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Position Error Calibration of a Pressure Survey Aircraft Using a Trailing Cone
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The impacts of climate change and land cover/use transition on the hydrology...
Observed streamflow over the past decades in the upper Yellow River Basin (UYRB) was examined for changes in hydrological regime. The modified Variable Infiltration Capacity...- publication PDF
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Radar climatology of the COPS region
A climatology of convection initiation (CI) and convective enhancements (CE) has been developed using radar reflectivity data in southwestern Germany and eastern France over the...- publication PDF
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Assessing climate change impacts on live fuel moisture and wildfire risk...
Live fuel moisture content (LFMC) plays a critical role in wildfire dynamics, but little is known about responses of LFMC to multivariate climate change, e.g., warming...- publication PDF
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On the (in)stability of sunspots
Context. The stability of sunspots is one of the long-standing unsolved puzzles in the field of solar magnetism and the solar cycle. The thermal and magnetic structure of the...- publication PDF
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Colorado plowable hailstorms: Synoptic weather, radar, and lightning characteristics
Synoptic weather, S-band dual-polarization radar, and total lightning observations are analyzed from four thunderstorms that produced "plowable" hail accumulations of 15-60 cm...- publication PDF
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True to Milankovitch: Glacial inception in the new community climate system model
The equilibrium solution of a fully coupled general circulation model with present-day orbital forcing is compared to the solution of the same model with the orbital forcing...- publication PDF
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Predicting the response of the Amazon rainforest to persistent drought...
While a majority of global climate models project drier and longer dry seasons over the Amazon under higher COâ levels, large uncertainties surround the response of vegetation...- publication PDF
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An EOFs study of thermospheric nitric oxide flux based on TIEGCM simulations
The National Center for Atmospheric Research Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIEGCM) is a three-dimensional physics model of the Earth's upper...- publication PDF
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The dimensional characteristics of ice crystal aggregates from fractal geometry
This paper describes the development of a new multicomponent detailed bin ice microphysics scheme that predicts the number concentration of ice as well as the rime mass mixing...- publication PDF
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LGM permafrost distribution: How well can the latest PMIP multi-model...
Here, global-scale frozen ground distribution from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) has been reconstructed using multi-model ensembles of global climate models, and then compared...- publication PDF
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S-Pol's polarimetric data reveal detailed storm features (and insect behavior)
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) operates a state-of-the-art S-band dual-polarization Doppler radar (S-Pol) for the National Science Foundation (NSF). This...- publication PDF
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Future changes in the Brewer-Dobson circulation under different greenhouse...
The climatology and future changes of the BrewerâDobson circulation (BDC) in three climate change scenarios are studied using the latest version of the Whole Atmosphere...- publication PDF
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Effects of under-resolved convective dynamics on the evolution of a squall line
Simulations of a squall line observed on 20 May 2011 during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) using 750- and 250-m horizontal grid spacing are...- publication PDF
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MPAS-Albany Land Ice (MALI): A variable-resolution ice sheet model for Earth...
We introduce MPAS-Albany Land Ice (MALI) v6.0, a new variable-resolution land ice model that uses unstructured Voronoi grids on a plane or sphere. MALI is built using the Model...- publication PDF
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Analysis of the influence of film-forming compounds on droplet growth:...
Decades of cloud microphysical research have not provided conclusive understanding of the physical processes responsible for droplet spectral broadening. Numerous mechanisms...- publication PDF
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Observations and simulations of the peak response time of thermospheric mass...
In this study, the mass densities from Challenging Minisatellite Payload and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites and the simulation results from the Thermosphere...- publication PDF
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Using artificial intelligence to improve real-time decision-making for...
High-impact weather events, such as severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes, cause significant disruptions to infrastructure, property loss, and even fatalities. High-...- publication PDF
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Aerosol plume detection algorithm based on image segmentation of scanning...
An image-processing algorithm has been developed to identify aerosol plumes in scanning lidar backscatter data. The images in this case consist of lidar data in a polar...- publication PDF
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Image instabilities and polarization crosstalk
We expand on our previous study of the impact of atmospheric seeing on polarization crosstalk, and show how the formalism that was developed in that work can be applied to treat...- publication PDF