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A Global Ocean Wind Stress Climatology Based on ECMWF Analyses
This report discusses the computations of the surface wind stress over the global oceans using surface winds from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)...- publication PDF
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Global variability in atmospheric new particle formation mechanisms
A key challenge in aerosol pollution studies and climate change assessment is to understand how atmospheric aerosol particles are initially formed 1,2 . Although new particle...- publication PDF
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Boundary layer versus free tropospheric CO budget and variability over the...
The regional Weather Research and Forecasting Model with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) version 3.2 is used to analyze the carbon monoxide (CO) budget and spatiotemporal variability over...- publication PDF
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Nine years of global hydrocarbon emissions based on source inversion of OMI...
As formaldehyde (HCHO) is a high-yield product in the oxidation of most volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by fires, vegetation, and anthropogenic activities, satellite...- publication PDF
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Convective episodes in the east-central United States
Nine years of composited radar data are investigated to assess the presence of organized convective episodes in the east-central United States. In the eastern United States, the...- publication PDF
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Sources and characteristics of summertime organic aerosol in the Colorado...
The evolution of organic aerosols (OAs) and their precursors in the boundary layer (BL) of the Colorado Front Range during the Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of 21st century stratospheric ozone to greenhouse gas scenarios
To understand how greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions may affect future stratospheric ozone, 21st century projections from four chemistry-climate models are examined for their...- publication PDF
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On the momentum budget of the quasi-biennial oscillation in the Whole...
This study documents the contribution of equatorial waves and mesoscale gravity waves to the momentum budget of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) in a 110-level version of...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms supporting long-lived episodes of propagating nocturnal...
A large-domain explicit convection simulation is used to investigate the life cycle of nocturnal convection for a one-week period of successive zonally propagating heavy...- publication PDF
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The transport of Asian dust and combustion aerosols and associated ozone to...
Aerosol and tropospheric ozone transport to North America has important implications for regional air quality and climate. We present data from Chews Ridge, a remote mountaintop...- publication PDF
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Coronal plasma diagnostics from ground-based observations
In this paper we discuss the potential of ground-based visible observations of the solar corona to address the key open problems in the physics of the solar atmosphere and of...- publication PDF
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Gravity waves emitted from Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities
Fritts, Wang, Lund, and Thorpe (2022, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.1085) and Fritts, Wang, Thorpe, and Lund (2022, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.1086) described a...- publication PDF
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Evolution of the 2007 - 2008 Arctic sea ice cover and prospects for a new...
The record Arctic sea ice minimum in 2007 has heightened debate on whether the Arctic Ocean has reached a tipping point, leading to a rapid transition towards a seasonal ice...- publication PDF
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Direct multipoint observations capturing the reformation of a supercritical...
Using multipoint Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observations in an unusual string-of-pearls configuration, we examine in detail observations of the reformation of a fast...- publication PDF
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Snow albedo feedbacks enhance snow impurity-induced radiative forcing in the...
This study employs a fully coupled meteorology-chemistry-snow model to investigate the impacts of light-absorbing particles (LAPs) on snow darkening in the Sierra Nevada. After...- publication PDF
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Impacts of different causes on the inter-hemispheric asymmetry of...
In this study, the Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model is utilized to investigate the inter-hemispheric asymmetry in the ionosphere-thermosphere (I-T) system at mid- and high-...- publication PDF
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Dynamo currents, winds, and electric fields
After a brief presentation of Sq and L electric current systems deduced from geomagnetic data, electric conductivities and wind models in the dynamo region are discussed. It is...- publication PDF
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Day-to-day variability of diurnal tide in the mesosphere and lower...
The migrating diurnal tide (DW1) is one of the dominant wave motions in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. It plays a crucial role in neutral atmosphere and ionosphere...- publication PDF
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A revised approach to ice-microphysical processes for the bulk...
A revised approach to cloud microphysical processes in a commonly used bulk microphysics parameterization and the importance of correctly representing properties of cloud ice...- publication PDF
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Impact of changes in the Sun's conveyor-belt on recent solar cycles
Plasma flowing poleward at the solar surface and returning equatorward near the base of the convection zone, called the meridional circulation, constitutes the Sun's conveyor-...- publication PDF