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Lower-stratospheric aerosol measurements in eastward-shedding vortices over...
Eastward air-mass transport from the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) anticyclone in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) often involves eastward-shedding vortices,...- publication PDF
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Statistical characteristics of nighttime Medium-Scale Traveling Ionospheric...
For the first time, we used the machine learning method to analyze the statistical occurrence and propagation characteristics of nighttime medium-scale traveling ionospheric...- publication PDF
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Measured and modeled trends of seven tropospheric pollutants in the high...
The long-term trends and seasonality of many tropospheric pollutants are not well characterized in the high Arctic due to a dearth of trace-gas measurements in this remote...- publication PDF
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The potential utility of high-resolution ensemble sensitivity analysis for...
Expansion in the availability of relocatable near-surface atmospheric observing sensors introduces the question of where placement maximizes gain in forecast accuracy. As one...- publication PDF
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Isotopic variability in tropical cyclone precipitation is controlled by...
Tropical cyclones produce rainfall with extremely negative isotope values (delta O-18 and delta H-2), but the controls on isotopic fractionation during tropical cyclones are...- publication PDF
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Future changes in regional tropical cyclone wind, precipitation, and...
Understanding changes in the hazard component of climate risk is important to inform societal resilience planning in a changing climate. Here, we examine local changes in wind...- publication PDF
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The effect of mesh resolution on convective boundary layer statistics and...
A massively parallel large-eddy simulation (LES) code for planetary boundary layers (PBLs) that utilizes pseudospectral differencing in horizontal planes and solves an elliptic...- publication PDF
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Aerostatic Lift of Helium and Hydrogen in the Atmosphere
The purpose of this report is to provide a simple and accurate method of making buoyancy calculations of lift gases. A table is included which gives pertinent model atmospheric...- publication PDF
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The vertical structure of temperature in the tropics: Different flavors of El Niño
To explore the vertical coherence of the vertical temperature structure in the atmosphere, an analysis is performed of the full three-dimensional spatial structure of the...- publication PDF
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An examination of the long-term CO records from MOPITT and IASI: Comparison...
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a key atmospheric compound that can be remotely sensed by satellite on the global scale. Fifteen years of continuous observations are now available from...- publication PDF
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The Bolzano Tracer Experiment (BTEX)
The paper describes the observational and modeling efforts performed under the Bolzano Tracer Experiment (BTEX). BTEX focused on the basin surrounding the city of Bolzano, at...- publication PDF
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The tropospheric biennial oscillation and asian-australian monsoon rainfall
In the context of the Asian-Australian monsoon, the tropospheric biennial oscillation (TBO) is defined as the tendency for a relatively strong monsoon to be followed by a...- publication PDF
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Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth
Atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is a critical variable in determining plant photosynthesis. Synthesis of four global climate datasets reveals a sharp increase of VPD...- publication PDF
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Longitudinal variations of equatorial ionospheric electric fields near sunrise
In this work, we carry out a comprehensive modeling study, using the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model, to explore the physical processes by...- publication PDF
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Intercomparison between surrogate, explicit, and full treatments of VSL...
Many Chemistry-Climate Models (CCMs) include a simplified treatment of brominated very short-lived (VSLBr) species by assuming CH3Br as a surrogate for VSLBr. However,...- publication PDF
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Towards seamless large-domain parameter estimation for hydrologic models
Estimating spatially distributed parameters remains one of the biggest challenges for large-domain hydrologic modeling. Many large-domain modeling efforts rely on spatially...- publication PDF
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Assessment of the data assimilation framework for the Rapid Refresh Forecast...
The Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS) is currently under development and aims to replace the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) operational suite of...- publication PDF
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Effect of the Grell-Freitas deep convection scheme in quasi-uniform and...
The Grell-Freitas deep convection scheme (GF) has been implemented in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) with the nonhydrostatic Model for Prediction Across Scales dynamical...- publication PDF
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Radiative forcing and albedo feedback from the Northern Hemisphere...
The extent of snow cover and sea ice in the Northern Hemispherehas declined since 1979, coincident with hemispheric warming and indicative of a positive feedback of surface...- publication PDF
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Temperature-moisture dependence of the deep convective transition as a...
Properties of the transition to strong deep convection, as previously observed in satellite precipitation statistics, are analyzed using parcel stability computations and a...- publication PDF