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Varying importance of storm types and antecedent conditions for local and...
Local and potentially more impactful regional floods are driven by a combination of precipitation-triggering storms and antecedent conditions. However, it is yet unclear how the...- publication PDF
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Opinion: A critical evaluation of the evidence for aerosol invigoration of...
Deep convective updraft invigoration via indirect effects of increased aerosol number concentration on cloud microphysics is frequently cited as a driver of correlations between...- publication PDF
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Ice crystal concentration in midlatitude cirrus clouds: In situ measurements...
This study reports on the concentration of ice crystals measured in midlatitude cirrus clouds by a balloonborne hydrometeor videosonde (HYVIS), which has the advantage of...- publication PDF
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Response of the mesosphere-thermosphere-ionosphere system to global change:...
Long-term trends in the mesosphere, thermosphere, and ionosphere are areas of research of increasing importance both because they are sensitive indicators of climatic change and...- publication PDF
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Inherent sea ice predictability in a rapidly changing Arctic environment of...
Seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice have typically been based on statistical regression models or on results from ensemble ice model forecasts driven by historical...- publication PDF
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Interannual surface salinity on Northwest Atlantic shelf
Sea surface salinity (SSS) from the Aquarius and SMOS satellite missions displays a steady increase of approximate to 1 psu over the entire northwestern Atlantic shelf south of...- publication PDF
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The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Field Campaign
The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field experiment produced an exceptional dataset on thunderstorms, including their dynamical, physical, and electrical structures...- publication PDF
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Chemical ozone loss in the Arctic and Antarctic stratosphere between 1992 and 2005
The magnitude of chemical loss of polar ozone induced by anthropogenic halogens depends on the extent of chlorine activation, which is controlled by polar stratospheric clouds...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the importance of rapid adjustments for global precipitation changes
Different climate drivers influence precipitation in different ways. Here we use radiative kernels to understand the influence of rapid adjustment processes on precipitation in...- publication PDF
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Scale space multiresolution analysis of random signals
A method to capture the scale-dependent features in a random signal is proposed with the main focus on images and spatial fields defined on a regular grid. A technique based on...- publication PDF
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Processes controlling Southern Ocean shortwave climate feedbacks in CESM
A climate model (Community Earth System Model with the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (CESM-CAM5)) is used to identify processes controlling Southern Ocean (30-70°S)...- publication PDF
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The primary and recycling sources of OH during the NACHTT-2011 campaign:...
We present OH observations from Nitrogen, Aerosol Composition, and Halogens on a Tall Tower 2011 (NACHTT-11) held at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory in Weld County,...- publication PDF
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A comparison of water and carbon dioxide exchange at a windy alpine tundra...
Eddy covariance measurements of the surface energy balance and carbon dioxide exchange above high-elevation (3,480 m above sea level) alpine tundra located near Niwot Ridge,...- publication PDF
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Ion-neutral coupling effects on low-latitude thermospheric evening winds
We examine the forces that determine zonal wind structure in the low-latitude evening thermosphere and its relation with ion-neutral coupling. These winds drive the evening F...- publication PDF
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Analysis of GPS radio occultation data from the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC and...
This study investigates the noise level and mission-to-mission stability of Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation (RO) neutral atmospheric bending angle data at the...- publication PDF
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Sub-cloud rain evaporation in the North Atlantic winter trade winds derived...
Sub-cloud rain evaporation in the trade wind region significantly influences the boundary layer mass and energy budgets. Parameterizing it is, however, difficult due to the...- publication PDF
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Introducing the new Regional Community Earth System Model, R-CESM
The development of high-resolution, fully coupled, regional Earth system model systems is important for improving our understanding of climate variability, future projections,...- publication PDF
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Corrigendum: Impact of fire on global land surface air temperature and...
This is a corrigendum for the article 2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 044014- publication PDF
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Mass spectral characterization of submicron biogenic organic particles in...
Submicron atmospheric particles in the Amazon Basin were characterized by a high-resolution aerosol mass spectrometer during the wet season of 2008. Patterns in the mass spectra...- publication PDF
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Estimating atmospheric boundary layer depth using COSMIC radio occultation data
This study presents an algorithm for estimating atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) depth from Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation (RO) data. The algorithm is applied...- publication PDF