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A moment-based polarimetric radar forward operator for rain microphysics
There is growing interest in combining microphysical models and polarimetric radar observations to improve our understanding of storms and precipitation. Mapping model-predicted...- publication PDF
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Large-scale gravity current over the middle hills of the Nepal Himalaya:...
Nepal has been the location of a series of fatal aircraft accidents, raising serious concerns about civil aviation security and the safety of passengers. However, significant...- publication PDF
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Using large ensembles to identify regions of systematic biases in...
Because of internal variability in both the real-world and global climate models, it is unclear whether disagreement between models and observations reflects true systematic...- publication PDF
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Cloud-system resolving model simulations of aerosol indirect effects on...
This paper presents results from 240-member ensemble simulations of aerosol indirect effects on tropical deep convection and its thermodynamic environment. Simulations using a...- publication PDF
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Probing the physics of the solar atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar...
The Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) is a proposed mission composed of a multislit extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrograph (in three spectral bands around 171 angstrom, 284...- publication PDF
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Evaluating CMIP5 ocean biogeochemistry and Southern Ocean carbon uptake...
Observed seasonal cycles in atmospheric potential oxygen (APO ~ O2 + 1.1 CO2) were used to evaluate eight ocean biogeochemistry models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison...- publication PDF
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Seasonal prediction and predictability of regional Antarctic sea ice
Compared to the Arctic, seasonal predictions of Antarctic sea ice have received relatively little attention. In this work, we utilize three coupled dynamical prediction systems...- publication PDF
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The ocean response to climate change guides both adaptation and mitigation efforts
The ocean’s thermal inertia is a major contributor to irreversible ocean changes exceeding time scales that matter to human society. This fact is a challenge to societies as...- publication PDF
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Taking off the training wheels: The properties of a dynamic vegetation model...
We describe an implementation of the Ecosystem Demography (ED) concept in the Community Land Model. The structure of CLM(ED) and the physiological and structural modifications...- publication PDF
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A Bayesian approach to upscaling and downscaling of aircraft measurements of...
This study addresses the issue of how to upscale cloud-sized in situ measurements of ice to yield realistic simulations of ice clouds for a variety of modeling studies. Aircraft...- publication PDF
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Thermodynamics of the Madden–Julian Oscillation in a regional model with...
To identify the main thermodynamic processes that sustain the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), an eddy available potential energy budget analysis is performed on a regional...- publication PDF
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Turbulent collision efficiency of heavy particles relevant to cloud droplets
The collision efficiency of sedimenting cloud droplets in a turbulent air flow is a key input parameter in predicting the growth of cloud droplets by collision-coalescence. In...- publication PDF
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On the wave number 2 eastward propagating quasi 2 day wave at middle and...
The temperature and wind data sets from the ensemble data assimilation version of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model + Data Assimilation Research Testbed (WACCM +...- publication PDF
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Another year of record heat for the oceans
Changes in ocean heat content (OHC), salinity, and stratification provide critical indicators for changes in Earth's energy and water cycles. These cycles have been profoundly...- publication PDF
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Case study on complex sporadic E layers observed by GPS radio occultations
The occurrence of sporadic E (Es) layers has been a hot scientific topic for a long time. The GNSS (global navigation satellite system)-based radio occultation (RO) has proven...- publication PDF
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Reductions in India's crop yield due to ozone
This bottom-up modeling study, supported by emission inventories and crop production, simulates ozone on local to regional scales. It quantifies, for the first time, potential...- publication PDF
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A global survey of rotating convective updrafts in the GFDL X-SHiELD 2021...
We present the global characteristics of rotating convective updrafts in the 2021 version of GFDL's eXperimental System for High-resolution prediction on Earth-to-Local Domains...- publication PDF
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What the collapse of the ensemble Kalman filter tells us about particle filters
The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is a reliable data assimilation tool for high-dimensional meteorological problems. On the other hand, the EnKF can be interpreted as a particle...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of tropical rainfall to Banda Sea Diffusivity in the Community...
Several observational studies suggest that the vertical diffusivity in the Indonesian marginal seas is an order of magnitude larger than in the open ocean and what is used in...- publication PDF
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The Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX)
The Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX) was conducted from 15 May to 15 June 2013 in the central United States. MPEX was motivated by the basic question of whether...- publication PDF
