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Association of solar wind proton flux extremes with pseudostreamers
We investigate the characteristics and solar origins of a subpopulation of the solar wind that possesses extreme values of proton flux. Ulysses observations including solar wind...- publication PDF
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Serendipity : Research Career of One Scientist
Dr. Akira Kasahara reflects on his career of more than 65 years in the field of meteorology, specifically the fields of numerical weather prediction and computational modeling...- publication PDF
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Using large ensembles to identify regions of systematic biases in...
Because of internal variability in both the real-world and global climate models, it is unclear whether disagreement between models and observations reflects true systematic...- publication PDF
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Seasonal fluctuations of small mammal and flea communities in a Ugandan...
Background The distribution of human plague risk is strongly associated with rainfall in the tropical plague foci of East Africa, but little is known about how the plague...- publication PDF
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Evaluating a reservoir parametrization in the vector-based global routing...
Human-controlled reservoirs have a large influence on the global water cycle. While global hydrological models use generic parameterizations to model dam operations, the...- publication PDF
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The helioseismic and magnetic imager (HMI) investigation for the solar...
The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument and investigation as a part of the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is designed to study convection-zone dynamics and...- publication PDF
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Decadal relationship between European blocking and the North Atlantic...
In Part I of this study, it is revealed that decadal variations of European blocking, in its intensity, duration, and position, during 1978-2011 are modulated by decadal changes...- publication PDF
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Rates of wintertime atmospheric SO2 oxidation based on aircraft observations...
Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is emitted in large quantities from coal-burning power plants and leads to various harmful health and environmental effects. In this study, we use plume...- publication PDF
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Upper troposphere smoke injection from large areal fires
Large areal fires, such as those ignited following a nuclear detonation, can inject smoke into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. Detailed fire simulations allow for...- publication PDF
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COSMIC GPS radio occultation temperature profiles in clouds
Thermodynamic states in clouds are closely related to physical processes such as phase changes of water and longwave and shortwave radiation. Global Positioning System (GPS)...- publication PDF
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Longitudinal variations of topside ionospheric and plasmaspheric TEC
The upward looking ionospheric total electron content (TEC) from the MetOp-A and TSX satellites during 2008-2015 has been used to systematically study the longitudinal...- publication PDF
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Estimation of the equivalent Rayleigh friction in mesosphere/lower...
We use Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) global temperature and wind data from 2002 to 2007 to investigate the damping of the diurnal tide....- publication PDF
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Advancing precipitation prediction using a new-generation storm-resolving...
Global climate models (GCMs) have advanced in many ways as computing power has allowed more complexity and finer resolutions. As GCMs reach storm-resolving scales, they need to...- publication PDF
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Colorado plowable hailstorms: Synoptic weather, radar, and lightning characteristics
Synoptic weather, S-band dual-polarization radar, and total lightning observations are analyzed from four thunderstorms that produced "plowable" hail accumulations of 15-60 cm...- publication PDF
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Observation-based estimates of global and basin ocean meridional heat...
Ocean meridional heat transports (MHTs) are deduced as a residual using energy budgets to produce latitude versus time series for the globe, Indo-Pacific, and Atlantic. The top-...- publication PDF
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Characterization of coarse particulate matter in the western United States:...
We provide a regional characterization of coarse particulate matter (PM10-2.5) spanning the western United States based on the analysis of measurements from 50 sites reported in...- publication PDF
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A dynamic blending scheme to mitigate large-scale bias in regional models
Several blending methods have been developed in dynamic downscaling and rapid cycled data assimilation. Blending the large-scale part of the global model (GM) analysis or...- publication PDF
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Was magnetic storm the only driver of the long-duration enhancements of...
In this study, multiple data sets from Beidou geostationary orbit satellites total electron contents (TECs), ionosonde, meteor radar, magnetometer, and model simulations have...- publication PDF
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Meridional heat transport during atmospheric rivers in high-resolution CESM...
Meridional sensible and latent heat transport is evaluated for regions with landfalling atmospheric rivers using both MERRA-2 reanalysis and fully coupled CESM1.3 high-...- publication PDF
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Climate-ecosystem modelling made easy: The Land Sites Platform
Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) provide a state-of-the-art process-based approach to study the complex interplay between vegetation and its physical environment. For...- publication PDF
