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Arctic and east Asia winter climate variations associated with the eastern...
The wintertime Arctic temperature (T; surface-400 hPa) decreased from 1979 to 1997 and increased rapidly from 1998 to 2012, in contrast to the global mean surface air...- publication PDF
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Infrequent, rapid transport pathways to the summer North American upper...
Transport pathways from the Northern Hemisphere surface into the North American upper troposphere-lower stratosphere (NA UTLS) during summertime are diagnosed from Boundary...- publication PDF
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Simulation of homologous and cannibilistic coronal mass ejections produced...
We report the first results of a magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the development of a homologous sequence of three coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and demonstrate their so-...- publication PDF
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Mitigation-driven global heat imbalance in the late 21st century
While the changes in ocean heat uptake in a warming climate have been well explored, the changes in response to climate mitigation efforts remain unclear. Using coupled climate...- publication PDF
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Fragmentation in collisions of snow with graupel/hail: New formulation from...
Secondary ice production (SIP) has been attributed to the generation of most ice particles observed in precipitating clouds with cloud tops warmer than −36°C, from...- publication PDF
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Predictability of the Atlantic overturning circulation and associated...
Predictability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and associated oceanic and atmospheric fields on decadal time scales in Community Climate System Model...- publication PDF
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Projected changes in Arctic Ocean freshwater budgets
Arctic Ocean freshwater budgets are examined from 10 models participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report. This includes an analysis of...- publication PDF
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A quality control procedure based on bending angle measurement uncertainty...
The fluctuation of radio occultation (RO) signals in the presence of refractivity irregularities in the moist lower troposphere results in uncertainties of retrieved bending...- publication PDF
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Heater-induced ionization inferred from spectrometric airglow measurements
Spectrographic airglow measurements were made during an ionospheric modification experiment at High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program on 12 March 2013. Artificial...- publication PDF
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Eddyless Channel Flows and Their Stability
Numerical solutions are presented for steady flow in a zonal channel subjected to a meridionally varying zonal wind stress at the upper surface. The model used is adiabatic,...- publication PDF
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Modeling the sources and chemistry of polar tropospheric halogens (Cl, Br,...
Current chemistry climate models do not include polar emissions and chemistry of halogens. This work presents the first implementation of an interactive polar module into the...- publication PDF
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An ensemble covariance framework for quantifying forced climate variability...
Climate variability and its response to increasing greenhouse gases are important considerations for impacts and adaptation. Modeling studies commonly assess projected changes...- publication PDF
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A case study of an elevated stratopause generated in the Whole Atmosphere...
The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) is used to study the influence of gravity waves on the generation and evolution of an elevated stratopause following a...- publication PDF
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The Delta-Eddington Approximation for a Vertically Inhomogeneous Atmosphere
The delta-Eddington approximation of Joseph, Wiscombe, and Weinman (1976) is extended to an atmosphere divided up by internal levels into homogeneous layers. Flux continuity is...- publication PDF
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Impact of changes in the Sun's conveyor-belt on recent solar cycles
Plasma flowing poleward at the solar surface and returning equatorward near the base of the convection zone, called the meridional circulation, constitutes the Sun's conveyor-...- publication PDF
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Survival of snow in the melting layer: Relative humidity influence
This study quantifies how far snow can fall into the melting layer (ML) before all snow has melted by examining a combination of in situ observations from aircraft measurements...- publication PDF
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Variability due to climate and chemistry in observations of oxygenated...
The Great Oxidation Event was a period during which Earth's atmospheric oxygen (O-2) concentrations increased from similar to 10(-5) times its present atmospheric level (PAL) to...- publication PDF
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Comment on "Glacial-interglacial circulation changes inferred from...
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Geolocation, calibration and surface resolution of CYGNSS GNSS-R land observations
This paper presents the processing algorithms for geolocating and calibration of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) level 1 land data products, as well as...- publication PDF
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Modifications to WRF's dynamical core to improve the treatment of moisture...
Yamaguchi and Feingold (2012) note that the cloud fields in their large-eddy simulations (LESs) of marine stratocumulus using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model...- publication PDF