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A Mass-conservative semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian limited-area shallow-water...
A locally mass conservative shallow-water model using a two-time-level, semi-implicit, semi-Lagrangian integration scheme is presented. The momentum equations are solved with...- publication PDF
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MAPR wind profiler observations of tropical storms for the Clouds and...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) operated an Integrated Sounding System (ISS) in Miami, Florida, for the CPS (Clouds and Precipitation Study) in late summer...- publication PDF
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Metrics for the diurnal cycle of precipitation: Toward routine benchmarks...
Metrics are proposed--that is, a few summary statistics that condense large amounts of data from observations or model simulations--encapsulating the diurnal cycle of...- publication PDF
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Mapping the lateral development of lightning flashes from orbit
Optical lightning measurements from the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) are used to map the lateral development of lightning flashes and produce statistics that describe their...- publication PDF
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An investigation of petrochemical emissions during KORUS-AQ: Ozone...
Emissions and secondary photochemical products from the Daesan petrochemical complex (DPCC), on the west coast of South Korea, were measured from the NASA DC-8 research aircraft...- publication PDF
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Sunspot characteristics at the onset of the Maunder Minimum based on the...
An analysis of the sunspot observations made by Hevelius during 1642-1645 is presented. These records are the only systematic sunspot observations just before the Maunder...- publication PDF
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Algorithm stability and the long-term geospace data record from TIMED/SABER
The ability of satellite instruments to accurately observe long-term changes in atmospheric temperature depends on many factors including the absolute accuracy of the...- publication PDF
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Formaldehyde in the Alaskan Arctic snowpack: Partitioning and physical...
The snowpack is a photochemically active medium which produces numerous key reactive species involved in the atmospheric chemistry of polar regions. Formaldehyde (HCHO) is one...- publication PDF
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Comparison of the auroral E region neutral winds derived with the European...
A comparison study of the auroral E region neutral wind has been conducted using the European Incoherent Scatter (EISCAT) radar observations and Thermosphere-Ionosphere-...- publication PDF
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Surface pressure a more skillful predictor of normalized hurricane damage...
Atlantic hurricane seasons have a long history of causing significant financial impacts, with Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence, and Michael combining to incur more than 345 billion...- publication PDF
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Paleoclimate constraints on the spatiotemporal character of past and future droughts
Machine-learning-based methods that identify drought in three-dimensional space–time are applied to climate model simulations and tree-ring-based reconstructions of hydroclimate...- publication PDF
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A hypothesis for the intensification of tropical cyclones under moderate...
A major open issue in tropical meteorology is how and why some tropical cyclones intensify under moderate vertical wind shear. This study tackles that issue by diagnosing...- publication PDF
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The Annual cycle of the energy budget, Part I: Global mean and land-ocean exchanges
The mean and annual cycle of energy flowing into the climate system and its storage, release, and transport in the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface are estimated with recent...- publication PDF
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Particle size distribution properties in mixed-phase monsoon clouds from in...
A comprehensive analysis of particle size distributions measured in situ with airborne instrumentation during the Cloud Aerosol Interaction and Precipitation Enhancement...- publication PDF
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On the magnitude and sensitivity of the quasi-biennial oscillation response...
Volcanic eruptions that inject sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere have the potential to alter large-scale circulation patterns, such as the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO),...- publication PDF
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The low resolution CCSM3
The low-resolution fully coupled configuration of the Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) is described and evaluated. In this most economical configuration, an...- publication PDF
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The need for active region disconnection in 3D kinematic dynamo simulations
In this paper we address a discrepancy between the surface flux evolution in a 3D kinematic dynamo model and a 2D surface flux transport model that has been closely calibrated...- publication PDF
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Projecting policy-relevant metrics for high summertime ozone pollution...
Over the eastern United States (EUS), nitrogen oxides (NOx) emission controls have led to improved air quality over the past two decades, but concerns have been raised that...- publication PDF
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Probabilistic spatial meteorological estimates for Alaska and the Yukon
It is challenging to develop observationally based spatial estimates of meteorology in Alaska and the Yukon. Complex topography, frozen precipitation undercatch, and extremely...- publication PDF
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Eruptive event generator based on the Gibson-Low magnetic configuration
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), a kind of energetic solar eruptions, are an integral subject of space weather research. Numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modeling, which...- publication PDF
