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Equatorial plasma bubbles developing around sunrise observed by an all-sky...
A large number of studies have shown that equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) occur mainly after sunset, and they usually drift eastward. However, in this paper, an unusual EPB...- publication PDF
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Evaluating the simulation of CONUS precipitation by storm type in E3SM
Conventional low-resolution (LR) climate models, including the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SMv1), have well-known biases in simulating the frequency, intensity, and...- publication PDF
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The METCRAX II Field Experiment: A study of downslope windstorm-type flows...
The second Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAX II) was conducted in October 2013 at Arizona's Meteor Crater. The experiment was designed to investigate nighttime downslope...- publication PDF
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in2extRemes: Into the R package extRemes. Extreme value analysis for weather...
This document serves as a tutorial/manual for the R package in2extRemes, which provides point-and-click windows for the extRemes package (versions greater than or equal to 2.0)....- publication PDF
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The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from 1765 to 2300
We present the greenhouse gas concentrations for the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) and their extensions beyond 2100, the Extended Concentration Pathways (ECPs)....- publication PDF
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Impact of horizontal resolution on global ocean-sea ice model simulations...
This paper presents global comparisons of fundamental global climate variables from a suite of four pairs of matched low- and high-resolution ocean and sea ice simulations that...- publication PDF
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Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review
The varied effects of recent extreme weather events around the world exemplify the uneven impacts of climate change on populations, even within relatively small geographic...- publication PDF
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The behavior of trade-wind cloudiness in observations and models: The major...
Guided by ground-based radar and lidar profiling at the Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO), this study evaluates trade-wind cloudiness in ECMWF's Integrated Forecast System (IFS)...- publication PDF
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Hyper-resolution global hydrological modelling: What is next?
Between 15 and 17 March 2010, a workshop was held at Princeton University entitled 'Meeting a Grand Challenge to Hydrology: The Global Monitoring of Earth's Terrestrial Water'....- publication PDF
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Evolution of coronal holes and implications for high-speed solar wind during...
We analyze coronal holes present on the Sun during the extended minimum between Cycles 23 and 24, study their evolution, examine the consequences for the solar wind speed near...- publication PDF
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Estimating error variances of a microwave sensor and dropsondes aboard the...
This study estimates the random error variances and standard deviations (STDs) for four datasets: Global Hawk (GH) dropsondes (DROP), the High-Altitude Monolithic Microwave...- publication PDF
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Observed and simulated upper-tropospheric water vapor feedback
Satellite measurements from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) in the upper troposphere over 4.5 yr are used to assess the covariation of upper-tropospheric humidity and...- publication PDF
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Normalized particle size distribution for remote sensing application
The ice particle size distribution (PSD) is fundamental to the quantitative description of a cloud. It is also crucial in the development of remote sensing retrieval techniques...- publication PDF
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Advanced user environment design and implementation on integrated...
Scientists and engineers using supercomputer clusters should be able to focus on their scientific and technical work instead of worrying about operating their user environment....- publication PDF
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Effects of local-scale orography and urban heat island on the initiation of...
A record-breaking rainfall event was initiated between the urban heat island (UHI) and a small trumpet-shaped mountain (Huadu Mountain) to its north in Guangzhou City at...- publication PDF
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Large-scale Rossby normal modes during some recent northern hemisphere winters
Large-scale Rossby normal modes are studied for the Northern Hemisphere winters of 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009 using global observational meteorological analyses spanning the 0--...- publication PDF
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Polarization lidar observations of backscatter phase matrices from oriented...
Oriented particles can exhibit different polarization properties than randomly oriented particles. These properties cannot be resolved by conventional polarization lidar systems...- publication PDF
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Interdependencies and risk to people and critical food, energy, and water...
This paper examines the interdependencies mediating the cascading negative consequences triggered by the September 2013 flood, in Boulder, Colorado, USA. By illustrating the...- publication PDF
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Attributing and quantifying carbon monoxide sources affecting the Eastern...
Pollutants from global sources are known to affect the Eastern Mediterranean Shore (EMS). However, there has been no previous study explicitly locating the European sources,...- publication PDF
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Overlapping interests: The impact of geographic coordinate assumptions on...
There is growing use of limited-area models (LAMs) for high-resolution (<10 km) applications, for which consistent mapping of input terrestrial and meteorological datasets is...- publication PDF