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Single Doppler radar observation of the concentric eyewall in Typhoon...
Landfalling Typhoon Saomai (2006) was observed by the CINRAD WSR-98D radar on the southeast coast of China. This study documents the formation and evolution of a concentric...- publication PDF
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A decadal satellite analysis of the origins and impacts of smoke in Colorado
We analyze the record of aerosol optical depth (AOD) measured by the MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite in combination with surface...- publication PDF
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Suppression of CO2 outgassing by gas bubbles under a hurricane
The role of gas bubbles on the air-sea CO2 flux during Hurricane Frances (2004) is studied using a large-eddy simulation model that couples ocean surface boundary layer...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of snow water equivalent in NARCCAP simulations, including...
This study evaluates snow water equivalent (SWE) over North America in the reanalysis-driven NARC-CAP regional climate model (RCM) experiments. Examination of SWE in these runs...- publication PDF
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A large eddy simulation study of moist convection initiation over...
This study uses large eddy simulations to investigate processes of moist convection initiation (CI) over heterogeneous surface fluxes. Surface energy balance is imposed via a...- publication PDF
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A moment-based polarimetric radar forward operator for rain microphysics
There is growing interest in combining microphysical models and polarimetric radar observations to improve our understanding of storms and precipitation. Mapping model-predicted...- publication PDF
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The influence of entrainment and mixing on the initial formation of rain in...
The objective of this study is to address the problem of the production of rain in warm cumulus clouds that has been observed to occur within about 20 min. A hybrid model...- publication PDF
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A constellation of microsatellites promises to help in a range of geoscience...
An octet of microsatellites to be launched in 2003 promises to deliver a large amount of useful data for meteorological, climatic, ionospheric, and geodetic research as well as...- publication PDF
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Diurnal variation in water vapor over North America and its implications for...
Diurnal variations in atmospheric water vapor are studied by analyzing 30-min-averaged data of atmospheric precipitable water (PW) for 1996–2000 derived from Global Position...- publication PDF
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Evaluating the large-scale hydrological cycle response within the Pliocene...
The mid-Pliocene (similar to 3 Ma) is one of the most recent warm periods with high CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and resulting high temperatures, and it is often cited...- publication PDF
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Mixed-phase direct numerical simulation: ice growth in cloud-top generating cells
In this study, a state-of-the-art microphysical model using a Lagrangian-particle-based direct numerical simulation framework is presented to examine the growth of ice particles...- publication PDF
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Sq and EEJ—A review on the daily variation of the geomagnetic field caused...
A record of the geomagnetic field on the ground sometimes shows smooth daily variations on the order of a few tens of nano teslas. These daily variations, commonly known as Sq,...- publication PDF
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Testing strict hydrostatic equilibrium in simulated clusters of galaxies:...
Accurate mass determination of clusters of galaxies is crucial if they are to be used as cosmological probes. However, there are some discrepancies between cluster masses...- publication PDF
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On the detection of the solar signal in the tropical stratosphere
We investigate the relative role of volcanic eruptions, El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) in the quasi-decadal signal in the tropical...- publication PDF
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Simulations of the equatorial thermosphere anomaly: Physical mechanisms for...
Several mechanisms including heat transport due to zonal winds, chemical heating and field-aligned ion drag have been proposed to explain the formation of the Equatorial...- publication PDF
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The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 1: Overview and over-arching analysis plan
This paper is the first of a series of four GMD papers on the PMIP4-CMIP6 experiments. Part 2 (OttoBliesner et al., 2017) gives details about the two PMIP4-CMIP6 interglacial...- publication PDF
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The microwave radiative properties of falling snow derived from nonspherical...
In this study, two different particle models describing the structure and electromagnetic properties of snow are developed and evaluated for potential use in satellite combined...- publication PDF
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The Aerosol Module in the Community Radiative Transfer Model (v2.2 and...
The Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM), a sensor-based radiative transfer model, has been used within the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) system for directly...- publication PDF
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Toward a minimal representation of aerosols in climate models: Description...
A modal aerosol module (MAM) has been developed for the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (CAM5), the atmospheric component of the Community Earth System Model version 1...- publication PDF
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Covariance tapering for likelihood-based estimation in large spatial data sets
Maximum likelihood is an attractive method of estimating covariance parameters in spatial models based on Gaussian processes. But calculating the likelihood can be...- publication PDF
