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Using noble gas measurements to derive air-sea process information and predic...
Dissolved gas distributions are important because they influence oceanic habitats and Earth's climate, yet competing controls by biology and physics make gas distributions...- publication PDF
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A hybrid ETKF-3DVAR data assimilation scheme for the WRF Model. Part I: Obser...
A hybrid ensemble transform Kalman filter-three-dimensional variational data assimilation (ETKF-3DVAR) system for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is introduced....- publication PDF
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Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes
Society relies on Earth system models (ESMs) to project future climate and carbon (C) cycle feedbacks. However, the soil C response to climate change is highly uncertain in...- publication PDF
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Radial velocity and wind measurement with NIMA-NWCA: Comparisons with human e...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Improved Moments Algorithm (NIMA) calculates the first and second moments (radial velocity and spectral width) of...- publication PDF
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Accelerated Greenland ice sheet mass loss under high greenhouse gas forcing a...
The Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is now losing mass at a rate of 0.7 mm of sea level rise (SLR) per year. Here we explore future GrIS evolution and interactions with global and...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of the mesospheric polar vortices in WACCM
This work evaluates the wintertime mesospheric polar vortices in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model. Mesospheric altitudes are where high-top models underestimate the...- publication PDF
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Observed increase of TTL temperature and water vapor in polluted clouds over ...
Satellite observations are analyzed to examine the correlations between aerosols and the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) temperature and water vapor. This study focuses on two...- publication PDF
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Wildland fire detection and monitoring using a drone-collected RGB/IR image d...
Current forest monitoring technologies including satellite remote sensing, manned/piloted aircraft, and observation towers leave uncertainties about a wildfire's extent,...- publication PDF
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The role of large-scale feedbacks in cumulus convection parameter estimation
Uncertainty in cumulus convection parameterization is one of the most important causes of model climate drift through interactions between large-scale background and local...- publication PDF
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Convective transport of very short lived bromocarbons to the stratosphere
We use the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Chemistry Climate Model (GEOSCCM) to quantify the contribution of the two most important brominated very short lived...- publication PDF
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Assessing tropical cyclone trends in the context of potential sampling biases
Recently observed trends in the tropical cyclone record are assessed in the context of potential sampling biases. Multi-member syntheses of the hurricane record are created and...- publication PDF
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An interannual assessment of the relationship between the stable carbon isoto...
We measured the carbon isotopic composition (δ(13)C) of ecosystem respiration (δ(13)C(R)) in a subalpine forest across four growing seasons to examine whether patterns in...- publication PDF
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The effects of ionospheric outflow on ICME and SIR driven sawtooth events
Magnetosphere sawtooth oscillations have been observed during interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) events, when the solar wind conditions are relatively steady, and...- publication PDF
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A positive-definite, WENO-limited, high-order finite volume solver for 2-D tr...
Modern computer architectures reward added computation if it reduces algorithmic dependence, reduces data movement, increases accuracy/robustness, and improves memory accesses....- publication PDF
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Prediction of Graupel density in a bulk microphysics scheme
A method to predict the bulk density of graupel ρg has been added to the two-moment Milbrandt-Yau bulk microphysics scheme. The simulation of graupel using the modified scheme...- publication PDF
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Comparison of land-precipitation coupling strength using observations and models
Numerous studies have attempted to address the land-precipitation coupling, but scientists’ understanding remains limited and discrepancies still exist from different studies. A...- publication PDF
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Stable computations with Gaussian radial basis functions
Radial basis function (RBF) approximation is an extremely powerful tool for representing smooth functions in nontrivial geometries since the method is mesh-free and can be...- publication PDF
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Features of the middle- and low-latitude ionosphere during solar minimum as r...
In this study, the ionospheric electron density profiles retrieved from radio occultation measurements of the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and...- publication PDF
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Concentrations and sources of organic carbon aerosols in the free troposphere...
Aircraft measurements of water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) aerosol over NE North America during summer 2004 (ITCT-2K4) are simulated with a global chemical transport model...- publication PDF
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Climate impacts of recent multidecadal changes in Atlantic Ocean sea surface ...
During the twentieth century sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean exhibited prominent multidecadal variations. The source of such variations has yet to be rigorously...- publication PDF