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The SPARC water vapour assessment II: Biases and drifts of water vapour...
Satellite data records of stratospheric water vapour have been compared to balloon-borne frost point hygrometer (FP) profiles that are coincident in space and time. The...- publication PDF
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Sources of error in dual-wavelength radar remote sensing of cloud liquid...
Dual-wavelength ratio (DWR) techniques offer the prospect of producing high-resolution mapping of cloud microphysical properties, including retrievals of cloud liquid water...- publication PDF
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The Second Joint Solar Dynamics Project Data Summary: Solar Magneticfield,...
This Technical Note presents the observations made during this effort in the interval 3-17 June 1983. As far as possible, daily observations made with the Mark-Ill kcoronameter...- publication PDF
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Importance of forecast error multivariate correlations in idealized...
The importance of multivariate forecast error correlations between specific humidity, temperature, and surface pressure in perfect model assimilations of Global Positioning...- publication PDF
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Development and application of the WRFDA-Chem three-dimensional variational...
To improve the operational air quality forecasting over China, a new aerosol or gas-phase pollutants assimilation capability is developed within the WRFDA system using the...- publication PDF
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Observations and modelling of microphysical variability, aggregation and...
Aircraft measurements of the microphysics of a tropical convective anvil (at temperatures ~-60 °C) forming above the Hector storm, over the Tiwi Islands, Northern Australia,...- publication PDF
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The effects of imputing missing data on ensemble temperature forecasts
A major issue for developing post-processing methods for NWP forecasting systems is the need to obtain complete training datasets. Without a complete dataset, it can become...- publication PDF
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Off-equatorial deep-cycle turbulence forced by tropical instability waves in...
The equatorial Pacific cold tongue is a site of large heat absorption by the ocean. This heat uptake is enhanced by a daily cycle of shear turbulence beneath the mixed...- 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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Aerosol hygroscopicity and CCN activation kinetics in a boreal forest...
Measurements of size-resolved cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations, subsaturated hygroscopic growth, size distribution, and chemical composition were collected from...- publication PDF
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Characterizing changes in Eastern U.S. pollution events in a warming world
Risk assessments of air pollution impacts on human health and ecosystems would ideally consider a broad set of climate and emission scenarios, as well as natural internal...- publication PDF
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Air quality monitoring and the safety of farmworkers in wildfire mandatory...
The increasing frequency and severity of wildfires due to climate change pose health risks to migrant farm workers laboring in wildfire-prone regions. This study focuses on...- publication PDF
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The influence of future electricity mix alternatives on southwestern US...
A climate driven, water resource systems model of the southwestern US was used to explore the implications of growth, extended drought, and climate warming on the allocation of...- publication PDF
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Framework for Understanding Structural Errors (FUSE): A modular framework to...
The problems of identifying the most appropriate model structure for a given problem and quantifying the uncertainty in model structure remain outstanding research challenges...- publication PDF
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Observational evidence of moistening the lowermost stratosphere via...
Isentropic mixing across and above the subtropical jet is a significant mechanism for stratosphere–troposphere exchange. In this work, we show new observational evidence on the...- publication PDF
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A new perspective on coastally trapped disturbances using data from the satellite era
The ability of global climate models to simulate accurately marine stratiform clouds continues to challenge the atmospheric science community. These cloud types, which account...- publication PDF
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Validation of satellite ozone profile retrievals using Beijing ozonesonde data
Ozonesondes launched from Beijing, China, over a 3 year time period (September 2002 to July 2005) are used to evaluate the performance of ozone profile retrievals in the upper...- publication PDF
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The solar benchmark: Rotational modulation of the Sun reconstructed from...
We use archival daily spot coverage measurements from Howard et al. to study the rotational modulation of the Sun as though it were a distant star. A quasi-periodic Gaussian...- publication PDF
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Extratropical–Tropical Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (ETIN-MIP):...
This article introduces the Extratropical-Tropical Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (ETIN-MIP), where a set of fully coupled model experiments are designed to examine...- publication PDF
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MicroPulse DIAL (MPD) – A diode-laser-based lidar architecture for...
Continuous water vapor and temperature profiles are critically needed for improved understanding of the lower atmosphere and potential advances in weather forecasting skill....- publication PDF