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Clouds at Barbados are representative of clouds across the trade wind...
This paper shows that clouds near Barbados exhibit similar properties to those over much of the tropical oceans. This finding allows observations taken at Barbados to be...- publication PDF
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Tropical Atlantic biases in CCSM4
This paper focuses on diagnosing biases in the seasonal climate of the tropical Atlantic in the twentieth-century simulation of the Community Climate System Model, version 4...- publication PDF
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Global-scale observations of the limb and disk mission implementation: 2....
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission of opportunity designed to study how the Earth's ionosphere-...- publication PDF
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United States economic sensitivity to weather variability
To estimate the economic effects of weather variability in the United States, we define and measure weather sensitivity as the variability in economic output attributable to...- publication PDF
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Benchmarking and process diagnostics of land models
We propose a conceptual and theoretical foundation for information-based model benchmarking and process diagnostics that provides diagnostic insight into model performance and...- publication PDF
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The Brazilian Global Atmospheric Model (BAM): Performance for tropical...
This article describes the main features of the Brazilian Global Atmospheric Model (BAM), analyses of its performance for tropical rainfall forecasting, and its sensitivity to...- publication PDF
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The impacts of secondary ice production on microphysics and dynamics in...
Secondary ice production (SIP) is an important physical phenomenon that results in an increase in the ice particle concentration and can therefore have a significant impact on...- publication PDF
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How well do we know ENSO's climate impacts over North America, and how do we...
The role of sampling variability in ENSO composites of winter surface air temperature and precipitation over North America during the period 1920-2013 is assessed for...- publication PDF
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Three-dimensional test particle simulation of the 17-18 March 2013 CME...
Three-dimensional test particle simulation of energetic electrons (hundreds of keV to MeV), including both an initially trapped population and continuously injected population,...- publication PDF
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A moist static energy budget–based analysis of the Sahel rainfall response...
Climate models generate a wide range of precipitation responses to global warming in the African Sahel, but all that use the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory AM2.1...- publication PDF
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Bridging data lifecycles: Tracking data use via data citations workshop report
Digital technologies for identifying and linking to resources on the internet promise to make connections between scholarly publications and their underlying data more...- publication PDF
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Impact of fire on global land surface air temperature and energy budget for...
Fire is a global phenomenon and tightly interacts with the biosphere and climate. This study provides the first quantitative assessment and understanding of fire's influence on...- publication PDF
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Assimilation of Doppler radar observations with a regional 3DVAR system:...
In this paper, the impact of Doppler radar radial velocity on the prediction of a heavy rainfall event is examined. The three-dimensional variational data assimilation (3DVAR)...- publication PDF
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Addressing the complexity of the Earth system
This paper discusses the development of a prediction system that integrates physical, biogeochemical, and societal processes in a unified Earth system framework. Such...- publication PDF
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A comparison of OEM CO retrievals from the IASI and MOPITT instruments
Observations of atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO) can only be made on continental and global scales by remote sensing instruments situated in space. One such instrument is the...- publication PDF
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Potential impacts on ozone and climate from a proposed fleet of supersonic aircraft
There has been renewed interest in developing commercial supersonic transport aircraft due to the increased overall demands by the public for air travel, the aspiration for more...- publication PDF
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Design and sampling characteristics of a new airborne aerosol inlet for...
Design of a new submicron aerosol inlet (SMAI) for airborne sampling of aerosol particles is introduced and its performance characteristics under a range of sampling conditions...- publication PDF
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A global atmospheric model of meteoric iron
The first global model of meteoric iron in the atmosphere (WACCM-Fe) has been developed by combining three components: the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM), a...- publication PDF
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Nitrate ion spikes in ice cores not suitable as proxies for solar proton events
Nitrate ion spikes in polar ice cores are contentiously used to estimate the intensity, frequency, and probability of historical solar proton events, quantities that are needed...- publication PDF
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The minimum wind speed for sustainable turbulence in the nocturnal boundary layer
The collapse of turbulence in the nocturnal boundary layer is studied by means of a simple bulk model that describes the basic physical interactions in the surface energy...- publication PDF
