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Assessing the applicability of the tropical convective-stratiform paradigm...
Long-term radar observations from a subtropical location in southeastern Texas are used to examine the impact of storm systems with tropical or extratropical characteristics on...- publication PDF
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Using A-Train Observations to Evaluate Cloud Occurrence and Radiative...
The distribution of clouds and their radiative effects in the Community Atmosphere Model, version 5 (CAM5), are compared to A-Train satellite data in Southeast Asia during the...- publication PDF
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Probabilistic aspects of meteorological and ozone regional ensemble forecasts
This study investigates whether probabilistic ozone forecasts from an ensemble can be made with skill: i.e., high verification resolution and reliability. Twenty-eight ozone...- publication PDF
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Wildfire smoke observations in the Western United States from the airborne...
During the summer of 2018, the upward-pointing Wyoming Cloud Lidar (WCL) was deployed on board the University of Wyoming King Air (UWKA) research aircraft for the Biomass...- publication PDF
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Robust Bayesian uncertainty analysis of climate system properties using...
A Bayesian uncertainty analysis of 12 parameters of the Bern2.5D climate model is presented. This includes an extensive sensitivity study with respect to the major statistical...- publication PDF
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Climate engineering: Exploring nuances and consequences of deliberately...
Our planet is warming, largely from the ever-increasing burning of fossil fuels. If this continues, serious consequences to our planet are likely to occur within the second half...- publication PDF
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Energy considerations in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM)
An error in the energy formulation in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) is identified and corrected. Ten year AMIP simulations are compared using the correct and incorrect...- publication PDF
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An aircraft-based upper troposphere lower stratosphere O₃, CO, and H₂O...
We present a climatology of O₃, CO, and H₂O for the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS), based on a large collection of high-resolution research aircraft data taken...- publication PDF
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Global hydrological cycle response to rapid and slow global warming
This study analyzes the response of global water vapor to global warming in a series of fully coupled climate model simulations. The authors find that a roughly 7% K⁻¹ rate of...- publication PDF
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Climatological Atlas: 1950-1979 Surface Air Temperature, Precipitation,...
Monthly surface air temperatures (TMP), sea-level pressures (SLP), sea surface temperatures (SST) and precipitation (PRC) from two complementary historical data sets are used to...- publication PDF
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Daytime climatology of ionospheric NmF₂ and hmF₂ from COSMIC data
Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC) data were analyzed to study the climatological variations of the F₂ region ionosphere. A 30 day...- publication PDF
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The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: Experimental design for model simulations...
Past warm periods provide an opportunity to evaluate climate models under extreme forcing scenarios, in particular high (>800 ppmv) atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Although a...- publication PDF
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Photospheric response to an Ellerman bomb-like event -- An analogy of...
Ellerman Bombs are signatures of magnetic reconnection, which is an important physical process in the solar atmosphere. How and where they occur is a subject of debate. In this...- publication PDF
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Impact of tropical cyclone landfall angle on storm surge along the Mid-Atlantic Bight
Storm surge impact depends on coastal geographical and bathymetric features as well as various tropical cyclone characteristics including the size, intensity, and impact angle...- publication PDF
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A mesoscale model-based climatography of nocturnal boundary-layer...
Nocturnal boundary-layer phenomena in regions of complex topography are extremely diverse and respond to a multiplicity of forcing factors, acting primarily at the mesoscale and...- publication PDF
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3-D regional ionosphere imaging and SED reconstruction with a new TEC-based...
A new TEC-based ionospheric data assimilation system (TIDAS) over the continental US and adjacent area (20 degrees-60 degrees N, 60 degrees-130 degrees W, and 100-600 km) has...- publication PDF
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Efficacy of possible strategies to mitigate the urban heat island based on...
Summer heat waves are a significant public health threat in China. This paper took Wuhan (one of the four hottest furnace cities in China) as an example to explore several...- publication PDF
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Space physics for graduate students: An activities-based approach
The geospace environment is controlled largely by events on the Sun, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which generate significant geomagnetic and upper...- publication PDF
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Causes of the weak emergent constraint on climate sensitivity at the Last...
The use of paleoclimates to constrain the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) has seen a growing interest. In particular, the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the mid-Pliocene...- publication PDF
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An assessment of the Arctic Ocean in a suite of interannual CORE-II...
In this paper we compare the simulated Arctic Ocean in 15 global ocean–sea ice models in the framework of the Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments, phase II (CORE-II)....- publication PDF