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Developing an Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) for the global ocean
The Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) is a new United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development programme working to develop a practical,...- publication PDF
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Developing a Department of Transportation winter severity index
Adverse weather conditions are responsible for millions of vehicular crashes, thousands of deaths, and billions of dollars per year in economic and congestion costs. Many...- publication PDF
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Assimilating compact phase space retrievals (CPSRs): Comparison with...
Assimilation of atmospheric composition retrievals presents computational challenges due to their high data volume and often sparse information density. Assimilation of compact...- publication PDF
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Diagnosed three-dimensional axisymmetric structure of the Mulhall Tornado on...
On 3 May 1999, an unusually large tornado that caused F4-level damage and killed several people was intercepted by the Doppler on Wheels (DOW) mobile radar near Mulhall,...- publication PDF
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Deep-learning-based gridded downscaling of surface meteorological variables...
Many statistical downscaling methods require observational inputs and expert knowledge and thus cannot be generalized well across different regions. Convolutional neural...- publication PDF
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A revised scheme for the WRF surface layer formulation
This study summarizes the revision performed on the surface layer formulation of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. A first set of modifications are introduced to...- publication PDF
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A curious local surface salinity maximum in the northwestern tropical Atlantic
Sea surface salinity (SSS) measurements from the Aquarius/SAC-D satellite reveal the seasonal development of a local salinity maximum in the northwestern tropical Atlantic in...- publication PDF
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Penetrating electric field during the Nov 3-4, 2021 geomagnetic storm
We simulated the Nov 3â4, 2021 geomagnetic storm event penetrating electric field using the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) model and compared with the NASA...- publication PDF
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Limitations of assuming internal mixing between different aerosol species: A...
Simulating the complex aerosol microphysical processes in a comprehensive Earth system model can be very computationally intensive; therefore many models utilize a modal...- publication PDF
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Modeling seasonal variations of auroral particle precipitation in a...
A variety of observations have shown strong seasonal variations in a vast array of magnetosphere-ionosphere parameters, including field-aligned currents, cross polar cap...- publication PDF
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Comparison of two methods for deriving the magnetic field in a filament channel
Understanding the magnetic structure of filament channels is difficult but essential for identifying the mechanism (s) responsible for solar eruptions. In this paper we...- publication PDF
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Assessing and improving the NWS point-and-click webpage forecast information
The National Weather Service (NWS) is the governmental agency responsible for providing freely available weather forecasts, warnings, watches, and advisories for the protection...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms regulating coccolithophore dynamics in the Great Calcite Belt in...
The Great Calcite Belt (GCB) is a region of elevated particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) generated by coccolithophore growth that spans the subantarctic Southern Ocean. The GCB...- publication PDF
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Education and community engagement during NSF NCAR-supported field campaigns
Scientific field campaigns are critical components of atmospheric and related science research for data collection, comparison with models, and instrument testing. Additionally,...- publication PDF
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On the theoretical equivalence of differently proposed ensemble/3D-Var...
Hybrid ensemble-three-dimensional variational analysis schemes incorporate flow-dependent, ensemble-estimated background-error covariances into the three-dimensional variational...- publication PDF
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Assessing the relative impacts of satellite ozone and its precursor...
Chemical reanalysis products have been produced by integrating various satellite observational data to provide comprehensive information on atmospheric composition. Five global...- publication PDF
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Refinements to ice particle mass dimensional and terminal velocity...
This two-part study attempts to find appropriate mass dimension and terminal velocity relationships that, when considered together with particle size distributions (PSD), agree...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric aerosol injection can reduce risks to Antarctic ice loss...
Owing to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is vulnerable to rapid ice loss in the upcoming decades and centuries. This study examines the...- publication PDF
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A new process-based and scale-aware desert dust emission scheme for global...
Desert dust accounts for most of the atmosphere's aerosol burden by mass and produces numerous important impacts on the Earth system. However, current global climate models...- publication PDF
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Causes of the weak emergent constraint on climate sensitivity at the Last...
The use of paleoclimates to constrain the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) has seen a growing interest. In particular, the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the mid-Pliocene...- publication PDF