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Cloud-resolving modeling: ARM and the GCSS story
The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud System Study (GCSS) was created in 1992. As described by Browning et al. (1993, p. 387), “The focus of GCSS is on...- publication PDF
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Workshop Review: Management of Data Collected in GRAMP (Gulf Region...
In response to the demolition and subsequent burning of the Kuwait oil fires this report summarizes a workshop that was held July 24-26, 1991 at the National Center for...- publication PDF
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Atomic oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere derived from SABER:...
Atomic oxygen (O) is a fundamental component in chemical aeronomy of Earth's mesosphere and lower thermosphere region extending from approximately 50-km to over 100-km in...- publication PDF
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A stability analysis of finite-volume advection schemes permitting long time steps
Finite-volume schemes developed in the meteorological community that permit long time steps are considered. These include Eulerian flux-form schemes as well as fully two-...- publication PDF
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Impact of grids and dynamical cores in CESM2.2 on the surface mass balance...
Six different configurations, a mixture of grids and atmospheric dynamical cores available in the Community Earth System Model, version 2.2 (CESM2.2), are evaluated for their...- publication PDF
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Attribution and evolution of ozone from Asian wild fires using satellite and...
We use ozone and carbon monoxide measurements from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), model estimates of Ozone, CO, and ozone pre-cursors from the Real-time Air...- publication PDF
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Major modes of short-term climate variability in the newly developed NUIST...
A coupled earth system model (ESM) has been developed at the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) by using version 5.3 of the European Centre Hamburg...- publication PDF
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Nonlocal transport due to Langmuir circulation in a coastal ocean
We present observations and simulations of large-scale velocity structures associated with turbulent boundary layer dynamics of a coastal ocean. Special purpose acoustic Doppler...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms of winter precipitation variability in the European-Mediterranean...
The physical mechanisms whereby the mean and transient circulation anomalies associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) drive winter mean precipitation anomalies...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the contribution of inflow on surface ozone over California...
Transported pollution has been recognized as making a potentially strong impact on air quality in the western U.S., but large uncertainties remain in quantifying its...- publication PDF
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A new K–ε turbulence parameterization for mesoscale meteorological models
A new one-dimensional 1.5-order planetary boundary layer (PBL) scheme, based on the K-epsilon turbulence closure applied to the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations,...- publication PDF
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Ensemble Kalman filter assimilation of radar observations of the 8 May 2003...
Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) techniques have been proposed for obtaining atmospheric state estimates on the scale of individual convective storms from radar and other...- publication PDF
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Current conditions and projected changes in Crop Water Demand, Irrigation...
Climate variability and change greatly affect agricultural and water resource management over West Africa. This paper presents the current characteristics and projected change...- publication PDF
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Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation...
Plant functional traits determine vegetation responses to environmental variation, but variation in trait values is large, even within a single site. Likewise, uncertainty in...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms of intense alpine rainfall
Numerical studies by the authors and others of the 1994 Piedmont flood show that the orographically modified flow was a critical element for the production of extraordinary...- publication PDF
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Synthesizing long-term sea level rise projections – the MAGICC sea level model v2.0
Sea level rise (SLR) is one of the major impacts of global warming; it will threaten coastal populations, infrastructure, and ecosystems around the globe in coming centuries....- publication PDF
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Variability of springtime transpacific pollution transport during 2000-2006:...
We analyze the transport of pollution across the Pacific during the NASA INTEX-B (Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment Part B) campaign in spring 2006 and examine how...- publication PDF
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The atmospheric response to projected terrestrial snow changes in the late...
Two atmospheric general circulation model experiments are conducted with specified terrestrial snow conditions representative of 1980-99 and 2080-99 The snow states are obtained...- publication PDF
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Evolution of summer Arctic sea ice albedo in CCSM4 simulations: Episodic...
The albedo of Arctic sea ice is calculated from summertime output of twentieth century Community Climate System Model v.4 (CCSM4) simulations. This is compared with an empirical...- publication PDF
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A new method to correct the electrochemical concentration cell (ECC)...
The electrochemical concentration cell (ECC) ozonesonde has been the main instrument for in situ profiling of ozone worldwide; yet, some details of its operation, which...- publication PDF