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(2014-01-16)The Tambora Project reconstructs on a global scale the most destructive episode of abrupt climate change in the modern historical record. The volcanic sulfate veil produced by the Tambora eruption in the period 1815-18 ...
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(2018-07-19)Entrainment, the process by which turbulent clouds introduce dry air from outside the cloud inward via overturning eddies at the cloud edge, can decrease the cloud buoyancy, and the water and/or ice mass it contains, ...
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(2017-12-14)The effective radius (Re) of the cloud droplet size distribution is an Essential Climate Variable identified by the Global Climate Observing System for its important role in energy and water cycle studies. It is retrieved ...
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(2018-04-13)Considerable efforts have been made in recent decades to diagnose how the climate of our planet is changing in response to anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing. There are considerable risks associated with a warming climate, ...
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(2019-07-17)Persistent cloud cover over the Southern Ocean exerts a powerful influence on the global radiative balance and climate projections. Satellite-based cloud phase studies suggest these clouds contain supercooled liquid water ...
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(2020-05-05)Trapp et al. (2017, JAS) used idealized model simulations of supercell thunderstorms to demonstrate support of their hypothesis that wide, intense tornadoes should form more readily out of wide, rotating updrafts. ...
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(1991)Clouds and precipitation play very active roles in weather systems and influence our daily life significantly. A fundamental entity involved in the precipitation processes is the raindrop. As is common to liquid masses ...
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(2017-12-12)Clouds continue to contribute the largest uncertainty to estimates and interpretations of the Earth's energy budget, and their representation in climate models has been recognized for decades as a dominant source of ...
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(2010-05-19)As the formative agents of cloud droplets, aerosols play an undeniably important role in the development of clouds and precipitation. Few meteorological models have been developed or adapted to simulate aerosols and their ...
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(2017-06-26)Skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal (hereafter S2S; 10 days - 12 weeks) prediction can greatly benefit decision-making on resource management and agricultural planning that falls into the weekly to seasonal time ranges. The ...
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Trade wind cloud evolution observed by polarization radar: relationship to aerosol characteristics (2010-08-20)One of the classical unsolved problems in cloud physics is the explanation of the observed short time between initial cloud formation and the onset of precipitation in warm clouds. Although a time interval of about 20 ...
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(2012-05-22)One of the most notable ways the Laurentian Great Lakes impact the region’s climate is by augmenting snowfall in downwind locations during autumn and winter months. Among many negative consequences, this surplus of snow ...
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(2014-01-16)Historical and projected trends in contiguous United States (CONUS) extreme precipitation events were examined in CMIP5 models, using, as a metric, the Extreme Precipitation Index (EPI) and a similar method based on the ...
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(2012-02-06)Observing precipitation in tropical regions of complex terrain is a challenging problem. While ground-based instrumentation including rain gauge networks and radar data offer some insights, the lack of spatially complete ...
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(2013-05-24)Before the Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) field campaign that took place near Antigua and Barbuda from 2004-2005, it was thought that most trade wind cumulus clouds do not precipitate. The main goal of the RICO ...
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(2000)The deficiency of the GCM in simulating the observed reanalysis stationary waves mainly originates from the deficiencies of the GCM simulated diabatic heating field. Therefore, a significant improvement in the parameterization ...
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(2014-01-16)Mesoscale models that predict the temporal evolution of tropical cyclones (TCs) are sensitive to the representation of cloud microphysical processes through their effect on modeled latent heat release. The cloud parameterizations ...
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(1996)The AMIP simulation from 1979 to 1988 by the UIUC 7-layer tropospheric general circulation model (GCM), using observed sea surface temperatures, did not reproduce the well-organized, intraseasonal oscillations that are ...
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A vorticity-based analysis of the spatial and temporal characteristics of the Beaufort Anticyclone (2011-01-21)The Beaufort Anticyclone is the dominate pressure feature over the Arctic Ocean in all seasons and has a large influence on the surface wind regime and sea-ice motion. Sea level pressure (SLP) from the NCAR/NCEP Reanalysis ...
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