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Tests of Balloon Materials: Prepared for the NCAR Scientific Balloon Facility
This report is part of a series prepared for the Materials Research Project of the NCAR Scientific Balloon Facility in order to extend the reliability and capabilities of...- publication PDF
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Patterns of CO₂ and radiocarbon across high northern latitudes during...
High-resolution in situ CO₂ measurements were conducted aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the ARCTAS/POLARCAT field campaign, a component of the wider 2007–2008 International...- publication PDF
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Decision making by Austin, Texas residents in hypothetical tornado scenarios
One of the goals of the Warning Project is to understand how people receive warnings of hazardous weather and subsequently use this information to make decisions. As part of the...- publication PDF
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A pioneering time of discoveries in large-scale tropical meteorology: 1960...
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/mjo, last access: 9 February 2023) states that "The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a major fluctuation...- publication PDF
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Global surface ocean acidification indicators from 1750 to 2100
Accurately predicting future ocean acidification (OA) conditions is crucial for advancing OA research at regional and global scales, and guiding society's mitigation and...- publication PDF
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Balloon Strain Relief System
A balloon strain relief system for use during pre-launch activities was developed and its effect on balloon tensile strength was examined. Various clamp materials and balloons...- publication PDF
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Detection uncertainty matters for understanding atmospheric rivers
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Improved estimates of changes in upper ocean salinity and the hydrological cycle
Ocean salinity records the hydrological cycle and its changes, but data scarcity and the large changes in sampling make the reconstructions of long-term salinity changes...- publication PDF
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A moment-based polarimetric radar forward operator for rain microphysics
There is growing interest in combining microphysical models and polarimetric radar observations to improve our understanding of storms and precipitation. Mapping model-predicted...- publication PDF
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Large-scale gravity current over the middle hills of the Nepal Himalaya:...
Nepal has been the location of a series of fatal aircraft accidents, raising serious concerns about civil aviation security and the safety of passengers. However, significant...- publication PDF
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Using large ensembles to identify regions of systematic biases in...
Because of internal variability in both the real-world and global climate models, it is unclear whether disagreement between models and observations reflects true systematic...- publication PDF
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Cloud-system resolving model simulations of aerosol indirect effects on...
This paper presents results from 240-member ensemble simulations of aerosol indirect effects on tropical deep convection and its thermodynamic environment. Simulations using a...- publication PDF
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Probing the physics of the solar atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar...
The Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) is a proposed mission composed of a multislit extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrograph (in three spectral bands around 171 angstrom, 284...- publication PDF
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Evaluating CMIP5 ocean biogeochemistry and Southern Ocean carbon uptake...
Observed seasonal cycles in atmospheric potential oxygen (APO ~ O2 + 1.1 CO2) were used to evaluate eight ocean biogeochemistry models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison...- publication PDF
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Seasonal prediction and predictability of regional Antarctic sea ice
Compared to the Arctic, seasonal predictions of Antarctic sea ice have received relatively little attention. In this work, we utilize three coupled dynamical prediction systems...- publication PDF
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The ocean response to climate change guides both adaptation and mitigation efforts
The ocean’s thermal inertia is a major contributor to irreversible ocean changes exceeding time scales that matter to human society. This fact is a challenge to societies as...- publication PDF
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Taking off the training wheels: The properties of a dynamic vegetation model...
We describe an implementation of the Ecosystem Demography (ED) concept in the Community Land Model. The structure of CLM(ED) and the physiological and structural modifications...- publication PDF
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A Bayesian approach to upscaling and downscaling of aircraft measurements of...
This study addresses the issue of how to upscale cloud-sized in situ measurements of ice to yield realistic simulations of ice clouds for a variety of modeling studies. Aircraft...- publication PDF
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Thermodynamics of the Madden–Julian Oscillation in a regional model with...
To identify the main thermodynamic processes that sustain the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), an eddy available potential energy budget analysis is performed on a regional...- publication PDF
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Turbulent collision efficiency of heavy particles relevant to cloud droplets
The collision efficiency of sedimenting cloud droplets in a turbulent air flow is a key input parameter in predicting the growth of cloud droplets by collision-coalescence. In...- publication PDF
