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Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise in...
Satellite data reveal widespread changes in Earth's vegetation cover. Regions intensively attended to by humans are mostly greening due to land management. Natural vegetation,...- publication PDF
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The microwave radiative properties of falling snow derived from nonspherical...
A 3D growth model is used to simulate pristine ice crystals, which are aggregated using a collection algorithm to create larger, multicrystal particles. The simulated crystals...- publication PDF
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Measuring women's empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploratory and...
Background: Women's status and empowerment influence health, nutrition, and socioeconomic status of women and their children. Despite its benefits, however, research on women's...- publication PDF
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Towards global large eddy simulation: Super-parameterization revisited
This paper argues that a global large eddy simulation can be achieved through the application of the superparametrization (SP) methodology on massively parallel computers. SP...- publication PDF
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Analysis of present day and future OH and methane lifetime in the ACCMIP simulations
Results from simulations performed for the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Modeling Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP) are analysed to examine how OH and methane lifetime may...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of aerosol distribution and climate response to stratospheric...
Injection of SO2 into the stratosphere has been proposed as a method to, in part, counteract anthropogenic climate change. So far, most studies investigated injections at the...- publication PDF
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A Global Monthly Sea Surface Temperature Climatology
This document presents a new global 2? x 2? monthly sea surface temperature (SST) climatology, which was primarily derived from a 1950 to 1979 based SST climatology from the...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric stability effects on wind fields and scalar mixing within and...
Air temperature T a , specific humidity q, CO₂ mole fraction x c , and three-dimensional winds were measured in mountainous terrain from five tall towers within a 1 km region...- publication PDF
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The response of the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system to...
The Earth's magnetic field changes in orientation and strength over time. We study the response of the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system to a 25% reduction in...- publication PDF
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Seasonal variability of surface and column carbon monoxide over the megacity...
This paper studies the seasonal variation of surface and column CO at three different sites (Paris, Jungfraujoch and Wollongong), with an emphasis on establishing a link between...- publication PDF
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On Atmospheric Simulation: A Colloquium
To assess a national need for facilities to simulate atmospheric processes, a Colloquium on Atmospheric Simulation was set up to survey current laboratory experimentation on...- publication PDF
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The NCAR CSM Flux Coupler
The purpose of this document is to describe in detail the code known as the CSM Flux Coupler. This code was developed to serve two specific functions within the NCAR Climate...- publication PDF
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CEDAR Database Committee Report
This report discusses the Data Base as it is today, assesses CEDAR community utilization of the Data Base and makes recommendations for its future development. Section 2 covers...- publication PDF
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Climate engineering to mitigate the projected 21st-century terrestrial...
To mitigate the projected global warming in the 21st century, it is well-recognized that society needs to cut CO2 emissions and other short-lived warming agents aggressively....- publication PDF
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Source sector and region contributions to black carbon and PM2.5 in the Arctic
The impacts of black carbon (BC) and particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters less than 2.5 mu m (PM2 : 5) emissions from different source sectors (e.g., transportation,...- publication PDF
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Time‐latitude distribution of prominences for 10 solar cycles: A study using...
Solar prominences are structures of importance because of their role in polar field reversal. We study the long-term variation of the time latitude distribution of solar...- publication PDF
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A local least squares framework for ensemble filtering
Many methods using ensemble integrations of prediction models as integral parts of data assimilation have appeared in the atmospheric and oceanic literature. In general, these...- publication PDF
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How I learned to love normal-mode Rossby–Haurwitz Waves
Several important developments in the 1960s showed the way to using spectral analysis to identify and describe atmospheric waves predicted by theory. Among these waves were...- publication PDF
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Arctic radiative fluxes: Present-day biases and future projections in CMIP5 models
Radiative fluxes are critical for understanding the energy budget of the Arctic region, where the climate has been changing rapidly and is projected to continue to change. This...- publication PDF
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Examining Variations in the Optimal Compression Level of Spatiotemporal...
Lossy compression of climate model output is desperately needed to reduce the massive storage burden on research centers. Lossy compression must be applied carefully to avoid...- publication PDF
