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The impact of bark beetle infestations on monoterpene emissions and...
Over the last decade, extensive beetle outbreaks in western North America have destroyed over 100 000 km2 of forest throughout British Columbia and the western United States....- publication PDF
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COSMIC-2 radio occultation constellation: First results
Initial data from the Formosa Satellite-7/Constellation Observing System for Meteorology Ionosphere and Climate (FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2, hereafter C2), a recently launched...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale and large-scale variability in high-latitude ionospheric...
Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis, a variant of principle component analysis, is applied to 20 months of plasma drift data from the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network...- publication PDF
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Revisiting hydrometeorology using cloud and climate observations
This paper uses 620 station years of hourly Canadian Prairie climate data to analyze the coupling of monthly near-surface climate with opaque cloud, a surrogate for radiation,...- publication PDF
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Wind turbulence over misaligned surface waves and air-sea momentum flux....
The coupled dynamics of turbulent airflow and a spectrum of waves are known to modify air-sea momentum and scalar fluxes. Waves traveling at oblique angles to the wind are...- publication PDF
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Why do models overestimate surface ozone in the Southeast United States?
Ozone pollution in the Southeast US involves complex chemistry driven by emissions of anthropogenic nitrogen oxide radicals (NOx = NO + NO2) and biogenic isoprene. Model...- publication PDF
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Solar wind control of auroral Alfvénic power generated in the magnetotail
The effects of solar wind driving conditions on the polar distribution of large-scale, nondispersive Alfvénic Poynting flux at low altitude during steady magnetosphere...- publication PDF
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Conceptualizing confidence: A multisited qualitative analysis in a severe...
Confidence is a concept important to weather prediction, shaping how risk information is created, shared, understood, and acted upon. For forecasters in the National Weather...- publication PDF
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An observationally constrained evaluation of the oxidative capacity in the...
Hydroxyl radical (OH) is the main daytime oxidant in the troposphere and determines the atmospheric lifetimes of many compounds. We use aircraft measurements of O3, H2O, NO, and...- publication PDF
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Gargantuan hail in Argentina
On 8 February 2018, a supercell storm produced gargantuan (>15 cm or >6 in. in maximum dimension) hail as it moved over the heavily populated city of Villa Carlos Paz in...- publication PDF
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Implementation of a silver iodide cloud-seeding parameterization in WRF....
A silver iodide (AgI) cloud-seeding parameterization has been implemented into the Thompson microphysics scheme of the Weather Research and Forecasting model to investigate...- publication PDF
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Characterizing ionospheric effect on GNSS radio occultation atmospheric bending angle
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) atmospheric radio occultation (RO) has been an active remote sensing method to explore the Earth's atmosphere recently. The RO products...- publication PDF
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Open data: Accountability and transparency
The movements by national governments, funding agencies, universities, and research communities toward "open data"' face many difficult challenges. In high-level visions of open...- publication PDF
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Potential impacts on ozone and climate from a proposed fleet of supersonic aircraft
There has been renewed interest in developing commercial supersonic transport aircraft due to the increased overall demands by the public for air travel, the aspiration for more...- publication PDF
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Dynamics of cloud-top generating cells in winter cyclones. Part II:...
Recent field observations suggest that cloud-top precipitation generating cells (GCs) are ubiquitous in the warm-frontal and comma-head regions of midlatitude winter cyclones....- publication PDF
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What drives upper-ocean temperature variability in coupled climate models...
A key question in climate modeling is to what extent sea surface temperature and upper-ocean heat content are driven passively by air-sea heat fluxes, as opposed to forcing by...- publication PDF
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Le projet Concordiasi en Antarctique
Au cours des printemps austraux de 2008, 2009 et 2010, des observations météorologiques in situ seront effectuées en Antarctique, incluant des radiosondages faits à Concordia...- publication PDF
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Investigation of the post-sunset extra electron density peak poleward of the...
The Global-scale observation of limb and disk mission observed an extra electron density (Ne) peak after sunset at approximately 30 degrees S near 40 degrees W on 4 November...- publication PDF
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Snow nowcasting using a real-time correlation of radar reflectivity with...
This paper describes and evaluates an algorithm for nowcasting snow water equivalent (SWE) at a point on the surface based on a real-time correlation of equivalent radar...- publication PDF
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An inversion framework for optimizing non-methane VOC emissions using remote...
We aim to reduce uncertainties in CH2O and other volatile organic carbon (VOC) emissions through assimilation of remote sensing data. We first update a three-dimensional (3D)...- publication PDF