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Advances in permafrost representation: Biophysical processes in Earth System...
Permafrost is undergoing rapid changes due to climate warming, potentially exposing a vast reservoir of carbon to be released to the atmosphere, causing a positive feedback...- publication PDF
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Description and evaluation of the characteristics of the NCAR...
This paper describes important characteristics of an uncoupled high-resolution land data assimilation system (HRLDAS) and presents a systematic evaluation of 18-month-long...- publication PDF
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The impacts of climate, land use, and demography on fires during the 21st...
Landscape fires during the 21st century are expected to change in response to multiple agents of global change. Important controlling factors include climate controls on the...- publication PDF
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The microwave radiative properties of falling snow derived from nonspherical...
A 3D growth model is used to simulate pristine ice crystals, which are aggregated using a collection algorithm to create larger, multicrystal particles. The simulated crystals...- publication PDF
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Polarimetric size sorting signatures in the convective regions of mesoscale...
An object-based technique was utilized to identify hydrometeor size-sorting signatures at lower levels in the convective regions of 10 mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) during...- publication PDF
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Utility of SCaMPR satellite versus ground-based quantitative precipitation...
This study examines the utility of satellite-based quantitative precipitation estimates (QPEs) from the Self-Calibrating Multivariate Precipitation Retrieval (SCaMPR) algorithm...- publication PDF
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Interannual coupling between summertime surface temperature and...
Widespread negative correlations between summertime-mean temperatures and precipitation over land regions are a well-known feature of terrestrial climate. This behavior has...- publication PDF
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A feed forward neural network based on model output statistics for...
A feed forward neural network (FFNN) is developed for tropical cyclone (TC) intensity prediction, where intensity is defined as the maximum 1-min average 10-m wind speed. This...- publication PDF
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Spherical harmonic spectral estimation on arbitrary grids
This study explores the use of nonuniform fast spherical Fourier transforms on meteorological data that are arbitrarily distributed on the sphere. The applicability of this...- publication PDF
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Ozone production efficiencies in the three largest United State cities from...
Despite ongoing reductions in emissions of ozone (O3) precursors, nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), the three largest urban...- publication PDF
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An observational and theoretical study of the longitudinal variation in...
In this paper, observations by thermosphere, ionosphere, mesosphere energetics and dynamics/Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry from 2002 to 2012 and...- publication PDF
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Large sensitivity to freshwater forcing location in 8.2 ka simulations
The 8.2âka event is a key test case for simulating the coupled climate response to changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Recent advances in...- publication PDF
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The incorporation of an organic soil layer in the Noah-MP land surface model...
A thick top layer of organic matter is a dominant feature in boreal forests and can impact land-atmosphere interactions. In this study, the multi-parameterization version of the...- publication PDF
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An implicitâexplicit vertical transport scheme for convection-allowing models
An adaptive implicit-explicit vertical transport method is implemented in the Advanced Research version of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF-ARW), and improved...- publication PDF
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The annual cycle of the energy budget. Part II: Meridional structures and...
Meridional structure and transports of energy in the atmosphere, ocean, and land are evaluated holistically for the mean and annual cycle zonal averages over the ocean, land,...- publication PDF
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Moisture- versus wind-dominated flavors of atmospheric rivers
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are essential features of the global water cycle. Although AR definitions are commonly based on integrated vapor transport (IVT), ARs of a given IVT can...- publication PDF
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Using synthetic tracers as a proxy for summertime PM2.5 air quality over the...
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a criteria pollutant. Its sensitivity to meteorology implies its distribution will likely change with climate shifts. Limited availability of...- publication PDF
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Polarization lidar at 1.54-microns and observations of plumes from aerosol generators
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Typhoon forecasts with dynamic vortex initialization using an unstructured...
A dynamical vortex initialization (DVI) scheme is implemented on unstructured meshes for the global model MPAS for typhoon forecasts. The DVI extracts the departure vortex...- publication PDF
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A frequent-updating analysis system based on radar, surface, and mesoscale...
The Variational Doppler Radar Analysis System (VDRAS) was implemented in Beijing, China, and contributed to the Beijing 2008 Forecast Demonstration Project (B08FDP) in support...- publication PDF