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Predicting the response of the Amazon rainforest to persistent drought...
While a majority of global climate models project drier and longer dry seasons over the Amazon under higher CO₂ levels, large uncertainties surround the response of vegetation...- publication PDF
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The impact of atmospheric mineral aerosol deposition on the albedo of snow &...
Knowledge of the albedo of polar regions is crucial for understanding a range of climatic processes that have an impact on a global scale. Light-absorbing impurities in...- publication PDF
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Case Studies on Convective Storms / Case Study 2, 22 July 1976: First Echo Case
This is one of a series of documents reporting data on aircraft penetrations in convective clouds, ranging from cumulus congestus to thunderstorms, in northeastern Colorado and...- publication PDF
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Wintertime northern hemisphere response in the stratosphere to the Pacific...
The response of the Northern Hemisphere winter stratosphere to the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) is examined using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model. A 200-yr...- publication PDF
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A Microfilm Atlas of Magnetic Fields in the Solar Corona
This is a Microfilm atlas of magnetic fields in the solar corona. The original item included a text of 26 pages and 11,000 maps on 11 reels of microfilm. This Atlas contains...- publication PDF
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Convection: The likely source of the medium-scale gravity waves observed in...
Six medium-scale gravity waves (GWs) with horizontal wavelengths of λH=60 - 160 km were detected on four nights by Taylor et al. (2009) in the OH airglow layer near Brasilia, at...- publication PDF
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A regional scale modeling analysis of aerosol and trace gas distributions...
The Sulfur Transport and dEposition Model (STEM) is applied to the analysis of observations obtained during the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment-Phase B (INTEX-B),...- publication PDF
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A case-crossover analysis of indoor heat exposure on mortality and...
BACKGROUND: Despite the substantial role indoor exposure has played in heat wave-related mortality, few epidemiological studies have examined the health effects of exposure to...- publication PDF
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Attribution of North American subseasonal precipitation prediction skill
The skill of NOAA’s official monthly U.S. precipitation forecasts (issued in the middle of the prior month) has historically been low, having shown modest skill over the...- publication PDF
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The Hawaiian Educational Radar Opportunity (HERO)
A National Science Foundation sponsored educational deployment of a Doppler on Wheels radar called the Hawaiian Educational Radar Opportunity (HERO) was conducted on O'ahu from...- publication PDF
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Campanian Ignimbrite volcanism, climate, and the final decline of the Neanderthals
The eruption of the Campanian Ignimbrite at ca. 40 ka coincided with the final decline of Neanderthals in Europe. Environmental stress associated with the eruption of the...- publication PDF
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Spaceborne GPS remote sensing for atmospheric research
The global positioning system (GPS) is based on a constellation of 24 transmitter satellites orbiting the earth at approximately 21,000 km altitude. The original goal of the GPS...- publication PDF
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Five years of variability in the global carbon cycle: Comparing an estimate...
Year-to-year variability in CO2 fluxes can yield insight into climate-carbon cycle relationships, a fundamental yet uncertain aspect of the terrestrial carbon cycle. In this...- publication PDF
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Long-lived mesoscale systems in a low-convective inhibition environment....
Part II of this study of long-lived convective systems in a tropical environment focuses on forward-tilted, downshear-propagating systems that emerge spontaneously from...- publication PDF
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Attribution of stratospheric and tropospheric ozone changes between 1850 and...
We quantify the impacts of halogenated ozone-depleting substances (ODSs), greenhouse gases (GHGs), and short-lived ozone precursors on ozone changes between 1850 and 2014 using...- publication PDF
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Ozone Concentration and Foliar Injury Analysis at Purchase Knob Garden
Tropospheric ozone (O3) is a common greenhouse gas, which in high concentrations is harmful to the respiratory systems of humans, animals, and certain plants. Some of these...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of global ocean deoxygenation to vertical and isopycnal mixing...
Large-scale loss of oxygen under global warming is termed "ocean deoxygenation" and is caused by the imbalance between physical supply and biological consumption of oxygen in...- publication PDF
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Performance of high resolution (400Â m) PM2.5 forecast over Delhi
This study reports a very high-resolution (400 m grid-spacing) operational air quality forecasting system developed to alert residents of Delhi and the National Capital Region...- publication PDF
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An improved approach for parameterizing surface-layer turbulent transfer...
Based on classic iterative computation results, new equations to calculate the surface turbulent transfer coefficients are proposed, which allow for large ratios of the momentum...- publication PDF
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Decadal variability of Southeast US rainfall in an eddying global coupled model
Ocean variability is a dominant source of remote rainfall predictability, but in many cases the physical mechanisms driving this predictability are not fully understood. This...- publication PDF