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User's Guide to the MM5 Adjoint Modeling System
This report is a manual on the MM5 Adjoint Modeling System.- publication PDF
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Machines, monsters, and coffin corners: Broadcast meteorologists' use of...
During impactful weather events, television broadcast meteorologists act as high-profile risk communicators by interpreting complex weather information for viewers. However, the...- publication PDF
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Biogenic emission measurement and inventories determination of biogenic...
During the NOAA Southern Oxidant Study 1999 (SOS1999), Texas Air Quality Study 2000 (TexAQS2000), International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and...- publication PDF
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The growing threat of heat disasters
Heat is the number one weather-related killer in the United States and indoor exposure is responsible for a significant portion of the resulting fatalities. Evolving...- publication PDF
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A study of aerosol impacts on clouds and precipitation development in a...
Aerosols influence cloud and precipitation development in complex ways due to myriad feedbacks at a variety of scales from individual clouds through entire storm systems. This...- publication PDF
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Interannual variations and future change of wintertime extratropical cyclone...
Climatology and interannual variations of wintertime extratropical cyclone frequency in CCSM3 twentieth century simulation are compared with the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis during...- publication PDF
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Climatology of mesopause region temperature, zonal wind, and meridional wind...
Between May 2002 and April 2006, many continuous observations of mesopause region temperature and horizontal wind, each lasting longer than 24 h (termed full-diurnal-cycle...- publication PDF
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Tropopause-Level NOx in the Asian Summer Monsoon
Deep convection within the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) transports surface level air into the upper troposphere-lower stratosphere (UTLS). This work aims to understand the...- publication PDF
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Dynamical seasonal prediction of tropical cyclone activity: Robust...
Improving the seasonal prediction of tropical cyclone (TC) activity demands a robust analysis of the prediction skill and the inherent predictability of TC activity. Using the...- publication PDF
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Moisture transport into midlatitudes ahead of recurving tropical cyclones...
Global ensemble forecasts from The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX) Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) are used to quantify the magnitude...- publication PDF
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Penetrating electric field with/without disturbed electric fields during the...
Penetrating and disturbed electric fields develop during geomagnetic storms and are effective in driving remarkable changes in the nightside low latitude ionosphere over varying...- publication PDF
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Validation and analysis of MOPITT CO observations of the Amazon Basin
We analyze satellite retrievals of carbon monoxide from the MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere) instrument over the Amazon Basin, focusing on the MOPITT...- publication PDF
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Snow water equivalent retrieval over Idaho - Part 2: Using L-band UAVSAR...
This study evaluates using interferometry on low-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images to monitor snow water equivalent (SWE) over seasonal and synoptic scales. We...- publication PDF
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Possible observation of horizontal roll vortices over the Adriatic Sea during bora
We report a possible occurrence of horizontal roll vortices over the Adriatic Sea during the bora wind. The National Center for Atmospheric Research Electra aircraft measured...- publication PDF
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Can the impact of aerosols on deep convection be isolated from...
Influence of pollution on dynamics of deep convection continues to be a controversial topic. Arguably, only carefully designed numerical simulations can clearly separate the...- publication PDF
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Potential impact of all-sky assimilation of visible and infrared satellite...
Although cloud-affected satellite observations are heavily used for nowcasting applications, their use in regional data assimilation is very limited despite possible benefits...- publication PDF
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The relationship of weather salience with the perceptions and uses of...
The authors used data from a sample of 1465 adults living in the United States to perform a confirmatory factor analysis on the Weather Salience Questionnaire (WxSQ), a 29-item...- publication PDF
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Interactive ozone and methane chemistry in GISS-E2 historical and future...
The new generation GISS climate model includes fully interactive chemistry related to ozone in historical and future simulations, and interactive methane in future simulations....- publication PDF
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Locations and mechanisms of ocean ventilation in the high-latitude North...
A substantial fraction of the deep ocean is ventilated in the high-latitude North Atlantic. Consequently, the region plays a crucial role in transient climate change through the...- publication PDF
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Development and evaluation of a coupled photosynthesis-based gas exchange...
Current land surface schemes used for mesoscale weather forecast models use the Jarvis-type stomatal resistance formulations for representing the vegetation transpiration...- publication PDF