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Local and remote moisture sources both increase late twenty-first century...
Arctic precipitation increases in a warmer world as more moisture is available to condense. These increases in precipitation and moisture result from both local surface...- publication PDF
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Upper ocean O trends: 1958-2015
Historic observations of dissolved oxygen (O-2) in the ocean are analyzed to quantify multidecadal trends and variability from 1958 to 2015. Additional quality control is...- publication PDF
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A 10-year survey of tropical cyclone inner-core lightning bursts and their...
This study seeks to reconcile discrepancies between previous studies analyzing the relationship between lightning and tropical cyclone (TC) intensity change. Inner-core...- publication PDF
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A seasonal agricultural drought forecast system for food-insecure regions of...
The increasing food and water demands of East Africa's growing population are stressing the region's inconsistent water resources and rain-fed agriculture. More accurate...- publication PDF
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The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service: From research to operations
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), part of the European Union's Earth observation program Copernicus, entered operations in July 2015. Implemented by the...- publication PDF
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Response of the topside and bottomside ionosphere at low and middle...
Ionospheric observations from the ground-based GPS receiver network, CHAMP and GRACE satellites and ionosondes were used to examine topside and bottomside ionospheric variations...- publication PDF
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Simulation of the propagation and effects of gravity waves generated by...
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption on 15 January 2022 triggered strong atmospheric gravity wave (GW) activity in the upper atmosphere, which was later detected by...- publication PDF
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Formaldehyde columns from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument: Urban versus...
We combine aircraft measurements (Second Texas Air Quality Study, Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations, Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment:...- publication PDF
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Application of dynamical error estimation for statistical optimization of...
Errors in stratospheric bending angles retrieved from GPS radio occultations can be significantly reduced by using statistical optimization. In order for this technique to work...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of precipitation associated with post-tropical cyclones in...
Precipitation brought by cyclone systems has long been known as a major contributor to devastating flood events.Recent post-tropical cyclones (PTCs), which transform from...- publication PDF
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Diurnal cycling of sea surface temperature, salinity, and current in the...
A simple scheme is developed to represent Sea Surface Diurnal Cycling (SSDC) in Coupled General Circulation Models (CGCM). It follows Zeng and Beljaars [2005], but in addition...- publication PDF
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The Secondary Production of Ice in Cumulus Experiment (SPICULE)
The secondary ice process (SIP) is a major microphysical process, which can result in rapid enhancement of ice particle concentration in the presence of preexisting ice. SPICULE...- publication PDF
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Sixteen years of MOPITT satellite data strongly constrain Amazon COÂ fire emissions
Despite the consensus on the overall downward trend in Amazon forest loss in the previous decade, estimates of yearly carbon emissions from deforestation still vary widely....- publication PDF
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Modes of variability in E3SM and CESM Large Ensembles
An adequate characterization of internal modes of climate variability (MoV) is a prerequisite for both accurate seasonal predictions and climate change detection and...- publication PDF
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A multivariate global spatiotemporal stochastic generator for climate ensembles
In order to understand and quantify the uncertainties in projections and physics of a climate model, a collection of climate simulations (an ensemble) is typically used. Given...- publication PDF
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Distant effects of a recurving tropical cyclone on rainfall in a midlatitude...
Recent research has identified predecessor rain events (PREs), which are mesoscale regions of heavy rainfall that occur 1000 km poleward and downshear of recurving tropical...- publication PDF
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New empirical formulation for the sublimational breakup of graupel and dendritic snow
Ice fragments are generated by sublimation of ice particles in subsaturated conditions in natural clouds. Conceivably, such sublimational breakup would be expected to cause ice...- publication PDF
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Reducing overdispersion in stochastic weather generators using a generalized...
Stochastic weather generators are commonly used to simulate time series of daily weather, especially minimum (Tmin) and maximum (Tmax) temperature and amount of precipitation....- publication PDF
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The WRF-based incremental analysis updates and its implementation in an...
An incremental analysis update (IAU) scheme is successfully implemented into a WRF/WRFDA-based hourly cycling data assimilation system with the goal to reduce the imbalance...- publication PDF
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Diffuse radiation forcing constraints on gross primary productivity and...
The diffuse radiation fertilization effect-the increase in plant productivity in the presence of higher diffuse radiation (K-down arrow,K-d)-is an important yet understudied...- publication PDF