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Satellite-based analysis of CO seasonal and interannual variability over the...
The Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite record is applied to study the geographical and temporal variability of carbon monoxide (CO) from biomass...- publication PDF
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Evidence of the lower thermospheric winter-to-summer circulation from SABER...
Numerical studies have shown that there is a lower thermospheric winter-to-summer circulation that is driven by wave dissipation and that it plays a significant role in trace...- publication PDF
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Nighttime chemical evolution of aerosol and trace gases in a power plant...
Nighttime chemical evolution of aerosol and trace gases in a coal-fired power plant plume was monitored with the Department of Energy Grumman Gulfstream-1 aircraft during the...- publication PDF
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Usefulness of ensemble forecasts from NCEP Climate Forecast System in...
Typically, sub-seasonal to intra-annual climate forecasts are based on ensemble mean (EM) predictions. The EM prediction provides only a part of the information available from...- publication PDF
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Instructor's Handbook on Meteorological Instrumentation
This Instructor's Handbook is the result of an NCAR-sponsored summer colloquium whose purpose is provided useful material to assist instructors in teaching meteorological...- publication PDF
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Attribution of the late-twentieth-century rainfall decline in southwest Australia
There was a dramatic decrease in rainfall in the southwest of Australia (SWA) in the mid-1960s. A statistical method, based on the idea of analogous synoptic situations, is used...- publication PDF
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Placing the east-west North American aridity gradient in a multi-century context
Instrumental records indicate a century-long trend towards drying over western North America and wetting over eastern North America. A continuation of these trends into the...- publication PDF
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US billion-dollar weather and climate disasters: Data sources, trends,...
This paper focuses on the US Billion-dollar Weather/Climate Disaster report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center. The current...- publication PDF
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Reversal of increasing tropical ocean hypoxia trends with sustained climate warming
Dissolved oxygen (O-2) is essential for the survival of marine animals. Climate change impacts on future oxygen distributions could modify species biogeography, trophic...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of native Earth system model output with ESMValTool v2.6.0
Earth system models (ESMs) are state-of-the-art climate models that allow numerical simulations of the past, present-day, and future climate. To extend our understanding of the...- publication PDF
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Using radiative convective equilibrium to explore clouds and climate in the...
Characteristics of, and fundamental differences between, the radiative-convective equilibrium (RCE) climate states following the Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Model...- publication PDF
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Direct multipoint observations capturing the reformation of a supercritical...
Using multipoint Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observations in an unusual string-of-pearls configuration, we examine in detail observations of the reformation of a fast...- publication PDF
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Microphysical characteristics of overshooting convection from polarimetric...
The authors present observations of the microphysical characteristics of deep convection that overshoots the altitude of the extratropical tropopause from analysis of the...- publication PDF
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Characterization of cameras for the COSMO K-coronagraph
Digital image sensors are ubiquitous in astronomical instrumentation and it is well known that they suffer from issues that must be corrected for data to be scientifically...- publication PDF
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A preliminary synthesis of modeled climate change impacts on U.S. regional...
This paper provides a synthesis of results that have emerged from recent modeling studies of the potential sensitivity of U.S. regional ozone (O₃) concentrations to global...- publication PDF
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Toward an integrated set of surface meteorological observations for climate...
Observations are the foundation for understanding the climate system. Yet, currently available land meteorological data are highly fractured into various global, regional, and...- publication PDF
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Nuclear Niño response observed in simulations of nuclear war scenarios
The climate impacts of smoke from fires ignited by nuclear war would include global cooling and crop failure. Facing increased reliance on ocean-based food sources, it is...- publication PDF
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Spectral width of premonsoon and monsoon clouds over Indo-Gangetic valley
The combined effect of humidity and aerosol on cloud droplet spectral width (σ) in continental monsoon clouds is a topic of significant relevance for precipitation and radiation...- publication PDF
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3-D regional ionosphere imaging and SED reconstruction with a new TEC-based...
A new TEC-based ionospheric data assimilation system (TIDAS) over the continental US and adjacent area (20 degrees-60 degrees N, 60 degrees-130 degrees W, and 100-600 km) has...- publication PDF
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Enhancing the student experience with Numerical Weather Prediction:...
University faculty joined the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) for a live, virtual 3-day workshop to learn about the capabilities of the DTC's containerized end-to-end NWP...- publication PDF