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Attenuation of scalar fluxes measured with spatially-displaced sensors
Observations from the Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (HATS) field program are used to examine the attenuation of measured scalar fluxes caused by spatial separation between...- publication PDF
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A diagnosis of anisotropic eddy diffusion from a high-resolution global ocean model
Oceanic mesoscale eddies are known to diffuse and stir tracers, and the development of skillful eddy closures is aided considerably by the accurate diagnosis of these processes...- publication PDF
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Emissions of black carbon, organic, and inorganic aerosols from biomass...
Reliable assessment of the impact of aerosols emitted from boreal forest fires on the Arctic climate necessitates improved understanding of emissions and the microphysical...- publication PDF
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The coastal streamflow flux in the Regional Arctic System Model
The coastal streamflow flux from the Arctic drainage basin is an important driver of dynamics in the coupled ice-ocean system. Comprising more than one third of the total...- publication PDF
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The influence of multiple groups of biological ice nucleating particles on...
A new empirical parameterization (EP) for multiple groups of primary biological aerosol particles (PBAPs) is implemented in the aerosol-cloud model (AC) to investigate their...- publication PDF
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A large-eddy simulation study of atmospheric boundary layer influence on...
The impact of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) interactions with large-scale stably stratified flow over an isolated, two-dimensional hill is investigated using turbulence-...- publication PDF
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Enhancing understanding and improving prediction of severe weather through...
Severe weather, including tornadoes, thunderstorms, wind, and hail annually cause significant loss of life and property. We are developing spatiotemporal machine learning...- publication PDF
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Formation of the summertime ozone valley over the Tibetan Plateau: The Asian...
The summertime ozone valley over the Tibetan Plateau is formed by two influences, the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) and air column variations. Total ozone over the Tibetan Plateau...- publication PDF
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Quality of reanalyses in the tropics
Broad vertical layer-averaged temperatures from the microwave sounder unit (MSU) are used as a quasi-independent validation of temperature fields from the U.S. National Centers...- publication PDF
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MJO-like coherent structures: Sensitivity simulations using the...
Interaction between equatorially trapped disturbances and tropical convection is investigated using a nonhydrostatic global model that applies the cloud-resolving convection...- publication PDF
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Constraints on climate sensitivity from radiation patterns in climate models
The estimated range of climate sensitivity, the equilibrium warming resulting from a doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, has not decreased substantially in...- publication PDF
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Impact of strong and weak stratospheric polar vortices on the mesosphere and...
The impact of strong and weak Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortices on the zonal mean and atmospheric tides in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) is...- publication PDF
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Ensemble-based data assimilation
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Spatial model fitting for large datasets with applications to climate and...
Many problems in the environmental and biological sciences involve the analysis of large quantities of data. Further, the data in these problems are often subject to various...- publication PDF
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Impact of mountains in Southern China on the Eocene climates of East Asia
Inconsistencies in the Eocene climates of East Asia have been revealed in both geological studies and simulations. Several earlier reconstructions showed an arid zonal band in...- publication PDF
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A numerical study of mountain waves in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere
A numerical study of mountain waves in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) is presented for two Intensive Observational Periods (IOPs) of the Terrain-induced...- publication PDF
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AMSR2 all-sky radiance assimilation and its impact on the analysis and...
A method to assimilate all-sky radiances from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) was developed within the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model's data...- publication PDF
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Northern winter climate change: Assessment of uncertainty in CMIP5...
Future changes in the stratospheric circulation could have an important impact on northern winter tropospheric climate change, given that sea level pressure (SLP) responds not...- publication PDF
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Global carbon budget 2016
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere - the "global carbon budget"...- publication PDF
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Separation of the lapse rate and the cold point tropopauses in the tropics...
Four years of temperature profiles from Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate GPS satellite retrievals are used to examine the difference...- publication PDF