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Méndez, A. d. M., Roberts, R., Weckwerth, T., Wilson, J. W.. (2025). Toward improved short-term forecasting for Lake Victoria Basin. Part II: Preconvective environment analysis with ERA5. Monthly Weather Review, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-24-0074.1 Lake Victoria is the largest freshwater lake in Africa, with around 30 million people living on its coastline, and it serves as one of the largest natural resources for East African communities due to its prosperous fishing industry. Howev... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Patnaude, R. J., Moore, K. A., Perkins, R. J., Hill, T. C. J., Lawson, P., et al. (2025). On the role of airborne ice nucleating particles in primary and secondary ice formation processes in convective midlatitude clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-24-0135.1 Formation of ice in mixed-phase clouds may proceed via primary nucleation and secondary ice production (SIP). Primary nucleation involves the presence of ice nucleating particles (INPs), while SIP follows primary nucleation, resulting in ic... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Carrillo‐Cardenas, G., Hoch, S. W., Pardyjak, E., Garcia, M., Brown, W. O.J., et al. (2025). Elucidating new particle formation in complex terrain during the winter 2022 Cold Fog Amongst Complex Terrain (CFACT) campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042307 New particle formation (NPF) is a complex atmospheric phenomenon defined by the gas‐to‐particle conversion that leads to the sudden burst and growth in aerosol particles. Although chemical mechanisms for aerosol nucleation and g... EOL Affiliations: ISF, APG Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Romatschke, U., Romatschke, P., Hayman, M., Dixon, M. J.. (2025). Processing of Doppler spectra collected by an airborne cloud radar for the calculation of skewness, kurtosis, and other spectral parameters. Earth and Space Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EA004105 Observations from the HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR) are used to develop a methodology to calculate Doppler spectra from an airborne platform. The method removes spectral noise and corrects the spectra for broadening caused by aircraft motion. Th... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Development of mean wind retrieval methodology for the Generalized Velocity Track Display Lee, T., Huang, S., Lee, W., Jou, B. J., Tsai, C., et al. (2025). Development of mean wind retrieval methodology for the Generalized Velocity Track Display. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s44195-025-00091-z Since 1990s, the Ground-Based Velocity Track Display (GBVTD) – family of techniques, including the Generalized Velocity Track Display (GVTD), have been used to retrieve the kinematic structure of Tropical cyclones (TCs) using data fro... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Zhu, Q., Schwantes, R. H., Stockwell, C. E., Harkins, C., Lyu, C., et al. (2025). Incorporating cooking emissions to better simulate the impact of zero-emission vehicle adoption on ozone pollution in Los Angeles. Environmental Science & Technology, doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c00902 Despite decades of emission control measures aimed at improving air quality, Los Angeles (LA) continues to experience severe ozone pollution during the summertime. We incorporate cooking volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions in a chemic... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Advances in an OH reactivity instrument for airborne field measurements Fuchs, H., Stainsby, A., Berg, F., Dubus, R., Färber, M., et al. (2025). Advances in an OH reactivity instrument for airborne field measurements. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-881-2025 Hydroxyl radical (OH) reactivity, which is the inverse lifetime of the OH radical, provides information on the burden of air pollutants, since almost all air pollutants react with OH. OH reactivity measurements from field experiments can he... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Duine, G., Carvalho, L. M. V., Jones, C., Thompson, C., Brown, W. O.J., et al. (2025). The relevance of Mean-State Critical Levels for the intensification of downslope winds in a coastal mountainous environment. Weather and Forecasting, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-24-0084.1 In wildfire-prone coastal Santa Barbara, California, downslope winds observed on the southern slopes of the east–west-oriented Santa Ynez Mountains are known as Sundowner winds (or Sundowners). One important feature of Sundowners is t... EOL Affiliations: ISF, APG Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Stockwell, C. E., Coggon, M. M., Schwantes, R. H., Harkins, C., Verreyken, B., et al. (2025). Urban ozone formation and sensitivities to volatile chemical products, cooking emissions, and NOx upwind of and within two Los Angeles Basin cities. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-1121-2025 Volatile chemical products (VCPs) and other non-traditional anthropogenic sources, such as cooking, contribute substantially to the volatile organic compound (VOC) budget in urban areas, but their impact on ozone formation is less certain. ... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Evolution of radar meteorology in India and the latest trends Bhat, G. S., Vivekanandan, J., Pradhan, D.. (2025). Evolution of radar meteorology in India and the latest trends. Mausam, doi:https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v76i1.6497 Weather radar is an indispensable tool in the continuous monitoring and warning of extreme events including tropical cyclones and thunderstorms. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has been operating radars since 1949. The evolution o... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Kirchhoff, G. J., Hayman, M., Marais, W. J., Thayer, J. P., Barton-Grimley, R. A.. (2025). Development of a photon-counting deadtime noise model that extends dynamic range and resolution in atmospheric lidar. Applied Optics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.543305 This work derives and validates a noise model that encapsulates the deadtime of non-paralyzable detectors with random photon arrivals to enable advanced processing, such as maximum-likelihood estimation, of high-resolution atmospheric lidar... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Pandit, A. K., Vernier, J., Fairlie, T. D., Bedka, K., Avery, M., et al. (2024). Investigating the role of typhoon-induced waves and stratospheric hydration in the formation of tropopause cirrus clouds observed during the 2017 Asian monsoon. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-14209-2024 We investigate the formation mechanism of a tropopause cirrus cloud layer observed during the Balloon measurement campaigns of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (BATAL) over Hyderabad (17.47° N, 78.58° E), India, on 23 August 20... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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A Description of the Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP) Instrument Processing Software Aquino, J. A., Haggerty, J. A., Mahoney, M. J.. (2024). A Description of the Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP) Instrument Processing Software. , doi:https://doi.org/10.5065/djx8-nz50 The Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP) and associated processing software were developed under a contract between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) with funding provided by the Nat... EOL Affiliations: RAF, RAFSE Publication Genre: Technical Report View on OpenSky |
