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Beyond weather time-scale prediction for Hurricane Sandy and Super Typhoon...
While tropical cyclone (TC) prediction, in particular TC genesis, remains very challenging, accurate prediction of TCs is critical for timely preparedness and mitigation. Using...- publication PDF
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Modeling an extreme dust deposition event to the French alpine seasonal...
Mineral dust is an important aerosol in the atmosphere and is known to reduce snow albedo upon deposition. Model predictions of dust deposition events in snow covered mountain...- publication PDF
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Thermospheric density enhancements in the dayside cusp region during strong...
Tri-axial accelerometer data from the Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) satellite have revealed the thermospheric density and its variability in unprecedented detail....- publication PDF
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The common occurrence of highly supercooled drizzle and rain near the...
Highly supercooled rain and drizzle from cloud tops at -12 to -21°C down to the 0° isotherm was documented by aircraft observations in clouds over a wide range of meteorological...- publication PDF
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Improving probabilistic weather forecasts for decision making: A...
This Technical Note presents methods and findings from a study of winter weather decision making at a major U.S. airport and associated strategies for improving the generation...- publication PDF
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Reappraisal of the Climate Impacts of Ozone-Depleting Substances
We assess the effective radiative forcing due to ozone-depleting substances using models participating in the Aerosols and Chemistry and Radiative Forcing Model Intercomparison...- publication PDF
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Potential predictability sources of the 2012 U.S. drought in observations...
The 2012 drought was the most severe and extensive summertime U.S. drought in half a century with substantial economic loss and impacts on food security and commodity prices. A...- publication PDF
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The role of relative humidity in continental new particle formation
Relative humidity (RH) has been observed to be anticorrelated with continental new particle formation. Several reasons have been proposed for this rather surprising finding, but...- publication PDF
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Revisiting the Pacific meridional mode
Numerous studies demonstrated that the Pacific Meridional Mode (PMM) can excite Central Pacific (CP) El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events and that the PMM is mostly a...- publication PDF
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Advancing precipitation prediction using a new-generation storm-resolving...
Global climate models (GCMs) have advanced in many ways as computing power has allowed more complexity and finer resolutions. As GCMs reach storm-resolving scales, they need to...- publication PDF
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Model evaluations for winter orographic clouds with observations
The Real-Time Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation (RT-FDDA) system is used for orographic snowpack enhancement. The model has three nested domains with the grid spacing of 18, 6...- publication PDF
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On deriving incident auroral particle fluxes in the daytime using combined...
Particle energies and fluxes have predominantly been measured from instruments onboard satellites. In this study, we use daytime ground-based oxygen redline emission...- publication PDF
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Wind profiler observations of mountain waves and rotors during T-REX
A network of three boundary layer radar wind profilers is used to study characteristics of mountain waves and rotors and to explore the utility of such a network. The data...- publication PDF
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Constraints on meteoric smoke composition and meteoric influx using SOFIE...
The composition of meteoric smoke particles in the mesosphere is constrained using measurements from the Solar Occultation For Ice Experiment (SOFIE) in conjunction with models....- publication PDF
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Toward understanding the 3D structure and evolution of magnetic flux ropes...
In this work, we analyze the initial eruptive process of an extremely long duration C7.7-class flare that occurred on 2011 June 21. The flare had a 2 hr long rise time in soft...- publication PDF
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Data reduction techniques for simulation, visualization and data analysis
Data reduction is increasingly being applied to scientific data for numerical simulations, scientific visualizations and data analyses. It is most often used to lower I/O and...- publication PDF
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Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment: Daily Operations Summary
The Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment, TAMEX, is a research program undertaken by scientist from the Republic of China and the United States to improve, through enhanced...- publication PDF
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The transport of Asian dust and combustion aerosols and associated ozone to...
Aerosol and tropospheric ozone transport to North America has important implications for regional air quality and climate. We present data from Chews Ridge, a remote mountaintop...- publication PDF
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Increasing carbon dioxide concentration in the upper atmosphere observed by SABER
Carbon dioxide measurements made by the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) instrument between 2002 and 2014 were analyzed to reveal the rate...- publication PDF
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Linking vegetation patterns to environmental gradients and human impacts in...
Vegetation patterns at the landscape scale are shaped by myriad processes and historical events, and understanding the relative importance of these processes aids in predicting...- publication PDF
