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The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E)
The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E), a field program jointly led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program...- publication PDF
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Diurnal and semidiurnal tides in global surface pressure fields
Global surface pressure data from 1976 to 1997 from over 7500 land stations and the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set have been analyzed using harmonic and zonal harmonic...- publication PDF
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Three-dimensional characteristics of stratospheric mountain waves during T-REX
Measurements from the National Science Foundation/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF/NCAR) Gulfstream V (G-V) obtained during the recent Terrain-Induced Rotor...- publication PDF
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Separation of methane emissions from agricultural and natural gas sources in...
This proof-of-concept study demonstrates that methane (CH4) emissions from natural gas (NG) and agriculture can be disentangled using the concept of excess column observations....- publication PDF
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On the value of time-lag-ensemble averaging to improve numerical model...
The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model with its hourly updating cycles provides multiple weather forecasts valid at any given time. A logical combination of these...- publication PDF
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High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder observations of the gravity...
Temperature observations during January and February 2006 from the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS), the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS), and the Sounding of the...- publication PDF
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An axisymmetric view of concentric eyewall evolution in Hurricane Rita (2005)
Multiplatform observations of Hurricane Rita (2005) were collected as part of the Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX) field campaign during a concentric...- publication PDF
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Biophysical impact of land-use and land-cover change on subgrid temperature...
In this study, we investigate the air temperature response to land-use and land-cover change (LULCC; cropland expansion and deforestation) using subgrid land model output...- publication PDF
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Assessment of the simulation of gravity waves generation by a tropical...
National Center for Atmospheric Research Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) with quasi-uniform grid of similar to 25-km horizontal resolution can resolve gravity...- publication PDF
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The Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) database: a...
In this paper, we describe the construction of the Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) database, which includes vertically resolved ozone and water...- publication PDF
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Cirrus cloud macrophysical and optical properties over north China from...
Two years of mid-latitude cirrus cloud macrophysical and optical properties over North China are described from Earth-orbiting Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization...- publication PDF
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Implementing a new rubber plant functional type in the Community Land Model...
Rubber plantations are an economically viable land-use type that occupies large swathes of land in Southeast Asia that have undergone conversion from native forest to intensive...- publication PDF
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Trends in the neutral and ionized upper atmosphere
This article reviews our knowledge of long-term changes and trends in the upper atmosphere and ionosphere. These changes are part of complex and comprehensive pattern of long-...- publication PDF
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An open virtual machine for cross-platform weather radar science
In a recent BAMS article, it is argued that community-based Open Source Software (OSS) could foster scientific progress in weather radar research, and make weather radar...- publication PDF
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Observed and modeled mountain waves from the surface to the mesosphere near...
Four state-of-the-science numerical weather prediction (NWP) models were used to perform mountain wave (MW)-resolving hindcasts over the Drake Passage of a 10-day period in 2010...- publication PDF
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A statistical method for correlating paired wave spectra
Ocean wave spectra are complex. Because of this complexity, no widely accepted method has been developed for the comparison between two sets of paired wave spectra. A method for...- publication PDF
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Recent anthropogenic increases in SO₂ from Asia have minimal impact on...
Observations suggest that the optical depth of the stratospheric aerosol layer between 20 and 30 km has increased 4–10% per year since 2000, which is significant for Earth's...- publication PDF
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Thermodynamic environments of deep convection in Atlantic tropical disturbances
Conditional composites of dropsondes deployed into eight tropical Atlantic weather systems during 2010 are analyzed. The samples are conditioned based on cloud-top temperature...- publication PDF
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Persistent stratospheric warming due to 2019-2020 Australian wildfire smoke
Australian wildfires burning from December 2019 to January 2020 injected approximately 0.9 Tg of smoke into the stratosphere; this is the largest amount observed in the...- publication PDF
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NWP and radar extrapolation: Comparisons and explanation of errors
This paper examines nowcasts of precipitation from the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRRv2) model from the summer of 2017 along the Colorado Front Range. It was found that...- publication PDF