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Strong local evaporative cooling over land due to atmospheric aerosols
Aerosols can enhance terrestrial productivity through increased absorption of solar radiation by the shaded portion of the plant canopy-the diffuse radiation fertilization...- publication PDF
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The impacts of Taiwan topography on the predictability of Typhoon Morakot's...
In this study, we examine the impact of Taiwan topography on the extreme rainfall of Typhoon Morakot and the predictability of this rainfall with a high-resolution (4-km)...- publication PDF
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Estimation of ambiguity in ensemble forecasts
Ambiguity is uncertainty in the prediction of forecast uncertainty, or in the forecast probability of a specific event, associated with random error in an ensemble forecast...- publication PDF
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Uncertainties in future U.S. extreme precipitation from downscaled climate...
Impacts modelers and stakeholders use publicly available data sets of downscaled climate projections to assess and design infrastructure for changes in future rainfall extremes....- publication PDF
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Comparison of precipitable water derived from ground-based GPS measurements...
Precipitable water (PW) obtained from a permanent ground-based Global Positioning System (GPS) network on the Korean Peninsula was evaluated by using radiosonde measurements for...- publication PDF
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Examining the stratospheric response to the solar cycle in a coupled WACCM...
The response of the stratosphere to the combined interaction of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) and the solar cycle in ultraviolet (UV) radiation, and the influence of the...- publication PDF
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Ozone depletion in tropospheric volcanic plumes
We measured ozone O₃ concentrations in the atmospheric plumes of the volcanoes St. Augustine (1976), Mt. Etna (2004, 2009) and Eyjafjallajökull (2010) and found O₃ to be...- publication PDF
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Impact of soft electron precipitation on the thermospheric neutral mass...
In this study, the impact of improving soft (0.1-1 keV) electron precipitation on the F-region neutral mass density has been evaluated using the Global Ionosphere Thermosphere...- publication PDF
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On the quality of RS41 radiosonde descent data
Radiosonde descent profiles have been available from tens of stations for several years now - mainly from Vaisala RS41 radiosondes. They have been compared with the ascent...- publication PDF
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Water vapor and surface observations in northwestern Mexico during the 2004...
We report on precipitable water vapor (PWV) from a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and surface meteorological network during the 2004 North American Monsoon Experiment...- publication PDF
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Transpacific transport of ozone pollution and the effect of recent Asian...
We use an ensemble of aircraft, satellite, sonde, and surface observations for April-May 2006 (NASA/INTEX-B aircraft campaign) to better understand the mechanisms for...- publication PDF
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Using TRMM latent heat as a source to estimate convection induced gravity...
Due to a lack of observations, it is a big challenge to quantify the momentum flux transported from the troposphere into the lower stratosphere by gravity waves generated by...- publication PDF
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Urban modifications in a Mesoscale Meteorological Model and the effects on...
A refined land cover classification for the arid Phoenix (Arizona) metropolitan area and some simple modifications to the surface energetics were introduced in the fifth-...- publication PDF
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Objective tropical cyclone extratropical transition detection in...
This paper describes an objective technique for detecting the extratropical transition (ET) of tropical cyclones (TCs) in high-resolution gridded climate data. The algorithm is...- publication PDF
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The Hawaiian Educational Radar Opportunity (HERO)
A National Science Foundation sponsored educational deployment of a Doppler on Wheels radar called the Hawaiian Educational Radar Opportunity (HERO) was conducted on O'ahu from...- publication PDF
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A Compressible nonhydrostatic cell-integrated semi-Lagrangian semi-implicit...
A cell-integrated semi-Lagrangian (CISL) semi-implicit nonhydrostatic solver for the fully compressible moist Euler equations in two-dimensional Cartesian (x–z) geometry is...- publication PDF
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Global maps of equatorial plasma bubbles depletions based on...
FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 is the largest equatorial multi-satellite constellation of six full-size satellites to study the equatorial ionosphere. Each satellite is equipped by an ion...- publication PDF
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Untangling microphysical impacts on deep convection applying a novel...
Microphysical piggybacking applied previously in shallow convection simulations is employed to highlight microphysical impacts on deep convection. The main idea is to apply two...- publication PDF
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A framework for simulating the tropical-cyclone boundary layer using...
Boundary layer turbulent processes affect tropical cyclone (TC) structure and intensity change. However, uncertainties in the parameterization of the planetary boundary layer...- publication PDF
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Simulations of the West African monsoon with a superparameterized climate...
The West African monsoon seasonal cycle is simulated with two coupled general circulation models: the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), which uses traditional convective...- publication PDF
