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On the possible long-term fate of oil released in the Deepwater Horizon...
We have conducted an ensemble of 20 simulations using a high resolution global ocean model in which dye was continuously injected at the site of the Deepwater Horizon drilling...- publication PDF
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Space Weather and Citizen Science
Citizen science promotes public participation in the discovery of new knowledge. Also known as volunteer monitoring or crowd sourcing, this form of public science has taken hold...- publication PDF
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The microwave radiative properties of falling snow derived from nonspherical...
A 3D growth model is used to simulate pristine ice crystals, which are aggregated using a collection algorithm to create larger, multicrystal particles. The simulated crystals...- publication PDF
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Uncertain future of sustainable fisheries environment in eastern boundary...
Upwelling along ocean eastern boundaries is expected to intensify due to coastal wind strengthening driven by increasing land-sea contrast according to the Bakun hypothesis....- publication PDF
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Ozonesonde profiles from the West Pacific Warm Pool: Measurements and validation
We present a series of ozonesonde profiles measured from Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, during February 2014, with new insights on the calibration of ozonesondes for...- publication PDF
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En-GARD: A statistical downscaling framework to produce and test large...
Statistical processing of numerical model output has been a part of both weather forecasting and climate applications for decades. Statistical techniques are used to correct...- publication PDF
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The evolving sigmoid: Evidence for magnetic flux ropes in the corona before,...
It is generally accepted that the energy that drives coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is magnetic in origin. Sheared and twisted coronal fields can store free magnetic energy which...- publication PDF
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Significance statements communicate our science more widely
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Favorable circulation patterns and moisture sources for wintertime extreme...
The Balkhash-Junggar (B-J) region is a typical dryland region with strong sensitivity to climate change. The snowstorms of the year 2009 caused financial damage worth of 2,516...- publication PDF
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The two-day wave in EOS MLS temperature and wind measurements during 2004-2005 winter
Two-day wave observations during January - March 2005 are reported using the recently launched Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) aboard NASA's Earth Observing System Aura mission....- publication PDF
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An Overflow parameterization for the ocean component of the Community...
The Overflow Parameterization (OFP) for the ocean component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) is presented. The ocean component is based on the Parallel Ocean Program...- publication PDF
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The response of the ozone layer to quadrupled CO2
An accurate quantification of the stratospheric ozone feedback in climate change simulations requires knowledge of the ozone response to increased greenhouse gases. Here, an...- publication PDF
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An improved inversion for FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC ionosphere electron density profiles
An improved method to retrieve electron density profiles from Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation (RO) data is presented and applied to Constellation Observing...- publication PDF
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The O2/N2 ratio and CO2 airborne Southern Ocean study
The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in the global climate system by mediating atmosphere-ocean partitioning of heat and carbon dioxide. However, Earth system models are...- publication PDF
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On the connection between Rieger-type and magneto-Rossby waves driving the...
Global solar activity variation mainly occurs over about an 11 yr cycle. However, both longer and shorter periodicities than the solar cycle are also present in many different...- publication PDF
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The SPARC intercomparison of middle-atmosphere climatologies
An updated assessment of uncertainties in "observed" climatological winds and temperatures in the middle atmosphere (over altitudes ~10-80 km) is provided by detailed...- publication PDF
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Ice concentration retrieval in stratiform mixed-phase clouds using cloud...
Measurements of ice number concentration in clouds are important but still pose problems. The pattern of ice development in stratiform mixed-phase clouds (SMCs) offers an...- publication PDF
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Benchmarking of a physically based hydrologic model
The concepts of model benchmarking, model agility, and large-sample hydrology are becoming more prevalent in hydrologic and land surface modeling. As modeling systems become...- publication PDF
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Vertically resolved convective-stratiform echo-type identification and...
Using data from the airborne HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR), a partitioning algorithm (ECCO-V) that provides vertically resolved convectivity and convective versus stratiform radar-...- publication PDF
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Diagnosis and Sensitivity of the 200 hPa Circulation in NCAR Community Climate Models
The purpose of this report is to determine the nature of systematic errors in several different seasonal cycle versions of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)...- publication PDF