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(1991)The principal objective of this study is to determine whether or not the penetration of a passive tracer is analogous to the penetration of a greenhouse-gas-induced heating.
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(2011-05-25)Decadal mean temperatures show a warming over the past 60 years at individual stations in Alaska. This research examines corresponding changes in frequencies of extremes of temperature and precipitation based on daily ...
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(1991)In this thesis, the sensitivity of the Earth's climate is studied by modeling past climatic variations with two-dimensional seasonal energy balance model. This thesis consists of two parts. The first part is a study of the ...
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(2013-05-24)Warm, tropical boundary clouds represent one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in climate sensitivity to anthropogenic forcing. Information useful for gaining a better understanding about such clouds is relatively ...
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(2006)Global comparison between the MISR and MODIS cloud masks shows large discrepancies over regions dominated by small clouds. This discrepancy was further explored using an ASTER dataset at 15m resolution over the tropical ...
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(2020-05-14)Low-level cloud cover over the Southern Ocean (SO) has a significant influence on global radiative balance. Climate models have had difficulty in the past reproducing shortwave radiation reflected by these clouds because ...
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(2016-11-29)During Cold Air Outbreak (CAO) events over North America during winter, cold dry air is often advected over the ocean offshore of the East Coast. A motivating hypothesis of this study is that the air-sea fluxes associated ...
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(2015-12-07)Since the advent of dual-polarization radar, methods of classifying hydrometeors by type from measured polarization variables have been developed. However, the deterministic approach of existing hydrometeor classification ...
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(2017-04-27)While the overall understanding of moist convective processes has advanced greatly, the two-way interconnections between convection initiation, updraft structure, and subsequent cold pool generation are not well understood. ...
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(2011-01-21)The use of passive microwave sensors in analysis of tropical cyclones provide unique insight into the microphysical attributes and system structure opposed to other instruments that are only able to detect information about ...
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(1985)Arakawa and Schubert (1974) developed a cumulus parameterization scheme in a framework that conceptually divides the mutual interaction of the cumulus convection and large-scale disturbance into the categories of large-scale ...
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(2013-05-24)A long-standing problem in climate modeling is the accurate prediction of precipitation with respect to three key characteristics: geographic variation of total amount, frequency and intensity, and the diurnal cycle. In ...
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(2012-02-06)Data acquired by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Convair-580, equipped with cloud and aerosol probes during 5 sorties through single-layer arctic stratocumulus on 8 April, 18 April, and 26 April 2008 during ...
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(2011-08-26)Large-scale general circulation models give us an idea of how the climate may possibly develop over the future century. These models generally simulate the large-scale and global mean climate well; however, when applied ...
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(2014-05-30)To understand and resolve uncertainties regarding climate change, accurate observations must be utilized. Satellite remote sensing provides the best way to obtain global observations, yet the assumptions required to convert ...
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(2007)Simulations revealed that observations of a sharp change in the RH profile across the melting layer, from saturated air with respect to ice above to subsaturated air with respect to water below, can develop in response to ...
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(2005)In NH winter, the Pacific storm track tends to reach its maximum intensity during early and late winter, leaving a distinct minimum in January, which is known as "midwinter minimum" (MWMIN) of the Pacific storm track. The ...
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(2010-08-20)The stratospheric final warming is the final transition of the zonal winds from wintertime westerlies to summertime easterlies as the solar heating of the high latitude stratosphere increases in the springtime. Recent ...
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(1985)The normal modes of large-scale atmospheric motions have been examined in a spherical quasi-geostrophic model extending from the surface up to 80 km to investigate the stability of zonal motions in the stratosphere and ...
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