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Effects of complex terrain on the shortwave radiative balance: A...
Parameterizing incident solar radiation over complex topography regions in Earth system models (ESMs) remains a challenging task. In ESMs, downward solar radiative fluxes at the...- publication PDF
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Bridging the gap: A new module for human water use in the Community Earth...
Water scarcity is exacerbated by rising water use and climate change, yet state-of-the-art Earth system models typically do not represent human water demand. Here we present an...- publication PDF
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Projected future changes in vegetation in Western North America in the...
Rapid and broad-scale forest mortality associated with recent droughts, rising temperature, and insect outbreaks has been observed over western North America (NA). Climate...- publication PDF
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Causes and probability of occurrence of extreme precipitation events like...
Unprecedented high-intensity flooding induced by extreme precipitation was reported over Chennai in India during November-December of 2015, which led to extensive damage to...- publication PDF
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Global data set of biogenic VOC emissions calculated by the MEGAN model over...
The Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature (MEGANv2.1) together with the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) meteorological...- publication PDF
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Antarctic sea ice area in CMIP6
Fully coupled climate models have long shown a wide range of Antarctic sea ice states and evolution over the satellite era. Here, we present a high-level evaluation of Antarctic...- publication PDF
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Characterizing continental US hurricane risk: Which intensity metric is best?
The damage potential of a hurricane is widely considered to depend more strongly on an integrated measure of the hurricane wind field, such as integrated kinetic energy (IKE),...- publication PDF
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Diurnal to decadal global forcing for ocean and sea-ice models: The data...
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Emissions from biomass burning in the Yucatan
In March 2006 two instrumented aircraft made the first detailed field measurements of biomass burning (BB) emissions in the Northern Hemisphere tropics as part of the MILAGRO...- publication PDF
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Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: Reviews of observational and...
This article provides a brief overview of AMOC science organized collaboratively between the UK RAPID and US AMOC Programs (with partners internationally) during the past 16...- publication PDF
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Changes in the Earth's magnetic field over the past century: Effects on the...
We investigated the contribution of changes in the Earth's magnetic field to long-term trends in the ionosphere, thermosphere, and solar quiet (Sq) magnetic variation using the...- publication PDF
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Survey of NCAR User Needs for Visualization Tools
This report, from the Scientific Computing Division (SCD), highlights the latest visualization tools to the atmospheric and oceanographic research communities served by NCAR....- publication PDF
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A Polarization Calibration Technique for the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter
This document presents an efficient method for determination of the polarimeter response function of the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter (ASP). ASP has a linear polarizer which can...- publication PDF
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Regional modeling of carbonaceous aerosols over Europe--focus on secondary...
In this study, an improved and complete secondary organic aerosols (SOA) chemistry scheme was implemented in the CHIMERE model. The implementation of isoprene chemistry for SOA...- publication PDF
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Disappearance of the southeast U.S. "warming hole" with the late 1990s...
Observed surface air temperatures over the contiguous U.S. for the second half of the twentieth century showed a slight cooling over the southeastern part of the country, the...- publication PDF
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The KPP boundary layer scheme for the ocean: Revisiting its formulation and...
We evaluate the Community ocean Vertical Mixing project version of the K-profile parameterization (KPP) for modeling upper ocean turbulent mixing. For this purpose, one-...- publication PDF
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Internal variability of Indian Ocean SST
A 40-yr integration of an eddy-resolving numerical model of the tropical Indian Ocean is analyzed to quantify the interannual variability that is caused by the internal...- publication PDF
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Direct numerical simulation of the Plumb-McEwan laboratory analogue of the QBO
The laboratory experiment of Plumb and McEwan demonstrates the principal mechanism of periodically reversing winds observed in the stratosphere--the quasi-biennial oscillation...- publication PDF
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Insights into urban heat island and heat waves synergies revealed by a...
Researchers have recently focused on the interplay of the urban heat island (UHI) effect and heat waves (HWs). However, the synergies of these two phenomena remains inconclusive...- publication PDF
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Monitoring and understanding changes in extremes: Extratropical storms,...
This scientific assessment examines changes in three climate extremes—extratropical storms, winds, and waves—with an emphasis on U.S. coastal regions during the cold season....- publication PDF
