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How well do we understand and evaluate climate change feedback processes?
Processes in the climate system that can either amplify or dampen the climate response to an external perturbation are referred to as climate feedbacks. Climate sensitivity...- publication PDF
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Climatological characteristics of hydrometeors in precipitating clouds over...
The long-term characteristics of four hydrometeor species (cloud water, cloud ice, rain, and snow) in precip-itating clouds over eastern China (divided into South China,...- publication PDF
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Liquid phase cloud microphysical property estimates from CALIPSO measurements
A neural-network algorithm that uses CALIPSO lidar measurements to infer droplet effective radius, extinction coefficient, liquid-water content, and droplet number concentration...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale and submesoscale effects on mixed layer depth in the southern ocean
Submesoscale dynamics play a key role in setting the stratification of the ocean surface mixed layer and mediating air-sea exchange, making them especially relevant to...- publication PDF
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Effect of mosaic representation of vegetation in land surface schemes on...
Energy and carbon balance implications of representing vegetation using a composite or mosaic approach in a land surface scheme are investigated. In the composite approach the...- publication PDF
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Ionospheric electrodynamic response to solar flares in September 2017
In this work, the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model is used to investigate the responses of ionospheric electrodynamic processes to the solar...- publication PDF
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Observations of monsoon convective cloud microphysics over India and role of...
Microphysical characteristics of premonsoon and monsoon deep cumuli over India observed by an instrumented aircraft are contrasted focusing on influences of environmental...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of PBL parameterizations in WRF at subkilometer grid spacings:...
Planetary boundary layer (PBL) parameterizations in mesoscale models have been developed for horizontal resolutions that cannot resolve any turbulence in the PBL, and evaluation...- publication PDF
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Remote ocean response to the Madden-Julian Oscillation during the DYNAMO...
During the CINDY/DYNAMO field campaign, exceptionally large upper ocean responses to strong westerly wind events associated with the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) were...- publication PDF
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Ozone chemistry in western U.S. wildfire plumes
Wildfires are a substantial but poorly quantified source of tropospheric ozone (O-3). Here, to investigate the highly variable O-3 chemistry in wildfire plumes, we exploit the...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity in the overland reintensification of tropical cyclone Erin...
This study investigates the impact of abnormally moist soil conditions across the southern Great Plains upon the overland reintensification of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone...- publication PDF
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Polar Ozone Response to Energetic Particle Precipitation Over Decadal Time...
One of the key challenges in polar middle atmosphere research is to quantify the total forcing by energetic particle precipitation (EPP) and assess the related response over...- publication PDF
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Mountain-based GPS occultation observations and its inversion theory
Mountain-based GPS radio occultation observations were conducted at Yaogu mountain top and Jiugong mountain top in Hubei province respectively. Occultation events data were...- publication PDF
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Climate and air quality impacts due to mitigation of non-methane near-term...
It is important to understand how future environmental policies will impact both climate change and air pollution. Although targeting near-term climate forcers (NTCFs), defined...- publication PDF
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Two-year dynamical predictions of ENSO event duration during 1954-2015
El Nino and La Nina events show a wide range of durations over the historical record. The predictability of event duration has remained largely unknown, although multiyear...- publication PDF
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A Shallow-Tree Multi-resolution Approximation for Distributed and...
We implement a parallel Multi-resolution Approximation (MRA) in Matlab using a Shallow-Tree approach designed for distributed computing environments and High-Performance...- publication PDF
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Eddy-mediated Hadley cell expansion due to axisymmetric angular momentum...
The poleward expansion of the Hadley cells is one of the most robust modeled responses to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. There are many proposed mechanisms for...- publication PDF
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A decomposition of feedback contributions to Polar warming amplification
Polar surface temperatures are expected to warm 2–3 times faster than the global-mean surface temperature: a phenomenon referred to as polar warming amplification. Therefore,...- publication PDF
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Future climate change in the Southern Hemisphere: Competing effects of ozone...
Future anthropogenic climate change in the Southern Hemisphere is likely to be driven by two opposing effects, stratospheric ozone recovery and increasing greenhouse gases. We...- publication PDF
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The North American regional climate change assessment program: Overview of...
The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) is an international effort designed to investigate the uncertainties in regional-scale projections of...- publication PDF
