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In situ balloon-borne ice particle imaging in high-latitude cirrus
Cirrus clouds reflect incoming solar radiation, creating a cooling effect. At the same time, these clouds absorb the infrared radiation from the Earth, creating a greenhouse...- publication PDF
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The influence of chronic ozone exposure on global carbon and water cycles
Ozone (O₃) is a phytotoxic greenhouse gas that has increased more than threefold at Earth’s surface from preindustrial values. In addition to directly increasing radiative...- publication PDF
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Hydrometeorological observations and modeling of an extreme rainfall event us...
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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Seasonal and local time variability of ripples from airglow imager observatio...
Ripples as seen in airglow imagers are small wavy structures with short horizontal wavelengths (<15 km). Ripples are thought to form as the result of local instabilities,...- publication PDF
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Twelve thousand years of dust: The Holocene global dust cycle constrained by ...
Mineral dust plays an important role in the climate system by interacting with radiation, clouds, and biogeochemical cycles. In addition, natural archives show that the dust...- publication PDF
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Bootstrap methods for statistical inference. Part II: Extreme-value analysis
This paper is the sequel to a companion paper on bootstrap resampling that reviews bootstrap methodology for making statistical inferences for atmospheric science applications...- publication PDF
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Quasi two day wave-related variability in the background dynamics and composi...
Dissipating planetary waves in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere (MLT) region may cause changes in the background dynamics of that region, subsequently driving variability...- publication PDF
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The impact of climate change on meningitis in northwest Nigeria: An assessmen...
Meningitis remains a major health burden throughout Sahelian Africa, especially in heavily populated northwest Nigeria with an annual incidence rate ranging from 18 to 200 per...- publication PDF
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Meteorological impacts of forest mortality due to insect infestation in Colorado
Physical characteristics of forests and other ecosystems control land–atmosphere exchanges of water and energy and partly dictate local and regional meteorology. Insect...- publication PDF
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Observations of thermosphere and ionosphere changes due to the dissipative 6....
In the current work, temperature and wind data from the Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite during the years 2002-2007 were used to...- publication PDF
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The impacts of climate, land use, and demography on fires during the 21st cen...
Landscape fires during the 21st century are expected to change in response to multiple agents of global change. Important controlling factors include climate controls on the...- publication PDF
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The use of ambient humidity conditions to improve influenza forecast
Laboratory and epidemiological evidence indicate that ambient humidity modulates the survival and transmission of influenza. Here we explore whether the inclusion of humidity...- publication PDF
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The summer North Atlantic oscillation: Past, present, and future
Summer climate in the North Atlantic - European sector possesses a principal pattern of year-to-year variability that is the parallel to the well-known North Atlantic...- publication PDF
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The effect of vertically resolved soil biogeochemistry and alternate soil C a...
Soils are a crucial component of the Earth system; they comprise a large portion of terrestrial carbon stocks, mediate the supply and demand of nutrients, and influence the...- publication PDF
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Verification of precipitation forecasts from NCEP’s Short-Range Ensemble Fore...
Precipitation forecasts from the Short-Range Ensemble Forecast (SREF) system of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) are verified for the period April...- publication PDF
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Normal Modes of the NCAR Community Forecast Model (CFM)
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Calibration of the total carbon column observing network using aircraft profi...
The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) produces precise measurements of the column average dry-air mole fractions of CO₂, CO, CH₄, N₂O and H₂O at a variety of sites...- publication PDF
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The evolution of climate sensitivity and climate feedbacks in the Community A...
The major evolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) is used to diagnose climate feedbacks, understand how climate feedbacks...- publication PDF
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First observations of short-period eastward propagating planetary waves from ...
Unique Fe lidar observations in May 2014 at McMurdo, combined with Aura-Microwave Limb Sounder measurements, lead to a new discovery that the amplitudes of 4 day and 2.5 day...- publication PDF
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The relative dispersion of cloud droplets: its robustness with respect to key...
Flight data measured in warm convective clouds near Istanbul in June 2008 were used to investigate the relative dispersion of cloud droplet size distribution. The relative...- publication PDF
