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Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western...
Escalating wildfire activity in the western United States has accelerated adverse societal impacts. Observed increases in wildfire severity and impacts to communities have...- publication PDF
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Cirrus optical properties observed with lidar, radiosonde, and satellite...
Cirrus formation and geometrical and optical properties of tropical cirrus as a function of height and temperature are studied on the basis of INDOEX (Indian Ocean Experiment)...- publication PDF
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A statistical analysis of the influence of deep convection on water vapor...
The factors that control the influence of deep convective detrainment on water vapor in the tropical upper troposphere are examined using observations from multiple satellites...- publication PDF
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The QBO-MJO connection: A possible role for the SST and ENSO
We examine the hypothesis that the observed connection between the stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) and the strength of the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) is...- publication PDF
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Storm-time variability of terrestrial hydrogen exosphere: Kinetic simulation results
Recent studies of TWINS Lyman- α observations have reported an increase in geocoronal column brightness during geomagnetic storms, indicating enhanced exospheric hydrogen atom...- publication PDF
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Spatial patterns of turbulence near thunderstorms
Many people have a turbulence story: perhaps a specific memorable experience or just an unpleasant flight where the seatbelt sign remained on for hours. While more rare, severe...- publication PDF
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Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (PlioMIP3) – Science plan and...
The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP) was initiated in 2008. Over two phases PlioMIP has helped co-ordinate the experimental design and publication strategy of...- publication PDF
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Vulnerability to inundation and climate change impacts in California:...
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Stable boundary layers and subfilter-scale motions
Recent high-resolution large-eddy simulations (LES) of a stable atmospheric boundary layer (SBL) with mesh sizes ğ�'�=(5123,10243,20483) or mesh spacings â–³=(0.78,0.39,0.2) m...- publication PDF
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Snow size distribution parameterization for midlatitude and tropical ice clouds
Many microphysical process rates involving snow are proportional to moments of the snow particle size distribution (PSD), and in this study a moment estimation parameterization...- publication PDF
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Scalable implementations of ensemble filtering algorithms for data assimilation
A variant of a least squares ensemble (Kalman) filter that is suitable for implementation on parallel architectures is presented. This parallel ensemble filter produces results...- publication PDF
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Twentieth century climate model response and climate sensitivity
Climate forcing and climate sensitivity are two key factors in understanding Earth's climate. There is considerable interest in decreasing our uncertainty in climate...- publication PDF
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A strengthened teleconnection of the quasi-biennial oscillation and tropical...
The Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1 (E3SMv1) is a new global model that can generate a weakened tropical easterly jet (TEJ) during the easterly quasi-biennial...- publication PDF
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Monitoring and understanding trends in extreme storms: State of knowledge [preprint]
The state of knowledge regarding trends and an understanding of their causes is presented for a specific subset of extreme weather and climate types. For severe convective...- publication PDF
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Long-term ecological research in freshwaters enabled by regional...
Biodiversity collections are experiencing a renaissance fueled by the intersection of informatics, emerging technologies, and the extended use and interpretation of specimens...- publication PDF
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The 94-GHz radar dim band: Relevance to ice cloud properties and cloudsat
Details of the microphysics are shown to be responsible for a region of ice cloud which, when probed from above, has decreasing radar reflectivity (Ze ) downwards at 94 GHz but...- publication PDF
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An urban parameterization for a global climate model. Part I: Formulation...
Urbanization, the expansion of built-up areas, is an important yet less-studied aspect of land use/land cover change in climate science. To date, most global climate models used...- publication PDF
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Oceanic frontal turbulence
Upper-ocean turbulence results from a complex set of interactions between submesoscale turbulence and local boundary layer processes. The interaction between larger-scale...- publication PDF
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Estimating individual Radio Occultation uncertainties using the observations...
Estimation of uncertainties (random error statistics) of radio occultation (RO) observations is important for their effective assimilation in numerical weather prediction (NWP)...- publication PDF
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A quantile-conserving ensemble filter framework. Part III: Data assimilation...
The uncertainty associated with many observed and modeled quantities of interest in Earth system prediction can be represented by mixed probability distributions that are...- publication PDF