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Evaluating tropospheric humidity from GPS radio occultation, radiosonde, and...
While water vapor is the most important tropospheric greenhouse gas, it is also highly variable in both space and time, and water vapor concentrations range over 3 orders of...- publication PDF
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Antarctic warming during Heinrich Stadial 1 in a transient isotope-enabled...
Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1) was the major climate event at the onset of the last deglaciation associated with rapid cooling in Greenland and lagged, slow warming in Antarctica....- publication PDF
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Verifying forecasts spatially
Numerous new methods have been proposed for using spatial information to better quantify and diagnose forecast performance when forecasts and observations are both available on...- publication PDF
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Impacts of Atlantic multidecadal variability on the tropical Pacific: A...
Atlantic multidecadal variability (AMV) has been linked to the observed slowdown of global warming over 1998-2012 through its impact on the tropical Pacific. Given the global...- publication PDF
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Emission and evolution of submicron organic aerosol in smoke from wildfires...
Despite increasing incidence of wildfires in the United States, wildfire smoke is poorly characterized, with little known about particle composition and emission rates....- publication PDF
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Description of NCAR Global Circulation Model
This report provides the basic equations, the physical processes, and the finite difference equations of the NCAR Global Circulation Model (GCM). These reported details of the...- publication PDF
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Benchmarking simulated precipitation variability amplitude across time scales
Objective performance metrics that measure precipitation variability across time scales from subdaily to interannual are presented and applied to Historical simulations of...- publication PDF
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The collection efficiency of shielded and unshielded precipitation gauges....
The use of windshields to reduce the impact of wind on snow measurements is common. This paper investigates the catching performance of shielded and unshielded gauges using...- publication PDF
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Biomass burning and urban air pollution over the Central Mexican Plateau
Observations during the 2006 dry season of highly elevated concentrations of cyanides in the atmosphere above Mexico City (MC) and the surrounding plains demonstrate that...- publication PDF
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Scientific data from precipitation driver response model intercomparison project
This data descriptor reports the main scientific values from General Circulation Models (GCMs) in the Precipitation Driver and Response Model Intercomparison Project (PDRMIP)....- publication PDF
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Supercell thunderstorms in complex topography - how mountain valleys with...
This study investigates the effects of lakes in mountainous terrain on the evolution of supercell thunderstorms. With a newly developed radar-based, mesocyclone-detection...- publication PDF
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Assessment of observational evidence for direct convective hydration of the...
In situ and remote sensing observations of water vapor are analyzed to assess the evidence for direct convective hydration of the lower stratosphere. We have examined several...- publication PDF
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A machine learning examination of hydroxyl radical differences among model...
The hydroxyl radical (OH) plays critical roles within the troposphere, such as determining the lifetime of methane (CH4), yet is challenging to model due to its fast cycling and...- publication PDF
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Event studies of high-latitude FACs with inverse and assimilative analysis...
We present examples of high-latitude field-aligned current (FAC) and toroidal magnetic potential patterns in both hemispheres reconstructed at a 2-min cadence using an updated...- publication PDF
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A survey of radiative and physical properties of North Atlantic mesoscale...
Three supervised neural network cloud classification routines are applied to daytime MODIS Aqua imagery and compared for the year 2018 over the North Atlantic Ocean. Routines...- publication PDF
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An informal introduction to numerical weather models with low-cost hardware
Weather, climate, and other Earth system models are growing in complexity as computing resources and technologies continue to evolve with time. Thus, models are and will remain...- publication PDF
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Patterns of evaporation and precipitation drive global isotopic changes in...
Because water isotope ratios respond to phase changes during evaporation (E) and precipitation (P), they are candidate fingerprints of changing atmospheric hydrology. Moreover,...- publication PDF
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Diagnosis and Sensitivity of the 200 hPa Circulation in NCAR Community Climate Models
The purpose of this report is to determine the nature of systematic errors in several different seasonal cycle versions of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)...- publication PDF
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100 years of progress in applied meteorology
Although atmospheric observing systems were already an important part of meteorology before the American Meteorological Society was established in 1919, the past 100 years have...- publication PDF
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Ozone profiles in the Baltimore-Washington region (2006-2011): Satellite...
Much progress has been made in creating satellite products for tracking the pollutants ozone and NO2 in the troposphere. Yet, in mid-latitude regions where meteorological...- publication PDF
