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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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Summer midlatitude stationary wave patterns synchronize Northern Hemisphere...
Midlatitude stationary waves are relatively persistent large-scale longitudinal variations in atmospheric circulation. Although recent case studies have suggested a close...- publication PDF
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Weather radar ground clutter. Part I: Identification, modeling, and simulation
Real-time ground-clutter identification and subsequent filtering of clutter-contaminated data is addressed in this two-part paper. Part I focuses on the identification,...- publication PDF
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Characterization of momentum transport associated with organized moist...
Tropical convection is inherently multiscalar, involving complex fields of clouds and various regimes of convective organization ranging from small disorganized cumulus up to...- publication PDF
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Climate change-induced increases in precipitation are reducing the potential...
Climate change is accelerating the release of dissolved organic matter (DOM) to inland and coastal waters through increases in precipitation, thawing of permafrost, and changes...- publication PDF
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Topographic coupling of the Atlantic overturning and gyre circulations
The vorticity dynamics associated with the mean and time-varying gyre and overturning circulations of the Atlantic Ocean are examined in a realistic ocean model hindcast...- publication PDF
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Explicit modeling of volatile organic compounds partitioning in the...
The gas phase oxidation of organic species is a multigenerational process involving a large number of secondary compounds. Most secondary organic species are water-soluble...- publication PDF
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Using TES retrievals to investigate PAN in North American biomass burning plumes
Peroxyacyl nitrate (PAN) is a critical atmospheric reservoir for nitrogen oxide radicals, and plays a lead role in their redistribution in the troposphere. We analyze new...- publication PDF
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El Niño/Southern Oscillation inhibited by submesoscale ocean eddies
The El Niño/Southern Oscillation is characterized by irregular warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) events in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which have substantial global...- publication PDF
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On the composite response of the MLT to major sudden stratospheric warming...
Based on a climate-chemistry model (constrained by reanalyses below ~50 km), the zonal-mean composite response of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) to major sudden...- publication PDF
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Revisiting the relationship between eyewall contraction and intensification
In the widely accepted convective ring model of tropical cyclone intensification, the intensification of the maximum winds and the contraction of the radius of maximum winds...- publication PDF
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Simulated annual changes in plant functional types and their responses to...
Changes in plant functional types (PFTs) have important implications for both climate and water resources. Still, little is known about whether and how PFTs have changed over...- publication PDF
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Calibration of the NCAR Sabreliner Research Static Pressure Source With a...
Trailing cone results verify that pressure corrections for the NCAR Sabreliner derived from tower flyby data can be extrapolated to higher Mach numbers and higher altitudes with...- publication PDF
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Does marine surface tension have global biogeography? Addition for the...
We apply principles of Gibbs phase plane chemistry across the entire ocean-atmosphere interface to investigate aerosol generation and geophysical transfer issues. Marine surface...- publication PDF
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Rural–urban differences in cooking practices and exposures in Northern Ghana
Key differences between urban and rural populations can influence the adoption and impacts of new cooking technologies and fuels. We examine these differences among urban and...- publication PDF
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An analytical test case for snow models
This paper develops general analytical solutions for examples of water movement through snow and compares the derived analytical solutions to numerical simulations from a...- publication PDF
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Impacts of radiation and cold pools on the intensity and vortex tilt of weak...
Idealized numerical simulations of weak tropical cyclones (e.g., tropical depressions and tropical storms) in sheared environments indicate that vortex tilt reduction and...- publication PDF
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Introduction to Adjoint Techniques and the MM5 Adjoint Modeling System
Adjoint models are increasingly applied to many problems in meteorology and oceanography. The adjoint model of MM5 is a tool which effectively computes the gradient (or a...- publication PDF
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The GFDL Earth System Model Version 4.1 (GFDL-ESM 4.1): Overall coupled...
We describe the baseline coupled model configuration and simulation characteristics of GFDL's Earth System Model Version 4.1 (ESM4.1), which builds on component and coupled...- publication PDF
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An overview of aircraft observations from the Pacific Dust Experiment campaign
Fourteen research flights were conducted in the Pacific Dust Experiment (PACDEX) during April and May 2007 to sample pollution and dust outbreaks from east Asia as they traveled...- publication PDF
