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Blending TAC and BUFR marine in situ data for ICOADS near-real-time release 3.0.2
This paper describes the new International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) near-real-time (NRT) release (R3.0.2), with greatly enhanced completeness over the...- publication PDF
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Sources and dynamics of turbulence in the upper troposphere and lower...
Turbulence is a well-known hazard to aviation that is responsible for numerous injuries each year, with occasional fatalities, and is the underlying cause of many people's fear...- publication PDF
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Prominence science with ATST instrumentation
The 4m Advance Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) is under construction on Maui, HI. With its unprecedented resolution and photon collecting power ATST will be an ideal tool for...- publication PDF
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Running dry: The U.S. Southwest's drift into a drier climate state
Changes in precipitation have far-reaching consequences on human society and ecosystems as has been demonstrated by recent severe droughts in California and the Oklahoma region....- publication PDF
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Key role of internal ocean dynamics in Atlantic multidecadal variability...
This study presents multiple lines of evidence from observations and model simulations that support a key role for ocean dynamics, rather than external forcings, in Atlantic...- publication PDF
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Climate sensitivity of the Community Climate System Model, version 4
Equilibrium climate sensitivity of the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4) is 3.20°C for 1° horizontal resolution in each component. This is about a half degree...- publication PDF
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Clear-sky column water vapor retrievals using the Airborne Imaging Microwave...
The brightness temperature measurements from the Airborne Imaging Microwave Radiometer ( AIMR) microwave radiometer 37 GHz and 90 GHz channels are used to determine the column...- publication PDF
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Early morning equatorial ionization anomaly from GOLD observations
During geomagnetically quiet and solar minimum conditions, spatial variations of the early morning thermosphere-ionosphere (TI) system are expected to be mainly governed by wave...- publication PDF
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Annual cycle in upper-ocean heat content and the global energy budget
As a major component of Earth's energy budget, ocean heat content (OHC) plays a vital role in buffering climate change. The annual cycle is the most prominent change in OHC but...- publication PDF
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Sector‐based top‐down estimates of NOx, SO2, and CO emissions in East Asia
Top-down estimates using satellite data provide important information on the sources of air pollutants. We develop a sector-based 4D-Var framework based on the GEOS-Chem adjoint...- publication PDF
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Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Extratropics
A multimodel assessment of the performance of chemistry-climate models (CCMs) in the extratropical upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) is conducted for the first time....- publication PDF
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An overview of the Amazonian Aerosol Characterization Experiment 2008 (AMAZE-08)
The Amazon Basin provides an excellent environment for studying the sources, transformations, and properties of natural aerosol particles and the resulting links between...- publication PDF
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Wind resource assessment for Alaska’s offshore regions: Validation of a...
Offshore wind resource assessments for the conterminous U.S. and Hawai’i have been developed before, but Alaska’s offshore wind resource has never been rigorously assessed....- publication PDF
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Radio occultation observations as anchor observations in numerical weather...
Satellite radiance measurements are used daily at numerical weather prediction (NWP) centers around the world, providing a significant positive impact on weather forecast skill....- publication PDF
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Simulations of the equatorial thermosphere anomaly: Physical mechanisms for...
Several mechanisms including heat transport due to zonal winds, chemical heating and field-aligned ion drag have been proposed to explain the formation of the Equatorial...- publication PDF
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Data generated during the 2018 LAPSE-RATE campaign: An introduction and overview
Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) offer innovative capabilities for providing new perspectives on the atmosphere, and therefore atmospheric scientists are rapidly expanding their...- publication PDF
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Editorial: Forecast verification methods across time and space scales – Part I
The 7th International Verification Methods Workshop - with a theme of "forecast verification methods across time and space scales" - was held in Berlin between 3 and 11 May...- publication PDF
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Global data set of biogenic VOC emissions calculated by the MEGAN model over...
The Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature (MEGANv2.1) together with the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) meteorological...- publication PDF
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Thermospheric temperature and density variability during 3-4 February 2022...
Themospheric conditions during a minor geomagnetic event of 3 and 4 February 2022 has been investigated using disk temperature (T-disk) observations from Global-scale...- publication PDF
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On the application of an observations-based machine learning...
Recently, machine learning techniques have been employed to develop improved models for predicting surface-layer fluxes of momentum, heat and moisture based on field...- publication PDF