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Combined effects of midlevel dry air and vertical wind shear on tropical...
This study examines how midlevel dry air and vertical wind shear (VWS) can modulate tropical cyclone (TC) development via downdraft ventilation. A suite of experiments was...- publication PDF
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The press and pulse of climate change: Extreme events in the Colorado River Basin
Extremes in temperature and precipitation are associated with damaging floods, prolonged drought, destructive wildfires, agricultural challenges, compromised human health,...- publication PDF
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Abrupt regime shifts in the North Atlantic atmospheric circulation over the...
We analyze modeling results of the North Atlantic atmospheric winter circulation from a transient climate simulation over the last 21,000 years. In agreement with previous...- publication PDF
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The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Overview, system efforts, and...
Since its initial release in 2000, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model has become one of the world's most widely used numerical weather prediction models. Designed...- publication PDF
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Thermodynamic Profiling Technologies Workshop report to the National Science...
The Thermodynamic Profiling Technologies Workshop was convened on 12-14 April 2011 to assess the merits of ground-based remote sensing technologies applicable to highly resolved...- publication PDF
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Planning for an uncertain future: Climate change sensitivity assessment...
Assessing climate change risk to municipal water supplies is often conducted by hydrologic modeling specific to local watersheds and infrastructure to ensure that outputs are...- publication PDF
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Arctic sea ice albedo: Spectral composition, spatial heterogeneity, and...
The magnitude, spectral composition, and variability of the Arctic sea ice surface albedo are key to understanding and numerically simulating Earth's shortwave energy budget....- publication PDF
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Correlation between buoyancy flux, dissipation and potential vorticity in...
We study in this paper the correlation between the buoyancy flux, the efficiency of energy dissipation and the linear and nonlinear components of potential vorticity, PV, a...- publication PDF
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The influence of metallicity on stellar differential rotation and magnetic activity
Observations of Sun-like stars over the past half-century have improved our understanding of how magnetic dynamos, like that responsible for the 11 yr solar cycle, change with...- publication PDF
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Reply to comments on "Multiyear predictions of North Atlantic hurricane...
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Three atmospheric patterns dominate decadal North Atlantic overturning variability
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) variability originates from a large number of interacting processes with multiple time scales, with dominant processes...- publication PDF
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Raspy-Cal: A genetic algorithm-based automatic calibration tool for HEC-RAS...
While automatic calibration programs exist for many hydraulic models, no user-friendly and broadly reusable automatic calibration system currently exists for steady-state HEC-...- publication PDF
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Vegetation-climate interactions in the warm mid-Cretaceous
Vegetation-climate interactions are thought to have amplified polar warmth during past warm periods. Here, we explore the vegetation-climate interactions in the mid-Cretaceous...- publication PDF
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Observation and modeling of the evolution of Texas power plant plumes
During the second Texas Air Quality Study 2006 (TexAQS II), a full range of pollutants was measured by aircraft in eastern Texas during successive transects of power plant...- publication PDF
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Recommendations for developing, documenting, and distributing data products...
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) provides over 180 distinct data products from 81 sites (47 terrestrial and 34 freshwater aquatic sites) within the United...- publication PDF
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Observations of the evolution of the nocturnal and convective boundary...
The Boundary Layer Evolution (BLE) missions of the International H2O Project (IHOP_2002) were designed to provide comprehensive observations of the distribution of water vapor...- publication PDF
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On determining stationary periods within time series
A novel approach is constructed for determining both the occurrence and the duration of stationary periods within time series. After reviewing four statistical techniques that...- publication PDF
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Determination of the atmospheric lifetime and global warming potential of...
We have used the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM), with an updated treatment of loss processes, to determine the atmospheric lifetime of sulfur hexafluoride...- publication PDF
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Conservative transport schemes for spherical geodesic grids: High-order flux...
Higher-order finite volume flux operators for transport algorithms used within Runge-Kutta time integration schemes on irregular Voronoi (hexagonal) meshes are proposed and...- publication PDF
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Cirrus optical properties observed with lidar, radiosonde, and satellite...
Cirrus formation and geometrical and optical properties of tropical cirrus as a function of height and temperature are studied on the basis of INDOEX (Indian Ocean Experiment)...- publication PDF