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Sensitivity of mountain hydroclimate simulations in variable-resolution CESM...
Mountains are natural dams that impede atmospheric moisture transport and water towers that cool, condense, and store precipitation. They are essential in the western United...- publication PDF
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Observational evidence of winter spice injection
Temperature and salinity (T-S) profiles from the global array of Argo floats support the existence of spice-formation regions in the subtropics of each ocean basin where large,...- publication PDF
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The monitoring network of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics
An innovative monitoring network was implemented to support the operational and science programs for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. It consisted of in situ weather stations...- publication PDF
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Airborne flux measurements of biogenic isoprene over California
Biogenic isoprene fluxes were measured onboard the CIRPAS Twin Otter aircraft as part of the California Airborne Biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) Emission Research in...- publication PDF
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Regional and seasonal trends in tropical ozone from SHADOZ profiles:...
Understanding lowermost stratosphere (LMS) ozone variability is an important topic in the trends and climate assessment communities because of feedbacks among changing...- publication PDF
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Coronal mass ejections associated with slow long duration flares
It is well known that there is a temporal relationship between coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and associated flares. The duration of the acceleration phase is related to the...- publication PDF
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The Experimental Warning Program of NOAA's Hazardous Weather Testbed
NOAA's Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) is a physical space and research framework to foster collaboration and evaluate emerging tools, technology, and products for NWS...- publication PDF
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Impacts of Radio Occultation Data on Typhoon Forecasts as Explored by the...
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) provides plentiful sounding profiles over regions lacking conventional observations. The Gridpoint Statistical...- publication PDF
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Budgets for decadal variability in Pacific Ocean heat content
A slowdown in the rate of surface warming in the early 2000s led to renewed interest in the redistribution of ocean heat content (OHC) and its relationship with internal climate...- publication PDF
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Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes
Society relies on Earth system models (ESMs) to project future climate and carbon (C) cycle feedbacks. However, the soil C response to climate change is highly uncertain in...- publication PDF
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A high-impact meso-beta vortex in the Adriatic Sea
On the evening of November 12, 2019, an exceptional high tide - the second-highest in the ranking since sea-level data have been recorded - hit the city of Venice in northern...- 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
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A non-Gaussian analysis scheme using rank histograms for ensemble data assimilation
One challenge of geophysical data assimilation is to address the issue of non-Gaussianities in the distributions of the physical variables ensuing, in many cases, from nonlinear...- publication PDF
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A method of estimating electric fields above electrified clouds from passive...
A unique dataset of coincident high-altitude passive microwave and electric field observations taken by the NASA ER-2 aircraft is used to assess the feasibility of estimating...- publication PDF
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A multiscale analysis of the extreme weather events over western Russia and...
This manuscript presents a detailed multiscale analysis--using observations, model analyses, and ensemble forecasts--of the extreme heat wave over Russia and historic floods...- publication PDF
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Single frequency processing of Ørsted GPS radio occultation measurements
The Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation measurements obtained using the TurboRogue GPS receiver on the Danish satellite Ørsted have been processed using the single...- publication PDF
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Volcanic aerosol impacts on Hawai'i Island rainfall
In recent decades, a significant rainfall decline over the island of Hawai'i has been noted, with many hypothesizing that the drying is associated with the volcanic aerosols...- publication PDF
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Experimental testing of scattering polarization models
We realized a laboratory experiment to study the scattering polarization of the Na i D-doublet at 589.0 and 589.6 nm in the presence of a magnetic field. This work was...- publication PDF
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Statistical response of middle atmosphere composition to solar proton events...
Atmospheric effects of solar proton events (SPEs) have been studied for decades, because their drastic impact can be used to test our understanding of upper stratospheric and...- publication PDF
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The shape-slope relation in observed gamma raindrop size distributions:...
The three-parameter gamma distribution n( D) 5 N0Dmu exp(-LambdaD) is often used to characterize a raindrop size distribution ( DSD). The parameters m and L correspond to the...- publication PDF