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Better calibration of cloud parameterizations and subgrid effects increases...
Realistic simulation of the Earth's mean-state climate remains a major challenge, and yet it is crucial for predicting the climate system in transition. Deficiencies in models'...- publication PDF
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Utilizing SMAP soil moisture data to constrain irrigation in the Community Land Model
Irrigation representation in land surface models has been advanced over the past decade, but the soil moisture (SM) data from SMAP satellite have not yet been utilized in large-...- publication PDF
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Seminar on Possible Responses of Weather Phenomena to Variable...
Workshop, June 16 to July 28, Open Meeting, July 29 and 30, 1965 Boulder, CO This document reports the discussions and presentations that took place during the workshop. The...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of the CAM6 climate model using cloud observations at McMurdo...
A comparative analysis between observational data from McMurdo Station, Antarctica and the Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6) simulation is performed focusing on cloud...- publication PDF
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A high resolution coupled fire-atmosphere forecasting system to minimize the...
Wildland fires are responsible for large socio-economic impacts. Fires affect the environment, damage structures, threaten lives, cause health issues, and involve large...- publication PDF
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A new look at ocean ventilation time scales and their uncertainties
A suite of eddy-resolving ocean transient tracer model simulations are first compared to observations. Observational and model pCFC-11 ages agree quite well, with the eddy-...- publication PDF
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Predicting typhoon Morakot's catastrophic rainfall with a...
This study examines the prediction and predictability of the recent catastrophic rainfall and flooding event over Taiwan induced by Typhoon Morakot (2009) with a state-of-the-...- publication PDF
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Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models
Microbes influence soil organic matter decomposition and the long-term stabilization of carbon (C) in soils. We contend that by revising the representation of microbial...- publication PDF
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Progress in understanding of Indian Ocean circulation, variability, air–sea...
Over the past decade, our understanding of the Indian Ocean has advanced through concerted efforts toward measuring the ocean circulation and air-sea exchanges, detecting...- publication PDF
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Empirical orthogonal function analysis and modeling of the topside...
The topside total electron contents (TECs) observed by the MetOp-A (above 832 km) and TerraSAR-X (above 520 km) satellites for multiple local times during 2008-2018 have been...- publication PDF
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Thermospheric nitric oxide cooling responses to the 14 December 2020 solar eclipse
The behaviors of the nitric oxide (NO) cooling in the lower thermosphere during the 14 December 2020 solar eclipse are studied using Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband...- publication PDF
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Reference-quality emission and backscatter modeling for the ocean
Sixteen members of an International Space Science Institute team—from America, Asia, and Europe and with backgrounds in radiative transfer modeling, data assimilation, field...- publication PDF
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Arctic ocean freshwater in CMIP6 ensembles: Declining sea ice, increasing...
The Arctic has undergone dramatic changes in sea ice cover and the hydrologic cycle, both of which strongly impact the freshwater storage in, and export from, the Arctic Ocean....- publication PDF
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Observations of the rate and acceleration of global mean sea level change
Climate models and basic physical principles project that global mean sea level (GMSL) will increase and the rate of increase will accelerate under anthropogenic climate change...- publication PDF
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Initial conditions for convection-allowing ensembles over the conterminous...
Five sets of 48-h, 10-member, convection-allowing ensemble (CAE) forecasts with 3-km horizontal grid spacing were systematically evaluated over the conterminous United States...- publication PDF
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Cloud radiative feedbacks and El Niño–Southern Oscillation
Cloud radiative feedbacks are disabled via "cloud-locking" in the Community Earth System Model, version 1.2 (CESM1.2), to result in a shift in El Nino-Southern Oscillation...- publication PDF
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Development of a tunable filter for coronal polarimetry
Measuring magnetic fields in the solar corona is crucial to understanding and predicting the Sun's generation of space weather that affects communications, GPS systems, space...- publication PDF
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Higher-order turbulence Closure and Its Impact on Climate Simulations in the...
This paper describes climate simulations of the Community Atmosphere Model, version 5 (CAM5), coupled with a higher-order turbulence closure known as Cloud Layers Unified by...- publication PDF
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Phase unlocking and the modulation of tropopause-level trace gas advection...
Open questions about the modulation of near-surface trace gas variability by stratosphere-troposphere tracer transport complicate efforts to identify anthropogenic sources of...- publication PDF
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Simulations with the Marine Biogeochemistry Library (MARBL)
The Marine Biogeochemistry Library (MARBL) is a prognostic ocean biogeochemistry model that simulates marine ecosystem dynamics and the coupled cycles of carbon, nitrogen,...- publication PDF
