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Comments on "Reconstructing the NH mean temperature: Can underestimation of...
In a recent paper, Bo Christiansen presents and discusses 'LOC,' a methodology for reconstructing past climate that is based on local regressions between climate proxy time...- publication PDF
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Spaceâtime spectral analysis of the moist static energy budget equation
The budget of column-integrated moist static energy (MSE) is examined in wavenumber-frequency transforms of longitude-time sections over the tropical belt. Cross-spectra with...- publication PDF
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Large wind shears and their implications for diffusion in regions with...
The NCAR Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model, with a quasi-uniform horizontal resolution of similar to 25 km and a vertical resolution of 0.1 scale height, produces large...- publication PDF
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Vegetation-climate interactions in the warm mid-Cretaceous
Vegetation-climate interactions are thought to have amplified polar warmth during past warm periods. Here, we explore the vegetation-climate interactions in the mid-Cretaceous...- publication PDF
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Engineering Report on a Dropsonde for Measuring Vertical Wind Velocity in...
This report describes a special dropsonde for measuring and mapping the vertical wind inside thunderstorms. One the possible ways of measuring vertical wind is to drop...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of multiple satellite, reanalysis, and merged precipitation...
Satellite and reanalysis precipitation estimates of high quality are widely used for hydrological modeling, especially in ungauged or data-scarce regions. To improve flood...- publication PDF
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Using operational and experimental observations in geoscience education
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CAM-SE: A scalable spectral element dynamical core for the Community Atmosphere Model
The Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) version 5 includes a spectral element dynamical core option from NCAR's High-Order Method Modeling Environment. It is a continuous Galerkin...- publication PDF
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Global precipitation and thunderstorm frequencies. Part II: Diurnal variations
Three-hourly present weather reports from ~15000 stations around the globe and from the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set from 1975 to 1997 were analyzed for diurnal...- publication PDF
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The NEID Earth Twin Survey. II. Dynamical masses in seven high-acceleration...
We present a set of companion dynamical masses and orbital parameters of seven star systems from the NEID Earth Twin Survey with significant absolute astrometric accelerations...- publication PDF
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Vertical Profiles of HTO, HDO, and H2O in the Troposphere
This document presents vertical profiles of tritium, deuterium, and water vapor in the troposphere that was obtained by NCAR at various times from 1966 through 1973. These data...- publication PDF
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Soluble, light-absorbing species in snow at Barrow, Alaska
As part of the international multidisciplinary Ocean - Atmosphere - Sea Ice - Snowpack (OASIS) program we analyzed more than 500 terrestrial (melted) snow samples near Barrow,...- publication PDF
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Eddy-mediated turbulent mixing of oxygen in the equatorial Pacific
In the tropical Pacific, weak ventilation and intense microbial respiration at depth give rise to a low dissolved oxygen (O2) environment that is thought to be ventilated...- publication PDF
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Three-dimensional characteristics of stratospheric mountain waves during T-REX
Measurements from the National Science Foundation/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF/NCAR) Gulfstream V (G-V) obtained during the recent Terrain-Induced Rotor...- publication PDF
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Convection initiation during the Meiyu environment in the Yangtze-Huai River...
Convection is the main contributor to heavy rainfall over China's Yangtze-Huai River Basin (YHRB) during Meiyu season; however, the mechanisms of convection initiation (CI)...- publication PDF
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Can we measure snow depth with GPS receivers?
Snow is an important component of the climate system and a critical storage component in the hydrologic cycle. However, in situ observations of snow distribution are sparse, and...- publication PDF
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Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability
While climate change mitigation targets necessarily concern maximum mean state changes, understanding impacts and developing adaptation strategies will be largely contingent on...- publication PDF
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Large-eddy simulation of the onset of the sea breeze
This paper describes results from a large-eddy simulation (LES) model used in an idealized setting to simulate the onset of the sea breeze. As the LES is capable of simulating...- publication PDF
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Derivation of turbulent kinetic energy from a first-order nonlocal planetary...
Turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) is derived from a first-order planetary boundary layer (PBL) parameterization for convective boundary layers: the nonlocal K-profile Yonsei...- publication PDF
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Large-scale Rossby normal modes during some recent northern hemisphere winters
Large-scale Rossby normal modes are studied for the Northern Hemisphere winters of 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009 using global observational meteorological analyses spanning the 0--...- publication PDF