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Examining the roles of visualizations in people's understanding of uncertain...
Maps and other forms of geovisualizations play a central yet complex role in communicating weather hazard risks and threats to the public. Through designing storm surge risk...- publication PDF
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NCAR global General Circulation Model of the atmosphere
This paper describes a model of the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere which has been developed and experimented with, since 1964, at the National Center for...- publication PDF
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Sky Brightness Photometer
This report explains the design development of, and includes the operation manual for, a Sky Brightness Photometer developed by NCAR. This photometer was developed to make...- publication PDF
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Effects of surface heat and moisture exchange on ARW-WRF warm-season...
The evolution of the daytime planetary boundary layer (PBL) and its association with warm-season precipitation is strongly impacted by land-atmosphere heat and moisture exchange...- publication PDF
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Comparison between GPS radio occultation electron densities and in situ...
Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation (RO) electron densities are compared with...- publication PDF
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Microphysical process rates and global aerosol-cloud interactions
Cloud microphysical process rates control the amount of condensed water in clouds and impact the susceptibility of precipitation to cloud-drop number and aerosols. The relative...- publication PDF
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Circumglobal response to prescribed soil moisture over North America
A series of idealized prescribed soil moisture experiments is performed with the atmosphere/land stand-alone configuration of the Community Earth System Model, version 1, in an...- publication PDF
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The Oklahoma squall line of 19 May 1977. Part II: Mechanisms for maintenance...
Mechanisms for maintenance of the strong convection along the leading edge of a broad squall line that occurred in Oklahoma on 19 May 1977 are investigated. The findings are...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric rivers over eastern US affected by Pacific/North America pattern
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) play important roles in various extreme weather events across the US. While AR features in western US have been extensively studied, there remains...- publication PDF
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Airborne Cryogenic Frost-point Hygrometer User's Guide
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Simulating marine ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemical cycling with...
Current representations of marine ecosystems in Earth System Models are greatly simplified, neglecting key interactions between dynamic food webs, biogeochemistry, and climate...- publication PDF
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Model hierarchies for understanding atmospheric circulation
In this review, we highlight the complementary relationship between simple and comprehensive models in addressing key scientific questions to describe Earth's atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Multi-model study of chemical and physical controls on transport of...
Using observations from aircraft, surface stations and a satellite instrument, we comprehensively evaluate multi-model simulations of carbon monoxide (CO) and ozone (Oâ) in...- publication PDF
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Air pollution, air quality, and climate change
The introduction of gases and particulate contaminants in the atmosphere due to natural or human activities causes air pollution. The concentration and toxicity of these...- publication PDF
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Assessing the added value of the Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric...
The coarse grid spacing of global circulation models necessitates the application of downscaling techniques to investigate the local impact of a changing global climate....- publication PDF
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Solar flare and geomagnetic storm effects on the thermosphere and ionosphere...
The period of 6-11 September 2017 was an active period in which multiple solar flares and a major geomagnetic storm occurred. The two largest flares, an X9.3 and an X8.2, were a...- publication PDF
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Blending TAC and BUFR marine in situ data for ICOADS near-real-time release 3.0.2
This paper describes the new International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) near-real-time (NRT) release (R3.0.2), with greatly enhanced completeness over the...- publication PDF
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Conical graupel
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Hydrological extremes across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a changing climate
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is projected to experience significant impacts from future climate change and these impacts include but are not limited to increases in extreme...- publication PDF
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Quantifying uncertainty in climatological fields from GPS radio occultation:...
Due to the measurement principle of the radio occultation (RO) technique, RO data are highly suitable for climate studies. RO profiles can be used to build climatological fields...- publication PDF