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Improved analyses and forecasts of hurricane Ernesto's Genesis using radio...
Radio occultation (RO) refractivity observations provide information about tropospheric water vapor and temperature in all weather conditions. The impact of using RO...- publication PDF
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Bridging the gap between climate and weather
The interagency National Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC) collaboration convened a 2.5-day workshop with 106 representatives from several federal and state agencies, as...- publication PDF
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Reductions in India's crop yield due to ozone
This bottom-up modeling study, supported by emission inventories and crop production, simulates ozone on local to regional scales. It quantifies, for the first time, potential...- publication PDF
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A Selected Climatology of the Southern Hemisphere: Computer Methods and Data...
In this write-up we discuss computer methods and announce the availability of a tape with magnetic grid point information for a more complete set of basic and derived data than...- publication PDF
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Convectively induced secondary circulations in fine-grid Mesoscale numerical...
Mesoscale numerical weather prediction models using fine-grid [O(1) km] meshes for weather forecasting, environmental assessment, and other applications capture aspects of...- publication PDF
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Free oscillations of deep nonhydrostatic global atmospheres: Theory and a...
This report describes a method of calculating the modes of small-amplitude free oscillations of a compressible, stratified, nonhydrostatic, rotating deep atmosphere, confined...- publication PDF
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Uncertainties in drought from index and data selection
This study compares various drought indices, the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), and the Standardized...- publication PDF
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Error analysis of Abel retrieved electron density profiles from radio...
This letter reports for the first time the simulated error distribution of radio occultation (RO) electron density profiles (EDPs) from the Abel inversion in a systematic way....- publication PDF
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The low-resolution CCSM4
The low-resolution version of the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4) is a computationally efficient alternative to the intermediate and standard resolution...- publication PDF
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Solving 3D magnetohydrostatics with RBF-FD: Applications to the solar corona
We present a novel magnetohydrostatic numerical model that solves directly for the force-balanced magnetic field in the solar corona. This model is constructed with Radial Basis...- publication PDF
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Longitudinal variations of equatorial ionospheric electric fields near sunrise
In this work, we carry out a comprehensive modeling study, using the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model, to explore the physical processes by...- publication PDF
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Effects of weather conditions on the public demand for weather information...
Understanding when weather information is required by the public is essential for evaluating and improving user-oriented weather services. Because of the popularity of...- publication PDF
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Oscillatory behavior of two nonlinear microbial models of soil carbon decomposition
A number of nonlinear models have recently been proposed for simulating soil carbon decomposition. Their predictions of soil carbon responses to fresh litter input and warming...- publication PDF
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Assessing impacts of integrating MODIS vegetation data in the Weather...
The impact of 8-day-averaged data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor-namely, the 1-km leaf area index, absorbed photosynthetic radiation, and...- publication PDF
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Turbulence structure and mixing in strongly stable boundary-layer flows over...
Direct numerical simulations (DNS) at bulk Reynolds number Re = 10(4) and bulk Richardson number Ri = 0.25 of plane Couette flow are performed with the results used to analyze...- publication PDF
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Internal Gravity and Acoustic Waves - a Colloquium
Between 17 June and 26 July 1968 the Advance Study Program at NCAR and the Astro-Geophysics Department of the University of Colorado conducted a six-week colloquium on the...- publication PDF
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Large-scale forcing impact on the development of shallow convective clouds...
Real-world large-eddy simulations (LES) are driven by time-varying large-scale forcings (LSF) -- e.g., temperature advection, moisture advection, and subsidence -- derived from...- publication PDF
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The contribution of local and remote transpiration, ground evaporation, and...
Land surface evapotranspiration (ET) is a major source of moisture for the global hydrologic cycle. Though the influence of the land surface is well documented, moisture...- publication PDF
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Impact of sea ice on the marine iron cycle and phytoplankton productivity
Iron is a key nutrient for phytoplankton growth in the surface ocean. At high latitudes, the iron cycle is closely related to the dynamics of sea ice. In recent decades, Arctic...- publication PDF
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Using simulated dropsondes to understand extreme updrafts and wind speeds in...
Extreme updrafts (10 m s(-1)) and wind gusts (90 m s(-1)) are ubiquitous within the low-level eyewall of intense tropical cyclones (TCs). Previous studies suggest that both of...- publication PDF
