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Subtropical marine cloud brightening suppresses the El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and marine cloud brightening (MCB) are two proposed methods of compensating for greenhouse gas‐induced warming by reflecting incoming...- publication PDF
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Fast nonparametric quantile regression with arbitrary smoothing methods
The calculation of nonparametric quantile regression curve estimates is often computational intensive, as typically an expensive nonlinear optimization problem is involved. This...- publication PDF
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WINDII observations and TIME-GCM simulations of O(¹S) polar spirals during...
The daytime O(¹S) emission at 557.7ânm observed at 250âkm with the Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) is dominantly excited by photoelectron impact on atomic oxygen, so...- publication PDF
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Planning, implementation, and scientific goals of the Studies of Emissions...
The Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS) field mission based at Ellington Field, Texas, during August and...- publication PDF
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Representation of plant hydraulics in the NOAH-MP Land Surface Model: Model...
Plants are expected to face increasing water stress under future climate change. Most land surface models, including Noah-MP, employ an idealized "big-leaf" concept to regulate...- publication PDF
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Angular and range interferometry to measure wind
Radial wind is routinely measured by Doppler method, whereas winds transverse to the radar beam are measured using an interferometric technique in which three or more spaced...- publication PDF
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Modelling seasonal and diurnal effects on the magnetospheric and ionospheric...
The present study focuses on a modeling of the seasonal and diurnal effects on the dynamics of the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere system under different solar illumination...- publication PDF
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A study of the nonlinear response of the upper atmosphere to episodic and...
Perturbations caused by geophysical and anthropogenic events on the ground have been observed to propagate upward and impact the upper atmosphere. Gravity waves with wavelengths...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric impacts of Arctic sea-ice loss, 1979-2009: Separating forced...
The ongoing loss of Arctic sea-ice cover has implications for the wider climate system. The detection and importance of the atmospheric impacts of sea-ice loss depends, in part,...- publication PDF
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Meriodional momentum flux and super-rotation in the multi-scale IPESD MJO model
The derivation of the meridional momentum flux arising from a multiscale horizontal velocity field in the intraseasonal, planetary, equatorial synoptic-scale dynamics (IPESD)...- publication PDF
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GENLN2: A General Line-by-line Atmospheric Transmittance and Radiance Model....
This report constitutes documentation for Version 3.0 of the GENLN2 suite of programs as of November 1991.This report is intended to be a working document for those using...- publication PDF
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An examination of urban heat island characteristics in a global climate model
A parameterization for urban surfaces has been incorporated into the Community Land Model as part of the Community Climate System Model. The parameterization allows global...- publication PDF
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Statistical postprocessing of high-resolution regional climate model output
Statistical postprocessing techniques have become essential tools for downscaling large-scale information to the point scale, and also for providing a better probabilistic...- publication PDF
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Vertical motions in orographic cloud systems over the Payette River Basin....
Vertical motions over the complex terrain of Idaho's Payette River basin were observed by the Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) during 23 flights of the Wyoming King Air during the...- publication PDF
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Simulating solar near-surface Rossby waves by inverse cascade from...
Rossby waves are found at several levels in the Sun, most recently in its supergranule layer. We show that Rossby waves in the supergranule layer can be excited by an inverse...- publication PDF
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Survival of snow in the melting layer: Relative humidity influence
This study quantifies how far snow can fall into the melting layer (ML) before all snow has melted by examining a combination of in situ observations from aircraft measurements...- publication PDF
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Development of heterogeneous ice nucleation rate coefficient...
Ice nucleating particles (INPs) are a rare subset of particles that can have an outsized impact relative to their prevalence. To simulate INP variability, models require...- publication PDF
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Climate feedbacks in CCSM3 under changing COâ forcing. Part I: Adapting...
Climate feedbacks vary strongly among climate models and continue to represent a major source of uncertainty in our understanding of the response of climate to anthropogenic...- publication PDF
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Formation of the enhanced-v infrared cloud-top feature from high-resolution...
The responsible mechanism for the formation of the enhanced-V infrared cloud-top feature observed above tropopause-penetrating thunderstorms is not well understood. A new method...- publication PDF
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The impact of climate change on meningitis in northwest Nigeria: An...
Meningitis remains a major health burden throughout Sahelian Africa, especially in heavily populated northwest Nigeria with an annual incidence rate ranging from 18 to 200 per...- publication PDF