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The lower thermospheric winter-to-summer meridional circulation: 1. Driving mechanism
In this study, the mechanism driving the narrow lower-thermospheric winter-to-summer meridional circulation is thoroughly investigated for the first time using the Specified...- publication PDF
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Baroclinic transition of a long-lived Mesoscale Convective Vortex
The period 5 - 15 June 2003, during the field phase of the Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) Experiment (BAMEX), was noteworthy for the wide variety of mesoscale...- publication PDF
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Listening to stakeholders: Initiating research on subseasonal-to-seasonal...
Heavy precipitation events and their associated flooding can have major impacts on communities and stakeholders. There is a lack of knowledge, however, about how stakeholders...- publication PDF
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How to embrace uncertainty in participatory climate change risk management-A roadmap
The Earth's future depends on how we manage the manifold risks of climate change (CC). It is state-of-the-art to assume that risk reduction requires participatory management...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale vertical motions near nocturnal convection initiation in PECAN
Radiosonde measurements from the Plains Elevated Convection At Night (PECAN) 2015 field campaign are used to diagnose mesoscale vertical motions near nocturnal convection...- publication PDF
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The status and future of small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) in...
The boundary layer plays a critical role in regulating energy and moisture exchange between the surface and the free atmosphere. However, the boundary layer and lower atmosphere...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric temperatures [in "State of the Climate in 2009"]
This was published as a section in "The State of the Climate in 2009", a Special Supplement edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.- publication PDF
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Multiple-radar data assimilation and short-range quantitative precipitation...
The impact of multiple–Doppler radar data assimilation on quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF) is examined in this study. The newly developed Weather Research and...- publication PDF
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An improved canopy integration scheme for a land surface model with...
A new logical framework relating the structural and functional characteristics of a vegetation canopy is presented, based on the hypothesis that the ratio of leaf area to leaf...- publication PDF
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The response of mesospheric H2O and CO to solar irradiance variability in...
Water vapor (H2O) is the source of reactive hydrogen radicals in the middle atmosphere, whereas carbon monoxide (CO), being formed by CO2 photolysis, is suitable as a dynamical...- publication PDF
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Summary of NCAR Queen Air Measurements Beneath Cumuli in CCOPE
Measurements by two NCAR Queen Airs beneath convective clouds observed during coordinated "early-storm" studies in the Cooperative Convective Precipitation Experiment (CCOPE)...- publication PDF
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An assessment and interpretation of the observed warming of West Antarctica...
We synthesize variability and trends in multiple analyses of Antarctic near-surface temperature representing several independent source datasets and spatially complete...- publication PDF
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Hydrometeor lofting and mesoscale snowbands
Environments that accompany mesoscale snowbands in extratropical cyclones feature strong midlevel frontogenesis and weak symmetric stability, conditions conducive to vigorous...- publication PDF
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Intercomparison of mesoscale model simulations of the daytime valley wind system
Three-dimensional simulations of the daytime thermally induced valley wind system for an idealized valley–plain configuration, obtained from nine nonhydrostatic mesoscale...- publication PDF
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Effects of ozone isotopologue formation on the clumped-isotope composition...
Tropospheric (OO)-O-18-O-18 is an emerging proxy for past tropospheric ozone and free-tropospheric temperatures. The basis of these applications is the idea that isotope-...- publication PDF
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Leveraging observed soil heterotrophic respiration fluxes as a novel...
Microbially explicit models may improve understanding and projections of carbon dynamics in response to future climate change, but their fidelity in simulating global-scale soil...- publication PDF
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The role of natural halogens in global tropospheric ozone chemistry and...
Tropospheric ozone (urn:x-wiley:2169897X:media:jgrd57367:jgrd57367-math-0001) is an important greenhouse gas and a surface pollutant. The future evolution of...- publication PDF
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AMSU-B observations of mixed-phase clouds over land
Measurements from passive microwave satellite instruments such as the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit B (AMSU-B) are sensitive to both liquid and ice cloud particles. Radiative...- publication PDF
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Dispersion of droplet size distributions in supercooled non-precipitating...
The characteristics of cloud droplet size distributions and statistical relations of the relative dispersion (epsilon) with the vertical velocity (w) and with the interstitial...- publication PDF
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Dynamical and microphysical retrieval from Doppler radar observations using...
The variational Doppler radar analysis system developed in part I of this study is tested on a Florida airmass storm observed during the Convection and Precipitation...- publication PDF
