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Monitoring air quality from space: The case for the geostationary platform
Air quality (AQ) is defined by the atmospheric composition of gases and particulates near the Earth's surface. This composition depends on local emissions of pollutants,...- publication PDF
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Importance of ice nucleation and precipitation on climate with the...
Cloud microphysics is critical for weather and climate prediction. In this work, we document updates and corrections to the cloud microphysical scheme used in the Community...- publication PDF
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Climate change and tropical marine ecosystems: A review with an emphasis on...
Climate change is usually associated with warming and weather extremes that impact the human environment and terrestrial systems, but it also has profound effects on the ocean,...- publication PDF
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Studying the transfer of magnetic helicity in solar active regions with the...
In the solar corona, magnetic helicity slowly and continuously accumulates in response to plasma flows tangential to the photosphere and magnetic flux emergence through it....- publication PDF
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Adaptive capacity to extreme heat: Results from a household survey in Houston, Texas
Extreme heat is the leading cause of weather-related mortality in the United States, suggesting the necessity for better understanding population vulnerability to extreme heat....- publication PDF
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The role of international resource sharing arrangements in managing fire in...
Changing global fire regimes including extended fire seasons due to climate change may increase the co-occurrence of high-impact fires that overwhelm national fire suppression...- publication PDF
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The dependence of mean climate state on shortwave absorption by water vapor
State-of-the-art climate models exhibit significant spread in the climatological value of atmospheric shortwave absorption (SWA). This study investigates both the possible...- publication PDF
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Health effects of climate and air pollution in Buenos Aires: A first time...
The impact of urban air pollution and temperature changes over health is a growing concern for epidemiologists all over the world and particularly for developing countries where...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of HY-2A scatterometer wind vectors using data from buoys,...
The first Chinese operational Ku-band scatterometer on board Haiyang-2A (HY-2A), launched in August 2011, is designed for monitoring the global ocean surface wind. This study...- publication PDF
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Accurate characterization of winter precipitation using multi-angle...
This article proposes and presents a novel approach to the characterization of winter precipitation and modeling of radar observables through a synergistic use of advanced...- publication PDF
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Emissions of volatile organic compounds inferred from airborne flux...
Toluene and benzene are used for assessing the ability to measure disjunct eddy covariance (DEC) fluxes of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) using Proton Transfer Reaction Mass...- publication PDF
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The NCAR Dropsonde Program
This document outlines the objectives and program design of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) dropsonde program. As part of the program, several sondes will be...- publication PDF
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Explicit forecasts of winter precipitation using an improved bulk...
A new bulk microphysical parameterization (BMP) has been developed for use with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model or other mesoscale models. As compared with...- publication PDF
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Clarifying the attribution of recent disaster losses. A response to Epstein...
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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An overview of Antarctic sea ice in the Community Earth System Model version...
We assess Antarctic sea ice climatology and variability in version 2 of the Community Earth System Model (CESM2) and compare it to that in the older CESM1 and (where...- publication PDF
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Fate of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Strong decline...
The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report concludes that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could weaken substantially but...- publication PDF
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Volcanic eruption signatures in the Isotope‐Enabled Last Millennium Ensemble
Explosive volcanic eruptions are one of the largest natural climate perturbations, but few observational constraints exist on either the climate responses to eruptions or the...- publication PDF
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CLASP constraints on the magnetization and geometrical complexity of the...
The Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP) is a suborbital rocket experiment that on 2015 September 3 measured the linear polarization produced by scattering...- publication PDF
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Global burden of mortalities due to chronic exposure to ambient PM2.5 from...
Uncontrolled combustion of domestic waste has been observed in many countries, creating concerns for air quality; however, the health implications have not yet been quantified....- publication PDF
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Avoiding a crisis of motivation for ocean management under global...
Climate change and ocean acidification are altering marine ecosystems and, from a human perspective, creating both winners and losers. Human responses to these changes are...- publication PDF
