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EZPLOT, for Publication-quality Plots
EZPLOT was written to fulfill a need for publication-quality figures within the Climate Analysis Section of the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) at NCAR. It is built...- publication PDF
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Wind gust detection and impact prediction for wind turbines
Wind gusts on a scale from 100 m to 1000 m are studied due to their significant influence on wind turbine performance. A detecting and tracking algorithm is proposed to extract...- publication PDF
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Surface clear-sky shortwave radiative closure intercomparisons in the...
The ability of the Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for GCMs (RRTMG) and Goddard shortwave (SW) radiative schemes to reproduce global (GHI), direct (DNI), and diffuse (DIF) fluxes...- publication PDF
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Validation of methane and carbon monoxide from Sentinel-5 Precursor using...
The Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P) mission with the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on board has been measuring solar radiation backscattered by the Earth's atmosphere...- publication PDF
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Annual and semiannual oscillations of thermospheric composition in...
The Global UltraViolet Imager (GUVI) onboard the Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite provides a data set of vertical thermospheric...- publication PDF
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Quantifying errors in surface ozone predictions associated with clouds over...
Clouds play a key role in radiation and hence O-3 photochemistry by modulating photolysis rates and light-dependent emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). It...- publication PDF
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Vertical motions in orographic cloud systems over the Payette River Basin....
In Part II, two classes of vertical motions, fixed (associated with vertically propagating gravity waves tied to flow over topography) and transient (associated primarily with...- publication PDF
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Does ocean coupling matter for the northern extratropical response to...
The question of whether ocean coupling matters for the extratropical Northern Hemisphere atmospheric response to projected late 21st century Arctic sea ice loss is addressed...- publication PDF
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The dispersion of silver iodide particles from ground-based generators over...
Part I of this paper presents the results from a series of plume-tracing flights over the Medicine Bow and Sierra Madre Ranges in south-central Wyoming. These flights, conducted...- publication PDF
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The Comprehensive Historical Upper-Air Network
To better understand variability in weather and climate, it is vital to address past atmospheric circulation. This need requires meteorological information not just from the...- publication PDF
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A pervasive role for biomass burning in tropical high ozone/low water structures
Air parcels with mixing ratios of high O3 and low H2O (HOLW) are common features in the tropical western Pacific (TWP) mid-troposphere (300–700 hPa). Here, using data collected...- publication PDF
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Modern precipitation δ18O and trajectory analysis over the Himalaya-Tibet...
Variations in oxygen isotope ratios (O-18) measured from modern precipitation and geologic archives provide a promising tool for understanding modern and past climate dynamics...- publication PDF
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An Earth-system prediction initiative for the twenty-first century
The necessity and benefits for establishing the international Earth-system Prediction Initiative (EPI) are discussed by scientists associated with the World Meteorological...- publication PDF
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Large‐scale forcing impact on the development of shallow convective clouds...
Real-world large-eddy simulations (LES) are driven by time-varying large-scale forcings (LSF) -- e.g., temperature advection, moisture advection, and subsidence -- derived from...- publication PDF
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Influences of large-scale flow variations on the track evolution of typhoons...
Influences of large-scale flow variations on the track evolution of two typhoons, moderate Morakot (2009) and superintense Megi (2010), are investigated using the global...- publication PDF
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Determining oil and dispersant exposure in sea turtles from the northern...
Documentation of exposure of threatened and endangered sea turtles to petroleum and dispersant released into the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) during the Deepwater Horizon (DWH)...- publication PDF
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Simulated frequency dependence of radar observations of tornadoes
To obtain accurate radar-measured wind measurements in tornadoes, differences between air and Doppler velocities must be corrected. These differences can cause large errors in...- publication PDF
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Spherepack 2.0: A Model Development Facility
SPHEREPACK 2.0 is a collection of FORTRAN programs that facilitates computer modeling of geophysical processes. The package contains programs for computing certain common...- publication PDF
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High free‐tropospheric Aitken‐mode aerosol concentrations buffer cloud...
A new Aitken mode aerosol microphysics scheme is developed for a large eddy simulation model in order to better investigate cloud-aerosol interactions in the marine boundary...- publication PDF
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Going to the extremes: An intercomparison of model-simulated historical and...
Projections of changes in climate extremes are critical to assessing the potential impacts of climate change on human and natural systems. Modeling advances now provide the...- publication PDF
