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Impact of trash burning on air quality in Mexico City
Air pollution experienced by expanding urban areas is responsible for serious health effects and death for millions of people every year. Trash burning is a common disposal...- publication PDF
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Spatial distributions of nitric oxide in the Antarctic wintertime middle...
Energetic electron precipitation leads to increased nitric oxide (NO) production in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. NO distributions in the wintertime, high-latitude...- publication PDF
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The role of three-dimensional transport in driving enhanced electron...
Magnetic reconnection is an important driver of energetic particles in many astrophysical phenomena. Using kinetic particle-in-cell simulations, we explore the impact of three-...- publication PDF
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Simulating the Earth system response to negative emissions
Natural carbon sinks currently absorb approximately half of the anthropogenic CO2 emitted by fossil fuel burning, cement production and land-use change. However, this airborne...- publication PDF
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Scientists Lead the Way: Proceedings of the Third Annual Computer Users Conference
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An assessment of the flux profile method for determining air--sea momentum...
An analysis of the reliability of using dropsonde profile data to compute surface flux coefficients of momentum and heat is performed. Monin-Obukhov (MO) similarity theory forms...- publication PDF
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WRF simulations of convectively generated gravity waves in opposite QBO phases
In this study, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is used to assess gravity wave forcing of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) in January-February 2006 and 2007....- publication PDF
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Statistical tests of Taylor's Hypothesis: An application to precipitation fields
The Taylor Hypothesis (TH) as applied to rainfall is a proposition about the space–time covariance structure of the rainfall field. Specifically, it supposes that if a...- publication PDF
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Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer wind-speed retrieval improvements
With the operational deployment of the Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR), hurricane reconnaissance and research aircraft provide near real-time observations of the...- publication PDF
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Community-developed geoscience cyberinfrastructure
Discoveries in the geosciences are increasingly taking place across traditional disciplinary boundaries. The EarthCube program, a community-driven project supported by the U.S....- publication PDF
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The primary and recycling sources of OH during the NACHTT-2011 campaign:...
We present OH observations from Nitrogen, Aerosol Composition, and Halogens on a Tall Tower 2011 (NACHTT-11) held at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory in Weld County,...- publication PDF
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Climate change: The necessary, the possible and the desirable Earth League...
The development of human civilizations has occurred at a time of stable climate. This climate stability is now threatened by human activity. The rising global climate risk...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of Fengyun-4A Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) performance during...
This study investigates the characteristics of space-borne Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) lightning products and their relationships with cloud properties using ground-based...- publication PDF
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Usefulness of the United States National Weather Service radar display as...
Weather radar is now widely viewed by the general public in the United States via television, computers/tablets, and smartphones. Anyone can consult near-real-time maps and...- publication PDF
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The Community Land Model underestimates land-use CO2 emissions by neglecting...
The Community Land Model (CLM) can simulate planting and harvesting of crops but does not include effects of cultivation on soil carbon decomposition. The biogeochemistry model...- publication PDF
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Non-Gaussian ensemble filtering and adaptive inflation for soil moisture...
The rank histogram filter (RHF) and the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) are assessed for soil moisture esti-mation using perfect model (identical twin) synthetic data assimilation...- publication PDF
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The sensitivity of momentum transport and severe surface winds to...
Analysis of a pair of three-dimensional simulations of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) reveals a significant sensitivity of convective momentum transport (CMT), MCS motion,...- publication PDF
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Molecular composition of organic aerosols in central Amazonia: an...
The Amazon Basin plays key role in atmospheric chemistry, biodiversity and climate change. In this study we applied nanoelectrospray (nanoESI) ultra-high-resolution mass...- publication PDF
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Linear and non-linear response to parameter variations in a mesoscale model
Parameter uncertainty in atmospheric model forcing and closure schemes has motivated both parameter estimation with data assimilation and use of pre-specified distributions to...- publication PDF
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Ozone transport during the California ozone deposition experiment
The high correlation between the canopy stomatal uptake and ozone deposition velocity is found to be strongly dominated by their diurnal variations. By averaging observed...- publication PDF
