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Pockets of open cells and drizzle in marine stratocumulus
Data from recent field studies in the northeast and southeast Pacific are used to investigate pockets of open cells (POCs) that are embedded in otherwise uniform stratocumulus....- publication PDF
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Quantifying the contribution of inflow on surface ozone over California...
Transported pollution has been recognized as making a potentially strong impact on air quality in the western U.S., but large uncertainties remain in quantifying its...- publication PDF
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The influence of warm-season precipitation on the diel cycle of the surface...
Precipitation changes the physical and biological characteristics of an ecosystem. Using a precipitation-based conditional sampling technique and a 14 year data set from a 25 m...- publication PDF
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The influence of hygroscopic flare seeding on drop size distribution over...
This study presents measurements of the initial cloud-base droplet spectra of seeded and unseeded clouds observed during the Queensland Cloud Seeding Research Program field...- publication PDF
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Dominant modes of variability in large-scale Birkeland currents
Properties of variability in large-scale Birkeland currents are investigated through empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of 1 week of data from the Active Magnetosphere...- publication PDF
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An iterative storm segmentation and classification algorithm for...
Thunderstorm mode strongly impacts the likelihood and predictability of tornadoes and other hazards, and thus is of great interest to severe weather forecasters and researchers....- publication PDF
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Simultaneous retrievals of nighttime O(3P) and total OH densities from...
Retrieving the total number density [OH], which is used in the chemical balance equations and is the sum of both ground and excited vibrational state populations, is a...- publication PDF
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Simulating the IHOP_2002 fair-weather CBL with the WRF-ARW-Noah modeling...
Fair-weather data along the May–June 2002 International H₂O Project (IHOP_2002) eastern track and the nearby Argonne Boundary Layer Experiments (ABLE) facility in southeast...- publication PDF
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Simulation of the 1976/1977 climate transition over the North Pacific:...
This study examines the contribution of tropical sea surface temperature (SST) forcing to the 1976/77 climate transition of the winter atmospheric circulation over the North...- publication PDF
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Effects of horizontal and vertical grid spacing on mixing in simulated...
The sensitivity of an idealized squall line to horizontal Δh and vertical Δv grid spacing is investigated using a new approach. Simulations are first performed at a horizontal...- publication PDF
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Real-time comparisons of VPR-corrected daily rainfall estimates with a gauge mesonet
The relative skill of two vertical-profile-of-reflectivity (VPR) correction techniques for daily accumulations on a selected dataset and a real-time dataset has been verified....- publication PDF
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Cloud-resolving model for weather modification in China
Weather modification is widely carried out in China. It is important to develop an operational model for weather modification to predict the microphysical features of cloud and...- publication PDF
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Balloon Strain Relief System
A balloon strain relief system for use during pre-launch activities was developed and its effect on balloon tensile strength was examined. Various clamp materials and balloons...- publication PDF
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Response of the Amazon carbon balance to the 2010 drought derived with...
Two major droughts in the past decade had large impacts on carbon exchange in the Amazon. Recent analysis of vertical profile measurements of atmospheric CO₂ and CO by Gatti et...- publication PDF
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Calibration of temperature in the lower stratosphere from microwave...
Accurate, consistent, and stable observations from different satellite missions are crucial for climate change detection. In this study, we use Global Positioning System (GPS)...- publication PDF
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Using radio occultation data for atmospheric numerical weather prediction,...
The Eighth International Radio Occultation Working Group (IROWG) of the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) was held on 15–20 April 2021. Owing to the...- publication PDF
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Why do models overestimate surface ozone in the Southeast United States?
Ozone pollution in the Southeast US involves complex chemistry driven by emissions of anthropogenic nitrogen oxide radicals (NOx = NO + NO2) and biogenic isoprene. Model...- publication PDF
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A neural network model of three-dimensional dynamic electron density in the...
A plasma density model of the inner magnetosphere is important for a variety of applications including the study of wave-particle interactions, and wave excitation and...- publication PDF
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Convective updraft and downdraft characteristics of continental mesoscale...
The "gray zone" of convective modeling is defined as the range of horizontal grid spacings (Delta x) at which turbulent transport processes are only partially resolved by the...- publication PDF
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Statistical study of the storm time radiation belt evolution during Van...
Coronal mass ejection (CME)-driven or corotating interaction region (CIR)-driven storms can change the electron distributions in the radiation belt dramatically, which can in...- publication PDF