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Seasonal variability of the Red Sea, from satellite gravity, radar...
Seasonal variations of sea surface height (SSH) and mass within the Red Sea are caused mostly by exchange of heat with the atmosphere and by flow through the strait opening into...- publication PDF
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Effective radiative forcing from emissions of reactive gases and aerosols –...
This paper quantifies the pre-industrial (1850) to present-day (2014) effective radiative forcing (ERF) of anthropogenic emissions of NOX, volatile organic compounds (VOCs;...- publication PDF
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Snow growth and transport patterns in orographic storms as estimated from...
Airborne vertical-plane dual-Doppler cloud radar data, collected on wind-parallel flight legs over a mountain in Wyoming during 16 winter storms, are used to analyze the growth,...- publication PDF
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Observational evidence of high-altitude meteor trail from radar interferometer
Whether radar meteor echoes occur at high altitudes (above ~130 km) in the Earth's atmosphere is a long-standing question within the meteor radar community. Using observations...- publication PDF
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Satellite data reveal a common combustion emission pathway for major cities in China
Extensive fossil fuel combustion in rapidly developing cities severely affects air quality and public health. We report observational evidence of decadal changes in the...- publication PDF
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Parallelization strategies for the GPS radio occultation data assimilation...
The nonlocal excess phase observation operator for assimilating the global positioning system (GPS) radio occultation (RO) sounding data has been proven by some research papers...- publication PDF
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Modeling convective-stratiform precipitation processes on a Mei-Yu front...
Deep convective-scale simulations of the linear mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) formed on a Mei-Yu front over the Huai River basin in China on 7–8 July 2007 were conducted...- publication PDF
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MetPy: A meteorological Python library for data analysis and visualization
MetPy is an open-source, Python-based package for meteorology, providing domain-specific functionality built extensively on top of the robust scientific Python software stack,...- publication PDF
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Atlas of Computed Infrared Atmospheric Absorption Spectra: Atmospheric...
An atlas of atmospheric absorption calculations is presented for a vertical path through the atmosphere above altitudes of 4, 14, 30, 40, 45, and 54 km. The calculations are...- publication PDF
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Distribution and direct radiative forcing of carbonaceous and sulfate...
A multimode, two-moment aerosol model has been incorporated in the NCAR CAM3 to develop an interactive aerosol-climate model and to study the impact of anthropogenic aerosols on...- publication PDF
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The effects of the island of Hawaii on offshore rainband evolution
The diurnal cycle of airflow on the island of Hawaii and the structure of the low-level flow separation line between the island-induced offshore flow and incoming trade winds...- publication PDF
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The spectral element method (SEM) on variable-resolution grids: Evaluating...
We evaluate the performance of the Community Atmosphere Model's (CAM) spectral element method on variable-resolution grids using the shallow-water equations in spherical...- publication PDF
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Convection in oblate solar-type stars
We present the first global 3D simulations of thermal convection in the oblate envelopes of rapidly rotating solar-type stars. This has been achieved by exploiting the...- publication PDF
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Process-model simulations of cloud albedo enhancement by aerosols in the Arctic
A cloud-resolving model is used to simulate the effectiveness of Arctic marine cloud brightening via injection of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), either through geoengineering...- publication PDF
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Tropical cyclone sensitivities to CO2 doubling: Roles of atmospheric...
Responses of tropical cyclones (TCs) to CO2 doubling are explored using coupled global climate models (GCMs) with increasingly refined atmospheric/land horizontal grids (~ 200...- publication PDF
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Ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation for the Model for Prediction Across...
A global atmospheric analysis and forecast system is constructed based on the atmospheric component of the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS-A) and the Data Assimilation...- publication PDF
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Attribution of observed changes in stratospheric ozone and temperature
Three recently-completed sets of simulations of multiple chemistry-climate models with greenhouse gases only, with all anthropogenic forcings, and with anthropogenic and natural...- publication PDF
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High tropospheric ozone in Lhasa within the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone...
Balloon-borne measurements of ozone in Lhasa (29.66 degrees N, 91.14 degrees E; 3650m above sea level) in August 2013 are investigated using backward trajectory calculations...- publication PDF
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Increasing frequency of anomalous precipitation events in Japan detected by...
The frequency of large-scale anomalous precipitation events associated with heavy precipitation has been increasing in Japan. However, it is unclear if the increase is due to...- publication PDF
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Temperature trends derived from Stratospheric Sounding Unit radiances: The...
Stratospheric Sounding Units (SSU) on the NOAA operational satellites have been the main source of near-global temperature trend data above the lower stratosphere. They have...- publication PDF
