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Effects of complex terrain on the shortwave radiative balance: A sub-grid-sca...
Parameterizing incident solar radiation over complex topography regions in Earth system models (ESMs) remains a challenging task. In ESMs, downward solar radiative fluxes at the...- publication PDF
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Characterizing sampling biases in the trace gas climatologies of the SPARC Da...
Monthly zonal mean climatologies of atmospheric measurements from satellite instruments can have biases due to the nonuniform sampling of the atmosphere by the instruments. We...- publication PDF
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Aerostatic Lift of Helium and Hydrogen in the Atmosphere
The purpose of this report is to provide a simple and accurate method of making buoyancy calculations of lift gases. A table is included which gives pertinent model atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Derivation of turbulent kinetic energy from a first-order nonlocal planetary ...
Turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) is derived from a first-order planetary boundary layer (PBL) parameterization for convective boundary layers: the nonlocal K-profile Yonsei...- publication PDF
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The response of tropical cyclone statistics to an increase in CO₂ with fixed ...
The effects on tropical cyclone statistics of doubling CO₂, with fixed sea surface temperatures (SSTs), are compared to the effects of a 2-K increase in SST, with fixed CO₂,...- publication PDF
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Tree species effects on ecosystem water-use efficiency in a high-elevation, s...
Ecosystem water-use efficiency (eWUE; the ratio of net ecosystem productivity to evapotranspiration rate) is a complex landscape-scale parameter controlled by both physical and...- publication PDF
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Assessing regional scale predictions of aerosols, marine stratocumulus, and t...
This study assesses the ability of the recent chemistry version (v3.3) of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF-Chem) model to simulate boundary layer structure, aerosols,...- publication PDF
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Magnetospheric cavity modes driven by solar wind dynamic pressure fluctuations
We present results from Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry (LFM) global, three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction. We use these...- publication PDF
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Ensemble-variational integrated localized data assimilation
Hybrid variational ensemble data assimilation (hybrid DA) is widely used in research and operational systems, and it is considered the current state of the art for the...- publication PDF
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Calculation of average, uncertainty range, and reliability of regional climat...
The "reliability ensemble averaging" (REA) method for calculating average, uncertainty range, and a measure of reliability of simulated climate changes at the subcontinental...- publication PDF
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Spatiotemporal evolution of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice
Melt ponds on sea ice play an important role in the Arctic climate system. Their presence alters the partitioning of solar radiation: decreasing reflection, increasing...- publication PDF
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Detecting clouds associated with jet engine ice crystal icing
In the past two decades, more than 150 jet engine power-loss and damage events have been attributed to a phenomenon known as ice crystal icing (ICI). Ingestion of large numbers...- publication PDF
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Decadal disruption of the QBO by tropical volcanic supereruptions
The Los Chocoyos (14.6 degrees N, 91.2 degrees W) supereruption happened similar to 75,000 years ago in Guatemala and was one of the largest eruptions of the past 100,000 years....- publication PDF
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Insights into atmospheric predictability through global convection-permitting...
Global convection-permitting models enable weather prediction from local to planetary scales and are therefore often expected to transform the weather prediction enterprise....- publication PDF
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Use of NWP for nowcasting convective precipitation: Recent progress and chall...
Traditionally, the nowcasting of precipitation was conducted to a large extent by means of extrapolation of observations, especially of radar ref lectivity. In recent years, the...- publication PDF
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The effect of atmospheric nudging on the stratospheric residual circulation i...
We perform the first multi-model intercomparison of the impact of nudged meteorology on the stratospheric residual circulation using hindcast simulations from the...- publication PDF
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A statistical inference method for interpreting the CLASP observations
On 2015 September 3, the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter (CLASP) successfully measured the linear polarization produced by scattering processes in the hydrogen Ly...- publication PDF
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Forcing single-column models using high-resolution model simulations
To use single-column models (SCMs) as a research tool for parameterization development and process studies, the SCM must be supplied with realistic initial profiles, forcing...- publication PDF
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A comparison of the stability and performance of depth-integrated ice-dynamic...
In the last decade, the number of ice-sheet models has increased substantially, in line with the growth of the glaciological community. These models use solvers based on...- publication PDF
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Multi-scale modeling study of the source contributions to near-surface ozone ...
Chronic high surface ozone (O₃) levels and the increasing sulfur oxides (SOx = SO₂+SO₄) ambient concentrations over South Coast (SC) and other areas of California (CA) are...- publication PDF
