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Characterizing and communicating uncertainty: Lessons from NASA’s Carbon...
Navigating uncertainty is a critical challenge in all fields of science, especially when translating knowledge into real-world policies or management decisions. However, the...- publication PDF
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Improving vortex position accuracy with a new multiscale alignment ensemble filter
A multiscale alignment (MSA) ensemble filtering method was introduced by Ying to reduce nonlinear posi-tion errors effectively during data assimilation. The MSA method extends...- publication PDF
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Observed hemispheric asymmetry in stratospheric transport trends from 1994 to 2018
Total columns of the trace gases nitric acid (HNO3) and hydrogen chloride (HCl) are sensitive to variations in the lower stratospheric age of air, a quantity that describes...- publication PDF
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Baroclinic, Alfvén and Rossby waves in geostrophic flow
We present here further results concerning geostrophic baroclinic flow with a zonal magnetic field, in a β-plane channel, as extensions of earlier work by the writer. We find a...- 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
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Green Infrastructure, Ecosystem Services, and Human Health
Contemporary ecological models of health prominently feature the natural environment as fundamental to the ecosystem services that support human life, health, and well-being....- publication PDF
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Arctic ocean freshwater in CMIP6 ensembles: Declining sea ice, increasing...
The Arctic has undergone dramatic changes in sea ice cover and the hydrologic cycle, both of which strongly impact the freshwater storage in, and export from, the Arctic Ocean....- publication PDF
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A magnetohydrodynamic mechanism for the formation of solar polar vortices
Polar vortices are ubiquitous features of planetary atmospheric flows, from the Earth-like rocky planets to Jupiter- and Saturn-like gas giant planets. Very little is known...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the contributions of aerosol - and snow-produced ClNO 2 through...
Nitryl chloride (ClNO2) is a radical reservoir that forms and accumulates in the nocturnal atmospheric boundary layer influenced by combustion emissions and chloride (e.g., sea...- publication PDF
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A numerical water tracer model for understanding event-scale...
We develop and implement a novel numerical water tracer model within the Noah LSM with multiparameterization options (WT-Noah-MP) that is specifically designed to track...- publication PDF
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The long-term trends of nocturnal mesopause temperature and altitude...
The mesopause, a boundary between mesosphere and thermosphere with the coldest atmospheric temperature, is formed mainly by the combining effects of radiative cooling of CO2,...- publication PDF
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Large global variations in the carbon dioxide removal potential of seaweed...
Estimates suggest that over 4 gigatons per year of carbon dioxide (Gt-CO2 year(-1)) be removed from the atmosphere by 2050 to meet international climate goals. One strategy for...- publication PDF
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Joint impact of North and South Pacific extratropical atmospheric...
Previous studies have indicated that boreal winter subtropical and extratropical sea surface pressure (SLP) anomalies over both the North and South Pacific are significantly...- publication PDF
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High resolution photon time-tagging lidar for atmospheric point cloud generation
The application of time-correlated single photon counting hardware and techniques to atmospheric lidar is presented. The results establish the viability of adapting photon time-...- publication PDF
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The evaluation of hydroclimatic variables over Nordic Fennoscandia using WRF‐CTSM
This study is the first to evaluate the state‐of‐the‐art coupled land‐atmosphere regional climate model WRF‐CTSM. It comprises the Weather Research...- publication PDF
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New observations of large-scale waves coupling with the ionosphere made by...
The recently launched Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) Mission observed prominent quasi-16-day oscillations (Q16DOs) in the OI 135.6-nm nightglow from the...- publication PDF
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Numerical modeling study of the momentum deposition of small amplitude...
We study the momentum deposition in the thermosphere from the dissipation of small amplitude gravity waves (GWs) within a wave packet using a fully nonlinear two-dimensional...- publication PDF
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The formation mechanism of merged EIA during a storm on 4 November 2021
In this study, we conduct an in‐depth analysis of Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model‐eXtended simulations to examine physical mechanisms of the formation and...- publication PDF
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Traveling planetary-scale waves in the lower thermosphere: Effects on...
The effects of breaking of traveling, planetary scale Rossby waves (TPWs) in the lower thermosphere are investigated with respect to the mixing of neutral constituents. We use...- publication PDF
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Realizing the potential of vehicle-based observations
The potential availability of millions of surface observations from passenger vehicles and fleets represents a potentially significant opportunity for the weather community. The...- publication PDF
