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The Juneau Terrain-Induced Turbulence Alert System
The Juneau, Alaska, airport vicinity experiences frequent episodes of moderate and severe turbulence, which affect arriving and departing air traffic. The Federal Aviation...- publication PDF
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Quantifying pyroconvective injection heights using observations of fire...
We use observations of active fire area and fire radiative power (FRP) from the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers (MODIS), together with a parameterized plume...- publication PDF
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Impact of Southern California anthropogenic emissions on ozone pollution in...
The impact of Southern California (SoCal) anthropogenic emissions on ozone (O₃) in the mountain states in May 2010 is studied using the Sulfur Transport and Deposition Model. We...- publication PDF
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Development of North Atlantic tropical disturbances near upper-level...
Tropical cyclone (TC) development near upper-level potential vorticity (PV) streamers in the North Atlantic is studied from synoptic climatology, composite, and case study...- publication PDF
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Aircraft and Instrumentation in Atmospheric Research
This catalog provides convenient and reasonably comprehensive information on aircraft and associated instrumentation used for atmospheric research in the United States. The...- publication PDF
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Influence of ion outflow in coupled geospace simulations: 1. Physics-based...
We describe a coupled geospace model that includes causally regulated ion outflow from a physics-based ionosphere/polar wind model. The model two-way couples the multifluid...- publication PDF
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Temperature and water vapor variance scaling in global models: Comparisons...
Observations of the scale dependence of height-resolved temperature (T) and water vapor (q) variability are valuable for improved subgrid-scale climate model parameterizations...- publication PDF
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The influence of urbanization on the development of a convective storm—A...
One of the main problems faced by the Belem Metropolitan Region (BMR) inhabitants is flash floods caused by precarious infrastructure and extreme rainfall events. The objective...- publication PDF
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Thermospheric neutral wind measurements and investigations across the...
This paper briefly reviews studies of thermospheric neutral wind dynamics over the African region. The literature includes a review of the observations of neutral winds over...- publication PDF
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Parameterization of wind farms in climate models
For assessing the impacts of wind farms on regional climate, wind farms may be represented in climate models by an increase in aerodynamic roughness length. Studies employing...- publication PDF
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Specified dynamics scheme impacts on wave-mean flow dynamics, convection,...
Specified dynamics schemes are ubiquitous modeling tools for isolating the roles of dynamics and transport on chemical weather and climate. They typically constrain the...- publication PDF
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A comparison of PMIP2 model simulations and the MARGO proxy reconstruction...
Results from multiple model simulations are used to understand the tropical sea surface temperature (SST) response to the reduced greenhouse gas concentrations and large...- publication PDF
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Future community efforts in understanding and modeling atmospheric processes
Approximately 160 participants from some 20 countries representing the weather and climate modeling community held an international workshop to overview the progress in...- publication PDF
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The ARPA/NASA/NSF CO-OP 3D Project: An experiment in distributed...
This technical report describes the distributed computing aspects of the CO-OP 3D project and involves the use of the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite to link...- publication PDF
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Processing of aerosol particles within the Habshan pollution plume
The Habshan industrial site in the United Arab Emirates produces a regional-scale pollution plume associated with oil and gas processing, discharging high loadings of sulfates...- publication PDF
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Forced patterns of sea level rise in the Community Earth System Model Large...
To provide context for observed sea level rise, the forced response (FR) in dynamic sea level (DSL) during the 20th and 21st centuries is examined in the Community Earth System...- publication PDF
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Semi-parametric discrete choice measures of willingness to pay
A semi-parametric discrete choice method is proposed to recover welfare measures from individual choice data. The estimation procedure and properties of the proposed welfare...- publication PDF
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Overview of the NCAR Scientific Computing Division
This report lists: services available within the Scientific Computing Division, Scientific Computing Division directory, map of the Scientific Computing Division, hardware and...- publication PDF
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Assessing the skill of medium-range ensemble precipitation and streamflow...
To issue early warnings for the public to act, for emergency managers to take preventive actions, and for water managers to operate their systems cost-effectively, it is...- publication PDF
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Systematic errors in weather and climate models: Nature, origins, and ways forward
Hundreds of scientists involved in the development and evaluation of weather and climate models held an international workshop to discuss the nature and causes of systematic...- publication PDF