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Evaluation of aerosol optical depths and clear-sky radiative fluxes of the...
Aerosol optical depths (AODs) used for the Edition 4.1 Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Synoptic 1 degrees (SYN1deg) product are evaluated. AODs are derived...- publication PDF
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Preserving a unique archive for long-term solar variability studies
The McIntosh Archive consists of hand-drawn solar Carrington maps created by Patrick McIntosh from 1964 to 2009, using H, He 10830 angstrom, and photospheric magnetic...- publication PDF
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Risk of childhood cancers associated with residence in agriculturally...
BACKGROUND: The potential for widespread exposure to agricultural pesticides through drift during application raises concerns about possible health effects to exposed children...- publication PDF
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Diagnosis of regime-dependent cloud simulation errors in CMIP5 models using...
The vertical distributions of cloud water content (CWC) and cloud fraction (CF) over the tropical oceans, produced by 13 coupled atmosphere-ocean models submitted to the Phase 5...- publication PDF
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How do regional distributions of daily precipitation change under warming?
Global warming is changing the intensity distribution of daily precipitation, with an increased frequency of heavy precipitation and reduced frequency of light/moderate...- publication PDF
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The merger of a supercell and squall line in the Great Plains. 1: Initiation...
Using a four‐dimensional variational data assimilation system that incorporates radar and surface observations, we investigated the initiation mechanism of a nocturnal...- publication PDF
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Predicting snow structures relevant to reindeer husbandry
Snow conditions in the High North are an important control on wintertime forage availability for reindeer, and under climate change, they are changing rapidly. In the European...- publication PDF
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Climate versus emission drivers of methane lifetime against loss by...
With a more-than-doubling in the atmospheric abundance of the potent greenhouse gas methane (CHâ) since preindustrial times, and indications of renewed growth following a...- publication PDF
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Tropospheric ozone in CMIP6 simulations
The evolution of tropospheric ozone from 1850 to 2100 has been studied using data from Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). We evaluate long-term...- publication PDF
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Tropospheric tides from 80 to 400 km: Propagation, interannual variability,...
Recent observations and model simulations demonstrate unequivocally that non-Sun-synchronous (nonmigrating) tides due to deep tropical convection produce large longitudinal and...- publication PDF
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Moving beyond post hoc explainable artificial intelligence: A perspective...
AI models are criticized as being black boxes, potentially subjecting climate science to greater uncertainty. Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has been proposed to...- publication PDF
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Tropical precipitation woes in the Community Earth System Model version 2
The newly developed paleo-climate calibrated Community Earth System Model, version 2 (pCESM2) simulates a more realistic global temperature response to external forcing compared...- publication PDF
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An optimized parallel LSQR algorithm for seismic tomography
The LSQR algorithm developed by Paige and Saunders (1982) is considered one of the most efficient and stable methods for solving large, sparse, and ill-posed linear (or...- publication PDF
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A Bayesian ANOVA scheme for calculating climate anomalies, with applications...
Climate data sets with both spatial and temporal components are often studied after removing from each time series a temporal mean calculated over a common reference interval,...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric submicron aerosol composition and particulate organic nitrate...
The Puijo aerosol-cloud observation station is a unique measurement site for its location in the mixed region between the boreal forestland and the municipality of Kuopio,...- publication PDF
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Tagged ozone mechanism for MOZART-4, CAM-chem and other chemical transport models
A procedure for tagging ozone produced from NO sources through updates to an existing chemical mechanism is described, and results from its implementation in the Model for Ozone...- publication PDF
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Accuracy of scaled GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates
We assess the accuracy of global-gridded terrestrial water storage (TWS) estimates derived from temporal gravity field variations observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate...- publication PDF
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Evolution of Arctic sea ice concentration trends and the role of atmospheric...
The retreat of Arctic sea ice in recent decades is a pre-eminent signal of climate change. What role has the atmospheric circulation played in driving the sea ice decline? To...- publication PDF
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Impact of seasonality on climate outcomes for mid latitude marine cloud brightening
Most previous studies on marine cloud brightening (MCB) have focused on deployment over the subtropical stratocumulus cloud decks which persistently result in non‐uniform...- publication PDF
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Organized convection parameterization for the ITCZ
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are of fundamental importance in the dynamics of the atmospheric circulation and the climate system. They are often observed to develop over...- publication PDF