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Data curation in climate and weather: Transforming our ability to improve...
Climate and Weather are of increasing interest to the scientific community and the general public. Data curation and stewardship are essential building blocks in the science...- publication PDF
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Simulated Arctic ocean freshwater budgets in the 20th and 21st centuries
The Arctic Ocean freshwater budgets in climate model integrations of the twentieth and twenty-first century are examined. An ensemble of six members of the Community Climate...- publication PDF
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Influence of organized turbulence on OH reactivity at a deciduous forest
Oxidation of reactive carbon fuels climate- and pollution-relevant chemistry. Deciduous forests are important sources of reactive carbon (particularly isoprene). Organization in...- publication PDF
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Measurements of heavy convective rainfall in the presence of hail in...
The utility of X-band polarimetric radar to provide rainfall estimations with high spatial and temporal resolution in heavy convective precipitation in the presence of hail is...- publication PDF
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The Energetics of Stochastic Continuum Equations for Fluid Systems
The purpose of this report is to introduce stochastic continuum equations for fluid systems that express this uncertainty dynamically. These equations, written in analytical...- publication PDF
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Photochemical evolution of the 2013 California Rim Fire: Synergistic impacts...
Large wildfires influence regional atmospheric composition, but chemical complexity challenges model predictions of downwind impacts. Here, we elucidate key connections within...- publication PDF
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A review of Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) formation from isoprene
Recent field and laboratory evidence indicates that the oxidation of isoprene, (2-methyl-1,3-butadiene, C₅H₈) forms secondary organic aerosol (SOA). Global biogenic emissions of...- publication PDF
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NOx Lifetime and NOy Partitioning During WINTER
Although urban NOx lifetimes have been examined extensively during summertime conditions, wintertime NOx chemistry has been comparatively less studied. We use measurements of...- publication PDF
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Impact of grain shape and multiple black carbon internal mixing on snow...
We quantify the effects of grain shape and multiple black carbon (BC)-snow internal mixing on snow albedo by explicitly resolving shape and mixing structures. Nonspherical snow...- publication PDF
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Weather forecasts by the WRF-ARW model with the GSI data assimilation system...
This paper will first describe the forecasting errors encountered from running the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) mesoscale model (the Advanced Research Weather...- publication PDF
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Interactive crop management in the Community Earth System Model (CESM1):...
The Community Earth System Model, version 1 (CESM1) is evaluated with two coupled atmosphere-land simulations. The CTRL (control) simulation represents crops as unmanaged...- publication PDF
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NCAR's Summer Colloquium: Capacity building in cross-disciplinary research...
The Advanced Study Program (ASP) Summer Colloquium is an annual event hosted at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. From its inception in...- publication PDF
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A moist static energy budget–based analysis of the Sahel rainfall response...
Climate models generate a wide range of precipitation responses to global warming in the African Sahel, but all that use the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory AM2.1...- publication PDF
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On multidecadal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning...
Multidecadal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) is investigated diagnostically in the NCAR Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3)...- publication PDF
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The Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment: A field campaign overview including...
The Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment (T-REX) is a coordinated international project, composed of an observational field campaign and a research program, focused on the...- publication PDF
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Initial conditions for convection-allowing ensembles over the conterminous...
Five sets of 48-h, 10-member, convection-allowing ensemble (CAE) forecasts with 3-km horizontal grid spacing were systematically evaluated over the conterminous United States...- publication PDF
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Improving the accuracy of estimation of climate extremes
Workshop on Metrics and Methodologies of Estimation of Extreme Climate Events; Paris, France, 27–29 September 2010; Climate projections point toward more frequent and intense...- publication PDF
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Transient cold air drainage down a shallow valley
Drainage of cold air down a small valley and associated near-surface wind maxima are examined from 20 stations with sonic anemometers at 1 m and from a 20-m tower that includes...- publication PDF
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A Bayesian ANOVA scheme for calculating climate anomalies, with applications...
Climate data sets with both spatial and temporal components are often studied after removing from each time series a temporal mean calculated over a common reference interval,...- publication PDF
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Assessment of the simulation of gravity waves generation by a tropical...
National Center for Atmospheric Research Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) with quasi-uniform grid of similar to 25-km horizontal resolution can resolve gravity...- publication PDF