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A large eddy simulation intercomparison study of shallow cumulus convection
This paper reports an intercomparison study on undisturbed trade wind cumulus convection under steady-state conditions as observed during the Barbados Oceanographic and...- publication PDF
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Does positioning of the North Pacific Current affect downstream ecosystem...
Fluctuations in the positioning of major ocean currents can influence ecosystem dynamics, but previously the technology has been lacking to make direct observational...- publication PDF
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Toward a minimal representation of aerosols in climate models: Comparative...
The authors have decomposed the anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing into direct contributions from each aerosol species to the planetary energy balance through absorption...- publication PDF
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Observed hemispheric asymmetry in stratospheric transport trends from 1994 to 2018
Total columns of the trace gases nitric acid (HNO3) and hydrogen chloride (HCl) are sensitive to variations in the lower stratospheric age of air, a quantity that describes...- publication PDF
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Observations pertaining to precipitation within the northeast Pacific...
Three genuine stratocumulus-to-cumulus transitions sampled during the Cloud System Evolution over the Trades (CSET) campaign are documented. The focus is on Lagrangian evolution...- publication PDF
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Overview of the first HyMeX Special Observation Period over Italy:...
The Special Observation Period (SOP1), part of the HyMeX campaign (Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean Experiments, 5 September-6 November 2012), was dedicated to heavy...- publication PDF
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Artifacts in century-length atmospheric and coupled reanalyses over...
Enabled by advances in data assimilation and the digitization of historical observations, atmospheric reanalysis products that span the entire twentieth century provide valuable...- publication PDF
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Quadratic polynomial regression using serial observation processing:...
It is well known that the ensemble-based variants of the Kalman filter may be thought of as producing a state estimate that is consistent with linear regression. Here, it is...- publication PDF
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Ensemble dressing of meteorological fields: Using spatial regression to...
Most datasets of surface meteorology are deterministic, yet many applications using these datasets require or can benefit from uncertainty estimates in meteorological fields....- publication PDF
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Method for Object-Based Diagnostic Evaluation
This technical note discusses the Method for Object-Based Diagnostic Evaluation (MODE), which is part of the Model Evaluation Tools (MET) verification software package. MODE is...- publication PDF
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Dynamical and microphysical evolution during mixed-phase cloud glaciation...
A bulk microphysics scheme predicting ice particle habit evolution has been implemented in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. Large-eddy simulations are analyzed to...- publication PDF
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On the influence of shrub height and expansion on northern high latitude climate
There is a growing body of empirical evidence documenting the expansion of shrub vegetation in the circumpolar Arctic in response to climate change. Here, we conduct a series of...- publication PDF
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The dimensional characteristics of ice crystal aggregates from fractal geometry
This paper describes the development of a new multicomponent detailed bin ice microphysics scheme that predicts the number concentration of ice as well as the rime mass mixing...- publication PDF
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Application of satellite observations for identifying regions of dominant...
We used SCIAMACHY (10:00 LT) and OMI (13:30 LT) tropospheric NO₂ columns to study diurnal and seasonal patterns in NO₂ concentrations over India. Using characteristics of...- publication PDF
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A dynamic hp-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method for shallow-water flows...
A discontinuous Galerkin model solving the shallow-water equations on the sphere is presented. It captures the dynamically varying key aspects of the flows by having the...- publication PDF
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Attribution of projected changes in summertime US ozone and PM₂.₅...
The impact that changes in future climate, anthropogenic US emissions, background tropospheric composition, and land-use have on summertime regional US ozone and PM₂.₅...- publication PDF
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Two modes of change of the distribution of rain
The frequency and intensity of rainfall determine its character and may change with climate. A methodology for characterizing the frequency and amount of rainfall as functions...- publication PDF
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Toward a consistent definition between satellite and model clear-sky radiative fluxes
A new method of determining clear-sky radiative fluxes from satellite observations for climate model evaluation is presented. The method consists of applying adjustment factors...- publication PDF
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An annual cycle of size-resolved aerosol hygroscopicity at a forested site...
The ability of particles composed wholly or partially of biogenic secondary organic compounds to serve as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) is a key characteristic that helps to...- publication PDF
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Roles of deep and shallow convection and microphysics in the MJO simulated...
The November event of the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) during the Dynamics of North Atlantic Models (DYNAMO) field campaign was simulated using the global compressible...- publication PDF
