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Measurements and modeling of snow albedo at Alerce Glacier, Argentina:...
The impact of volcanic ash on seasonal snow and glacier mass balance has been much less studied than that of carbonaceous particles and mineral dust. We present here the first...- publication PDF
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The physical mechanisms for the sunrise enhancement of equatorial...
Satellite and incoherent scatter radar observations have shown frequently a strong enhancement of upward vertical E x B drifts in the equatorial ionospheric F region near...- publication PDF
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On the value of time-lag-ensemble averaging to improve numerical model...
The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model with its hourly updating cycles provides multiple weather forecasts valid at any given time. A logical combination of these...- publication PDF
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Local and mesoscale impacts of wind farms as parameterized in a mesoscale NWP model
A new wind farm parameterization has been developed for the mesoscale numerical weather prediction model, the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF). The effects of wind...- publication PDF
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Northern Hemisphere atmospheric influence of the solar proton events and...
Solar eruptions in early 2005 led to a substantial barrage of charged particles on the Earth's atmosphere during the 16-21 January period. Proton fluxes were greatly increased...- publication PDF
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Dynamical seasonal prediction of tropical cyclone activity: Robust...
Improving the seasonal prediction of tropical cyclone (TC) activity demands a robust analysis of the prediction skill and the inherent predictability of TC activity. Using the...- publication PDF
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National Urban Database and Access Portal Tool, NUDAPT
Based on the need for advanced treatments of high-resolution urban morphological features (e.g., buildings and trees) in meteorological, dispersion, air quality, and human-...- publication PDF
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Some thoughts on emission-line spectroscopy
The interpretation of emission lines formed in large astrophysical plasmas such as the solar atmosphere faces many challenges. Relatively simple line-ratio estimates of physical...- publication PDF
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Microphysical simulations of large volcanic eruptions: Pinatubo and Toba
Simulations of stratospheric clouds from eruptions ranging in size from the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo to that of Toba 74,000 years ago have been completed using a 3D...- publication PDF
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Fire dynamics during the 20th century simulated by the Community Land Model
Fire is an integral Earth System process that interacts with climate in multiple ways. Here we assessed the parametrization of fires in the Community Land Model (CLM-CN) and...- publication PDF
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An analysis of the scale heights in the lower topside ionosphere based on...
We statistically analyze the ionospheric scale heights in the lower topside ionosphere based on the electron density (N e) and temperature profiles observed from the incoherent...- publication PDF
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Recommendations for interinstitutional and interdisciplinary research...
The U.S.-Taiwan Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE) "Building Extreme Weather Resiliency through Improved Weather and Climate Prediction and Emergency...- publication PDF
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The dependence of mean climate state on shortwave absorption by water vapor
State-of-the-art climate models exhibit significant spread in the climatological value of atmospheric shortwave absorption (SWA). This study investigates both the possible...- publication PDF
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Improving regional ozone modeling through systematic evaluation of errors...
During the operational phase of the ICARTT field experiment in 2004, the regional air quality model STEM showed a strong positive surface bias and a negative upper troposphere...- publication PDF
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Water vapor estimates using simultaneous dual-wavelength radar observations
A technique for the estimation of humidity in the lower troposphere using simultaneous dual-wavelength radar observations is proposed and tested. The method compares the...- publication PDF
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Propagation of gravity waves and its effects on pseudomomentum flux in a...
Effects of realistic propagation of gravity waves (GWs) on distribution of GW pseudomomentum fluxes are explored using a global ray-tracing model for the 2009 sudden...- publication PDF
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Impact of topography on black carbon transport to the southern Tibetan...
Most previous modeling studies about black carbon (BC) transport and its impact over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) conducted simulations with horizontal resolutions coarser than 20...- publication PDF
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The response of the climate system to very high greenhouse gas emission scenarios
Well informed decisions on climate policy necessitate simulation of the climate system for a sufficiently wide range of emissions scenarios. While recent literature has been...- publication PDF
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Scientific documentation of the NCEP nonhydrostatic multiscale model on the...
This technical note focuses on the scientific and algorithmic approaches in the NMMB dynamics. Discussed are the NMMB dynamics solver, boundary conditions and the horizontal...- publication PDF
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Global MHD modeling of resonant ULF waves: Simulations with and without a...
We investigate the plasmaspheric influence on the resonant mode coupling of magnetospheric ultralow frequency (ULF) waves using the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry (LFM) global...- publication PDF