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Kay, J., Weckwerth, T.. (2024). Impact of assimilation of New York State Mesonet doppler wind lidar on high impact weather predictions in New York State. Atmosphere, doi:https://doi.org/10.14191/Atmos.2024.34.4.481 The New York State (NYS) Mesonet consists of 126 surface weather stations across the state with 17 of the sites also instrumented with active and passive profiler systems. The NYS Mesonet (NYSM) is the first and only state-run network in th... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Persistent identifiers for instruments and facilities: Current state, challenges, and opportunities Mayernik, M., Johnson, A., Julian, R., Murray, M., Mundoma, C., et al. (2024). Persistent identifiers for instruments and facilities: Current state, challenges, and opportunities. Journal of eScience Librarianship, doi:https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.964 Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are central to the vision of open science described in the FAIR Principles. However, the use of PIDs for scientific instruments and facilities is decentralized and fragmented. This project aims to develop commu... EOL Affiliations: DMS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Zhao, K., Huang, H., Lu, Y., Chen, H., Wu, C., et al. (2024). Operational phased array radar network for natural hazard monitoring and warnings in urban environments over the Greater Bay Area, China. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0298.1 The continuous development of modern Doppler weather radars has substantially augmented our capacity to monitor severe convective storms and gain insights into their dynamic and microphysical structures. Although conventional parabolic ante... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Impact of assimilating uncrewed aircraft system observations on river valley fog prediction Pinto, J., Bailey, S. C. C., Fossell, K. R., Binau, S., Xu, M., et al. (2024). Impact of assimilating uncrewed aircraft system observations on river valley fog prediction. Weather and Forecasting, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0087.1 The impact of assimilating targeted uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) observations on the prediction of radiation and river valley fog is assessed using observing system experiments (OSEs). Two multirotor UASs were deployed during Frequent in ... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Yang, S., Chen, S., Liu, L., Yeh, H., Chang, W., et al. (2024). Investigating the mechanisms of an intense coastal rainfall event during TAHOPE/PRECIP-IOP3 using a multiscale radar ensemble data assimilation system. Monthly Weather Review, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-24-0049.1 The joint Taiwan-Area Heavy Rain Observation and Prediction Experiment (TAHOPE)/Prediction of Rainfall Extremes Campaign in the Pacific (PRECIP) field campaign between Taiwan and the United States took place from late May to mid-August in 2... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Dust, convection, winds, and waves: The 2022 NASA CPEX-CV campaign Nowottnick, E. P., Rowe, A. K., Nehrir, A. R., Zawislak, J., Pina, A., et al. (2024). Dust, convection, winds, and waves: The 2022 NASA CPEX-CV campaign. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0201.1 The NASA Convective Processes Experiment-Cabo Verde (CPEX-CV) field campaign took place in September 2022 out of Sal Island, Cabo Verde. A unique payload aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft equipped with advanced remote sensing and in situ instru... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Nevison, C. D., Liang, Q., Newman, P. A., Stephens, B., Dutton, G., et al. (2024). Observational and model evidence for a prominent stratospheric influence on variability in tropospheric nitrous oxide. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10513-2024 The literature presents different views on how the stratosphere influences variability in surface nitrous oxide (N2O) and on whether that influence is outweighed by surface emission changes driven by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENS... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Webster, C., Dominguez, R., Freudinger, L., Hill, J., Oolman, L., et al. (2024). IWG1 ASCII Packet Definition. The Interagency Coordinating Committee for Airborne Geosciences Research and Applications (ICCAGRA) was established to improve cooperation, foster awareness, facilitate communication among sponsoring agencies having airborne platforms and i... EOL Affiliations: RAF, RAFSE Publication Genre: Manuscript View on OpenSky |
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Bryan, D., Klotz, B., Lee, W., Vivekanandan, J.. (2024). Structural Analysis of Tropical Cyclones by the Airborne Phased Array Radar Observing Simulator: A Comparison Study. , doi:https://doi.org/10.5065/k4c5-3951 Hurricanes are increasingly becoming more powerful and frequent as Earth continues to warm rapidly. Scientists are challenged with understanding and predicting complex storms to mitigate impending disasters. Remote-sensing instruments have ... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Manuscript View on OpenSky |
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Bryan, D., Klotz, B., Lee, W., Vivekanandan, J.. (2024). Structural Analysis of Tropical Cyclones by the Airborne Phased Array Radar Observing Simulator: A Comparison Study. , doi:https://doi.org/10.5065/k4c5-3951 Hurricanes are increasingly becoming more powerful and frequent as Earth continues to warm rapidly. Scientists are challenged with understanding and predicting complex storms to mitigate impending disasters. Remote-sensing instruments have ... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Manuscript View on OpenSky |
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Bryan, D., Klotz, B., Lee, W., Vivekanandan, J., Weeks, C., et al. (2024). Structural Analysis of Tropical Cyclones by the Airborne Phased Array Radar Observing Simulator: A Comparison Study. , doi:https://doi.org/10.5065/k4c5-3951 Hurricanes are increasingly becoming more powerful and frequent as Earth continues to warm rapidly. Scientists are challenged with understanding and predicting complex storms to mitigate impending disasters. Remote-sensing instruments have ... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Manuscript View on OpenSky |
