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Progress and direction in tropical convection research: YOTC International...
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Emissions of volatile organic compounds inferred from airborne flux...
Toluene and benzene are used for assessing the ability to measure disjunct eddy covariance (DEC) fluxes of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) using Proton Transfer Reaction Mass...- publication PDF
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Boundary layer sources for the Asian anticyclone: Regional contributions to...
The transport of air from the planetary boundary layer (PBL) into the Asian Summer Monsoon anticyclone is investigated using backward trajectories initiated within the anti-...- publication PDF
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A critical knowledge pathway to low-carbon, sustainable futures: Integrated...
Independent lines of research on urbanization, urban areas, and carbon have advanced our understanding of some of the processes through which energy and land uses affect carbon....- publication PDF
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Diurnal variation of the potassium layer in the upper atmosphere
Measurements of the diurnal cycle of potassium (K) atoms between 80 and 110 km have been made during October (for the years 2004-2011) using a Doppler lidar at Kühlungsborn,...- publication PDF
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The influence of shear on deep convection initiation. Part II: simulations
This study evaluates a hypothesis for the role of vertical wind shear in deep convection initiation (DCI) that was introduced in Part I by examining behavior of a series of...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale predictability of moist baroclinic waves: Experiments with...
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Characterizing the North American monsoon in the Community Atmosphere Model:...
This work examines the effect of horizontal resolution and topography on the North American monsoon (NAM) in experiments with an atmospheric general circulation model....- publication PDF
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Long-term particulate matter modeling for health effect studies in...
For the first time, a ~ decadal (9 years from 2000 to 2008) air quality model simulation with 4 km horizontal resolution over populated regions and daily time resolution has...- publication PDF
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Ensemble data assimilation in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model
We present results pertaining to the assimilation of real lower, middle, and upper atmosphere observations in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) using the Data...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of top-down CO source estimates to the modeled vertical...
We assessed the sensitivity of regional CO source estimates to the modeled vertical CO distribution by assimilating multi-spectral MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution In The...- publication PDF
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Some counterintuitive dependencies of tropical cyclone frequency on...
High-resolution global climate models (GCMs) have been increasingly utilized for simulations of the global number and distribution of tropical cyclones (TCs), and how they might...- publication PDF
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The fall speed variability of similarly sized ice particle aggregates
The terminal velocity (Vt) of ice hydrometeors is of high importance to atmospheric modeling. Vt is governed by the physical characteristics of a hydrometeor, including mass and...- publication PDF
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Effects of increasing the category resolution of the sea ice thickness...
Many modern sea ice models used in global climate models represent the subgrid-scale heterogeneity in sea ice thickness with an ice thickness distribution (ITD), which improves...- publication PDF
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Evaluating a new deposition velocity module in the Noah land surface model
The community Noah land-surface model (Noah LSM) has been modified to couple with a photosynthesis-transpiration scheme (GEM) to estimate the deposition velocity (V d) for air...- publication PDF
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Incorporating organic soil into a global climate model
Organic matter significantly alters a soil's thermal and hydraulic properties but is not typically included in land-surface schemes used in global climate models. This omission...- publication PDF
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Accelerating 'fields' by revamping the Cholesky Decomposition
The Geophysical Statistics project group within the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe) has been making use of Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multicore...- publication PDF
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Contributions of external forcings to Southern Annular Mode trends
An observed trend in the Southern Hemisphere annular mode (SAM) during recent decades has involved an intensification of the polar vortex. The source of this trend is a matter...- publication PDF
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Upscale versus "up-amplitude" growth of forecast-error spectra
Atmospheric predictability is measured by the average difference (or "error") within an ensemble of forecasts starting from slightly different initial conditions. The spatial...- publication PDF
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Biogeophysical effects of land-use and land-cover change not detectable in...
Land-use and land-cover changes (hereafter simply "land use") alter climates biogeophysically by affecting surface fluxes of energy and water. Yet, near-surface temperature...- publication PDF
