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Acceleration of the southern African easterly jet driven by the radiative eff...
The direct and semi-direct radiative effects of biomass burning aerosols (BBAs) are investigated over southern Africa and the southeastern Atlantic during the Aerosols,...- publication PDF
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Electric fields, cloud microphysics, and reflectivity in anvils of Florida th...
A coordinated aircraft - radar project that investigated the electric fields, cloud microphysics, and radar reflectivity of thunderstorm anvils near Kennedy Space Center is...- publication PDF
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Monotonic limiters for a second-order finite-volume advection scheme using ic...
An assessment of a recently developed (by Miura) second-order numerical advection scheme for icosahedral-hexagonal grids on the sphere is presented, and the effects of monotonic...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of climate model aerosol trends with ground-based observations ove...
This study presents a multiparameter analysis of aerosol trends over the last 2 decades at regional and global scales. Regional time series have been computed for a set of nine...- publication PDF
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Revisiting trends in wetness and dryness in the presence of internal climate ...
A theoretically expected consequence of the intensification of the hydrological cycle under global warming is that on average, wet regions get wetter and dry regions get drier...- publication PDF
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Semicontinuous measurements of gas-particle partitioning of organic acids in ...
Hundreds of gas- and particle-phase organic acids were measured in a rural ponderosa pine forest in Colorado, USA, during BEACHON-RoMBAS (Bio-hydro-atmosphere interactions of...- publication PDF
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Langmuir turbulence in swell
The problem is posed and solved for the oceanic surface boundary layer in the presence of wind stress, stable density stratification, equilibrium wind-waves, and remotely...- publication PDF
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Pacific Ocean variability influences the time of emergence of a seasonally ic...
The Arctic Ocean is projected to become seasonally ice-free before midcentury unless greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly reduced, but exactly when this could occur depends...- publication PDF
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Development of tracer relations and chemical ozone loss during the setup phas...
The development of tracer-tracer relations in the polar stratosphere is analyzed during the period when the vortex forms and a westerly circulation develops after polar summer...- publication PDF
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Uncertainty in carbon budget estimates due to internal climate variability
Remaining carbon budget specifies the cap on global cumulative CO(2)emissions from the present-day onwards that would be in line with limiting global warming to a specific...- publication PDF
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Insights into tropical tropopause layer processes using global models
The climatology of the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) in two state-of-the-art general circulation models is compared with observations. Results indicate that global models are...- publication PDF
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Multiwavelet discontinuous Galerkin-accelerated Exact Linear Part (ELP) metho...
In this paper a new approach is presented to increase the time-step size for an explicit discontinuous Galerkin numerical method. The attributes of this approach are...- publication PDF
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A Comparison of Quasi-geostrophic and Primitive Equation Models for Stratosph...
This report explains questions and builds upon previous findings on the comparison of quasi-geostrophic and primitive equation models for stratospheric sudden warming simulations.- publication PDF
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Sensing integrated water vapor along GPS ray paths
We demonstrate sensing of integrated slant‐path water vapor (SWV) along ray paths between Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and receivers. We use double differencing to...- publication PDF
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Wildfire air pollution hazard during the 21st century
Wildfires pose a significant risk to human livelihoods and are a substantial health hazard due to emissions of toxic smoke. Previous studies have shown that climate change,...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric lunar tide in the low latitude thermosphere�ionosphere
We present simultaneous, independent measurements of the atmospheric semidiurnal lunar tide in neutral winds and plasma velocities from NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer,...- publication PDF
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Sulfuric acid and OH concentrations in a boreal forest site
As demonstrated in a number of investigations, gaseous sulfuric acid plays a central role in atmospheric aerosol formation. Using chemical ionization mass spectrometer the...- publication PDF
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The importance of the geophysical context in statistical evaluations of clima...
A portion of the debate about climate reconstructions of the past millennium, and in particular about the well-known Mann-Bradley-Hughes ("MBH" 1998, 1999) reconstructions, has...- publication PDF
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Quiescent prominence dynamics observed with the Hinode solar optical telescop...
Hinode/Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) observations reveal two new dynamic modes in quiescent solar prominences: large-scale (20-50 Mm) "arches" or "bubbles" that "inflate" from...- publication PDF
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Effects of Thermal Cycling on Biaxially Stressed Balloon Films
This report presents the results of an examination of the biaxial strength properties of two commercial balloon films. 0.75 mil VisQueen X-124 and 0.7 mil Winzen StratoFilm were...- publication PDF
