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Four Fourier transform spectrometers and the Arctic polar vortex: instrument...
The Canadian Arctic Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Validation Campaigns have been carried out at Eureka, Nunavut (80.05° N, 86.42° W) during the polar sunrise period since...- publication PDF
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Catalyzing frontiers in water-climate-society research: A view from early...
Changes in the availability and distribution of water have substantial effects on humans and the ecosystems upon which we depend. While we have always experienced variability in...- publication PDF
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Examining urban inequality and vulnerability to enhance resilience: Insights...
Understanding how households, ranging from poor to wealthy differ in levels of vulnerability to hazards, such as floods and heat waves and knowledge of the mechanisms creating...- publication PDF
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Evolution of the fine structure of magnetic fields in the quiet Sun:...
Observations with the balloon-borne Sunrise/Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment (IMaX) provide high spatial resolution (roughly 100 km at disk center) measurements of the magnetic...- publication PDF
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Sunset-sunrise difference in solar occultation ozone measurements (SAGE II,...
This paper contains a comprehensive investigation of the sunsetâsunrise difference (SSD, i.e., the sunset-minus-sunrise value) of the ozone mixing ratio in the latitude range...- publication PDF
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Momentum flux spectrum of convectively forced internal gravity waves and its...
Impacts of a spectral parameterization of gravity wave drag (GWD) induced by cumulus convection (GWDC) in the NCAR Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM1b) are...- publication PDF
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Trends in the AMS Education Symposium and highlights from 2012
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Evaluating hydrologic model performance for characterizing streamflow...
Hydrologic models are the primary tools that are used to simulate streamflow drought and assess impacts. However, there is little consensus about how to evaluate the performance...- publication PDF
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Simulating marine ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemical cycling with...
Current representations of marine ecosystems in Earth System Models are greatly simplified, neglecting key interactions between dynamic food webs, biogeochemistry, and climate...- publication PDF
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Diurnal and seasonal characteristics of the longitudinal variations of...
The ionosphere experiences strong diurnal and seasonal changes. The longitudinal variations of electron density (Ne) in the ionosphere at the middle latitudes also show strong...- publication PDF
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The NCAR airborne 94-ghz cloud radar: Calibration and data processing
The 94-GHz airborne HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR) has been deployed in three major field campaigns, sampling clouds over the Pacific between California and Hawaii (2015), over the...- publication PDF
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Aggregate terminal velocity/temperature relations
Terminal velocities of snow aggregates in storms along the Front Range in eastern Colorado are examined with a ground-based two-dimensional video disdrometer. Power-law...- publication PDF
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Contributions of climate change and ENSO variability to future precipitation...
The El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) affects the occurrence frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation through modulations of regional heat and moisture fluxes....- publication PDF
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Calibration of machine learning-based probabilistic hail predictions for...
In this study, we use machine learning (ML) to improve hail prediction by postprocessing numerical weather prediction (NWP) data from the new High-Resolution Ensemble Forecast...- publication PDF
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Improving the representation of hail in the Thompson microphysics scheme
Methods to improve the representation of hail in the Thompson-Eidhammer microphysics scheme are ex-plored. A new two-moment and predicted density graupel category is implemented...- publication PDF
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Present-day mass loss rates are a precursor for West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse
Observations of recent mass loss rates of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) raise concerns about its stability since a collapse would increase global sea levels by several...- publication PDF
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Potential impacts of future warming and land use changes on intra-urban heat...
Extreme heat events in the United States are projected to become more frequent and intense as a result of climate change. We investigated the individual and combined effects of...- publication PDF
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Ozone production efficiencies in the three largest United State cities from...
Despite ongoing reductions in emissions of ozone (O3) precursors, nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), the three largest urban areas in the...- publication PDF
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Assessing a dry surface layer-based soil resistance parameterization for the...
The Community Land Model (CLM) exhibits biases in evapotranspiration (ET) and total water storage (TWS) in semiarid regions. The TWS seasonal cycle amplitude is too low, while...- publication PDF
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Examining the roles of visualizations in people's understanding of uncertain...
Maps and other forms of geovisualizations play a central yet complex role in communicating weather hazard risks and threats to the public. Through designing storm surge risk...- publication PDF