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Stable boundary layers and subfilter-scale motions
Recent high-resolution large-eddy simulations (LES) of a stable atmospheric boundary layer (SBL) with mesh sizes ğ�'�=(5123,10243,20483) or mesh spacings â–³=(0.78,0.39,0.2) m...- publication PDF
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Snow size distribution parameterization for midlatitude and tropical ice clouds
Many microphysical process rates involving snow are proportional to moments of the snow particle size distribution (PSD), and in this study a moment estimation parameterization...- publication PDF
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Scalable implementations of ensemble filtering algorithms for data assimilation
A variant of a least squares ensemble (Kalman) filter that is suitable for implementation on parallel architectures is presented. This parallel ensemble filter produces results...- publication PDF
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Twentieth century climate model response and climate sensitivity
Climate forcing and climate sensitivity are two key factors in understanding Earth's climate. There is considerable interest in decreasing our uncertainty in climate...- publication PDF
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A strengthened teleconnection of the quasi-biennial oscillation and tropical...
The Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1 (E3SMv1) is a new global model that can generate a weakened tropical easterly jet (TEJ) during the easterly quasi-biennial...- publication PDF
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Monitoring and understanding trends in extreme storms: State of knowledge [preprint]
The state of knowledge regarding trends and an understanding of their causes is presented for a specific subset of extreme weather and climate types. For severe convective...- publication PDF
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Long-term ecological research in freshwaters enabled by regional...
Biodiversity collections are experiencing a renaissance fueled by the intersection of informatics, emerging technologies, and the extended use and interpretation of specimens...- publication PDF
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The 94-GHz radar dim band: Relevance to ice cloud properties and cloudsat
Details of the microphysics are shown to be responsible for a region of ice cloud which, when probed from above, has decreasing radar reflectivity (Ze ) downwards at 94 GHz but...- publication PDF
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An urban parameterization for a global climate model. Part I: Formulation...
Urbanization, the expansion of built-up areas, is an important yet less-studied aspect of land use/land cover change in climate science. To date, most global climate models used...- publication PDF
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Oceanic frontal turbulence
Upper-ocean turbulence results from a complex set of interactions between submesoscale turbulence and local boundary layer processes. The interaction between larger-scale...- publication PDF
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Estimating individual Radio Occultation uncertainties using the observations...
Estimation of uncertainties (random error statistics) of radio occultation (RO) observations is important for their effective assimilation in numerical weather prediction (NWP)...- publication PDF
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A quantile-conserving ensemble filter framework. Part III: Data assimilation...
The uncertainty associated with many observed and modeled quantities of interest in Earth system prediction can be represented by mixed probability distributions that are...- publication PDF
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On the intensity distribution function of blazed reflective diffraction gratings
We derive from first principles the expression for the angular/wavelength distribution of the intensity diffracted by a blazed reflective grating, according to a scalar theory...- publication PDF
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Anisotropic Gent-McWilliams parameterization for ocean models
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The interaction between climate forcing and feedbacks
A Perturbed Parameter Ensemble (PPE) with the Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6) is used to better understand the sensitivity of aerosol forcing and cloud feedbacks to...- publication PDF
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Modeling the development of an equatorial plasma bubble during a midnight...
We report results from a self-consistent global simulation model in which a large-scale equatorial plasma bubble (EPB) forms during a midnight temperature maximum (MTM). The...- publication PDF
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Timescale dependence of the precipitation response to CO
Previous work has shown that estimates of climate sensitivity vary over time in response to abrupt CO 2 forcing in climate model simulations. The energy fluxes that drive...- publication PDF
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A coupled air - sea response mechanism to solar forcing in the Pacific region
The 11-yr solar cycle [decadal solar oscillation (DSO)] at its peaks strengthens the climatological precipitation maxima in the tropical Pacific during northern winter. Results...- publication PDF
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Statistical and dynamical downscaling for precipitation: An evaluation and...
This paper compares six statistical downscaling models (SDMs) and three regional climate models (RCMs) in their ability to downscale daily precipitation statistics in a region...- publication PDF
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Large protistan mixotrophs in the North Atlantic Continuous Plankton...
Aquatic ecologists are integrating mixotrophic plankton - here defined as microorganisms with photosynthetic and phagotrophic capacity - into their understanding of marine food...- publication PDF