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Exploring NWS forecasters' assessment of AI guidance trustworthiness
As artificial intelligence (AI) methods are increasingly used to develop new guidance intended for operational use by forecasters, it is critical to evaluate whether forecasters...- publication PDF
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Jet alignment in a two-layer quasigeostrophic channel using one-dimensional...
Because of position errors traditional methods of data assimilation can broaden and weaken jets or other flow structures leading to reduced forecast skill. Here a technique to...- publication PDF
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Geoengineering by cloud seeding: Influence on sea ice and climate system
General circulation model computations using a fully coupled oceanâatmosphere model indicate that increasing cloud reflectivity by seeding maritime boundary layer clouds with...- publication PDF
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Research campaign: The convective and orographically induced precipitation...
The international field campaign called the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS) took place from June to August 2007 in southwestern Germany/eastern...- publication PDF
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Five social and ethical considerations for using wildfire visualizations as...
Background Increased use of visualizations as wildfire communication tools with public and professional audiences-particularly 3D videos and virtual or augmented reality-invites...- publication PDF
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Predicted chance that global warming will temporarily exceed 1.5 °C
The Paris Agreement calls for efforts to limit anthropogenic global warming to less than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial levels. However, natural internal variability may...- publication PDF
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Twentieth century tropical sea surface temperature trends revisited
This study compares the global distribution of 20th century SST and marine air temperature trends from a wide variety of data sets including un-interpolated archives as well as...- publication PDF
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The resolution dependence of contiguous U.S. precipitation extremes in...
Precipitation extremes have a widespread impact on societies and ecosystems; it is therefore important to understand current and future patterns of extreme precipitation. Here,...- publication PDF
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Magnetic field geometry and composition variation in slow solar winds: The...
We present an examination of the first ionization potential (FIP) fractionation scenario, invoking the ponderomotive force in the chromosphere and its implications for the...- publication PDF
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Aerosol optical extinction during the Front Range Air Pollution and...
Summertime aerosol optical extinction (βext) was measured in the Colorado Front Range and Denver metropolitan area as part of the Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry...- publication PDF
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Safeguarding Earth's biodiversity by creating a lunar biorepository
Earth's biodiversity is increasingly threatened and at risk. We propose a passive lunar biorepository for long-term storage of prioritized taxa of live cryopreserved samples to...- publication PDF
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Chemical isolation in the Asian monsoon anticyclone observed in Atmospheric...
Evidence of chemical isolation in the Asian monsoon anticyclone is presented using chemical constituents obtained from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform...- publication PDF
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Development of community, capabilities, and understanding through unmanned...
Because unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) offer new perspectives on the atmosphere, their use in atmospheric science is expanding rapidly. In support of this growth, the...- publication PDF
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The role of the Lorentz force in sunspot equilibrium
Context. Sunspots survive on the solar surface for timescales ranging from days to months. This requires them to be in an equilibrium involving magnetic fields and hydrodynamic...- publication PDF
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Dynamical and microphysical retrievals from Doppler radar observations of a...
A four-dimensional variational data assimilation system consisting of a three-dimensional time-dependent cloud model with both liquid and ice phase microphysics parameterization...- publication PDF
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Field observational constraints on the controllers in glyoxal (CHOCHO)...
Glyoxal (CHOCHO), the simplest dicarbonyl in the troposphere, is a potential precursor for secondary organic aerosol (SOA) and brown carbon (BrC) affecting air quality and...- publication PDF
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Short- and medium-term atmospheric constituent effects of very large solar...
Solar eruptions sometimes produce protons, which impact the Earth's atmosphere. These solar proton events (SPEs) generally last a few days and produce high energy particles that...- publication PDF
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Anthropogenic fingerprint detectable in Upper Tropospheric ozone trends...
Tropospheric ozone (O-3) is a strong greenhouse gas, particularly in the upper troposphere (UT). Limited observations point to a continuous increase in UT O3 in recent decades,...- publication PDF
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Analysis of turbulence and turbulence kinetic energy dynamics in complex terrain
Boundary layer processes and turbulence in a complex terrain are influenced by thermally driven flows, as well as dynamically forced flows when ambient wind interacts with...- publication PDF
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The continuum of hydroclimate variability in Western North America during...
The distribution of climatic variance across the frequency spectrum has substantial importance for anticipating how climate will evolve in the future. Here power spectra and...- publication PDF