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Tracing the traces: The critical role of metadata within networked communications
The information sciences have traditionally been at the center of metadata-focused research. The US National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence documents revealed by Edward...- publication PDF
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Improvement of mountain-wave turbulence forecasts in NOAA's Rapid Refresh...
Spurious mountain-wave features have been reported as false alarms of light-or-stronger numerical weather prediction (NWP)-based cruise level turbulence forecasts especially...- publication PDF
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Airborne quantification of upper tropospheric NOx production from lightning...
The reported range for global production of nitrogen oxides (NOxâ=âNOâ+âNOâ) by lightning remains large (e.g., 32 to 664âmol NOx flashâ»Â¹), despite incorporating...- publication PDF
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Non-LTE Model Atmospheres for B and O Stars
This paper shows that very significant differences exist between the LTE and non-LTE models and the observable quantities predicted by these two sets of models. A significant...- publication PDF
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Greenland surface mass balance as simulated by the Community Earth System...
This study presents the first twenty-first-century projections of surface mass balance (SMB) changes for the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) with the Community Earth System Model...- publication PDF
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The effects of mineral dust particles, aerosol regeneration and ice...
This study focuses on the effects of aerosol particles on the formation of convective clouds and precipitation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, with a special emphasis on the...- publication PDF
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Observations of ozone production in a dissipating tropical convective cell during TC4
From 13 July-9 August 2007, 25 ozonesondes were launched from Las Tablas, Panama as part of the Tropical Composition, Cloud, and Climate Coupling (TC4) mission. On 5 August, a...- publication PDF
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Hygroscopicity of nanoparticles produced from homogeneous nucleation in the...
Sulfuric acid, amines and oxidized organics have been found to be important compounds in the nucleation and initial growth of atmospheric particles. Because of the challenges...- publication PDF
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On the determination of age of air trends from atmospheric trace species
Trace chemical species have been used in numerical models to calculate the age of air (AOA), which is a measure of the strength of the mean meridional circulation. The trend in...- publication PDF
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A review of the anthropogenic influence on biogenic secondary organic aerosol
Because of the climate and air quality effects of organic aerosol, it is important to quantify the influence of anthropogenic emissions on the aerosol burden, both globally and...- publication PDF
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The very stable boundary layer on nights with weak low-level jets
The light-wind, clear-sky, very stable boundary layer (vSBL) is characterized by large values of bulk Richardson number. The light winds produce weak shear, turbulence, and...- publication PDF
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Multiyear droughts and pluvials over the upper Colorado River Basin and...
This study analyzes spatial and temporal characteristics of multiyear droughts and pluvials over the southwestern United States with a focus on the upper Colorado River basin....- publication PDF
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Boundary impulse response functions in a century-long eddying global ocean simulation
Results are presented from a century-long 1/10° global ocean simulation that included a suite of age-related passive tracers. In particular, an ensemble of five global Boundary...- publication PDF
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A global scale mechanistic model of photosynthetic capacity (LUNA V1.0)
Although plant photosynthetic capacity as determined by the maximum carboxylation rate (i.e., Vc,âmax25) and the maximum electron transport rate (i.e., Jmax25) at a reference...- publication PDF
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Attenuation of scalar fluxes measured with spatially-displaced sensors
Observations from the Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (HATS) field program are used to examine the attenuation of measured scalar fluxes caused by spatial separation between...- publication PDF
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Asian summer monsoon anticyclone-the primary entryway for chlorinated...
Rapid growing emissions of dichloromethane (CH 2 Cl 2 ), a chlorinated very‐short‐lived substance (Cl‐VSLS) and an ozone depleting substance (ODS), has raised...- publication PDF
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Modeling the day-to-day variability of midnight Equatorial Plasma Bubbles...
It is well-known that equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) are highly correlated to the post-sunset rise of the ionosphere on a climatological basis. However, when proceeding to the...- publication PDF
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Enlightenment strikes! Broadening graduate school training through field...
This article provides an overview of the Advanced Study Institute: Field Studies of Convection in Argentina (ASI-FSCA) program, a 3-week dynamic and collaborative hands-on...- publication PDF
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Climate change impacts on the power generation potential of a European...
Wind energy resource is subject to changes in climate. To investigate the impacts of climate change on future European wind power generation potential, we analyze a multi-model...- publication PDF
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EZPLOT, for Publication-quality Plots
EZPLOT is built as a software interface between the user and NCAR graphics. While EZPLOT uses the NCAR graphics package, the interface eliminates the need to compile programs to...- publication PDF