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Is it possible to quantify irrigation water-use by assimilating a...
Irrigation is the largest human intervention in the water cycle that can modulate climate extremes, yet irrigation water use (IWU) remains largely unknown in most regions....- publication PDF
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Characterizing warm atmospheric boundary layer over land by combining Raman...
PBL plays a critical role in the atmosphere by transferring heat, moisture, and momentum. The warm PBL has a distinct diurnal cycle including daytime convective mixing layer...- publication PDF
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Unpiloted aircraft system instrument for the rapid collection of whole air...
A new airborne system, the Whole Air Sampling Pilotless Platform (WASPP), is described for the collection of whole air samples and in situ meteorological measurements onboard a...- publication PDF
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Parameterization of mixed layer eddies. III: Implementation and impact in...
A parameterization for the restratification by finite-amplitude, submesoscale, mixed layer eddies, formulated as an overturning streamfunction, has been recently proposed to...- publication PDF
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The Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) database: a...
In this paper, we describe the construction of the Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) database, which includes vertically resolved ozone and water...- publication PDF
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Seasonal pattern of regional carbon balance in the Central Rocky Mountains...
High elevation forests represent a large fraction of potential carbon uptake in North America, but this uptake is not well constrained by observations. Additionally, forests in...- publication PDF
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Why is the AMOC monostable in coupled general circulation models?
This paper is concerned with the question: why do coupled general circulation models (CGCM) seem to be biased toward a monostable Atlantic meridional overturning circulation...- publication PDF
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Top-down estimation of carbon monoxide emissions from the Mexico Megacity...
Continuous carbon monoxide (CO) total column densities above the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) campus in Mexico City have been derived from solar absorption...- publication PDF
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Significant enhancements of nitrogen oxides, black carbon, and ozone in the...
Extensive wildfires burned in northern North America during summer 2004, releasing large amounts of trace gases and aerosols into the atmosphere. Emissions from these wildfires...- publication PDF
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Global impacts of recent Southern Ocean cooling
Since the beginning of the satellite era, Southern Ocean sea surface temperatures (SSTs) have cooled, despite global warming. While observed Southern Ocean cooling has pre-...- publication PDF
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How does vertical wind shear influence entrainment in squall lines?
The influence of vertical wind shear on updraft entrainment in squall lines is not well understood. To address this knowledge gap, a suite of high-resolution idealized numerical...- publication PDF
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Quasi-stationary, extreme-rain-producing convective systems associated with...
This study identifies and examines the common characteristics of several nocturnal midlatitude mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) that developed near mesoscale convective...- publication PDF
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The terminator "toy" chemistry test: A simple tool to assess errors in...
This test extends the evaluation of transport schemes from prescribed advection of inert scalars to reactive species. The test consists of transporting two interacting chemical...- publication PDF
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Modification of near-wall coherent structures by inertial particles
Direct numerical simulations are combined with two-way coupled Lagrangian point particles to study the effect of Reynolds number on particle-turbulence interaction. Turbulent...- publication PDF
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Editorial: Forecast verification methods across time and space scales – Part I
The 7th International Verification Methods Workshop - with a theme of "forecast verification methods across time and space scales" - was held in Berlin between 3 and 11 May...- publication PDF
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Description of the UCAR/CU soil moisture product
Currently, the ability to use remotely sensed soil moisture to investigate linkages between the water and energy cycles and for use in data assimilation studies is limited to...- publication PDF
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The UT variation of the polar ionosphere based on COSMIC observations
Mean polar electron content (mPEC) is used to analyze the polar ionosphere in both the Antarctic and Arctic. The mPEC is calculated over the polar region covering geographic...- publication PDF
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Northern hemisphere blocking in ∼25-km-resolution E3SM v0.3 atmosphere-land...
The fidelity of a prerelease Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) in reproducing atmospheric blocking is evaluated with similar to 100- and similar to 25-km horizontal...- publication PDF
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On the dynamical control of the mesosphere-lower thermosphere by the lower...
The NCAR Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) is used to investigate the dynamical influence of the lower and middle atmosphere on the upper mesosphere and lower...- publication PDF
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Impact of the lower atmosphere on the ionosphere response to a geomagnetic superstorm
Numerical simulations in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) thermosphere-ionosphere-electrodynamics general circulation model (TIE-GCM) are performed to...- publication PDF