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Dimming/brightening over the Iberian Peninsula: Trends in sunshine duration...
This study analyzes the spatial and temporal changes in sunshine duration (SunDu) and total cloud cover (TCC) over the Iberian Peninsula (IP) and four subregions during 1961 -...- publication PDF
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Simulation of chemical transport by Typhoon Mireille (1991)
This study examines the transport of chemical species to the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) by Typhoon Mireille (1991). We follow an integrated research approach,...- publication PDF
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Biomass burning smoke and its influence on clouds over the Western U.S.
Small cumulus clouds over the western United States were measured via airborne instruments during the wildfire season in summer of 2018. Statistics of the sampled clouds are...- publication PDF
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Effects of atmospheric turbulence on ballistic testing
The effects of atmospheric turbulence on munition target scatter are determined from numerical simulations of ballistic trajectories through many realizations of realistic...- publication PDF
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Magnetic cycles and meridional circulation in global models of solar convection
We review recent insights into the dynamics of the solar convection zone obtained from global numerical simulations, focusing on two recent developments in particular. The first...- 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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An examination of the recent stability of ozonesonde global network data
The recent Assessment of Standard Operating Procedures for Ozonesondes 2.0 (WMO/GAW Report #268) addressed questions of homogeneity and long-term stability in global...- publication PDF
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Similar but different: Dynamic social network analysis highlights...
Understanding why animal societies take on the form that they do has benefited from insights gained by applying social network analysis to patterns of individual associations....- publication PDF
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Role Of the Sun and the Middle atmosphere/thermosphere/ionosphere In Climate...
While knowledge of the energy inputs from the Sun (as it is the primary energy source) is important for understanding the solar-terrestrial system, of equal importance is the...- publication PDF
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Analysis of errors introduced by geographic coordinate systems on weather...
Most atmospheric models, including the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, use a spherical geographic coordinate system to internally represent input data and perform...- publication PDF
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Spectropolarimetry of the Solar Mg II h and k Lines
We report on spectropolarimetric observations across the Mg ii h and k lines at 2800 Ã made by the Ultraviolet Spectrometer and Polarimeter on board the Solar Maximum Mission...- publication PDF
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Contrasting impacts of radiative forcing in the Southern Ocean versus...
Most current climate models suffer from pronounced cloud and radiation biases in the Southern Ocean (SO) and in the tropics. Using one GFDL climate model, this study...- publication PDF
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Forecasts of opportunity for Northern California soil moisture
Soil moisture anomalies underpin a number of critical hydrological phenomena with socioeconomic consequences, yet systematic studies of soil moisture predictability are limited....- publication PDF
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The climate response of the Indo-Pacific warm pool to glacial sea level
Growing climate proxy evidence suggests that changes in sea level are important drivers of tropical climate change on glacial-interglacial timescales. These paleodata suggest...- publication PDF
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A Weibull approach for improving climate model projections of tropical...
Reliable estimates of future changes in extreme weather phenomena, such as tropical cyclone maximum wind speeds, are critical for climate change impact assessments and the...- publication PDF
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The Interaction Between Objective Analysis and Initialization / Proceedings...
A collection of summaries of lectures presented at the Fourteenth Stanstead Seminar on "the interaction between objective analysis and initialization." The lectures both...- publication PDF
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Type III solar radio burst source region splitting due to a quasi-separatrix layer
We present low-frequency (80-240 MHz) radio imaging of type III solar radio bursts observed by the Murchison Widefield Array on 2015 September 21. The source region for each...- publication PDF
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Drivers of multi-century trends in the atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> mean...
The amplitude of the mean annual cycle of atmospheric CO2 is a diagnostic of seasonal surface-atmosphere carbon exchange. Atmospheric observations show that this quantity has...- publication PDF
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Annual and semiannual oscillations of thermospheric composition in...
The Global UltraViolet Imager (GUVI) onboard the Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite provides a data set of vertical thermospheric...- publication PDF
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Extreme cold winter temperatures in Europe under the influence of North...
North Atlantic atmospheric blocking conditions explain part of the winter climate variability in Europe, being associated with anomalous cold winter temperatures. In this study,...- publication PDF