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Mechanisms of a meteorological drought onset: Summer 2020 to Spring 2021 in...
By summer 2021 moderate to exceptional drought impacted 28% of North America, focused west of the Mississippi, with serious impacts on fire, water resources, and agriculture....- publication PDF
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Size distributions of hydrometeors: Analysis with the maximum entropy principle
This paper proposes that the maximum entropy principle can be used for determining the drop size distribution of hydrometeors. The maximum entropy principle can be applied to...- publication PDF
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Parameterization of cloud microphysics based on the prediction of bulk ice...
A new microphysics scheme has been developed based on the prediction of bulk particle properties for a single ice-phase category, in contrast to the traditional approach of...- publication PDF
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Climatology and structures of southwest vortices in the NCEP climate...
The southwest vortex (SWV) is a meso-a-scale cyclonic low pressure system originating in southwest China. It is a high-impact precipitation-generating weather system in this...- publication PDF
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January and July Simulation Experiments With the 2.5 Latitude-longitude...
This technical note documents the capability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 2.5�� latitude-longitude, second-generation, 6-layer General...- publication PDF
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Influence of land cover and soil moisture-based Brown Ocean effect on an...
Extreme flooding over southern Louisiana in mid-August of 2016 resulted from an unusual tropical low that formed and intensified over land. We used numerical experiments to...- publication PDF
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High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP v1.0) for CMIP6
Robust projections and predictions of climate variability and change, particularly at regional scales, rely on the driving processes being represented with fidelity in model...- publication PDF
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Information-theory-based System-level BabcockâLeighton Flux Transport...
System-level Babcock–Leighton flux transport model–data comparisons are performed using information theory. The model is run with a maximum meridional flow speed of...- publication PDF
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Large-scale regional model biases in the extratropical North Atlantic storm...
Global climate models have circulation biases that the community aims to reduce, for instance through high-resolution dynamical downscaling. We used the Weather Research and...- publication PDF
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Initial results from a dynamic coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-ring current model
In this paper we describe a coupled model of Earth's magnetosphere that consists of the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry (LFM) global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation, the MIX...- publication PDF
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Towards dynamical seasonal forecast of extratropical transition in the North Atlantic
Extratropical transition can extend the threat of tropical cyclones into the midlatitudes and modify it through expansion of rainfall and wind fields. Despite the scientific and...- publication PDF
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Changes in global teleconnection patterns under global warming and...
We investigate the potential impact of stratospheric aerosol intervention (SAI) on the spatiotemporal behavior of large-scale climate teleconnection patterns represented by the...- publication PDF
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Diabatic upwelling in the Tropical Pacific: Seasonal and subseasonal variability
The equatorial Pacific zonal circulation is composed of westward surface currents, the eastward equatorial undercurrent (EUC) along the thermocline, and upwelling in the eastern...- publication PDF
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Anthropogenic aerosols dominate forced multidecadal Sahel precipitation...
Sahel precipitation has undergone substantial multidecadal time scale changes during the twentieth century that have had severe impacts on the region's population. Using...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric changes caused by galactic cosmic rays over the period 1960-2010
The Specified Dynamics version of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (SD-WACCM) and the Goddard Space Flight Center two-dimensional (GSFC 2-D) models are used to...- publication PDF
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Sources of subseasonal predictability over CONUS during boreal summer
The predictability of the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Coupled Model Prototype 2 developed by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction is assessed for the boreal...- publication PDF
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Torsional Alfvén wave embedded ICME magnetic cloud and corresponding...
Energy transfer during the interaction of large-scale solar wind structure and the Earth's magnetosphere is a chronic issue in space-weather studies. To understand this,...- publication PDF
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Convective-scale data assimilation for the weather research and forecasting...
Particle filters (PFs) are Monte Carlo data assimilation techniques that operate with no parametric assumptions for prior and posterior errors. A data assimilation method...- publication PDF
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The warm-core structure of Hurricane Earl (2010)
The warm-core structure of Hurricane Earl (2010) is examined on four different days, spanning periods of both rapid intensification (RI) and weakening, using high-altitude...- publication PDF
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Improving regional climate simulations based on a hybrid data assimilation...
The energy and water vapor exchange between the land surface and atmospheric boundary layer plays a critical role in regional climate simulations. This paper implemented a...- publication PDF