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Tornado maintenance investigated with high-resolution Dual-Doppler and EnKF analysis
Dual-Doppler wind synthesis and ensemble Kalman filter analyses produced by assimilating Doppler-on-Wheels velocity data collected in four tornadic supercells are examined in...- publication PDF
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Generalized Aerosol/Chemistry Interface (GIANT): A community effort to...
Atmospheric aerosol and chemistry modules are key elements in Earth system models (ESMs), as they predict air pollutant concentrations and properties that can impact human...- publication PDF
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Climate engineering through artificial enhancement of natural forcings:...
Explosive volcanism and solar activity changes have modulated the Earth's temperature over short and century time scales. Associated with these external forcings were systematic...- publication PDF
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Role of the stratosphere in the global mercury cycle
Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant with substantial risks to human and ecosystem health. By upward transport in tropical regions, mercury enters into the stratosphere, but the...- publication PDF
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Simulating precipitation efficiency across the deep convective gray zone
Precipitation efficiency (PE) relates cloud condensation to precipitation and thus reflects how much of the total atmospheric condensate reaches the surface as precipitation....- publication PDF
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Spatial patterns of sea level variability associated with natural internal...
Sea level rise (SLR) can exert significant stress on highly populated coastal societies and low-lying island countries around the world. Because of this, there is huge societal...- publication PDF
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Process-level model evaluation: a snow and heat transfer metric
Land models require evaluation in order to understand results and guide future development. Examining functional relationships between model variables can provide insight into...- publication PDF
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Multiple-radar data assimilation and short-range quantitative precipitation...
The impact of multiple–Doppler radar data assimilation on quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF) is examined in this study. The newly developed Weather Research and...- publication PDF
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A Bayesian approach for statistical–physical bulk parameterization of rain...
Observationally informed development of a new framework for bulk rain microphysics, the Bayesian Observationally Constrained Statistical-Physical Scheme (BOSS; described in Part...- publication PDF
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Effects of fire diurnal variation and plume rise on U.S. air quality during...
We analyze the effects of the diurnal cycle of fire emissions (DCFE) and plume rise on U.S. air quality using the MUSICAv0 (Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols...- publication PDF
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Do ultrafine cloud condensation nuclei invigorate deep convection?
Numerical simulations of the impact of ultrafine cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) on deep convection are analyzed to investigate the idea proposed by Fan et al. that addition of...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric kinetic energy spectra from global high-resolution...
Kinetic energy (KE) spectra derived from global high-resolution atmospheric simulations from the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) are presented. The simulations are...- publication PDF
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Ship-based measurements of ice nuclei concentrations over the Arctic,...
Ambient concentrations of ice-forming particles measured during ship expeditions are collected and summarised with the aim of determining the spatial distribution and...- publication PDF
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Fellowship Program in Scientific Computing: Internship Program for Minority...
The papers contained in the 1976 Technical Note NCAR/TN-119+PROC represent the research and programming carried out / 12 students in the Computing Facility summer programs...- publication PDF
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A positive zonal wind feedback on sudden stratospheric warming development...
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are an extreme weather event with impacts on the ionosphere and on tropospheric weather and predictability. The mechanisms governing their...- publication PDF
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Editorial: compound climate extremes in the present and future climates:...
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Thunderstorms and upper troposphere chemistry during the early stages of the...
To study the meteorology and chemistry that is associated with the early stages of the North American Monsoon, the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry...- publication PDF
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High predictability of terrestrial carbon fluxes from an initialized decadal...
Interannual variations in the flux of carbon dioxide (CO2) between the land surface and the atmosphere are the dominant component of interannual variations in the atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Clear-sky ultraviolet radiation modelling using output from the Chemistry...
We have derived values of the ultraviolet index (UVI) at solar noon using the Tropospheric Ultraviolet Model (TUV) driven by ozone, temperature and aerosol fields from climate...- publication PDF
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Parameterization of size of organic and secondary inorganic aerosol for...
Accurate representation of aerosol optical properties is essential for the modeling and remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols. Although aerosol optical properties are strongly...- publication PDF