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Antarctic atmospheric boundary layer observations with the Small Unmanned...
Between January 2012 and June 2017 a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS), known as the Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer (SUMO), was used to observe the state of the...- publication PDF
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An accurate fire-spread algorithm in the Weather Research and Forecasting...
The level-set method is typically used to track and propagate the fire perimeter in wildland fire models. Herein, a high-order level-set method using fifth-order WENO scheme for...- publication PDF
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Varied line-space grating for flat spectral response of coupling to single-mode fiber
We use a planar linear grating with varied line-space grooves to introduce a tailored one-dimensional phase variation profile that results in an aberrated point-spread function...- publication PDF
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Saharan dust, convective lofting, aerosol enhancement zones, and potential...
Dry aerosol size distributions and scattering coefficients were measured on 10 flights in 32 clear-air regions adjacent to tropical storm anvils over the eastern Atlantic Ocean....- publication PDF
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A fully compressible nonhydrostatic deep-atmosphere equations solver for MPAS
A solver for the nonhydrostatic deep-atmosphere equations of motion is described that extends the capabilities of the Model for Prediction Across Scales-Atmosphere (MPAS-A)...- publication PDF
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Air-sea enthalpy and momentum exchange at major hurricane wind speeds...
Quantifying air-sea exchanges of enthalpy and momentum is important for understanding and skillfully predicting tropical cyclone intensity, but the magnitude of the...- publication PDF
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Global emissions of non-methane hydrocarbons deduced from SCIAMACHY...
Formaldehyde columns retrieved from the Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography/Chemistry (SCIAMACHY) instrument onboard ENVISAT satellite through...- publication PDF
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Warm Arctic, increased winter sea ice growth?
We explore current variability and future projections of winter Arctic sea ice thickness and growth using data from climate models and satellite observations. Winter ice...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms of a meteorological drought onset: Summer 2020 to Spring 2021 in...
By summer 2021 moderate to exceptional drought impacted 28% of North America, focused west of the Mississippi, with serious impacts on fire, water resources, and agriculture....- publication PDF
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Impact of cloud-base turbulence on CCN activation: Single-size CCN
This paper examines the impact of cloud-base turbulence on activation of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). Following our previous studies, we contrast activation within a...- publication PDF
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Interactions of bromine, chlorine, and iodine photochemistry during ozone...
The springtime depletion of tropospheric ozone in the Arctic is known to be caused by active halogen photochemistry resulting from halogen atom precursors emitted from snow,...- publication PDF
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The Central Amazon biomass sink under current and future atmospheric CO2:...
There is large uncertainty whether Amazon forests will remain a carbon sink as atmospheric CO2 increases. Hence, we simulated an old-growth tropical forest using six versions of...- publication PDF
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Experimentally determined site-specific reactivity of the gas-phase OH and...
Product branching ratios for the gas-phase reactions of i-butanol, (CH3)2CHCH2OH, with OH radicals (251, 294, and 340 K) and Cl atoms (294 K) were quantified in an environmental...- publication PDF
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A method for adaptive habit prediction in bulk microphysical models. Part...
It is common for cloud microphysical models to use a single axis length to characterize ice crystals. These methods use either the diameter of an equivalent sphere or mass-size...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms for spontaneous gravity-wave generation within a dipole vortex
Previous simulations of dipole vortices propagating through rotating, stratified fluid have revealed small-scale inertia–gravity waves that are embedded within the dipole near...- publication PDF
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The Bolzano Tracer Experiment (BTEX)
The paper describes the observational and modeling efforts performed under the Bolzano Tracer Experiment (BTEX). BTEX focused on the basin surrounding the city of Bolzano, at...- publication PDF
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Present-day irrigation mitigates heat extremes
Irrigation is an essential practice for sustaining global food production and many regional economies. Emerging scientific evidence indicates that irrigation substantially...- publication PDF
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The identification of a planar magnetic structure within the ICME shock...
A Forbush decrease is a sudden decrease in cosmic-ray intensity caused by transient interplanetary disturbances. The substructure of an interplanetary counterpart of a coronal...- publication PDF
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Modelled black carbon radiative forcing and atmospheric lifetime in AeroCom...
Atmospheric black carbon (BC) absorbs solar radiation, and exacerbates global warming through exerting positive radiative forcing (RF). However, the contribution of BC to...- publication PDF
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Decadal variabilities in tropospheric nitrogen oxides over United States,...
Global trends in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) have changed dramatically in the past decade. Here, we investigate tropospheric NO2 variabilities over United States,...- publication PDF