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Twenty-five years of interdisciplinary global change science
An interdisciplinary approach to global change research is required for scientific advances that are both fundamental and relevant to real-world problems. The Aspen Global...- publication PDF
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Nutrients, Chlorophyll, Primary Production and Realted Biogeochemical...
This technical report provides summary data for nine distinct US JGOFS and international JGOFS sites. Four of these are point-locations where long-term time-series data have...- publication PDF
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Cooling and contraction of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere from 2002 to 2021
We examine the thermal structure of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) using observations from 2002 through 2021 from the SABER instrument on the NASA TIMED satellite....- publication PDF
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Attribution of NAO predictive skill beyond 2Â weeks in boreal winter
Weeks 3-6 averaged winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) predictive skill in a state-of-the-art coupled climate prediction system is attributed to two principle sources: upper...- publication PDF
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Cloud computing efforts for the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a numerical weather prediction model supported by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to a worldwide...- publication PDF
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Persistent coarrays: Integrating MPI storage windows in coarray fortran
The inherent integration of novel hardware and software components on HPC is expected to considerably aggravate the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) on scientific applications,...- publication PDF
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Fast time response measurements of particle size distributions in the...
Earth's radiation budget is affected by new particle formation (NPF) and the growth of these nanometre-scale particles to larger sizes where they can directly scatter light or...- publication PDF
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Framework for Understanding Structural Errors (FUSE): A modular framework to...
The problems of identifying the most appropriate model structure for a given problem and quantifying the uncertainty in model structure remain outstanding research challenges...- publication PDF
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Decadal relationship between European blocking and the North Atlantic...
In Part I of this study, it is revealed that decadal variations of European blocking, in its intensity, duration, and position, during 1978-2011 are modulated by decadal changes...- publication PDF
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U.S. Monsoon Experiment (MONEX) Rawinsonde/radiometersonde System
This Technical Note describes a procedure to convert rawinsonde and radiometersonde observations from raw data into the standard message format in the field with the use of two...- publication PDF
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Development of heterogeneous ice nucleation rate coefficient...
Ice nucleating particles (INPs) are a rare subset of particles that can have an outsized impact relative to their prevalence. To simulate INP variability, models require...- publication PDF
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A User's Guide to the Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Modeling System
The MM4 system is a series of FORTRAN programs and accompanying C-shell scripts that runs under UNICOS on the Cray Y-MP8/864 at NCAR. Each of these shells is a standalone script...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of some distributional downscaling methods as applied to daily...
Statistical downscaling (SD) methods used to refine future climate change projections produced by physical models have been applied to a variety of variables. We evaluate four...- publication PDF
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The role of unresolved clouds on short-range global horizontal irradiance...
The shortwave radiative impacts of unresolved cumulus clouds are investigated using 6-h ensemble simulations performed with the WRF-Solar Model and high-quality observations...- publication PDF
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The Aerosol Module in the Community Radiative Transfer Model (v2.2 and...
The Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM), a sensor-based radiative transfer model, has been used within the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) system for directly...- publication PDF
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Assessing the added value of the Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric...
The coarse grid spacing of global circulation models necessitates the application of downscaling techniques to investigate the local impact of a changing global climate....- publication PDF
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Subtropical cloud-regime transitions: Boundary layer depth and cloud-top...
In this study, the mean and variability of boundary layer height (BLH) are analyzed along a transect in the eastern Pacific Ocean for the summer of 2003 using BLH estimates...- publication PDF
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Microphysical simulations of sulfur burdens from stratospheric sulfur geoengineering
Recent microphysical studies suggest that geoengineering by continuous stratospheric injection of SO₂ gas may be limited by the growth of the aerosols. We study the efficacy of...- publication PDF
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Exploring influences of shallow topography in stable boundary layers: The...
Stable boundary layers are still a relatively problematic component of atmospheric modeling, despite their frequent occurrence. While general agreement exists that Monin-Obukhov...- publication PDF
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Modeled and observed volcanic aerosol control on stratospheric NOy and Cly
Decreases in stratospheric NOx associated with enhanced aerosol have been observed after large volcanic eruptions, for example, after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991....- publication PDF
