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Improved pattern scaling approaches for the use in climate impact studies
Pattern scaling is a simple way to produce climate projections beyond the scenarios run with expensive global climate models (GCMs). The simplest technique has known limitations...- publication PDF
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Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and annular mode variability in...
The internal variability and coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere in CCMVal-2 chemistry-climate models are evaluated through analysis of the annular mode patterns...- publication PDF
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A wind tunnel investigation into the aerodynamics of lobed hailstones
The complex surface geometries of hailstones affect their fall behavior, fall speeds, and growth. Systematic experimental investigations on the influence of the number and...- publication PDF
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Data generated during the 2018 LAPSE-RATE campaign: An introduction and overview
Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) offer innovative capabilities for providing new perspectives on the atmosphere, and therefore atmospheric scientists are rapidly expanding their...- publication PDF
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The FastEddy® resident-GPU accelerated large-eddy simulation framework:...
This paper introduces a new large-eddy simulation model, FastEddy (R), purpose built for leveraging the accelerated and more power-efficient computing capacity of graphics...- publication PDF
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Using precipitation observations in a mesoscale short-range ensemble...
A simple method to assimilate precipitation data from a synthesis of radar and gauge data is developed to operate alongside an ensemble Kalman filter that assimilates hourly...- publication PDF
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Aerosol microphysical impact on summertime convective precipitation in the...
We present an aerosol-cloud-precipitation modeling study of convective clouds using the Weather Research and Forecasting model fully coupled with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) version...- publication PDF
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Changes in continental freshwater discharge from 1948 to 2004
A new dataset of historical monthly streamflow at the farthest downstream stations for the world's 925 largest ocean-reaching rivers has been created for community use....- publication PDF
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Drier tropical and subtropical Southern Hemisphere in the mid-Pliocene Warm Period
Thermodynamic arguments imply that global mean rainfall increases in a warmer atmosphere; however, dynamical effects may result in more significant diversity of regional...- publication PDF
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The SPARC water vapour assessment II: Profile-to-profile comparisons of...
Within the framework of the second SPARC (Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate) water vapour assessment (WAVAS-II), profile-to-profile comparisons of...- publication PDF
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A formula for the maximum vertical velocity in supercell updrafts
In supercell environments, previous authors have shown strong connections between the vertical wind shear magnitude, updraft width, and entrainment. Based on these results, it...- publication PDF
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Precipitation, temperature, and teleconnection signals across the combined...
The tree-ring-based North American Drought Atlas (NADA), Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas (MADA), and Old World Drought Atlas (OWDA) collectively yield a near-hemispheric gridded...- publication PDF
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The Korea-United States Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) field study
The Korea–United States Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) field study was conducted during May–June 2016. The effort was jointly sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental...- publication PDF
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Challenges and future directions for data management in the geosciences
Meeting summary: the Geoscience Digital Data Resource and Repository Service (GEODARRS) Workshop was attended by more than 60 individuals from multiple stakeholder groups in...- publication PDF
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Quantifying structural uncertainty in paleoclimate data assimilation with an...
Paleoclimate reconstruction relies on estimates of spatiotemporal relationships among climate quantities to interpolate between proxy data. This work quantifies how structural...- publication PDF
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Influence of stability and seasonal canopy changes on micrometeorology...
Understanding the micrometeorology within and above forest canopies is of great interest for many environmental applications such as weather and climate forecasting as well as...- publication PDF
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The Visible Spectro-Polarimeter of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) Visible Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP) is a traditional slit-scanning spectrograph with the ability to observe solar regions up to a 120...- publication PDF
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WRF Large-eddy Simulations of chemical tracer deposition and seeding effect...
Two ground-based and two airborne cloud seeding events between 2003 and 2005 from a trace chemistry field experiment conducted by the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in the...- publication PDF
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Simulating Southern Ocean aerosol and ice nucleating particles in the...
Southern Ocean (SO) low-level mixed phase clouds have been a long-standing challenge for Earth system models to accurately represent. While improvements to the Community Earth...- publication PDF
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A methodological framework for extreme climate risk assessment integrating...
Adaptation and resilience practitioners lack guidance on how to understand and manage extreme climate risk using the data available. We present a methodological framework to...- publication PDF