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Higher precipitation in East Asia and western United States expected with...
Precipitation over East Asia and the western United States is projected to increase as a result of global warming, although substantial uncertainties persist regarding the...- publication PDF
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The role of vertical shear on aviation turbulence within cirrus bands of a...
At 0300 UTC 9 September 2010, commercial aircraft traveling between Tokyo and Hawaii encountered regions of moderate and severe intensity turbulence at about 12-km elevation in...- publication PDF
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Assessing noaa rip-current hazard likelihood predictions: Comparison with...
Rip currents, fast offshore-directed flows, are the leading cause of death and rescues on surf beaches worldwide. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...- publication PDF
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Enhancing understanding of the hydrological cycle via pairing of...
The hydrologic cycle couples the Earth's energy and carbon budgets through evaporation, moisture transport, and precipitation. Despite a wealth of observations and models,...- publication PDF
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Impacts of vertically propagating tides on the mean state of the...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIE-GCM) is utilized to understand the role that upward...- publication PDF
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Stable computations with Gaussian radial basis functions
Radial basis function (RBF) approximation is an extremely powerful tool for representing smooth functions in nontrivial geometries since the method is mesh-free and can be...- publication PDF
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Can atomic oxygen production explain the ionospheric annual asymmetry?
The causes of the ionospheric annual asymmetry, which refers to a larger averaged electron density at geomagnetic conjugate latitudes in December than in June, remain an...- publication PDF
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What drives upper-ocean temperature variability in coupled climate models...
A key question in climate modeling is to what extent sea surface temperature and upper-ocean heat content are driven passively by air-sea heat fluxes, as opposed to forcing by...- publication PDF
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The combined effects of ENSO and the 11 year solar cycle on the Northern...
The combined effects of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the 11 year solar cycle on the Northern Hemisphere polar stratosphere have been analyzed in the Whole Atmosphere...- publication PDF
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Translating aboveground cosmic-ray neutron intensity to high-frequency soil...
Above-ground cosmic-ray neutron measurements provide an opportunity to infer soil moisture at the sub-kilometer scale. Initial efforts to assimilate those measurements have...- publication PDF
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Dayside magnetospheric and ionospheric responses to a foreshock transient on...
As one type of driver of magnetospheric Alfven waves, foreshock transients have received less attention than, for example, the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, discrete and...- publication PDF
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Does the size distribution of emitted dust aerosols depend on the wind speed...
The size distribution of mineral dust aerosols greatly affects their interactions with clouds, radiation, ecosystems, and other components of the Earth system. Several...- publication PDF
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Maximum entropy production and time varying problems: The seasonal cycle in...
It has been suggested that the maximum entropy production (MEP) principle, or MEP hypothesis, could be an interesting tool to compute climatic variables like temperature. In...- publication PDF
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A comparison of statistical and dynamical downscaling of winter...
Statistical downscaling is widely used to improve spatial and or temporal distributions of meteorological variables from regional and global climate models. This downscaling is...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of HOx sources and cycling using measurement-constrained model...
We present a detailed analysis of OH observations from the BEACHON (Bio-hydro-atmosphere interactions of Energy, Aerosols, Carbon, HâO, Organics and Nitrogen)-ROCS (Rocky...- publication PDF
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Saturation of transpolar potential for large Y component interplanetary...
This study examines the response of the transpolar potential to a large Y component interplanetary magnetic field (IMF By). The transpolar potential responds nonlinearly and...- publication PDF
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Exploiting SMILEs and the CMIP5 Archive to Understand Arctic Climate Change...
Arctic Amplification (AA) exhibits a distinct seasonal dependence; it is weakest in boreal summer and strongest in winter. Here, we analyze simulations from single-model...- publication PDF
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Early Eocene ocean meridional overturning circulation: The roles of...
Here, we compare the ocean overturning circulation of the early Eocene (47-56 Ma) in eight coupled climate model simulations from the Deep-Time Model Intercomparison Project...- publication PDF
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Validation of a water vapor micropulse differential absorption lidar (DIAL)
A water vapor micropulse differential absorption lidar (DIAL) instrument was developed collaboratively by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Montana State...- publication PDF
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A decadal satellite analysis of the origins and impacts of smoke in Colorado
We analyze the record of aerosol optical depth (AOD) measured by the MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite in combination with surface...- publication PDF