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Vance, J., Currie, K., Suanda, S. H., Law, C. S.. (2024). Drivers of seasonal to decadal mixed layer carbon cycle variability in subantarctic water in the Munida Time Series. Frontiers in Marine Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1309560 Using ancillary datasets and interpolation schemes, 20+ years of the Munida Time Series (MTS) observations were used to evaluate the seasonal to decadal variability in the regional carbon cycle off the southeast coast of New Zealand. The co... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Cruikshank, O., Colberg, L., Repasky, K. S., Stillwell, R. A., Spuler, S. M.. (2024). Advancement and demonstration of a perturbative retrieval technique for temperature profiling in the lower troposphere using differential absorption light detection and ranging. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, doi:https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.18.034514 In response to a community-identified need for ground-based thermodynamic (TD) profiling of the troposphere, we present the further development and validation of a differential absorption LiDAR (DIAL) technique to retrieve temperature. This... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Hayman, M., Stillwell, R. A., Marais, W.J., Karboski, A., Spuler, S. M., et al. (2024). Simultaneous measurement of water vapor, temperature and aerosol backscatter with diode-laser-based lidar. The MicroPulse DIAL (MPD) system utilizes a diode-laser-based architecture to operate at two near-infrared wavelength regions, facilitating water vapor DIAL, High-Spectral-Resolution Lidar (HSRL), and oxygen DIAL techniques at. The instrume... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
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Chen, T., Gilman, J., Kim, S., Lefer, B., Washenfelder, R., et al. (2024). Modeling the Impacts of Volatile Chemical Product Emissions on Atmospheric Photochemistry and Ozone Formation in Los Angeles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD040743 The dominant fraction of anthropogenic volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions shifted from transportation fuels to volatile chemical products (VCP) in Los Angeles (LA) in 2010. This shift in VOC composition raises the question about the ... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Dmitrovic, S., Hair, J. W., Collister, B. L., Crosbie, E., Fenn, M. A., et al. (2024). High Spectral Resolution Lidar - generation 2 (HSRL-2) retrievals of ocean surface wind speed: methodology and evaluation. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3515-2024 Ocean surface wind speed (i.e., wind speed 10 m above sea level) is a critical parameter used by atmospheric models to estimate the state of the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL). Accurate surface wind speed measurements in diverse l... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Lundquist, J. D., Vano, J., Gutmann, E. D., Hogan, D., Schwat, E., et al. (2024). Sublimation of snow. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0191.1 Snow is a vital part of water resources, and sublimation may remove 10%–90% of snowfall from the system. To improve our understanding of the physics that govern sublimation rates, as well as how those rates might change with the climate, ... EOL Affiliations: ISF, ISFS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Neutral tropical African CO2 exchange estimated from aircraft and satellite observations Gaubert, B., Stephens, B.. (2024). Neutral tropical African CO2 exchange estimated from aircraft and satellite observations. EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
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Zhu, Q., Schwantes, R. H., Coggon, M., Harkins, C., Schnell, J., et al. (2024). A better representation of volatile organic compound chemistry in WRF-Chem and its impact on ozone over Los Angeles. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5265-2024 The declining trend in vehicle emissions has underscored the growing significance of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from volatile chemical products (VCPs). However, accurately representing VOC chemistry in simplified chemical mec... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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The Total Carbon Column Observing Network's GGG2020 data version Laughner, J. L., Toon, G. C., Mendonca, J., Petri, C., Roche, S., et al. (2024). The Total Carbon Column Observing Network's GGG2020 data version. Earth System Science Data, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2197-2024 The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) measures column-average mole fractions of several greenhouse gases (GHGs), beginning in 2004, from over 30 current or past measurement sites around the world using solar absorption spectrosc... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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2D signal estimation for sparse distributed target photon counting data Hayman, M., Stillwell, R. A., Carnes, J., Kirchhoff, G. J., Spuler, S. M., et al. (2024). 2D signal estimation for sparse distributed target photon counting data. Scientific Reports, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60464-1 In this study, we explore the utilization of penalized likelihood estimation for the analysis of sparse photon counting data obtained from distributed target lidar systems. Specifically, we adapt the Poisson Total Variation processing techn... EOL Affiliations: RSF, RAF, INSTTECH Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Tartaglione, N., Desbiolles, F., Méndez, A. d. M., Meroni, A. N., Napoli, A., et al. (2024). Low cloud response to aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions: Idealized WRF numerical experiments for EUREC 4 A project. Atmospheric Science Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.1208 Aerosols significantly affect cloud microphysics and energy budget in different ways. The contribution of the direct, semi-direct, and indirect effects of aerosols on radiation are here investigated over the North Atlantic tropical ocean un... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Enhanced aerosol mass in the tropical tropopause layer linked to ozone abundance LIU, S., Thornberry, T. D., Yu, P., Woods, S., Rosenlof, K. H., et al. (2024). Enhanced aerosol mass in the tropical tropopause layer linked to ozone abundance. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107451 Aerosol particles play a critical role in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) through cloud formation and heterogeneous chemistry, influencing the radiative and chemical balance of the stratosphere. However, aerosol measurements in the TTL ... