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Stratospheric sulfate geoengineering could enhance the terrestrial...
Stratospheric sulfate geoengineering could impact the terrestrial carbon cycle by enhancing the carbon sink. With an 8â¯Tgâ¯yrâ»Â¹ injection of SOâ to produce a...- publication PDF
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Raindrop size distribution and rain characteristics during the 2013 great...
Drop size distributions observed by four Particle Size Velocity (PARSIVEL) disdrometers during the 2013 Great Colorado Flood are used to diagnose rain characteristics during...- publication PDF
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Examining barriers and opportunities for sustainable adaptation to climate...
Human adaptation to climate change is comprised of "adjustments" in response to (or anticipation of) climatic impacts. Adaptation does not necessarily imply favorable or...- publication PDF
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The impact of the North American glacial topography on the evolution of the...
Modeling studies have shown that the continental-scale ice sheets in North America and Eurasia in the last glacial cycle had a large influence on the atmospheric circulation and...- publication PDF
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The University of Washington shallow convection and moist turbulence schemes...
This paper describes a new version of the University of Washington shallow cumulus parameterization. The new version includes improved treatments of lateral mixing rates into...- publication PDF
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Mass loss, destruction and detection of sun-grazing and -impacting cometary nuclei
Context. Sun-grazing comets almost never re-emerge, but their sublimative destruction near the sun has only recently been observed directly, while chromospheric impacts have not...- publication PDF
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Interglacials of the last 800,000 years
Interglacials, including the present (Holocene) period, are warm, low land ice extent (high sea level), end-members of glacial cycles. Based on a sea level definition, we...- publication PDF
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GHOST Balloon Data Volume V: Balloon 49R
Early Global Horizontal Sounding Technique (GHOST) balloon tests have resulted in valuable upper air wind data, particularly in the data-poor mid-latitudes over southern...- publication PDF
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Technical note: What does the Standardized Streamflow Index actually...
Hydrological drought is one of the main hydroclimatic hazards worldwide, affecting water availability, ecosystems, and socioeconomic activities. This phenomenon is commonly...- publication PDF
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Frontal scale air-sea interaction in high-resolution coupled climate models
The emerging picture of frontal scale air sea interaction derived from high resolution satellite observations of surface winds and sea surface temperature (SST) provides a...- publication PDF
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Sensitivities of the hydrologic cycle to model physics, grid resolution, and...
Precipitation distributions and extremes play a fundamental role in shaping Earth's climate and yet are poorly represented in many global climate models. Here, a suite of...- publication PDF
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Do southern ocean cloud feedbacks matter for 21st century warming?
Cloud phase improvements in a state-of-the-art climate model produce a large 1.5K increase in equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS, the surface warming in response to...- publication PDF
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Connections between deep tropical clouds and the Earth's ionosphere
We report on a series of simulations with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) thermosphere-ionosphere-mesosphere-electrodynamics general circulation model (TIME-...- publication PDF
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Interpretable deep learning for spatial analysis of severe hailstorms
Deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks, utilize multiple specialized layers to encode spatial patterns at different scales. In this study, deep learning...- publication PDF
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Corrigendum: Impact of fire on global land surface air temperature and...
This is a corrigendum for the article 2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 044014- publication PDF
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Evaluation and improvement of tail behaviour in the cumulative distribution...
The cumulative distribution function transform (CDFt) downscaling method has been used widely to provide local-scale information and bias correction to output from physical...- publication PDF
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Future regional increases in simultaneous large Western USA wildfires
Background. Wildfire simultaneity affects the availability and distribution of resources for fire management: multiple small fires require more resources to fight than one large...- publication PDF
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The idealized aquaplanet Maritime Continent barrier effect on the MJO predictability
Studies have indicated exaggerated Maritime Continent (MC) barrier effect in simulations of the Madden- Julian oscillation (MJO), a dominant source of subseasonal predictability...- publication PDF
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Isolating the evolving contributions of anthropogenic aerosols and...
The evolving roles of anthropogenic aerosols (AER) and greenhouse gases (GHG) in driving large-scale patterns of precipitation and SST trends during 1920-2080 are studied using...- publication PDF
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Arctic sea ice sensitivity to lateral melting representation in a coupled...
The melting of sea ice floes from the edges (lateral melting) results in open-water formation and subsequently increases absorption of solar shortwave energy. However, lateral...- publication PDF