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Examining the interaction of growing crops with local climate using a...
This paper examines to what extent crops and their environment should be viewed as a coupled system. Crop impact assessments currently use climate model output offline to drive...- publication PDF
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The impacts of climate change and land cover/use transition on the hydrology...
Observed streamflow over the past decades in the upper Yellow River Basin (UYRB) was examined for changes in hydrological regime. The modified Variable Infiltration Capacity...- publication PDF
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Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators
Scientific institutions must create roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of climate change.- publication PDF
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The NCAR Vertical Wind Tunnel: a Vertical Wind Tunnel for Controlling the...
This report describes a Vertical Wind Tunnel installed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for cloud physics research. The main purpose of this installation...- publication PDF
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Tropical Cloud Cluster Environments and Their Importance for Tropical...
This study uses a nonhierarchical cluster analysis to identify the major environmental circulation patterns associated with tropical cloud cluster (TCC) formation in the western...- publication PDF
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The representative concentration pathways: an overview
This paper summarizes the development process and main characteristics of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), a set of four new pathways developed for the climate...- publication PDF
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Impact of Chinese urbanization and aerosol emissions on the East Asian summer monsoon
Impacts of urbanization and anthropogenic aerosols in China on the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) are investigated using version 5.1 of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM5.1)...- publication PDF
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Resolving weather fronts increases the large-scale circulation response to...
Canonical understanding based on general circulation models (GCMs) is that the atmospheric circulation response to midlatitude sea-surface temperature (SST) anomalies is weak...- publication PDF
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Some requirements for simulating wildland fire behavior using insight from...
A newer generation of models that interactively couple the atmosphere with fire behavior have shown an increased potential to understand and predict complex, rapidly changing...- publication PDF
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Size-resolved aerosol composition and its link to hygroscopicity at a...
Aerosol hygroscopicity describes the ability of a particle to take up water and form a cloud droplet. Modeling studies have shown sensitivity of precipitation-producing cloud...- publication PDF
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Wind profiles in tropical cyclone stratiform rainbands over land
Observations of 14 stratiform periods in outer tropical cyclone rainbands are used to evaluate wind structure using a velocityâazimuth display (VAD) technique applied to KAMX...- publication PDF
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Assessing impacts of selective logging on water, energy, and carbon budgets...
Tropical forest degradation from logging, fire, and fragmentation not only alters carbon stocks and carbon fluxes, but also impacts physical land surface properties such as...- publication PDF
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Fast computation of absorption spectra for lidar data processing using...
We describe a principal component-based technique for approximating absorption and scattering spectra commonly needed for lidar signal processing. Where previously these...- publication PDF
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JRA-55 based surface dataset for driving ocean-sea-ice models (JRA55-do)
We present a new surface-atmospheric dataset for driving ocean-sea-ice models based on Japanese 55-year atmospheric reanalysis (JRA-55), referred to here as JRA55-do. The...- publication PDF
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The multi-scale interactions of atmospheric phenomenon in mean and extreme...
Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation, which in combination with rising population enhances exposure to major floods. An improved...- publication PDF
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A methodological framework for extreme climate risk assessment integrating...
Adaptation and resilience practitioners lack guidance on how to understand and manage extreme climate risk using the data available. We present a methodological framework to...- publication PDF
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Development of satellite green vegetation fraction time series for use in...
A method is presented for development of satellite green vegetation fraction (GVF) time series for use in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The GVF data is in...- publication PDF
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The generation and forecast of extreme winds during the origin and...
On 8-9 October 2017, fourteen wildfires developed rapidly during a strong Diablo wind event in northern California including the Tubbs Fire, which travelled over 19 km in 3.25...- publication PDF
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A longer vernal window: The role of winter coldness and snowpack in driving...
Climate change is altering the timing and duration of the vernal window, a period that marks the end of winter and the start of the growing season when rapid transitions in...- publication PDF
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Global and regional evolution of short-lived radiatively-active gases and...
In this paper, we discuss the results of 2000-2100 simulations following the emissions associated with the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) with a chemistry-climate...- publication PDF