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Natraj, V., Spurr, R., Pfeilsticker, K., Spolaor, M., Woods, S., et al. (2024). Investigation of cirrus cloud properties in the tropical tropopause layer using high-altitude limb-scanning near-IR spectroscopy during NASA-ATTREX. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-2367-2024 Tropical-tropopause-layer cirrus clouds and their radiative effects represent a major uncertainty in the evaluation of Earth’s energy budget. High-altitude aircraft offer an opportunity to provide observations at cirrus cloud altitudes, m... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Liu, J., Pu, Z., Lee, W., Gao, Z.. (2024). Influence of assimilation of NEXRAD-Derived 2D inner-core structure data from single radar on numerical simulations of Hurricane Charley (2004) near its landfall. Remote Sensing, doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16081351 This study presents the first research that assimilates the ground-based NEXRAD observations-derived two-dimensional (2D), azimuthally averaged radar radial velocity and reflectivity within 60 km of radius from the hurricane center to exami... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Hayman, M., Stillwell, R. A., Karboski, A., Marais, W. J., Spuler, S. M.. (2024). Global estimation of range resolved thermodynamic profiles from micropulse differential absorption lidar. Optics Express, doi:https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.521178 We demonstrate thermodynamic profile estimation with data obtained using the MicroPulse DIAL such that the retrieval is entirely self contained. The only external input is surface meteorological variables obtained from a weather station ins... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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The impact of gravity waves on the evolution of tropical anvil cirrus microphysical properties Jensen, E. J., Kärcher, B., Woods, S., Krämer, M., Ueyama, R.. (2024). The impact of gravity waves on the evolution of tropical anvil cirrus microphysical properties. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD039887 Anvil cirrus generated by deep convection covers large fractions of the tropics and has important impacts on the Earth's radiation budget and climate. In situ measurements made with high-altitude aircraft indicate a rapid transition in ice ... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Carvalho, L. M. V., Duine, G., Clements, C., Wekker, S. F. J. D., Fernando, H. J. S., et al. (2024). The Sundowner Winds Experiment (SWEX) in Santa Barbara, California: Advancing Understanding and Predictability of Downslope Windstorms in Coastal Environments. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0171.1 Coastal Santa Barbara is among the most exposed communities to wildfire hazards in Southern California. Downslope, dry, and gusty windstorms are frequently observed on the south -facing slopes of the Santa Ynez Mountains that separate the P... EOL Affiliations: ISF, APG, ISFMGMT, ISFS, EOLAO, EOLAODEPT, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Johnson, A., Julian, R., Mayernik, M., Mundoma, C., Murray, M., et al. (2024). FAIR Facilities and Instruments Workshop #1 Report: Exploring Persistent Identifier Needs, Barriers and Incentives. , doi:https://doi.org/10.5065/zgsx-2d06 The FAIR Principles were published in 2016 to promote data that result from scholarly research being Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). These principles were intended to enhance the reusability of scholarly data holdi... EOL Affiliations: DMS Publication Genre: Technical Report View on OpenSky |
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Lachenmeier, E., Mahmood, R., Phillips, C., Nair, U., Rappin, E., et al. (2024). Irrigated agriculture significantly modifies seasonal boundary layer atmosphere and lower-tropospheric convective environment. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-23-0020.1 Modification of grasslands into irrigated and nonirrigated agriculture in the Great Plains resulted in significant impacts on weather and climate. However, there has been lack of observational data-based studies solely focused on impacts of... EOL Affiliations: ISF, APG, ISFS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Improved atmospheric constraints on Southern Ocean CO2 exchange Jin, Y., Keeling, R. F., Stephens, B., Long, M., Patra, P. K., et al. (2024). Improved atmospheric constraints on Southern Ocean CO2 exchange. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2309333121 We present improved estimates of air-sea CO2 exchange over three latitude bands of the Southern Ocean using atmospheric CO2 measurements from global airborne campaigns and an atmospheric 4 - box inverse model based on a mass- indexed isentr... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Water vapor measurements inside clouds and storms using a differential absorption radar Millán, L. F., Lebsock, M. D., Cooper, K. B., Siles, J. V., Dengler, R., et al. (2024). Water vapor measurements inside clouds and storms using a differential absorption radar. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-539-2024 NASA's Vapor In-cloud Profiling Radar (VIPR) is a tunable G-band radar designed for in-cloud and precipitation humidity remote sensing. VIPR estimates humidity using the differential absorption radar (DAR) technique. This technique exploits... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Estimating polarization purity with noise Kostinski, A., Kestner, D., Vivekanandan, J.. (2024). Estimating polarization purity with noise. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2024.3380531 We formulate a problem of estimating and monitoring mismatch (unwanted departure from orthogonality) of two ostensibly orthogonal polarization channels in a fully polarimetric general device such as a polarimetric weather radar. A statistic... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Investigation of hydrostatic imbalance with field observations Sun, J., Wulfmeyer, V., Späth, F., Vömel, H., Brown, W. O.J., et al. (2024). Investigation of hydrostatic imbalance with field observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-22-0206.1 The hydrostatic equilibrium addresses the approximate balance between the positive force of the vertical pressure gradient and the negative gravity force and has been widely assumed for atmospheric applications. The hydrostatic imbalance of... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND, APG, ISFS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Li, W., Chen, H., Han, L., Lee, W.. (2024). Starnet: A deep learning model for enhancing polarimetric radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2024.3426532 Accurate and real-time estimation of surface precipitation is crucial for decision-making during severe weather events and for water resource management. Polarimetric weather radar serves as the primary operational tool employed for quantit... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Comparison between ozonesonde measurements and satellite retrievals over Beijing, China Zhang, J., Xuan, Y., Bian, J., Vömel, H., Zeng, Y., et al. (2024). Comparison between ozonesonde measurements and satellite retrievals over Beijing, China. