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Physically based Thermal Infrared snow/ice surface emissivity for fast...
Accurate thermal infrared (TIR) fast-forward models are critical for weather forecasting via numerical weather prediction (NWP) satellite radiance assimilation and operational...- publication PDF
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A 400-year ice core melt layer record of summertime warming in the Alaska Range
Warming in high-elevation regions has societally important impacts on glacier mass balance, water resources, and sensitive alpine ecosystems, yet very few high-elevation...- publication PDF
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Deciphering solar magnetic activity. I. On the relationship between the...
Sunspots are a canonical marker of the Sun's internal magnetic field which flips polarity every ~22 yr. The principal variation of sunspots, an ~11 yr variation, modulates the...- publication PDF
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Observational constraints on the global atmospheric budget of ethanol
Energy security and climate change concerns have led to the promotion of biomass-derived ethanol, an oxygenated volatile organic compound (OVOC), as a substitute for fossil...- publication PDF
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A vector-based river routing model for earth system models: Parallelization...
A vector-river network explicitly uses realistic geometries of river reaches and catchments for spatial discretization in a river model. This enables improving the accuracy of...- publication PDF
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A comparison of lower stratosphere temperature from microwave measurements...
In this study, we compare the microwave brightness temperature (Tb) for the Lower Stratosphere (TLS) datasets provided by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) Inc. and University of...- publication PDF
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Toward a comprehensive global electric circuit model: Atmospheric...
As an important step in further modeling and understanding the global electric circuit, the Community Earth System Model (CESM1) has been extended to provide a calculation of...- publication PDF
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The effects of the island of Hawaii on offshore rainband evolution
The diurnal cycle of airflow on the island of Hawaii and the structure of the low-level flow separation line between the island-induced offshore flow and incoming trade winds...- publication PDF
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On the influence of vertical mixing, boundary layer schemes, and temporal...
We present WRF-Chem simulations over central Europe with a spatial resolution of 3 km x 3 km and focus on nitrogen dioxide (NO2). A regional emission inventory issued by the...- publication PDF
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Transport of internetwork magnetic flux elements in the solar photosphere
The motions of small-scale magnetic flux elements in the solar photosphere can provide some measure of the Lagrangian properties of the convective flow. Measurements of these...- publication PDF
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Needs, Opportunities and Strategies for a Long-term Oceanic Sciences...
This document conveys the recommendations of the NOSS Science Working Group charged with three tasks: first, to recommend sensor modifications and additions to fill the 25 % of...- publication PDF
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TROPOMI tropospheric ozone column data: Geophysical assessment and...
Ozone in the troposphere affects humans and ecosystems as a pollutant and as a greenhouse gas. Observing, understanding and modelling this dual role, as well as monitoring...- publication PDF
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Uncertainty and emergent constraints on enhanced ecosystem carbon stock by...
Significant land greening since the 1980s has been detected through satellite observation, forest inventory, and Earth system modeling. However, whether and to what extent...- publication PDF
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Albedo-Ice regression method for determining ice water content of polar...
High spatial resolution images of polar meso-spheric clouds (PMCs) from a camera array on board the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite have been obtained since...- publication PDF
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Impact of physics parameterizations on high-resolution weather prediction...
The 1âkm Institute of Urban Meteorology (IUM) operational model has a high-temperature bias, especially at night, and a high wind speed bias in urbanized areas, limiting the...- publication PDF
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Optical fiber-based laser remote sensor for airborne measurement of wind...
We discuss an optical fiber-based continuous-wave coherent laser system for measuring the wind speed in undisturbed air ahead of an aircraft. The operational principles of the...- publication PDF
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Observations of Aerosols Over Northeastern Colorado
The relations between atmospheric aerosols and cloud dynamics were examined in a field study conducted in northeastern Colorado during the summer of 1968. The results of this...- publication PDF
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Secular and tidal strain across the main Ethiopian rift
Using a combination of laser ranging and GPS data acquired between 1969 and 1997 we derive a separation velocity for the Somali and Nubian plates in Ethiopia (4.5+/-1 mm/yr at...- publication PDF
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Stochastically perturbed parameterizations in an HRRR-based ensemble
A stochastically perturbed parameterization (SPP) approach that spatially and temporally perturbs parameters and variables in the Mellor-Yamada-Nakanishi-Niino planetary...- publication PDF
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Raytracing simulated GPS radio wave propagation paths experiencing large...
Global positioning satellite system (GPS) radio waves that reach the tropical lower troposphere are strongly affected by small-scale water vapor fluctuations. We examine along-...- publication PDF