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First zonal drift velocity measurement of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs)...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) satellite takes far-ultraviolet images of the Earth from...- publication PDF
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Revealing differences in GCM representations of low clouds
Aquaplanet configurations of four atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) are compared with standard, Earth-like configurations and observations. The focus here is on...- publication PDF
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A tethered-balloon PTRMS sampling approach for surveying of landscape-scale...
Landscape-scale fluxes of biogenic gases were surveyed by deploying a 100 m Teflon tube attached to a tethered balloon as a sampling inlet for a fast-response proton-transfer-...- publication PDF
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Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methodology
Recent projections of climatic change have focused a great deal of scientific and public attention on patterns of carbon (C) cycling as well as its controls, particularly the...- publication PDF
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Partitioning of semivolatile surface-active compounds between bulk, surface...
We present a model study demonstrating that surface partitioning of volatile surfactants enhances their uptake by submicron liquid droplets. In submicron-sized droplets, surface...- publication PDF
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The operational mesogamma-scale analysis and forecast system of the U.S....
Output from the Army Test and Evaluation Command's Four-Dimensional Weather System's mesoscale model is used to drive secondary-applications models to produce forecasts of...- publication PDF
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GISandbox: A science gateway for geospatial computing
Science gateways provide easy access to domain-specific tools and data. The field of Geographic Information Science and Systems (GIS) uses myriad tools and datasets, which...- publication PDF
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Impact of airborne Doppler radar data assimilation on the numerical...
Accurate forecasting of a hurricane's intensity changes near its landfall is of great importance in making an effective hurricane warning. This study uses airborne Doppler radar...- publication PDF
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Investigation of ensemble variance as a measure of true forecast variance
The uncertainty in meteorological predictions is of interest for applications ranging from economic to recreational to public safety. One common method to estimate uncertainty...- publication PDF
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Observations and simulations of quasiperiodic ionospheric oscillations and...
A numerical simulation was performed to investigate quasiperiodic ionospheric oscillations that were observed with periods of 4-5 h by the ionosonde network (Okinawa, Yamagawa,...- publication PDF
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Vertical resolution requirements in atmospheric simulation
The role of vertical mesh spacing in the convergence of full-physics global atmospheric model solutions is examined for synoptic, mesoscale, and convective-scale horizontal...- publication PDF
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Impact of Doppler weather radar data on numerical forecast of Indian monsoon...
This work is a first assessment of utilizing Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) radial velocity and reflectivity in a mesoscale model for prediction of Bay of Bengal monsoon...- publication PDF
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Theoretical expressions for the ascent rate of moist deep convective thermals
An approximate analytic expression is derived for the ratio lambda of the ascent rate of moist deep convective thermals and the maximum vertical velocity within them; lambda is...- publication PDF
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Multi-model changes in El Niño teleconnections over North America in a...
We carry out climate simulations for 1880 - 2003 with GISS modelE driven by ten measured or estimated climate forcings. An ensemble of climate model runs is carried out for each...- publication PDF
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Process-oriented analysis of environmental conditions associated with...
An analysis of the environmental conditions associated with precipitation fog events is presented using 20 yr of historical observations taken in a region centered on New York,...- publication PDF
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Documentation of NCAR CCM1 Program Modules
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GHOST Balloon Data Volume XI: Balloon 86C
Early Global Horizontal Sounding Technique (GHOST) balloon tests have resulted in valuable upper air wind data, particularly in the data-poor mid-latitudes over southern...- publication PDF
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Improved predictability of the troposphere using stratospheric final warmings
The final warming of the stratospheric polar vortex at the end of northern hemisphere winter is examined in ECMWF ERA-Interim reanalysis data and an ensemble of chemistry...- publication PDF
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Inter-hemispheric asymmetries in high-latitude electrodynamic forcing and...
Inter-hemispheric asymmetry (IHA) in Earth's ionosphere-thermosphere (IT) system can be associated with high-latitude forcing that intensifies during storm time, e.g., ion...- publication PDF
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Effects of vertical resolution and nonorographic gravity wave drag on the...
Horizontal resolution of general circulation models (GCMs) has significantly increased during the last decade, however these changes were not accompanied by similar changes in...- publication PDF