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Climate of the Upper Air: Southern Hemisphere: Volume 1: Temperatures, Dew...
This is the first volume in a set of four volumes which depict the upper air climatology of the world, covering selected climatic conditions in the Southern Hemisphere. Volume I...- publication PDF
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Assessing sources of uncertainty in formaldehyde air mass factors over...
We use a nested-grid version of the GEOS-Chem chemistry transport model, constrained by isoprene emissions from the Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature (MEGAN),...- publication PDF
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Longitudinal variation of tides in the MLT region: 2. Relative effects of...
Part 2 of our study examines the relative importance of radiative heating and latent heating in accounting for vertically propagating tides that impose longitude variability on...- publication PDF
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Numerical representations of marine ice-nucleating particles in remote...
The abundance and sources of ice-nucleating particles, particles required for heterogeneous ice nucleation, are long-standing sources of uncertainty in quantifying aerosol-cloud...- publication PDF
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A study of a self-generated stratospheric sudden warming and its...
A stratospheric sudden warming episode was self- consistently generated in the coupled National Center for Atmospheric Research Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, and...- publication PDF
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Determination and analysis of time series of CFC-11 (CCl3F) from FTIR solar...
The atmospheric concentration of CFC-11 (CCl3F) has declined in response to the phase-out of its production by the Montreal Protocol. Nevertheless, this atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Satellite remote-sensing capability to assess tropospheric-column ratios of...
Satellite retrievals of tropospheric-column formaldehyde (HCHO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are frequently used to investigate the sensitivity of ozone (O-3) production to...- publication PDF
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The bow and arrow mesoscale convective structure
The accurate prediction of warm-season convective systems and the heavy rainfall and severe weather associated with them remains a challenge for numerical weather prediction...- publication PDF
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Comparison of ground-based and satellite measurements of water vapour...
Improving measurements of water vapour in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) is a priority for the atmospheric science community. In this work, UTLS water...- publication PDF
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Reduced ENSO variability at the LGM revealed by an isotope-enabled Earth system model
Studying the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the past can help us better understand its dynamics and improve its future projections. However, both paleoclimate...- publication PDF
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Solutions to the Shallow Water Test Set Using the Spectral Transform Method
Report on solutions to the Shallow Water Test Set using the Spectral Transform Method. The solutions in this report were produced by a spectral transform shallow water model,...- publication PDF
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Global precipitation and thunderstorm frequencies. Part II: Diurnal variations
Three-hourly present weather reports from ~15000 stations around the globe and from the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set from 1975 to 1997 were analyzed for diurnal...- publication PDF
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A Global Monthly Sea Surface Temperature Climatology
This document presents a new global 2? x 2? monthly sea surface temperature (SST) climatology, which was primarily derived from a 1950 to 1979 based SST climatology from the...- publication PDF
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Ensemble forecasts of air quality in eastern China – Part 1: Model...
An operational multi-model forecasting system for air quality including nine different chemical transport models has been developed and provides daily forecasts of ozone,...- publication PDF
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Capturing functional strategies and compositional dynamics in vegetation...
Plant community composition influences carbon, water, and energy fluxes at regional to global scales. Vegetation demographic models (VDMs) allow investigation of the effects of...- publication PDF
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Development of a physically based sediment transport model for Green Bay,...
Green Bay is the largest freshwater estuarine system on earth, drains one-third of the Lake Michigan basin and delivers one-third of the lake's phosphorus load. Southern Green...- publication PDF
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Hydrometeorological observations and modeling of an extreme rainfall event...
Some of the most intense convective storms on Earth initiate near the Sierras de Cordoba mountain range in Argentina. The goal of the RELAMPAGO field campaign was to observe...- publication PDF
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Diurnal ozone variations in the stratosphere revealed in observations from...
Considerable uncertainties remain in the global pattern of diurnal variation in stratospheric ozone, particularly lower to middle stratospheric ozone, which is the principal...- publication PDF
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Causes of extreme ridges that induce California droughts
California droughts are often caused by high-amplitude and persistent ridges near and off the west coast of North America without apparent connections with ENSO. Here with a...- publication PDF
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Generalized extreme wind speed distributions in South America over the...
Statistical analysis of extreme values is applied to wind data from National Centers for Environmental Prediction and National Center for Atmospheric Research reanalysis grid...- publication PDF
