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Observed changes in interannual precipitation variability in the United States
Characterizing changes in precipitation patterns over time is critical for hydrologically dependent fields like water resource management and agriculture. Here, we explore...- publication PDF
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Aircraft testing of the new Blunt-body Aerosol Sampler (BASE)
There is limited understanding of the role of aerosols in the formation and modification of clouds, partly due to inadequate data on such systems. Aircraft-based aerosol...- publication PDF
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Statistics of extremes in climate change
This editorial essay concerns the use (or lack thereof) of the statistics of extremes in climate change research. So far, the statistical theory of extreme values has been...- publication PDF
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A climatology of cold air outbreaks over North America: WACCM and ERA-40...
A climatology of cold air outbreaks (CAOs) over North America is presented on the basis of a 50 year simulation of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM). This...- publication PDF
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A comparison of breeding and ensemble transform Kalman filter ensemble...
The ensemble transform Kalman filter (ETKF) ensemble forecast scheme is introduced and compared with both a simple and a masked breeding scheme. Instead of directly multiplying...- publication PDF
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Using radar reflectivity to evaluate the vertical structure of forecast convection
Several months of regional convection-permitting forecasts using two microphysical schemes (WSM6 and Thompson) are evaluated to determine the accuracy of the simulated...- publication PDF
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Particle Habit Imaging using incoherent light: A first step toward a novel...
The imaging unit of the novel cloud particle instrument Particle Habit Imaging and Polar Scattering (PHIPS) probe has been developed to image individual ice particles produced...- publication PDF
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Tropospheric intrusions associated with the secondary tropopause
Deep intrusions of tropospheric air into the lower stratosphere above the subtropical jet are investigated using new observations and meteorological analyses. These intrusions...- publication PDF
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IMF control of Alfvénic energy transport and deposition at high latitudes
We investigate the influence of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) clock angle.. IMF on high-latitude inertial Alfven wave (IAW) activity in the magnetosphere-ionosphere...- publication PDF
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Assessing the impact of surface and wind profiler data on fog forecasting...
Because fog is a high-impact weather phenomenon, there has been increased demand for its accurate prediction. Both surface data and wind profiler data possess great potential...- publication PDF
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Modelling light-absorbing particle-snow-radiation interactions and impacts...
Snow albedo plays a critical role in the Earth system through a strong positive climate feedback, modulating surface energy and water balance. Light-absorbing particles (LAPs),...- publication PDF
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P-CSI v1.0, an accelerated barotropic solver for the high-resolution ocean...
In the Community Earth System Model (CESM), the ocean model is computationally expensive for high-resolution grids and is often the least scalable component for high-resolution...- publication PDF
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Understanding the influence of assimilating subsets of enhanced atmospheric...
Recent studies have shown that assimilating enhanced satellite-derived atmospheric motion vectors (AMVs) has improved mesoscale forecast of tropical cyclones (TC) track and...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2016
Climate informatics is an emerging research area that combines the fields of climate science and data science (specifically machine learning, data mining and statistics) to...- publication PDF
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Ecosystem-scale volatile organic compound fluxes during an extreme drought...
Considerable amounts and varieties of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) are exchanged between vegetation and the surrounding air. These BVOCs play key ecological and...- publication PDF
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Dynamo currents, winds, and electric fields
After a brief presentation of Sq and L electric current systems deduced from geomagnetic data, electric conductivities and wind models in the dynamo region are discussed. It is...- publication PDF
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Assimilation of Doppler radar observations with a regional 3DVAR system:...
In this paper, the impact of Doppler radar radial velocity on the prediction of a heavy rainfall event is examined. The three-dimensional variational data assimilation (3DVAR)...- publication PDF
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On the effects of rotation on acoustic stellar pulsations: Validity domains...
Pulsation frequencies of acoustic modes are calculated for realistic rotating stellar models using both a perturbative and a two-dimensional approach. A comparison between the...- publication PDF
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The White Light Solar Corona: An Atlas of 1983 K-coronameter Synoptic Charts...
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Bridging the gap: Capturing the Lyα counterpart of a type-II spicule and...
We present results from an observing campaign in support of the VAULT2.0 sounding rocket launch on 2014 September 30. VAULT2.0 is a Lya (1216 A) spectroheliograph capable of...- publication PDF
