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BVOC-aerosol-climate interactions in the global aerosol-climate model ECHAM5.5-HAM2
The biosphere emits volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) which, after oxidation in the atmosphere, can partition on the existing aerosol population or even form new particles. The...- publication PDF
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aiapy: A Python package for analyzing solar EUV image data from AIA
The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA; Lemen et al., 2012) instrument onboard the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO; Pesnell et al., 2012) spacecraft has observed the...- publication PDF
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Contrail microphysics
This article reviews the current state of understanding of the science of contrails: 1) how they are formed, 2) their microphysical properties as they evolve into contrail...- publication PDF
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Opinion: The scientific and community-building roles of the Geoengineering...
The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) is a coordinating framework, started in 2010, that includes a series of standardized climate model experiments aimed at...- publication PDF
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Spectral lines for polarization measurements of the coronal magnetic field....
Infrared emission lines are potentially sensitive probes of components of the coronal vector magnetic field, through the Zeeman effect, and on its direction projected onto the...- publication PDF
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Performance portability of an intermediate-complexity atmospheric research...
We examine the scalability and performance of an open-source, coarray Fortran (CAF) mini-application (mini-app) that implements the parallel, numerical algorithms that dominate...- publication PDF
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Climate of the Upper Air: Southern Hemisphere. Volume 3: Vector Mean...
In this third volume of a four volume series depicting the upper air climatology of the Southern Hemisphere, isogons and isotachs of the vector mean geostrophic wind are...- publication PDF
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Increased quasi stationarity and persistence of winter Ural blocking and...
Part I of this study examines the relationship among winter cold anomalies over Eurasia, Ural blocking (UB), and the background conditions associated with Arctic warming over...- publication PDF
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Light availability in the coastal ocean: Impact on the distribution of...
One of the major features of the coastal zone is that part of its sea floor receives a significant amount of sunlight and can therefore sustain benthic primary production by...- 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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Future changes in the Brewer-Dobson circulation under different greenhouse...
The climatology and future changes of the BrewerâDobson circulation (BDC) in three climate change scenarios are studied using the latest version of the Whole Atmosphere...- publication PDF
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Pseudovertical temperature profiles give insight into winter evolution of...
Measuring routine vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature is critical in understanding stability and the dynamics of the boundary layer. Routine monitoring in remote areas...- publication PDF
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Evaluating skill in predicting the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation in...
It is a daunting challenge to conduct initialized hindcasts with enough ensemble members and associated start years to form a drifted climatology from which to compute the...- publication PDF
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Ozone export from East Asia: The role of PAN
Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) is an important ozone (O3) precursor. The lifetime of PAN is approximately 1âmonth in the free troposphere, and this allows O3 production to occur...- publication PDF
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Spatial forecast verification: Image warping
PREFACE : In response to a growing need for more informative forecast verification in the face of gridded verification sets, many new methods have been proposed. While widely...- publication PDF
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Wave steepening in ionospheric total electron density due to the 21 August...
This study shows that a supersonic moon shadow of a total solar eclipse can steepen the ionospheric total electron content (TEC) wave on August 21, 2017. A data-adaptive method...- publication PDF
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Using simulated dropsondes to understand extreme updrafts and wind speeds in...
Extreme updrafts (10 m s(-1)) and wind gusts (90 m s(-1)) are ubiquitous within the low-level eyewall of intense tropical cyclones (TCs). Previous studies suggest that both of...- publication PDF
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An upper gravity-wave absorbing layer for NWP applications
Although the use of a damping layer near the top of a computational model domain has proven effective in absorbing upward-propagating gravity-wave energy in idealized...- publication PDF
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Circulation and soil moisture contributions to heatwaves in the United States
Extreme heat events are a threat to human health, productivity, and food supply, so understanding their drivers is critical to adaptation and resilience. Anticyclonic...- publication PDF
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Recent anthropogenic increases in SOâ from Asia have minimal impact on...
Observations suggest that the optical depth of the stratospheric aerosol layer between 20 and 30âkm has increased 4â10% per year since 2000, which is significant for Earth's...- publication PDF