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Enhancing wildfire spread modelling by building a gridded fuel moisture...
Wildland fire decision support systems require accurate predictions of wildland fire spread. Fuel moisture content (FMC) is one of the important parameters controlling the rate...- publication PDF
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Permafrost carbon-climate feedback is sensitive to deep soil carbon...
Permafrost soils contain enormous amounts of organic carbon whose stability is contingent on remaining frozen. With future warming, these soils may release carbon to the...- publication PDF
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Artificial ionospheric Wave Number 4 structure below the F2 region due to...
We analyzed the effect of the Abel inversion on the wave number 4 (WN4) structure from the GPS radio occultation (RO)–measured electron densities by using the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC...- publication PDF
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Toward low-level turbulence forecasting at eddy-resolving scales
Microscale turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is characterized by significant spatiotemporal variability. Consequently, a change in the turbulence forecasting...- publication PDF
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On Saharan air layer stability and suppression of convection over the...
A prominent Saharan Air Layer (SAL) was detected over the Northern Atlantic from the West African Coast to the Caribbean Sea in 2007. Data was collected from the Aerosols and...- publication PDF
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Satellite observations of ozone in the upper mesosphere
Ozone profiles in the upper mesosphere (70-100 km) retrieved from nine instruments are compared. Ozone from the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry...- publication PDF
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The seasonal cycle and interannual variability in stratospheric temperatures...
Previous studies have shown that lower-stratosphere temperatures display a near-perfect cancellation between tropical and extratropical latitudes on both annual and interannual...- publication PDF
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Toward a better understanding of wildfire behavior in the wildland‐urban...
On 30 December 2021, the Marshall Fire devastated the Boulder, Colorado region. The fire initiated in fine fuels in open space just southeast of Boulder and spread rapidly due...- publication PDF
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Projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea level rise from basal ice...
The sea level contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet constitutes a large uncertainty in future sea level projections. Here we apply a linear response theory approach to 16...- publication PDF
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Emission and evolution of submicron organic aerosol in smoke from wildfires...
Despite increasing incidence of wildfires in the United States, wildfire smoke is poorly characterized, with little known about particle composition and emission rates....- publication PDF
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Cross-correlation ratio method to estimate cross-beam wind and comparison...
Cross-beam wind is usually estimated using a full correlation analysis (FCA) method applied to signals from spaced antennas. In this paper we present a cross-correlation ratio...- publication PDF
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A FIRE-ACE/SHEBA case study of mixed-phase Arctic boundary layer clouds:...
Observations of long-lived mixed-phase Arctic boundary layer clouds on 7 May 1998 during the First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Regional Experiment...- publication PDF
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Towards a unified setup to simulate mid-latitude and tropical mesoscale...
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are the main source of precipitation in the tropics and parts of the mid-latitudes and are responsible for high-impact weather worldwide....- publication PDF
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Multi-model study of HTAP II on sulfur and nitrogen deposition
This study uses multi-model ensemble results of 11 models from the second phase of Task Force Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (HTAP II) to calculate the global sulfur (S)...- publication PDF
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Cloud and surface albedo feedbacks reshape 21st century warming in...
The relative importance of radiative feedbacks and emissions scenarios in controlling surface warming patterns is challenging to quantify across model generations. We analyze...- publication PDF
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A new verification approach? Using coupled natural-human models to evaluate...
In addition to measuring forecast accuracy in terms of errors in a tropical system's forecast track and other meteorological characteristics, it is important to measure the...- publication PDF
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Comparison of the neutral wind seasonal variation from midlatitude conjugate...
The seasonal variation of F region neutral wind from the midlatitude conjugate Fabry-Perot interferometer observations has been studied. The meridional wind at Palmer station...- publication PDF
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An objective analysis of the QBO in ERA-Interim and the Community Atmosphere...
The quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) is the dominant mode of variability in the tropical stratosphere, which is in large part driven by upward propagating atmospheric waves. For...- publication PDF
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Uncertainty Analysis of a Radome Flush Orifice Air Motion System for the...
This analysis is intended to establish a detailed measurement uncertainty for the present radome air motion systems used at NCAR and to provide a working document that may be...- publication PDF
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Mobile doppler radar observations of a tornado in a supercell near Bassett,...
This is Part II of a paper detailing an analysis of high-resolution wind and reflectivity data collected by a mobile, W-band Doppler radar; the analysis depicts the near-surface...- publication PDF