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The influence of idealized heterogeneity on convective planetary boundary...
This report describes the development of a coupled model and the evaluation of the influence of that coupling by way of an investigation of heterogeneous surface forcing on...- publication PDF
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The Bendix Datagrid Graphic Digitizing System Operational Procedure and...
In April of 1970 a Bendix Datagrid digitizer was acquired by the Computing Facility at NCAR. The system enables data presented in a graphic form to be translated into digital...- publication PDF
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Observed changes in climate extremes in Nigeria
The study presents observed changes in climate extremes using daily precipitation and temperature data over 24 stations, covering the three climatic zones (Guinea coast,...- publication PDF
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Parameterizing convective organization to escape the entrainment dilemma
Lateral mixing parameters in buoyancy-driven deep convection schemes are among the most sensitive and important unknowns in atmosphere models. Unfortunately, there is not a true...- publication PDF
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Surface variability of short-wavelength radiation and temperature on...
It is a common practice to use 3D General Circulation Models (GCM) with spatial resolution of a few hundred kilometers to simulate the climate of Earth-like exoplanets. The...- publication PDF
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Rethinking failure: Engineering for climate extremes
How does our built environment make society vulnerable to climate extremes such as flooding? What knowledge is required by engineering designers and risk managers to address the...- publication PDF
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Are internetwork magnetic fields in the solar photosphere horizontal or vertical?
Using many observations obtained during 2007 with the Spectro-Polarimeter of the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope, we explore the angular distribution of magnetic fields in the...- publication PDF
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Spatio-temporal models for large-scale indicators of extreme weather
Extreme weather events such as thunderstorms and tornadoes are of great concern as these events pose a significant threat to life, property, and economic stability. Because of...- publication PDF
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High resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder observations of polar stratospheric...
The High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) cloud detection and cloud top determination algorithm is described and applied to 2005-2007 HIRDLS radiance profiles....- publication PDF
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Radar data assimilation with WRF 4D-Var. Part II: Comparison with 3D-Var for...
The Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4D-Var) system described in Part I of this study is compared with its...- publication PDF
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Impacts of lower thermospheric atomic oxygen on thermospheric dynamics and...
The exchange of energy between the lower atmosphere and the ionosphere thermosphere system is not well understood. One of the parameters that is important in the lower...- publication PDF
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Relationships between ice water content and volume extinction coefficient...
An examination of 2 yr of CloudâAerosol Lidar Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) lidar observations and CloudSat cloud radar observations shows that ice...- publication PDF
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Editorial: Coronal magnetometry
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Global-scale observations of the limb and disk mission implementation: 2....
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission of opportunity designed to study how the Earth's ionosphere-...- publication PDF
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Chemical transport models often underestimate inorganic aerosol acidity in...
The inorganic fraction of fine particles affects numerous physicochemical processes in the atmosphere. However, there is large uncertainty in its burden and composition due to...- publication PDF
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Comparing radiosonde and COSMIC atmospheric profile data to quantify...
Collocated global atmospheric temperature, humidity, and refractivity profiles from radiosondes and from Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate...- publication PDF
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Simulation of marine stratocumulus using the super-droplet method: Numerical...
The super-droplet method (SDM) is a Lagrangian particle-based numerical scheme for cloud microphysics. In this work, a series of simulations based on the DYCOMS-II (RF02) setup...- publication PDF
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Projected future changes in vegetation in Western North America in the...
Rapid and broad-scale forest mortality associated with recent droughts, rising temperature, and insect outbreaks has been observed over western North America (NA). Climate...- publication PDF
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Emissions and ambient distributions of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds...
Two proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry systems were deployed at the Bio-hydro-atmosphere interactions of Energy, Aerosols, Carbon, H2O, Organics and Nitrogen-Southern...- publication PDF
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Anomalously low proton temperatures in solar-wind following interplanetary...
Occasionally, anomalously low values of the solar wind proton temperature Tp are observed when the solar wind velocity Ï is high. A large fraction of such measurements by the...- publication PDF
