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A hyperactive end to the Atlantic hurricane season October-November 2020
The active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season produced 30 named storms, 14 hurricanes, and 7 major hurricanes (category 3+ on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale). Though the...- publication PDF
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Addressing interdependency in a multimodel ensemble by interpolation of...
The diverse set of Earth system models used to conduct the CMIP5 ensemble can partly sample the uncertainties in future climate projections. However, combining those projections...- publication PDF
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Ozone profile retrieval from an advanced infrared sounder: Experiments with...
Motivated by a significant potential for retrieving atmospheric ozone profile information from advanced satellite infrared sounders, this study investigates various methods to...- publication PDF
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The influence of urbanization on the development of a convective storm—A...
One of the main problems faced by the Belem Metropolitan Region (BMR) inhabitants is flash floods caused by precarious infrastructure and extreme rainfall events. The objective...- publication PDF
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The evolving role of humans in weather prediction and communication
A series of webinars and panel discussions were conducted on the topic of the evolving role of humans in weather prediction and communication, in recognition of the 100th...- publication PDF
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If the Sun is so quiet, why is the Earth ringing? A comparison of two solar...
Observations from the recent Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI) solar minimum campaign are compared to last cycle's Whole Sun Month (WSM) to demonstrate that sunspot numbers,...- publication PDF
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Convective initiation near the Andes in subtropical South America
Satellite radar and radiometer data indicate that subtropical South America has some of the deepest and most extreme convective storms on Earth. This study uses the full 15-yr...- publication PDF
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An improved algorithm for low-level turbulence forecasting
A low-level turbulence (LLT) forecasting algorithm is proposed and implemented within the Graphical Turbulence Guidance (GTG) turbulence forecasting system. The LLT algorithm...- publication PDF
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The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model Version 6 (WACCM6)
The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model version 6 (WACCM6) is a major update of the whole atmosphere modeling capability in the Community Earth System Model (CESM),...- publication PDF
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Biases in southern hemisphere climate trends induced by coarsely specifying...
Global climate models that do not include interactive middle atmosphere chemistry, such as most of those contributing to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5,...- publication PDF
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Assessing the impact of enhanced hydrological processes on urban...
To enhance the capability of models in better characterizing the urban water cycle, physical parameterizations of urban hydrological processes have been implemented into the...- publication PDF
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Temperature variations in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere during...
Using the temperature data observed from the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER), we investigate the response of the mesosphere and lower...- publication PDF
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EMDNA: An Ensemble Meteorological Dataset for North America
Probabilistic methods are useful to estimate the uncertainty in spatial meteorological fields (e.g., the uncertainty in spatial patterns of precipitation and temperature across...- publication PDF
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Arctic and east Asia winter climate variations associated with the eastern...
The wintertime Arctic temperature (T; surface-400 hPa) decreased from 1979 to 1997 and increased rapidly from 1998 to 2012, in contrast to the global mean surface air...- publication PDF
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Effects of weather conditions on the public demand for weather information...
Understanding when weather information is required by the public is essential for evaluating and improving user-oriented weather services. Because of the popularity of...- publication PDF
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Changes in stratospheric temperatures and their implications for changes in...
Seasonally and vertically resolved changes in the strength of the Brewer-Dobson circulation (BDC) were inferred using temperatures measured by the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU),...- publication PDF
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Addressing numerical challenges in introducing a reactive transport code...
We explore coupling to a configurable subsurface reactive transport code as a flexible and extensible approach to biogeochemistry in land surface models. A reaction network with...- publication PDF
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A land surface soil moisture data assimilation system based on the dual-UKF...
Many studies have shown the deficiencies of the extended Kalman filter (EKF), even though it has become a standard technique used in nonlinear estimation. In the EKF method, the...- publication PDF
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The impact of precipitation type discrimination on hydrologic simulation:...
Hourly surface precipitation type (Ptype) grids (a total of 408 h from 1 December 2005 through April 20, 2006) were generated by mapping the elevation of the radar-detected...- publication PDF
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Additive noise for storm-scale ensemble data assimilation
An "additive noise" method for initializing ensemble forecasts of convective storms and maintaining ensemble spread during data assimilation is developed and tested for a...- publication PDF
