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Statistical behavior of the longitudinal variations of daytime electron...
Electron density in the topside ionosphere has significant variations with latitude, longitude, altitude, local time, season, and solar cycle. This paper focuses on the global...- publication PDF
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Instructor's Handbook on Meteorological Instrumentation
This Instructor's Handbook is the result of an NCAR-sponsored summer colloquium whose purpose is provided useful material to assist instructors in teaching meteorological...- publication PDF
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Simulated radiative forcing from contrails and contrail cirrus
A comprehensive general circulation model including ice supersaturation is used to estimate the climate impact of aviation induced contrails. The model uses a realistic aviation...- publication PDF
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Complex high‐ and low‐flow networks differ in their spatial correlation...
Hydrologic extremes such as floods and droughts are often spatially related, which increases management challenges and potential impacts. However, these spatial relationships in...- publication PDF
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Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes
How the shelf ocean around Antarctica changes with warming is not well known. Here, the authors show that a projected increase in El Nino-Southern Oscillation variability...- publication PDF
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First characterization and validation of FORLI-HNO₃ vertical profiles...
Knowing the spatial and seasonal distributions of nitric acid (HNO3) around the globe is of great interest and allows us to comprehend the processes regulating stratospheric...- publication PDF
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The effect of using limited scene-dependent averaging kernels approximations...
Practical implementations of chemical OSSEs (Observing System Simulation Experiments) usually rely on approximations of the pseudo-observations by means of a predefined...- publication PDF
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Ionospheric data assimilation and forecasting during storms
Ionospheric storms can have important effects on radio communications and navigation systems. Storm time ionospheric predictions have the potential to form part of effective...- publication PDF
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Surface pressure a more skillful predictor of normalized hurricane damage...
Atlantic hurricane seasons have a long history of causing significant financial impacts, with Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence, and Michael combining to incur more than 345 billion...- publication PDF
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The second flight of the sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory: Overview...
The SUNRISE balloon-borne solar observatory, consisting of a 1 m aperture telescope that provides a stabilized image to a UV filter imager and an imaging vector polarimeter,...- publication PDF
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Transport of nitric oxide via Lagrangian coherent structures into the top of...
The energetic particle precipitation (EPP) indirect effect (IE) refers to the downward transport of reactive odd nitrogen (NOx = NO + NO2) produced by EPP (EPP-NOx) from the...- publication PDF
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Tropospheric clouds in Antarctica
Compared to other regions, little is known about clouds in Antarctica. This arises in part from the challenging deployment of instrumentation in this remote and harsh...- publication PDF
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The conterminous United States are projected to become more prone to flash...
Flash floods are largely driven by high rainfall rates in convective storms that are projected to increase in frequency and intensity in a warmer climate in the future. However,...- publication PDF
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Bootstrap methods for statistical inference. Part I: Comparative forecast...
When making statistical inferences, bootstrap resampling methods are often appealing because of less stringent assumptions about the distribution of the statistic(s) of...- publication PDF
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Energetic intracloud lightning in the RELAMPAGO field campaign
A particular strength of lightning remote sensing is the variety of lightning types observed, each with a unique occurrence context and characteristically different emission....- publication PDF
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Characteristics of small‐scale gravity waves in the Arctic winter mesosphere
Observational data sets in the polar middle atmosphere are extremely valuable for understanding the polar dynamics and coupling between lower and middle atmosphere. Using the...- publication PDF
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Analysis of the Arctic system for freshwater cycle intensification:...
Hydrologic cycle intensification is an expected manifestation of a warming climate. Although positive trends in several global average quantities have been reported, no previous...- publication PDF
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A thermodynamic perspective on steady-state tropical cyclones
Theories for the maximum intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) assume steady state. However, many TCs in simulations that run for tens of days tend to decay considerably from an...- publication PDF
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Convectively induced secondary circulations in fine-grid Mesoscale numerical...
Mesoscale numerical weather prediction models using fine-grid [O(1) km] meshes for weather forecasting, environmental assessment, and other applications capture aspects of...- publication PDF
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Organic matter inputs shift soil enzyme activity and allocation patterns in...
Soil extracellular enzymes mediate organic matter turnover and nutrient cycling yet remain little studied in one of Earth's most rapidly changing, productive biomes: tropical...- publication PDF
