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Mechanisms of intense alpine rainfall
Numerical studies by the authors and others of the 1994 Piedmont flood show that the orographically modified flow was a critical element for the production of extraordinary...- publication PDF
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Development of a "nature run" for Observing System Simulation Experiments...
Snow is a fundamental component of global and regional water budgets, particularly in mountainous areas and regions downstream that rely on snowmelt for water resources. Land...- publication PDF
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Improved snow albedo evolution in Noah-MP land surface model coupled with a...
The widely used community Noah-MP land surface model currently adopts snow albedo parameterizations that are semiphysical in nature and have systematic biases which impact the...- publication PDF
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Impacts of transported background pollutants on summertime western US air...
The impacts of transported background (TBG) pollutants on western US ozone (Oâ©â) distributions in summer 2008 are studied using the multi-scale Sulfur Transport and...- publication PDF
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Improving ionospheric predictability requires accurate simulation of the...
The mesospheric polar vortex (MPV) plays a critical role in coupling the atmosphere-ionosphere system, so its accurate simulation is imperative for robust predictions of the...- publication PDF
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Elucidating new particle formation in complex terrain during the winter 2022...
New particle formation (NPF) is a complex atmospheric phenomenon defined by the gas‐to‐particle conversion that leads to the sudden burst and growth in aerosol...- publication PDF
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Simulating agriculture in the Community Land Model Version 5
Agricultural expansion and management have greatly increased global food production and altered Earth's climate by changing physical and biogeochemical properties of terrestrial...- publication PDF
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From vision to evaluation: A metrics framework for the ACCESS allocations service
The Allocations Service for the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program is charged with accepting, reviewing, and processing...- publication PDF
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Comparison of urban air quality simulations during the KORUS-AQ campaign...
Model intercomparison studies often report a large spread in simulation results, but quantifying the causes of these differences is hindered by the fact that several processes...- publication PDF
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On the realism of the rain microphysics representation of a squall line in...
A comparison between retrieved properties of the rain drop size distributions (DSDs) from multifrequency cloud radar observations and WRF Model results using either the Morrison...- publication PDF
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Migrating semidiurnal tide during the September equinox transition in the...
Specified Dynamics Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with thermosphere-ionosphere eXtension simulations are used to investigate the solar migrating semidiurnal tide (SW2)...- publication PDF
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Airborne doppler radar and sounding analysis of an oceanic cold front
An analysis of a cold front over the eastern Atlantic Ocean based on airborne Doppler wind syntheses and dropsonde data is presented. The focus and unique aspect of this study...- publication PDF
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Summary of a workshop on integrating weather into unmanned aerial system...
On 19-21 July 2016, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) organized and...- publication PDF
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Multi-sensor Advection Diffusion nowCast (MADCast) for cloud analysis and...
A new approach designed for the analysis and short-term forecasting of clouds,called Multi-sensor Advection-Diffusion nowCast (MADCast), has been implemented within the Weather...- publication PDF
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Does extreme precipitation intensity depend on the emissions scenario?
The rate of increase of global-mean precipitation per degree global-mean surface temperature increase differs for greenhouse gas and aerosol forcings and across emissions...- publication PDF
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Bark beetle impacts on forest evapotranspiration and its partitioning
Insect outbreaks affect forest structure and function and represent a major category of forest disturbance globally. However, the resulting impacts on evapotranspiration (ET),...- publication PDF
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Atomic oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere derived from SABER:...
Atomic oxygen (O) is a fundamental component in chemical aeronomy of Earth's mesosphere and lower thermosphere region extending from approximately 50-km to over 100-km in...- publication PDF
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GPS TEC response to the 22 July 2009 total solar eclipse in East Asia
The longest total solar eclipse of this century occurred in East and South Asia on 22 July 2009. The eclipse was accompanied with a medium magnetic storm, whose main phase onset...- publication PDF
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Interpreting coronal polarization observations
Solar coronal polarization observations are an underused data product because of the difficulties in interpreting the data and in calculating an inversion. The physics of the...- publication PDF
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Temporal comparisons involving paleoclimate data assimilation: Challenges...
Paleoclimate reconstructions are increasingly central to climate assessments, placing recent and future variability in a broader historical context. Several estimation methods...- publication PDF
