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Acoustic and visual cetacean surveys reveal year-round spatial and temporal...
Cetaceans spend most of their time below the surface of the sea, highlighting the importance of passive acoustic monitoring as a tool to facilitate understanding and mapping...- publication PDF
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The WMO challenge to develop and demonstrate the best new user-oriented...
The public, industry, emergency managers and other decision makers can use weather, climate and impact forecasts more effectively in their decision making when the quality of...- publication PDF
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Antarctic warming during Heinrich Stadial 1 in a transient isotope-enabled...
Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1) was the major climate event at the onset of the last deglaciation associated with rapid cooling in Greenland and lagged, slow warming in Antarctica....- publication PDF
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Wintertime water vapor in the polar upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere:...
In this paper we present Odin submillimeter radiometer (Odin/SMR) water vapor measurements in the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere with focus on the polar latitudes in...- publication PDF
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Record of tropical interannual variability of temperature and water vapor...
We utilize a merged AIRS and MLS temperature and water vapor record (August 2004 to March 2010) to study the atmospheric variability of these quantities. The seasonal and...- publication PDF
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Upscale feedback of tropical synoptic variability to intraseasonal...
Analysis of observational data suggests two-way interactions between the tropical intraseasonal oscillation (ISO) and synoptic-scale variability (SSV). On one hand, SSV is...- publication PDF
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Ozone pollution: What can we see from space? A case study
Due to its impact on environment, tropospheric ozone received particular attention since several decades. Ground-based networks associated with regional chemical transport...- publication PDF
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A criterion for new particle formation in the sulfur-rich Atlanta atmosphere
A simple dimensionless parameter, L, is shown to determine whether or not new particle formation can occur in the atmosphere on a given day. The criterion accounts for the...- publication PDF
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Improving global weather prediction in GFDL SHiELD through an upgraded GFDL...
We describe the third version of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory cloud microphysics scheme (GFDL MP v3) implemented in the System for High-resolution prediction on...- publication PDF
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Pattern recognition methods to separate forced responses from internal...
Ensembles of climate model simulations are commonly used to separate externally forced climate change from internal variability. However, much of the information gained from...- publication PDF
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Low-latitude boundary layer clouds as seen by CALIPSO
The distribution of low-level cloud in the tropical belt is investigated using 6 months of Level 2 retrievals from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite...- publication PDF
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Hydrological Enhancements to the Community Noah Land Surface Model
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Techniques for using MODIS data to remotely sense lake water surface temperatures
This study describes a stepwise methodology used to provide daily high-spatial-resolution water surface temperatures from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)...- publication PDF
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The collection efficiency of shielded and unshielded precipitation gauges....
The use of windshields to reduce the impact of wind on snow measurements is common. This paper investigates the catching performance of shielded and unshielded gauges using...- publication PDF
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Establishing Lagrangian connections between observations within air masses...
The ITCT-Lagrangian-2K4 (Intercontinental Transport and Chemical Transformation) experiment was conceived with an aim to quantify the effects of photochemistry and mixing on the...- publication PDF
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A comparison of two paradigms: The relative global roles of moist convective...
Global-scale transport processes are examined in the troposphere using the Model of Ozone and Related Trace Species, version 2 (MOZART-2). Here MOZART-2 is driven by input...- publication PDF
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Temporal change in averaging kernels as a source of uncertainty in trend...
It has become possible to retrieve the global, long-term trends of trace gases that are important to atmospheric chemistry, climate, and air quality from satellite data records...- publication PDF
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Projected future changes in vegetation in Western North America in the...
Rapid and broad-scale forest mortality associated with recent droughts, rising temperature, and insect outbreaks has been observed over western North America (NA). Climate...- publication PDF
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Quality-controlled upper-air sounding dataset for TiMREX/SoWMEX: Development...
During the Terrain-Influenced Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (TiMREX), which coincided with Taiwan's Southwesterly Monsoon Experiment-2008 (SoWMEX-08), the upper-air sounding...- publication PDF
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Using multisource satellite data to assess recent snow-cover variability and...
Snow cover in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is a critical component in the water cycle and regional climate of East Asia. Fractional snow cover (FSC) derived from five...- publication PDF
