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Algorithm for the charge-coupled-device scanning actinic flux...
Stratospheric ozone column data was acquired during four recent aircraft-based validation missions for the Aura satellite flown in years 2004-2006. The data was retrieved by the...- publication PDF
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Moisture and moist static energy budgets of South Asian monsoon low pressure...
The mechanisms that lead to the propagation of anomalous moisture and moist static energy (MSE) in monsoon low and high pressure systems, collectively referred to as synoptic-...- publication PDF
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Favorable circulation patterns and moisture sources for wintertime extreme...
The Balkhash-Junggar (B-J) region is a typical dryland region with strong sensitivity to climate change. The snowstorms of the year 2009 caused financial damage worth of 2,516...- publication PDF
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The use of similarity concepts to represent subgrid variability in land...
This paper develops a multivariate mosaic subgrid approach to represent subgrid variability in land surface models (LSMs). The k-means clustering is used to take an arbitrary...- publication PDF
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Climate change projections of the North American Regional Climate Change...
We investigate major results of the NARCCAP multiple regional climate model (RCM) experiments driven by multiple global climate models (GCMs) regarding climate change for...- publication PDF
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Future abrupt reductions in the summer Arctic sea ice
We examine the trajectory of Arctic summer sea ice in seven projections from the Community Climate System Model and find that abrupt reductions are a common feature of these...- publication PDF
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The climate response to stratospheric aerosol geoengineering can be tailored...
By injecting different amounts of SO2 at multiple different latitudes, the spatial pattern of aerosol optical depth (AOD) can be partially controlled. This leads to the ability...- publication PDF
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Modeling and interpretation of S-band ice crystal depolarization signatures...
Data collected by the National Center for Atmospheric Research S-band polarimetric radar (S-Pol) during the Terrain-Influenced Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (TiMREX) in Taiwan are...- publication PDF
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Measurement of HO₂NO₂ in the free troposphere during the Intercontinental...
The first direct in situ measurements of HO₂NO₂ in the upper troposphere were performed from the NASA DC-8 during the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment-North...- publication PDF
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The emergence of open-source software for the weather radar community
Weather radar analysis has become increasingly sophisticated over the past 50 years, and efforts to keep software up to date have generally lagged behind the needs of the users....- publication PDF
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Offshore propagation of coastal precipitation
This work focuses on the seaward propagation of coastal precipitation with and without mountainous terrain nearby. Offshore of India, diurnal propagation of precipitation is...- publication PDF
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Robust land-ocean contrasts in energy and water cycle feedbacks
Building on recent observational evidence showing disproportionate increases in temperature and aridity over land in a warming climate, this study examines simulated land-ocean...- publication PDF
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Effects of Thermal Cycling on Biaxially Stressed Balloon Films
This report presents the results of an examination of the biaxial strength properties of two commercial balloon films. 0.75 mil VisQueen X-124 and 0.7 mil Winzen StratoFilm were...- publication PDF
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Comparison of Winds Derived From the LIMS Satellite Instrument With Rocket...
This report contains statistical comparisons of horizontal winds derived from the LIMS satellite instrument with wind profiles from a large number of meteorological rocket...- publication PDF
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Description of the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM2)
This report presents the details of the governing equations, physical parameterizations, and numerical algorithms defining the version of the NCAR Community Climate Model...- publication PDF
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Impact of cloud microphysics on the development of trailing stratiform...
A new two-moment cloud microphysics scheme predicting the mixing ratios and number concentrations of five species (i.e., cloud droplets, cloud ice, snow, rain, and graupel) has...- publication PDF
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An evaluation of snow initializations in NCEP global and regional forecasting models
Snow plays a major role in land-atmosphere interactions, but strong spatial heterogeneity in snow depth (SD) and snow water equivalent (SWE) makes it challenging to evaluate...- publication PDF
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Quantifying and understanding forced changes to unforced modes of...
While much attention has been given to understanding how anthropogenic radiative forcing influences the mean state of the climate system, far less scrutiny has been paid to how...- publication PDF
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Defining robustness, vulnerabilities, and consequential scenarios for...
The Upper Basin of the Colorado River in the southwestern United States supports municipal, industrial, agricultural, and recreational activities worth an estimated $300...- publication PDF
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The polar summer tropopause inversion layer
Temperature profiles in polar latitudes during summer reveal a strong and persistent inversion layer associated with the polar summer tropopause. This inversion layer is...- publication PDF
