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Sensitivity of Central Oklahoma convection forecasts to upstream potential...
The role of upstream subsynoptic forecast errors on forecasts of two different central Oklahoma severe convection events (19 and 31 May 2013) characterized by strong synoptic...- publication PDF
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Influences of climate change on California and Nevada regions revealed by a...
In this study, the influence of climate change to California and Nevada regions was investigated through high-resolution (4-km grid spacing) dynamical downscaling using the WRF...- publication PDF
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Assessing urban heat-related adaptation strategies under multiple futures...
Urban areas are increasingly affected by extreme heat in the face of climate change, while the size and vulnerability of exposed populations are shifting due to economic...- publication PDF
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Improved prediction of severe thunderstorms over the Indian Monsoon region...
The hypothesis that realistic land conditions such as soil moisture/soil temperature (SM/ST) can significantly improve the modeling of mesoscale deep convection is tested over...- publication PDF
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Estimation of turbulent heat fluxes by assimilation of land surface...
In different studies, land surface temperature (LST) observations have been assimilated into the variational data assimilation (VDA) approaches to estimate turbulent heat...- publication PDF
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Seasonal injection strategies for stratospheric aerosol geoengineering
Simulations of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering have typically considered injections at aconstant rate over the entire year. However, the seasonal variability of both...- publication PDF
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Building the Sun4Cast System: Improvements in solar power forecasting
As integration of solar power into the national electric grid rapidly increases, it becomes imperative to improve forecasting of this highly variable renewable resource. Thus, a...- publication PDF
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Assessment of biomass burning smoke influence on environmental conditions...
We use the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) system to study the impacts of biomass burning smoke from Central America on several tornado outbreaks occurring in the U.S....- publication PDF
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Large-scale ionospheric disturbances during the 17 March 2015 storm: A...
This paper presents a detailed model-data comparative study of the 17 March 2015 geomagnetic storm using the high-resolution version of the thermosphere-ionosphere-...- publication PDF
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A Prototype Optical Flowmeter for the Measurement of Liquid Water Content
This report depicts the design and preliminary evaluation of an optical flowmeter for measurement of the liquid water content in warm clouds and rain showers. The sensing...- publication PDF
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Next-decade needs for 3-D ionosphere imaging
Accurately imaging the 3-D ionospheric variation and its temporal evolution has always been a challenging task for the space weather community. Recent decades have witnessed...- publication PDF
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The Madden-Julian Oscillation in CCSM4
This study assesses the ability of the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4) to represent the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), the dominant mode of intraseasonal...- publication PDF
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Relationships of biomass-burning aerosols to ice in orographic wave clouds
Ice concentrations in orographic wave clouds at temperatures between -24° and -29°C were shown to be related to aerosol characteristics in nearby clear air during five research...- publication PDF
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The NCAR CSM Flux Coupler
The purpose of this document is to describe in detail the code known as the CSM Flux Coupler. This code was developed to serve two specific functions within the NCAR Climate...- publication PDF
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Unusually low ozone, HCl, and HNO₃ column measurements at Eureka, Canada...
As a consequence of dynamically variable meteorological conditions, springtime Arctic ozone levels exhibit significant interannual variability in the lower stratosphere. In...- publication PDF
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Predictability of Northern Hemisphere final stratospheric warmings and their...
Each spring, the climatological westerly winds of the Northern Hemisphere (NH) stratospheric polar vortex turn easterly as the stratospheric equator-to-pole temperature gradient...- publication PDF
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Comparison of aerosol chemistry transport model simulations with lidar and...
The ability of the aerosol chemistry transport model CHIMERE to simulate the vertical aerosol concentration profiles at a site near the city of Paris is evaluated using routine...- publication PDF
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Contributions of moist convection and internal gravity waves to building the...
With high-resolution mesoscale model simulations, the authors have confirmed a recent study demonstrating that convective systems, triggered in a horizontally homogeneous...- publication PDF
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High resolution forecasting of summer drought in the Western United States
Drought monitoring and forecasting systems are used in the United States (U.S.) to inform drought management decisions. Drought forecasting efforts have often been conducted and...- publication PDF
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Impact of anthropogenic aerosols on Indian summer monsoon
Using an interactive aerosol-climate model we find that absorbing anthropogenic aerosols, whether coexisting with scattering aerosols or not, can significantly affect the Indian...- publication PDF
