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Internal consistency of demographic assumptions in the shared socioeconomic pathways
A new set of alternative socioeconomic scenarios for climate change researches--the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs)--includes for the first time a more comprehensive set of...- publication PDF
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Multimodel surface temperature responses to removal of U.S. sulfur dioxide emissions
Three Earth System models are used to derive surface temperature responses to removal of U.S. anthropogenic SO2 emissions. Using multicentury perturbation runs with and without...- publication PDF
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Improved simulations of tropical Pacific annual-mean climate in the GFDL...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory has recently developed two global coupled general circulation models, the Forecast-...- publication PDF
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Constraining clouds and convective parameterizations in a climate model...
Cloud and convective parameterizations strongly influence uncertainties in equilibrium climate sensitivity. We provide a proof-of-concept study to constrain these...- publication PDF
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Assessing NARCCAP climate model effects using spatial confidence regions
We assess similarities and differences between model effects for the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) climate models using varying classes of...- publication PDF
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Test of a non-local excess phase delay operator for GPS radio occultation...
A physically-sound, non-local excess phase delay observation operator is developed for simulating excess phase delay measurements from GPS radio occultation (RO) missions. By...- publication PDF
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Field-deployable diode-laser-based differential absorption lidar (DIAL) for...
A field-deployable water vapor profiling instrument that builds on the foundation of the preceding generations of diode-laser-based differential absorption lidar (DIAL)...- publication PDF
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A comparison of the vorticity dynamics governing the oceanic bomb cyclone of...
Convection-allowing simulations of two warm seclusion cyclones are used to elucidate the vorticity dynamics that contribute to intensification of these systems. The rapidly...- publication PDF
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Tropospheric ozone decrease due to the Mount Pinatubo eruption: Reduced...
We quantify the relationship between Mount Pinatubo eruption in June 1991 and tropospheric ozone abundances. The ozone reduction in the stratosphere and troposphere following...- publication PDF
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Impacts of initial estimate and observations availability on...
The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) uses an ensemble of short-range forecasts to estimate the flow-dependent background error covariances required in data assimilation. The...- publication PDF
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Lessons learned through our climate change professional development program...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado has been offering professional development on climate change for middle and high school teachers since the...- publication PDF
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Albedo-Ice regression method for determining ice water content of polar...
High spatial resolution images of polar meso-spheric clouds (PMCs) from a camera array on board the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite have been obtained since...- publication PDF
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Climatic impacts of fresh water hosing under last glacial maximum...
Fresh water hosing simulations, in which a fresh water flux is imposed in the North Atlantic to force fluctuations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, have been...- publication PDF
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Spatial and temporal agreement in climate model simulations of the...
Accelerated warming and hiatus periods in the long-term rise of Global Mean Surface Temperature (GMST) have, in recent decades, been associated with the Interdecadal Pacific...- publication PDF
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Transient evolution of Langmuir turbulence in ocean boundary layers driven...
A large-eddy simulation (LES) model, which adopts wave-averaged equations with vortex force, is used to investigate Langmuir turbulence and ocean boundary layer (OBL) dynamics...- publication PDF
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Climatology characteristics of ionospheric irregularities described with GNSS ROTI
At equatorial and high latitudes, the intense ionospheric irregularities and plasma density gradients can seriously affect the performances of radio communication and satellite-...- publication PDF
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Case Studies on Convective Storms / Case Study 1, 13 July 1978: First Echo Case
On 13 July 1978, a long-lived storm complex developed in southeastern Wyoming, and was well observed by aircraft and radars. The potential instability was weak to moderate on...- publication PDF
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COSMIC-2 mission summary at three years in orbit
We summarize the status of the FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 (COSMIC-2) mission which has completed its first three years in orbit. COSMIC-2 is a joint U.S./Taiwan program consisting of...- publication PDF
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Solar and greenhouse gas forcing and climate response in the 20th century
Ensemble experiments with a global coupled climate model are performed for the twentieth century with time-evolving solar, greenhouse gas, sulfate aerosol (direct effect), and...- publication PDF
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Equatorial and low latitude ionospheric effects during sudden stratospheric...
There are several external sources of ionospheric forcing, including these are solar wind-magnetospheric processes and lower atmospheric winds and waves. In this work we review...- publication PDF
