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Climate responses under an extreme quiet sun scenario
Fundamental understanding of the climate responses to solar variability is obscured by the large and complex climate variability. This long-standing issue is addressed here by...- publication PDF
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Storm surge and "certain death": Interviews with Texas coastal residents...
Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, Texas, on 13 September 2008 as a large category 2 storm that generated significant storm surge and flooding. This article presents...- publication PDF
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Attributing air pollutant exposure to emission sources with proximity sensing
Biomass burning for home energy use contributes to negative health outcomes and environmental degradation. As part of the REACCTING study (Research on Emissions, Air quality,...- publication PDF
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Ice cloud particle size distributions and pressure-dependent terminal...
The primary goal of this study is to derive ice particle terminal velocities from micron to centimeter sizes and for atmospheric pressures covering the range 200–1000 hPa from...- publication PDF
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Total column water vapor, [In “States of the Climate in 2014"]
Most of the dozens of essential climate variables monitored each year in this report continued to follow their long-term trends in 2014, with several setting new records. Carbon...- publication PDF
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Dynamics of Wind Setdown at Suez and the Eastern Nile Delta
Wind setdown is the drop in water level caused by wind stress acting on the surface of a body of water for an extended period of time. As the wind blows, water recedes from the...- publication PDF
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Analysis of stress-induced transcripts and biogenic volatile organic...
Changes in the composition of biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions and stress-responsive gene transcripts were investigated in the tropical tree species Hymenaea...- publication PDF
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The representative concentration pathways: an overview
This paper summarizes the development process and main characteristics of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), a set of four new pathways developed for the climate...- publication PDF
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A review of Arctic sea ice climate predictability in large-scale Earth system models
We provide a high-level review of sea ice models used for climate studies and of the recent advances made with these models to understand sea ice predictability. Models...- publication PDF
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The rarity of absent growth rings in Northern Hemisphere forests outside the...
We present a synthesis of locally absent (or "missing") growth rings across the Northern Hemisphere based on 2359 publicly available tree ring-width records. During the last...- publication PDF
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Interannual variability and trends in tropical ozone derived from SAGE II...
Long-term observations of stratospheric ozone from the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II (SAGE II) satellite (1984-2005) are combined with ozonesonde measurements from...- publication PDF
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The impact of horizontal resolution on projected sea‐level rise along US...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report lists sea-level rise as one of the major future climate challenges. Based on pre-industrial and historical-...- publication PDF
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NOAA's second-generation global medium-range ensemble reforecast dataset
A multidecadal ensemble reforecast database is now available that is approximately consistent with the operational 0000 UTC cycle of the 2012 NOAA Global Ensemble Forecast...- publication PDF
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Vertically resolved convective-stratiform echo-type identification and...
Using data from the airborne HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR), a partitioning algorithm (ECCO-V) that provides vertically resolved convectivity and convective versus stratiform radar-...- publication PDF
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Variational bias correction of TAMDAR temperature observations in the WRF...
A variational bias correction (VarBC) scheme is developed and tested using regional Weather Research and Forecasting Model Data Assimilation (WRFDA) to correct systematic errors...- publication PDF
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Persistent stratospheric warming due to 2019-2020 Australian wildfire smoke
Australian wildfires burning from December 2019 to January 2020 injected approximately 0.9 Tg of smoke into the stratosphere; this is the largest amount observed in the...- publication PDF
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NSF AI institute for research on trustworthy AI in weather, climate, and...
We introduce the National Science Foundation (NSF) AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES). This AI institute was...- publication PDF
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Machine learning for stochastic parameterization: Generative adversarial...
Stochastic parameterizations account for uncertainty in the representation of unresolved subgrid processes by sampling from the distribution of possible subgrid forcings. Some...- publication PDF
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Hybrid 4DVAR with a local ensemble tangent linear model: Application to the...
An ensemble-based tangent linear model (TLM) is described and tested in data assimilation experiments using a global shallow-water model (SWM). A hybrid variational data...- publication PDF
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Analysis of the influence of film-forming compounds on droplet growth:...
Decades of cloud microphysical research have not provided conclusive understanding of the physical processes responsible for droplet spectral broadening. Numerous mechanisms...- publication PDF