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Northern Hemisphere vegetation change drives a Holocene thermal maximum
The Holocene thermal maximum, a period of global warmth evident in early to mid-Holocene proxy reconstructions, is controversial. Most model simulations of the Holocene have not...- publication PDF
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Dust storm over the Black Rock Desert: Larger-scale dynamic signatures
A dust storm that originated over the Black Rock Desert (BRD) of northwestern Nevada is investigated. Our primary goal is to more clearly understand the sequence of dynamical...- publication PDF
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Impacts of updraft size and dimensionality on the perturbation pressure and...
This study investigates relationships between vertical velocity, perturbation pressure, updraft size, and dimensionality for cumulus convection. Generalized theoretical...- publication PDF
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Integrating biodiversity and environmental observations in support of...
Species and habitats are the subjects of legislation that mandates reporting of information on ecosystem conditions. Improvements in sensors, sampling platforms, information...- publication PDF
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An observational and modeling study of impacts of bark beetle-caused tree...
Bark beetle outbreaks have killed billions of trees and affected millions of hectares of forest during recent decades. The objective of this study was to quantify responses of...- publication PDF
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Technical descriptions of the experimental dynamical downscaling simulations...
Comprehensive assessment of climate datasets is important for communicating model projections and associated uncertainties to stakeholders. Uncertainties can arise not only from...- publication PDF
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Growing temperate shrubs over arid and semiarid regions in the Community...
Arid and semiarid regions represent a large fraction of global land, but most of the existing dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) do not include shrubs or do not...- publication PDF
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Separating the influences of low-latitude warming and sea ice loss on...
Analyzing a multimodel ensemble of coupled climate model simulations forced with Arctic sea ice loss using a two-parameter pattern-scaling technique to remove the cross-coupling...- publication PDF
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Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates
As the world warms due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations, the Earth systemmoves toward climate stateswithout societal precedent, challenging adaptation. Past Earth system...- publication PDF
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A simple model for the anomalous counterclockwise turning of the surface...
A recent study found that surface hodographs over the Great Plains of the United States turn in a counterclockwise direction with time. This observed turning is opposite of the...- publication PDF
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Impact of a stochastic kinetic energy backscatter scheme on warm season...
The efficacy of a stochastic kinetic energy backscatter (SKEB) scheme to improve convection-allowing probabilistic forecasts was studied. While SKEB has been explored for...- publication PDF
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Simulation of flash-flood-producing storm events in Saudi Arabia using the...
The challenges of monitoring and forecasting flash-flood-producing storm events in data-sparse and arid regions are explored using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of tropical cyclones in high-resolution models in the present climate
The global characteristics of tropical cyclones (TCs) simulated by several climate models are analyzed and compared with observations. The global climate models were forced by...- publication PDF
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Assessing uncertainties in the Noah-MP ensemble simulations of a cropland...
Despite the widespread use of the latest community Noah with multiparameterization (Noah-MP) land surface model, it has not been rigorously evaluated over the complex Tibetan...- publication PDF
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Diagnosis of regime-dependent cloud simulation errors in CMIP5 models using...
The vertical distributions of cloud water content (CWC) and cloud fraction (CF) over the tropical oceans, produced by 13 coupled atmosphere-ocean models submitted to the Phase 5...- publication PDF
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Relationship of multiwavelength radar measurements to ice microphysics from...
Coincident radar data with Doppler radar measurements at X, Ku, Ka, and W bands on the NASA ER-2 aircraft overflying the NASA P-3 aircraft acquiring in situ microphysical...- publication PDF
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Are atmospheric updrafts a key to unlocking climate forcing andsensitivity?
Both climate forcing and climate sensitivity persist as stubborn uncertainties limiting the extent to which climate models can provide actionable scientific scenarios for...- publication PDF
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Varieties of data-centric science: Regional climate modeling and model...
Modern science's ability to produce, store, and analyze big datasets is changing the way that scientific research is practiced. Philosophers have only begun to comprehend the...- publication PDF
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A new view of the solar interface region from the Interface Region Imaging...
The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has been obtaining near- and far-ultraviolet images and spectra of the solar atmosphere since July 2013. IRIS is the highest...- publication PDF
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Generating ensemble streamflow forecasts: A review of methods and approaches...
Ensemble forecasting applied to the field of hydrology is currently an established area of research embracing a broad spectrum of operational situations. This work catalogs the...- publication PDF
