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The units of rate constants in chemical kinetics
This short article discusses the units of rate constants as used in chemical kinetics and, in particular, the aspect of non-integral powers of base units, which some might find...- publication PDF
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A study of aerosol impacts on clouds and precipitation development in a...
Aerosols influence cloud and precipitation development in complex ways due to myriad feedbacks at a variety of scales from individual clouds through entire storm systems. This...- publication PDF
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The NCAR–FAA snow machine: An artificial snow-generation system
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) developed an artificial snow-generation system designed to operate in a laboratory cold chamber for testing aircraft anti-...- publication PDF
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Numerical simulation of cloud-clear air interfacial mixing: Homogeneous...
This note presents an analysis of several dozens of direct numerical simulations of the cloud–clear air mixing in a setup of decaying moist turbulence with bin microphysics. The...- publication PDF
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Investigation of solar proton access into the inner magnetosphere on 11...
In this study, access of solar energetic protons to the inner magnetosphere on 11 September 2017 is investigated by computing the reverse particle trajectories with the...- publication PDF
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Paleoclimate changes in the Pacific Northwest over the past 36,000 years...
Since the last glacial period, North America has experienced dramatic changes in regional climate, including the collapse of ice sheets and changes in precipitation. We use...- publication PDF
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Cover crops may cause winter warming in snow-covered regions
Cover crops, grown between cash crops when soil is fallow, are a management strategy that may help mitigate climate change. The biogeochemical effects of cover crops are well...- publication PDF
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Improving numerical weather prediction-based near-cloud aviation turbulence...
Based on a convective gravity wave drag parameterization scheme in a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model, previously proposed near-cloud turbulence (NCT) diagnostics for...- publication PDF
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Metadata accounts: Achieving data and evidence in scientific research
'Metadata' has received a fraction of the attention that 'data' has received in sociological studies of scientific research. A neglect of 'metadata' reduces the attention on a...- publication PDF
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A bayesian approach for statistical–physical bulk parameterization of rain...
A new framework is proposed for the bulk parameterization of rain microphysics: the Bayesian Observationally Constrained Statistical-Physical Scheme (BOSS). It is designed to...- publication PDF
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Observing the moist troposphere with radio occultation signals from COSMIC
New approaches for observing the moist troposphere using radio occultation (RO) signals transformed to impact parameter representation by radio-holographic (RH) methods are...- publication PDF
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Linking publications and data: Challenges, trends, and opportunities
Many interrelationships exist between research articles, data, software, and other resources used to produce scientific findings. A number of challenges, however, impede efforts...- publication PDF
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Climate impacts of ice nucleation
Several different ice nucleation parameterizations in two different General Circulation Models (GCMs) are used to understand the effects of ice nucleation on the mean climate...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 2020 Improving Scientific Software Conference
The Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) is a loosely structured group of software engineers and scientists who write scientific software, mostly but not only at NCAR and mostly...- publication PDF
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High climate sensitivity in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)
The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) has an equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) of 5.3K. ECS is an emergent property of both climate feedbacks and aerosol...- publication PDF
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VDM+: The Enhanced Vortex Message Dataset: Structure, Intensity, and...
This document describes the Enhanced Vortex Data Message Dataset (VDM+), including the input data sources, the dimensioning structure and organization for the resulting three...- publication PDF
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Systematic comparison of convection-allowing models during the 2017 NOAA HWT...
The 2016-18 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) Spring Forecasting Experiments (SFE) featured the Community Leveraged Unified Ensemble (CLUE), a coordinated convection-allowing...- publication PDF
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Black carbon over Mexico: The effect of atmospheric transport on mixing...
A single particle soot photometer (SP2) was operated on the NCAR C-130 during the MIRAGE campaign (part of MILAGRO), sampling black carbon (BC) over Mexico. The highest BC...- publication PDF
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Impacts of land cover and soil texture uncertainty on land model simulations...
Land surface processes and their coupling to the atmosphere over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) play an important role in modulating the regional and global climate. Therefore,...- publication PDF
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Environmental effects of stratospheric ozone depletion, UV radiation, and...
This assessment by the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides the latest scientific update since our most...- publication PDF
