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Tradeoffs between air pollution mitigation and meteorological response in India
To curb the staggering health burden attributed to air pollution, the sustainable solution for India would be to reduce emissions in future. Here we project ambient fine...- publication PDF
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Seasonal variability of surface and column carbon monoxide over the megacity...
This paper studies the seasonal variation of surface and column CO at three different sites (Paris, Jungfraujoch and Wollongong), with an emphasis on establishing a link between...- publication PDF
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Coronal spectral diagnostics: The coronal solar magnetism observatory (COSMO)
The Need: Understanding and predicting the major phenomena taking place in the solar corona, such as flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), the heating and evolution of the...- publication PDF
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Future abrupt reductions in the summer Arctic sea ice
We examine the trajectory of Arctic summer sea ice in seven projections from the Community Climate System Model and find that abrupt reductions are a common feature of these...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric sounding using GPS radio occultation
This paper summarizes the radio occultation (RO) technique for remote sounding of the Earth's atmosphere using the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and GPS receivers...- publication PDF
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Simulated frequency dependence of radar observations of tornadoes
To obtain accurate radar-measured wind measurements in tornadoes, differences between air and Doppler velocities must be corrected. These differences can cause large errors in...- publication PDF
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The whole atmosphere response to changes in the Earth's magnetic field from...
We study the effects of changes in the Earth's magnetic field between 1900 and 2000 on the whole atmosphere (0–500 km altitude), based on simulations with the Whole Atmosphere...- publication PDF
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Prospects for advancing drought understanding, monitoring, and prediction
This paper summarizes and synthesizes the research carried out under the NOAA Drought Task Force (DTF) and submitted in this special collection. The DTF is organized and...- publication PDF
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Investigating remote-sensing techniques to reveal stealth coronal mass ejections
Eruptions of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun are usually associated with a number of signatures that can be identified in solar disc imagery. However, there are cases...- publication PDF
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Quantifying sources and sinks of reactive gases in the lower atmosphere...
Atmospheric composition is governed by the interplay of emissions, chemistry, deposition, and transport. Substantial questions surround each of these processes, especially in...- publication PDF
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The stratosphere-troposphere analyses of regional transport 2008 experiment
The Stratosphere–Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport 2008 (START08) experiment investigated a number of important processes in the extratropical upper troposphere and...- publication PDF
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An assessment of winter orographic precipitation and cloud-seeding potential...
This paper presents an evaluation of the precipitation patterns and seedability of orographic clouds in Wyoming using SNOTEL precipitation data and a high-resolution multiyear...- publication PDF
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Creation and communication of hurricane risk information
Reducing loss of life and harm when a hurricane threatens depends on people receiving hurricane risk information that they can interpret and use in protective decisions. To...- publication PDF
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Longitudinal and seasonal variation of the equatorial flux tube integrated...
Using the National Center for Atmospheric Research Thermosphere Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIEGCM), the ionospheric Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of vertical air motion in isolated convective clouds
The vertical velocity and air mass flux in isolated convective clouds are statistically analyzed using aircraft in situ data collected from three field campaigns: High-Plains...- publication PDF
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Triggering of El Niño onset through trade wind-induced charging of the...
Sea surface temperature variations over the equatorial Pacific associated with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) produce changes in climates across the globe. Here we...- publication PDF
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Estimating the impact of assimilating cirrus cloud–contaminated...
The assimilation of hyperspectral infrared sounders (HIS) observations aboard Earth-observing satellites has become vital to numerical weather prediction, yet this assimilation...- publication PDF
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The Chicxulub impact produced a powerful global tsunami
The Chicxulub crater is the site of an asteroid impact linked with the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction at similar to 66 Ma. This asteroid struck in shallow water and...- publication PDF
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Similarity theory in the surface layer of large-eddy simulations of the...
Monin–Obukhov similarity theory is applied to the surface layer of large-eddy simulations (LES) of deep Southern Ocean boundary layers. Observations from the Southern Ocean Flux...- publication PDF
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Wave boundary layer turbulence over surface waves in a strongly forced condition
Accurate predictions of the sea state-dependent air-sea momentum flux require a thorough understanding of the wave boundary layer turbulence over surface waves. A set of...- publication PDF