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Examining Exodus 14 with the geosciences
There are similarities between the physical details described in the Exodus 14 narrative of the parting of the Red Sea, and a wind setdown event in the eastern Nile delta. This...- publication PDF
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An air stagnation index to qualify extreme haze events in northern China
Stagnation weather affects atmospheric diffusion ability, and hence causes the occurrence of haze events, which have been happening frequently in northern China (NC). This work...- publication PDF
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Comparison of eulerian bin and lagrangian particle-based microphysics in...
A single nonprecipitating cumulus congestus setup is applied to compare droplet spectra grown by the diffusion of water vapor in Eulerian bin and particle-based Lagrangian...- publication PDF
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Microphysical processes producing high ice water contents (HIWCs) in...
High ice water content (HIWC) regions in tropical deep convective clouds, composed of high concentrations of small ice crystals, were not reproduced by Weather Research and...- publication PDF
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Equivalence of velocity statistics at constant pressure or constant altitude
The equivalence of spatial velocity statistics calculated from second-order structure functions on constant pressure or constant altitude surfaces is demonstrated from analysis...- publication PDF
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An evaluation of analog-based postprocessing methods across several...
Recently, two analog-based postprocessing methods were demonstrated to reduce the systematic and random errors from Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model predictions of...- publication PDF
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The importance of the geophysical context in statistical evaluations of...
A portion of the debate about climate reconstructions of the past millennium, and in particular about the well-known Mann-Bradley-Hughes ("MBH" 1998, 1999) reconstructions, has...- publication PDF
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Assimilating aerosol observations with a "hybrid" variational-ensemble data...
Total 550 nm aerosol optical depth, surface fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and meteorological observations were assimilated with continuously cycling three-dimensional...- publication PDF
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Equilibrium climate sensitivity: Is it accurate to use a slab ocean model?
The equilibrium climate sensitivity of a climate model is usually defined as the globally averaged equilibrium surface temperature response to a doubling of carbon dioxide. This...- publication PDF
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Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – An extended set of...
The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) is a community diagnostics and performance metrics tool designed to improve comprehensive and routine evaluation of Earth...- publication PDF
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Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes
How the shelf ocean around Antarctica changes with warming is not well known. Here, the authors show that a projected increase in El Nino-Southern Oscillation variability...- publication PDF
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Evaluating simulations of interhemispheric transport: Interhemispheric...
Two recent studies using sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) observations to evaluate interhemispheric transport in two different ensembles of atmospheric chemistry models reached...- publication PDF
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North American extreme temperature events and related large scale...
The objective of this paper is to review statistical methods, dynamics, modeling efforts, and trends related to temperature extremes, with a focus upon extreme events of short...- publication PDF
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Assessing the ability of zonal δ18O contrast in benthic foraminifera to...
delta O-18 in foraminifera (delta O-18(c)) is a useful proxy for density, and the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) can be reconstructed by the...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric amines and ammonia measured with a chemical ionization mass...
We report measurements of ambient amines and ammonia with a fast response chemical ionization mass spectrometer (CIMS) in a southeastern US forest and a moderately polluted...- publication PDF
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Practice and philosophy of climate model tuning across six US modeling centers
Model calibration (or "tuning") is a necessary part of developing and testing coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models regardless of their main scientific purpose. There is an...- publication PDF
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Assessing filtering of mountaintop CO₂ mole fractions for application to...
There is a widely recognized need to improve our understanding of biosphere-atmosphere carbon exchanges in areas of complex terrain including the United States Mountain West....- publication PDF
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A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Model Version 4.1
The Advanced Research WRF (ARW) model is a configuration of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. This technical note describes the scientific and algorithmic...- publication PDF
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Spatial hierarchical modeling of precipitation extremes from a regional climate model
The goal of this work is to characterize the extreme precipitation simulated by a regional climate model (RCM) over its spatial domain. For this purpose, we develop a Bayesian...- publication PDF
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Persisting volcanic ash particles impact stratospheric SO2 lifetime and...
Volcanic ash is often neglected in climate simulations because ash particles are assumed to have a short atmospheric lifetime, and to not participate in sulfur chemistry. After...- publication PDF