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aosl.2023.100378 The authors built an electrochemical concentration cell ozonesonde and have been launching it weekly from Beijing on the North China Plain since 2013. This study is the first to use ozonesonde measurements collected over Beijing during 2013... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Sources of Formaldehyde in U.S. Oil and Gas Production Regions Dix, B., Li, M., Roosenbrand, E., Francoeur, C., Brown, S. S., et al. (2023). Sources of Formaldehyde in U.S. Oil and Gas Production Regions. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00203 We analyzed observational and model data to study the sources of formaldehyde over oil and gas production regions and to investigate how these observations may be used to constrain oil and gas volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions. The ... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Cold fog amongst complex terrain Pu, Z., Pardyjak, E. R., Hoch, S. W., Gultepe, I., Hallar, A. G., et al. (2023). Cold fog amongst complex terrain. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0030.1 Cold fog forms via various thermodynamic, dynamic, and microphysical processes when the air temperature is less than 0°C. It occurs frequently during the cold season in the western United States yet is challenging to detect using standard ... EOL Affiliations: ISF, ISFS, APG, ISFSEC Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Cold fog amongst complex terrain Pu, Z., Pardyjak, E. R., Hoch, S. W., Gultepe, I., Hallar, A. G., et al. (2023). Cold fog amongst complex terrain. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0030.1 Cold fog forms via various thermodynamic, dynamic, and microphysical processes when the air temperature is less than 0°C. It occurs frequently during the cold season in the western United States yet is challenging to detect using standard ... EOL Affiliations: ISF, ISFS, APG, ISFSEC Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Cold Fog Amongst Complex Terrain Pu, Z., Pardyjak, E. R., Hoch, S. W., Gultepe, I., Hallar, A. G., et al. (2023). Cold Fog Amongst Complex Terrain. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0030.1 Cold fog forms via various thermodynamic, dynamic, and microphysical processes when the air temperature is less than 0°C. It occurs frequently during the cold season in the western United States yet is challenging to detect using standard ... EOL Affiliations: ISF, ISFS, APG, ISFSEC Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Vömel, H., Sorooshian, A., Robinson, C., Shingler, T. J., Thornhill, K. L., et al. (2023). Dropsonde observations during the Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment. Scientific Data, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02647-5 The Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) field campaign provides accurate data for aerosol characterization and trace gas profiles, and establishes knowledge of the relationships between aer... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Cloud properties derived from airborne cloud radar observations collected in three climatic regions Romatschke, U.. (2023). Cloud properties derived from airborne cloud radar observations collected in three climatic regions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD039829 Clouds observed by the airborne High-Performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER) Cloud Radar (HCR) were classified into twelve categories, based on their convective/stratiform nature. Dimensional and conve... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Rapid ozone depletion after humidification of the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga Eruption Evan, S., Brioude, J., Rosenlof, K. H., Gao, R., Portmann, R. W., et al. (2023). Rapid ozone depletion after humidification of the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga Eruption. Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg2551 The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on 15 January 2022 offered a good opportunity to explore the early impacts of tropical volcanic eruptions on stratospheric composition. Balloon-borne observations near Reunion Island rev... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Kiefer, M., Hurst, D. F., Stiller, G. P., Lossow, S., Vömel, H., et al. (2023). The SPARC water vapour assessment II: Biases and drifts of water vapour satellite data records with respect to frost point hygrometer records. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-4589-2023 Satellite data records of stratospheric water vapour have been compared to balloon-borne frost point hygrometer (FP) profiles that are coincident in space and time. The satellite data records of 15 different instruments cover water vapour d... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Sarkar, M., Bailey, A., Blossey, P., Szoeke, S. P. d., Noone, D., et al. (2023). Sub-cloud rain evaporation in the North Atlantic winter trade winds derived by pairing isotopic data with a bin-resolved microphysical model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-12671-2023 Sub-cloud rain evaporation in the trade wind region significantly influences the boundary layer mass and energy budgets. Parameterizing it is, however, difficult due to the sparsity of well-resolved rain observations and the challenges of s... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Jin, Y., Stephens, B., Keeling, R. F., Morgan, E. J., Rödenbeck, C., et al. (2023). Seasonal tropospheric distribution and air-sea fluxes of atmospheric potential oxygen from global airborne observations. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007827 Seasonal change of atmospheric potential oxygen (APO ∼ O2 + CO2) is a tracer for air-sea O2 flux with little sensitivity to the terrestrial exchange of O2 and CO2. In this study, we present the tropospheric distribution and inventory of A... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Zhao, K., Xu, X., Xue, M., Tan, Z., Huang, H., et al. (2023). The dynamics and microphysical characteristics of the convection producing the record-breaking hourly precipitation on 20 July 2021 in Zhengzhou, China. Remote Sensing, doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15184511 An hourly rainfall of 201.9 mm fell in Zhengzhou on 20 July 2021, breaking the hourly rainfall record of mainland China and causing severe urban flooding and human casualties. This observation-based study investigates the associated convect... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR) -The Next Generation Airborne Polarimetric, Doppler Weather Radar Lee, W.. (2023). Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR) -The Next Generation Airborne Polarimetric, Doppler Weather Radar. EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
