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Development of an eye-safe solid-state tunable laser transmitter in the...
An experimental optimization of the efficiency of a gain switched tunable Cr⁴⁺:YAG laser at 10 Hz is described. The thermal lensing during pulsed operation was measured. Optimal...- publication PDF
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Editorial: Vertical coupling in the atmosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere system
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Water and energy budgets of hurricanes: Case studies of Ivan and Katrina
To explore the role of hurricanes in the climate system, a detailed analysis is made of the bulk atmospheric moisture budget of Ivan in September 2004 and Katrina in August 2005...- publication PDF
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Conical graupel
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Open data: Accountability and transparency
The movements by national governments, funding agencies, universities, and research communities toward "open data"' face many difficult challenges. In high-level visions of open...- publication PDF
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A two-column model parameterization for subgrid surface heterogeneity driven...
Earth system models currently struggle to account for the complex effects that land surface heterogeneity can have on land-atmosphere interactions. There have been attempts to...- publication PDF
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Contribution of anthropogenic aerosols to persistent La Niña-like conditions...
The discrepancy between the observed lack of surface warming in the eastern equatorial Pacific and climate model projections of an El Nino- like warming pattern confronts the...- publication PDF
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TROPESS-CrIS CO single-pixel vertical profiles: Intercomparisons with MOPITT...
The new TROPESS (TRopospheric Ozone and its Precursors from Earth System Sounding) profile retrievals of carbon monoxide (CO) from the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) are...- publication PDF
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An application level parallel I/O library for Earth system models
We describe the design and implementation of an application level parallel I/O (PIO) library for the reading and writing of distributed arrays to several common scientific data...- publication PDF
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Highly stratified mid-Pliocene Southern Ocean in PlioMIP2
During the mid-Pliocene warm period (mPWP; 3.264-3.025 Ma), atmospheric CO2 concentrations were approximately 400 ppm, and the Antarctic Ice Sheet was substantially reduced...- publication PDF
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Recovery of three-dimensional wind and temperature fields from simulated...
A method for recovering the full three-dimensional wind and temperature fields from single-Doppler radar data is developed and demonstrated. This method uses a dynamic model,...- publication PDF
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High-resolution, mobile Doppler radar observations of cyclic...
On 15 May 2003, two ground-based, mobile, Doppler radars scanned a supercell that moved through the Texas Panhandle and cyclically produced mesocyclones. The two radars...- publication PDF
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Prompt ionospheric/magnetospheric responses 29 October 2003 Halloween storm:...
3D multifluid simulations of the 29 October 2003 Halloween storm show the event to be a good example of conditions which lead to prompt penetration of solar wind electric field...- publication PDF
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CAM-SE: A scalable spectral element dynamical core for the Community Atmosphere Model
The Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) version 5 includes a spectral element dynamical core option from NCAR's High-Order Method Modeling Environment. It is a continuous Galerkin...- publication PDF
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Altitude variations of the horizontal thermospheric winds during geomagnetic storms
It is generally assumed that viscosity smooths out vertical gradients of the horizontal thermospheric winds in the upper thermosphere, and thus observations of neutral winds at...- publication PDF
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Constraining aerosol-cloud adjustments by uniting surface observations with...
Aerosol–cloud interactions (ACIs) are the largest source of uncertainty in inferring the magnitude of future warming consistent with the observational record. The effective...- publication PDF
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Effects of macro vs. micro initialization and ocean initial-condition memory...
“Single Model initial-condition Large Ensembles” (SMILEs) conducted with Earth system models have transformed our ability to quantify internal climate variability...- publication PDF
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A numerical investigation on the formation of the stalling of the...
Thermospheric winds usually flow from noon to the midnight inside the polar cap and spill further equatorward around midnight, due to the combined effects of solar radiation-...- publication PDF
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Environmental management cycles for chemicals and climate change, EMC 4 : A...
The environmental management cycles for chemicals and climate change (EMC4) is a suggested conceptual framework for integrating climate change aspects into chemical risk...- publication PDF
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Investigating atmospheric responses to and mechanisms governing North...
North Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) variability plays a critical role in modulating the climate system. However, characterizing patterns of North Atlantic SST...- publication PDF