the population dynamics of many species, yet the consequences for the long-term persistence of populations are poorly understood. A major reason for...- publication PDF
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On the importance of representing snow over sea-ice for simulating the...
Correctly representing the snow on sea-ice has great potential to improve cryosphere-atmosphere coupling in forecasting and monitoring (e.g., reanalysis) applications, via...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric River detection under changing seasonality and mean‐state...
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are filamentary structures within the atmosphere that account for a substantial portion of poleward moisture transport and play an important role in...- publication PDF
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Modeling regional aerosol and aerosol precursor variability over California...
The performance of the Weather Research and Forecasting regional model with chemistry (WRF-Chem) in simulating the spatial and temporal variations in aerosol mass, composition,...- publication PDF
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Nonmigrating tidal variability in the SABER/TIMED mesospheric ozone
This paper presents for the first time evidence showing nonmigrating tidal variations in the mesospheric ozone (O₃) derived from the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband...- publication PDF
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Interdecadal variations in ENSO teleconnection to the Indo-Western Pacific...
Slow modulation of interannual variability and its relationship to El Niño--Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is investigated for the period of 1870-2007 using shipboard surface...- publication PDF
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Pliocene model intercomparison project (PlioMIP): Experimental design and...
In 2008 the temporal focus of the Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project was expanded to include a model intercomparison for the mid-Pliocene warm period (3.29–2.97...- publication PDF
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Improved techniques for evaluating GCM cloudiness applied to the NCAR CCM3
Evaluations of GCM cloudiness typically compare climatological output with observations, but averaging over time can obscure the presence of compensating errors. A more...- publication PDF
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The longitudinal evolution of equatorial coronal holes
In 2011, three satellites-the Solar-Terrestrial RElations Observatory A B, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)-were in a unique spatial alignment that allowed a 360 degrees...- publication PDF
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Next-decade needs for 3-D ionosphere imaging
Accurately imaging the 3-D ionospheric variation and its temporal evolution has always been a challenging task for the space weather community. Recent decades have witnessed...- publication PDF
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Secondary ice production improves simulations of freezing rain
Weather forecasts and climate projections of precipitation phase and type in winter storms are challenging due to the complicated underlying microphysical and dynamical...- publication PDF
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Model structure and climate data uncertainty in historical simulations of...
The divergence among Earth system models in the terrestrial carbon cycle has prompted interest in how to reduce uncertainty. Previous studies have identified model structural...- publication PDF
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CHAT: The Colorado Hail Accumulation from Thunderstorms project
In recent years, hail accumulations from thunderstorms have occurred frequently enough to catch the attention of the National Weather Service, the general public, and news...- publication PDF
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Reexamination of the Alaska 1-day record rainfall
The National Climatic Data Center and numerous other sources list the 15.20-in. (386 mm) rainfall observed at the Angoon, Alaska, cooperative weather station on 12 October 1982...- publication PDF
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Remote Job Entry Through the MODCOMP
The NCAR Remote Job Entry (RJE) system is a batchprocessing network used with a variety of terminal equipment at NCAR, in the Boulder area, and at locations distant from NCAR....- publication PDF
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Impacts of updraft size and dimensionality on the perturbation pressure and...
This study investigates relationships between vertical velocity, perturbation pressure, updraft size, and dimensionality for cumulus convection. Generalized theoretical...- publication PDF
