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Snowfall in the Northern Great Lakes: Lessons learned from a multisensor observatory
A multisensor snowfall observational suite has been deployed at the Marquette, Michigan, National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office (KMQT) since 2014. Micro Rain Radar...- publication PDF
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Ice-Nucleating Particles that impact clouds and climate: Observational and...
Atmospheric ice-nucleating particles (INPs) play a critical role in cloud freezing processes, with important implications for precipitation formation and cloud radiative...- publication PDF
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Ocean viscosity and climate
The impacts of parameterized lateral ocean viscosity on climate are explored using three 120-year integrations of a fully coupled climate model. Reducing viscosity leads to a...- publication PDF
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Inertia-gravity waves spontaneously generated by jets and fronts, Part 1:...
The spontaneous generation of inertiaâgravity waves in idealized life cycles of baroclinic instability is investigated using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. Two...- publication PDF
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Use of information by National Weather Service forecasters and emergency...
Winter storms making landfall in western North America can generate heavy precipitation and other significant weather, leading to floods, landslides, and other hazards that...- publication PDF
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Comparison between ozone column depths and methane lifetimes computed by...
Recently, Cooke et al. (Cooke et al. 2022 R. Soc. Open Sci. 9, 211165. ()) used a three-dimensional coupled chemistry-climate model (WACCM6) to calculate ozone column depths at...- publication PDF
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Development of the flux-adjusting surface data assimilation system for...
The flux-adjusting surface data assimilation system (FASDAS) is developed to provide continuous adjustments for initial soil moisture and temperature and for surface air...- publication PDF
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A weather and climate enterprise strategic implementation plan for...
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Weather and Climate Enterprise Strategic Implementation Plan for Generating and Communicating Forecast Uncertainty (the Plan) is...- publication PDF
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Statistical and dynamical downscaling for precipitation: An evaluation and...
This paper compares six statistical downscaling models (SDMs) and three regional climate models (RCMs) in their ability to downscale daily precipitation statistics in a region...- publication PDF
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Climatology of westerly wind events in the lee of the Sierra Nevada
A 5-yr climatology of westerly wind events in Owens Valley, California, is derived from data measured by a mesoscale network of 16 automatic weather stations. Thermally driven...- publication PDF
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Emissions of trace organic gases from western U.S. wildfires based on WE-CAN...
We present emission measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for western U.S. wildland fires made on the NSF/NCAR C-130 research aircraft during the Western Wildfire...- publication PDF
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Chemical feedback from decreasing carbon monoxide emissions
Understanding changes in the burden and growth rate of atmospheric methane (CH4) has been the focus of several recent studies but still lacks scientific consensus. Here we...- publication PDF
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Reference aquaplanet climate in the Community Atmosphere Model, Version 5
Fundamental characteristics of the aquaplanet climate simulated by the Community Atmosphere Model, Version 5.3 (CAM5.3) are presented. The assumptions and simplifications of the...- publication PDF
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The sensitivity of simulated shallow cumulus convection and cold pools to...
The sensitivity of nested WRF simulations of precipitating shallow marine cumuli and cold pools to microphysical parameterization is examined. The simulations differ only in...- publication PDF
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The multi-thermal chromosphere
Context. Numerical simulations of the solar chromosphere predict a diverse thermal structure with both hot and cool regions. Observations of plage regions in particular...- publication PDF
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Specific attenuation-based rain-rate applicability to varying rainfall...
Dual-polarization radar is a valuable tool for quantifying rainfall, including in remote and mountainous regions, but subject to partial beam blockage and ground clutter. Recent...- publication PDF
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Studying the transfer of magnetic helicity in solar active regions with the...
In the solar corona, magnetic helicity slowly and continuously accumulates in response to plasma flows tangential to the photosphere and magnetic flux emergence through it....- publication PDF
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Effects of hydrologic model choice and calibration on the portrayal of...
The assessment of climate change impacts on water resources involves several methodological decisions, including choices of global climate models (GCMs), emission scenarios,...- publication PDF
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High winds generated by bow echoes. Part I: Overview of the Omaha bow echo 5...
An analysis of a bow echo that produced damaging winds exceeding F1 in intensity on the Fujita scale near Omaha, Nebraska, is shown. Part I of this study presents a combination...- publication PDF
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Balancing water reuse and ecological support goals in an effluent dominated river
Flows in urban rivers are increasingly managed to support water supply needs while also protecting and/or restoring instream ecological functions, goals that are often in...- publication PDF
