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Adaptive localization for satellite radiance observations in an ensemble...
Localization is essential to effectively assimilate satellite radiances in ensemble Kalman filters. However, the vertical location and separation from a model grid point...- publication PDF
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Impacts of local circulations on ozone pollution in the New York...
Elevated surface ozone levels are often detected in the New York metropolitan area during summertime. Moreover, surface ozone in this region exhibits sharp spatial gradients and...- publication PDF
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Microphysical processes producing high ice water contents (HIWCs) in...
High ice water content (HIWC) regions in tropical deep convective clouds, composed of high concentrations of small ice crystals, were not reproduced by Weather Research and...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of cold-season precipitation forecasts generated by the hourly...
The hourly updating High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model is evaluated with regard to its ability to predict the areal extent of cold-season precipitation and accurately...- publication PDF
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Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect
The rising atmospheric CO2 concentration leads to a CO2 fertilization effect on plants-that is, increased photosynthetic uptake of CO2 by leaves and enhanced water-use...- publication PDF
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Arctic climate response to forcing from light-absorbing particles in snow...
The presence of light-absorbing aerosol particles deposited on arctic snow and sea ice influences the surface albedo, causing greater shortwave absorption, warming, and loss of...- publication PDF
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Scientific directions for cloud chamber research: Instrumentation, modeling,...
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MJO wind energy and prediction of El Niño
This study applies the energetic framework developed to quantify the interaction between the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to El Nino...- publication PDF
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Regional to global evolution of impacts of parameterized mountain-wave drag...
Mountain ranges are regional features on Earth, as are the regions of mountain-wave drag (MWD) exerted by dissipating atmospheric gravity waves generated by flow over them....- publication PDF
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Comparison of global precipitation estimates across a range of temporal and...
Characteristics of precipitation estimates for rate and amount from three global high-resolution precipitation products (HRPPs), four global climate data records (CDRs), and...- publication PDF
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Evaluating mesoscale NWP models using kinetic energy spectra
Kinetic energy spectra derived from observations in the free atmosphere possess a wavenumber dependence of k^-3 for large scales, characteristic of 2D turbulence, and transition...- publication PDF
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Advances in space weather ensemble forecasting
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Total column water vapor [In "States of the Climate in 2009"]
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The SPARC water vapour assessment II: Comparison of stratospheric and lower...
Time series of stratospheric and lower mesospheric water vapour using 33 data sets from 15 different satellite instruments were compared in the framework of the second SPARC...- publication PDF
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Water vapor-forced greenhouse warming over the Sahara Desert and the recent...
The Sahel region of West Africa experiences decadal swings between periods of drought and abundant rainfall, and a large body of work asserts that these variations in the West...- publication PDF
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The subgrid velocity scale in the bulk aerodynamic relationship for...
The exchange coefficients for area-averaged surface fluxes can become anomalously large when the large-scale flow is weak and significant fluxes of heat and moisture are driven...- publication PDF
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Development of an ESMF based flexible coupling application of ADCIRC and...
To enable flexible model coupling in coastal inundation studies, a coupling framework based on the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) and the National Unified Operational...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms for precipitation enhancement in a North American monsoon...
Tropical upper-tropospheric troughs (TUTTs), transient summertime disturbances over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, are also observed to frequently occur in the North American...- 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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Modelled black carbon radiative forcing and atmospheric lifetime in AeroCom...
Atmospheric black carbon (BC) absorbs solar radiation, and exacerbates global warming through exerting positive radiative forcing (RF). However, the contribution of BC to...- publication PDF