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Individual feedback contributions to the seasonality of surface warming
Using the climate feedback response analysis method, the authors examine the individual contributions of the COâ radiative forcing and climate feedbacks to the magnitude,...- publication PDF
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Altitude variations in the thermosphere mass density response to geomagnetic...
Accelerometer data from coplanar orbits of Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites were used to study the...- publication PDF
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Anthropogenic influence on the drivers of the Western Cape drought 2015â2017
In the period 2015-2017, the Western Cape region has suffered from three consecutive years of below average rainfall-leading to a prolonged drought and acute water shortages,...- publication PDF
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Potential for ground-based glaciogenic cloud seeding over mountains in the...
Glaciogenic cloud seeding has long been practiced as a way to increase water availability in arid regions, such as the interior western United States. Many seeding programs in...- publication PDF
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The combined effect of elevation and meteorology on potato crop dynamics: A...
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is an important crop in the Gamo Highlands in Ethiopia. The region is characterised by a complex topography with large inter-annual weather...- publication PDF
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Cloud-scale ice-supersaturated regions spatially correlate with high water...
Cirrus clouds have large yet uncertain impacts on Earth's climate. Ice supersaturation (ISS) -- where the relative humidity with respect to ice (RHi) is greater than 100% -- is...- publication PDF
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Asynchronous communication in spectral-element and discontinuous Galerkin...
The scalability of computational applications on current and next-generation supercomputers is increasingly limited by the cost of inter-process communication. We implement non-...- publication PDF
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Effective radius and droplet spectral width from in-situ aircraft...
This paper presents statistics of cloud microphysical properties of shallow tropical cumuli observed by a research aircraft during RICO field campaign. Cloud properties are...- publication PDF
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Effects of aging on organic aerosol from open biomass burning smoke in...
Biomass burning (BB) is a large source of primary and secondary organic aerosols (POA and SOA). This study addresses the physical and chemical evolution of BB organic aerosols....- publication PDF
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Case Studies on Convective Storms / Case Study 5, 12 July 1978: First Echo Case
A small, isolated, short-lived cumulus congestus was studied using primarily a10 cm radar, a cloud penetration with an instrumented sailplane, and time-lapse photography froman...- publication PDF
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An application of principal component analysis to the interpretation of...
Ionospheric currents are driven by several different physical processes and exhibit complex spatial and temporal structure. Magnetic field measurements of ionospheric sources...- publication PDF
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Incorporating multiyear temperature predictions for water resources planning
Multiyear climate predictions provide climate outlooks from years to a decade in advance. As multiyear temperature predictions become more mainstream and skillful, guidance is...- publication PDF
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The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020)
The most destructive and deadly wildfires in US history were also fast. Using satellite data, we analyzed the daily growth rates of more than 60,000 fires from 2001 to 2020...- publication PDF
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Coordination of rooting, xylem, and stomatal strategies explains the...
Extreme droughts are a major determinant of ecosystem disturbance that impacts plant communities and feeds back into climate change through changes in plant functioning....- publication PDF
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Arctic system reanalysis: Call for community involvement
Arctic climate encompasses multiple feedbacks, the most important of which is the ice-albedo feedback. Enhanced Arctic changes, first recognized in the nineteenth century,...- publication PDF
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Airborne observations of methane emissions from rice cultivation in the...
Airborne measurements of methane (CHâ) and carbon dioxide (COâ) were taken over the rice growing region of California's Sacramento Valley in the late spring of 2010 and...- publication PDF
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Precipitation over a wide range of climates simulated with comprehensive GCMs
Idealized general circulation models (GCMs) suggest global-mean precipitation ceases to increase with warming in hot climates because evaporation is limited by the available...- publication PDF
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Ionospheric oscillations with a quasi-period of â¼6Â hr during intense...
We study the variations of the topside ionospheric ion density measured by Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites during the intense magnetic storm on 7-10 November...- publication PDF
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Simulations of electron energization and injection by BBFs using...
We study electron injection and energization by bursty bulk flows (BBFs), by tracing electron trajectories using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) field output from the Lyon-Fedder-...- publication PDF
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sunstardb: A database for the study of stellar magnetism and the...
The "solar-stellar connection" began as a relatively small field of research focused on understanding the processes that generate magnetic fields in stars and sometimes lead to...- publication PDF