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Deciphering solar magnetic activity: The (solar) hale cycle terminator of 2021
We previously identified an event in the solar timeline that appeared to play a role in how sunspot Cycle 23 (SC23) transitioned into sunspot Cycle 24 (SC24). The timeframe for...- publication PDF
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Simulating observations of southern ocean clouds and implications for climate
Southern Ocean (S. Ocean) clouds are important for climate prediction. Yet previous global climate models failed to accurately represent cloud phase distributions in this...- publication PDF
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Inhomogeneous background error modeling for WRF-Var using the NMC method
Background error modeling plays a key role in a variational data assimilation system. The National Meteorological Center (NMC) method has been widely used in variational data...- publication PDF
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Evaluating the strength of the land-atmosphere moisture feedback in Earth...
The relationship between terrestrial water storage (TWS) and atmospheric processes has important implications for predictability of climatic extremes and projection of future...- publication PDF
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Determining robust impacts of land-use-induced land cover changes on surface...
The project Land-Use and Climate, Identification of Robust Impacts (LUCID) was conceived to address the robustness of biogeophysical impacts of historical land use--land cover...- publication PDF
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Dissimilarity of scalar transport in the convective boundary layer in...
A land-surface model (LSM) is coupled with a large-eddy simulation (LES) model to investigate the vegetation-atmosphere exchange of heat, water vapour, and carbon dioxide (CO2)...- publication PDF
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On the application of an observations-based machine learning...
Recently, machine learning techniques have been employed to develop improved models for predicting surface-layer fluxes of momentum, heat and moisture based on field...- publication PDF
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Modest capacity of no-till farming to offset emissions over 21st century
'No-till' (NT) agriculture, which eliminates nearly all physical disturbance of the soil surface on croplands, has been widely promoted as a means of soil organic carbon (SOC)...- publication PDF
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The impact of inhomogeneous emissions and topography on ozone photochemistry...
Global and regional chemical transport models of the atmosphere are based on the assumption that chemical species are completely mixed within each model grid box. However, in...- publication PDF
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A positive zonal wind feedback on sudden stratospheric warming development...
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are an extreme weather event with impacts on the ionosphere and on tropospheric weather and predictability. The mechanisms governing their...- publication PDF
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A study of the Arctic NOy budget above Eureka, Canada
Four years of trace gas measurements have been acquired using the Bruker 125HR Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer installed at the Polar Environment Atmospheric...- publication PDF
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An evaluation of the representation of tropical tropopause cirrus in the...
Observations from the third campaign of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX 3) field mission and Cloud-Aerosol...- publication PDF
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Tropical cyclone initialization and prediction based on four-dimensional...
Issues on the initialization and simulation of tropical cyclones (TCs) have been studied here based on four-dimensional variational data assimilation. In particular, experiments...- publication PDF
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Quantifying scavenging efficiencies of different aerosol species and...
In-cloud aerosol scavenging remains a large source of model uncertainty, affecting capabilities to capture the aerosol lifetime and impacts on air quality and climate. While...- publication PDF
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The role of antecedent southwest summer monsoon rainfall on the occurrence...
Global warming has significantly increased the risk of heat waves (HWs) globally, with India being particularly vulnerable during the summer months (March-June; MAMJ). This...- publication PDF
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Creation and communication of hurricane risk information
Reducing loss of life and harm when a hurricane threatens depends on people receiving hurricane risk information that they can interpret and use in protective decisions. To...- publication PDF
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The impact of wind corrections and ocean-current influence on wind stress...
Bias correction of reanalysis-based wind stress using scatterometer derived equivalent neutral wind has been a common practice in producing the forcing datasets used in recent...- publication PDF
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A cluster-based method for hydrometeor classification using polarimetric...
Two new algorithms for hydrometeor classification using polarimetric radar observations are developed based on prototypes derived by applying clustering techniques (Part I of...- publication PDF
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Seasonal constraints on inferred planetary heat content
Planetary heating can be quantified using top of the atmosphere energy fluxes or through monitoring the heat content of the Earth system. It has been difficult, however, to...- publication PDF
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A Program Prospectus for a Cooperative High Plains Experiment on Convective...
This program prospectus for a cooperative 1981 field season in Montana is the result of discussions between staff of the Bureau of Reclamation (HIPLEX) and NCAR (CSD), and of...- publication PDF
