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Ozone pollution: What can we see from space? A case study
Due to its impact on environment, tropospheric ozone received particular attention since several decades. Ground-based networks associated with regional chemical transport...- publication PDF
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Track deflection of Typhoon Chanthu (2021) near Taiwan as investigated using...
The Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) with variable resolution (60–15–1 km) is used to investigate the track deflection of Typhoon Chanthu (2021) near...- publication PDF
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Development and testing of polar WRF. Part III: Arctic land
A version of the state-of-the-art Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) has been developed for use in polar climates. The model known as "Polar WRF" is tested for land...- publication PDF
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Divergence and vorticity from aircraft air motion measurements
This paper considers the accuracy of divergence estimates obtained from aircraft measurements of the horizontal velocity field and points out an error that appears in these...- publication PDF
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In situ aerosol size spectra measurements in the austral polar vortex before...
Aerosol from the Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai (HT‐HH) volcanic eruption (20.6°S) in January 2022 were not incorporated into the austral polar vortex until the...- publication PDF
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Urban meteorological modeling using WRF: A sensitivity study
This study explores the sensitivity of high-resolution mesoscale simulations of urban heat island (UHI) in the Chicago metropolitan area (CMA) and its environs to urban physical...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of the atmospheric CO₂ signal as observed over the...
High resolution in situ measurements of atmospheric CO₂ were made from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment - North America (INTEX-...- publication PDF
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Snow nowcasting using a real-time correlation of radar reflectivity with...
This paper describes and evaluates an algorithm for nowcasting snow water equivalent (SWE) at a point on the surface based on a real-time correlation of equivalent radar...- publication PDF
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Observed World Ocean Seasonal Surface Currents on a 5 Degree Grid
A digitized ocean current data set for use in ocean model or diagnostic computer studies is described. Various sources of observed ocean currents are examined, and surface...- publication PDF
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Unprecedented upper-air dropsonde observations over Antarctica from the 2010...
The 2010 Concordiasi field experiment took place over Antarctica from September to December 2010. During Concordiasi, for the first time, 13 National Center for Atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Simulations of the response of the mesospheric circulation and temperature...
The loss of ozone that has occurred in the Antarctic lower stratosphere during each spring since 1980 has led to a decrease in the lower stratospheric temperature that persists...- publication PDF
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Improving snow albedo modeling in the E3SM land model (version 2.0) and...
With the highest albedo of the land surface, snow plays a vital role in Earth's surface energy budget and water cycle. Snow albedo is primarily controlled by snow grain...- publication PDF
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Climate extremes and climate change: The Russian heat wave and other climate...
A global perspective is developed on a number of high impact climate extremes in 2010 through diagnostic studies of the anomalies, diabatic heating, and global energy and water...- publication PDF
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Investigating Alfvénic wave propagation in coronal open-field regions
The physical mechanisms behind accelerating solar and stellar winds are a long-standing astrophysical mystery, although recent breakthroughs have come from models invoking the...- publication PDF
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Modeling of aircraft measurements of ice crystal concentration in the Arctic...
In this study, two parameterizations of ice nucleation rate on dust particles are used in a parcel model to simulate aircraft measurements of ice crystal number concentration Ni...- publication PDF
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A method for constructing directional surface wave spectra from ICESat-2 altimetry
Sea ice is important for Earth's energy budget as it influences surface albedo and air-sea fluxes in polar regions. On its margins, waves heavily impact sea ice. Routine and...- publication PDF
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A climatology of planetary wave-driven mesospheric inversion layers in the...
Mesospheric inversion layers (MILs) are a useful diagnostic to simultaneously investigate middle atmosphere radiation, chemistry, and dynamics in high-top general circulation...- publication PDF
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Estimating polarization purity with noise
We formulate a problem of estimating and monitoring mismatch (unwanted departure from orthogonality) of two ostensibly orthogonal polarization channels in a fully polarimetric...- publication PDF
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Impact of runoff schemes on global flow discharge: A comprehensive analysis...
Accurate estimation of flow discharge is crucial for hydrological modelling, water resources planning, and flood prediction. This study examines seven common runoff schemes...- publication PDF
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An overview of aircraft observations from the Pacific Dust Experiment campaign
Fourteen research flights were conducted in the Pacific Dust Experiment (PACDEX) during April and May 2007 to sample pollution and dust outbreaks from east Asia as they traveled...- publication PDF