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Resolved turbulence characteristics in large-eddy simulations nested within...
One-way concurrent nesting within the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) is examined for conducting large-eddy simulations (LES) nested within mesoscale simulations....- publication PDF
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The Community Climate System Model
The Community Climate System Model (CCSM) has been created to represent the principal components of the climate system and their interactions. Development and applications of...- publication PDF
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Uncertainty in carbon budget estimates due to internal climate variability
Remaining carbon budget specifies the cap on global cumulative CO(2)emissions from the present-day onwards that would be in line with limiting global warming to a specific...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of PBL parameterizations for modeling surface wind speed during...
This study identifies conditions that determine errors in numerical simulations of 10-m wind speed over moderately complex terrain, emphasizing winds that lead to overhead...- publication PDF
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A nonlinear perspective on the dynamics of the MJO: Idealized large-eddy simulations
The 30-60-day intraseasonal atmospheric oscillation in the equatorial atmosphere, the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), is most visible in its signature of outgoing longwave...- publication PDF
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Climate change impacts on the water balance of the Colorado headwaters:...
A high-resolution climate model (4-km horizontal grid spacing) is used to examine the following question: How will long-term changes in climate impact the partitioning of annual...- publication PDF
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Antarctic data impact experiments with Polar WRF during the YOPP-SH summer...
Data impact experiments are conducted employing the Polar Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model during the YOPP-SH summer special observing period (SOP) using the...- publication PDF
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Global observing needs in the deep ocean
The deep ocean below 200 m water depth is the least observed, but largest habitat on our planet by volume and area. Over 150 years of exploration has revealed that this dynamic...- publication PDF
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Observations of inorganic bromine (HOBr, BrO, and Brâ) speciation at...
Inorganic bromine plays a critical role in ozone and mercury depletions events (ODEs and MDEs) in the Arctic marine boundary layer. Direct observations of bromine species other...- publication PDF
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Infrared phototransistor validation for atmospheric remote sensing...
An InGaAsSb/AlGaAsSb phototransistor has been validated for lidar atmospheric remote sensing. The validation was performed using the Raman-shifted eye-safe aerosol lidar (REAL)...- publication PDF
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Individual aerosol particles in ambient and updraft conditions below...
An airborne study of cloud microphysics provided an opportunity to collect aerosol particles in ambient and updraft conditions of natural convection systems for transmission...- publication PDF
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ExtratropicalâTropical Interaction Model Intercomparison Project...
This article introduces the Extratropical-Tropical Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (ETIN-MIP), where a set of fully coupled model experiments are designed to examine...- publication PDF
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Estimating the uncertainty of using GPS radio occultation data for climate...
To examine the suitability of GPS radio occultation (RO) observations as a climate benchmark data set, this study aims at quantifying the structural uncertainty in GPS RO-...- publication PDF
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The North American Cordillera--An impediment to growing the continent-wide...
This study examines the evolution of a continental-scale ice sheet on a triangular representation of North America, with and without the influence of the Cordilleran region....- publication PDF
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Impact of intraseasonal oscillations on the tropical cyclone activity over...
The tropical cyclones (TCs) that form over the warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico region pose a major threat to the surrounding coastal communities. Skillful subseasonal...- publication PDF
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Urban land expansion amplifies surface warming more in dry climate than in...
Urbanization changes Earth's climate by contributing to the buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases and altering surface biophysical properties. In climate models, the...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of polarimetric ice microphysical retrievals with OLYMPEX campaign data
Polarimetric microphysical retrievals reveal a great potential for the evaluation of numerical models and data assimilation. However, the accuracy of ice microphysical...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering could lower future risk of 'Day Zero'...
Anthropogenic forcing of the climate is estimated to have increased the likelihood of the 2015-2017 Western Cape drought, also called 'Day Zero' drought, by a factor of three,...- publication PDF
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Effect of ecological restoration programs on dust concentrations in the...
In recent decades, the Chinese government has made a great effort in initiating large-scale ecological restoration programs (ERPs) to reduce the dust concentrations in China,...- publication PDF
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The FastEddy® resident-GPU accelerated large-eddy simulation framework:...
This paper introduces a new large-eddy simulation model, FastEddy (R), purpose built for leveraging the accelerated and more power-efficient computing capacity of graphics...- publication PDF