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Importance of tree- and species-level interactions with wildfire, climate,...
The boreal zone of Alaska is dominated by interactions between disturbances, vegetation, and soils. These interactions are likely to change in the future through increasing...- publication PDF
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Ionospheric variability due to planetary waves and tides for solar minimum conditions
Large ionospheric variability is found at low to middle latitudes when a quasi-stationary planetary wave is specified in the winter stratosphere in the National Center for...- publication PDF
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The role of subtropical irreversible PV mixing in the zonal mean circulation...
The atmospheric circulation response to the global warming-like tropical upper tropospheric heating is revisited using a dry atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) in...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of Fengyun-4A Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) performance during...
This study investigates the characteristics of space-borne Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) lightning products and their relationships with cloud properties using ground-based...- publication PDF
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Comparison of land skin temperature from a land model, remote sensing, and...
Land skin temperature (Ts) is an important parameter in the energy exchange between the land surface and atmosphere. Here hourly Ts from the Community Land Model version 4.0,...- publication PDF
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Integrated impacts of future electricity mix scenarios on select...
Recent studies on the relationship between thermoelectric cooling and water resources have been made at coarse geographic resolution and do not adequately evaluate the localized...- publication PDF
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Characterizing sampling biases in the trace gas climatologies of the SPARC...
Monthly zonal mean climatologies of atmospheric measurements from satellite instruments can have biases due to the nonuniform sampling of the atmosphere by the instruments. We...- publication PDF
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Amplitude modulation of velocity fluctuations in the atmospheric flows over...
Amplitude modulation (AM) quantifies the top-down interactions between the large-scale motions (LSMs) in the outer layer and the near ground turbulence structures. They are...- publication PDF
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Turbulence in breaking mountain waves and atmospheric rotors estimated from...
Atmospheric turbulence generated in flow over mountainous terrain is studied using airborne in situ and cloud radar measurements over the Medicine Bow Mountains in southeast...- publication PDF
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Exploring a variable-resolution approach for simulating regional climate in...
The reliability of climate simulations and projections, particularly in the regions with complex terrains, is greatly limited by the model resolution. In this study we evaluate...- publication PDF
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Mesospheric planetary waves at northern hemisphere fall equinox
Northern hemisphere planetary waves are strong in the winter and weak in the summer, and they go through a fast transition around equinox. This transition is studied here using...- publication PDF
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Response of the topside and bottomside ionosphere at low and middle...
Ionospheric observations from the ground-based GPS receiver network, CHAMP and GRACE satellites and ionosondes were used to examine topside and bottomside ionospheric variations...- publication PDF
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Influences of North Pacific Ocean domain extent on the western U.S. Winter...
Variable-resolution global climate models (VRGCMs) are a dynamical downscaling method that can reach spatiotemporal scales needed for regional climate assessments. Over the...- publication PDF
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Nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde measurements from the GEOstationary...
The GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Airborne Simulator (GCAS) was developed in support of NASA's decadal survey GEO-CAPE geostationary satellite...- publication PDF
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Dual constant-flux energy cascades to both large scales and small scales
In this paper, we present an overview of concepts and data concerning inverse cascades of excitation towards scales larger than the forcing scale in a variety of contexts, from...- publication PDF
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Wind, rain, and the closed to open cell transition in subtropical marine...
Lagrangian transitions in mesoscale cellular convective (MCC) clouds beginning as closed cell MCC and transitioning to open cells or disorganized but cellular MCC are explored...- publication PDF
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Investigating the effect of seasonal plant growth and development in...
The authors examine the effect of seasonal crop development and growth on the warm- season mesoscale heat, moisture, and momentum fluxes over the central Great Plains region of...- publication PDF
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An updated Antarctic melt record through 2009 and its linkages to...
A 30-year minimum Antarctic snowmelt record occurred during austral summer 2008-2009 according to spaceborne microwave observations for 1980-2009. Strong positive phases of both...- publication PDF
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Response of the mesosphere-thermosphere-ionosphere system to global change:...
Long-term trends in the mesosphere, thermosphere, and ionosphere are areas of research of increasing importance both because they are sensitive indicators of climatic change and...- publication PDF
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Summertime dust storms over the Arabian Peninsula and impacts on radiation,...
This study investigates the underlying atmospheric dynamics associated with intense dust storms in summer 2018 over the Arabian Peninsula (AP); a major dust source at global...- publication PDF
