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Effects of snow water storage on hydrologic partitioning across the...
In the montane western United States, where the majority of downstream water resources are derived from snowmelt, a warming climate threatens the timing and amount of future...- publication PDF
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On the influence of swell propagation angle on surface drag
A combination of turbulence-resolving large-eddy simulations and observations are used to examine the influence of swell amplitude and swell propagation angle on surface drag....- publication PDF
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Enhanced simulated early 21st century Arctic sea ice loss due to CMIP6...
The mechanisms underlying decadal variability in Arctic sea ice remain actively debated. Here, we ability in boreal biomass burning (BB) emissions strongly influences simulated...- publication PDF
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Accelerated Greenland ice sheet mass loss under high greenhouse gas forcing...
The Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is now losing mass at a rate of 0.7 mm of sea level rise (SLR) per year. Here we explore future GrIS evolution and interactions with global and...- publication PDF
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Impacts of the Sudden Stratospheric Warming on Equatorial Plasma Bubbles:...
This study investigates the day-to-day variability of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) over the Atlantic-American region and their connections to atmospheric planetary waves...- publication PDF
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On the relation between gravity waves and wind speed in the lower...
The relationship between gravity wave momentum fluxes and local wind speed is investigated for oceanic regions at high southern latitudes during austral spring. The motivation...- publication PDF
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How well are we measuring snow: The NOAA/FAA/NCAR Winter Precipitation Test Bed
This paper presents recent efforts to understand the relative accuracies of different instrumentation and gauges with various windshield configurations to measure snowfall....- publication PDF
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Development of WACCM with the non-hydrostatic MPAS-A dynamical core
The non-hydrostatic Model for Prediction Across Scales-Atmosphere (MPAS-A) dynamical core has recently been adapted for the Specified Chemistry Whole Atmosphere Community...- publication PDF
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A model-model and data-model comparison for the early Eocene hydrological cycle
A range of proxy observations have recently provided constraints on how Earth's hydrological cycle responded to early Eocene climatic changes. However, comparisons of proxy data...- publication PDF
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Drivers of snowfall accumulation in the Central Idaho Mountains using...
The western United States region, an economic and agricultural powerhouse, is highly dependent on winter snowpack from the mountain west. Coupled with increasing water and...- publication PDF
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Measuring spatiotemporal variation in snow optical grain size under a...
The distribution of forest cover exerts strong controls on the spatiotemporal distribution of snow accumulation and snowmelt. The physical processes that govern these controls...- publication PDF
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Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition
Litter decomposition is a biogeochemical process fundamental to element cycling within ecosystems, influencing plant productivity, species composition and carbon storage....- publication PDF
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The impact of inhomogeneous emissions and topography on ozone photochemistry...
Global and regional chemical transport models of the atmosphere are based on the assumption that chemical species are completely mixed within each model grid box. However, in...- publication PDF
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Monitoring and understanding trends in extreme storms: State of knowledge
The state of knowledge regarding trends and an understanding of their causes is presented for a specific subset of extreme weather and climate types. For severe convective...- publication PDF
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Diagnosis and Sensitivity of the 200 hPa Circulation in NCAR Community Climate Models
The purpose of this report is to determine the nature of systematic errors in several different seasonal cycle versions of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)...- publication PDF
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The Holton-Tan mechanism under stratospheric aerosol intervention
The teleconnection between the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) and the Arctic stratospheric polar vortex, or the Holton-Tan (HT) relationship, may change in a warmer climate or...- publication PDF
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Wave activity in the tropical tropopause layer in seven reanalysis and four...
Sub-seasonal variability including equatorial waves significantly influence the dehydration and transport processes in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL). This study...- publication PDF
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Model biases in the simulation of the springtime North Pacific ENSO teleconnection
The wintertime ENSO teleconnection over the North Pacific region consists of an intensified (weakened) low pressure center during El Nino (La Nina) events both in observations...- publication PDF
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Grand challenges in the physics of the sun and sun-like stars
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Nonspherical and spherical characterization of ice in Hurricane Erin for...
In order to better understand the characteristics and physical-to-radiative relationships of frozen hydrometeors in hurricane systems, computed brightness temperatures (TB) from...- publication PDF
