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Decadal climate prediction: Opportunities and challenges
The scientific understanding of Earth's climate system is now sufficiently developed to show that climate change from anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing is already upon us,...- publication PDF
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Two-dimensional kernel smoothing: Using the R package smoothie
Applying a kernel smoother to a two-dimensional field can be a laborious and computationally expensive process if carried out in the most obvious fashion (applying a double...- publication PDF
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Global atmospheric budget of acetone: Air-sea exchange and the contribution...
Acetone is one of the most abundant oxygenated volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmosphere. The oceans impose a strong control on atmospheric acetone, yet the oceanic...- publication PDF
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Impacts of 4DVAR assimilation of airborne doppler radar observations on...
The Weather Research and Forecasting Model and its four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4DVAR) system are employed to examine the impact of airborne Doppler radar...- publication PDF
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Impact of CIR storms on thermosphere density variability during the solar...
The solar minimum of 2008 was exceptionally quiet, with sunspot numbers at their lowest in 75 years. During this unique solar-minimum epoch, however, solar-wind high-speed...- publication PDF
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A Southern Hemisphere sea level pressure-based precursor for ENSO warm and...
Past studies have described large-scale sea level pressure (SLP) variations in the Southern Hemisphere that lead to El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) warm and cold events (WE...- publication PDF
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Reference upper-air observations for climate: Rationale, progress, and plans
While the global upper-air observing network has provided useful observations for operational weather forecasting for decades, its measurements lack the accuracy and long-term...- publication PDF
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Observations of infrared sea surface temperature and air–sea interaction in...
This study highlights infrared sensor technology incorporated into the global positioning system (GPS) dropsonde platforms to obtain sea surface temperature (SST) measurements....- publication PDF
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Scale interactions near the foothills of Himalayas during CAIPEEX
Scale interactions associated with small scale (<100 km) dynamics might play a crucial role in the distribution of aerosol in the Himalayan foothills region. Turbulence...- publication PDF
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The role of synoptic eddies in the tropospheric response to stratospheric variability
The tropospheric response to sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) is analyzed in an idealized model setup regarding the respective roles of planetary-scale and synoptic-scale...- publication PDF
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Representation of leaf-to-canopy radiative transfer processes improves...
Recent advances in satellite observations of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) provide a new opportunity to constrain the simulation of terrestrial gross primary...- publication PDF
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An impact study of GPS radio occultation observations on frontal rainfall...
The impact of global positioning system (GPS) radio occultation (RO) soundings on the prediction of severe mei-yu frontal rainfall near Taiwan in June 2012 was investigated in...- publication PDF
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Multi-wavelength (L and S band) study of ionospheric irregularities from an...
This paper reports observation of moderate to intense scintillations, at S band of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS). During current solar cycle 25, these...- publication PDF
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Aircraft measurements of the impacts of pollution aerosols on clouds and...
Recent publications suggest that anthropogenic aerosols suppress orographic precipitation in California and elsewhere. A field campaign (SUPRECIP: Suppression of Precipitation)...- publication PDF
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Ice fog in Arctic during FRAM-Ice Fog Project: Aviation and nowcasting applications
Ice fog and frost occur commonly (at least 26% of the time) in the northern latitudes and Arctic regions during winter at temperatures usually less than about –15°C. Ice fog is...- publication PDF
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A Barometric Survey of National Hail Research Experiment Mesonet Station Heights
The mesoscale meteorological surface network established for the support of the National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE) 1973 field experiment has been barometrically surveyed....- publication PDF
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Interannual and seasonal drivers of carbon cycle variability represented by...
Earth system models are intended to make long-term projections, but they can be evaluated at interannual and seasonal time scales. Although the Community Earth System Model...- publication PDF
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Day-to-day variability of prereversal enhancement in the vertical ion drift...
Equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) are plasma density irregularities found in the equatorial ionosphere after sunset and are closely related to the upward ExB drift before it...- publication PDF
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A case study of radar observations and WRF LES simulations of the impact of...
Several Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model simulations of natural and seeded clouds have been conducted in non-LES and LES (large-eddy simulation) modes to investigate...- publication PDF
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A localized particle filter for high-dimensional nonlinear systems
This paper presents a new data assimilation approach based on the particle filter (PF) that has potential for nonlinear/non-Gaussian applications in geoscience. Particle filters...- publication PDF
