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Impacts of subgrid temperature distribution along elevation bands in...
The implementation of elevation bands is a popular strategy to account for topographic heterogeneities in snowpack modeling. Here, we characterize the implications of subgrid...- publication PDF
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Improving the representation of polar snow and firn in the Community Earth...
In Earth system models, terrestrial snow is usually modeled by the land surface component. In most cases, these snow models have been developed with an emphasis on seasonal...- publication PDF
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The Southern Westerlies during the last glacial maximum in PMIP2 simulations
The Southern Hemisphere westerly winds are an important component of the climate system at hemispheric and global scales. Variations in their intensity and latitudinal position...- publication PDF
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Regional climate model projections for the State of Washington
Global climate models do not have sufficient spatial resolution to represent the atmospheric and land surface processes that determine the unique regional heterogeneity of the...- publication PDF
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Emission factors for open and domestic biomass burning for use in atmospheric models
Biomass burning (BB) is the second largest source of trace gases and the largest source of primary fine carbonaceous particles in the global troposphere. Many recent BB studies...- publication PDF
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The impact on the ozone layer of a potential fleet of civil hypersonic aircraft
The aeronautical community is currently researching technology that might lead to commercial hypersonic aircraft that would cruise at Mach 5-8 in the middle or upper...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of native Earth system model output with ESMValTool v2.6.0
Earth system models (ESMs) are state-of-the-art climate models that allow numerical simulations of the past, present-day, and future climate. To extend our understanding of the...- publication PDF
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Evaluating tropospheric humidity from GPS radio occultation, radiosonde, and...
While water vapor is the most important tropospheric greenhouse gas, it is also highly variable in both space and time, and water vapor concentrations range over 3 orders of...- publication PDF
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The "weather intelligence for renewable energies" benchmarking exercise on...
A benchmarking exercise was organized within the framework of the European Action Weather Intelligence for Renewable Energies ("WIRE") with the purpose of evaluating the...- publication PDF
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Evaluating global warming potentials with historical temperature
Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) are evaluated with historical temperature by applying them to convert historical CH₄ and N₂O emissions to equivalent CO₂ emissions. Our GWP...- publication PDF
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Assessing the near surface sensitivity of SCIAMACHY atmospheric CO₂...
Satellite observations of atmospheric CO₂ offer the potential to identify regional carbon surface sources and sinks and to investigate carbon cycle processes. The extent to...- publication PDF
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Description of the Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model: Version 4 (MM4)
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Ozone profiles in the Baltimore-Washington region (2006-2011): Satellite...
Much progress has been made in creating satellite products for tracking the pollutants ozone and NO2 in the troposphere. Yet, in mid-latitude regions where meteorological...- publication PDF
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Airborne observations of reactive inorganic chlorine and bromine species in...
We present airborne observations of gaseous reactive halogen species (HCl, Cl-2, ClNO2, Br-2, BrNO2, and BrCl), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and nonrefractory fine particulate chloride...- publication PDF
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The Community Climate System Model, version 2
The Community Climate System Model, version 2 (CCSM2) is briefly described. A 1000-yr control simulation of the present day climate has been completed without flux adjustments....- publication PDF
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Constraining the upper level vibrational populations of the N2...
Current and previous thermospheric remote sensing missions use N-2 Lyman-Birge-Hopfield (LBH) band dayglow emission measurements to retrieve line-of-sight thermospheric...- publication PDF
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Seasonal climate information preserved in West Antarctic ice core water...
As part of the United States' contribution to the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE), a network of precisely dated and highly resolved ice cores was...- publication PDF
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Resolution requirements for the simulation of deep moist convection
The spatial resolution appropriate for the simulation of deep moist convection is addressed from a turbulence perspective. To provide a clear theoretical framework for the...- publication PDF
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REFRACTT 2006: Real-time retrieval of high-resolution, low-level moisture...
The Refractivity Experiment for H₂O Research and Collaborative Operational Technology Transfer (REFRACTT), conducted in northeast Colorado during the summer of 2006, provided a...- publication PDF
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Seasonal and quasi-biennial variations in the migrating diurnal tide...
We present periodic variations of the migrating diurnal tide from Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) temperature and wind data from 2002 to...- publication PDF