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D'Alessandro, J. J., McFarquhar, G. M., Stith, J. L., Diao, M., DeMott, P. J., et al. (2023). An evaluation of phase, aerosol-cloud interactions and microphysical properties of single- and multi-layer clouds over the Southern Ocean using in situ observations from SOCRATES. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038610 Single- and multi-layer clouds are commonly observed over the Southern Ocean in varying synoptic settings, yet few studies have characterized and contrasted their properties. This study provides a statistical analysis of the microphysical p... EOL Affiliations: RAF, RAFDEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Miller, R. M., Rauber, R. M., Girolamo, L. D., Rilloraza, M., Fu, D., et al. (2023). Influence of natural and anthropogenic aerosols on cloud base droplet size distributions in clouds over the South China Sea and West Pacific. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-8959-2023 Cumulus clouds are common over maritime regions. They are important regulators of the global radiative energy budget and global hydrologic cycle, as well as a key contributor to the uncertainty in anthropogenic climate change projections du... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Sorooshian, A., Alexandrov, M. D., Bell, A. D., Bennett, R., Betito, G., et al. (2023). Spatially coordinated airborne data and complementary products for aerosol, gas, cloud, and meteorological studies: The NASA ACTIVATE dataset. Earth System Science Data, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3419-2023 The NASA Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) produced a unique dataset for research into aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions, with applications extending from process-based studies to mu... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Demonstration of a nowcasting service for High Ice Water Content (HIWC) conditions Potts, R., Haggerty, J. A., Stebbins, A. L. R. R., Protat, A.. (2023). Demonstration of a nowcasting service for High Ice Water Content (HIWC) conditions. Atmosphere, doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14050786 Areas of high ice water content (HIWC) within cloud systems may cause power loss events and engine damage in jet aircraft due to ice crystal icing (ICI). The Algorithm for Prediction of HIWC Areas (ALPHA) was developed to identify these reg... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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McCluskey, C. S., Gettelman, A., Bardeen, C., DeMott, P. J., Moore, K. A., et al. (2023). Simulating Southern Ocean aerosol and ice nucleating particles in the Community Earth System Model version 2. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD036955 Southern Ocean (SO) low-level mixed phase clouds have been a long-standing challenge for Earth system models to accurately represent. While improvements to the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) resulted in increased supercooled... EOL Affiliations: EOLVISITORS, RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Yang, Z., Li, D., Luo, J., Tian, W., Bai, Z., et al. (2023). Determination of cirrus occurrence and distribution characteristics over the Tibetan Plateau based on the SWOP campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037682 Balloon sounding with the Compact Optical Backscatter Aerosol Detector (COBALD) and Frost Point hygrometers (FPs) provides in situ data for a better understanding of the vertical distribution of cirrus clouds. In this study, eight summer ba... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Yorks, J. E., Wang, J., McGill, M. J., Follette-Cook, M., Nowottnick, E. P., et al. (2023). A SmallSat concept to resolve diurnal and vertical variations of aerosols, clouds, and boundary layer height. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0179.1 EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Yorks, J. E., Wang, J., McGill, M. J., Follette-Cook, M., Nowottnick, E. P., et al. (2023). A SmallSat concept to resolve diurnal and vertical variations of aerosols, clouds, and Boundary Layer Height. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0179.1 A SmallSat mission concept is formulated here to carry out Time-varying Optical Measurements of Clouds and Aerosol Transport (TOMCAT) from space while embracing low-cost opportunities enabled by the revolution in Earth science observation t... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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A new algorithm to generate a priori trace gas profiles for the GGG2020 retrieval algorithm Laughner, J. L., Roche, S., Kiel, M., Toon, G. C., Wunch, D., et al. (2023). A new algorithm to generate a priori trace gas profiles for the GGG2020 retrieval algorithm. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1121-2023 Optimal estimation retrievals of trace gas total columns require prior vertical profiles of the gases retrieved to drive the forward model and ensure the retrieval problem is mathematically well posed. For well-mixed gases, it is possible t... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Weak precipitation δ2H response to large Holocene hydroclimate changes in eastern North America Stefanescu, I. C., Shuman, B. N., Grigg, L. D., Bailey, A., Stefanova, V., et al. (2023). Weak precipitation δ2H response to large Holocene hydroclimate changes in eastern North America. Quaternary Science Reviews, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107990 In eastern North America, annual precipitation increased by >40% over the Holocene, largely in response to melting of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The change substantially raised lake levels and transformed conifer-dominated ecosystems into me... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Bian, J., Li, D., Bai, Z., Xu, J., Li, Q., et al. (2023). First detection of aerosols of the Hunga Tonga eruption in the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric westerlies. Science Bulletin, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2023.03.002 EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Loechli, M., Stephens, B., Commane, R., Chevallier, F., McKain, K., et al. (2023). Evaluating Northern Hemisphere growing season net carbon flux in climate models using aircraft observations. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007520 Understanding terrestrial ecosystems and their response to anthropogenic climate change requires quantification of land-atmosphere carbon exchange. However, top-down and bottom-up estimates of large-scale land-atmosphere fluxes, including t... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Exploring influences of shallow topography in stable boundary layers: The SAVANT field campaign Hiscox, A., Bhimireddy, S., Wang, J., Kristovich, D. A. R., Sun, J., et al. (2023). Exploring influences of shallow topography in stable boundary layers: The SAVANT field campaign. