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Antarctic sea ice climatology, variability, and late twentieth-century...
A preindustrial control run and an ensemble of twentieth-century integrations of the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4), are evaluated for Antarctic sea ice...- publication PDF
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Definition of the moist-air exergy norm: A comparison with existing "moist...
This study presents a new formulation for the norms and scalar products used in tangent linear or adjoint models to determine forecast errors and sensitivity to observations and...- publication PDF
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Statistical Analysis of Compressed Climate Data
[Note: this Technical Note was updated on 2020-08-17 per the authors' request to correct an error. See the description of the change on page two of the document's front matter.]...- publication PDF
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Understanding atypical midlevel wind speed maxima in hurricane eyewalls
In tropical cyclones (TCs), the peak wind speed is typically found near the top of the boundary layer (approximately 0.5â1 km). Recently, it was shown that in a few observed...- publication PDF
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ISMIP6 Antarctica: A multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet...
Ice flow models of the Antarctic ice sheet are commonly used to simulate its future evolution in response to different climate scenarios and assess the mass loss that would...- publication PDF
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Reconciling the observed and modeled Southern Hemisphere circulation...
Confusion exists regarding the tropospheric circulation response to volcanic eruptions, with models and observations seeming to disagree on the sign of the response. The forced...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric stability effects on wind fields and scalar mixing within and...
Air temperature T a , specific humidity q, COâ mole fraction x c , and three-dimensional winds were measured in mountainous terrain from five tall towers within a 1 km region...- publication PDF
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Process-oriented evaluation of climate and weather forecasting models
Realistic climate and weather prediction models are necessary to produce confidence in projections of future climate over many decades and predictions for days to seasons. These...- publication PDF
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Formation of the UV spectrum of molecular hydrogen in the sun
Ultraviolet (UV) lines of molecular hydrogen have been observed in solar spectra for almost four decades, but the behavior of the molecular spectrum and its implications for...- publication PDF
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Airborne and ground-based observations of a weekend effect in ozone,...
Airborne and ground-based measurements during the CalNex (California Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change) field study in May/June 2010 show a weekend effect...- publication PDF
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Overestimated eddy kinetic energy in the eddy-rich regions simulated by...
The performance of eddy-resolving global ocean-sea ice models in simulating mesoscale eddies is evaluated using six eddy-resolving experiments forced by different atmospheric...- publication PDF
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The COSMO coronagraph optical design and stray light analysis
The Coronal Solar Magnetism Observatory Large Coronagraph (COSMO-LC) is a 1.5 meter Lyot coronagraph dedicated to measuring magnetic fields and plasma properties in the solar...- publication PDF
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The Annual Cycle Part I: The Annual Variation of Surface Temperature Over...
Daily maximum and minimum surface temperatures for 354 second-order U.S. and Canadian stations generally spanning 40-80 years are used to calculate the following quantities for...- publication PDF
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Multi-scale modeling study of the source contributions to near-surface ozone...
Chronic high surface ozone (Oâ) levels and the increasing sulfur oxides (SOx = SOâ+SOâ) ambient concentrations over South Coast (SC) and other areas of California (CA) are...- publication PDF
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Thoughts from a past AGU SPA fellows committee
Community honours, such as those bestowed by professional scientific societies like the American Geophysical Union (AGU) are an important element of both individual career...- publication PDF
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Comparing machine learning-derived global estimates of soil respiration and...
The CO2 efflux from soil (soil respiration (SR)) is one of the largest fluxes in the global carbon (C) cycle and its response to climate change could strongly influence future...- publication PDF
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Features of the deep atmospheric boundary layer over the Taklimakan Desert...
To investigate the features of the extremely deep atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) over the Taklimakan Desert (TD) and its influence, this paper utilizes sounding data obtained...- publication PDF
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Detecting and sizing the Earth with PLATO: A feasibility study based on solar data
Context. The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will observe the same area of the sky continuously for at least two years in an effort to...- publication PDF
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CHIMERE 2013: A model for regional atmospheric composition modelling
Tropospheric trace gas and aerosol pollutants have adverse effects on health, environment and climate. In order to quantify and mitigate such effects, a wide range of processes...- publication PDF
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Ice crystals growing from vapor in supercooled clouds between -2.5° and...
The physical and empirical relationships used by microphysics schemes to control the rate at which vapor is transferred to ice crystals growing in supercooled clouds are...- publication PDF