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Can we do better at teaching mathematics to undergraduate atmospheric...
At the 2019 annual Members Meeting of UCAR, an informal survey was made during a well-attended breakout session organized by the UCAR COMET program. The following polling...- publication PDF
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Chromospheric extension of the MURaM code
Context. Detailed numerical models of the chromosphere and corona are required to understand the heating of the solar atmosphere. An accurate treatment of the solar chromosphere...- publication PDF
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Establishing Lagrangian connections between observations within air masses...
The ITCT-Lagrangian-2K4 (Intercontinental Transport and Chemical Transformation) experiment was conceived with an aim to quantify the effects of photochemistry and mixing on the...- publication PDF
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En-GARD: A statistical downscaling framework to produce and test large...
Statistical processing of numerical model output has been a part of both weather forecasting and climate applications for decades. Statistical techniques are used to correct...- publication PDF
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A paleogeographic approach to aerosol prescription in simulations of deep...
Aerosols have important effects on the Earth's radiative balance and are normally included in simulations of present day climate. For simulations of present day or recent past...- publication PDF
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Characterizing student-driven research investigations contributed to the...
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program offers citizen science opportunities to participants of all ages, with a focus on youth in formal...- publication PDF
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On the effect of historical SST patterns on radiative feedback
We investigate the dependence of radiative feedback on the pattern of sea-surface temperature (SST) change in 14 Atmospheric General Circulation Models (AGCMs) forced with...- publication PDF
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Lifecycle of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere
Light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols (LACs), including black carbon and light-absorbing organic carbon (brown carbon, BrC), have an important role in the Earth system via...- publication PDF
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Microphysical simulations of new particle formation in the upper troposphere...
Using a three-dimensional general circulation model with sulfur chemistry and sectional aerosol microphysics (WACCM/CARMA), we studied aerosol formation and microphysics in the...- publication PDF
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Parameterization and surface data improvements and new capabilities for the...
The Community Land Model Urban (CLMU) is an urban parameterization developed to simulate urban climate within a global Earth System Model framework. This paper describes and...- publication PDF
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The magnetic future of the Sun
We analyze space-and ground-based data for the old (7.0 +/- 0.3 Gyr) solar analogs 16 Cyg A and B. The stars were observed with the Cosmic Origins UV Spectrographs on the Hubble...- publication PDF
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High-resolution observations of the shock wave behavior for sunspot...
We present the first results of sunspot oscillations from observations by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph. The strongly nonlinear oscillation is identified in both the...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of North American summertime rainfall with emphasis on the monsoon
The core region of the North American summer monsoon is examined using spatially averaged daily rainfall observations obtained from gauges, with the objective of improving...- publication PDF
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A new ocean state after nuclear war
Nuclear war would produce dire global consequences for humans and our environment. We simulated climate impacts of US-Russia and India-Pakistan nuclear wars in an Earth System...- publication PDF
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First global-scale synoptic imaging of solar eclipse effects in the thermosphere
A total solar eclipse occurred in the Southern Hemisphere on 2 July 2019 from approximately 17 to 22 UT. Its effect in the thermosphere over South America was imaged from...- publication PDF
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Incremental dynamical downscaling for probabilistic analysis based on...
A dynamical downscaling method for probabilistic regional-scale climate change projections was developed to cover the inherent uncertainty associated with multiple general...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 2021 Improving Scientific Software Conference
The Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) is a loosely structured group of software engineers and scientists who write scientific software, mostly but not only at NCAR and mostly...- publication PDF
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The contribution of snow condition trends to future ground climate
Global climate models predict that terrestrial northern high-latitude snow conditions will change substantially over the twenty-first century. Results from a Community Climate...- publication PDF
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A global atmospheric model of meteoric iron
The first global model of meteoric iron in the atmosphere (WACCM-Fe) has been developed by combining three components: the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM), a...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of the atmospheric COâ signal as observed over the...
High resolution in situ measurements of atmospheric COâ were made from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment - North America (INTEX-...- publication PDF