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The North American Cordillera--An impediment to growing the continent-wide...
This study examines the evolution of a continental-scale ice sheet on a triangular representation of North America, with and without the influence of the Cordilleran region....- publication PDF
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Impact of intraseasonal oscillations on the tropical cyclone activity over...
The tropical cyclones (TCs) that form over the warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico region pose a major threat to the surrounding coastal communities. Skillful subseasonal...- publication PDF
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Urban land expansion amplifies surface warming more in dry climate than in...
Urbanization changes Earth's climate by contributing to the buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases and altering surface biophysical properties. In climate models, the...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of polarimetric ice microphysical retrievals with OLYMPEX campaign data
Polarimetric microphysical retrievals reveal a great potential for the evaluation of numerical models and data assimilation. However, the accuracy of ice microphysical...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering could lower future risk of 'Day Zero'...
Anthropogenic forcing of the climate is estimated to have increased the likelihood of the 2015-2017 Western Cape drought, also called 'Day Zero' drought, by a factor of three,...- publication PDF
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Effect of ecological restoration programs on dust concentrations in the...
In recent decades, the Chinese government has made a great effort in initiating large-scale ecological restoration programs (ERPs) to reduce the dust concentrations in China,...- publication PDF
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The FastEddy® resident-GPU accelerated large-eddy simulation framework:...
This paper introduces a new large-eddy simulation model, FastEddy (R), purpose built for leveraging the accelerated and more power-efficient computing capacity of graphics...- publication PDF
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Externally forced and internally generated decadal climate variability...
Globally averaged surface air temperatures in some decades show rapid increases (accelerated warming decades), and in other decades there is no warming trend (hiatus decades). A...- publication PDF
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Identification of tower-wake distortions using sonic anemometer and lidar...
The eXperimental Planetary boundary layer Instrumentation Assessment (XPIA) field campaign took place in March through May 2015 at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory, utilizing...- publication PDF
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Thermospheric neutral density variation during the "SpaceX" storm:...
The Starlink satellites launched on 3 February 2022 were lost before they fully arrived in their designated orbits. The loss was attributed to two moderate geomagnetic storms...- publication PDF
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Biomass burning influence on high-latitude tropospheric ozone and reactive...
We have evaluated tropospheric ozone enhancement in air dominated by biomass burning emissions at high latitudes (> 50° N) in July 2008, using 10 global chemical transport...- publication PDF
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Analysis of tropical cyclone precipitation using an object-based algorithm
A recently developed object identification algorithm is applied to multisensor precipitation estimates from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM 3B42) to detect and...- publication PDF
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Evaluating climate model simulations of the radiative forcing and radiative...
We analyze the radiative forcing and radiative response at Earth's surface, where perturbations in the radiation budget regulate the atmospheric hydrological cycle. By applying...- publication PDF
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Evaluating and improving the impact of the atmospheric stability and...
This study assesses the impact of the atmospheric stability on the turbulent orographic form drag (TOFD) generated by unresolved small-scale orography (SSO) focusing on surface...- publication PDF
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THORPEX research and the science of prediction
THORPEX was a 10-yr international research program designed to accelerate the rate of improvement in the accuracy of predictions of high-impact weather.- publication PDF
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Climate change in the thermosphere and ionosphere from the early twentieth...
Motivated by numerous lower atmosphere climate model hindcast simulations, we performed simulations of the Earth's atmosphere from the surface up through the thermosphere-...- publication PDF
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Comparison of magnetic perturbation data from LEO satellite constellations:...
During the past decade engineering-grade magnetic field measurements from the low Earth orbiting (LEO) Iridium constellation of communication satellites have been available to...- publication PDF
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The prediction of Supercooled Large Drops by a microphysics and a Machine...
The prediction of supercooled large drops (SLD) from the Thompson-Eidhammer (TE) microphysics scheme-run as part of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model-is evaluated...- publication PDF
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Generalized Aerosol/Chemistry Interface (GIANT): A community effort to...
Atmospheric aerosol and chemistry modules are key elements in Earth system models (ESMs), as they predict air pollutant concentrations and properties that can impact human...- publication PDF
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Atlantic multidecadal variability and North Atlantic jet: A multimodel view...
The influence of the Atlantic multidecadal variability (AMV) on the North Atlantic storm track and eddy-driven jet in the winter season is assessed via a coordinated analysis of...- publication PDF