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Statistical theory on the functional form of cloud particle size distributions
Several functional forms of cloud particle size distributions (PSDs) have been used in numerical modeling and remote sensing retrieval studies of clouds and precipitation,...- publication PDF
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Survey of Mozambique Public on Weather, Water, and Climate Information
The 24 million people of Mozambique in southeast Africa face extreme hydro-meteorological events including floods, droughts, and tropical cyclones as well as considerable...- publication PDF
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First Palmer and Millstone Hill midlatitude conjugate observation of...
The first midlatitude conjugate thermospheric wind observations in the American sector showed various degrees of conjugacy between Palmer (64°S, 64°W, magnetic latitude (MLAT)...- publication PDF
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Gravity wave activity during the 2024 sudden stratospheric warmings observed...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) instrument, launched in November 2023, provides direct observation of...- publication PDF
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On the consequences of PBL scheme diffusion on UTLS wave and turbulence...
Mesoscale numerical weather prediction (NWP) models are routinely exercised at kilometer-scale horizontal grid spacings (Delta x). Such fine grids will usually allow at least...- publication PDF
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Simulation and observation of lunar tide effect on high-latitude,...
We investigate the high-latitude mesospheric and lower thermospheric winds during the 2013 sudden stratospheric warming event using ground-based optical Doppler remote sensing...- publication PDF
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Case studies for initialized decadal hindcasts and predictions for the Pacific region
Case studies involving notable past decadal climate variability are analyzed for the mid-1970s climate shift, when the tropical Pacific warmed over a decade and globally...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of lightning flash rate parameterizations in a cloud-resolved...
Eighteen lightning flash rate parameterization schemes (FRPSs) were investigated in a Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with chemistry cloud-resolved simulation of...- publication PDF
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Weather radar ground clutter. Part I: Identification, modeling, and simulation
Real-time ground-clutter identification and subsequent filtering of clutter-contaminated data is addressed in this two-part paper. Part I focuses on the identification,...- publication PDF
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The kinematic and microphysical characteristics and associated precipitation...
Dual-Doppler, polarimetric radar observations and precipitation efficiency (PE) calculations are used to analyze subtropical heavy rainfall events that occurred in southern...- publication PDF
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Dust, convection, winds, and waves: The 2022 NASA CPEX-CV campaign
The NASA Convective Processes Experiment-Cabo Verde (CPEX-CV) field campaign took place in September 2022 out of Sal Island, Cabo Verde. A unique payload aboard the NASA DC-8...- publication PDF
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Effects of Subauroral Polarization Streams on the upper thermospheric winds...
Intense sunward (westward) plasma flows, named Subauroral Polarization Stream (SAPS), have been known to occur equatorward of the electron auroras for decades, yet their effect...- publication PDF
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Analysis of improvements in MOPITT observational coverage over Canada
The Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite instrument has been measuring global tropospheric carbon monoxide (CO) since March 2000, providing the...- publication PDF
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When plasma streams tie up equatorial plasma irregularities with auroral ones
We present a new pattern of storm-induced ionospheric irregularities behavior at midlatitudes-poleward-streaming plasma density depletions. Under disturbed conditions, they...- publication PDF
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Attributing the recent weakening of the South Asian subtropical westerlies
Over the last four decades (1980â2020), the summer westerlies that prevail in South Asia along the monsoon trough region have weakened by about 25% based on multiple...- publication PDF
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The Ice Particle and Aggregate Simulator (IPAS). Part II: Analysis of a...
Bulk ice-microphysical models parameterize the dynamic evolution of ice particles from advection, collection, and sedimentation through a cloud layer to the surface. Frozen...- publication PDF
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Climatology characteristics of ionospheric irregularities described with GNSS ROTI
At equatorial and high latitudes, the intense ionospheric irregularities and plasma density gradients can seriously affect the performances of radio communication and satellite-...- publication PDF
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Process-specific contributions to anomalous Java mixed layer cooling during...
Negative sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies associated with positive Indian Ocean Dipole (pIOD) events first appear in the seasonal upwelling zone along the southern coast...- publication PDF
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Atomic oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere derived from SABER:...
Atomic oxygen (O) is a fundamental component in chemical aeronomy of Earth's mesosphere and lower thermosphere region extending from approximately 50-km to over 100-km in...- publication PDF
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User's Guide to NCAR CCM0B
This document describes the general program design and data organization of the version of NCAR Community Climate Model designated CCMOB. The basic adiabatic model was acquired...- publication PDF