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Black carbon over Mexico: The effect of atmospheric transport on mixing...
A single particle soot photometer (SP2) was operated on the NCAR C-130 during the MIRAGE campaign (part of MILAGRO), sampling black carbon (BC) over Mexico. The highest BC...- publication PDF
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Impacts of land cover and soil texture uncertainty on land model simulations...
Land surface processes and their coupling to the atmosphere over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) play an important role in modulating the regional and global climate. Therefore,...- publication PDF
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Environmental effects of stratospheric ozone depletion, UV radiation, and...
This assessment by the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides the latest scientific update since our most...- publication PDF
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Properties of individual contrails: A compilation of observations and some...
Mean properties of individual contrails are characterized for a wide range of jet aircraft as a function of age during their life cycle from seconds to 11.5 h (7.4-18.7 km...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of modeled Indian monsoon to Chinese and Indian aerosol emissions
The South Asian summer monsoon supplies over 80% of India's precipitation. Industrialization over the past few decades has resulted in severe aerosol pollution in India....- publication PDF
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Testing GISS-MM5 physics configurations for use in regional impacts studies
The Mesoscale Modeling System Version 5 (MM5) was one-way nested to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies global climate model (GISS GCM), which provided the boundary...- publication PDF
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Properties of the lunar wake predicted by analytic models and hybrid-kinetic...
An approximate model derived by Hutchinson (2008a), describing the interaction between the solar wind and the Moon, is applied to describe plasma in the lunar wake. The model...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of cloud properties from reanalyses over East Asia with a...
Extensive observational and numerical investigations have been performed to better characterize cloud properties. However, due to the large variations in cloud spatiotemporal...- publication PDF
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Representation of clouds and precipitation processes in the Community...
The parameterizations of clouds and precipitation processes have been revised considerably in the Community Atmosphere Model version 3 (CAM3) compared to its predecessors, CAM2...- publication PDF
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Integrated decision support for energy/water planning in California and the Southwest
Policy makers and resource managers need to understand the interconnections between energy and water use and production -- the energy-water nexus -- to make well-informed...- publication PDF
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A U.S. CLIVAR project to assess and compare the responses of global climate...
The U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) working group on drought recently initiated a series of global climate model simulations forced with idealized SST...- publication PDF
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Observed link of extreme hourly precipitation changes to urbanization over...
Understanding changes in subdaily rainfall extremes is critical to urban planners for building more sustainable and resilient cities. In this study, the hourly precipitation...- publication PDF
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Influence of land cover and soil moisture-based Brown Ocean effect on an...
Extreme flooding over southern Louisiana in mid-August of 2016 resulted from an unusual tropical low that formed and intensified over land. We used numerical experiments to...- publication PDF
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The global sink of available potential energy by mesoscale air-sea interaction
The thermal component of oceanic eddy available potential energy (EPE) generation due to air-sea interaction is proportional to the product of anomalous sea surface temperature...- publication PDF
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Initial precipitation formation in warm Florida cumulus
The microphysical processes that lead to the development of precipitation in small, warm cumulus are examined using data from the Small Cumulus Microphysics Study near Cape...- publication PDF
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Constraining remote oxidation capacity with ATom observations
The global oxidation capacity, defined as the tropospheric mean concentration of the hydroxyl radical (OH), controls the lifetime of reactive trace gases in the atmosphere such...- publication PDF
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Ambient factors controlling the wintertime precipitation distribution across...
This study analyzes the control of upstream conditions on the distribution of wintertime precipitation across mountain ranges in the interior western United States using 10...- publication PDF
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A likely outcome of the sunspot peaks' influence on the North Atlantic...
The effect on the North Atlantic Oscillation of 15 sunspot peaks depends on whether the Oscillation is in-phase or out-of-phase with the sunspot peaks. When it is in-phase the...- publication PDF
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The use of ambient humidity conditions to improve influenza forecast
Laboratory and epidemiological evidence indicate that ambient humidity modulates the survival and transmission of influenza. Here we explore whether the inclusion of humidity...- publication PDF
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The impact of sea surface temperature biases on north american precipitation...
Positive precipitation biases over western North America have remained a pervasive problem in the current generation of coupled global climate models. These biases are...- publication PDF
