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Experiments in rainfall estimation with a polarimetric radar in a...
A unique dataset consisting of high-resolution polarimetric radar measurements and dense rain gauge and disdrometer observations collected in east-central Florida during the...- publication PDF
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User's Guide to NCAR CCM2
This User's Guide describes the overall design of the most recent version of the NCAR Community Climate Model, CCM2. In addition to in-depth information about running the CCM2...- publication PDF
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Wintertime pollution over the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains as observed from...
A large wintertime increase in pollutants has been observed over the eastern parts of the Indo Gangetic Plains. We use improved version 4 carbon monoxide (CO) retrievals from...- publication PDF
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Actinides in the Environment and Their Uptake by Man
The preparation of this report was carried out in the summer of 1973 as a contribution to a study entitled "Public Health Implications of a Plutonium Energy Economy," sponsored...- publication PDF
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Tropical-extratropical teleconnections in Boreal summer: Observed...
Maximum covariance analysis is performed on the fields of boreal summer, tropical rainfall, and Northern Hemisphere (NH) 200-hPa height for the 62-yr period of record of...- publication PDF
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The Pacific-Atlantic seesaw and the Bering Strait
Paleo proxy data and previous modeling studies both indicate that the massive discharge of icebergs into the North Atlantic may have led to a (nearly) collapsed Atlantic...- publication PDF
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Chasing snowstorms: The investigation of microphysics and precipitation for...
The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) is a NASA-sponsored field campaign to study wintertime snowstorms...- publication PDF
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Performance of the new NCAR CAM3.5 in east Asian summer monsoon Simulations:...
The performance of an interim version of the NCAR Community Atmospheric Model (CAM3.5) in simulating the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) is assessed by comparing model results...- publication PDF
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Challenges and future directions for data management in the geosciences
Meeting summary: the Geoscience Digital Data Resource and Repository Service (GEODARRS) Workshop was attended by more than 60 individuals from multiple stakeholder groups in...- publication PDF
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First observation of chromospheric waves in a sunspot by DKIST/ViSP: The...
The Visible Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP) of the NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) collected its Science Verification data on May 7-8, 2021. The instrument observed...- publication PDF
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Modeling study of the 2010 regional haze event in the North China Plain
The online coupled Weather Research and Forecasting-Chemistry (WRF-Chem) model was applied to simulate a haze event that happened in January 2010 in the North China Plain (NCP),...- publication PDF
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WACCM-D-Improved modeling of nitric acid and active chlorine during...
Observations have shown that a number of neutral minor species are affected by energetic particle precipitation (EPP) and ion chemistry (IC) in the polar regions. However, to...- publication PDF
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Robust multiyear climate impacts of volcanic eruptions in decadal prediction systems
Major tropical volcanic eruptions have a large impact on climate, but there have only been three major eruptions during the recent relatively well-observed period. Models are...- publication PDF
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Tropical decadal variability and the rate of Arctic Sea ice decrease
The trend for cold-season (November-December-January-February, NDJF) decreases in Arctic sea ice extent from 2000 to 2014 was about a factor of two larger than the 1979-2000...- publication PDF
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Frequency and impact of summertime stratospheric intrusions over Maryland...
Aircraft observations and ozonesonde profiles collected on 14 and 27 July 2011, during the Maryland month-long Deriving Information on Surface conditions from Column and...- publication PDF
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Impact of assimilating GOES imager clear-sky radiance with a rapid refresh...
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) imager data could provide a continuous image of the evolutionary pattern of severe weather phenomena with its high...- publication PDF
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Climate simulations with an isentropic finite-volume dynamical core
This paper discusses the impact of changing the vertical coordinate from a hybrid pressure to a hybrid-isentropic coordinate within the finite-volume (FV) dynamical core of the...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of recently-proposed secondary organic aerosol models for a case...
Recent field studies have found large discrepancies in the measured vs. modeled SOA mass loadings in both urban and regional polluted atmospheres. The reasons for these large...- publication PDF
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Improvement of OMI ozone profile retrievals in the upper troposphere and...
Motivated by the need of obtaining a more accurate global ozone distribution in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS), we have investigated the use of a...- publication PDF
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A composite perspective of the extratropical flow response to recurving...
This study investigates the composite extratropical flow response to recurving western North Pacific tropical cyclones (WNP TCs), and the dependence of this response on the...- publication PDF