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0332.1 Stable boundary layers are still a relatively problematic component of atmospheric modeling, despite their frequent occurrence. While general agreement exists that Monin-Obukhov similarity is not applicable in the stable boundary layer (SBL... EOL Affiliations: ISF, ISFS, APG Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Lin, H., Sun, J., Weckwerth, T., Joseph, E., Kay, J.. (2023). Assimilation of New York State Mesonet surface and profiler data for the 21 June 2021 convective event. Monthly Weather Review, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0136.1 The New York State Mesonet (NYSM) has provided continuous in situ and remote sensing observations near the surface and within the lower troposphere since 2017. The dense observing network can capture the evolution of mesoscale motions with ... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Isotopic measurements in water vapor, precipitation, and seawater during EUREC4A Bailey, A., Aemisegger, F., Villiger, L., Los, S. A., Reverdin, G., et al. (2023). Isotopic measurements in water vapor, precipitation, and seawater during EUREC4A. Earth System Science Data, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-465-2023 In early 2020, an international team set out to investigate trade-wind cumulus clouds and their coupling to the large-scale circulation through the field campaign EUREC(4)A: ElUcidating the RolE of Clouds-Circulation Coupling in ClimAte. Fo... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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The Secondary Production of Ice in Cumulus Experiment (SPICULE) Lawson, R. P., Korolev, A. V., DeMott, P. J., Heymsfield, A. J., Bruintjes, R. T., et al. (2023). The Secondary Production of Ice in Cumulus Experiment (SPICULE). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0209.1 The secondary ice process (SIP) is a major microphysical process, which can result in rapid enhancement of ice particle concentration in the presence of preexisting ice. SPICULE was conducted to further investigate the effect of collision-c... EOL Affiliations: RAF, APO, EOLVISITORS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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A road map to success of international field campaigns in atmospheric and oceanic sciences Zhang, C., Moore, J. A.. (2023). A road map to success of international field campaigns in atmospheric and oceanic sciences. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0133.1 Understanding and predicting Earth's environment requires information and -knowledge of detailed physical, chemical, and biological processes directly from observations. Well-organized and properly conducted field campaigns are powerful way... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Addressing the microburst threat to aviation: Research-to-operations success story McCarthy, J., Serafin, R. J., Wilson, J. W., Evans, J., Kessinger, C. J., et al. (2022). Addressing the microburst threat to aviation: Research-to-operations success story. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0038.1 Microburst wind shear has caused or contributed to a significant number of aviation accidents. Since 1943, wind shear accidents have been responsible for more than 1,400 fatalities worldwide, including over 400 deaths in the United States b... EOL Affiliations: EOLAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Diagnostic alarm of dew point temperature for the occurrence of Middle Eastern dust storms Goudarzi, G., Sorooshian, A., Alam, K., Weckwerth, T., Hamid, V., et al. (2022). Diagnostic alarm of dew point temperature for the occurrence of Middle Eastern dust storms. Pure and Applied Geophysics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-022-03182-x The sudden occurrence of dust storms results in significant economic damage, with additional negative impacts on public health and welfare. This study investigates one of the most vulnerable areas of the world to dust storms (Ahvaz, Iran) t... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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A modern approach to a stability-based definition of the tropopause Tinney, E. N., Homeyer, C. R., Elizalde, L., Hurst, D. F., Thompson, A. M., et al. (2022). A modern approach to a stability-based definition of the tropopause. Monthly Weather Review, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0174.1 Definition of the tropopause has remained a focus of atmospheric science since its discovery near the beginning of the twentieth century. Few universal definitions (those that can be reliably applied globally and to both common observations... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Estimation of sea spray aerosol surface area over the Southern Ocean using scattering measurements Moore, K. A., Alexander, S. P., Humphries, R. S., Jensen, J. B., Protat, A., et al. (2022). Estimation of sea spray aerosol surface area over the Southern Ocean using scattering measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037009 This study focuses on methods to estimate dry marine aerosol surface area (SA) from bulk optical measurements. Aerosol SA is used in many models' ice nucleating particle (INP) parameterizations, as well as influencing particle light scatter... EOL Affiliations: EOLVISITORS, RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Schima, J., McFarquhar, G., Romatschke, U., Vivekanandan, J., D'Alessandro, J., et al. (2022). Characterization of Southern Ocean boundary layer clouds using airborne radar, lidar, and in situ cloud data: Results from SOCRATES. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037277 Climate and numerical weather prediction models struggle to accurately predict radiative forcing over the Southern Ocean (SO), as the amount of clouds and their phases are poorly represented in such models due to a lack of observations upon... EOL Affiliations: RSF, RAF, APO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Romatschke, U., Dixon, M. J.. (2022). Vertically resolved convective-stratiform echo-type identification and convectivity retrieval for vertically pointing radars. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-22-0019.1 Using data from the airborne HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR), a partitioning algorithm (ECCO-V) that provides vertically resolved convectivity and convective versus stratiform radar-echo classification is developed for vertically pointing radars. ... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Dixon, M. J., Romatschke, U.. (2022). Three-dimensional convective–stratiform echo-type classification and convectivity retrieval from radar reflectivity. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-22-0018.1 The Echo Classification from COnvectivity (ECCO) algorithm identifies convective and stratiform types of radar echo in three dimensions. It is based on the calculation of reflectivity texture—a combination of the intensity and the heterog... