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Effects of Thermal Cycling on Biaxially Stressed Balloon Films
This report presents the results of an examination of the biaxial strength properties of two commercial balloon films. 0.75 mil VisQueen X-124 and 0.7 mil Winzen StratoFilm were...- publication PDF
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Comparison of Winds Derived From the LIMS Satellite Instrument With Rocket...
This report contains statistical comparisons of horizontal winds derived from the LIMS satellite instrument with wind profiles from a large number of meteorological rocket...- publication PDF
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Description of the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM2)
This report presents the details of the governing equations, physical parameterizations, and numerical algorithms defining the version of the NCAR Community Climate Model...- publication PDF
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Impact of cloud microphysics on the development of trailing stratiform...
A new two-moment cloud microphysics scheme predicting the mixing ratios and number concentrations of five species (i.e., cloud droplets, cloud ice, snow, rain, and graupel) has...- publication PDF
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An evaluation of snow initializations in NCEP global and regional forecasting models
Snow plays a major role in land-atmosphere interactions, but strong spatial heterogeneity in snow depth (SD) and snow water equivalent (SWE) makes it challenging to evaluate...- publication PDF
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Quantifying and understanding forced changes to unforced modes of...
While much attention has been given to understanding how anthropogenic radiative forcing influences the mean state of the climate system, far less scrutiny has been paid to how...- publication PDF
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Defining robustness, vulnerabilities, and consequential scenarios for...
The Upper Basin of the Colorado River in the southwestern United States supports municipal, industrial, agricultural, and recreational activities worth an estimated $300...- publication PDF
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The polar summer tropopause inversion layer
Temperature profiles in polar latitudes during summer reveal a strong and persistent inversion layer associated with the polar summer tropopause. This inversion layer is...- publication PDF
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The CMIP6 Sea-Ice Model Intercomparison Project (SIMIP): Understanding sea...
A better understanding of the role of sea ice for the changing climate of our planet is the central aim of the diagnostic Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6...- publication PDF
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Late-twentieth-century simulation of Arctic sea ice and ocean properties in the CCSM4
To establish how well the new Community Climate System model version 4 (CCSM4) simulates the properties of the Arctic sea ice and ocean, we here compare results from six CCSM4...- publication PDF
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A machine learning examination of hydroxyl radical differences among model...
The hydroxyl radical (OH) plays critical roles within the troposphere, such as determining the lifetime of methane (CH4), yet is challenging to model due to its fast cycling and...- publication PDF
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Links between carbon monoxide and climate indices for the southern...
In the Southern Hemisphere and tropics, the main contribution to carbon monoxide (CO) variability is from fire emissions, which are connected to climate through the...- publication PDF
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A process-based fire parameterization of intermediate complexity in a...
A process-based fire parameterization of intermediate complexity has been developed for global simulations in the framework of a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) in an...- publication PDF
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A two-habit model for the microphysical and optical properties of ice clouds
To provide a better representation of natural ice clouds, a novel ice cloud model is developed by assuming an ice cloud to consist of an ensemble of hexagonal columns and...- publication PDF
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A likely outcome of the sunspot peaks’ influence on the North Atlantic...
The effect on the North Atlantic Oscillation of 15 sunspot peaks depends on whether the Oscillation is in-phase or out-of-phase with the sunspot peaks. When it is in-phase the...- publication PDF
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Diurnal ozone variations in the stratosphere revealed in observations from...
Considerable uncertainties remain in the global pattern of diurnal variation in stratospheric ozone, particularly lower to middle stratospheric ozone, which is the principal...- publication PDF
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The global monsoon across timescales: Coherent variability of regional monsoons
Monsoon has earned increasing attention from the climate community since the last century, yet only recently have regional monsoons been recognized as a global system. It...- publication PDF
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User's Guide to the MM5 Adjoint Modeling System
This report is a manual on the MM5 Adjoint Modeling System.- publication PDF
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The ROCSAT-3/COSMIC mission and applications of GPS radio occultation data...
The atmospheric limb sounding technique based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) has been shown to be accurate and of very high vertical resolution. The fact that the GPS...- publication PDF
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Spatio-temporal modelling of weekly malaria incidence in children under 5...
Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Mozambique. We present a malaria early warning system (MEWS) for Mozambique informed by seven years of weekly case reports...- publication PDF
