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Short-term variability in the migrating diurnal tide caused by interactions...
The migrating diurnal tide is one of the dominant dynamical features in the low latitudes of the Earth's mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region, representing the...- publication PDF
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Evaluating Noah-MP simulated runoff and snowpack in heavily burned...
Terrestrial hydrology is altered by fires, particularly in snow-dominated catchments. However, fire impacts on catchment hydrology are often neglected from land surface model...- publication PDF
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Future changes in snowpack, snowmelt, and runoff potential extremes over...
Snowpack and snowmelt-driven extreme events (e.g., floods) have large societal consequences including infrastructure failures. However, it is not well understood how projected...- publication PDF
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Recent widening of the tropical belt: Evidence from tropopause observations
Radiosonde measurements and reanalysis data are used to examine long-term changes in tropopause behavior in the subtropics. Tropopause heights in the subtropics exhibit a...- publication PDF
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Confronting weather and climate models with observational data from soil...
Four land surface models in uncoupled and coupled configurations are compared to observations of daily soil moisture from 19 networks in the conterminous United States to...- publication PDF
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Internal climate variability obscures future freezing rain changes despite...
Although numerous studies have projected changes in freezing rain under future climate conditions, the internal variability of freezing rain remains poorly quantified. Here, we...- publication PDF
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Support for global climate reorganization during the "Medieval Climate Anomaly"
Widely distributed proxy records indicate that the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA; ~900-1350 AD) was characterized by coherent shifts in large-scale Northern Hemisphere...- publication PDF
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Normal-mode function representation of global 3-D data sets: Open-access...
This article presents new software for the analysis of global dynamical fields in (re)analyses, weather forecasts and climate models. A new diagnostic tool, developed within the...- publication PDF
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Hurricane Isabel (2003): New insights into the physics of intense storms....
An unprecedented dataset of category-5 Hurricane Isabel was collected on 12-14 September 2003. This two-part series focuses on novel dynamical and thermodynamical aspects of...- publication PDF
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Normalized hail particle size distributions from the T-28 storm-penetrating aircraft
Hail and graupel are linked to lightning production and are important components of cloud evolution. Hail can also cause significant damage when it precipitates to the surface....- publication PDF
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Estimating soil respiration in a subalpine landscape using point, terrain,...
Landscape carbon (C) flux estimates help assess the ability of terrestrial ecosystems to buffer further increases in anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Advances in...- publication PDF
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Variability in the sensitivity among model simulations of permafrost and...
A significant portion of the large amount of carbon (C) currently stored in soils of the permafrost region in the Northern Hemisphere has the potential to be emitted as the...- publication PDF
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An intercomparison of T-REX mountain-wave simulations and implications for...
Numerical simulations of flow over steep terrain using 11 different nonhydrostatic numerical models are compared and analyzed. A basic benchmark and five other test cases are...- publication PDF
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Assimilation of IASI satellite CO fields into a global chemistry transport...
This work evaluates the IASI CO product against independent in-situ aircraft data from the MOZAIC program and the POLARCAT aircraft campaign. The validation is carried out by...- publication PDF
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Large-aspect-ratio structures in simulated ocean surface boundary layer...
Alarge-eddy simulation (LES) initialized and forced using observations is used to conduct a process study of ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) turbulence in a 2-km box of...- publication PDF
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ClimateNet: An expert-labeled open dataset and deep learning architecture...
Identifying, detecting, and localizing extreme weather events is a crucial first step in understanding how they may vary under different climate change scenarios. Pattern...- publication PDF
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A comparison study of NO cooling between TIMED/SABER measurements and TIEGCM...
We investigate the latitudinal and longitudinal variations of thermospheric nitric oxide (NO) cooling rate from 2005 to 2016. We compare the maximum of the NO cooling rate and...- publication PDF
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Modernizing the open-source community Noah with multi-parameterization...
The widely used open-source community Noah with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) land surface model (LSM) is designed for applications ranging from uncoupled land...- publication PDF
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Modeling European hot spells using extreme value analysis
Atmospheric blocking in mainland Europe is often cited as the cause of extremely high temperatures lasting several days. By definition, extreme temperatures are rare, and yet...- publication PDF
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WACCM-D Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with D-region ion chemistry
Energetic particle precipitation (EPP) and ion chemistry affect the neutral composition of the polar middle atmosphere. For example, production of odd nitrogen and odd hydrogen...- publication PDF