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Extreme temperature events will drive coral decline in the Coral Triangle
In light of rapid environmental change, quantifying the contribution of regional- and local-scale drivers of coral persistence is necessary to characterize fully the resilience...- publication PDF
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Localized ensemble-based tangent linear models and their use in propagating...
Hybrid error covariance models that blend climatological estimates of forecast error covariances with ensemble-based, flow-dependent forecast error covariances have led to...- publication PDF
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Trends in intense precipitation in the climate record
Observed changes in intense precipitation (e.g., the frequency of very heavy precipitation or the upper 0.3% of daily precipitation events) have been analyzed for over half of...- publication PDF
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Physics-dynamics coupling with element-based high-order Galerkin methods:...
Atmospheric modeling with element-based high-order Galerkin methods presents a unique challenge to the conventional physics-dynamics coupling paradigm, due to the highly...- publication PDF
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Local heating/cooling of the mesosphere due to gravity wave and tidal coupling
Numerical experiments in this study show that the tidal wind may have strong impacts on the stability of the gravity wave and therefore significantly affects the breaking of the...- publication PDF
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Performance of high resolution (400 m) PM2.5 forecast over Delhi
This study reports a very high-resolution (400 m grid-spacing) operational air quality forecasting system developed to alert residents of Delhi and the National Capital Region...- publication PDF
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The Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment: A field campaign overview including...
The Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment (T-REX) is a coordinated international project, composed of an observational field campaign and a research program, focused on the...- publication PDF
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An evaluation of the representation of tropical tropopause cirrus in the...
Observations from the third campaign of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX 3) field mission and Cloud-Aerosol...- publication PDF
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Significant weakening of Brewer-Dobson circulation trends over the 21st...
It is well established that increasing greenhouse gases, notably CO2, will cause an acceleration of the stratospheric Brewer-Dobson circulation (BDC) by the end of this century....- publication PDF
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The sensitivity of intraseasonal variability in the NCAR CCM3 to changes in...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Model, version 3.6 (CCM3) simulation of tropical intraseasonal variability in zonal winds and precipitation...- publication PDF
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Thermal chains and entrainment in cumulus updrafts. Part II: Analysis of...
Research has suggested that the structure of deep convection often consists of a series of rising thermals, or "thermal chain," which contrasts with existing conceptual models...- publication PDF
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Iodine chemistry in the troposphere and its effect on ozone
Despite the potential influence of iodine chemistry on the oxidizing capacity of the troposphere, reactive iodine distributions and their impact on tropospheric ozone remain...- publication PDF
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Uncertainty in near-term temperature evolution must not obscure assessments...
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A spectral element version of CAM2
The authors describe a recent development and some applications of a spectral element dynamical core. The improvements and development include the following: (i) the code was...- publication PDF
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Monitoring the atmospheric boundary layer by GPS radio occultation signals...
A new type of radio occultation (RO) data, recorded in open-loop (OL) mode from the SAC-C satellite, has been tested for monitoring refractivity in the Atmospheric Boundary...- publication PDF
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Doubling of U.S. Population exposure to climate extremes by 2050
We quantify historical and projected trends in the population exposure to climate extremes as measured by the United States National Center for Environmental Information Climate...- publication PDF
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Assessing the use of subgrid land model output to study impacts of land cover change
Subgrid information from land models has the potential to be a powerful tool for investigating land-atmosphere interactions, but relatively few studies have attempted to exploit...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of small-scale gravity waves in the Arctic winter mesosphere
Observational data sets in the polar middle atmosphere are extremely valuable for understanding the polar dynamics and coupling between lower and middle atmosphere. Using the...- publication PDF
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Workshop Summary: Aircraft Mission Measurement Strategies for the NASA...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has initiated a major program to assess the impact of tropospheric aircraft on the atmosphere. The Subsonic Assessment...- publication PDF
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Isoprene suppression of new particle formation in a mixed deciduous forest
Production of new particles over forests is an important source of cloud condensation nuclei that can affect climate. While such particle formation events have been widely...- publication PDF