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The impact of stochastic physics on tropical rainfall variability in global...
Many global atmospheric models have too little precipitation variability in the tropics on daily to weekly time scales and also a poor representation of tropical precipitation...- publication PDF
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The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Field Campaign
The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field experiment produced an exceptional dataset on thunderstorms, including their dynamical, physical, and electrical structures...- publication PDF
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A technical overview of the New York State Mesonet standard network
The New York State Mesonet (NYSM) is a network of 126 standard environmental monitoring stations deployed statewide with an average spacing of 27 km. The primary goal of the...- publication PDF
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Investigating the direct meltwater effect in terrestrial oxygen-isotope...
Variations in terrestrial oxygen-isotope reconstructions from ice cores and speleothems have been primarily attributed to climatic changes of surface air temperature,...- publication PDF
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Cloud-resolving chemistry simulation of a Hector thunderstorm
Cloud chemistry simulations were performed for a Hector thunderstorm observed on 16 November 2005 during the SCOUT-O3/ACTIVE campaigns based in Darwin, Australia, with the...- publication PDF
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Simulations of solar and lunar tidal variability in the mesosphere and lower...
Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) simulations are used to investigate solar and lunar tide changes in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) that occur in...- publication PDF
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A unified convection scheme (UNICON). Part I: Formulation
The author develops a unified convection scheme (UNICON) that parameterizes relative (i.e., with respect to the grid-mean vertical flow) subgrid vertical transport by nonlocal...- publication PDF
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Improved Madden–Julian oscillations with improved physics: The impact of...
Two modifications are made to the deep convection parameterization in the NCAR Community Climate System Model, version 3 (CCSM3): a dilute plume approximation and an...- publication PDF
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Forecasting remote atmospheric responses to decadal Kuroshio stability transitions
Based on observational estimates and global ocean eddy-resolving coupled retrospective initialized predictions, we show that Kuroshio Extension variability affects rainfall...- publication PDF
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On a structural similarity index approach for floating-point data
Data visualization is typically a critical component of post-processing analysis workflows for floating-point output data from large simulation codes, such as global climate...- publication PDF
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The optimal state for gravity currents in shear
This study examines the lifting of sheared environmental air by gravity currents, focusing primarily on the theoretical "optimal state" in which near-surface flow is turned into...- publication PDF
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Retrieval of tropical cyclone statistics with a high-resolution coupled...
When observations are assimilated into a high-resolution coupled model, a traditional scheme that preferably projects observations to correct large-scale background tends to...- publication PDF
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Extreme poynting flux in the dayside thermosphere: Examples and statistics
With the launch of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F-15 spacecraft in late 1999, data for calculating Earth-directed, magnetospheric Poynting flux became available...- publication PDF
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Modeling the hydrologic influence of subsurface tile drainage using the...
Subsurface tile drainage (TD) is a dominant agriculture water management practice in the United States (US) to enhance crop production in poorly drained soils. Assessments of...- publication PDF
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Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science...
It is a critical time to reflect on the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) science to date as well as envision what research can be done right now with NEON (and...- publication PDF
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Intraseasonal tropical cyclogenesis prediction in a global coupled model system
Motivated by increasing demand in the community for intraseasonal predictions of weather extremes, predictive skill of tropical cyclogenesis is investigated in this study based...- publication PDF
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Diagnostics of convective transport over the Tropical Western Pacific from...
This study characterizes the representation of convective transport by a Lagrangian trajectory model driven by kinematic (pressure tendency ω) vertical velocity. Four...- publication PDF
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Wind Tunnel and Field Investigations of Shapes for Balloon Shelters
This report discusses the results of a series of wind tunnel and field tests performed in support of a program to develop a balloon inflation and launch shelter. The study...- publication PDF
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The Korea-United States Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) field study
The Korea–United States Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) field study was conducted during May–June 2016. The effort was jointly sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric semidiurnal lunar tide climatology simulated by the Whole...
The atmospheric semidiurnal lunar tide is added to the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) through inclusion of an additional forcing mechanism. The simulated...- publication PDF
