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Understanding the impact of soil moisture on precipitation under different...
Accurate quantitative precipitation forecasts are essential for water resources management, agriculture, and other applications. Soil moisture is among the most important...- publication PDF
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Impact of climate change on volcanic processes: Current understanding and...
The impacts of volcanic eruptions on climate are increasingly well understood, but the mirror question of how climate changes affect volcanic systems and processes, which we...- publication PDF
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Postprocessing of L1 GPS radio occultation signals recorded in open-loop mode
GPS Radio Occultation (RO) profiling from low-Earth orbiting satellites is operationally used for numerical weather forecasting and is starting to be used for climate studies....- publication PDF
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The effects of mineral dust particles, aerosol regeneration and ice...
This study focuses on the effects of aerosol particles on the formation of convective clouds and precipitation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, with a special emphasis on the...- publication PDF
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Quantification of the feedback between phytoplankton and ENSO in the...
The current coarse-resolution version of the Community Climate System Model is used to assess the impact of phytoplankton on El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The...- publication PDF
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Remapping of Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance anomalies for large...
Future sea-level change projections with process-based stand-alone ice sheet models are typically driven with surface mass balance (SMB) forcing derived from climate models. In...- publication PDF
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Geometrically Exact Conservative Remapping (GECoRe): Regular...
Land, ocean, and atmospheric models are often implemented on different spherical grids. As a conseqence coupling these model components requires state variables and fluxes to be...- publication PDF
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Effect of a solar flare on a traveling atmospheric disturbance
It is known that the sudden injection of energy during geomagnetic storms can excite atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) or traveling atmospheric disturbances (TADs). Together with...- publication PDF
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Representing winter wheat in the Community Land Model (version 4.5)
Winter wheat is a staple crop for global food security, and is the dominant vegetation cover for a significant fraction of Earth's croplands. As such, it plays an important role...- publication PDF
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Appreciation for Water Resources Research reviewers
The editors of Water Resources Research express their appreciation to the reviewers of articles submitted to the journal in 2017.- publication PDF
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Ozone depletion due to dust release of iodine in the free troposphere
Iodine is an atmospheric trace element emitted from oceans that efficiently destroys ozone (O-3). Low O-3 in airborne dust layers is frequently observed but poorly understood....- publication PDF
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Insights into tropical tropopause layer processes using global models
The climatology of the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) in two state-of-the-art general circulation models is compared with observations. Results indicate that global models are...- publication PDF
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Incorporating mid-term temperature predictions into streamflow forecasts and...
Skillful mid-term temperature predictions (up to five years out) offer a potential opportunity for water managers, especially in the Colorado River Basin (CRB), where...- publication PDF
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Mexico city aerosol analysis during MILAGRO using high resolution aerosol...
Submicron aerosol was analyzed during the MILAGRO field campaign in March 2006 at the T0 urban supersite in Mexico City with a High-Resolution Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS)...- publication PDF
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Biases in southern hemisphere climate trends induced by coarsely specifying...
Global climate models that do not include interactive middle atmosphere chemistry, such as most of those contributing to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5,...- publication PDF
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Separating the impact of individual land surface properties on the...
Changes in the land surface can drive large responses in the atmosphere on local, regional, and global scales. Surface properties control the partitioning of energy within the...- publication PDF
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Superstrong photospheric magnetic fields in sunspot penumbrae
Context. Recently, there have been some reports of unusually strong photospheric magnetic fields (which can reach values of over 7 kG) inferred from Hinode SOT/SP sunspot...- publication PDF
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On the ionospheric application of Poynting's theorem
It has been proposed that the geomagnetic field-aligned component of the perturbation Poynting vector above the ionosphere, as obtained from the cross product of the electric...- publication PDF
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Responses of East Asian summer monsoon to historical SST and atmospheric...
The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) circulation and summer rainfall over East China have experienced large decadal changes during the latter half of the 20th century. To...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of different physics schemes in the WRF model during a West...
A 2-month (August-September) regime of the year 2007 West African monsoon (WAM) was simulated with 27 physics combinations using the Weather Research and Forecasting model at...- publication PDF