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Toward improving ice water content and snow-rate retrievals from radars....
Two methods for deriving relationships between the equivalent radar reflectivity factor Z(e) and the snowfall rate S at three radar wavelengths are described. The first method...- publication PDF
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Tropical cyclones in global storm-resolving models
Recent progress in computing and model development has initiated the era of global storm-resolving modeling, and with it the potential to transform weather and climate...- publication PDF
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Potential predictability during a Madden–Julian oscillation event
The Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) is an important source of predictability. The boreal 2004/05 winter is used as a case study to conduct predictability experiments with the...- publication PDF
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Odin observations of Antarctic nighttime NO densities in the...
The Optical Spectrograph and Infrared Imaging System (OSIRIS) on the Odin satellite currently has an eight-year dataset of nighttime Antarctic nitric oxide densities, [NO], in...- publication PDF
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QSCAT-R: The QuikSCAT Tropical Cyclone Radial Structure Dataset
This document describes the QuikSCAT Tropical Cyclone Radial Structure Dataset (QSCAT-R), including its parameter and file structure as well as the underlying methodology for...- publication PDF
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The Benguela upwelling system: Quantifying the sensitivity to resolution and...
Of all the major coastal upwelling systems in the world’s oceans, the Benguela, located off southwest Africa, is the one that climate models find hardest to simulate well. This...- publication PDF
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Enhancing understanding of the hydrological cycle via pairing of...
The hydrologic cycle couples the Earth's energy and carbon budgets through evaporation, moisture transport, and precipitation. Despite a wealth of observations and models,...- publication PDF
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A global view of atmospheric ice particle complexity
Atmospheric ice particles exist in a variety of shapes and sizes. Single hexagonal crystals like common hexagonal plates and columns are possible, but more frequently,...- publication PDF
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Observational constraints on Arctic Ocean clouds and radiative fluxes during...
Arctic Ocean observations are combined to create a cloud and radiation climatology for the early 21st century (March 2000 to February 2011). Data sources include: active...- publication PDF
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Forcing single-column models using high-resolution model simulations
To use single-column models (SCMs) as a research tool for parameterization development and process studies, the SCM must be supplied with realistic initial profiles, forcing...- publication PDF
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Larval connectivity across temperature gradients and its potential effect on...
Coral reefs are increasingly exposed to elevated temperatures that can cause coral bleaching and high levels of mortality of corals and associated organisms. The temperature...- publication PDF
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Why do modeled and observed surface wind stress climatologies differ in the...
Global climate models (GCMs) exhibit stronger mean easterly zonal surface wind stress and near-surface winds in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) trade winds than observationally...- publication PDF
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Thermospheric hydrogen response to increases in greenhouse gases
We investigated thermospheric hydrogen response to increase in greenhouse gases and the dependence of this response to solar activity, using a global mean version of the...- publication PDF
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Decoupling peroxyacetyl nitrate from ozone in Chinese outflows observed at...
We measured peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) and other reactive species such as O3, NO2, CO, and SO2 with aerosols including mass, organic carbon (OC), and elemental carbon (EC) in...- publication PDF
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Numerical modeling of cloud chemistry effects on isocyanic acid (HNCO)
Isocyanic acid (HNCO), a product of some combustion processes, can potentially have negative human health effects. While gas phase HNCO loss processes are slow, HNCO loss in the...- publication PDF
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Marine boundary layers above heterogeneous SST: Alongfront winds
Turbulent flow in a weakly convective marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) driven by geostrophic winds V-g = 10 m s(-1) and heterogeneous sea surface temperature (SST) is...- publication PDF
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The response of precipitation extremes to the twentieth‐ and...
The response of precipitation extremes (PEs) to global warming is found to be nonlinear in Community Earth System Model version 1 (CESM1) and other global climate models...- publication PDF
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Effective radius and droplet spectral width from in-situ aircraft...
This paper presents statistics of cloud microphysical properties of shallow tropical cumuli observed by a research aircraft during RICO field campaign. Cloud properties are...- publication PDF
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Shallow-to-deep transition of continental moist convection: Cold pools,...
Large-eddy simulation is used to investigate the effects of cold pools driven by rain evaporation on the shallow-to-deep convection transition over land. The physically...- publication PDF
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The impact of stochastic physics on tropical rainfall variability in global...
Many global atmospheric models have too little precipitation variability in the tropics on daily to weekly time scales and also a poor representation of tropical precipitation...- publication PDF
