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Increased flood exposure due to climate change and population growth in the...
Precipitation extremes are increasing globally due to anthropogenic climate change. However, there remains uncertainty regarding impacts upon flood occurrence and subsequent...- publication PDF
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Marine boundary layers above heterogeneous SST: Alongfront winds
Turbulent flow in a weakly convective marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) driven by geostrophic winds V-g = 10 m s(-1) and heterogeneous sea surface temperature (SST) is...- publication PDF
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Pitch angle scattering of energetic electrons by BBFs
Field line curvature scattering by the magnetic field structure associated with bursty bulk flows (BBFs) has been studied, using simulated output fields from the Lyon-Fedder-...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of northern Great Plains convection forecasts to upstream and...
The role of earlier forecast errors on subsequent convection forecasts is evaluated for a northern Great Plains severe convective event on 11-12 June 2013 during the Mesoscale...- publication PDF
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On the surface wind speed probability density function over complex terrain
The physical mechanisms determining the shape of the surface wind speed probability density function over complex terrain are investigated using observations from a dense...- publication PDF
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Energy transfer during intense geomagnetic storms driven by interplanetary...
The interaction of the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere is complex, and the phenomenology of the interaction is very different for interplanetary coronal mass ejections...- publication PDF
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Extending ensemble Kalman filter algorithms to assimilate observations with...
Data assimilation (DA), the statistical combination ofcomputer models with measurements, is applied in a variety of scientificfields involving forecasting of dynamical systems,...- publication PDF
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The Marine Boundary Layer, From Air-sea Interface to Inversion
An overview is given of the structure of the marine boundary layer including the molecular interactions at the interface, the transfer processes in the surface layer, and the...- publication PDF
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Envisioning U.S. Climate predictions and projections to meet new challenges
In the face of a changing climate, the understanding, predictions, and projections of natural and human systems are increasingly crucial to prepare and cope with extremes and...- publication PDF
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The spatiotemporal characteristics of near-surface water vapor in a coastal...
The radar-retrieved refractivity fields provide detailed depictions of the near-surface moisture distribution at the meso-gamma scale. This study represents a novel application...- publication PDF
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Comparison of Desroziers and Three-Cornered Hat methods for estimating...
We compare two seemingly different methods of estimating random error statistics (uncertainties) of observations, the three-cornered hat (3CH) method and Desroziers method, and...- publication PDF
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Unsteady magnetopause reconnection under quasi-steady solar wind driving
The intrinsic temporal nature of magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause has been an active area of research. Both temporally steady and intermittent reconnection have been...- publication PDF
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Source sector and region contributions to black carbon and PM2.5 in the Arctic
The impacts of black carbon (BC) and particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters less than 2.5 mu m (PM2 : 5) emissions from different source sectors (e.g., transportation,...- publication PDF
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Solar radiation management impacts on agriculture in China: A case study in...
Geoengineering via solar radiation management could affect agricultural productivity due to changes in temperature, precipitation, and solar radiation. To study rice and maize...- publication PDF
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Ground-based passive microwave profiling during dynamic weather conditions
Short-period (1â5 min) temperature and humidity soundings up to 10-km height are retrieved from ground-based 12-channel microwave radiometer profiler (MWRP) observations. In...- publication PDF
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Nonparametric triple collocation
Triple collocation has found widespread application in the hydrological sciences because it provides information about the errors in our measurements without requiring that we...- publication PDF
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Investigating the impact of cloud-radiative feedbacks on tropical...
Although societally important, extreme precipitation is difficult to represent in climate models. This study shows one robust aspect of extreme precipitation across models:...- publication PDF
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Understanding and improving model representation of aerosol optical...
KORUS-AQ was an international cooperative air quality field study in South Korea that measured local and remote sources of air pollution affecting the Korean Peninsula during...- publication PDF
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Arctic summer airmass transformation, surface inversions, and the surface...
During the Arctic Clouds in Summer Experiment (ACSE) in summer 2014, a weeklong period of warm-air advection over melting sea ice, with the formation of a strong surface...- publication PDF
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Parameterizing the impact of unresolved temperature variability on the...
Ocean circulation models have systematic errors in large-scale horizontal density gradients due to estimating the grid-cell-mean density by applying the nonlinear seawater...- publication PDF