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The NCAR CSM Sea Ice Model
The purpose of this report is to document the details of the governing equations and physical parameterizations of the sea ice model component in the first version of the NCAR...- publication PDF
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The National Hail Research Experiment Report on the Alberta Hail Project
The Alberta Hail Project conducts airborne silver iodide seeding to test hail suppression in an 1800 square mile target which experiences 55-65 hail days annually. Randomization...- publication PDF
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Volcanic forcing degrades multiyear-to-decadal prediction skill in the...
Volcanic aerosol forcing can affect global climate, but its role in climate prediction remains poorly understood. We isolate the impact of volcanic eruptions on multiyear-to-...- publication PDF
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Path-length Sensitivity of the Lyman-alpha Humidiometer
This report provides an analysis of the path-length sensitivity of the Lyman-Alpha Humidiometer.- publication PDF
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Observation of local tidal variability and instability, along with...
During the 9-day continuous campaign in September 2003, the Colorado State University sodium lidar observed significant short-term tidal variability in both diurnal and...- publication PDF
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Effects of stratospheric variability on El Niño teleconnections
The effects of the tropical Pacific El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon are communicated to the rest of the globe via atmospheric teleconnections. Traditionally, ENSO...- 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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Database for the kinetics of the gas-phase atmospheric reactions of organic compounds
We present a digital, freely available, searchable, and evaluated compilation of rate coefficients for the gas-phase reactions of organic compounds with OH, Cl, and NO3 radicals...- publication PDF
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A hybrid bulk-bin approach to model warm-rain processes
This paper presents a hybrid approach to model warm-rain processes, merging the diverse schemes of bulk and detailed (bin) microphysics. In the bulk scheme, the key assumption...- publication PDF
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Usefulness of the United States National Weather Service radar display as...
Weather radar is now widely viewed by the general public in the United States via television, computers/tablets, and smartphones. Anyone can consult near-real-time maps and...- publication PDF
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Recent decreasing trends in surface PM2.5 over East Asia in the...
This study developed and evaluated a WRF-Chem modeling system that reflects the effect of recent emission regulations on the PM2.5 above East Asia by utilizing an updated...- publication PDF
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Modeling solar eclipses at extreme ultra violet wavelengths and the effects...
The impacts of solar eclipses on the ionosphere-thermosphere system particularly the composition, density, and transport are studied using numerical simulation and subsequent...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric stability influences on coupled boundary layer and canopy turbulence
Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layers interacting with a coupled and resolved plant canopy reveals the influence of atmospheric stability variations from neutral...- publication PDF
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Dissipation and bathymetric sensitivities in an unstructured mesh global tidal model
The mechanisms and geographic distribution of global tidal dissipation in barotropic tidal models are examined using a high resolution unstructured mesh finite element model....- publication PDF
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The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations
The scientific understanding of the Earth's climate system, including the central question of how the climate system is likely to respond to human-induced perturbations, is...- publication PDF
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The ecological theory of climate models
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- 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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On the robustness of aerosol effects on an idealized supercell storm...
A cloud system-resolving model (the Weather Research and Forecasting model) with 1 km horizontal grid spacing is used to investigate the response of an idealized supercell storm...- publication PDF
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Asynchronous communication in spectral-element and discontinuous Galerkin...
The scalability of computational applications on current and next-generation supercomputers is increasingly limited by the cost of inter-process communication. We implement non-...- publication PDF
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Characterizing uncertainty in Community Land Model version 5 hydrological...
Land surface models such as the Community Land Model Version 5 (CLM5) are essential tools for simulating the behavior of the terrestrial system. Despite the extensive...- publication PDF