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Improving GPS surveying with modeled ionospheric corrections
We model the ionospheric delay of Global Positioning System (GPS) signals with high precision and use it to correct single frequency (L1) GPS baseline estimations. We find that...- publication PDF
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A comparison of vertical atmospheric wind profiles obtained from monostatic...
The natural sound generated by an unmanned aerial vehicle is used in conjunction with tomography to remotely sense the virtual temperature and wind profiles of the atmosphere in...- publication PDF
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A spectral stochastic kinetic energy backscatter scheme and its impact on...
Understanding model error in state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction models and representing its impact on flow-dependent predictability remains a complex and mostly...- publication PDF
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Effects of high-latitude forcing uncertainty on the low-latitude and...
Ensemble simulations are performed using the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIE-GCM) in order to understand the role of high-latitude forcing...- publication PDF
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Operational storm surge forecasting at the National Hurricane Center: The...
The primary source of guidance used by the Storm Surge Unit (SSU) at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) for issuing storm surge watches and warnings is the Probabilistic...- publication PDF
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Using XDMoD to facilitate XSEDE operations, planning and analysis
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A regime-based approach for integrating wind information in spatio-temporal...
Spatio-temporal solar forecasting based on statistical models seldom integrates wind information. An AutoRegressive with eXogenous input (ARX) model was tested using global...- publication PDF
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Revisiting the role of SMAP soil moisture retrievals in WRF-Chem dust...
Having good replication of the soil moisture evolution is desirable to properly simulate the dust emissions and atmospheric dust load because soil moisture increases the...- publication PDF
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Revisiting the causal connection between the Great Salinity Anomaly of the...
The Great Salinity Anomaly (GSA) of the 1970s is the most pronounced decadal-scale low-salinity event observed in the subpolar North Atlantic (SPNA). Using various simulations...- publication PDF
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The impact of smoke on the ultraviolet and visible radiative forcing under...
The quantification of the UV characteristics of smoke aerosols is valuable to UV Index forecasting, air quality studies, air chemistry studies, and assessments of the impacts on...- publication PDF
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Impacts of urban processes and urbanization on summer precipitation: A case...
Finescale simulations (with 500-m grid spacing) using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) were used to investigate impacts of urban processes and urbanization on a...- publication PDF
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Nitrous oxide profiling from infrared radiances (NOPIR): Algorithm...
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is the third most abundant anthropogenous greenhouse gas (after carbon dioxide and methane), with a long atmospheric lifetime and a continuously increasing...- publication PDF
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Importance of regional climate model grid spacing for the simulation of...
Summer and winter daily heavy precipitation events (events above the 97.5th percentile) are analyzed in regional climate simulations with 36-, 12-,and 4-km horizontal grid...- publication PDF
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Global oscillatory modes in high-end climate modeling and reanalyses
Interannual oscillatory modes, atmospheric and oceanic, are present in several large regions of the globe. We examine here low-frequency variability (LFV) over the entire globe...- publication PDF
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A space-time multiscale analysis system: A sequential variational analysis approach
As new observation systems are developed and deployed, new and presumably more precise information is becoming available for weather forecasting and climate monitoring. To take...- publication PDF
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A low-cost system for measuring horizontal winds from single-engine aircraft
The implementation and accuracy of a low-rate (~1 Hz) horizontal wind measurement system is described for a fixed-wing aircraft without modification to the airframe. The system...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of tornado dynamics to soil debris loading
Past numerical simulation studies found that debris loading from sand-sized particles may substantially affect tornado dynamics, causing reductions in near-surface wind speeds...- publication PDF
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Observed high-altitude warming and snow cover retreat over Tibet and the...
Himalayan mountain glaciers and the snowpack over the Tibetan Plateau provide the headwater of several major rivers in Asia. In situ observations of snow cover extent since the...- publication PDF
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The impact of meteorological forcing uncertainty on hydrological modeling: A...
Meteorological forcing is a major source of uncertainty in hydrological modeling. The recent development of probabilistic large-domain meteorological data sets enables...- publication PDF
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Processing of Doppler spectra collected by an airborne cloud radar for the...
Observations from the HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR) are used to develop a methodology to calculate Doppler spectra from an airborne platform. The method removes spectral noise and...- publication PDF