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Examining the roles of the easterly wave critical layer and vorticity...
The tropical cyclogenesis sequence of Hurricane Sandy is examined. It is shown that genesis occurs within a recirculating Kelvin cat's-eye flow of a westward-propagating...- publication PDF
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Soluble chromophores in marine snow, seawater, sea ice and frost flowers...
We measured light absorption in 42 marine snow, sea ice, seawater, brine, and frost flower samples collected during the OASIS field campaign between February 27 and April 15,...- publication PDF
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Daedalus MASE (mission assessment through simulation exercise): A toolset...
Daedalus MASE (Mission Assessment through Simulation Exercise) is an open-source package of scientific analysis tools aimed at research in the Lower Thermosphere-Ionosphere...- publication PDF
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Subseasonal forecast skill improvement from Strongly Coupled Data...
Strongly coupled data assimilation (SCDA), such as using atmospheric observations to update ocean analyses, is critical for properly initializing Earth System models to predict...- publication PDF
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A refractive index mapping operator for assimilation of occultation data
This paper describes the details of a fast, linear, forward-inverse refractive index mapping operator that can be used for assimilation of occultation data of various kinds into...- publication PDF
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Understanding of contemporary regional sea-level change and the implications...
Global sea level provides an important indicator of the state of the warming climate, but changes in regional sea level are most relevant for coastal communities around the...- publication PDF
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Quantifying streamflow forecast skill elasticity to initial condition and...
Water resources management decisions commonly depend on monthly to seasonal streamflow forecasts, among other kinds of information. The skill of such predictions derives from...- publication PDF
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Global Distribution of Total Cloud Cover and Cloud Type Amounts Over Land
This is the third of a series of atlases to result from a study of the global cloud climatology from ground-based observations. The first two atlases (NCAR/TN-201+STR and...- publication PDF
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Day-to-day migrating and nonmigrating tidal variability due to the six-day...
To investigate day-to-day variability in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT), an idealized simulation of a six-day westward propagating zonal wave number-1 planetary...- publication PDF
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Mobile doppler radar observations of a tornado in a supercell near Bassett,...
This is Part II of a paper detailing an analysis of high-resolution wind and reflectivity data collected by a mobile, W-band Doppler radar; the analysis depicts the near-surface...- publication PDF
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Quality of mobile air temperature and atmospheric pressure observations from...
The 2010 Development Test Environment Experiment (DTE10) took place from 28 January to 29 March 2010 in the Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan area for the purposes of collecting...- publication PDF
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An improved approach for parameterizing surface-layer turbulent transfer...
Based on classic iterative computation results, new equations to calculate the surface turbulent transfer coefficients are proposed, which allow for large ratios of the momentum...- publication PDF
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Kuroshio pathways in a climatologically forced model
A high-resolution ocean model forced with an annually repeating atmosphere is used to examine variability of the Kuroshio, the western boundary current in the North Pacific...- publication PDF
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Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015
Earth's energy imbalance (EEI) drives the ongoing global warming and can best be assessed across the historical record (that is, since 1960) from ocean heat content (OHC)...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric Circulation Statistics
This report which contains tables and diagrams are presented which describe the monthly mean statistics of the circulation in the Northern Hemisphere stratosphere from July 1976...- publication PDF
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Ground-based observations of the polar region space environment at the Jang...
Jang Bogo Station (JBS), the second Korean Antarctic research station, was established in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica in February 2014 in order to expand the Korea Polar Research...- publication PDF
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Impact of errors in the downwelling irradiances on simulations of snow water...
The forcing irradiances (downwelling shortwave and longwave irradiances) are the primary drivers of snowmelt; however, in complex terrain, few observations, the use of estimated...- publication PDF
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A numerical implementation of Fokas boundary integral approach: Laplace's...
A recently discovered transform approach allows a large class of PDEs to be solved in terms of boundary and/or contour integrals. We introduce here a spectrally accurate...- publication PDF
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Impact of historical land cover change on daily indices of climate extremes...
There is growing scientific evidence that anthropogenic land cover change (LCC) can produce a significant impact on regional climate. However, few studies have quantified this...- publication PDF
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WAS*IS: Building a community for integrating meteorology and social science
Weather and SocietyIntegrated Studies (WASIS) is a grassroots movement to change the weather enterprise by comprehensively and sustainably integrating social science...- publication PDF