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Geospace concussion: Global reversal of ionospheric vertical plasma drift in...
An interplanetary shock can abruptly compress the magnetosphere, excite magnetospheric waves and field-aligned currents, and cause a ground magnetic response known as a sudden...- publication PDF
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Airborne observations constrain heterogeneous nitrogen and halogen chemistry...
Heterogeneous chemical cycles of pyrogenic nitrogen and halides influence tropospheric ozone and affect the stratosphere during extreme Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCB) events. We...- publication PDF
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Probabilistic forecasts of mesoscale convective system initiation using the...
A data mining and statistical learning method known as a random forest (RF) is employed to generate 2-h forecasts of the likelihood for initiation of mesoscale convective...- publication PDF
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Evolution of ozone pollution in China: What track will it follow?
Increasing surface ozone (O3) concentrations has emerged as a key air pollution problem in many urban regions worldwide in the last decade. A longstanding major issue in...- publication PDF
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A perturbation approach to understanding the effects of turbulence on frontogenesis
Ocean fronts are an important submesoscale feature, yet frontogenesis theory often neglects turbulence - even parameterized turbulence - leaving theory lacking in comparison...- publication PDF
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In situ measurements and modeling of reactive trace gases in a small biomass...
An instrumented NASA P-3B aircraft was used for airborne sampling of trace gases in a plume that had emanated from a small forest understory fire in Georgia, USA. The plume was...- publication PDF
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Representing winter wheat in the Community Land Model (version 4.5)
Winter wheat is a staple crop for global food security, and is the dominant vegetation cover for a significant fraction of Earth's croplands. As such, it plays an important role...- publication PDF
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The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX)
The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) took place during the 2015/16 fall-winter season in the vicinity of the mountainous Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. The goals...- publication PDF
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Assimilation of semi-qualitative sea ice thickness data with the EnKF-SQ: A...
A newly introduced stochastic data assimilation method, the Ensemble Kalman Filter Semi-Qualitative (EnKF-SQ) is applied to a realistic coupled ice-ocean model of the Arctic,...- publication PDF
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WACCM6 projections of polar mesospheric cloud abundance over the 21st century
Polar mesospheric clouds (PMC), or noctilucent clouds, can be observed over high latitudes with the naked eye from the ground or from space near the summer solstice. PMC are...- publication PDF
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Optical properties of shallow tropical cumuli derived from ARM ground-based...
This paper presents results from ground-based remote sensing of optical properties of shallow convective clouds over the Nauru ARM site using the technique developed by...- publication PDF
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The Fire INventory from NCAR (FINN): A high resolution global model to...
The Fire INventory from NCAR version 1.0 (FINNv1) provides daily, 1 km resolution, global estimates of the trace gas and particle emissions from open burning of biomass, which...- publication PDF
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User's Guide for the NCAR CCM Modular Processor
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Stoichiometrically coupled carbon and nitrogen cycling in the...
Explicit consideration of microbial physiology in soil biogeochemical models that represent coupled carbon-nitrogen dynamics presents opportunities to deepen understanding of...- publication PDF
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An analysis of gravity wave spectral characteristics in moist baroclinic...
This study investigates gravity wave spectral characteristics based on high-resolution mesoscale simulations of idealized moist baroclinic jet-front systems with varying degrees...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of the weak constraint data assimilation approach for estimating...
A number of studies have estimated turbulent heat fluxes by assimilating sequences of land surface temperature (LST) observations into the strong constraint-variational data...- publication PDF
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Quantifying streamflow forecast skill elasticity to initial condition and...
Water resources management decisions commonly depend on monthly to seasonal streamflow forecasts, among other kinds of information. The skill of such predictions derives from...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of dryline convection forecasts to upstream forecast errors for...
The sensitivity of convective forecasts along the Texas dryline to upstream forecast fields at earlier lead times is evaluated for two consecutive days (27-28 May) characterized...- publication PDF
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Lessons learned in coupling atmospheric models across scales for onshore and...
The Mesoscale to Microscale Coupling team, part of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmosphere to Electrons (A2e) initiative, has studied various important challenges related to...- publication PDF
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Simulations of the 2004 North American Monsoon: NAMAP2
The second phase of the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) Model Assessment Project (NAMAP2) was carried out to provide a coordinated set of simulations from global and...- publication PDF