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A Comparison of Shape Preserving Interpolators
This report provides a survey of a number of the currently accepted methods of shape preserving interpolation that have appeared in literature. In addition, the report presents...- publication PDF
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The simulated biological response to Southern Ocean eddies via biological...
We examine the structure and drivers of anomalous phytoplankton biomass in Southern Ocean eddies tracked in a global, multiyear, eddy-resolving, 3-D ocean simulation of the...- publication PDF
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Thermospheric density enhancements in the dayside cusp region during strong...
Tri-axial accelerometer data from the Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) satellite have revealed the thermospheric density and its variability in unprecedented detail....- publication PDF
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Spatial coverage of monitoring networks: A climate observing system...
Observing systems consisting of a finite number of in situ monitoring stations can provide high-quality measurements with the ability to quality assure both the instruments and...- publication PDF
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Forecasting convection with a "scale-aware" Tiedtke cumulus parameterization...
A scale-aware convective parameterization based on the Tiedtke scheme is developed and tested in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model and the Model for Prediction...- publication PDF
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Monitoring the differential reflectivity and receiver calibration of the...
It is a challenge to calibrate differential reflectivity ZDR to within 0.1-0.2 dB uncertainty for dual-polarization weather radars that operate 24/7 throughout the year. During...- publication PDF
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Potential predictability sources of the 2012 U.S. drought in observations...
The 2012 drought was the most severe and extensive summertime U.S. drought in half a century with substantial economic loss and impacts on food security and commodity prices. A...- publication PDF
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Impact of Climate Change on Gulf of Mexico Hurricanes
A state of the art modeling study was undertaken to estimate the most likely impacts of climate change on Gulf of Mexico hurricane intensity and frequency. The modeling study...- publication PDF
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A Statistical Investigation of the CESM Ensemble Consistency Testing Framework
Constant evolution and improvement of large scale climate simulation codes such as the Community Earth System Model (CESM) necessitate quality checks to verify the constitution...- publication PDF
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Global sensitivity analysis of chemistry & climate model budgets of...
Projections of future atmospheric composition change and its impacts on air quality and climate depend heavily on chemistry-climate models that allow us to investigate the...- publication PDF
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Subseasonal prediction with and without a well-represented stratosphere in CESM1
There is a growing demand for understanding sources of predictability on subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) time scales. Predictability at subseasonal time scales is believed to come...- publication PDF
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Effects of moist convection on mesoscale predictability
In a previous study by the authors, it was shown that the problematic numerical prediction of the 24-25 January 2000 snowstorm along the east coast of the United States was in...- publication PDF
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Confronting weather and climate models with observational data from soil...
Four land surface models in uncoupled and coupled configurations are compared to observations of daily soil moisture from 19 networks in the conterminous United States to...- publication PDF
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Solar filament impact on 21 January 2005: Geospace consequences
On 21 January 2005, a moderate magnetic storm produced a number of anomalous features, some seen more typically during superstorms. The aim of this study is to establish the...- publication PDF
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The impact of aerosols on satellite radiance data assimilation using NCEP...
Aerosol radiative effects have been studied extensively by climate and weather research communities. However, aerosol impacts on radiance in the context of data assimilation...- publication PDF
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On the seasonal prediction of the western United States El Niño...
A "typical" El Nino leads to wet (dry) wintertime anomalies over the southern (northern) half of the Western United States (WUS). However, during the strong El Nino of 2015/16,...- publication PDF
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Regional to global evolution of impacts of parameterized mountain-wave drag...
Mountain ranges are regional features on Earth, as are the regions of mountain-wave drag (MWD) exerted by dissipating atmospheric gravity waves generated by flow over them....- publication PDF
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Isotopic measurements in water vapor, precipitation, and seawater during EUREC4A
In early 2020, an international team set out to investigate trade-wind cumulus clouds and their coupling to the large-scale circulation through the field campaign EUREC(4)A:...- publication PDF
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Drivers, dynamics, and persistence of the 2017/2018 Tasman Sea marine heatwave
During the austral summer of 2017/2018, the Tasman Sea experienced an intense marine heatwave over an extensive area. It persisted for approximately 3 months and caused...- publication PDF
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Morphology and evolution of plasma density enhancement events in the...
In this study, we used observations from multiple instruments (all-sky imager [ASI], digisonde, and Beidou geostationary satellite global positioning system receivers) to show...- publication PDF
