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Nonlocal transport due to Langmuir circulation in a coastal ocean
We present observations and simulations of large-scale velocity structures associated with turbulent boundary layer dynamics of a coastal ocean. Special purpose acoustic Doppler...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms of winter precipitation variability in the European-Mediterranean...
The physical mechanisms whereby the mean and transient circulation anomalies associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) drive winter mean precipitation anomalies...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the contribution of inflow on surface ozone over California...
Transported pollution has been recognized as making a potentially strong impact on air quality in the western U.S., but large uncertainties remain in quantifying its...- publication PDF
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A new K–ε turbulence parameterization for mesoscale meteorological models
A new one-dimensional 1.5-order planetary boundary layer (PBL) scheme, based on the K-epsilon turbulence closure applied to the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations,...- publication PDF
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Ensemble Kalman filter assimilation of radar observations of the 8 May 2003...
Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) techniques have been proposed for obtaining atmospheric state estimates on the scale of individual convective storms from radar and other...- publication PDF
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Current conditions and projected changes in Crop Water Demand, Irrigation...
Climate variability and change greatly affect agricultural and water resource management over West Africa. This paper presents the current characteristics and projected change...- publication PDF
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Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation...
Plant functional traits determine vegetation responses to environmental variation, but variation in trait values is large, even within a single site. Likewise, uncertainty in...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms of intense alpine rainfall
Numerical studies by the authors and others of the 1994 Piedmont flood show that the orographically modified flow was a critical element for the production of extraordinary...- publication PDF
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Synthesizing long-term sea level rise projections – the MAGICC sea level model v2.0
Sea level rise (SLR) is one of the major impacts of global warming; it will threaten coastal populations, infrastructure, and ecosystems around the globe in coming centuries....- publication PDF
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Variability of springtime transpacific pollution transport during 2000-2006:...
We analyze the transport of pollution across the Pacific during the NASA INTEX-B (Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment Part B) campaign in spring 2006 and examine how...- publication PDF
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The atmospheric response to projected terrestrial snow changes in the late...
Two atmospheric general circulation model experiments are conducted with specified terrestrial snow conditions representative of 1980-99 and 2080-99 The snow states are obtained...- publication PDF
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Evolution of summer Arctic sea ice albedo in CCSM4 simulations: Episodic...
The albedo of Arctic sea ice is calculated from summertime output of twentieth century Community Climate System Model v.4 (CCSM4) simulations. This is compared with an empirical...- publication PDF
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A new method to correct the electrochemical concentration cell (ECC)...
The electrochemical concentration cell (ECC) ozonesonde has been the main instrument for in situ profiling of ozone worldwide; yet, some details of its operation, which...- publication PDF
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NCAR’s experimental real-time convection-allowing ensemble prediction system
This expository paper documents an experimental, real-time, 10-member, 3-km, convection-allowing ensemble prediction system (EPS) developed at the National Center for...- publication PDF
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Ionosphere-thermosphere energy budgets for the ICME storms of March 2013 and...
The ionosphere-thermosphere (IT) energy partitioning for the interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) storms of 16-19 March 2013 and 2015 is estimated with the Global...- publication PDF
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Population exposure to pre-emptive de-energization aimed at averting...
Recent extreme fire seasons in California have prompted utilities such as Pacific Gas and Electric to pre-emptively de-energize portions of the electrical grid during periods of...- publication PDF
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Climate variability and relationships between top-of-atmosphere radiation...
The monthly global and regional variability in Earth's radiation balance is examined using correlations and regressions between atmospheric temperatures and water vapor with...- publication PDF
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Omega Wind-error Estimation
This is a report on Omega wind error estimation. To make this a single source document on Omega windfinding and its errors, the authors have included derivation of basic...- publication PDF
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Terrestrial carbon balance in a drier world: the effects of water...
Global modeling efforts indicate semiarid regions dominate the increasing trend and interannual variation of net CO₂ exchange with the atmosphere, mainly driven by water...- publication PDF
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The delayed response of the troposphere‐stratosphere‐mesosphere coupling to...
A strong Southern Hemisphere (SH) sudden stratospheric warming event occurred in September 2019 and significantly weakened the stratospheric polar vortex. Due to the positive...- publication PDF
