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Duration of an ionospheric data assimilation of a coupled...
Initial conditions provide a critical input for accurate numerical forecast models in meteorology and oceanography. In this paper, we address this problem in space weather...- publication PDF
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Understanding the atmosphere through radio occultation:Second...
The second FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC data users workshop was held at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colo., and was attended by more than 100...- publication PDF
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The contribution of subtropical moisture within an atmospheric river on...
The impact of an atmospheric river (AR) on the flux of subtropical moisture across Idaho's Salmon River Mountains and precipitation over the mountains is evaluated using the...- publication PDF
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The chemistry mechanism in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)
The Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) includes a detailed representation of chemistry throughout the atmosphere in the Community Atmosphere Model with chemistry and...- publication PDF
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Confronting Models with Data: The GEWEX Cloud Systems Study (GCSS)
The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud System Study (GCSS) was organized to promote the development of improved parameterizations of cloud systems for use in...- publication PDF
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Observations of acyl peroxy nitrates during the Front Range Air Pollution...
We report on measurements of acyl peroxy nitrates (APNs) obtained from two ground sites and the NSF/National Center for Atmospheric Research C-130 aircraft during the 2014 Front...- publication PDF
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Impact of intraseasonal oscillations on the tropical cyclone activity over...
The tropical cyclones (TCs) that form over the warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico region pose a major threat to the surrounding coastal communities. Skillful subseasonal...- publication PDF
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Succession of the sessile benthic community at a coral reef restoration site
Introduction: Ecosystem restoration facilitates ecological succession. When a coral reef experiences a distur-bance, the community of sessile benthic organisms can follow a...- publication PDF
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Structural k -means (S k -means) and clustering uncertainty evaluation...
Dramatic increases in climate data underlie a gradual paradigm shift in knowledge acquisition methods from physically based models to data-based mining approaches. One of the...- publication PDF
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The potential impact of climate change on seasonal snow in New Zealand: Part...
Seasonal snow directly affects New Zealand’s economy through the energy, agriculture and tourism sectors. In New Zealand, little is known about the long-term variability of the...- publication PDF
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The future of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation: Using large ensembles to...
Future changes in the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are uncertain, both because future projections differ between climate models and because the large internal variability...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of NOAA national water model parameter calibration in semi-arid...
The NOAA National Water Model (NWM), maintained and executed by the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Water Prediction, provides operational hydrological guidance...- publication PDF
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On determining stationary periods within time series
A novel approach is constructed for determining both the occurrence and the duration of stationary periods within time series. After reviewing four statistical techniques that...- publication PDF
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An implicit–explicit vertical transport scheme for convection-allowing models
An adaptive implicit-explicit vertical transport method is implemented in the Advanced Research version of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF-ARW), and improved...- publication PDF
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Near real-time GPS sensing of atmospheric water vapor
We describe sensing of atmospheric column water vapor in near real‐time using the Global Positioning System (GPS). We use predicted GPS orbits for automated computation of...- publication PDF
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Comparison between observed and simulated Agl seeding impacts in a...
A dry-air intrusion induced by the tropopause folding split the deep cloud into two layers resulting in a shallow orographic cloud with a supercooled liquid cloud top at around...- publication PDF
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Momentum balance and gravity wave forcing in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere
Gravity wave forcing (GWF), which is the primary driver of the mesospheric and lower thermospheric (MLT) circulation, is difficult to measure directly. In this work, the zonal...- publication PDF
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Gravity wave variations during the 2009 stratospheric sudden warming as...
ECMWF-T799 is used to study gravity wave (GW) variations during the 2009 stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) in the Arctic. The magnitude and occurrence of GWs correlate with the...- publication PDF
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The University of Washington shallow convection and moist turbulence schemes...
This paper describes a new version of the University of Washington shallow cumulus parameterization. The new version includes improved treatments of lateral mixing rates into...- publication PDF
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Ancient numerical daemons of conceptual hydrological modeling: 1. Fidelity...
A major neglected weakness of many current hydrological models is the numerical method used to solve the governing model equations. This paper thoroughly evaluates several...- publication PDF