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Estimating the migrating diurnal tide component of mesospheric water vapor
This work presents a method for estimating the migrating diurnal tide (DW1) component of mesospheric H2O from observations of the temperature tide and zonal-mean H2O made by the...- publication PDF
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Suppression of CO2 outgassing by gas bubbles under a hurricane
The role of gas bubbles on the air-sea CO2 flux during Hurricane Frances (2004) is studied using a large-eddy simulation model that couples ocean surface boundary layer...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms influencing cirrus banding and aviation turbulence near a...
Mechanisms supporting a cold-season aviation turbulence outbreak over the northwest Atlantic Ocean and adjacent coastal regions of North America are investigated using high-...- publication PDF
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Evolution of summer Arctic sea ice albedo in CCSM4 simulations: Episodic...
The albedo of Arctic sea ice is calculated from summertime output of twentieth century Community Climate System Model v.4 (CCSM4) simulations. This is compared with an empirical...- publication PDF
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Contrasting trends of mass and optical properties of aerosols over the...
Atmospheric aerosols affect both human health and climate. PMX is the mass concentration of aerosol particles that have aerodynamic diameters less than X μm, PM10 was initially...- publication PDF
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The Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud systems in the Tropics (PREDICT)...
The principal hypotheses of a new model of tropical cyclogenesis, known as the marsupial paradigm, were tested in the context of Atlantic tropical disturbances during the...- publication PDF
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An Airplane-Mounted System for Sensing and Recording Radio Noise in Clouds
This document reports an instrumental development which solved certain problems in field research for NCAR staff scientists concerning the detection of electrification in...- publication PDF
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First space-based derivation of the global atmospheric methanol emission fluxes
This study provides improved methanol emission estimates on the global scale, in particular for the largest methanol source, the terrestrial biosphere, and for biomass burning....- publication PDF
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Next-generation regional ocean projections for living marine resource...
Efforts to manage living marine resources (LMRs) under climate change need projections of future ocean conditions, yet most global climate models (GCMs) poorly represent...- publication PDF
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Convective blueshifts in the solar atmosphere
Context. Convective motions in the solar atmosphere cause spectral lines to become asymmetric and shifted in wavelength. For photospheric lines, this differential Doppler shift...- publication PDF
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Relative importance of horizontal and vertical transports to the formation...
There are still uncertainties regarding the formation mechanisms for storm-enhanced density (SED) in the high and subauroral latitude ionosphere. In this work, we deploy the...- publication PDF
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Integration and execution of Community Land Model Urban (CLMU) in a...
The Community Land Model Urban (CLMU) is a process-based numerical urban climate model that simulates the interactions between the atmosphere and urban surfaces, serving as a...- publication PDF
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XRAS: Allocations software as a service in XSEDE
With a recently deployed software-as-a-service offering, the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is extending to other client organizations the ability...- 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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Evaluation of the impact of horizontal grid spacing in terra incognita on...
Coupled mesoscaleâmicroscale simulations are required to provide time-varying weather-dependent inflow and forcing for large-eddy simulations under general flow conditions....- publication PDF
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High temperature sensitivity of Arctic isoprene emissions explained by sedges
It has been widely reported that isoprene emissions from the Arctic ecosystem have a strong temperature response. Here we identify sedges (Carex spp. and Eriophorum spp.) as key...- publication PDF
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Ancient numerical daemons of conceptual hydrological modeling: 1. Fidelity...
A major neglected weakness of many current hydrological models is the numerical method used to solve the governing model equations. This paper thoroughly evaluates several...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric and oceanic origins of tropical precipitation variability
The intrinsic atmospheric and ocean-induced tropical precipitation variability is studied using millennial control simulations with various degrees of ocean coupling. A...- publication PDF
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Global contrail coverage simulated by CAM5 with the inventory of 2006 global...
This paper documents the incorporation of an inventory of the AEDT (Aviation Environmental Design Tool) global commercial aircraft emissions for the year of 2006 into the...- publication PDF
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Airborne observations of total RONOâ: New constraints on the yield and...
Formation of isoprene nitrates (INs) is an important free radical chain termination step ending production of ozone and possibly affecting formation of secondary organic...- publication PDF