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Changes in air quality and tropospheric composition due to depletion of strat...
UV radiation is an essential driver for the formation of photochemical smog, which includes ground-level ozone and particulate matter (PM). Recent analyses support earlier work...- publication PDF
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A nonoscillatory discontinuous Galerkin transport scheme on the cubed sphere
The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is high order, conservative, and offers excellent parallel efficiency. However, when there are discontinuities in the solution, the DG...- publication PDF
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Confronting the challenge of modeling cloud and precipitation microphysics
In the atmosphere,microphysicsrefers to the microscale processes that affect cloud and precipitation particles and is a key linkage among the various components of Earth's...- publication PDF
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Quantifying gravity wave forcing using scale invariance
Despite the increasing resolution, forcing on the mean circulation by resolved waves in general circulation models is not yet converging. Parameterization of the forcing remains...- publication PDF
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Spatial distributions of nitric oxide in the Antarctic wintertime middle atmo...
Energetic electron precipitation leads to increased nitric oxide (NO) production in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. NO distributions in the wintertime, high-latitude...- publication PDF
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Optimizing Genetic Algorithm Parameters for Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Modeling
A main source of atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO) variability in the Southern Hemisphere is large burn events, making CO a useful proxy for fires. Therefore, predictive CO...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the nitrogen isotope effects during photochemical equilibrium bet...
Nitrogen isotope fractionations between nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2) play a significant role in determining the nitrogen isotopic compositions (delta N-15) of atmospheric...- publication PDF
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A Mass-conservative semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian limited-area shallow-water ...
A locally mass conservative shallow-water model using a two-time-level, semi-implicit, semi-Lagrangian integration scheme is presented. The momentum equations are solved with...- publication PDF
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Interaction of jets and submesoscale dynamics leads to rapid ocean ventilation
Ocean ventilation is the process by which climatically important tracers such as heat and carbon are exchanged between the atmosphere and ocean interior. In this paper a series...- publication PDF
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Recommendations on simple but transformative diversity, equity, and inclusion...
It is well established that, in order to perform at their peak ability, a person must feel accepted, safe, and valued at work. Therefore, it is imperative to bring Diversity,...- publication PDF
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Benchmarking high-resolution hydrologic model performance of long-term retros...
Because use of high-resolution hydrologic models is becoming more widespread and estimates are made over large domains, there is a pressing need for systematic evaluation of...- publication PDF
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A comparison of the vorticity dynamics governing the oceanic bomb cyclone of ...
Convection-allowing simulations of two warm seclusion cyclones are used to elucidate the vorticity dynamics that contribute to intensification of these systems. The rapidly...- publication PDF
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Comparison of GPS radio occultation soundings with radiosondes
The radio occultation (RO) sounding technique that uses signals transmitted by the Global Positioning System (GPS) has evolved as an important global observing technology. In...- publication PDF
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Coronal emission lines as thermometers
Coronal emission-line intensities are commonly used to measure electron temperatures using emission measure and/or line ratio methods. In the presence of systematic errors in...- publication PDF
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Direct online mass spectrometry measurements of ice nucleating particles at a...
The formation of ice in clouds can strongly impact cloud properties and precipitation processes during storms, including atmospheric rivers. Sea spray aerosol (SSA) particles...- publication PDF
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Localizing the impact of satellite radiance observations using a global group...
Assimilation of satellite radiances has been proven to have positive impacts on the forecast skill, especially for regions with sparse conventional observations. Localization is...- publication PDF
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Compensating errors in inversions for subglacial bed roughness: Same steady s...
Subglacial bed roughness is one of the main factors controlling the rate of future Antarctic ice-sheet retreat and also one of the most uncertain. A common technique to...- publication PDF
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Assimilation of a coordinated fleet of uncrewed aircraft system observations ...
Uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) observations collected during the 2018 Lower Atmospheric Process Studies at Elevation—a Remotely Piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE)...- publication PDF
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Colorado plowable hailstorms: Synoptic weather, radar, and lightning characte...
Synoptic weather, S-band dual-polarization radar, and total lightning observations are analyzed from four thunderstorms that produced "plowable" hail accumulations of 15-60 cm...- publication PDF
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Black carbon vertical profiles strongly affect its radiative forcing uncertainty
The impact of black carbon (BC) aerosols on the global radiation balance is not well constrained. Here twelve global aerosol models are used to show that at least 20% of the...- publication PDF
