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Impact of infrared, microwave, and radio occultation satellite observations...
A comparison of the impact of infrared (IR), microwave (MW), and radio occultation (RO) observations on NCEP’s operational global forecast model over the month of March 2013 is...- publication PDF
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Simulations of the ionospheric annual asymmetry: Sun-Earth distance effect
It has been suggested that the difference of the Sun-Earth distance between the December and June solstices has a great impact on the ionospheric annual asymmetry. In this...- publication PDF
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Compounding tropical and stratospheric forcing of the record low Antarctic...
After exhibiting an upward trend since 1979, Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE) declined dramatically during austral spring 2016, reaching a record low by December 2016. Here we...- publication PDF
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Free oscillations of deep nonhydrostatic global atmospheres: Theory and a...
This report describes a method of calculating the modes of small-amplitude free oscillations of a compressible, stratified, nonhydrostatic, rotating deep atmosphere, confined...- publication PDF
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The role of climate niche, geofloristic history, habitat preference, and...
Research Highlights: To better understand within-community variation in wood density, our study demonstrated that a more nuanced approach is required beyond the climate–wood...- publication PDF
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Future heat waves and surface ozone
A global Earth system model is used to study the relationship between heat waves and surface ozone levels over land areas around the world that could experience either large...- publication PDF
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The response of the climate system to very high greenhouse gas emission scenarios
Well informed decisions on climate policy necessitate simulation of the climate system for a sufficiently wide range of emissions scenarios. While recent literature has been...- publication PDF
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The impact of stratospheric ozone recovery on tropopause height trends
The evolution of the tropopause in the past, present, and future climate is examined by analyzing a set of long-term integrations with stratosphere-resolving chemistry climate...- publication PDF
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Benchmarking of a physically based hydrologic model
The concepts of model benchmarking, model agility, and large-sample hydrology are becoming more prevalent in hydrologic and land surface modeling. As modeling systems become...- publication PDF
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Antarctic sea ice climatology, variability, and late twentieth-century...
A preindustrial control run and an ensemble of twentieth-century integrations of the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4), are evaluated for Antarctic sea ice...- publication PDF
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Preliminary evidence of Madden‐Julian oscillation effects on ultrafast...
Over the past two decades mounting evidence demonstrated that terrestrial weather significantly influences the dynamics and mean state of the thermosphere. While important...- publication PDF
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Nonequilibrium fractionation during ice cloud formation in iCAM5: Evaluating...
Supersaturation with respect to ice determines the strength of nonequilibrium fractionation during vapor deposition onto ice or snow and therefore influences the water isotopic...- publication PDF
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Shock Waves From Line Sources
This report describes the background, numerical methods, and results of a theoretical and experimental study of the pressure waves generated by a sudden release of energy along...- publication PDF
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Environmental controls on the simulated diurnal cycle of warm-season...
The diurnal cycle of warm-season precipitation in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent Great Plains of the United States is examined using a numerical modeling framework designed to...- publication PDF
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Historical (1700-2012) global multi-model estimates of the fire emissions...
Fire emissions are a critical component of carbon and nutrient cycles and strongly affect climate and air quality. Dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) with interactive fire...- publication PDF
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The chromospheric telescope
We introduce the Chromospheric Telescope (ChroTel) at the Observatorio del Teide in Izana on Tenerife as a new multi-wavelength imaging telescope for full-disk synoptic...- publication PDF
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Construction and uncertainty estimation of a satellite-derived total...
Measurements of total precipitable water (TPW) from 11 satellite-borne microwave imaging radiometers are intercalibrated and merged into a single gridded monthly data set...- publication PDF
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Modeling organic aerosols in a megacity: Potential contribution of...
It has been established that observed local and regional levels of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) in polluted areas cannot be explained by the oxidation and partitioning of...- publication PDF
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Towards implementing artificial intelligence post-processing in weather and...
The most mature aspect of applying artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) to problems in the atmospheric sciences is likely post-processing of model output. This...- publication PDF
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NCAR global General Circulation Model of the atmosphere
This paper describes a model of the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere which has been developed and experimented with, since 1964, at the National Center for...- publication PDF