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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A ray-tracing simulation was performed to explore whether the interactions between tides and oppositely-propagating waves could explain the observed double-layer structure of large N2/strong wind shear. It is found, using ...