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Assessing and improving the NWS point-and-click webpage forecast information
The National Weather Service (NWS) is the governmental agency responsible for providing freely available weather forecasts, warnings, watches, and advisories for the protection...- publication PDF
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Role of atmospheric aerosols in severe winter fog over the Indo-Gangetic...
Winter fog and severe aerosol loading in the boundary layer over northern India, particularly in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP), disrupt the daily lives of millions of people in...- publication PDF
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A 3-D RBF-FD solver for modeling the atmospheric global electric circuit...
A numerical model based on radial basis function-generated finite differences (RBF-FD) is developed for simulating the global electric circuit (GEC) within the Earth's...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of PERSIANN-CCS rainfall measurement using the NAME event rain...
Robust validation of the spaceâtime structure of remotely sensed precipitation estimates is critical to improving their quality and confident application in water...- publication PDF
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Role of the Maritime Continent in the remote influence of Atlantic Niño on...
Atlantic Nino, the dominant climate mode in the equatorial Atlantic, is known to remotely force a La Nina-like response in the Pacific, potentially affecting seasonal climate...- publication PDF
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The Earth System Prediction Suite: Toward a coordinated U.S. modeling capability
The Earth System Prediction Suite (ESPS) is a collection of flagship U.S. weather and climate models and model components that are being instrumented to conform to...- publication PDF
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Determining ULF wave contributions to geomagnetically induced currents: The...
Past studies found that large-amplitude geomagnetically induced current (GIC) related to magnetospheric Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves tend to be associated with periods...- publication PDF
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The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission: Imaging the chemistry of the...
This article provides an overview of the NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission and a summary of selected scientific findings to date. ATom was an airborne measurements and...- publication PDF
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Antarctica: Surface mass balance [in "State of the Climate in 2008"]
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A method to assess the wind and solar resource and to quantify interannual...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) collaborated to develop a method to assess the interannual variability of wind...- publication PDF
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Initial conditions for convection-allowing ensembles over the conterminous...
Five sets of 48-h, 10-member, convection-allowing ensemble (CAE) forecasts with 3-km horizontal grid spacing were systematically evaluated over the conterminous United States...- publication PDF
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Complexities of a 3-D plasmoid flux rope as shown by an MHD simulation
The results of a global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of a pair of magnetospheric substorms on 11 August 2002 are presented. Comparisons of data with simulation results...- publication PDF
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Influence of local water vapor analysis uncertainty on ensemble forecasts of...
Tropical cyclone formation is known to require abundant water vapor in the lower to middle troposphere within the incipient disturbance. In this study, we assess the impacts of...- publication PDF
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Initiation of coalescence in a cumulus cloud: A beneficial influence of...
Although rain has been observed to form in warm cumulus clouds within about twenty minutes, calculations that represent condensation and coalescence accurately in such clouds...- publication PDF
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An observation-based, reduced-form model for oxidation in the remote marine...
The hydroxyl radical (OH) fuels atmospheric chemical cycling as the main sink for methane and a driver of the formation and loss of many air pollutants, but direct OH...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of simulated convection-driven stratosphere-troposphere exchange...
Tropopause-penetrating convection is capable of rapidly transporting air from the lower troposphere to the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS), where it can have...- publication PDF
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Uncertainty in climate change projections of the Hadley circulation: The...
The uncertainty arising from internal climate variability in climate change projections of the Hadley circulation (HC) is presently unknown. In this paper it is quantified by...- publication PDF
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Aerostatic Lift of Helium and Hydrogen in the Atmosphere
The purpose of this report is to provide a simple and accurate method of making buoyancy calculations of lift gases. A table is included which gives pertinent model atmospheric...- publication PDF
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The design and performance of the Gondola Pointing System for the Sunrise II...
With its 1m aperture, the Sunrise Balloon-Borne Stratospheric Solar Observatory was the largest space-based solar telescope. It was designed to study the magneto-convective...- publication PDF
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Implications of implementing promulgated and prospective emission...
To improve ambient air quality, India has laid out strict action plans to reduce the increment in emissions over regional to urban scale by the year 2030. This study evaluates...- publication PDF