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The role of irrigation expansion on historical climate change: Insights from CMIP6
To produce food for a growing world population, irrigated areas have increased from approximately 0.63 million km(2) of land in 1900 to 3.1 million km(2) of land in 2005....- publication PDF
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Application of Gauss's theorem to quantify localized surface emissions from...
Airborne estimates of greenhouse gas emissions are becoming more prevalent with the advent of rapid commercial development of trace gas instrumentation featuring increased...- publication PDF
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Radar scattering from ice aggregates using the horizontally aligned oblate...
The assumed relationship between ice particle mass and size is profoundly important in radar retrievals of ice clouds, but, for millimeter-wave radars, shape and preferred...- publication PDF
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Changes in observed daily precipitation over the United States between...
Changes in observed daily precipitation over the conterminous United States between two 30-yr periods (1950-79 and 1980-2009) are examined using a 60-yr daily precipitation...- publication PDF
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A comparison study of extreme precipitation from six different regional...
We analyze output from six regional climate models (RCMs) via a spatial Bayesian hierarchical model. The primary advantage of this approach is that the statistical model...- publication PDF
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Discussion on "Predicting losses of residential structures in the state of...
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Importance of lower atmospheric forcing and magnetosphere-ionosphere...
During geomagnetic storms a large amount of energy is transferred into the ionosphere-thermosphere (IT) system, leading to local and global changes in e.g., the dynamics,...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of native Earth system model output with ESMValTool v2.6.0
Earth system models (ESMs) are state-of-the-art climate models that allow numerical simulations of the past, present-day, and future climate. To extend our understanding of the...- publication PDF
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Global observing needs in the deep ocean
The deep ocean below 200 m water depth is the least observed, but largest habitat on our planet by volume and area. Over 150 years of exploration has revealed that this dynamic...- publication PDF
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Mapping Asian anthropogenic emissions of non-methane volatile organic...
An accurate speciation mapping of non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) emissions has an important impact on the performance of chemical transport models (CTMs) in...- publication PDF
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Numerical simulations of a tornadic supercell over the Mediterranean
On 28 November 2012, a multivortex EF3 tornado occurred in southeastern Italy causing one fatality and estimated damage of 60 million euros. At approximately 1050 LT (0950 UTC),...- publication PDF
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Simulation of the intraseasonal variability over the eastern Pacific ITCZ in...
During boreal summer, convective activity over the eastern Pacific (EPAC) inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) exhibits vigorous intraseasonal variability (ISV). Previous...- publication PDF
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A conservative semi-Lagrangian multi-tracer transport scheme (CSLAM) on the...
A conservative multi-tracer transport algorithm on the cubed-sphere based on the semi-Lagrangian approach (CSLAM) has been developed. The scheme relies on backward trajectories...- publication PDF
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An approach for retrieving marine boundary layer refractivity from GPS...
The global positioning system (GPS) radio occultation (RO) technique has demonstrated the ability to precisely probe earth’s atmosphere globally with high vertical resolution....- publication PDF
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The heated condensation framework as a convective trigger in the NCEP...
An updated version of the Heated Condensation Framework (HCF) is implemented as a convective triggering criterion into the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)...- publication PDF
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Sensitivity of hurricane forecasts to cumulus parameterizations in the HWRF model
The Developmental Testbed Center used the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) system to test the sensitivity of tropical cyclone track and intensity forecasts to...- publication PDF
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Intercomparison of an ensemble Kalman filter with three- and...
This study compares the performance of an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) with both the three-dimensional and four-dimensional variational data assimilation (3DVar and 4DVar)...- publication PDF
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Riparian zones attenuate nitrogen loss following bark beetle-induced...
A North American bark beetle infestation has killed billions of trees, increasing soil nitrogen and raising concern for N loss impacts on downstream ecosystems and water...- publication PDF
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Pollution transport from North America to Greenland during summer 2008
Ozone pollution transported to the Arctic is a significant concern because of the rapid, enhanced warming in high northern latitudes, which is caused, in part, by short-lived...- publication PDF
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Avalanche models for solar flares (Invited Review)
This paper is a pedagogical introduction to avalanche models of solar flares, including a comprehensive review of recent modeling efforts and directions. This class of flare...- publication PDF
