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Multi-model comparison of the volcanic sulfate deposition from the 1815 erupt...
The eruption of Mt. Tambora in 1815 was the largest volcanic eruption of the past 500 years. The eruption had significant climatic impacts, leading to the 1816 "year without a...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric ozone and climate forcing sensitivity to cruise altitudes for f...
The possibility of commercial and business supersonic aircraft that fly in the lower stratosphere is being discussed and specific designs are under consideration. Emissions from...- publication PDF
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Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth
Atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is a critical variable in determining plant photosynthesis. Synthesis of four global climate datasets reveals a sharp increase of VPD...- publication PDF
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Aspects of precipitation development in trade wind cumulus revealed by differ...
Early radar echo development in trade wind cumulus clouds is studied using the equivalent reflectivity factor Ze combined with the differential reflectivity Zdr. The clouds...- 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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Ozonesonde profiles from the West Pacific Warm Pool: Measurements and validation
We present a series of ozonesonde profiles measured from Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, during February 2014, with new insights on the calibration of ozonesondes for...- publication PDF
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Atmospheric factors governing banded orographic convection
The three-dimensional structure of shallow orographic convection is investigated through simulations performed with a cloud-resolving numerical model. In moist flows that...- publication PDF
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Landscape controls on water‐energy‐carbon fluxes across different ecosystems ...
The dependence of arid and semiarid ecosystems on seasonal rainfall is not well understood when sites have access to groundwater. Gradients in terrain conditions in northwest...- publication PDF
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Marine wild-capture fisheries after nuclear war
Nuclear war, beyond its devastating direct impacts, is expected to cause global climatic perturbations through injections of soot into the upper atmosphere. Reduced temperature...- publication PDF
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Traveling planetary-scale waves in the lower thermosphere: Effects on neutral...
The effects of breaking of traveling, planetary scale Rossby waves (TPWs) in the lower thermosphere are investigated with respect to the mixing of neutral constituents. We use...- publication PDF
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The ocean response to climate change guides both adaptation and mitigation ef...
The ocean’s thermal inertia is a major contributor to irreversible ocean changes exceeding time scales that matter to human society. This fact is a challenge to societies as...- publication PDF
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Raytracing simulated GPS radio wave propagation paths experiencing large dist...
Global positioning satellite system (GPS) radio waves that reach the tropical lower troposphere are strongly affected by small-scale water vapor fluctuations. We examine...- publication PDF
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Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM)
The purpose of this technical note is to describe the physical parameterizations and numerical implementation of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM4.0) which is the...- publication PDF
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Estimating the migrating diurnal tide component of mesospheric water vapor
This work presents a method for estimating the migrating diurnal tide (DW1) component of mesospheric H2O from observations of the temperature tide and zonal-mean H2O made by the...- publication PDF
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Oceanographic controls on the variability of ice-shelf basal melting and circ...
Ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea Embayment have thinned, accelerating the seaward flow of ice sheets upstream over recent decades. This imbalance is caused by an increase in the...- publication PDF
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Unusual quasi 10‐day planetary wave activity and the ionospheric response dur...
An unusual sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event occurred in the Southern Hemisphere in September 2019. Ground-based and satellite observations show the presence of transient...- publication PDF
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Effects of aerosol solubility and regeneration on mixed-phase orographic clou...
A detailed bin aerosol-microphysics scheme has been implemented into the Weather Research and Forecast Model to investigate the effects of aerosol solubility and regeneration on...- publication PDF
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Liquid water content estimates using simultaneous S and Ka-band radar measure...
A technique for the estimation of total liquid water content (LWC; the sum of cloud water and rainwater contents) using simultaneous S and Ka band scanning radar observations is...- publication PDF
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Efficiency of solar wind energy coupling to the ionosphere
We present a statistical investigation into the variations of the ionospheric energy coupling efficiencies with the solar wind energy input, the interplanetary magnetic field...- publication PDF
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Role of tropical lower stratosphere winds in quasi-biennial oscillation disru...
In 2016, the westerly quasi-biennial oscillation (WQBO) in the equatorial stratosphere was unprecedentedly disrupted by westward forcing near 40 hPa; this was followed by...- publication PDF
