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Control of phytoplankton bloom inception in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, by...
Observations from November 2006 in the southwestern Ross Sea indicate that stratification developed in a localized fashion, proximal to upper ocean fronts. These regions were...- publication PDF
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Variations of lower thermospheric FUV emissions based on GOLD observations...
Here we compare the global-scale morphology of Earth's the Far-Ultraviolet (FUV) emissions observed by NASA's Global-scale Observations of Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission to those...- publication PDF
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Uniformly rotating global radiative-convective equilibrium in the Community...
A standard atmospheric general circulation model is run in a uniformly rotating global radiative-convective equilibrium configuration to explore the equilibrium state, including...- publication PDF
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Recommendations for developing useful and usable convection-allowing model...
U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters assess and communicate hazardous weather risks, including the likelihood of a threat and its impacts. Convection-allowing model...- publication PDF
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Comparing the impacts of tropical SST variability and Polar stratospheric...
Westerly wind trends at 850 hPa over the Southern Ocean during 1979-2011 exhibit strong regional and seasonal asymmetries. On an annual basis, trends in the Pacific sector...- publication PDF
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The detection of dust around NN Ser
Eclipse timing variations observed from the post-common-envelope binary (PCEB) NN Ser offer strong evidence in favour of circumbinary planets existing around PCEBs. If real,...- publication PDF
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The WRF-based incremental analysis updates and its implementation in an...
An incremental analysis update (IAU) scheme is successfully implemented into a WRF/WRFDA-based hourly cycling data assimilation system with the goal to reduce the imbalance...- publication PDF
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Solar Energetic Proton Access to the Inner Magnetosphere During the...
The access of solar energetic protons into the inner magnetosphere on September 7-8, 2017 is investigated by following reversed proton trajectories to compute the proton cutoff...- publication PDF
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Robust response of the Amundsen Sea Low to stratospheric ozone depletion
The effect of stratospheric ozone depletion on the Amundsen Sea Low (ASL), a climatological low-pressure center important for the climate of West Antarctica, remains uncertain....- publication PDF
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Transport of Asian ozone pollution into surface air over the western United...
We use an ensemble of aircraft, satellite, sonde, and surface observations for April-May 2006 (NASA/INTEX-B aircraft campaign) to better understand the mechanisms for...- publication PDF
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The future of winter orographic cloud seeding: A view from scientists and...
A panel of experts representing various sectors and roles in winter orographic cloud-seeding research and operations discussed its vision for the future of the field.- publication PDF
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The Northern Hemisphere extratropical atmospheric circulation response to...
Application of random sampling techniques to composite differences between 18 El Nino and 14 La Nina events observed since 1920 reveals considerable uncertainty in both the...- publication PDF
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Hydrologic model parameter estimation in ungauged basins using simulated...
In situ gauge networks are often used in hydrologic model calibration, but these networks are limited or nonexistent in many regions. The upcoming Surface Water Ocean Topography...- publication PDF
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Influences of the mid-level vortex on the formation of Tropical Cyclone Toraji (2013)
This study analyzes the influences of the mid-level vortex on the formation of Tropical Cyclone Toraji (2013). A rare case of a tropical cyclone that formed near Taiwan involved...- publication PDF
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Development of an ESMF based flexible coupling application of ADCIRC and...
To enable flexible model coupling in coastal inundation studies, a coupling framework based on the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) and the National Unified Operational...- publication PDF
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Spatial hierarchical modeling of precipitation extremes from a regional climate model
The goal of this work is to characterize the extreme precipitation simulated by a regional climate model (RCM) over its spatial domain. For this purpose, we develop a Bayesian...- publication PDF
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The diurnal and semidiurnal tides over Ascension Island (8° S, 14° W) and...
Horizontal winds in the mesosphere have been measured over Ascension Island (8° S, 14° W) in the tropical mid-Atlantic region throughout the years 2002–2011. The observations...- publication PDF
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The microphysical properties of ice fog measured in urban environments of...
The microphysical properties of ice fog were measured at two sites during a small field campaign in January and February of 2012 in Interior Alaska. The National Center for...- publication PDF
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Do ultrafine cloud condensation nuclei invigorate deep convection?
Numerical simulations of the impact of ultrafine cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) on deep convection are analyzed to investigate the idea proposed by Fan et al. that addition of...- publication PDF
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A new look at ocean ventilation time scales and their uncertainties
A suite of eddy-resolving ocean transient tracer model simulations are first compared to observations. Observational and model pCFC-11 ages agree quite well, with the eddy-...- publication PDF