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Dynamical mechanism for the increase in tropical upwelling in the lowermost...
The Brewer-Dobson circulation strengthens in the lowermost tropical stratosphere during warm El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. Dynamical analyses using the most recent...- publication PDF
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Moisture attribution and sensitivity analysis of a winter tornado outbreak
The tornado outbreak of 21-23 January 2017 caused 20 fatalities, more than 200 injuries, and over a billion dollars in damage in the Southeast United States. The event occurred...- publication PDF
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Exploring practical estimates of the ensemble size necessary for particle filters
Particle filtering methods for data assimilation may suffer from the “curse of dimensionality,” where the required ensemble size grows rapidly as the dimension increases. It...- publication PDF
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Trends of extreme US weather events in the changing climate
Trends in extreme 100-y events of temperature and rainfall amounts in the continental United States are estimated, to see effects of climate change. This is a nontrivial...- publication PDF
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Horizontal circulation across density surfaces contributes substantially to...
The Greenland Sea is often viewed as the northern terminus of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. It has also been proposed that the shutdown of open-ocean deep...- publication PDF
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Quasi-global machine learning-based soil moisture estimates at high...
Global soil moisture mapping at high spatial and temporal resolution is important for various meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural applications. Recent research shows...- publication PDF
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Modeling large‐scale heatwave by incorporating enhanced urban representation
This study evaluates the impact of land surface models (LSMs) and urban heterogeneity [using local climate zones (LCZs)] on air temperature simulated by the Weather Research and...- publication PDF
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Idealized simulations of a squall line from the MC3E field campaign applying...
The squall-line event on 20 May 2011, during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds (MC3E) field campaign has been simulated by three bin (spectral) microphysics schemes...- publication PDF
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The heavy rainfall mechanism revealed by a terrain-resolving 4DVar data...
In this research a newly developed terrain-resolving four-dimensional variational (4DVar)-based data assimilation system, Immersed BoundaryMethod_Variational Doppler Radar...- publication PDF
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Surface water mass transformation in the Southern Ocean: The role of eddies revisited
The water mass transformation (WMT) framework describes how water of one class, such as a discrete interval of density, is converted into another class via air-sea fluxes or...- publication PDF
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In situ secondary organic aerosol formation from ambient pine forest air...
An oxidation flow reactor (OFR) is a vessel inside which the concentration of a chosen oxidant can be increased for the purpose of studying SOA formation and aging by that...- publication PDF
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Technical note: LIMS observations of lower stratospheric ozone in the...
The Nimbus 7 Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) instrument operated from 25 October 1978 through 28 May 1979. This note focuses on its Version 6 (V6) data and...- publication PDF
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Seasonal variations of medium‐scale waves observed by ICON‐MIGHTI
This work presents an analysis of seasonal variations of medium-scale perturbations (similar to 500 to similar to 5,700 km) spanning altitudes from 90 to 250 km using...- publication PDF
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Sensing atmospheric water vapor with the global positioning system
Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, water vapor radiometers (WVRs), and surface meteorological equipment were operated at both ends of a 50-km baseline in Colorado to...- publication PDF
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A revised scheme for the WRF surface layer formulation
This study summarizes the revision performed on the surface layer formulation of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. A first set of modifications are introduced to...- publication PDF
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Asteroseismology from multi-month Kepler photometry: The evolved Sun-like...
The evolved main-sequence Sun-like stars KIC 10273246 (F-type) and KIC 10920273 (G-type) were observed with the NASA Kepler satellite for approximately ten months with a duty...- publication PDF
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The impact of the QBO on the region of the tropical tropopause in QBOi...
The processes occurring in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) are of great importance for stratosphere-troposphere exchanges and the variability of the Earth's climate....- publication PDF
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In situ water vapor and ozone measurements in Lhasa and Kunming during the...
The Asian summer monsoon (ASM) anticyclone circulation system is recognized to be a significant transport pathway for water vapor and pollutants to enter the stratosphere. The...- publication PDF
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Tracking urban footprint on extreme precipitation in an African megacity
This study contributes to the body of current knowledge about the urban effect on extreme precipitation (EP) by investigating the city-EP interaction over Lagos, Nigeria. This...- publication PDF
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Extreme-value analysis for the characterization of extremes in water...
Water managers need non-stationary tools to better characterize precipitation extremes. Statistical approaches based on extreme value theory (EVT) are increasingly being used,...- publication PDF
