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(2010-01-06)The plane-parallel assumption is commonly used for solving radiative transfer problems in weather and climate research. While a plethora of observational and three-dimensional (3-D) radiative transfer simulations have ...
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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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(2010-05-19)Mesoscale Gravity Waves (MGWs) are large pressure perturbations that form in the presence of a stable layer at the surface either behind Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) in summer or over warm frontal surfaces behind ...
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(2010-06-22)This study examines the effect that Lake Erie, and its corresponding marine boundary layer (MBL), have on pre-existing convective storms which propagate over the water surface. To do this, data collected from the 2001-2007 ...
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(2010-05-19)Regional climate impact assessments require high-resolution projections to resolve local factors that modify the impact of global-scale forcing. To generate these projections, global climate model simulations are commonly ...
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(2010-05-19)In-situ observations on the size and shape of particles in arctic cirrus are less common than those in mid-latitude and tropical cirrus with considerable uncertainty about the contributions of small ice crystals (maximum ...
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(1991)The applicability of linear models in studying the observed stationary waves is considered. In particular, the time-mean effects of eddy fluxes on the response of the atmosphere to tropical thermal forcing are examined by ...
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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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(2011-01-14)This study examines the biases in cloud fraction (CF) derived from satellite instruments that are due to the effect of sensor spatial resolution. In total, 1405 15 m resolution ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission ...
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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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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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(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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(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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(2011-05-25)Accurate short-term wind speed forecasts for utility-scale wind farms will be crucial for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) goal of providing 20% of total power from wind by 2030. For typical pitch-controlled wind ...
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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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(2011-08-25)In this thesis, investigations on gravity waves are conducted in two regions of the middle atmosphere: the lower stratosphere using high-resolution radiosonde at South Pole and the mesopause region using OH airglow ...
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(2011-08-25)Gravity waves (GWs) and tides are two strongest and most persistent waves in the middle atmosphere of the Earth. They are usually generated in the lower atmosphere and propagate upward to the middle and upper atmosphere, ...
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(1996)The 10-11 June 1985 squall line system with trailing stratiform precipitation observed during the Oklahoma PRE-STORM project has been numerically simulated using the three-dimensional cloud resolving nonhydrostatic COMMAS ...
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(1994)The main objective of this study is to explore the dynamics of storm tracks in the context of a three-layer hemispheric linear-balanced model. We establish first how the instability properties of the relevant background ...
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(2010-01-06)The distribution of sources and sinks of carbon over the land surface is dominated by changes in land use such as deforestation, reforestation, and agricultural management. Despite, the importance of land-use change in ...
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