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A method for retrieving clouds with satellite infrared radiancesusing the...
Ensemble-based techniques have been widely utilized in estimating uncertainties in various problems of interest in geophysical applications. A new cloud retrieval method is...- publication PDF
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Assessment of equilibrium climate sensitivity of the Community Earth System...
The upper end of the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) has increased substantially in the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Projects phase 6 with eight models (as of this...- publication PDF
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Colorado plowable hailstorms: Synoptic weather, radar, and lightning characteristics
Synoptic weather, S-band dual-polarization radar, and total lightning observations are analyzed from four thunderstorms that produced "plowable" hail accumulations of 15-60 cm...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the solar cycle modulation of extreme space weather
By obtaining the analytic signal of daily sunspot numbers since 1818 we construct a new solar cycle phase clock that maps each of the last 18 solar cycles onto a single...- publication PDF
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Fortifying international collaborations on African air quality
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Impact of aerosols from urban and shipping emission sources on terrestrial...
This study quantifies the immediate influences of aerosols from urban anthropogenic and shipping emission sources on carbon and water fluxes in East Asia on a cloudy day in...- publication PDF
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Extracting microphysical impacts in large-eddy simulations of shallow convection
A simple methodology is proposed to extract impacts of cloud microphysics on macrophysical cloud-field properties in large-eddy simulations of shallow convection. These impacts...- publication PDF
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Undisturbed and disturbed above canopy ponderosa pine emissions: PTR-TOF-MS...
We present the first eddy covariance flux measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using a proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer (PTR-TOF-MS) above...- publication PDF
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Extratropical storms induce carbon outgassing over the Southern Ocean
The strength and variability of the Southern Ocean carbon sink is a significant source of uncertainty in the global carbon budget. One barrier to reconciling observations and...- publication PDF
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Effective radius and droplet spectral width from in-situ aircraft...
This paper presents statistics of cloud microphysical properties of shallow tropical cumuli observed by a research aircraft during RICO field campaign. Cloud properties are...- 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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Potential value of expert elicitation for determining differential...
Over the past decade or so, there has been much debate regarding how to evaluate climate model simulations with the goal of differentially weighting these results.- publication PDF
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Geotail and LFM comparisons of plasma sheet climatology: 2. Flow variability
We compare the statistics of central plasma sheet properties from 6 years of Geotail observations with 2 months of Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry (LFM) global MHD simulations. This...- publication PDF
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Understanding the effects of polar mesospheric clouds on the environment of...
This study focuses on the effects of polar mesospheric cloud (PMC) formation on the chemical environment of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. Of specific interest is how...- publication PDF
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Bimodal distribution of free tropospheric ozone over the tropical western...
A recent airborne field campaign over the remote western Pacific obtained the first intensive in situ ozone sampling over the warm pool region from oceanic surface to 15 km...- publication PDF
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Simulation of global land surface conditions from 1948 to 2004. Part I:...
Because of a lack of observations, historical simulations of land surface conditions using land surface models are needed for studying variability and changes in the continental...- publication PDF
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Water vapor measurements inside clouds and storms using a differential...
NASA's Vapor In-cloud Profiling Radar (VIPR) is a tunable G-band radar designed for in-cloud and precipitation humidity remote sensing. VIPR estimates humidity using the...- publication PDF
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A non-Gaussian analysis scheme using rank histograms for ensemble data assimilation
One challenge of geophysical data assimilation is to address the issue of non-Gaussianities in the distributions of the physical variables ensuing, in many cases, from nonlinear...- publication PDF
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A method for adaptive habit prediction in bulk microphysical models. Part...
It is common for cloud microphysical models to use a single axis length to characterize ice crystals. These methods use either the diameter of an equivalent sphere or mass-size...- publication PDF
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Large-scale ionospheric disturbances due to the dissipation of...
In a companion paper, we show that large-scale secondary gravity waves and circulation cells are created by the body forces generated by the dissipation of convectively...- publication PDF
