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The impact of North American anthropogenic emissions and lightning on...
We analyze the contribution of North American (NA) lightning and anthropogenic emissions to ozone concentrations, radiative forcing, and export fluxes from North America during...- publication PDF
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Observed temperature changes in the troposphere and stratosphere from 1979 to 2018
Temperature observations of the upper-air atmosphere are now available for more than 40 years from both ground- and satellite-based observing systems. Recent years have seen...- publication PDF
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Processes controlling Southern Ocean shortwave climate feedbacks in CESM
A climate model (Community Earth System Model with the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (CESM-CAM5)) is used to identify processes controlling Southern Ocean (30-70°S)...- publication PDF
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Spherepack 2.0: A Model Development Facility
SPHEREPACK 2.0 is a collection of FORTRAN programs that facilitates computer modeling of geophysical processes. The package contains programs for computing certain common...- publication PDF
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A total energy error analysis of dynamical cores and physics-dynamics...
A closed total energy (TE) budget is of utmost importance in coupled climate system modeling; in particular, the dynamical core or physics-dynamics coupling should ideally not...- publication PDF
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Retrieval of cloud liquid water using microwave signals from LEO satellites:...
A novel approach, using low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite microwave communication links for cloud liquid water measurements, is proposed in this paper. The feasibility of this...- publication PDF
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The First Moments of the Variance- and Cross-spectra of Standard and...
This Technical Note was prepared during the author's year-long research stay at NCAR's Atmospheric Technology Division (ATD). It is a translated, revised and slightly extended...- publication PDF
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A hyperactive end to the Atlantic hurricane season October-November 2020
The active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season produced 30 named storms, 14 hurricanes, and 7 major hurricanes (category 3+ on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale). Though the...- publication PDF
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Verify - the MM4 Verification Processor
The purpose of this technical note is to describe and demonstrate the capabilities of a processor (VERIFY) developed to verify objectively forecasts generated by the PSU/NCAR...- publication PDF
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Indices of El Niño evolution
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Long-term variability and tendencies in non-migrating diurnal tide from...
This study reports the long-term variability and tendencies in important non-migrating (DE3, DW2, DW3) and stationary (DS0) diurnal tides using a three-member ensemble of...- publication PDF
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Effect of aerosol size distribution changes on AOD, CCN and cloud droplet...
For the period of 1990 to 2000, atmospheric particulate mass concentrations have decreased in Central Europe. Simultaneously, the amount of shortwave radiation reaching the...- publication PDF
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Improvements in spectral wave modeling in tidal inlet seas
The performance of the spectral wind wave model SWAN in tidal inlet seas was assessed on the basis of extensive wave measurements conducted in the Amelander Zeegat tidal inlet...- publication PDF
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Assessing Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) carbon...
The Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) retrievals over urban regions have not been validated systematically, even though MOPITT observations are widely used...- publication PDF
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Interannual and decadal variability in tropical Pacific chlorophyll from a...
Historical understanding of marine biological dynamics has been limited by sparse in situ observations and the fact that dedicated ocean color satellite remote sensing only...- publication PDF
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"World avoided" simulations with the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model
We use the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model, coupled to a deep ocean model, to investigate the impact of continued growth of halogenated ozone depleting substances (ODS)...- publication PDF
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Climatology analysis of the daytime topside ionospheric diffusive O+ flux...
This paper reports the characteristics of the topside ionospheric O+ diffusive flux (phi O+) during both geomagnetically quiet (0 <= Kp <= 2) and moderate (2 < Kp <=...- publication PDF
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Data fusion enables better recognition of ceiling and visibility hazards in aviation
Low cloud ceilings and poor visibility claim the lives of more general aviation (GA) pilots and passengers than any other cause of weather-related GA accidents. Experience shows...- publication PDF
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Advancing global and regional reanalyses
This report outlines the structure of and summarizes the recommendations made at the Fifth International Conference on Reanalysis (ICR5), attended by 259 participants from 37...- publication PDF
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Experiments of hurricane initialization with airborne doppler radar data for...
Initialization of the hurricane vortex in weather prediction models is vital to intensity forecasts out to at least 48 h. Airborne Doppler radar (ADR) data have sufficiently...- publication PDF