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The atmospheric role in the Arctic water cycle: A review on processes, past...
Atmospheric humidity, clouds, precipitation, and evapotranspiration are essential components of the Arctic climate system. During recent decades, specific humidity and...- publication PDF
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Last millennium climate and its variability in CCSM4
An overview of a simulation referred to as the "Last Millennium" (LM) simulation of the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4), is presented. The CCSM4 LM simulation...- publication PDF
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Mesospheric nitric oxide transport in WACCM
Energetic particle precipitation (EPP) causes ionization of the main constituents of the Earth's atmosphere which leads to the production of nitric oxide (NO) throughout the...- publication PDF
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Decadal climate prediction: Opportunities and challenges
The scientific understanding of Earth's climate system is now sufficiently developed to show that climate change from anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing is already upon us,...- publication PDF
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Impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on transatlantic flight routes and...
The variation of wind-optimal transatlantic flight routes and their turbulence potential is investigated to understand how upper-level winds and large-scale flow patterns can...- publication PDF
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Modeling the influence of hypsometry, vegetation, and storm energy on...
Point observations and previous basin modeling efforts have suggested that snowmelt may be a significant input of water for runoff during extreme rain-on-snow floods within...- publication PDF
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Performance of the Vaisala RS80 A/H and RS90 Humicap sensors and the...
In climate research there is a strong need for accurate observations of water vapor in the upper atmosphere. Radiosoundings provide relative humidity profiles but the accuracy...- publication PDF
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Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models
Microbes influence soil organic matter decomposition and the long-term stabilization of carbon (C) in soils. We contend that by revising the representation of microbial...- publication PDF
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Box model intercomparison of cloud chemistry
Chemical processes in clouds and fogs can substantially alter atmospheric oxidant budgets and lead to aerosol mass formation. However, many regional and global models do not...- publication PDF
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Strong local evaporative cooling over land due to atmospheric aerosols
Aerosols can enhance terrestrial productivity through increased absorption of solar radiation by the shaded portion of the plant canopy-the diffuse radiation fertilization...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of a convection-permitting modeling of precipitation over the...
Precipitation is a critical input to land surface and hydrology modeling and prediction. Dynamical downscale modeling has added value to representing precipitation, when...- publication PDF
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Bridging the gap between climate and weather
The interagency National Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC) collaboration convened a 2.5-day workshop with 106 representatives from several federal and state agencies, as...- publication PDF
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Altitude variations in the thermosphere mass density response to geomagnetic...
Accelerometer data from coplanar orbits of Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites were used to study the...- publication PDF
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Evaluation of MOPITT Version 7 joint TIR–NIR X CO retrievals with TCCON
Observations of carbon monoxide (CO) from the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument aboard the Terra spacecraft were expected to have an accuracy of...- 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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Observations of heterogeneous reactions between Asian pollution and mineral...
In-situ airborne measurements of trace gases, aerosol size distributions, chemistry and optical properties were conducted over Mexico and the Eastern North Pacific during...- publication PDF
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Amplitude modulation of velocity fluctuations in the atmospheric flows over...
Amplitude modulation (AM) quantifies the top-down interactions between the large-scale motions (LSMs) in the outer layer and the near ground turbulence structures. They are...- publication PDF
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Importance of the resolution of surface topography in Indian monsoon simulation
The influence of surface topography resolution in Indian summer monsoon simulation is investigated. Three sets of six-member ensemble simulations with climatological sea surface...- publication PDF
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Quantifying human contributions to past and future ocean warming and...
More than 90% of the Earth's energy imbalance is stored by the ocean. While previous studies have shown that changes in the ocean warming are detectable and distinct from...- publication PDF
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What can Palaeoclimate Modelling do for you?
In modern environmental and climate science it is necessary to assimilate observational datasets collected over decades with outputs from numerical models, to enable a full...- publication PDF
