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The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: Preliminary results and...
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, similar to 21 000 years ago) has been a major focus for evaluating how well state-of-the-art climate models simulate climate changes as large as...- publication PDF
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Application of satellite remote sensing in monitoring dissolved oxygen...
Dissolved oxygen (DO) is one of the critical parameters representing water quality in coastal environments. However, it is labor- and cost-intensive to maintain monitoring...- publication PDF
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Performance portability of an intermediate-complexity atmospheric research...
We examine the scalability and performance of an open-source, coarray Fortran (CAF) mini-application (mini-app) that implements the parallel, numerical algorithms that dominate...- publication PDF
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HTAP2 multi-model estimates of premature human mortality due to...
Ambient air pollution from ozone and fine particulate matter is associated with premature mortality. As emissions from one continent influence air quality over others, changes...- publication PDF
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The evolution and structure of extreme optical lightning flashes
This study documents the composition, morphology, and motion of extreme optical lightning flashes observed by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS). The furthest separation of LIS...- publication PDF
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Memory of irrigation effects on hydroclimate and its modeling challenge
Irrigation modifies land-surface water and energy budgets, and also influences weather and climate. However, current earth-system models, used for weather prediction and climate...- publication PDF
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Evaluating the diurnal cycle of upper-tropospheric ice clouds in climate...
Upper-tropospheric ice cloud measurements from the Superconducting Submillimeter Limb Emission Sounder (SMILES) on the International Space Station (ISS) are used to study the...- publication PDF
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Hemispheric comparison of cirrus cloud evolution using in situ measurements...
Cirrus clouds' radiative forcing is highly sensitive to their microphysical properties and evolution. However, there are very limited data sets with both microscale resolution...- publication PDF
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The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Field Campaign
The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field experiment produced an exceptional dataset on thunderstorms, including their dynamical, physical, and electrical structures...- publication PDF
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Simulating the mid-Pliocene warm period with the CCSM4 model
This paper describes the experimental design and model results from a 500 yr fully coupled Community Climate System, version 4, simulation of the mid-Pliocene Warm Period (mPWP)...- publication PDF
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The influence of iodine on the Antarctic stratospheric ozone hole
The catalytic depletion of Antarctic stratospheric ozone is linked to anthropogenic emissions of chlorine and bromine. Despite its larger ozone-depleting efficiency, the...- publication PDF
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Physical processes controlling ice concentrations in synoptically forced,...
Numerical simulations and airborne measurements are used to evaluate the impact of physical processes on synoptically forced, midlatitude cirrus ice concentrations. The...- publication PDF
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EZPLOT, for Publication-quality Plots
EZPLOT was written to fulfill a need for publication-quality figures within the Climate Analysis Section of the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) at NCAR. It is built...- publication PDF
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Wind gust detection and impact prediction for wind turbines
Wind gusts on a scale from 100 m to 1000 m are studied due to their significant influence on wind turbine performance. A detecting and tracking algorithm is proposed to extract...- publication PDF
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Surface clear-sky shortwave radiative closure intercomparisons in the...
The ability of the Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for GCMs (RRTMG) and Goddard shortwave (SW) radiative schemes to reproduce global (GHI), direct (DNI), and diffuse (DIF) fluxes...- publication PDF
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Validation of methane and carbon monoxide from Sentinel-5 Precursor using...
The Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P) mission with the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on board has been measuring solar radiation backscattered by the Earth's atmosphere...- publication PDF
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Annual and semiannual oscillations of thermospheric composition in...
The Global UltraViolet Imager (GUVI) onboard the Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite provides a data set of vertical thermospheric...- publication PDF
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Quantifying errors in surface ozone predictions associated with clouds over...
Clouds play a key role in radiation and hence O-3 photochemistry by modulating photolysis rates and light-dependent emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). It...- publication PDF
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Vertical motions in orographic cloud systems over the Payette River Basin....
In Part II, two classes of vertical motions, fixed (associated with vertically propagating gravity waves tied to flow over topography) and transient (associated primarily with...- publication PDF
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Does ocean coupling matter for the northern extratropical response to...
The question of whether ocean coupling matters for the extratropical Northern Hemisphere atmospheric response to projected late 21st century Arctic sea ice loss is addressed...- publication PDF