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Strength Characteristics of Grace Cryovac YH Polypropylene Film
This report is part of a series prepared for the Materials Research Project of the NCAR Scientific Balloon Facility in order to extend the reliability and capabilities of...- publication PDF
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Model-evaluation tools for three-dimensional cloud verification via...
Clouds pose many operational hazards to the aviation community in terms of ceilings and visibility, turbulence, and aircraft icing. Realistic descriptions of the three-...- publication PDF
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Role of magnetosheath force balance in regulating the dayside reconnection potential
When the interplanetary magnetic field ( IMF) is southward, most of the ionospheric potential is generated by merging between the IMF and the magnetospheric field. Typically,...- publication PDF
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MJO wind energy and prediction of El Niño
This study applies the energetic framework developed to quantify the interaction between the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to El Nino...- publication PDF
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The role of magnetic flux tube deformation and magnetosheath plasma beta in...
The phenomena of cross polar cap potential (CPCP) and ionospheric field-aligned current (FAC) saturation remain largely unexplained. In the present study, we expand upon the...- publication PDF
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Modeling the sources and chemistry of polar tropospheric halogens (Cl, Br,...
Current chemistry climate models do not include polar emissions and chemistry of halogens. This work presents the first implementation of an interactive polar module into the...- publication PDF
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Microphysical processes of super typhoon Lekima (2019) and their impacts on...
The complex precipitation microphysics associated with super typhoon Lekima (2019) and its potential impacts on the consistency of multi-source datasets and radar quantitative...- publication PDF
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The NIMA method for improved moment estimation from doppler spectra
The NCAR Improved Moments Algorithm (NIMA) for estimating moments from wind measurement devices that measure Doppler spectra as a function of range is described in some detail....- publication PDF
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Aircraft testing of the new Blunt-body Aerosol Sampler (BASE)
There is limited understanding of the role of aerosols in the formation and modification of clouds, partly due to inadequate data on such systems. Aircraft-based aerosol...- publication PDF
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The Assimilation of GPS Radio Occultation Data and its Impact on Rainfall...
In this study, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF-2.0.3.1) model with three-dimensional variational data assimilation (3DVAR) was utilized to study a heavy rainfall event...- publication PDF
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A finite-volume module for cloud-resolving simulations of global atmospheric flows
The paper extends to moist-precipitating dynamics a recently documented high-performance finite-volume module (FVM) for simulating global all-scale atmospheric flows...- publication PDF
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North American regional reanalysis
In 1997, during the late stages of production of NCEP-NCAR Global Reanalysis (GR), exploration of a regional reanalysis project was suggested by the GR project's Advisory...- publication PDF
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New observations of large-scale waves coupling with the ionosphere made by...
The recently launched Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) Mission observed prominent quasi-16-day oscillations (Q16DOs) in the OI 135.6-nm nightglow from the...- publication PDF
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Quasi-biennial oscillation and solar cycle influences on winter Arctic total ozone
The total column ozone (TCO) observed from satellites and assimilated in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts since 1979 is used as an atmospheric tracer to...- publication PDF
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A scale-dependent blending scheme for WRFDA: Impact on regional weather forecasting
Due to limitation of the domain size and limited observations used in regional data assimilation and forecasting systems, regional forecasts suffer a general deficiency in...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric reanalyses: A major resource for climate services
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Climatology of the middle atmosphere in LMDz: Impact of source-related...
Gravity wave (GW) parameterizations control the mean state and variability of the middle atmosphere in present-day climate models. The most recent parameterizations relate the...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric impacts of Arctic sea-ice loss, 1979-2009: Separating forced...
The ongoing loss of Arctic sea-ice cover has implications for the wider climate system. The detection and importance of the atmospheric impacts of sea-ice loss depends, in part,...- publication PDF
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Nonparametric triple collocation
Triple collocation has found widespread application in the hydrological sciences because it provides information about the errors in our measurements without requiring that we...- publication PDF
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Synoptic conditions associated with propagating and nonpropagating...
Using European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) analyses, this study identifies common synoptic flow patterns associated with propagating (long lived) and non-...- publication PDF
