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Simulating Southern Ocean aerosol and ice nucleating particles in the...
Southern Ocean (SO) low-level mixed phase clouds have been a long-standing challenge for Earth system models to accurately represent. While improvements to the Community Earth...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms of stratospheric and tropospheric circulation response to...
The impact of projected Arctic sea ice loss on the atmospheric circulation is investigated using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM), a model with a well-...- publication PDF
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Gravity waves simulated by high-resolution Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model
For the first time a mesoscale-resolving whole atmosphere general circulation model has been developed, using the National Center for Atmospheric Research Whole Atmosphere...- publication PDF
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Assessment of uncertainty sources in snow cover simulation in the Tibetan Plateau
Snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) plays an important role in Asian climate. State-of-the-art models, however, show significant simulation biases. In this study, we assess...- publication PDF
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Rapid decline in carbon monoxide emissions and export from East Asia between...
Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite and ground-based carbon monoxide (CO) measurements both suggest a widespread downward trend in CO concentrations...- publication PDF
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An idealized test of the response of the Community Atmosphere Model to...
A set of idealized experiments are developed using the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) to understand the vertical velocity response to reductions in forcing scale that is known...- publication PDF
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Corrections of humidity measurement errors from the Vaisala RS80 radiosonde...
A series of laboratory tests have been conducted on several different batches of Vaisala RS80 radiosondes to understand and develop methods to correct six humidity measurement...- publication PDF
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Fast and slow responses of Southern Ocean sea surface temperature to SAM in...
We investigate how sea surface temperatures (SSTs) around Antarctica respond to the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) on multiple timescales. To that end we examine the relationship...- publication PDF
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Ensemble Kalman filter assimilation of radar observations of the 8 May 2003...
Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) techniques have been proposed for obtaining atmospheric state estimates on the scale of individual convective storms from radar and other...- publication PDF
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Hybrid data-driven magnetofrictional and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of...
We present the first results of the hybrid data-driven magnetofrictional (MF) and data-constrained magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of solar active region NOAA 11158, which...- publication PDF
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The great Colorado flood of September 2013
During the second week of September 2013, a seasonally uncharacteristic weather pattern stalled over the Rocky Mountain Front Range region of northern Colorado bringing with it...- publication PDF
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The role of momentum transfer in tropical cyclogenesis: Insights from a...
A step not fully understood in tropical cyclogenesis is the development of a surface cyclone, which is often preceded by a midlevel cyclone. This paper presents a single-column...- publication PDF
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The call of the emperor penguin: Legal responses to species threatened by...
Species extinction risk is accelerating due to anthropogenic climate change, making it urgent to protect vulnerable species through legal frameworks in order to facilitate...- publication PDF
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Learning from global emissions scenarios
Scenarios of global greenhouse gas emissions have played a key role in climate change analysis for over twenty years. Currently, several research communities are organizing to...- publication PDF
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The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) for CMIP6
Projections of future climate change play a fundamental role in improving understanding of the climate system as well as characterizing societal risks and response options. The...- publication PDF
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Predictability and dynamics of tropical cyclone rapid intensification...
Rapid intensification (RI) of tropical cyclones (TCs) remains one of the most challenging issues in TC prediction. This study investigates the predictability of RI, the...- publication PDF
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Simulation of a North American monsoon gulf surge event and comparison to...
Gulf surges are transient disturbances that propagate along the Gulf of California (GoC) from south to north, transporting cool moist air toward the deserts of northwest Mexico...- publication PDF
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Safeguarding Earth's biodiversity by creating a lunar biorepository
Earth's biodiversity is increasingly threatened and at risk. We propose a passive lunar biorepository for long-term storage of prioritized taxa of live cryopreserved samples to...- publication PDF
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Initialization of the PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model
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Atmospheric impacts of COVID-19 on NOx and VOC levels over China based on...
China was the first country to undergo large-scale lockdowns in response to the pandemic in early 2020 and a progressive return to normalization after April 2020. Spaceborne...- publication PDF