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Testing IWC retrieval methods using radar and ancillary measurements with...
Vertical profiles of ice water content (IWC) can now be derived globally from spaceborne cloud satellite radar (CloudSat) data. Integrating these data with Cloud-Aerosol Lidar...- publication PDF
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The Mean Circulation of the Tropical and Subtropical Atmosphere-July
The purpose of this atlas is to provide a long-term data set to describe the mean structure of the tropical atmosphere straddling the equator for the period of the northern...- publication PDF
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Chemistry contribution to stratospheric ozone depletion after the...
Following the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) eruption in January 2022, stratospheric ozone depletion was observed at Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes and over Antarctica...- publication PDF
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Integration of nitrogen dynamics into the Noah-MP land surface model v1.1...
Climate and terrestrial biosphere models consider nitrogen an important factor in limiting plant carbon uptake, while operational environmental models view nitrogen as the...- publication PDF
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Ice crystals growing from vapor in supercooled clouds between -2.5° and...
The physical and empirical relationships used by microphysics schemes to control the rate at which vapor is transferred to ice crystals growing in supercooled clouds are...- publication PDF
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Modelling atmospheric flows with adaptive moving meshes
An anelastic atmospheric flow solver has been developed that combines semi-implicit non-oscillatory forward-in-time numerics with a solution-adaptive mesh capability. A key...- publication PDF
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A hybrid radial basis function - pseudospectral method for thermal...
A novel hybrid spectral method that combines radial basis function (RBF) and Chebyshev pseudospectral methods in a "2 + 1" approach is presented for numerically simulating...- publication PDF
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Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison...
The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) defines and coordinates the main set of future climate projections, based on concentration-driven simulations, within...- publication PDF
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Biomass burning as a potential source for atmospheric ice nuclei: Western...
The sources, abundance and nature of atmospheric particles that serve as ice nuclei (IN) for cold cloud formation remain some of the most important, yet poorly-characterized,...- publication PDF
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The "year" of tropical convection (May 2008-April 2010): Climate variability...
The representation of tropical convection remains a serious challenge to the skillfulness of our weather and climate prediction systems. To address this challenge, the World...- publication PDF
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Temperature changes due to gravity wave saturation
Turbulence mixing due to gravity wave saturation may both induce dynamical cooling and produce dissipative heating. The net effect is studied here using the linear saturation...- publication PDF
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Improving earth system model selection methodologies for projecting...
The rapid expansion of Earth system model (ESM) data available from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) necessitates new methods to evaluate the...- publication PDF
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Impact of assimilating dropsonde observations from MPEX on ensemble...
Over the central Great Plains, mid- to upper-tropospheric weather disturbances often modulate severe storm development. These disturbances frequently pass over the Intermountain...- publication PDF
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Floral advertisement scent in a changing plant-pollinators market
Plant-pollinator systems may be considered as biological markets in which pollinators choose between different flowers that advertise their nectar/pollen rewards. Although...- publication PDF
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A comparison of quiet time thermospheric winds between FPI observations and...
We investigate local time, seasonal, and longitudinal variations of thermospheric horizontal winds at midlatitudes during geomagnetically quiet times by comparing winds from...- publication PDF
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Dynamics of cloud-top generating cells in winter cyclones. Part I: Idealized...
This paper assesses the influence of radiative forcing and latent heating on the development and maintenance of cloud-top generating cells (GCs) in high-resolution idealized...- publication PDF
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WRF-Fire: Coupled weather-wildland fire modeling with the weather research...
A wildland fire-behavior module, named WRF-Fire, was integrated into the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) public domain numerical weather prediction model. The fire module...- publication PDF
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Gravity wave variation from the troposphere to the lower thermosphere during...
High resolution Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) simulations are used to study how gravity waves vary during a stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) event from the...- publication PDF
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Influence of lateral and top boundary conditions on regional air qualify...
The sensitivity of regional air quality model to various lateral and top boundary conditions is studied at 2 scales: a 60 km domain covering the whole USA and a 12 km domain...- publication PDF
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Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) Model: 2017 Scientific...
The Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) system has been in operation at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Centers for...- publication PDF
