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Reservoir governance in world's water towers needs to anticipate multi-purpose use
Mountains, said to be the world's water towers, are central for the provision of downstream water demands. This provision service is strongly challenged by climate change...- publication PDF
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Analysis of secondary organic aerosol simulation bias in the Community Earth...
Organic aerosol (OA) has been considered as one of the most important uncertainties in climate modeling due to the complexity in presenting its chemical production and depletion...- publication PDF
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Scientific documentation of the NCEP nonhydrostatic multiscale model on the...
This technical note focuses on the scientific and algorithmic approaches in the NMMB dynamics. Discussed are the NMMB dynamics solver, boundary conditions and the horizontal...- publication PDF
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Variability of thermosphere and ionosphere responses to solar flares
We investigated how the rise rate and decay rate of solar flares affect the thermosphere and ionosphere responses to them. Model simulations and data analysis were conducted for...- publication PDF
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Organizational modes of mesoscale convective systems over central east China
Composite reflectivity Doppler radar data from June to September of 2007–2010 were used to classify mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) over central east China into seven...- publication PDF
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Bootstrap methods for statistical inference. Part I: Comparative forecast...
When making statistical inferences, bootstrap resampling methods are often appealing because of less stringent assumptions about the distribution of the statistic(s) of...- publication PDF
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Extreme wet and dry conditions affected differently by greenhouse gases and aerosols
Global warming due to greenhouse gases and atmospheric aerosols alter precipitation rates, but the influence on extreme precipitation by aerosols relative to greenhouse gases is...- publication PDF
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Numerical simulation of radial cloud bands within the upper-level outflow of...
Turbulence affecting aircraft is frequently reported within bands of cirrus anvil cloud extending radially outward from upstream deep convection in mesoscale convective systems...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of the PBL and precipitation in 12-day simulations of...
A coupled land surface-atmospheric model that permits grid-resolved deep convection is used to examine linkages between land surface conditions, the planetary boundary layer...- publication PDF
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Moisture attribution and sensitivity analysis of a winter tornado outbreak
The tornado outbreak of 21-23 January 2017 caused 20 fatalities, more than 200 injuries, and over a billion dollars in damage in the Southeast United States. The event occurred...- publication PDF
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Examining urban inequality and vulnerability to enhance resilience: Insights...
Understanding how households, ranging from poor to wealthy differ in levels of vulnerability to hazards, such as floods and heat waves and knowledge of the mechanisms creating...- publication PDF
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GFDL's SPEAR seasonal prediction system: Initialization and Ocean Tendency...
The next-generation seasonal prediction system is built as part of the Seamless System for Prediction and EArth System Research (SPEAR) at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics...- publication PDF
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Optimizing high-resolution Community Earth System Model on a heterogeneous...
With semiconductor technology gradually approaching its physical and thermal limits, recent supercomputers have adopted major architectural changes to continue increasing the...- publication PDF
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A reduced complexity model for probabilistic risk assessment of groundwater...
We present a model of reduced complexity for assessing the risk of groundwater pollution from a point source. The progress of contamination is represented as a sequence of...- publication PDF
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Carbon monoxide pollution from cities and urban areas observed by the...
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a key species for tracking pollution plumes. The Measurement Of Pollution in The Troposphere (MOPITT) mission onboard the Terra satellite has already...- publication PDF
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Ground observation and AMIE-TIEGCM modeling of a storm-time traveling...
This paper reports the first comparison between comprehensive observations of equatorward moving traveling ionospheric disturbance at midlatitudes and thermospheric general...- publication PDF
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The Green's Function Model Intercomparison Project (GFMIP) protocol
The atmospheric Green's function method is a technique for modeling the response of the atmosphere to changes in the spatial field of surface temperature. While early studies...- publication PDF
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Global 30-240 keV proton precipitation in the 17-18 April 2002 geomagnetic...
Global 30–240 keV proton precipitation patterns during the 17-18 April 2002 magnetic storm events were generated using newly developed 3-hour data products of the medium energy...- publication PDF
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The Oklahoma squall line of 19 May 1977. Part II: Mechanisms for maintenance...
Mechanisms for maintenance of the strong convection along the leading edge of a broad squall line that occurred in Oklahoma on 19 May 1977 are investigated. The findings are...- publication PDF
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North Pacific decadal variability in the Community Climate System Model Version 2
North Pacific decadal oceanic and atmospheric variability is examined from a 650-yr control integration of the Community Climate System Model version 2. The dominant pattern of...- publication PDF