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Dynamics of cloud-top generating cells in winter cyclones. Part III: Shear...
Cloud-top generating cells (GCs) are a common feature atop stratiform clouds within the comma head of winter cyclones. The dynamics of cloud-top GCs are investigated using very...- publication PDF
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Improving the radiance assimilation performance in estimating snow water...
Continental-scale snow radiance assimilation (RA) experiments are conducted in order to improve snow estimates across snow and land-cover types in North America. In the...- publication PDF
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Impact of Ural blocking on winter warm Arctic-cold Eurasian anomalies. Part...
In Part I of this study, the Ural blocking (UB)-induced amplification role of winter warm Arctic–cold Eurasian (WACE) anomalies has been examined. It was found that the long-...- publication PDF
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A new approach to homogenize daily radiosonde humidity data
Radiosonde humidity records represent the only in situ observations of tropospheric water vapor content with multidecadal length and quasi-global coverage. However, their use...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric temperatures [in "State of the Climate in 2009"]
This was published as a section in "The State of the Climate in 2009", a Special Supplement edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.- publication PDF
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Exposures to carbon monoxide in a cookstove intervention in Northern Ghana
Biomass burning for home energy use is a major environmental health concern. Improved cooking technologies could generate environmental health benefits, yet prior results...- publication PDF
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A range of outcomes: The combined effects of internal variability and...
Disentangling the effects of internal variability and anthropogenic forcing on regional climate trends remains a key challenge with far-reaching implications. Due to its largely...- publication PDF
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Roles of barotropic instability across the moat in inner eyewall decay and...
Intense tropical cyclones (TCs) often experience secondary eyewall formations and the ensuing eyewall replacement cycles. Better understanding of the underlying dynamics is...- publication PDF
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Assimilation of simulated doppler radar observations with an ensemble Kalman filter
Assimilation of Doppler radar data into cloud models is an important obstacle to routine numerical weather prediction for convective-scale motions; the difficulty lies in...- publication PDF
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The lightning and dual-polarization radar characteristics of three...
Thunderstorms that produce hail accumulations at the surface can impact residents by obstructing road-ways, closing airports, and causing localized flooding from hail-clogged...- publication PDF
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The Data Assimilation Research Testbed: A community facility
The Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) is an open-source community facility for data assimilation education, research, and development. DART's ensemble data assimilation...- publication PDF
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A foehn-induced haze front in Beijing: Observations and implications
Despite frequent foehns in the Beijing-TianjinHebei (BTH) region, there are only a few studies of their effects on air pollution in this region, or elsewhere. Here, we discuss a...- publication PDF
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An evaluation of LES turbulence models for scalar mixing in the...
The stratocumulus cloud-capped boundary layer under a sharp inversion is a challenging regime for large-eddy simulation (LES). Here, data from the first research flight of the...- publication PDF
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Tropical oceanic rainfall and sea surface temperature structure: Parsing...
Based upon on the findings of Y. Li and R. E. Carbone, the association of tropical rainfall with SST structure is further explored, with emphasis on the MJO passband. Analyses...- publication PDF
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Advancing solar and heliospheric science through the ongoing development and...
This paper outlines the necessity for the availability, accessibility, and expansion of atomic physics data and analysis tools for the meaningful interpretation of spectroscopic...- publication PDF
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The change in the ENSO teleconnection under a low global warming scenario...
El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a main driver of climate variability worldwide, but the presence of atmospheric internal variability makes accurate assessments of its...- publication PDF
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Reference upper-air observations for climate: Rationale, progress, and plans
While the global upper-air observing network has provided useful observations for operational weather forecasting for decades, its measurements lack the accuracy and long-term...- publication PDF
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Global oscillatory modes in high-end climate modeling and reanalyses
Interannual oscillatory modes, atmospheric and oceanic, are present in several large regions of the globe. We examine here low-frequency variability (LFV) over the entire globe...- publication PDF
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Combining machine learning and SMILEs to classify, better understand, and...
The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) occurs in three phases: neutral, warm (El Nino), and cool (La Nina). While classifying El Nino and La Nina is relatively straightforward,...- publication PDF
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Verifying forecasts spatially
Numerous new methods have been proposed for using spatial information to better quantify and diagnose forecast performance when forecasts and observations are both available on...- publication PDF
