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Injection of iodine to the stratosphere
We report a new estimation of the injection of iodine into the stratosphere based on novel daytime (solar zenith angle < 45°) aircraft observations in the tropical tropopause...- publication PDF
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A ranking of hydrological signatures based on their predictability in space
Hydrological signatures are now used for a wide range of purposes, including catchment classification, process exploration, and hydrological model calibration. The recent boost...- publication PDF
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Workshop on Online Documentation in the Supercomputing Environment: Working Paper
This document addresses the many issues and problems of online user documentation for supercomputers, specifically, problems of delivering online information in a heterogeneous...- publication PDF
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Moisture transport into midlatitudes ahead of recurving tropical cyclones...
Global ensemble forecasts from The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX) Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) are used to quantify the magnitude...- publication PDF
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Roles of barotropic instability across the moat in inner eyewall decay and...
Radar imagery of some double-eyewall tropical cyclones shows that the inner eyewalls became elliptical prior to their dissipation during the eyewall replacement cycles,...- publication PDF
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Influence of natural and anthropogenic aerosols on cloud base droplet size...
Cumulus clouds are common over maritime regions. They are important regulators of the global radiative energy budget and global hydrologic cycle, as well as a key contributor to...- publication PDF
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Ionospheric variability due to tides and quasi-two day wave interactions
The ionospheric variabilities due to planetary waves (PWs) are complicated due to their nonlinear interaction with tides (migrating diurnal and semidiurnal tides [DW1 and SW2])...- publication PDF
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Exploring the impact of forcing error characteristics on physically based...
Physically based models provide insights into key hydrologic processes but are associated with uncertainties due to deficiencies in forcing data, model parameters, and model...- publication PDF
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Scientific Research With High-altitude Balloons: A Brief Review of Recent...
The following report summarizes recent results of balloon-borne observations separately for the various disciplines: infrared astronomy, ultraviolet astronomy, X-ray astronomy,...- publication PDF
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Transport of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and ozone by turbulence and local...
Nocturnal land breezes and daytime lake breezes are studied using data collected by the Canadian Twin Otter aircraft and a deck boat which traversed Candle Lake during the...- publication PDF
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An airborne profiling radar study of the impact of glaciogenic cloud seeding...
Data from an airborne vertically pointing millimeter-wave Doppler radar are used to study the cloud microphysical effect of glaciogenic seeding of cold-season orographic clouds....- publication PDF
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Chromospheric extension of the MURaM code
Context. Detailed numerical models of the chromosphere and corona are required to understand the heating of the solar atmosphere. An accurate treatment of the solar chromosphere...- publication PDF
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Comparison of GOLD nighttime measurements with total electron content:...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) has been imaging the thermosphere and ionosphere since October...- publication PDF
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Impact of electric field variability on Joule heating and thermospheric...
A new quantitative empirical model of the high-latitude forcing of the thermosphere, which is the first empirical model with an electric field variability component consistent...- publication PDF
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The climate response to stratospheric aerosol geoengineering can be tailored...
By injecting different amounts of SO2 at multiple different latitudes, the spatial pattern of aerosol optical depth (AOD) can be partially controlled. This leads to the ability...- publication PDF
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The structure and evolution of Hurricane Elena, 1985. Part II: Convective...
A portable data recorder attached to the Weather Surveillance Radar-1957 (WSR-57) in Apalachicola, Florida, collected 313 radar scans of the reflectivity structure within 150 km...- publication PDF
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Secondary ice production in summer clouds over the Antarctic coast: An...
The correct representation of Antarctic clouds in atmospheric models is crucial for accurate projections of the future Antarctic climate. This is particularly true for summer...- publication PDF
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Climatology of upper tropospheric relative humidity from the atmospheric...
Recently available satellite observations from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) are used to calculate relative humidity in the troposphere. The observations illustrate...- publication PDF
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Improving station-based ensemble surface meteorological analyses using...
Surface meteorological analyses serve a wide range of research and applications, including forcing inputs for hydrological and ecological models, climate analysis, and resource...- publication PDF
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Chemical and dynamical discontinuity at the extratropical tropopause based...
Using isentropic trace gas gradients of O3 and CO, the discontinuity in the chemical composition of the upper troposphere (UT) and lower stratosphere (LS) is examined on middle...- publication PDF