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A Prototype Optical Flowmeter for the Measurement of Liquid Water Content
This report depicts the design and preliminary evaluation of an optical flowmeter for measurement of the liquid water content in warm clouds and rain showers. The sensing...- publication PDF
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Physically-based landfalling tropical cyclone scenarios in support of risk assessment
Populations and property values are increasing in tropical cyclone prone regions, driving up repair and replacement costs following a tropical cyclone impact. Climate change...- publication PDF
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Global precipitation and thunderstorm frequencies. Part I: Seasonal and...
Present and past weather reports from ~15000 stations around the globe and from the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set from 1975 to 1997 were analyzed for the frequency of...- publication PDF
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Long-term ecological research in freshwaters enabled by regional...
Biodiversity collections are experiencing a renaissance fueled by the intersection of informatics, emerging technologies, and the extended use and interpretation of specimens...- publication PDF
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Tropical temperature variability and Kelvin-wave activity in the UTLS from...
Tropical temperature variability over 10-30 km and associated Kelvin-wave activity are investigated using GPS radio occultation (RO) data from January 2002 to December 2014. RO...- publication PDF
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Towards improved and more routine Earth system model evaluation in CMIP
The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) has successfully provided the climate community with a rich collection of simulation output from Earth system models (ESMs) that...- publication PDF
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Ozone correlations between mid-tropospheric partial columns and the...
The current network of ground-based monitors for ozone (O3) is limited due to the spatial heterogeneity of O3 at the surface. Satellite measurements can provide a solution to...- publication PDF
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Editorial to the Topical Collection: Solar and stellar dynamos: A new era
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Annual cycle in upper-ocean heat content and the global energy budget
As a major component of Earth's energy budget, ocean heat content (OHC) plays a vital role in buffering climate change. The annual cycle is the most prominent change in OHC but...- publication PDF
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An updated Antarctic melt record through 2009 and its linkages to...
A 30-year minimum Antarctic snowmelt record occurred during austral summer 2008-2009 according to spaceborne microwave observations for 1980-2009. Strong positive phases of both...- publication PDF
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Impact of the latitude of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection on the Southern...
The impacts of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) strategies on the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) are analyzed with the Community Earth System Model. Using a set of simulations...- publication PDF
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STEREO quadrature observations of coronal dimming at the onset of mini-CMEs
Context. Using unique quadrature observations with the two STEREO spacecraft, we investigate coronal dimmings at the onset of small-scale eruptions. In CMEs they are believed to...- publication PDF
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Diagnosis of magnetic and electric fields of chromospheric jets through...
Magnetic fields govern the plasma dynamics in the outer layers of the solar atmosphere, and electric fields acting on neutral atoms that move across the magnetic field enable us...- publication PDF
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The WRF-based incremental analysis updates and its implementation in an...
An incremental analysis update (IAU) scheme is successfully implemented into a WRF/WRFDA-based hourly cycling data assimilation system with the goal to reduce the imbalance...- publication PDF
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Dynamical tropopause based on isentropic potential vorticity gradients
Since its inception, the dynamical tropopause based on potential vorticity (PV) is identified by the PV gradient on isentropes. Conceptually, significant isentropic gradients...- publication PDF
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Tropospheric comparisons of Vaisala radiosondes and balloon-borne...
The accuracy of all types of Vaisala radiosondes and two types of Snow White chilled-mirror hygrosondes was assessed in an intensive in situ comparison with reference...- publication PDF
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Surface and lightning sources of nitrogen oxides over the United States:...
We use observations from two aircraft during the ICARTT campaign over the eastern United States and North Atlantic during summer 2004, interpreted with a global 3-D model of...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the efficiency of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering at...
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) of reflective sulfate aerosols has been proposed to temporarily reduce the impacts of global warming. In this study, we compare two SAI...- publication PDF
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Effects of denitrification on the distributions of trace gas abundances in...
Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) play a key role in the polar chemistry of the stratosphere. Nitric acid trihydrate (NAT) particles have been shown to lead to denitrification...- publication PDF
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Dust, convection, winds, and waves: The 2022 NASA CPEX-CV campaign
The NASA Convective Processes Experiment-Cabo Verde (CPEX-CV) field campaign took place in September 2022 out of Sal Island, Cabo Verde. A unique payload aboard the NASA DC-8...- publication PDF
