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The contribution of cloud and radiation anomalies to the 2007 Arctic sea ice...
Reduced cloudiness and enhanced downwelling radiation are associated with the unprecedented 2007 Arctic sea ice loss. Over the Western Arctic Ocean, total summertime cloud cover...- publication PDF
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Some counterintuitive dependencies of tropical cyclone frequency on...
High-resolution global climate models (GCMs) have been increasingly utilized for simulations of the global number and distribution of tropical cyclones (TCs), and how they might...- publication PDF
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Snow on Arctic sea ice in a warming climate as simulated in CESM
Earth system models are valuable tools for understanding how the Arctic snow-ice system and the feedbacks therein may respond to a warming climate. In this analysis, we...- publication PDF
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Effect of meteorological variability on fine particulate matter simulations...
This study quantifies the impact of meteorological variability on the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model-simulated particulate matter of aerodynamic diameter 2.5 m or...- publication PDF
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Modeling the 1783–1784 Laki Eruption in Iceland: 1. Aerosol evolution and...
The 1783–1784 CE Laki flood lava eruption began on 8 June 1783. Over the course of 8 months, the eruption released approximately 122 Tg of sulfur dioxide gas into the upper...- publication PDF
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Advancing global and regional reanalyses
This report outlines the structure of and summarizes the recommendations made at the Fifth International Conference on Reanalysis (ICR5), attended by 259 participants from 37...- publication PDF
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NCAR Software Catalog
An extensive collection of library software is available for use on the Scientific Computing Division (SCD) computers at NCAR, and is cataloged in this document. The NCAR...- publication PDF
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Characterization of Southern Ocean boundary layer clouds using airborne...
Climate and numerical weather prediction models struggle to accurately predict radiative forcing over the Southern Ocean (SO), as the amount of clouds and their phases are...- 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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Climatology of the equatorial plasma bubbles captured by FORMOSAT‐3/COSMIC
The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC (F3/C) satellites are used to study the climatology of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) during the low to moderate solar flux years (2008-2013). We use the...- publication PDF
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Why doesn't the ring current injection rate saturate?
For low values of the solar wind electric field, the response of the polar cap potential is essentially linear, but at high values of VBs, the polar cap potential saturates and...- publication PDF
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Beyond sunspots: Studies using the McIntosh Archive of global solar magnetic...
In 1964 (Solar Cycle 20; SC 20), Patrick McIntosh began creating hand-drawn synoptic maps of solar magnetic features, based on Hα images. These synoptic maps were unique in...- publication PDF
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Improved Three-dimensional Mapping of the Electron Density Distribution of...
Three-dimensional maps of the distribution of coronal electron density can now be computed with two radial functions in the series expansion for the density. This report...- publication PDF
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WiFEX: Walk into the warm fog over Indo-Gangetic Plain region
The presence of persistent heavy fog in northern India during winter creates hazardous situations for transportation systems and disrupts the lives of about 400 million people....- publication PDF
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Forcing the TIEGCM model with Birkeland currents from the active...
Geomagnetic field-aligned currents from the Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment (AMPERE) satellite mission are used to drive the Thermosphere-...- publication PDF
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Mineral dust cycle in the Multiscale Online Nonhydrostatic Atmosphere...
We present the dust module in the Multiscale Online Non-hydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (MONARCH) version 2.0, a chemical weather prediction system that can be used for...- publication PDF
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Monitoring and prediction of the earth's climate: A future perspective
The climate is changing because of human activities and will continue to do so regardless of any mitigation actions. Available climate observations and information are also...- publication PDF
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Evaluating uncertainty and modes of variability for Antarctic atmospheric rivers
Antarctic atmospheric rivers (ARs) are driven by their synoptic environments and lead to profound and varying impacts along the coastlines and over the continent. The definition...- publication PDF
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The impact of NOAH-MP physical parameterizations on modeling water...
Texas is subject to severe droughts, including the record-breaking one in 2011. To investigate the critical hydrometeorological processes during drought, we use a land surface...- publication PDF
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Observational evidence of 3-D cloud effects in OCO-2 CO2 retrievals
The standard deviations of the distributions of Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) measurements of CO2 (i. e., XCO2) increase in size in the presence of clouds. XCO2 and...- publication PDF
