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The Role of Ocean Heat Transport in the Global Climate Response to Projected...
The purpose of this study is to elucidate the individual and combined roles of thermodynamic and dynamic ocean-atmosphere coupling in the equilibrium global climate response to...- publication PDF
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Improvements in shortwave bulk scattering and absorption models for the...
This study summarizes recent improvements in the development of bulk scattering/absorption models at solar wavelengths. The approach combines microphysical measurements from...- publication PDF
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Wind dependencies of deep cycle turbulence in the equatorial cold tongues
Several years of moored turbulence measurements from xpods at three sites in the equatorial cold tongues of Atlantic and Pacific Oceans yield new insights into proxy estimates...- publication PDF
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Continuous assimilation of lightning data using time-lagged ensembles for a...
In this study, a lightning data assimilation method based on the time-lagged ensembles for predicting severe convection is presented. With the lightning data assimilation...- publication PDF
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Biogeochemical protocols and diagnostics for the CMIP6 Ocean Model...
The Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) focuses on the physics and biogeochemistry of the ocean component of Earth system models participating in the sixth phase of the...- publication PDF
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Increasing co-occurrence of fine particulate matter and ground-level ozone...
Wildfires and meteorological conditions influence the co-occurrence of multiple harmful air pollutants including fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ground-level ozone. We...- publication PDF
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Impacts of land cover and soil texture uncertainty on land model simulations...
Land surface processes and their coupling to the atmosphere over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) play an important role in modulating the regional and global climate. Therefore,...- publication PDF
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Contributions of interdecadal Pacific oscillation and Atlantic multidecadal...
Regional sea surface temperature (SST) mode variabilities, especially the La Nina-like Pacific Ocean temperature pattern known as the negative phase of the interdecadal Pacific...- publication PDF
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Estimation of sea spray aerosol surface area over the Southern Ocean using...
This study focuses on methods to estimate dry marine aerosol surface area (SA) from bulk optical measurements. Aerosol SA is used in many models' ice nucleating particle (INP)...- publication PDF
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Surface pressure a more skillful predictor of normalized hurricane damage...
Atlantic hurricane seasons have a long history of causing significant financial impacts, with Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence, and Michael combining to incur more than 345 billion...- publication PDF
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The atmospheric oxidizing capacity in China - Part 2: Sensitivity to...
Despite substantial reductions in anthropogenic emissions, ozone (O3) pollution remains a severe environmental problem in urban China. These reductions affect ozone formation by...- publication PDF
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An observing system simulation experiment for the impact of MTG candidate...
An Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) was designed and developed to assess the potential benefit of the Infrared Sounding on the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG-IRS)...- publication PDF
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Inter-model comparison of global hydroxyl radical (OH) distributions and...
The modeling study presented here aims to estimate how uncertainties in global hydroxyl radical (OH) distributions, variability, and trends may contribute to resolving...- publication PDF
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Characterizing student-driven research investigations contributed to the...
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program offers citizen science opportunities to participants of all ages, with a focus on youth in formal...- publication PDF
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Observational analyses of dramatic developments of a severe air pollution...
A rapid development of a severe air pollution event in Beijing, China, at the end of November 2015 was investigated with unprecedented observations collected during the field...- publication PDF
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Urbanization and the carbon cycle: Contributions from social science
This paper outlines the contributions of social science to the study of interactions between urbanization patterns and processes and the carbon cycle, and identifies gaps in...- publication PDF
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A Description of Software for Determination of Normal Modes of the NCAR...
This report describes the development of NCAR's Community Climate Model (CCM) software to determine the eigensolutions of a linearized version of the CCM. These eigensolutions...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale thermodynamic influences on convection initiation near a surface...
In this study, the authors examine initiation of severe convection along a daytime surface dryline in a 10-member ensemble of convection-permitting simulations. Results indicate...- publication PDF
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High-latitude stratospheric aerosol injection to preserve the Arctic
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) has been shown in climate models to reduce some impacts of global warming in the Arctic, including the loss of sea ice, permafrost thaw,...- publication PDF
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Oceanographic controls on the variability of ice-shelf basal melting and...
Ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea Embayment have thinned, accelerating the seaward flow of ice sheets upstream over recent decades. This imbalance is caused by an increase in the...- publication PDF