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Boundary value problems for the shallow water equations with topography
Nonviscous shallow water equations with topography are considered in one spatial dimension. The aim is to find boundary conditions which are physically suitable; that is, they...- publication PDF
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Salaries and advancement of women faculty in atmospheric science: some...
Zevin and Seitter's analyses of the 1993 American Meteorological Society membership survey indicated that university/college employees had the largest difference in salary by...- publication PDF
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The low resolution CCSM3
The low-resolution fully coupled configuration of the Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) is described and evaluated. In this most economical configuration, an...- publication PDF
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Penetrating electric field simulated by the MAGE and comparison with ICON observation
Using the newly developed, Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) model, we simulated the penetrating electric field in the equatorial region under different...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms for spontaneous gravity-wave generation within a dipole vortex
Previous simulations of dipole vortices propagating through rotating, stratified fluid have revealed small-scale inertia–gravity waves that are embedded within the dipole near...- publication PDF
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Inherently conservative nonpolynomial-based remapping schemes: Application...
A group of new conservative remapping schemes based on nonpolynomial approximations is proposed. The remapping schemes rely on the conservative cascade scheme (CCS), which...- publication PDF
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Climatology of UV-A, UV-B, and Erythemal Radiation at the Earth's Surface, 1979-2000
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An improved representation of fire non-methane organic gases (NMOGs) in...
Fires emit a substantial amount of non-methane organic gases (NMOGs), the atmospheric oxidation of which can contribute to ozone and secondary particulate matter formation....- publication PDF
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A Guide to Transform Software for Nonlinear Normal-mode Initialization of...
This report represents the culmination of efforts by Ronald Errico and James Vickroy of the Large-Scale Dynamics Section of NCAR's Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction Division...- publication PDF
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RCP2.6: Exploring the possibility to keep global mean temperature increase below 2°C
The RCP2.6 emission and concentration pathway is representative of the literature on mitigation scenarios aiming to limit the increase of global mean temperature to 2 degrees C....- publication PDF
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Improved Mapping of Tropospheric Delays
The authors compare several methods to map the a priori tropospheric delay of global positioning system (GPS) signals from the zenith direction to lower elevations. This is...- publication PDF
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Contrasting response of Mesoscale Convective Systems occurrence over...
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are pivotal in global energy/water cycles and typically produce extreme weather events. Despite their importance, our understanding of their...- publication PDF
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The role of metadata and vocabulary standards in enabling scientific data...
Objective: Journal publishers within many sciences are increasingly expecting data to be deposited into repositories that support the FAIR principles. Data repositories are thus...- publication PDF
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Information-theoretic analysis of longitude distribution of photospheric...
Much of the research on the magnetic activity of the Sun has been focused on its axisymmetric component. However, the longitudinal complexity plays a fundamental role in the...- publication PDF
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Description and demonstration of the Coupled Community Earth System Model v2...
Earth system/ice-sheet coupling is an area of recent, major Earth System Model (ESM) development. This work occurs at the intersection of glaciology and climate science and is...- publication PDF
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The collection efficiency of shielded and unshielded precipitation gauges....
The use of windshields to reduce the impact of wind on snow measurements is common. This paper investigates the catching performance of shielded and unshielded gauges using...- publication PDF
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An empirical model of the occurrence of an additional layer in the...
About 8 year electron density profile (EDP) data from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 satellites radio occultation technique were used to investigate the additional stratification of the...- publication PDF
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What do the new 2018 HIWIND thermospheric wind observations tell us about...
Daytime thermospheric winds observed by the balloon-borne instrument HIWIND (High-altitude Interferometer WIND experiment) during two flights in June 2011 and 2018 from Kiruna...- publication PDF
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Predictability error growth of turbulent flows
Recently, alternative viewpoints were suggested that is in contrast to the conventional picture of predictability error growth in the spectral domain. We survey key historical...- publication PDF
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The effect of vertically resolved soil biogeochemistry and alternate soil C...
Soils are a crucial component of the Earth system; they comprise a large portion of terrestrial carbon stocks, mediate the supply and demand of nutrients, and influence the...- publication PDF