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Celebrating COMET's 25 years of providing innovative education and training
The Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training (COMET)'s mission when it began in 1990 was to deliver professional development opportunities to...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of OMI operational standard NOâ column retrievals using in situ...
We assess the standard operational nitrogen dioxide (NOâ) data product (OMNOâ, version 2.1) retrieved from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) onboard NASA's Aura...- publication PDF
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Why idealized models are more important than ever in Earth system science
Simulating the Earth system is crucial for studying Earth's climate and how it changes. Modeling approaches that simplify the Earth system while retaining key characteristics...- publication PDF
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Scaling laws for the longitudinal structure function in the atmospheric surface layer
Scaling laws for the longitudinal structure function in the atmospheric surface layer (ASL) are studied using dimensional analysis and matched asymptotics. Theoretical...- publication PDF
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Polarization lidar at summit, Greenland, for the detection of cloud phase...
Accurate measurements of cloud properties are necessary to document the full range of cloud conditions and characteristics. The Cloud, Aerosol Polarization and Backscatter Lidar...- publication PDF
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Widespread pollution from secondary sources of organic aerosols during...
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) from pollution sources is thought to be a minor component of organic aerosol (OA) and fine particulate matter beyond the urban scale. Here we...- publication PDF
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Exploring the ability of the variable-resolution Community Earth System...
Earth system models (ESMs) can help to improve the understanding of climate-induced cryospheric-hydrological impacts in complex mountain regions, such as High Mountain Asia...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of a time-dependent model for the intensification of tropical cyclones
Axisymmetric and three-dimensional simulations are used to evaluate the theory of tropical cyclone (TC) intensification proposed by K. A. Emanuel, which is based on gradient...- publication PDF
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Seasonal and quasi-biennial variations in the migrating diurnal tide...
We present periodic variations of the migrating diurnal tide from Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) temperature and wind data from 2002 to...- publication PDF
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Predictability of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere during major sudden...
The predictability of the middle atmosphere during major sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) is investigated based on subseasonal hindcasts in the Community Earth System Model,...- publication PDF
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Forcings and feedbacks in the GeoMIP ensemble for a reduction in solar...
The effective radiative forcings (including rapid adjustments) and feedbacks associated with an instantaneous quadrupling of the preindustrial COâ concentration and a...- publication PDF
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Impacts of including rain-evaporative cooling in the initial conditions on...
A cycling run, which began 36 h before the model forecast, was employed to assimilate special Terrain-influenced Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (TiMREX) soundings, Global...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale thermodynamic influences on convection initiation near a surface...
In this study, the authors examine initiation of severe convection along a daytime surface dryline in a 10-member ensemble of convection-permitting simulations. Results indicate...- publication PDF
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Observed and simulated variability of droplet spectral dispersion in...
In this study, the variability of the spectral dispersion of droplet size distributions (DSDs) in convective clouds is investigated. Analyses are based on aircraft measurements...- publication PDF
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Application of theory to simulations of observed cases of orographically...
In two recent papers, the authors reported on numerical simulations of conditionally unstable flows past an idealized mesoscale mountain ridge. These idealized simulations,...- publication PDF
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Learning and climate change: An introduction and overview
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Marine boundary layers above heterogeneous SST: Across-front winds
Turbulent flow in a weakly convective marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) driven by geostrophic winds U-g = 10 m s(-1) and heterogeneous sea surface temperature (SST) is...- publication PDF
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Taehwa Research Forest: A receptor site for severe domestic pollution events...
During the May-June 2016 International Cooperative Air Quality Field Study in Korea (KORUS-AQ), light synoptic meteorological forcing facilitated Seoul metropolitan pollution...- publication PDF
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Application of multivariate sensitivity analysis techniques to...
This work demonstrates the use of Sobol's sensitivity analysis framework to examine multivariate input-output relationships in dynamical systems. The methodology allows...- publication PDF
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Assessing filtering of mountaintop COâ mole fractions for application to...
There is a widely recognized need to improve our understanding of biosphere-atmosphere carbon exchanges in areas of complex terrain including the United States Mountain West....- publication PDF