-
A bird’s-eye view: Development of an operational ARM unmanned aerial...
Thorough understanding of aerosols, clouds, boundary layer structure, and radiation is required to improve the representation of the Arctic atmosphere in weather forecasting and...- publication PDF
-
Solar radiation management impacts on agriculture in China: A case study in...
Geoengineering via solar radiation management could affect agricultural productivity due to changes in temperature, precipitation, and solar radiation. To study rice and maize...- publication PDF
-
Enlightenment strikes! Broadening graduate school training through field...
This article provides an overview of the Advanced Study Institute: Field Studies of Convection in Argentina (ASI-FSCA) program, a 3-week dynamic and collaborative hands-on...- publication PDF
-
Climatological Atlas: 1950-1979 Surface Air Temperature, Precipitation,...
Monthly surface air temperatures (TMP), sea-level pressures (SLP), sea surface temperatures (SST) and precipitation (PRC) from two complementary historical data sets are used to...- publication PDF
-
A complete dynamical ozone budget measured in the tropical marine boundary...
The Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment (PASE) was field mission that took place aboard the NCAR C-130 airborne laboratory over the equatorial Pacific Ocean near Christmas...- publication PDF
-
Estimation of the minimum canopy resistance for croplands and grasslands...
Vegetated surfaces, such as grasslands and croplands, constitute a significant portion of the earth’s surface and play an important role in land-atmosphere exchange processes....- publication PDF
-
Magnetic buoyancy and rotational instabilities in the tachocline
We present results from an analytical model for magnetic buoyancy and rotational instabilities in a full spherical shell tachocline that includes rotation, differential rotation...- publication PDF
-
The NCAR Local Network
This document is in two sections. The first is intended for the general user of the NCAR Local Network. It describes in "cookbook" fashion the operation of the Network. A...- publication PDF
-
Design strategies of an hourly update 3DVAR data assimilation system for...
This study examines two strategies for improving the analysis of an hourly update three-dimensional variational data assimilation (3DVAR) system and the subsequent quantitative...- publication PDF
-
Modeling the day-to-day variability of midnight Equatorial Plasma Bubbles...
It is well-known that equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) are highly correlated to the post-sunset rise of the ionosphere on a climatological basis. However, when proceeding to the...- publication PDF
-
The spectral element method (SEM) on variable-resolution grids: Evaluating...
We evaluate the performance of the Community Atmosphere Model's (CAM) spectral element method on variable-resolution grids using the shallow-water equations in spherical...- publication PDF
-
Deriving global OH abundance and atmospheric lifetimes for long-lived gases:...
An accurate estimate of global hydroxyl radical (OH) abundance is important for projections of air quality, climate, and stratospheric ozone recovery. As the atmospheric mixing...- publication PDF
-
A climatology of tides in the Antarctic mesosphere and lower thermosphere
A function that approximates atmospheric tidal behavior in the polar regions is described. This function is fitted to multistation radar measurements of wind in the mesosphere...- publication PDF
-
Turbulence structure above a vegetation canopy
We compare the turbulence statistics of the canopy/roughness sublayer (RSL) and the inertial sublayer (ISL) above. In the RSL the turbulence is more coherent and more efficient...- publication PDF
-
Nighttime and daytime dark oxidation chemistry in wildfire plumes: An...
Wildfires are increasing in size across the western US, leading to increases in human smoke exposure and associated negative health impacts. The impact of biomass burning (BB)...- publication PDF
-
Climate normals: Are they always communicated correctly?
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
-
Large-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances origin and propagation: Case...
We investigate the origin, occurrence, and propagation of large-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (LSTIDs) over the European region during the 19-21 December 2015...- publication PDF
-
Are long-term changes in mixed layer depth influencing North Pacific marine...
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
-
Dayside magnetospheric and ionospheric responses to a foreshock transient on...
As one type of driver of magnetospheric Alfven waves, foreshock transients have received less attention than, for example, the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, discrete and...- publication PDF
-
Statistical study of foreshock transients in the midtail foreshock
In the dayside foreshock, many foreshock transients have been observed and simulated. Because of their strong dynamic pressure perturbations, foreshock transients can disturb...- publication PDF