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The very stable boundary layer on nights with weak low-level jets
The light-wind, clear-sky, very stable boundary layer (vSBL) is characterized by large values of bulk Richardson number. The light winds produce weak shear, turbulence, and...- publication PDF
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Multiyear droughts and pluvials over the upper Colorado River Basin and...
This study analyzes spatial and temporal characteristics of multiyear droughts and pluvials over the southwestern United States with a focus on the upper Colorado River basin....- publication PDF
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Boundary impulse response functions in a century-long eddying global ocean simulation
Results are presented from a century-long 1/10° global ocean simulation that included a suite of age-related passive tracers. In particular, an ensemble of five global Boundary...- publication PDF
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A global scale mechanistic model of photosynthetic capacity (LUNA V1.0)
Although plant photosynthetic capacity as determined by the maximum carboxylation rate (i.e., Vc,âmax25) and the maximum electron transport rate (i.e., Jmax25) at a reference...- publication PDF
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Attenuation of scalar fluxes measured with spatially-displaced sensors
Observations from the Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (HATS) field program are used to examine the attenuation of measured scalar fluxes caused by spatial separation between...- publication PDF
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Asian summer monsoon anticyclone-the primary entryway for chlorinated...
Rapid growing emissions of dichloromethane (CH 2 Cl 2 ), a chlorinated very‐short‐lived substance (Cl‐VSLS) and an ozone depleting substance (ODS), has raised...- publication PDF
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Modeling the day-to-day variability of midnight Equatorial Plasma Bubbles...
It is well-known that equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) are highly correlated to the post-sunset rise of the ionosphere on a climatological basis. However, when proceeding to the...- publication PDF
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Enlightenment strikes! Broadening graduate school training through field...
This article provides an overview of the Advanced Study Institute: Field Studies of Convection in Argentina (ASI-FSCA) program, a 3-week dynamic and collaborative hands-on...- publication PDF
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Climate change impacts on the power generation potential of a European...
Wind energy resource is subject to changes in climate. To investigate the impacts of climate change on future European wind power generation potential, we analyze a multi-model...- publication PDF
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EZPLOT, for Publication-quality Plots
EZPLOT is built as a software interface between the user and NCAR graphics. While EZPLOT uses the NCAR graphics package, the interface eliminates the need to compile programs to...- publication PDF
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A new perspective on quiet sun magnetism
The Hinode mission has provided us with a new, quantitative view of the magnetism of the quiet Sun. It has revealed that the quiet internetwork areas are blanketed by horizontal...- publication PDF
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COVID-19 impact on the oil and gas industry NO2 emissions: A case study of...
COVID-19 caused a historic collapse in fossil fuel demand, a general decline in economic activity, and hydrocarbon price volatility. This resulted in an unprecedented scenario...- publication PDF
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Terrain and land use for the fifth-generation Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale...
This document discusses in detail the program TERRAIN and is intended to provide users of the PSU/NCAR MM5 with an overview of the data sources and methods used in TERRAIN. Some...- publication PDF
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Estimations of isoprenoid emission capacity from enclosure studies:...
The capacity for volatile isoprenoid production under standardized environmental conditions at a certain time (ES, the emission factor) is a key characteristic in constructing...- publication PDF
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Incorporating satellite precipitation estimates into a radar-gauge...
This paper presents a new and enhanced fusion module for the Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimator (MPE) that would objectively blend real-time satellite quantitative...- publication PDF
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U.S. Monsoon Experiment (MONEX) Rawinsonde/radiometersonde System
This Technical Note describes a procedure to convert rawinsonde and radiometersonde observations from raw data into the standard message format in the field with the use of two...- publication PDF
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Numerical simulations of sheared conditionally unstable flows over a mountain ridge
In two recent papers, the authors performed numerical simulations with a three-dimensional, explicitly cloud-resolving model for a uniform wind flowing past a bell-shaped ridge...- publication PDF
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Km-scale simulations of mesoscale convective systems over South America - a...
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are clusters of thunderstorms that are important in Earth's water and energy cycle. Additionally, they are responsible for extreme events...- publication PDF
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Revisiting the linkages between the variability of atmospheric circulations...
The sharp decline of Arctic sea ice in recent decades has captured the attention of the climate science community. A majority of climate analyses performed to date have used...- publication PDF
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Ozone production and its sensitivity to NOx and VOCs: Results from the...
An observation-constrained box model based on the Carbon Bond mechanism, version 5 (CB05), was used to study photochemical processes along the NASA P-3B flight track and spirals...- publication PDF
