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Locations and mechanisms of ocean ventilation in the high-latitude North...
A substantial fraction of the deep ocean is ventilated in the high-latitude North Atlantic. Consequently, the region plays a crucial role in transient climate change through the...- publication PDF
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A revised model for radial profiles of hurricane winds
A revision to the Holland (1980) parametric approach to modeling the radial profile of winds in hurricanes is presented. The approach adopted uses information readily available...- publication PDF
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Analysis of aerosol-cloud interactions and their implications for...
Aerosol and cloud microphysical measurements were collected by a research aircraft during August 2019 over the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The majority of scientific flights...- publication PDF
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The impact of standard and hard-coded parameters on the hydrologic fluxes in...
Land surface models incorporate a large number of process descriptions, containing a multitude of parameters. These parameters are typically read from tabulated input files....- publication PDF
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The Montreal Protocol and the fate of environmental plastic debris
Microplastics (MPs) are an emerging class of pollutants in air, soil and especially in all aquatic environments. Secondary MPs are generated in the environment during...- publication PDF
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Dual-doppler lidar measurement of winds in the JAWS experiment
Two 10.6 μm coherent Doppler lidars participated in the Joint Airport Weather Studies (JAWS) Project field experiment, conducted in summer 1982 near Denver's Stapleton...- publication PDF
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Electron temperature climatology at Millstone Hill and Arecibo
In this paper, ionospheric electron temperature (Te) data for more than two solar cycles measured by the incoherent scatter radars (ISR) at Millstone Hill (42.6°N, 71.5°W) and...- publication PDF
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Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured...
Forest ecosystem models based on heuristic water stress functions poorly predict tropical forest response to drought partly because they do not capture the diversity of...- publication PDF
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Influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the mesosphere
Using the middle atmosphere temperature data set observed by the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) satellite experiment between 2002 and...- publication PDF
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Climate, COâ and human population impacts on global wildfire emissions
Wildfires are by far the largest contributor to global biomass burning and constitute a large global source of atmospheric traces gases and aerosols. Such emissions have a...- publication PDF
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Kinematic and dynamic collision statistics of cloud droplets from...
We study the dynamic and kinematic collision statistics of cloud droplets for a range of flow Taylor microscale Reynolds numbers (up to 500), using a highly scalable hybrid...- publication PDF
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January and July Simulation Experiments With the 2.5 Latitude-longitude...
This technical note documents the capability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 2.5�� latitude-longitude, second-generation, 6-layer General...- publication PDF
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Model sensitivity to North Atlantic freshwater forcing at 8.2 ka
We compared four simulations of the 8.2 ka event to assess climate model sensitivity and skill in responding to North Atlantic freshwater perturbations. All of the simulations...- publication PDF
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Simulations of solar and lunar tidal variability in the mesosphere and lower...
Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) simulations are used to investigate solar and lunar tide changes in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) that occur in...- publication PDF
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On the sensitivity of the diurnal cycle in the Amazon to convective intensity
Climate and reanalysis models contain large water and energy budget errors over tropical land related to the misrepresentation of diurnally forced moist convection. Motivated by...- publication PDF
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The sun's Alfvén surface: recent insights and prospects for the Polarimeter...
The solar wind is the extension of the Sun's hot and ionized corona, and it exists in a state of continuous expansion into interplanetary space. The radial distance at which the...- publication PDF
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Strong sub-seasonal wintertime cooling over East Asia and Northern Europe...
East Asia experienced a record-breaking cold event during the 2015/16 boreal winter, with pronounced impacts on livelihood in the region. We find that this large-scale cold...- publication PDF
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Compounding tropical and stratospheric forcing of the record low Antarctic...
After exhibiting an upward trend since 1979, Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE) declined dramatically during austral spring 2016, reaching a record low by December 2016. Here we...- publication PDF
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Ozone and Foliar Damage Analysis: NCAR and St. Louis
Surface level ozone, or tropospheric ozone, is a common pollutant and can cause harm to a wide variety of plant species. Observing and analyzing ozone concentrations and foliar...- publication PDF
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Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic stratospheric climates in chemistry...
Using nine chemistry-climate and eight associated no-chemistry models, we investigate the persistence and timing of cold episodes occurring in the Arctic and Antarctic...- publication PDF
