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Improved simulations of tropical Pacific annual-mean climate in the GFDL...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory has recently developed two global coupled general circulation models, the Forecast-...- publication PDF
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Determinants of urban growth during demographic and mobility transitions:...
Understanding how and why urban populations grow over time is fundamental for a variety of scholarly and policy arenas including migration, economic development, and...- publication PDF
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Modeling the inorganic bromine partitioning in the tropical tropopause layer...
The stratospheric inorganic bromine (Br-y)burden arising from the degradation of brominated very short-lived organic substances (VSLorg) and its partitioning between reactive...- publication PDF
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Calibration of temperature in the lower stratosphere from microwave...
Accurate, consistent, and stable observations from different satellite missions are crucial for climate change detection. In this study, we use Global Positioning System (GPS)...- publication PDF
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Agreement in late twentieth century Southern Hemisphere stratospheric...
[1] We present a comparison of temperature trends using different satellite and radiosonde observations and climate (GCM) and chemistry-climate model (CCM) outputs, focusing on...- publication PDF
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Practice and philosophy of climate model tuning across six US modeling centers
Model calibration (or "tuning") is a necessary part of developing and testing coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models regardless of their main scientific purpose. There is an...- publication PDF
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'fieldsMAGMA': A MAGMA-accelerated extension to the 'fields' spatial...
This report introduces the 'fieldsMAGMA' R package, an extension to the 'fields' package for spatial data analysis that is available on github. fieldsMAGMA uses the Cholesky...- publication PDF
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Assessing noaa rip-current hazard likelihood predictions: Comparison with...
Rip currents, fast offshore-directed flows, are the leading cause of death and rescues on surf beaches worldwide. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...- publication PDF
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Magnetic buoyancy and magnetorotational instabilities in stellar tachoclines...
We present results from an analytical model for magnetic buoyancy and rotational instabilities in full spherical shell stellar tachoclines that include rotation, differential...- publication PDF
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Pursuing the method of multiple working hypotheses for hydrological modeling
Ambiguities in the representation of environmental processes have manifested themselves in a plethora of hydrological models, differing in almost every aspect of their...- publication PDF
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Oscillation of the ionosphere at planetary-wave periods
F-region ionospheric oscillations at planetary-wave (PW) periods (2-20days) are investigated, with primary focus on those oscillations transmitted to the ionosphere by PW...- publication PDF
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An application of the immersed boundary method for recovering the...
This study develops an extension of a variational-based multiple-Doppler radar synthesis method to construct the three-dimensional wind field over complex topography. The...- publication PDF
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The practical predictability of storm tide from tropical cyclones in the...
The potential for storm surge to cause extensive property damage and loss of life has increased urgency to more accurately predict coastal flooding associated with landfalling...- publication PDF
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A reduced complexity framework to bridge the gap between AGCMs and...
The role of convective parameterizations at high horizontal resolution and their impacts on clouds, circulation, and precipitation processes represent large uncertainties in...- publication PDF
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Changes in the width of the tropical belt due to simple radiative forcing...
Model simulations of future climates predict a poleward expansion of subtropical arid climates at the edges of Earth's tropical belt, which would have significant environmental...- publication PDF
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Development of the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM): Near-surface...
The near-surface climate, including the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and land state and fluxes, in the initial version of the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM) are presented....- publication PDF
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High climate sensitivity in CMIP6 model not supported by paleoclimate
Here, we report EECO simulations using CESM2 and find that its high ECS is not supported by geological evidence. Our simulations incorporate the latest reconstructions of EECO...- publication PDF
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Sensitivities of land cover-precipitation feedback to convective triggering
The land surface state can be an important factor in the triggering of precipitation, whose depiction in Earth system models (ESMs) crucially relies on the representation of...- publication PDF
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Regional differences of the ionospheric response to the July 2012 geomagnetic storm
The July 2012 geomagnetic storm is an extreme space weather event in solar cycle 24, which is characterized by a southward interplanetary geomagnetic field lasting for about 30...- publication PDF
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Temporal comparisons involving paleoclimate data assimilation: Challenges...
Paleoclimate reconstructions are increasingly central to climate assessments, placing recent and future variability in a broader historical context. Several estimation methods...- publication PDF