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The Assimilation of GPS Radio Occultation Data and its Impact on Rainfall...
In this study, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF-2.0.3.1) model with three-dimensional variational data assimilation (3DVAR) was utilized to study a heavy rainfall event...- publication PDF
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The Maunder minimum and the Little Ice Age: An update from recent...
The Maunder minimum (MM) was a period of extremely low solar activity from approximately AD 1650 to 1715. In the solar physics literature, the MM is sometimes associated with a...- publication PDF
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Radiative and chemical response to interactive stratospheric sulfate...
We present new insights into the evolution and interactions of stratospheric aerosol using an updated version of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM). Improved...- publication PDF
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Large‐scale regional model biases in the extratropical North Atlantic storm...
Global climate models have circulation biases that the community aims to reduce, for instance through high‐resolution dynamical downscaling. We used the Weather Research and...- publication PDF
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Intercomparison of daytime stratospheric NO₂ satellite retrievals and model...
This paper evaluates the agreement between stratospheric NO₂ retrievals from infrared limb sounders (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) and High...- publication PDF
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Investigation of microphysical parameterizations of snow and ice in Arctic...
In this study the Weather Research Forecast model is used with 1-km horizontal grid spacing to investigate the microphysical properties of Arctic mixed-phase stratocumulus....- publication PDF
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An analysis of the effect of global warming on the intensity of Atlantic...
A statistical intensity adjustment is utilized to extract information from tropical cyclone simulations in a 50 km resolution global model A simple adjustment based on the...- publication PDF
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The WCRP CMIP3 Multimodel Dataset: A new era in climate change research
A coordinated set of global coupled climate model [atmosphereâocean general circulation model (AOGCM)] experiments for twentieth- and twenty-first-century climate, as well as...- publication PDF
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Mesoscale predictability of the "surprise" snowstorm of 24-25 January 2000
A mesoscale model is used here to investigate the possible sources of forecast error for the 24-25 January 2000 snowstorm along the east coast of the United States. The primary...- publication PDF
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Can lidars assess wind plant blockage in simple terrain? A WRF-LES study
Wind plant blockage reduces wind velocity upstream of wind plants, reducing the power generated by turbines adjacent to the inflow, and potentially throughout the plant as well....- publication PDF
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Impact of a digital filter as a weak constraint in MM5 4DVAR: An observing...
In this study, a digital filter is introduced into the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model (MM5) four-...- publication PDF
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Initiation of coalescence in a cumulus cloud: A beneficial influence of...
Although rain has been observed to form in warm cumulus clouds within about twenty minutes, calculations that represent condensation and coalescence accurately in such clouds...- publication PDF
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Surface variability of short-wavelength radiation and temperature on...
It is a common practice to use 3D General Circulation Models (GCM) with spatial resolution of a few hundred kilometers to simulate the climate of Earth-like exoplanets. The...- publication PDF
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Efficient graphics processing unit modeling of street‐scale weather effects...
Over the last few years, the concept of incorporating aerial vehicles into the urban environment for diverse purposes has attracted ample interest and investment. These purposes...- publication PDF
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Element abundances: A new diagnostic for the solar wind
We examine the different element abundances exhibited by the closed loop solar corona and the slow speed solar wind. Both are subject to the first ionization potential (FIP)...- publication PDF
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Which combinations of environmental conditions and microphysical parameter...
This study applies an idealized modeling framework, alongside a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm, to explore which combinations of upstream environmental...- publication PDF
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Separating the impact of individual land surface properties on the...
Changes in the land surface can drive large responses in the atmosphere on local, regional, and global scales. Surface properties control the partitioning of energy within the...- publication PDF
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Contrasting trends of mass and optical properties of aerosols over the...
Atmospheric aerosols affect both human health and climate. PMX is the mass concentration of aerosol particles that have aerodynamic diameters less than X μm, PM10 was initially...- publication PDF
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Simulation of global land surface conditions from 1948 to 2004. Part I:...
Because of a lack of observations, historical simulations of land surface conditions using land surface models are needed for studying variability and changes in the continental...- publication PDF
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Ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of the solar corona at the...
We review the history of ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy with a specific focus on such activities at the Naval Research Laboratory and on studies of the...- publication PDF