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On the intermittent occurrence of open-ocean polynyas in a multi-century...
A 500-year-long high-resolution Community Earth System Model simulation under preindustrial radiative forcing produces Maud Rise Polynyas (MRPs) and Weddell Sea Polynya (WSP)...- publication PDF
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Solving 3D magnetohydrostatics with RBF-FD: Applications to the solar corona
We present a novel magnetohydrostatic numerical model that solves directly for the force-balanced magnetic field in the solar corona. This model is constructed with Radial Basis...- publication PDF
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A climate model projection weighting scheme accounting for performance and...
Uncertainties of climate projections are routinely assessed by considering simulations from different models. Observations are used to evaluate models, yet there is a debate...- publication PDF
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Spatiotemporal evolution of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice
Melt ponds on sea ice play an important role in the Arctic climate system. Their presence alters the partitioning of solar radiation: decreasing reflection, increasing...- publication PDF
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A technique for estimating liquid droplet diameter and liquid water content...
This paper describes a technique for estimating the liquid water content (LWC) and a characteristic particle diameter in stratocumulus clouds using radar and lidar observations....- publication PDF
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An airborne profiling radar study of the impact of glaciogenic cloud seeding...
Data from an airborne vertically pointing millimeter-wave Doppler radar are used to study the cloud microphysical effect of glaciogenic seeding of cold-season orographic clouds....- publication PDF
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A Lagrangian model diagnosis of stratospheric contributions to tropical...
Airborne in situ observations during the Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics campaign in January-February 2014 revealed a large region over the tropical...- publication PDF
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Analysis of errors introduced by geographic coordinate systems on weather...
Most atmospheric models, including the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, use a spherical geographic coordinate system to internally represent input data and perform...- publication PDF
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Uncertainty in future regional sea level rise due to internal climate variability
Sea level rise (SLR) is an inescapable consequence of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, with potentially harmful effects on human populations in coastal and island...- publication PDF
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CO2(v2)-O quenching rate coefficient derived from coincidental SABER/TIMED...
Among the processes governing the energy balance in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT), the quenching of CO₂(v₂) vibrational levels by collisions with O atoms plays an...- publication PDF
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High resolution forecasting of summer drought in the Western United States
Drought monitoring and forecasting systems are used in the United States (U.S.) to inform drought management decisions. Drought forecasting efforts have often been conducted and...- publication PDF
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Global variation of COSMIC precipitable water over land: Comparisons with...
Radio occultation (RO) observations of precipitable water (PW) from the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) are compared with...- publication PDF
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Upward transport into and within the Asian monsoon anticyclone as inferred...
Every year during the Asian summer monsoon season from about mid-June to early September, a stable anticyclonic circulation system forms over the Himalayas. This Asian summer...- publication PDF
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Celebrating accomplishments and anniversaries of space weather observations...
The space weather monitoring satellite, Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is on final approach to its observing position 1.5 × 109 m upstream from Earth. There it will...- publication PDF
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The soil and plant biogeochemistry sampling design for The National...
Human impacts on biogeochemical cycles are evident around the world, from changes to forest structure and function due to atmospheric deposition, to eutrophication of surface...- publication PDF
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Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) Model: 2017 Scientific...
The Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) system has been in operation at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Centers for...- publication PDF
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Toward a new estimate of "time of emergence" of anthropogenic warming:...
Time of emergence of anthropogenic climate change is a crucial metric in risk assessments surrounding future climate predictions. However, internal climate variability impairs...- publication PDF
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On the characteristics of aerosol indirect effect based on dynamic regimes...
Aerosol–cloud interactions continue to constitute a major source of uncertainty for the estimate of climate radiative forcing. The variation of aerosol indirect effects (AIE) in...- publication PDF
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Ensemble forecasts of air quality in eastern China – Part 1: Model...
An operational multi-model forecasting system for air quality including nine different chemical transport models has been developed and provides daily forecasts of ozone,...- publication PDF
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A practical approach to sequential estimation of systematic error on...
Statistical analysis arguments are used to construct an estimation algorithm for systematic error of near-surface temperatures on a mesoscale grid. The systematic error is...- publication PDF