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Effective radiative forcing and adjustments in CMIP6 models
The effective radiative forcing, which includes the instantaneous forcing plus adjustments from the atmosphere and surface, has emerged as the key metric of evaluating human and...- publication PDF
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The Community Climate System Model, version 4
The fourth version of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM4) was recently completed and released to the climate community. This paper describes developments to all CCSM...- publication PDF
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How well do integrated assessment models represent non-COâ radiative forcing?
This study aims to create insight in how Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) perform in describing the climate forcing by non-COâ gases and aerosols. The simple climate models...- publication PDF
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Reproducibility of GPS radio occultation data for climate monitoring:...
To examine the claim that Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation (RO) data are useful as a benchmark data set for climate monitoring, the structural uncertainties of...- publication PDF
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Carbon isotopomers measurement using mid-IR tunable laser sources
Recent developments of two mid-infrared tunable laser spectrometers dedicated to carbon isotope ratio determination are presented. First, a field deployable quantum cascade...- publication PDF
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Preface to topical collection on new particle formation in Atlanta
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A Bayesian model for quantifying the change in mortality associated with...
Climate change is expected to have many impacts on the environment, including changes in ozone concentrations at the surface level. A key public health concern is the potential...- publication PDF
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Aircraft-induced hole punch and canal clouds: Inadvertent cloud seeding
The production of holes and channels in altocumulus clouds by two commercial turboprop aircraft is documented for the first time. An unprecedented dataset combining in situ...- publication PDF
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A technique for estimating liquid droplet diameter and liquid water content...
This paper describes a technique for estimating the liquid water content (LWC) and a characteristic particle diameter in stratocumulus clouds using radar and lidar observations....- publication PDF
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Subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction of atmospheric rivers in the Northern Winter
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are characterized by intense lower tropospheric plumes of moisture transport that are frequently responsible for midlatitude wind and precipitation...- publication PDF
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Improving lightning and precipitation prediction of severe convection using...
In this study, a lightning data assimilation (LDA) scheme was developed and implemented in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Weather Research and Forecasting-Real-...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of raindrop size distributions in Chongqing observed by a...
This study investigates the characteristics of raindrop size distribution (RSD) including the temporal and spatial variabilities and the summer rain RSD features using 34...- publication PDF
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Forest drought resistance at large geographic scales
Forest conservation and carbon sequestration efforts are on the rise, yet the long-term stability of these efforts under a changing climate remains unknown. We generate nearly...- publication PDF
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A new look at ocean ventilation time scales and their uncertainties
A suite of eddy-resolving ocean transient tracer model simulations are first compared to observations. Observational and model pCFC-11 ages agree quite well, with the eddy-...- publication PDF
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Opinion: How fear of nuclear winter has helped save the world, so far
The direct effects of nuclear war would be horrific, with blasts, fires, and radiation killing and injuring many people. But in 1983, United States and Soviet Union scientists...- publication PDF
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DOs and DON'Ts for using climate change information for water resource...
Water managers are actively incorporating climate change information into their long- and short-term planning processes. This is generally seen as a step in the right direction...- publication PDF
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Consequences of high effective Prandtl number on solar differential rotation...
Observations suggest that the large-scale convective velocities obtained by solar convection simulations might be over-estimated (convective conundrum). One plausible solution...- publication PDF
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Postdeployment calibration of a tropical UHF profiling radar via surface-...
Wind profiling radars are usually not calibrated with respect to reflectivity because such calibrations are both unnecessary for good wind measurements and costly. However,...- publication PDF
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Uncertainties in drought from index and data selection
This study compares various drought indices, the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), and the Standardized...- publication PDF
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A Composite, High-Resolution Solar Spectrum From 2080 to 3600 A
To satisfy a need for digitized information on the solar spectrum between 2000 and 3600 A, an attempt was made to combine the available measurements into a composite, high-...- publication PDF
