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Observations of a squall line and its near environment using high-frequency...
Rawinsonde data were collected before and during passage of a squall line in Oklahoma on 15 May 2009 during the Second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes...- publication PDF
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Budgets for nocturnal VOC oxidation by nitrate radicals aloft during the...
Industrial emissions in Houston, Texas, and along the U.S. Gulf Coast are a large source of highly reactive anthropogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs), principally alkenes,...- 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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Challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle
Understanding observed changes to the global water cycle is key to predicting future climate changes and their impacts. While many datasets document crucial variables such as...- publication PDF
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Arctic climate response to forcing from light-absorbing particles in snow...
The presence of light-absorbing aerosol particles deposited on arctic snow and sea ice influences the surface albedo, causing greater shortwave absorption, warming, and loss of...- publication PDF
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Multidecadal signal of solar variability in the upper troposphere during the...
Studies based on data from the past 25-45 years show that irradiance changes related to the 11-yr solar cycle affect the circulation of the upper troposphere in the subtropics...- publication PDF
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Evolution of ozone pollution in China: What track will it follow?
Increasing surface ozone (O3) concentrations has emerged as a key air pollution problem in many urban regions worldwide in the last decade. A longstanding major issue in...- publication PDF
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Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect
The rising atmospheric CO2 concentration leads to a CO2 fertilization effect on plants-that is, increased photosynthetic uptake of CO2 by leaves and enhanced water-use...- publication PDF
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Enhancing wildfire spread modelling by building a gridded fuel moisture...
Wildland fire decision support systems require accurate predictions of wildland fire spread. Fuel moisture content (FMC) is one of the important parameters controlling the rate...- publication PDF
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Permafrost carbon-climate feedback is sensitive to deep soil carbon...
Permafrost soils contain enormous amounts of organic carbon whose stability is contingent on remaining frozen. With future warming, these soils may release carbon to the...- publication PDF
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Artificial ionospheric Wave Number 4 structure below the F2 region due to...
We analyzed the effect of the Abel inversion on the wave number 4 (WN4) structure from the GPS radio occultation (RO)–measured electron densities by using the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC...- publication PDF
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Toward low-level turbulence forecasting at eddy-resolving scales
Microscale turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is characterized by significant spatiotemporal variability. Consequently, a change in the turbulence forecasting...- publication PDF
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On Saharan air layer stability and suppression of convection over the...
A prominent Saharan Air Layer (SAL) was detected over the Northern Atlantic from the West African Coast to the Caribbean Sea in 2007. Data was collected from the Aerosols and...- publication PDF
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Satellite observations of ozone in the upper mesosphere
Ozone profiles in the upper mesosphere (70-100 km) retrieved from nine instruments are compared. Ozone from the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry...- publication PDF
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The seasonal cycle and interannual variability in stratospheric temperatures...
Previous studies have shown that lower-stratosphere temperatures display a near-perfect cancellation between tropical and extratropical latitudes on both annual and interannual...- publication PDF
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Toward a better understanding of wildfire behavior in the wildland‐urban...
On 30 December 2021, the Marshall Fire devastated the Boulder, Colorado region. The fire initiated in fine fuels in open space just southeast of Boulder and spread rapidly due...- publication PDF
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Projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea level rise from basal ice...
The sea level contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet constitutes a large uncertainty in future sea level projections. Here we apply a linear response theory approach to 16...- publication PDF
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Emission and evolution of submicron organic aerosol in smoke from wildfires...
Despite increasing incidence of wildfires in the United States, wildfire smoke is poorly characterized, with little known about particle composition and emission rates....- publication PDF
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Cross-correlation ratio method to estimate cross-beam wind and comparison...
Cross-beam wind is usually estimated using a full correlation analysis (FCA) method applied to signals from spaced antennas. In this paper we present a cross-correlation ratio...- publication PDF
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A FIRE-ACE/SHEBA case study of mixed-phase Arctic boundary layer clouds:...
Observations of long-lived mixed-phase Arctic boundary layer clouds on 7 May 1998 during the First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Regional Experiment...- publication PDF