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Can the Madden-Julian oscillation affect the Antarctic total column ozone?
The effect of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) on springtime Antarctic ozone variations is revealed for the first time from multi-satellite reanalysis and model simulations....- publication PDF
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Exploring the water-energy nexus in California via an integrative modeling approach
A climatically driven, water system modeling framework that captures a full range of interacting components at necessary spatiotemporal scales was developed for the Southwestern...- publication PDF
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On the formation of sulphuric acid - amine clusters in varying atmospheric...
Sulphuric acid is a key component in atmospheric new particle formation. However, sulphuric acid alone does not form stable enough clusters to initiate particle formation in...- publication PDF
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In situ aerosol size spectra measurements in the austral polar vortex before...
Aerosol from the Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai (HT‐HH) volcanic eruption (20.6°S) in January 2022 were not incorporated into the austral polar vortex until the...- publication PDF
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Natural short-lived halogens exert an indirect cooling effect on climate
Observational evidence shows the ubiquitous presence of ocean-emitted short-lived halogens in the global atmosphere(1-3). Natural emissions of these chemical compounds have been...- publication PDF
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Verifying supercellular rotation in a convection-permitting ensemble...
The utility of radar-derived rotation track data for the verification of supercell thunderstorm forecasts was quantified through this study. The forecasts were generated using a...- publication PDF
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Ozone depletion due to dust release of iodine in the free troposphere
Iodine is an atmospheric trace element emitted from oceans that efficiently destroys ozone (O-3). Low O-3 in airborne dust layers is frequently observed but poorly understood....- publication PDF
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The midlatitude thermospheric dynamics from an interhemispheric perspective
Using Fabry-Perot interferometers at five midlatitude stations (Boulder, Palmer, Millstone Hill, Mount John, and Kelan) in both hemispheres, we examine the interhemispheric and...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of spring phenology to warming across temporal and spatial...
Disparate ecological datasets are often organized into databases post hoc and then analyzed and interpreted in ways that may diverge from the purposes of the original data...- publication PDF
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An assessment of precipitation changes over Antarctica and the Southern...
This study evaluates the temporal variability of the Antarctic surface mass balance, approximated as precipitation-minus-evaporation (P-E), and Southern Ocean precipitation in...- publication PDF
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A global model of meteoric sodium
A global model of sodium in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere has been developed within the framework of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Whole Atmosphere...- publication PDF
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An alternative explanation of the semiarid urban area "oasis effect"
This research evaluates the climatic summertime representation of the diurnal cycle of near-surface temperature using the Weather Research and Forecasting System (WRF) over the...- publication PDF
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"Sometimes da #beachlife ain't always da wave": Understanding people's...
This article investigates the dynamic ways that people communicate, assess, and respond as a weather threat evolves. It uses social media data, which offer unique records of...- publication PDF
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Increasing carbon dioxide concentration in the upper atmosphere observed by SABER
Carbon dioxide measurements made by the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) instrument between 2002 and 2014 were analyzed to reveal the rate...- publication PDF
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Growing temperate shrubs over arid and semiarid regions in the Community...
Arid and semiarid regions represent a large fraction of global land, but most of the existing dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) do not include shrubs or do not...- publication PDF
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Retrieving global Wilson currents from electrified clouds using satellite...
High-altitude atmospheric electricity measurements have been used to calculate the conduction (Wilson) currents that are supplied to the global electric circuit (GEC) by...- publication PDF
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On mass conservation in high-order high-resolution rigorous remapping...
It is the purpose of this short article to analyze mass conservation in high-order rigorous remapping schemes, which contrary to flux-based methods, relies on elaborate integral...- publication PDF
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The response of tropopause-overshooting convection over North America to...
Recent field campaigns, observational studies, and modeling work have demonstrated that extratropical tropopause-overshooting convection has a substantial and previously...- publication PDF
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Long-term impacts of a career development workshop for undergraduates
For 15 years, the Undergraduate Leadership Workshop (ULW) has connected undergraduate students with scientists, engineers, educators, and leadership at the National Center for...- publication PDF
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Impacts of uncertainties in European gridded precipitation observations on...
Gridded precipitation data sets are frequently used to evaluate climate models or to remove model output biases. Although precipitation data are error prone due to the high...- publication PDF