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Harry Van Loon Symposium, Studies in Climate II
This symposium was held to celebrate Harry van Loon's contribution to Climate Studies. Harry van Loon has been a scientist at NCAR since 1963. Since that time he has published...- publication PDF
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Refactoring Data-Driven Model Selection Code for Improvements in Interpretabi...
Buchholz et al. used observations of total column carbon monoxide (CO) from the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite instrument to build a record of...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the Spatial Structure of Tropical Cyclone Imagery
Tropical cyclones are highly organized, rotating storms which rank among the most costly natural disasters in the United States. The processes which drive intensification and...- publication PDF
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Regional Acid Deposition: Models and Physical Processes
This report reviews the physical and chemical phenomena that give rise to regional acidic precipitation and deposition, from the viewpoint that mathematical modeling of these...- publication PDF
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Workshop Summary: Aircraft Mission Measurement Strategies for the NASA Subson...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has initiated a major program to assess the impact of tropospheric aircraft on the atmosphere. The Subsonic Assessment...- publication PDF
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Characterizing drought risks and implications for water management under clim...
Drought risks arise from the intersection of climate hazards and social vulnerability. To characterize drought risks, we develop and demonstrate a new Combined Drought Risk...- publication PDF
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Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) Model: 2015 Scientific Docu...
This document describes the scientific aspects of the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) modeling system. This is based on 2015 HWRF v3.7a public release. This...- publication PDF
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Wind Energy Resource Assessment : Information Production, Uses, and Value - S...
High-quality information about the wind resource at candidate wind farm sites is essential to continue to guide the rapid growth of wind energy in the United States and around...- publication PDF
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Dispersion of Smoke Plumes From the Oil Fires of Kuwait
Measurements collected during the multiple passes of a research aircraft through the smoke plumes from the oil fires of Kuwait are used to determine the sizes and growth rates...- publication PDF
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Technical Description of an Urban Parameterization for the Community Land Mod...
This technical note describes the physical parameterizations and numerical implementation of a Community Land Model Urban (CLMU) parameterization as coupled to version 4 of the...- publication PDF
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Emergency managers on-line survey on extratropical and tropical cyclone forec...
We report on a web-based survey of emergency managers (EMs) that is part of a larger body of work with the goal of better understanding how certain NOAA weather forecast...- publication PDF
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Broadcast media on-line survey on extratropical and tropical cyclone forecast...
This report on a survey of broadcast meteorologists (also referred to as the media) is part of a larger body of work to better understand how National Oceanic and Atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Survey of Mozambique Public on Weather, Water, and Climate Information
The 24 million people of Mozambique in southeast Africa face extreme hydro-meteorological events including floods, droughts, and tropical cyclones as well as considerable...- publication PDF
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regClimateChem: An R Package for Data Driven Variable Selection Applied to At...
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a major pollutant, impacting air quality and contributing to the greenhouse effect. Buchholz et al. [1] used a multiple linear regression model to link...- publication PDF
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A User's Guide to the VEMAP Phase 1 Database
The Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP) is an ongoing multi-institutional, international effort addressing the response of biogeography and...- publication PDF
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Assessing and improving the NWS point-and-click webpage forecast information
The National Weather Service (NWS) is the governmental agency responsible for providing freely available weather forecasts, warnings, watches, and advisories for the protection...- publication PDF
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Actinides in the Environment and Their Uptake by Man
The preparation of this report was carried out in the summer of 1973 as a contribution to a study entitled "Public Health Implications of a Plutonium Energy Economy," sponsored...- publication PDF
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Climatology of the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer Region: A Report of the Water Dec...
Since 2000, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has identified eight droughts nationwide as billion-dollar weather disasters based on both damages and costs,...- publication PDF
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Modeling high-impact weather and climate: Lessons from a tropical cyclone per...
Although the societal impact of a weather event increases with the rarity of the event, our current ability to assess extreme events and their impacts is limited by not only...- publication PDF
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Survey of coastal emergency managers perspectives on NWS storm surge informat...
This NOAA-funded project aims to explore and assess (1) the public's awareness and understanding concerning storm surge and storm surge information, and (2) whether the NWS...- publication PDF