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Sky Brightness Photometer
This report explains the design development of, and includes the operation manual for, a Sky Brightness Photometer developed by NCAR. This photometer was developed to make...- publication PDF
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Asymptotic Behavior of a Continuous Approximation to the Kriging Weighting Fu...
This technical note contains the detailed arguments of the proof: The main Theorem 4.2 gives conditions on k guaranteeing that the EEC is satisfied and Corollary 4.3 verifies...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 2020 Improving Scientific Software Conference
The Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) is a loosely structured group of software engineers and scientists who write scientific software, mostly but not only at NCAR and mostly...- publication PDF
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The SCD Graphics Utilities
This manual documents the Graphics Utilities used by the Scientific Computing Division (SCD) at NCAR. The utilities are listed alphabetically by utility name.- publication PDF
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Accelerating CMIP data analysis with parallel computing in R
In this Technical Note we examine eight schemes for parallelizing Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) on Coupled Model Intercomparison Project data via R foreach, doParallel, and doMPI...- publication PDF
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Metrics for Evaluation of Solar Energy Forecasts
This technical note summarizes metrics that have been defined to assess the quality of forecasts of solar irradiance and solar power production forecasting. A set of six base...- publication PDF
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Technical Description of an Urban Parameterization for the Community Land Mod...
This technical note describes the physical parameterizations and numerical implementation of a Community Land Model Urban (CLMU) parameterization as coupled to version 4 of the...- publication PDF
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Needs, Opportunities and Strategies for a Long-term Oceanic Sciences Satellit...
This document conveys the recommendations of the NOSS Science Working Group charged with three tasks: first, to recommend sensor modifications and additions to fill the 25 % of...- publication PDF
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Design of the Eldora Airborne Doppler Radar
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regClimateChem: An R Package for Data Driven Variable Selection Applied to At...
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a major pollutant, impacting air quality and contributing to the greenhouse effect. Buchholz et al. [1] used a multiple linear regression model to link...- publication PDF
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Survey of Mozambique Public on Weather, Water, and Climate Information
The 24 million people of Mozambique in southeast Africa face extreme hydro-meteorological events including floods, droughts, and tropical cyclones as well as considerable...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the Spatial Structure of Tropical Cyclone Imagery
Tropical cyclones are highly organized, rotating storms which rank among the most costly natural disasters in the United States. The processes which drive intensification and...- publication PDF
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Lower Boundary Conditions for the NCAR Global Circulation Model: Ocean Surfac...
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Documentation of NCAR CCM1 Program Modules
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Simulation Testbed for Trend Detection and Attribution Methods
The field of detection and attribution has been growing for a couple of decades and has recently seen a increase in the quantity and sophistication of methods. The difficulty of...- publication PDF
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Diagnosis and Sensitivity of the 200 hPa Circulation in NCAR Community Climat...
The purpose of this report is to determine the nature of systematic errors in several different seasonal cycle versions of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)...- publication PDF
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NCAR Graphics Installer's Guide: Version 2.00
This manual represents the first release of the NCAR Graphics Installer's Guide. It is for use with version 2.00 of NCAR Graphics. The material in this manual is intended to be...- publication PDF
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Guide to Historical Resources in the Atmospheric Sciences: Archives, Manuscri...
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TCMT Evaluation for the HFIP Reconnaissance Data Impact Tiger Team (RDITT)
In January 2013, the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP) established the Reconnaissance Data Impact Tiger Team (RDITT) to conduct a systematic investigation of the...- publication PDF
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A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Model Version 4.1
The Advanced Research WRF (ARW) model is a configuration of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. This technical note describes the scientific and algorithmic...- publication PDF