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Survey of NCAR User Needs for Visualization Tools
This report, from the Scientific Computing Division (SCD), highlights the latest visualization tools to the atmospheric and oceanographic research communities served by NCAR....- publication PDF
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Ground-based velocity track display (GBVTD) analysis of W-Band Doppler radar...
On 15 May 1999, a storm intercept team from the University of Oklahoma collected high-resolution, W-band Doppler radar data in a tornado near Stockton, Kansas. Thirty-five...- publication PDF
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Self-consistent modeling of electron precipitation and responses in the...
We report a new modeling capability that self-consistently couples physics-based magnetospheric electron precipitation with its impact on the ionosphere. Specifically, the ring...- publication PDF
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Multiscale convective organization and the YOTC Virtual Global Field Campaign
The Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC) project recognizes that major improvements are needed in how the tropics are represented in climate models. Tropical convection is...- publication PDF
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Multimodel estimates of atmospheric lifetimes of long-lived ozone-depleting...
We have diagnosed the lifetimes of long-lived source gases emitted at the surface and removed in the stratosphere using six three-dimensional chemistry-climate models and a two-...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of the assumptions in the steady-state tropical cyclone...
The criteria and assumptions that were used to derive the steady-state tropical cyclone intensity and structure theory of Emanuel and Rotunno are assessed using three-...- publication PDF
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Predicted impacts of climate and land-use change on surface ozone in the...
This paper studies the effects of climate change under future A1B scenario and land use change on surface ozone (O₃) in the greater Houston, Texas, area. We applied the Weather...- publication PDF
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Pores resolving simulation of Darcy flows
A theoretical formulation and corresponding numerical solutions are presented for microscopic fluid flows in porous media with the domain sufficiently large to reproduce...- publication PDF
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Impact of soil moisture-climate feedbacks on CMIP5 projections: First...
The Global Land-Atmosphere Climate Experiment-Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (GLACE-CMIP5) is a multimodel experiment investigating the impact of soil moisture-...- publication PDF
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Data-optimized coronal field model. I. Proof of concept
Deriving the strength and direction of the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field in the solar atmosphere is fundamental for understanding its dynamics. Volume information on the...- publication PDF
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Assessing the projected changes in European air stagnation due to climate change
Air pollution is a major environmental threat to human health. Pollutants can reach extreme levels in the lower atmosphere when weather conditions permit. As pollutant...- publication PDF
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Implementation of a silver iodide cloud-seeding parameterization in WRF....
A silver iodide (AgI) cloud-seeding parameterization has been implemented into the Thompson microphysics scheme of the Weather Research and Forecasting model to investigate...- publication PDF
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Remote-sensing constraints on South America fire traits by Bayesian fusion...
Satellite observations reveal substantial burning during the 2007 and 2010 tropical South America fire season, with both years exhibiting similar total burned area. However,...- publication PDF
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A hybrid ETKF-3DVAR data assimilation scheme for the WRF model. Part II:...
The hybrid ensemble transform Kalman filter-three-dimensional variational data assimilation (ETKF-3DVAR) system developed for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model...- publication PDF
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Hurricane Isabel (2003): New insights into the physics of intense storms....
This study is an observational analysis of the inner-core structure, sea surface temperature, outflow layer, and atmospheric boundary layer of an intense tropical cyclone whose...- publication PDF
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Surface variability of short-wavelength radiation and temperature on...
It is a common practice to use 3D General Circulation Models (GCM) with spatial resolution of a few hundred kilometers to simulate the climate of Earth-like exoplanets. The...- publication PDF
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Heating of the sunlit polar cap ionosphere by reflected photoelectrons
Photoelectrons escape from the ionosphere on sunlit polar cap field lines. In order for those field lines to carry zero current without significant heavy ion outflow or cold...- publication PDF
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Gridded ensemble precipitation and temperature estimates for the contiguous...
Gridded precipitation and temperature products are inherently uncertain because of myriad factors, including interpolation from a sparse observation network, measurement...- publication PDF
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Climate change projections and stratosphere-troposphere interaction
Climate change is expected to increase winter rainfall and flooding in many extratropical regions as evaporation and precipitation rates increase, storms become more intense and...- publication PDF
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Seasonal variations in severe weather forecast skill in an experimental...
Eight years of daily, experimental, deterministic, convection-allowing model (CAM) forecasts, produced by the National Severe Storms Laboratory, were evaluated to assess their...- publication PDF
