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Magnetic coordinate systems
Geospace phenomena such as the aurora, plasma motion, ionospheric currents and associated magnetic field disturbances are highly organized by Earth's main magnetic field. This...- publication PDF
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Impact of four-dimensional data assimilation (FDDA) on urban climate analysis
This study investigates the impact of four-dimensional data assimilation (FDDA) on urban climate analysis, which employs the NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) WRF...- publication PDF
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The IBM 4341: Gateway to NCAR Computers
This report details the use of the IBM 4341 which offers four general services to the user: communication facilities, code development tools, job management utilities, and...- publication PDF
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A dual-pass variational data assimilation framework for estimating soil...
To overcome the difficulties in determining the optimal parameters needed for a radiative transfer model (RTM), which acts as the observational operator in a land data...- publication PDF
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Reduced global warming from CMIP6 projections when weighting models by...
The sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) constitutes the latest update on expected future climate change based on a new generation of climate models. To extract...- publication PDF
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Assessing and improving Noah-MP land model simulations for the central...
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) region experiences strong land-atmosphere interactions, and as an elevated heating source, significantly influences the formation of the Asian monsoon....- publication PDF
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A Global Ocean Wind Stress Climatology Based on ECMWF Analyses
This report discusses the computations of the surface wind stress over the global oceans using surface winds from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)...- publication PDF
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Improved estimates of changes in upper ocean salinity and the hydrological cycle
Ocean salinity records the hydrological cycle and its changes, but data scarcity and the large changes in sampling make the reconstructions of long-term salinity changes...- publication PDF
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Using deep learning for an analysis of atmospheric rivers in a...
There is currently large uncertainty over the impacts of climate change on precipitation trends over the US west coast. Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are a significant source of US...- publication PDF
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Using satellite-based estimates of evapotranspiration and groundwater...
Irrigation is a widely used water management practice that is often poorly parameterized in land surface and climate models. Previous studies have addressed this issue via use...- publication PDF
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Study of HD 169392A observed by CoRoT and HARPS
Context. The results obtained by asteroseismology with data from space missions such as CoRoT and Kepler are providing new insights into stellar evolution. After five years of...- publication PDF
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Genesis of twin tropical cyclones as revealed by a global mesoscale model:...
In this study, it is proposed that twin tropical cyclones (TCs), Kesiny and 01A, in May 2002 formed in association with the scale interactions of three gyres that appeared as a...- publication PDF
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HIRDLS and CALIPSO observations of tropical cirrus
High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) measurements of cirrus frequency of occurrence in...- publication PDF
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Oceanic sources, sinks, and transport of atmospheric CO₂
We synthesize estimates of the contemporary net air-sea CO₂ flux on the basis of an inversion of interior ocean carbon observations using a suite of 10 ocean general circulation...- publication PDF
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Uncertainty in temperature and precipitation datasets over terrestrial...
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Sector-based top-down estimates of NOx, SO2, and CO emissions in East Asia
Top-down estimates using satellite data provide important information on the sources of air pollutants. We develop a sector-based 4D-Var framework based on the GEOS-Chem adjoint...- publication PDF
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Advances in the estimation of ice particle fall speeds using laboratory and...
Accurate estimates for the fall speed of natural hydrometeors are vital if their evolution in clouds is to be understood quantitatively. In this study, laboratory measurements...- publication PDF
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The rain is askew: Two idealized models relating vertical velocity and...
As the planet warms, climate models predict that rain will become heavier but less frequent and that the circulation will weaken. Here, two heuristic models relating moisture,...- publication PDF
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On the ability of the WRF model to reproduce the surface wind direction over...
The ability of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to reproduce the surface wind direction over complex terrain is examined. A simulation spanning a winter season...- publication PDF
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Validation and error estimation of AIRS MUSES CO profiles with HIPPO, ATom,...
Single-footprint retrievals of carbon monoxide from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) are evaluated using aircraft in situ observations. The aircraft data are from the...- publication PDF
