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Vertical Profiles of HTO, HDO, and H2O in the Troposphere
This document presents vertical profiles of tritium, deuterium, and water vapor in the troposphere that was obtained by NCAR at various times from 1966 through 1973. These data...- publication PDF
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Validation of mountain precipitation forecasts from the...
Convection-permitting ensembles can capture the large spatial variability and quantify the inherent uncertainty of precipitation in areas of complex terrain; however, such...- publication PDF
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Assessment of model estimates of land-atmosphere CO₂ exchange across Northern Eurasia
A warming climate is altering land-atmosphere exchanges of carbon, with a potential for increased vegetation productivity as well as the mobilization of permafrost soil carbon...- publication PDF
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Cloud Particle Measurement Symposium: Summaries and Abstracts
This report includes: Symposium Summaries: Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probes Summary /James E. Dye Optical Array Probes Summary /William A. Cooper General Topics...- publication PDF
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Small-scale solar magnetic fields
As we resolve ever smaller structures in the solar atmosphere, it has become clear that magnetism is an important component of those small structures. Small-scale magnetism...- publication PDF
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Attribution of Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) ozone radiative...
The top-of-atmosphere (TOA) outgoing longwave flux over the 9.6 mu m ozone band is a fundamental quantity for understanding chemistry-climate coupling. However, observed TOA...- publication PDF
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Verify - the MM4 Verification Processor
The purpose of this technical note is to describe and demonstrate the capabilities of a processor (VERIFY) developed to verify objectively forecasts generated by the PSU/NCAR...- publication PDF
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The identification of a planar magnetic structure within the ICME shock...
A Forbush decrease is a sudden decrease in cosmic-ray intensity caused by transient interplanetary disturbances. The substructure of an interplanetary counterpart of a coronal...- publication PDF
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The Bolzano Tracer Experiment (BTEX)
The paper describes the observational and modeling efforts performed under the Bolzano Tracer Experiment (BTEX). BTEX focused on the basin surrounding the city of Bolzano, at...- publication PDF
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A new perspective on coastally trapped disturbances using data from the satellite era
The ability of global climate models to simulate accurately marine stratiform clouds continues to challenge the atmospheric science community. These cloud types, which account...- publication PDF
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On the contribution of quiet-sun magnetism to solar irradiance variations:...
While the quiet-Sun magnetic field shows only little variation with the solar cycle, long-term variations cannot be completely ruled out from first principles. We investigate...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale and submesoscale effects on mixed layer depth in the southern ocean
Submesoscale dynamics play a key role in setting the stratification of the ocean surface mixed layer and mediating air-sea exchange, making them especially relevant to...- publication PDF
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The winter anomaly in the middle-latitude region during the solar minimum...
The winter anomaly (or seasonal anomaly) at middle latitudes is a phenomenon during which the daytime plasma density at the F-peak height (NmF(2)) is greater in winter than in...- publication PDF
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Clouds, aerosols, and precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer: An ARM...
The Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer (CAP-MBL) deployment at Graciosa Island in the Azores generated a 21-month (April 2009-December 2010)...- publication PDF
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Graupel and hail terminal velocities: Does a "supercritical" Reynolds Number apply?
This study characterizes the terminal velocities of heavily rimed ice crystals and aggregates, graupel, and hail using a combination of recent drag coefficient and particle bulk...- publication PDF
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The MATERHORN: Unraveling the intricacies of mountain weather
Emerging application areas such as air pollution in megacities, wind energy, urban security, and operation of unmanned aerial vehicles have intensified scientific and societal...- publication PDF
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Space–time spectral analysis of the moist static energy budget equation
The budget of column-integrated moist static energy (MSE) is examined in wavenumber-frequency transforms of longitude-time sections over the tropical belt. Cross-spectra with...- publication PDF
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Secondary circulations in rotating-flow boundary layers
Atmospheric vortices such as tornadoes, waterspouts, dust devils, hurricanes and midlatitude cyclones are influenced by the impermeable frictional boundary that is the Earth’s...- publication PDF
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Robustness of hydroclimate metrics for climate change impact research
Metrics based on streamflow and/or climate variables are used in water management for monitoring and evaluating available resources. To reflect future change in the hydrological...- publication PDF
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Gravity wave variation from the troposphere to the lower thermosphere during...
High resolution Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) simulations are used to study how gravity waves vary during a stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) event from the...- publication PDF
