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Coupled chemistry climate model simulations of the solar cycle in ozone and...
The 11-year solar cycles in ozone and temperature are examined using new simulations of coupled chemistry climate models. The results show a secondary maximum in stratospheric...- publication PDF
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Reanalysis in Earth system science: Toward terrestrial ecosystem reanalysis
A reanalysis is a physically consistent set of optimally merged simulated model states and historical observational data, using data assimilation. High computational costs for...- publication PDF
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Soil organic carbon models need independent time-series validation for...
Numerical models are crucial to understand and/or predict past and future soil organic carbon dynamics. For those models aiming at prediction, validation is a critical step to...- publication PDF
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Mapping the dynamics of the South Asian Monsoon using CYGNSS's Level-1...
A method for mapping the dynamics of the South Asian monsoon season is proposed based on the use of the coherence of CYGNSS Level 1 delay-Doppler Map measurements. Because the...- publication PDF
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Design Life Level: Quantifying risk in a changing climate
In the past, the concepts of return levels and return periods have been standard and important tools for engineering design. However, these concepts are based on the assumption...- publication PDF
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Perturbative solution to the two-component atmosphere DIAL equation for...
Thermodynamic profiling using ground-based remote sensing instruments such as differential absorption lidar (DIAL) has the potential to fill observational needs for climate and...- publication PDF
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Retrieval of tropical cyclone statistics with a high-resolution coupled...
When observations are assimilated into a high-resolution coupled model, a traditional scheme that preferably projects observations to correct large-scale background tends to...- publication PDF
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A striking cloud over Boulder, Colorado: What is its altitude, and why does...
Scientific investigation is supposed to be objective and strictly logical, but this is not always the case: the process that leads to a good conclusion can be messy. This...- publication PDF
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Spatial forecast verification: Baddeley's delta metric applied to the ICP test cases
A mathematical displacement metric, Baddeley's Delta, is examined for verifying gridded forecasts against gridded observations using the Spatial Forecast Verification Methods...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of MOPITT and TROPOMI carbon monoxide retrievals using AirCore in...
AirCore in situ vertical profiles sample the atmosphere from near the surface to the lower stratosphere, making them ideal for the validation of satellite tropospheric trace gas...- publication PDF
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Toward a resilient global society: Air, sea level, earthquakes, and weather
Society's progress along the four corners of prepare, absorb, respond and adapt resilience square is uneven, in spite of our understanding of the foundational science and a...- publication PDF
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Forecasts of opportunity for Northern California soil moisture
Soil moisture anomalies underpin a number of critical hydrological phenomena with socioeconomic consequences, yet systematic studies of soil moisture predictability are limited....- publication PDF
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The Brewer-Dobson circulation during the last glacial maximum
The Brewer-Dobson circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is investigated in simulations using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model version 6. We examine...- publication PDF
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Ultrafine sea spray aerosol over the southeastern Pacific: Open-ocean...
Accurate measurements of natural aerosol emissions over the ocean are needed to estimate the anthropogenic impact on the environment. In this study, we measured sea spray...- publication PDF
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Systematic evaluation of the impacts of GPSRO data on the prediction of...
In this paper, we perform a systematic evaluation of the impact of Global Positioning System radio occultation (GPSRO) data on typhoon-track prediction over the northwestern...- publication PDF
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Stochastically perturbed parameterizations in an HRRR-based ensemble
A stochastically perturbed parameterization (SPP) approach that spatially and temporally perturbs parameters and variables in the Mellor-Yamada-Nakanishi-Niino planetary...- publication PDF
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A potential enstrophy and energy conserving scheme for the shallow-water...
An energy and potential enstrophy conserving finite-difference scheme for the shallow-water equations is derived in generalized curvilinear coordinates. This is an extension of...- publication PDF
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Water vapor-forced greenhouse warming over the Sahara Desert and the recent...
The Sahel region of West Africa experiences decadal swings between periods of drought and abundant rainfall, and a large body of work asserts that these variations in the West...- publication PDF
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Aerosol-cloud associations over Gangetic Basin during a typical monsoon...
To study aerosol-cloud interactions over the Gangetic Basin of India, the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with chemistry (WRF-Chem) has been applied to a typical...- publication PDF
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Simulated responses of terrestrial aridity to black carbon and sulfate aerosols
Aridity index (AI), defined as the ratio of precipitation to potential evapotranspiration (PET), is a measure of the dryness of terrestrial climate. Global climate models...- publication PDF
