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The 2021 Hazardous Weather Testbed experimental warning program radar...
Developed as part of a larger effort by the National Weather Service (NWS) Radar Operations Center to modernize their suite of single-radar severe weather algorithms for the...- publication PDF
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Developing spring wheat in the Noah-MP land surface model (v4.4) for growing...
The US Northern Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies are known as the world's breadbaskets for their large spring wheat production and exports to the world. It is essential to...- publication PDF
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The Airborne Infrared Spectrometer: Development, characterization, and the...
On 2017 August 21, the Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) observed the total solar eclipse at an altitude of 14 km from aboard the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V research...- publication PDF
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Phase characterization of cold sector southern ocean cloud tops: Results...
For a given cloud, whether the cloud top is predominately made up of ice crystals or supercooled liquid droplets plays a large role in the clouds overall radiative effects. This...- publication PDF
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Validation of mountain precipitation forecasts from the...
Convection-permitting ensembles can capture the large spatial variability and quantify the inherent uncertainty of precipitation in areas of complex terrain; however, such...- publication PDF
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The role of wave energy accumulation in tropical cyclone genesis over the...
A hierarchical modeling approach is used to study the process by which interactions of easterly waves with the background flow can result in a reduction in the longitudinal and...- publication PDF
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Quantifying gravity wave forcing using scale invariance
Despite the increasing resolution, forcing on the mean circulation by resolved waves in general circulation models is not yet converging. Parameterization of the forcing remains...- publication PDF
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Scaling laws for mixing and dissipation in unforced rotating stratified turbulence
We present a model for the scaling of mixing in weakly rotating stratified flows characterized by their Rossby, Froude and Reynolds numbers. This model is based on quasi-...- publication PDF
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Cloud influence on and response to seasonal Arctic sea ice loss
Recent declines in Arctic sea ice extent provide new opportunities to assess cloud influence on and response to seasonal sea ice loss. This study combines unique satellite...- publication PDF
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Initial study of column-integrated aerosol optical properties over Birkat al...
Purpose This study aims to provide the first analysis of aerosol optical properties, radiative forcing, and source identification over Birkat al Mouz,...- publication PDF
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Climate system asymmetries drive eccentricity pacing of hydroclimate during...
The early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO) represents the peak of Earth's last sustained greenhouse climate interval. To investigate hydroclimate variability in western North...- publication PDF
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Assimilating retrieved water vapor and radar data from NCAR S-PolKa:...
This study investigated the effect of the assimilation of the S- and Ka-band dual-wavelength-retrieved water vapor data with radial wind and reflectivity data. The vertical...- publication PDF
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The role of continental topography in the present-day ocean's mean climate
Climate models of varying complexity have been used for decades to investigate the impact of mountains on the atmosphere and surface climate. Here, the impact of removing the...- publication PDF
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Evolution of Acyl Peroxynitrates (PANs) in wildfire smoke plumes detected by...
We use observations of acyl peroxynitrates (PANs) from the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) to investigate PANs over the western U.S. during the summer 2018 wildfire season....- publication PDF
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Regional and seasonal trends in tropical ozone from SHADOZ profiles:...
Understanding lowermost stratosphere (LMS) ozone variability is an important topic in the trends and climate assessment communities because of feedbacks among changing...- publication PDF
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Introducing students to scientific Python for atmospheric science
Within the geoscience community, enthusiasm for the scientific Python ecosystem continues to grow (Nagpal and Gabrani 2019). As software tools created with Python continue to...- publication PDF
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Observed temperature changes in the troposphere and stratosphere from 1979 to 2018
Temperature observations of the upper-air atmosphere are now available for more than 40 years from both ground- and satellite-based observing systems. Recent years have seen...- publication PDF
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A numerical weather model's ability to predict characteristics of aircraft...
Recent advances in high-performance computing have enabled higher-resolution numerical weather models with increasingly complex data assimilation and more accurate physical...- 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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Reexamination of the state of the art of cloud modeling shows real improvements
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