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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An examination of the recent stability of ozonesonde global network data Stauffer, R. M., Thompson, A. M., Kollonige, D. E., Tarasick, D. W., Malderen, R. V., et al. (2022). An examination of the recent stability of ozonesonde global network data. Earth and Space Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002459 The recent Assessment of Standard Operating Procedures for Ozonesondes 2.0 (WMO/GAW Report #268) addressed questions of homogeneity and long-term stability in global electrochemical concentration cell (ECC) ozone sounding network time serie... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Gebauer, J., Shapiro, A., Potvin, C. K., Dahl, N. A., Biggerstaff, M. I., et al. (2022). Evaluating vertical velocity retrievals from vertical vorticity equation constrained dual-doppler analysis of real, rapid-scan radar data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-21-0136.1 Accurate vertical velocity retrieval from dual-Doppler analysis (DDA) is a long-standing problem of radar meteorology. Typical radar scanning strategies poorly observe the vertical component of motion, leading to large uncertainty in vertic... Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Science applications of phased array radars Kollias, P., Palmer, R., Bodine, D., Adachi, T., Bluestein, H., et al. (2022). Science applications of phased array radars. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0173.1 Phased array radars (PARs) are a promising observing technology, at the cusp of being available to the broader meteorological community. PARs offer near-instantaneous sampling of the atmosphere with flexible beam forming, multifunctionality... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Kay, J., Weckwerth, T., Lee, W., Sun, J., Romine, G.. (2022). An OSSE study of the impact of Micropulse Differential Absorption Lidar (MPD) water vapor profiles on convective weather forecasting. Monthly Weather Review, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-21-0284.1 The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Montana State University jointly developed water vapor micropulse differential absorption lidars (MPDs) that are a significant advance in eye-safe, unattended, lidar-based water vapor ... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Water vapor injection into the stratosphere by Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Vömel, H., Evan, S., Tully, M.. (2022). Water vapor injection into the stratosphere by Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai. Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq2299 Large volcanic eruptions, although rare events, can influence the chemistry and the dynamics of the stratosphere for several years after the eruption. Here we show that the eruption of the submarine volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai on 15 J... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Marais, W. J., Hayman, M.. (2022). Extending water vapor measurement capability of photon-limited differential absorption lidars through simultaneous denoising and inversion. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5159-2022 The micropulse differential absorption lidar (MPD) was developed at Montana State University (MSU) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to perform range-resolved water vapor (WV) measurements using low-power lasers and ph... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Doddi, A., Lawrence, D., Fritts, D., Wang, L., Lund, T., et al. (2022). Instabilities, Dynamics, and Energetics accompanying Atmospheric Layering (IDEAL): High-resolution in situ observations and modeling in and above the nocturnal boundary layer. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4023-2022 The Instabilities, Dynamics, and Energetics accompanying Atmospheric Layering (IDEAL) program was conceived to improve understanding of the dynamics of thin strongly stratified "sheet" and deeper weakly stratified "layer" (S&L) structures i... EOL Affiliations: ISF, APG Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Planning for LOTOS: A New LOwer Troposphere Observing System Hock, T. F., Grubišić, V., Gebauer, J., Oncley, S., Weckwerth, T., et al. (2022). Planning for LOTOS: A New LOwer Troposphere Observing System. The National Center for Atmospheric Research Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) is planning the development of the LOwer Troposphere Observing System (LOTOS), a new portable, integrated sensor network. The LOTOS is designed to allow simultane... EOL Affiliations: ISF, ISFMGMT, EOLAO, ISFS, RSF, APG, RAF Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
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A multi-city urban atmospheric greenhouse gas measurement data synthesis Mitchell, L. E., Lin, J. C., Hutyra, L. R., Bowling, D. R., Cohen, R. C., et al. (2022). A multi-city urban atmospheric greenhouse gas measurement data synthesis. Scientific Data, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01467-3 Urban regions emit a large fraction of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) that contribute to modern-day climate change. As such, a growing number of urban policymakers and stakeh... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Ma, D., Bian, J., Li, D., Bai, Z., Li, Q., et al. (2022). Mixing characteristics within the tropopause transition layer over the Asian summer monsoon region based on ozone and water vapor sounding data. Atmospheric Research, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106093 The structure of the tropopause transition layer (TTL) over the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) anticyclone is analyzed on the basis of high-resolution balloon soundings of temperature, ozone, and water vapor at Kunming and Lhasa, China during 1... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Read, W. G., Stiller, G., Lossow, S., Kiefer, M., Khosrawi, F., et al. (2022). The SPARC Water Vapor Assessment II: Assessment of satellite measurements of upper tropospheric humidity. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3377-2022 Nineteen limb-viewing data sets (occultation, passive thermal, and UV scattering) and two nadir upper tropospheric humidity (UTH) data sets are intercompared and also compared to frost-point hygrometer balloon sondes. The upper troposphere ... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Tam, F. I., Yang, M., Lee, W.. (2022). Polarimetric size sorting signatures in the convective regions of mesoscale convective systems in PECAN: Implications on kinematics, thermodynamics, and precipitation pathways. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035822 An object-based technique was utilized to identify hydrometeor size-sorting signatures at lower levels in the convective regions of 10 mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) during the 2015 Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field cam... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Cause of a lower-tropospheric high-ozone layer in spring over Hanoi Ogino, S., Miyazaki, K., Fujiwara, M., Nodzu, M., Shiotani, M., et al. (2022). