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Comparing radiosonde and COSMIC atmospheric profile data to quantify...
Collocated global atmospheric temperature, humidity, and refractivity profiles from radiosondes and from Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate...- publication PDF
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Treatment of undercanopy turbulence in land models
In arid and semiarid regions most of the solar radiation penetrates through the canopy and reaches the ground, and hence the turbulent exchange coefficient under canopy C-s...- publication PDF
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Soil moisture memory in AGCM simulations: Analysis of global land-atmosphere...
Soil moisture memory is a key aspect of land-atmosphere interaction and has major implications for seasonal forecasting. Because of a severe lack of soil moisture observations...- publication PDF
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Cloud-native repositories for big scientific data
Scientific data have traditionally been distributed via downloads from data server to local computer. This way of working suffers from limitations as scientific datasets grow...- publication PDF
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A perspective on climate change from Earth’s energy imbalance
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Cloud-resolving model for weather modification in China
Weather modification is widely carried out in China. It is important to develop an operational model for weather modification to predict the microphysical features of cloud and...- publication PDF
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Changes in wood biomass and crop yields in response to projected CO2, O3,...
As the world's population increases, so will the demand for food and timber resources. Though carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization and, to a lesser extent, nitrogen (N) deposition...- publication PDF
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On the increase of climate sensitivity and cloud feedback with warming in...
Modeling and paleoclimate proxy-based studies suggest that equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) depends on the background climate state, though the reason is not thoroughly...- publication PDF
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ISOLESC: A coupled isotope-LSM-LES-Cloud modeling system to investigate the...
Stable isotopes of water (H2O, HDO, and (H2O)-O-18) are tracers that provide powerful constraints on water transport processes in the atmosphere. This paper presents a...- publication PDF
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Some practical considerations regarding horizontal resolution in the first...
During the 2005 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment two different high-resolution configurations of the Weather Research and Forecasting-Advanced Research WRF (WRF-...- publication PDF
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CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation
This paper reports on the early mission performance of the radar and other major aspects of the CloudSat mission. The Cloudsat cloud profiling radar (CPR) has been operating...- publication PDF
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Langmuir turbulence in swell
The problem is posed and solved for the oceanic surface boundary layer in the presence of wind stress, stable density stratification, equilibrium wind-waves, and remotely...- publication PDF
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Large vertical gradient of reactive nitrogen oxides in the boundary layer:...
An often used assumption in air pollution studies is a well-mixed boundary layer (BL), where pollutants are evenly distributed. Because of the difficulty in obtaining vertically...- publication PDF
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Kuroshio pathways in a climatologically forced model
A high-resolution ocean model forced with an annually repeating atmosphere is used to examine variability of the Kuroshio, the western boundary current in the North Pacific...- publication PDF
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An assessment of winter orographic precipitation and cloud-seeding potential...
This paper presents an evaluation of the precipitation patterns and seedability of orographic clouds in Wyoming using SNOTEL precipitation data and a high-resolution multiyear...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of NLDAS-2 evapotranspiration against tower flux site observations
The North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2) has run four land surface models for a 30-year (1979-2008) retrospective period. Land surface...- publication PDF
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Operational hydrological data assimilation with the recursive ensemble Kalman filter
This paper describes the design and use of a recursive ensemble Kalman filter (REnKF) to assimilate streamflow data in an operational flow forecasting system of seven catchments...- publication PDF
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Geolocation, calibration and surface resolution of CYGNSS GNSS-R land observations
This paper presents the processing algorithms for geolocating and calibration of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) level 1 land data products, as well as...- publication PDF
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A 2 year forecast for a 60-80% chance of La Niña in 2017-2018
Historical observations show that one in two La Nina events last for two consecutive years. Despite their outsized impacts on drought, these 2 year La Nina are not predicted on...- publication PDF
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The warm-core structure of Hurricane Earl (2010)
The warm-core structure of Hurricane Earl (2010) is examined on four different days, spanning periods of both rapid intensification (RI) and weakening, using high-altitude...- publication PDF