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Geotail and LFM comparisons of plasma sheet climatology: 2. Flow variability
We compare the statistics of central plasma sheet properties from 6 years of Geotail observations with 2 months of Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry (LFM) global MHD simulations. This...- publication PDF
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A climate-scale satellite record for carbon monoxide: the MOPITT Version 7 product
The MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere) satellite instrument has been making observations of atmospheric carbon monoxide since 2000. Recent enhancements to the...- publication PDF
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Precipitation regime and stable isotopes at Dome Fuji, East Antarctica
A unique set of 1-year precipitation and stable water isotope measurements from the Japanese Antarctic station, Dome Fuji, has been used to study the impact of the synoptic...- publication PDF
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Analysis of tropical cyclone precipitation using an object-based algorithm
A recently developed object identification algorithm is applied to multisensor precipitation estimates from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM 3B42) to detect and...- publication PDF
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Modeling extreme precipitation over East China with a global...
The non-hydrostatic atmospheric Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS-A), a global variable-resolution modeling framework, is applied at a range of resolutions from...- publication PDF
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An analysis of the linkage of Pacific subtropical cells with the...
The Simple Ocean Data Assimilation, version 2.2.4 (SODA 2.2.4), analysis for the period of 1960-2010 is used to study the variability of Pacific subtropical cells (STCs) and its...- publication PDF
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Observations of near-surface wind and temperature structures and their...
The first multiyear surface meteorological observations over Dome A, the highest ice feature in the entire Antarctica continent, are analyzed to understand the surface wind,...- publication PDF
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Isentropic Trajectories for Derivation of Objectively Analyzed...
This technical note presents a numerical technique for calculating isentropic trajectories, and the objective analysis of trajectoryderived meteorological parameters. A brief...- publication PDF
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Corridors of warm season precipitation in the central United States
During the warm season in the central United States there often exists a corridor of precipitation where a succession of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) follow similar paths...- publication PDF
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The Pilatus unmanned aircraft system for lower atmospheric research
This paper presents details of the University of Colorado (CU) "Pilatus" unmanned research aircraft, assembled to provide measurements of aerosols, radiation and thermodynamics...- publication PDF
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Submicron particle mass concentrations and sources in the Amazonian wet...
Real-time mass spectra of the non-refractory species in submicron aerosol particles were recorded in a tropical rainforest in the central Amazon Basin during the wet season from...- publication PDF
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When will humanity notice its influence on Atmospheric Rivers?
Quantifying the response of atmospheric rivers (ARs) to radiative forcing is challenging due to uncertainties caused by internal climate variability, differences in shared...- publication PDF
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Mechanisms responsible for stratosphere-to-troposphere transport around a...
Recent observational studies have shown that stratospheric air rich in ozone (O-3) is capable of being transported into the upper troposphere in association with tropopause-...- publication PDF
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Influence of ice particle surface roughening on the global cloud radiative effect
Ice clouds influence the climate system by changing the radiation budget and large-scale circulation. Therefore, climate models need to have an accurate representation of ice...- publication PDF
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The terminator "toy" chemistry test: A simple tool to assess errors in...
This test extends the evaluation of transport schemes from prescribed advection of inert scalars to reactive species. The test consists of transporting two interacting chemical...- publication PDF
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CMIP5 scientific gaps and recommendations for CMIP6
The scientific gaps identified in the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) that guided the experiment for its next phase, CMIP6, are identified.- publication PDF
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Satellite observations of the tropical terrestrial carbon balance and...
A constellation of satellites is now in orbit providing information about terrestrial carbon and water storage and fluxes. These combined observations show that the tropical...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of tropospheric oxidants to biomass burning emissions:...
Biomass burning is one of the largest sources of trace gases and aerosols to the atmosphere and has profound influence on tropospheric oxidants and radiative forcing. Using a...- publication PDF
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Frontal scale air-sea interaction in high-resolution coupled climate models
The emerging picture of frontal scale air sea interaction derived from high resolution satellite observations of surface winds and sea surface temperature (SST) provides a...- publication PDF
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Performance of SEAM, a Spectral Element Atmospheric Model, on the HP Exemplar SPP2000
We describe the performance of a Spectral Element Atmospheric Model (SEAM) on the HP Exemplar SPP2000. SEAM uses spectral elements in the horizontal directions and sigma...- publication PDF
