Despite over 70 years of extensive research, the factors controlling how clouds entrain environmental air are still not well understood, a problem contributing to the poor quantitative precipitation forecast skill of ...

Every year, a majority of all Atlantic hurricanes originate from African easterly waves. Yet, less than 20% of all African waves originate tropical cyclones (including hurricanes). It is of interest to investigate if African ...

The vertical motion and physical structure of elevated convection and generating cells within the comma heads of three continental winter cyclones are investigated using the Wyoming W-band Cloud Radar mounted on the NSF/NCAR ...

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an important contributor to Earth’s inter-annual climate variability, with worldwide weather effects (Whetton and Rutherfurd, 1994; Hoerling and Zhong, 1997; Dai and Wigley, 2000). ...

Ice clouds have significant impacts on the Earth’s radiative budget. Their radiative impact highly depends on ice cloud microphysical properties. Climate and weather prediction models have to make certain assumptions about ...

We investigate the impact of tropical forcing on the predictability of the atmosphere in a two-layer spectral model. The focus is on the improvement of extended range forecasts in the extratropics from knowledge of the ...

Unforced, subcritical nonlinear simulations fail to produce meaningful variability, indicating that forcing is necessary in maintaining the low-frequency variability in the barotropic system under subcritical condition. ...

Black carbon-containing aerosol particles (called BC particles hereafter) are a major particle type in the atmosphere. Their source is the incomplete combustion of carbon containing material, which means that except for ...

A Halo Photonics Doppler Wind LiDAR (LiDAR) was deployed during a lake-effect snow event over Lake Michigan to develop a method of processing and reviewing the data collected by the LiDAR, create a conceptual model of the ...

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 ...