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Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results...
Seven climate models were used to explore the biogeophysical impacts of human-induced land cover change (LCC) at regional and global scales. The imposed LCC led to statistically...- publication PDF
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Composite physical–biological El Niño and La Niña conditions in the...
El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is recognized as one of the potentially predictable drivers of California Current System (CCS) variability. In this study, we analyze a...- publication PDF
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The next generation airborne polarimetric Doppler weather radar
Results from airborne field deployments emphasized the need to obtain concurrently high temporal and spatial resolution measurements of 3-D winds and microphysics. A phased...- publication PDF
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Observationally constrained aerosol-cloud semi-direct effects
Absorbing aerosols, like black carbon (BC), give rise to rapid adjustments, and the associated perturbation to the atmospheric temperature structure alters the cloud...- publication PDF
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Chemical composition of atmospheric nanoparticles during nucleation events in Atlanta
We report the first direct, in situ measurements of the chemical composition of size-segregated atmospheric nanoparticles in the 6 - 15 nm diameter range. These measurements...- publication PDF
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Can the Madden-Julian oscillation affect the Antarctic total column ozone?
The effect of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) on springtime Antarctic ozone variations is revealed for the first time from multi-satellite reanalysis and model simulations....- publication PDF
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Global observations of thermospheric temperature and nitric oxide from MIPAS...
We present vertically resolved thermospheric temperatures and NO abundances in terms of volume mixing ratio retrieved simultaneously from spectrally resolved 5.3 μm emissions...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of cold-season precipitation forecasts generated by the hourly...
The hourly updating High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model is evaluated with regard to its ability to predict the areal extent of cold-season precipitation and accurately...- publication PDF
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A multidecadal study of cirrus in the tropical tropopause layer
Changes in the distributions of cirrus in the upper troposphere centered at 100 hPa in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) during the last 27 years (1985-2012) are quantified...- publication PDF
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Probabilistic forecasting of shallow, rainfall-triggered landslides using...
A project established at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand is aimed at developing a prototype of a real-time landslide forecasting...- publication PDF
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Thermospheric mass density specification using an ensemble Kalman filter
This paper presents an application of ensemble Kalman filtering (EnKF) to a general circulation model of the thermosphere and ionosphere. It is designed to incorporate the...- publication PDF
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Investigation of the viscous potential using an MHD simulation
The viscous interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere is extremely difficult to study through direct observations. The viscous contribution to the polar cap...- publication PDF
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A multi-model assessment of RKW Theory's relevance to squall line characteristics
The authors evaluate whether the structure and intensity of simulated squall lines can be explained by "RKW theory," which most specifically addresses how density currents...- publication PDF
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Using data science to understand tape-based archive workloads
Data storage needs continue to grow in most fields, and the cost per byte for tape remains lower than the cost for disk, making tape storage a good candidate for cost-effective...- publication PDF
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Emission characteristics of black carbon in anthropogenic and biomass...
The impact of aerosols on regional air quality and climate necessitates improved understanding of their emission and microphysical properties. The size distributions of black...- publication PDF
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Towards a quantitative understanding of millennial-scale Antarctic Warming events
The interhemispheric temperature response to a meltwater-induced weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is characterized by a Northern Hemispheric...- publication PDF
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Conceptualizing confidence: A multisited qualitative analysis in a severe...
Confidence is a concept important to weather prediction, shaping how risk information is created, shared, understood, and acted upon. For forecasters in the National Weather...- publication PDF
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Sun-as-a-star observations: Evidence for degree dependence of changes in...
Aims.We use 9.5-yr of BiSON Sun-as-a-star data to search for dependence of solar-cycle parameter changes on the angular degree, ℓ of the data. The nature of the Sun-as-a-star...- 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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Bering Strait throughflow and the thermohaline circulation
In this study, we employ a global coupled climate model to show that the Bering Strait is important to the variations of the thermohaline circulation. Three experiments are...- publication PDF
