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Ambient factors controlling the wintertime precipitation distribution across...
This study analyzes the control of upstream conditions on the distribution of wintertime precipitation across mountain ranges in the interior western United States using 10...- publication PDF
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Long-term trend of topside ionospheric electron density derived from DMSP...
In recent decades, significant efforts have been made to characterize and understand the global pattern of ionospheric long-term trend. However, little attention has been paid...- publication PDF
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Effects of electrojet turbulence on a magnetosphere-ionosphere simulation of...
Ionospheric conductance plays an important role in regulating the response of the magnetosphere-ionosphere system to solar wind driving. Typically, models of magnetosphere-...- publication PDF
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Hemispheric asymmetry of subauroral ion drifts: Statistical results
A large database of more than 18,000 subauroral ion drift (SAID) events from DMSP observations from 1987 to 2012 is used to systematically investigate the features of SAID. SAID...- publication PDF
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Initialization of an enso forecast system using a parallelized ensemble filter
As a first step toward coupled ocean-atmosphere data assimilation, a parallelized ensemble filter is implemented in a new stochastic hybrid coupled model. The model consists of...- publication PDF
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Stochastic atmospheric forcing as a cause of Greenland climate transitions
An unforced simulation of the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4), is found to have Greenland warming and cooling events that resemble Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles in...- publication PDF
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Impact of stochastic ocean density corrections on air-sea flux variability
Air-sea flux variability has contributions from both ocean and atmosphere at different spatio-temporal scales. Atmospheric synoptic scales and the air-sea turbulent heat flux...- publication PDF
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Large-eddy simulations of the impact of ground-based glaciogenic seeding on...
This study uses the WRF large-eddy simulation model at 100-m resolution to examine the impact of ground-based glaciogenic seeding on shallow (similar to 2 km deep), cold-based...- publication PDF
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Reconstruction of past Antarctic temperature using present seasonal...
Reconstructing the history of polar temperature from ice core water isotope (618O) calibration has remained a challenge in paleoclimate research, because of our incomplete...- publication PDF
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Climate response at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum to greenhouse gas...
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM; 55 Ma) is of particular interest since it is regarded as a suitable analog to future climate change. In this study, the PETM climate...- publication PDF
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The tornado probability algorithm: A probabilistic machine learning tornadic...
A new probabilistic tornado detection algorithm was developed to potentially replace the operational tornado detection algorithm (TDA) for the WSR-88D radar network. The tornado...- publication PDF
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Field-deployable diode-laser-based differential absorption lidar (DIAL) for...
A field-deployable water vapor profiling instrument that builds on the foundation of the preceding generations of diode-laser-based differential absorption lidar (DIAL)...- publication PDF
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A wind tunnel investigation into the aerodynamics of lobed hailstones
The complex surface geometries of hailstones affect their fall behavior, fall speeds, and growth. Systematic experimental investigations on the influence of the number and...- publication PDF
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A new generic method for quantifying the scale predictability of the fractal...
The authors revisit the issue regarding the predictability of a flow that possesses many scales of motion raised by Lorenz in 1969 and apply the general systems theory developed...- publication PDF
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Specifying satellite drag through coupled thermosphere-ionosphere data...
The largest obstacle to managing satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) is accurately forecasting the neutral mass densities that appreciably impact atmospheric drag. Empirical...- publication PDF
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AirCore observations at Northern Tibetan Plateau during the Asian summer monsoon
We present data and analysis of a set of balloon-borne sounding profiles, which includes co-located O3, CO, CH4, and particles, over the northern Tibetan Plateau during an Asian...- publication PDF
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An Atlas of Variations in the Solar Constant Caused by Sunspot Blocking and...
The purpose of this atlas is to present such a reconstruction for a period of slightly more than a century, for the use of atmospheric and solar physicists for whom a...- publication PDF
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2âday ionospheric oscillations at low latitudes due to an ultraâfast Kelvin wave
This study establishes an observational connection between an ultra‐fast Kelvin wave (UFKW) and the occurrence of counter electrojet (CEJ) in the equatorial E region and...- publication PDF
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Data-driven Radiative Magnetohydrodynamics simulations with the MURaM code
We present a method of conducting data-driven simulations of solar active regions and flux emergence with the MURaM radiative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code. The horizontal...- publication PDF
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Distinguishing stratospheric sudden warmings from ENSO as key drivers of...
Stratospheric conditions are increasingly being recognized as an important driver of North Atlantic and Eurasian climate variability. Mindful that the observational record is...- publication PDF