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Moisture dependence of an African easterly wave within the West African...
The growth and propagation of African easterly waves (AEWs) remains an active area of research, especially for those that become tropical cyclones (TCs). This is partly due to...- publication PDF
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Large eddy simulations and observations of atmospheric marine boundary...
Winds and waves in marine boundary layers are often in an unsettled state when fast-running swell generated by distant storms propagates into local regions and modifies the...- publication PDF
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Dichotomy between freshwater and heat flux effects on oceanic conveyor belt...
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is an important global-scale oceanic circulation, and its changes may be responsible for past abrupt climate change events. By...- publication PDF
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Global scale inversions from MOPITT CO and MODIS AOD
Top-down observational constraints on emissions flux estimates from satellite observations of chemical composition are subject to biases and errors stemming from transport,...- publication PDF
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Global-scale ERA5 product precipitation and temperature evaluation
ERA5 (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis Fifth Generation) is a significant dataset in climate reanalysis. Conducting a global-scale accuracy...- publication PDF
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Impact of irrigation on farmworker’s heat stress in California differs by...
Farmworkers, the frontline workers of our food system, are often exposed to heat stress that is likely to increase in frequency and severity due to climate change. Irrigation...- publication PDF
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The probability distribution of land surface wind speeds
The probability density function (pdf) of land-surface wind speeds is characterised using a global network of observations. Daytime surface wind speeds are shown to be broadly...- publication PDF
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The role of in-cloud wet removal in simulating aerosol vertical profiles and...
Among the physical processes controlling aerosol vertical profiles, in-cloud wet removal is of utmost importance while its representation in global climate models (GCMs) is...- publication PDF
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Effects of snow water storage on hydrologic partitioning across the...
In the montane western United States, where the majority of downstream water resources are derived from snowmelt, a warming climate threatens the timing and amount of future...- publication PDF
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Distilling the evolving contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosols and...
Anthropogenic aerosols (AER) and greenhouse gases (GHG)—the leading drivers of the forced historical change—produce different large‐scale climate response...- publication PDF
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Volcanic forcing of climate over the past 1500 years: An improved ice...
Understanding natural causes of climate change is vital to evaluate the relative impacts of human pollution and land surface modification on climate. We have investigated one of...- publication PDF
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Fitting a Cartesian prediction model to radial-velocity data from...
Previous experiments with the adjoint technique for determining the three-dimensional wind and thermodynamic fields from single-Doppler radar data have assumed that the radar...- publication PDF
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Impact of varying number of radio occultation observations on regional...
Observing system simulation experiments are carried out to investigate the added value of radio occultation (RO) refractivity observations with various spatial sampling...- publication PDF
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Large global variations in the carbon dioxide removal potential of seaweed...
Estimates suggest that over 4 gigatons per year of carbon dioxide (Gt-CO2 year(-1)) be removed from the atmosphere by 2050 to meet international climate goals. One strategy for...- publication PDF
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Validation of the Ensemble Generalized Analog Regression Downscaling...
Wind, often overlooked in climate change impact assessments, is now a crucial atmospheric variable due to our imminent reliance on renewable energy sources like wind energy....- publication PDF
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Evaluation of multiple satellite, reanalysis, and merged precipitation...
Satellite and reanalysis precipitation estimates of high quality are widely used for hydrological modeling, especially in ungauged or data-scarce regions. To improve flood...- publication PDF
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Spectra of solar shallow-water waves from bright point observations
Rossby waves, large-scale meandering patterns drifting in longitude, detected in the Sun, were recently shown to a play a crucial role in understanding “seasons” of space...- publication PDF
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The Total Carbon Column Observing Network's GGG2020 data version
The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) measures column-average mole fractions of several greenhouse gases (GHGs), beginning in 2004, from over 30 current or past...- publication PDF
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Documenting Coherent Turbulent Structures in the boundary layer of intense...
New radar remote sensing measurements of the turbulent hurricane boundary layer (HBL) are examined through analysis of airborne (Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (IWRAP))...- publication PDF
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Energy-conserving physics for nonhydrostatic dynamics in mass coordinate models
Motivated by reducing errors in the energy budget related to enthalpy fluxes within the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), we study several physics-dynamics coupling...- publication PDF