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Current Global Land-surface Data Sets for Use in Climate-related Studies
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Aerosols at the poles: an AeroCom Phase II multi-model evaluation
Atmospheric aerosols from anthropogenic and natural sources reach the polar regions through long-range transport and affect the local radiation balance. Such transport is,...- publication PDF
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Influence of surface temperature and emissivity on AMSU-A assimilation over land
AMSU-A (Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A) measurements for channels that are sensitive to the surface over land have not been widely assimilated into numerical weather...- publication PDF
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Estimating nanoparticle growth rates from size-dependent charged fractions:...
A method to estimate nanoparticle diameter growth rates (GR) during new particle formation (NPF) events from the measured dependence of charged fraction, f, on size, Dp , is...- publication PDF
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The low resolution CCSM3
The low-resolution fully coupled configuration of the Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) is described and evaluated. In this most economical configuration, an...- publication PDF
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Studies of a rapid change detector using CYGNSS level-2 wind speed products
This work further investigates the use of ocean wind speed retrievals from NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission that are closely spaced in space...- publication PDF
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Changes in stratospheric transport and mixing during sudden stratospheric warmings
The extreme disruptions of the wintertime stratospheric circulation during sudden stratospheric warmings (SSW) have large effects on tracer concentrations through alterations in...- publication PDF
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Estimating impacts of North Atlantic tropical cyclones using an index of...
An index of North Atlantic tropical cyclone (TC) damage potential due to winds and coastal surge is developed using seasonal climate variables of relative sea surface...- publication PDF
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The contribution of cloud and radiation anomalies to the 2007 Arctic sea ice...
Reduced cloudiness and enhanced downwelling radiation are associated with the unprecedented 2007 Arctic sea ice loss. Over the Western Arctic Ocean, total summertime cloud cover...- publication PDF
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Some counterintuitive dependencies of tropical cyclone frequency on...
High-resolution global climate models (GCMs) have been increasingly utilized for simulations of the global number and distribution of tropical cyclones (TCs), and how they might...- publication PDF
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Snow on Arctic sea ice in a warming climate as simulated in CESM
Earth system models are valuable tools for understanding how the Arctic snow-ice system and the feedbacks therein may respond to a warming climate. In this analysis, we...- publication PDF
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Effect of meteorological variability on fine particulate matter simulations...
This study quantifies the impact of meteorological variability on the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model-simulated particulate matter of aerodynamic diameter 2.5 m or...- publication PDF
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Modeling the 1783–1784 Laki Eruption in Iceland: 1. Aerosol evolution and...
The 1783–1784 CE Laki flood lava eruption began on 8 June 1783. Over the course of 8 months, the eruption released approximately 122 Tg of sulfur dioxide gas into the upper...- publication PDF
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Advancing global and regional reanalyses
This report outlines the structure of and summarizes the recommendations made at the Fifth International Conference on Reanalysis (ICR5), attended by 259 participants from 37...- publication PDF
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NCAR Software Catalog
An extensive collection of library software is available for use on the Scientific Computing Division (SCD) computers at NCAR, and is cataloged in this document. The NCAR...- publication PDF
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Characterization of Southern Ocean boundary layer clouds using airborne...
Climate and numerical weather prediction models struggle to accurately predict radiative forcing over the Southern Ocean (SO), as the amount of clouds and their phases are...- publication PDF
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Cracking the MJO nut
The Madden-Julian oscillation poses great challenges to our understanding and prediction of tropical convection and the large-scale circulation. Several internationally...- publication PDF
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Climatology of the equatorial plasma bubbles captured by FORMOSAT‐3/COSMIC
The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC (F3/C) satellites are used to study the climatology of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) during the low to moderate solar flux years (2008-2013). We use the...- publication PDF
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Why doesn't the ring current injection rate saturate?
For low values of the solar wind electric field, the response of the polar cap potential is essentially linear, but at high values of VBs, the polar cap potential saturates and...- publication PDF
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Beyond sunspots: Studies using the McIntosh Archive of global solar magnetic...
In 1964 (Solar Cycle 20; SC 20), Patrick McIntosh began creating hand-drawn synoptic maps of solar magnetic features, based on Hα images. These synoptic maps were unique in...- publication PDF