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The heavy rainfall mechanism revealed by a terrain-resolving 4DVar data...
In this research a newly developed terrain-resolving four-dimensional variational (4DVar)-based data assimilation system, Immersed BoundaryMethod_Variational Doppler Radar...- publication PDF
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Liquid phase cloud microphysical property estimates from CALIPSO measurements
A neural-network algorithm that uses CALIPSO lidar measurements to infer droplet effective radius, extinction coefficient, liquid-water content, and droplet number concentration...- publication PDF
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Kepler's first rocky planet: Kepler-10b
NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission reached a milestone...- publication PDF
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Warm and cool nearshore plumes connecting the surf zone to the inner shelf
Cross-shore transport of larvae, pollutants, and sediment between the surf zone and the inner shelf is important for coastal water quality and ecosystems. Rip currents are known...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the imprints of stratospheric contributions to interhemispheric...
For trace gases destroyed in the stratosphere, mass flux across the tropopause can substantially influence observed surface hemispheric differences (NH-SH). Here, we quantify...- publication PDF
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SABER observations of mesospheric ozone during NH late winter 2002-2009
Observations from the SABER (Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry) instrument on the TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and...- publication PDF
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A machine learning nowcasting method based on real-time reanalysis data
Despite marked progress over the past several decades, convective storm nowcasting remains a challenge because most nowcasting systems are based on linear extrapolation of radar...- publication PDF
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The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations
The scientific understanding of the Earth's climate system, including the central question of how the climate system is likely to respond to human-induced perturbations, is...- publication PDF
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Reduced-order modeling for linearized representations of microphysical process rates
Representing cloud microphysical processes in large scale atmospheric models is challenging because many processes depend on the details of the droplet size distribution (DSD,...- publication PDF
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Robust winter warming over Eurasia under stratospheric sulfate...
It has been suggested that increased stratospheric sulfate aerosol loadings following large, low latitude volcanic eruptions can lead to wintertime warming over Eurasia through...- publication PDF
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Effects of hydrologic model choice and calibration on the portrayal of...
The assessment of climate change impacts on water resources involves several methodological decisions, including choices of global climate models (GCMs), emission scenarios,...- publication PDF
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A workshop on North American hail and hailstorms: What next?
A diverse group of global researchers, operational meteorologists, insurance and reinsurance analysts, private sector weather product developers, forensic engineers, and roofing...- publication PDF
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Interpretable deep learning for spatial analysis of severe hailstorms
Deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks, utilize multiple specialized layers to encode spatial patterns at different scales. In this study, deep learning...- publication PDF
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A standard test case suite for two-dimensional linear transport on the sphere
It is the purpose of this paper to propose a standard test case suite for two-dimensional transport schemes on the sphere intended to be used for model development and...- publication PDF
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Simulated climatology and evolution of aridity in the 21st century
Future changes in aridity, defined as the ratio of annual precipitation to potential evapotranspiration (PET), are analyzed using simulations from the Community Earth System...- publication PDF
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Impacts of atmospheric temperature trends on tropical cyclone activity
Impacts of tropical temperature changes in the upper troposphere (UT) and the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) on tropical cyclone (TC) activity are explored. UT and lower TTL...- publication PDF
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Abrupt Bølling warming and ice saddle collapse contributions to the...
Elucidating the source(s) of Meltwater Pulse 1a, the largest rapid sea level rise caused by ice melt (14-18m in less than 340years, 14,600years ago), is important for...- publication PDF
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The effects of global change upon United States air quality
To understand more fully the effects of global changes on ambient concentrations of ozone and particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) in the...- publication PDF
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Accurate characterization of winter precipitation using multi-angle...
This article proposes and presents a novel approach to the characterization of winter precipitation and modeling of radar observables through a synergistic use of advanced...- publication PDF
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Statistical theory on the functional form of cloud particle size distributions
Several functional forms of cloud particle size distributions (PSDs) have been used in numerical modeling and remote sensing retrieval studies of clouds and precipitation,...- publication PDF