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The CHRONOS mission: Capability for sub-hourly synoptic observations of carbo...
The CHRONOS space mission concept provides time-resolved abundance for emissions and transport studies of the highly variable and highly uncertain air pollutants carbon monoxide...- publication PDF
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Auroral, ionospheric and ground magnetic signatures of magnetopause surface m...
Surface waves on Earth's magnetopause have a controlling effect upon global magnetospheric dynamics. Since spacecraft provide sparse in situ observation points, remote sensing...- publication PDF
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The zonal structure of tropical O₃ and CO as observed by the Tropospheric Emi...
The impact. of surface emissions on the zonal structure of tropical tropospheric ozone and carbon monoxide is investigated for November 2004 using satellite observations,...- publication PDF
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Implications for atmospheric dynamics derived from global observations of gra...
In this work absolute values of gravity wave (GW) momentum flux are derived from global temperature measurements by the satellite instruments High Resolution Dynamics Limb...- publication PDF
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Dual-polarization radar fingerprints of precipitation physics: A review
This article reviews how precipitation microphysics processes are observed in dual-polarization radar observations. These so-called "fingerprints" of precipitation processes are...- publication PDF
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The tangent-linear and adjoint models of the NEPTUNE dynamical core
An approximate tangent-linear model and its adjoint have been developed for the dynamical core of the NEPTUNE model (Navy Environmental Prediction sysTem Utilizing a...- publication PDF
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Synergies among environmental science research and monitoring networks: A res...
Many research and monitoring networks in recent decades have provided publicly available data documenting environmental and ecological change, but little is known about the...- publication PDF
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Are atmospheric updrafts a key to unlocking climate forcing andsensitivity?
Both climate forcing and climate sensitivity persist as stubborn uncertainties limiting the extent to which climate models can provide actionable scientific scenarios for...- publication PDF
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Thunderstorms and upper troposphere chemistry during the early stages of the ...
To study the meteorology and chemistry that is associated with the early stages of the North American Monsoon, the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry...- publication PDF
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Understanding global climate variability and its effects on marine ecoystems
Marine Ecosystems and Climate: Modeling and Analysis of Observed Variability; Boulder, Colorado, 2-14 August 2009; Despite evidence of significant impacts from climate change,...- publication PDF
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Relationships Between Crop Damage and Hailfall Parameters on the High Plains
This report describes an experimental program that was conducted during the summer of 1975 to obtain data required to estimate crop-hail damage functions, i.e., empirical...- publication PDF
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Trans-Pacific transport of reactive nitrogen and ozone to Canada during spring
We interpret observations from the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment, Phase B (INTEX-B) in spring 2006 using a global chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem) to...- publication PDF
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Retrieval of aerosol single scattering albedo at ultraviolet wavelengths at t...
Surface measurements of direct and diffuse voltages at UV wavelengths were made at the T1 site during the MILAGRO (Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations)...- publication PDF
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How often does it rain?
Daily precipitation data from worldwide stations and gridded analyses and from 18 coupled global climate models are used to evaluate the models' performance in simulating the...- publication PDF
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A new roughness length parameterization accounting for wind–wave (mis)alignment
Two-way feedback occurs between offshore wind and waves. However, the influence of the waves on the wind profile remains understudied, in particular the momentum transfer...- publication PDF
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A new algorithm to generate a priori trace gas profiles for the GGG2020 retri...
Optimal estimation retrievals of trace gas total columns require prior vertical profiles of the gases retrieved to drive the forward model and ensure the retrieval problem is...- publication PDF
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Growing temperate shrubs over arid and semiarid regions in the Community Land...
Arid and semiarid regions represent a large fraction of global land, but most of the existing dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) do not include shrubs or do not...- publication PDF
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Comparison of malaria simulations driven by meteorological observations and r...
The analysis of the spatial and temporal variability of climate parameters is crucial to study the impact of climate-sensitive vector-borne diseases such as malaria. The use of...- publication PDF
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The NIMA method for improved moment estimation from doppler spectra
The NCAR Improved Moments Algorithm (NIMA) for estimating moments from wind measurement devices that measure Doppler spectra as a function of range is described in some detail....- publication PDF
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What causes the unobserved early‐spring snowpack ablation in convection‐permi...
Accurate prediction of snowpack evolution and ablation is critical to supporting weather and hydrological applications. Convection-permitting modeling has been shown to well...- publication PDF