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Project Clambake Surface Wind Analysis at Palestine, Texas
The Field Observing Facility of NCAR measured surface winds at the NCAR Scientific Balloon Flight Station at Palestine, Texas, during October and November 1965 in order to...- publication PDF
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Revealing bias of Cloud Radiative Effect in WRF simulation: Bias...
Accurate prediction of cloud radiative effect (CRE) is important to weather forecast and climate projection, and solar energy production-a major renewable energy source toward...- publication PDF
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Equatorial ionospheric plasma drifts and O+ concentration enhancements...
Disturbance dynamo is an important dynamic process during magnetic storms. However, very few direct observations of dynamo-induced plasma drifts and ion composition changes in...- publication PDF
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Facilitating strongly coupled ocean-atmosphere data assimilation with an...
In a strongly coupled data assimilation (DA), a cross-fluid covariance is specified that allows measurements from a coupled fluid (e.g., atmosphere) to directly impact analysis...- publication PDF
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Global oscillatory modes in high-end climate modeling and reanalyses
Interannual oscillatory modes, atmospheric and oceanic, are present in several large regions of the globe. We examine here low-frequency variability (LFV) over the entire globe...- publication PDF
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The sea spray contribution to sensible heat flux
Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent Couette flow are combined with Lagrangian point-particle tracking to investigate the effects of a dispersed phase on bulk passive...- publication PDF
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Effective radiative forcing and adjustments in CMIP6 models
The effective radiative forcing, which includes the instantaneous forcing plus adjustments from the atmosphere and surface, has emerged as the key metric of evaluating human and...- publication PDF
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Corrections of humidity measurement errors from the Vaisala RS80 radiosonde...
A series of laboratory tests have been conducted on several different batches of Vaisala RS80 radiosondes to understand and develop methods to correct six humidity measurement...- publication PDF
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How important is vegetation phenology for European climate and heat waves?
It has been hypothesized that vegetation phenology may play an important role for the midlatitude climate. This study investigates the impact of interannual and intraseasonal...- publication PDF
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A reanalysis system for the generation of mesoscale climatographies
The use of a mesoscale model-based four-dimensional data assimilation (FDDA) system for generating mesoscale climatographies is demonstrated. This dynamical downscaling method...- publication PDF
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An observational study of a coastal barrier jet induced by a landfalling typhoon
In this study, the structure and evolution of a coastal barrier jet (CBJ) along the east coast of Taiwan is documented using operational Doppler radars. The formation of the CBJ...- publication PDF
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Chemical weather and chemical climate
Progress in fundamental understanding of atmospheric chemistry in the past decades has enabled the development of advanced environmental predictive capability. Accurate chemical...- publication PDF
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Selecting representative days for more efficient dynamical climate...
This paper describes a new computationally efficient and statistically robust sampling method for generating dynamically downscaled climatologies. It is based on a Monte Carlo...- publication PDF
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Impacts of urban expansion and future green planting on summer precipitation...
In this study, an analysis of long-term rainfall data reveals that the rapid urban expansion in Beijing since 1981 is statistically correlated to summer rainfall reduction in...- publication PDF
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The role of sulfur dioxide in stratospheric aerosol formation evaluated by...
Stratospheric aerosols (SAs) are a variable component of the Earth's albedo that may be intentionally enhanced in the future to offset greenhouse gases (geoengineering). The...- publication PDF
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A tethered-balloon PTRMS sampling approach for surveying of landscape-scale...
Landscape-scale fluxes of biogenic gases were surveyed by deploying a 100 m Teflon tube attached to a tethered balloon as a sampling inlet for a fast-response proton-transfer-...- publication PDF
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A multi-model CMIP6-PMIP4 study of Arctic sea ice at 127 ka: Sea ice data...
The Last Interglacial period (LIG) is a period with increased summer insolation at high northern latitudes, which results in strong changes in the terrestrial and marine...- publication PDF
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Impact of changes in the Sun's conveyor-belt on recent solar cycles
Plasma flowing poleward at the solar surface and returning equatorward near the base of the convection zone, called the meridional circulation, constitutes the Sun's conveyor-...- publication PDF
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Bridging the gap: Capturing the Lyα counterpart of a type-II spicule and its...
We present results from an observing campaign in support of the VAULT2.0 sounding rocket launch on 2014 September 30. VAULT2.0 is a Lya (1216 A) spectroheliograph capable of...- publication PDF
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The effect of dynamics on mixed-phase clouds: Theoretical considerations
A theoretical framework has been developed describing nonequilibrium formation and maintenance of mixed-phase clouds. The necessary and sufficient conditions required to...- publication PDF
