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Asteroseismology and interferometry
Asteroseismology provides us with a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Recent developments, including the first systematic...- publication PDF
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An unusual hailstorm on 24 June 2006, Boulder, Colorado, Part I: Mesoscale...
An unusual, isolated hailstorm descended on Boulder, Colorado, on the evening of 24 June 2006. Starting with scattered large, flattened, disk-shaped hailstones and ending with a...- publication PDF
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Simulations of Cyclone Sidr in the Bay of Bengal with a high-resolution...
The predictability of Cyclone Sidr in the Bay of Bengal was explored in terms of track and intensity using the Advanced Research Hurricane Weather Research Forecast (AHW) model....- publication PDF
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A new approach to homogenize daily radiosonde humidity data
Radiosonde humidity records represent the only in situ observations of tropospheric water vapor content with multidecadal length and quasi-global coverage. However, their use...- publication PDF
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A seasonal study of mesospheric temperatures and emission intensities at...
Aerospace imagers operating at Alice Springs (23°42'S, 133°53'E) and Adelaide (34°55'S, 138°36'E) have collected more than 4-year of OH and O₂ atmospheric emission data. Images...- publication PDF
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NCAR Local Network
The NCAR Local Network is an interconnection of all of the computer systems of the SCD and some of the computer systems of other NCAR divisions. It is the function of the...- publication PDF
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Observational study of the 4-day wave in the mesosphere preceding the sudden...
We have examined the Michelson Interferometer (MI) OH airglow measurements at the South Pole Station and the National Center for Environment Prediction (NCEP) temperatures to...- publication PDF
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Cracking the MJO nut
The Madden-Julian oscillation poses great challenges to our understanding and prediction of tropical convection and the large-scale circulation. Several internationally...- publication PDF
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The representative concentration pathways: an overview
This paper summarizes the development process and main characteristics of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), a set of four new pathways developed for the climate...- publication PDF
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The next generation airborne polarimetric Doppler weather radar
Results from airborne field deployments emphasized the need to obtain concurrently high temporal and spatial resolution measurements of 3-D winds and microphysics. A phased...- publication PDF
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Unveiling the combined effects of neutral dynamics and electrodynamic...
Geomagnetic storms of G1-class were observed on 3 and 4 February 2022, which caused the loss of 38 out of 49 SpaceX satellites during their launch due to enhanced neutral...- publication PDF
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How well do we know ENSO's climate impacts over North America, and how do we...
The role of sampling variability in ENSO composites of winter surface air temperature and precipitation over North America during the period 1920-2013 is assessed for...- publication PDF
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Frequency dependence of ocean kinetic energy and respective changes over the...
Regional horizontal and vertical patterns of ocean kinetic energy (KE) during 1983-2018 are studied using a numerical simulation. The analysis is focused on time-mean and...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the causes of differences in tropospheric OH within global models
The hydroxyl radical (OH) is the primary daytime oxidant in the troposphere and provides the main loss mechanism for many pollutants and greenhouse gases, including methane...- publication PDF
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Mesh refinement
We study mesh refinement techniques for first-order hyperbolic equations. A refinement method for use with the leap-frog scheme is defined and its stability established. The...- publication PDF
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A comprehensive numerical study of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions...
Three-dimensional large-eddy simulations (LES) with detailed bin-resolved microphysics are performed to explore the diurnal variation of marine stratocumulus (MSc) clouds under...- publication PDF
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Semicontinuous measurements of gas-particle partitioning of organic acids in...
Hundreds of gas- and particle-phase organic acids were measured in a rural ponderosa pine forest in Colorado, USA, during BEACHON-RoMBAS (Bio-hydro-atmosphere interactions of...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of gravity waves generated in the jet-front system in a...
An idealized baroclinic instability case is simulated using a ∼ 10km resolution global model to investigate the characteristics of gravity waves generated in the baroclinic life...- publication PDF
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Aerosol absorption over land derived from the ultra-violet aerosol index by...
Quantitative measurements of aerosol absorptive properties, e.g., the absorbing aerosol optical depth (AAOD) and the single scattering albedo (SSA), are important to reduce...- publication PDF
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Systems engineering overview and concept of operations of the COronal Solar...
The COronal Solar Magnetism Observatory (COSMO) is a proposed facility with unique capabilities for magnetic field measurements in the solar atmosphere and corona to increase...- publication PDF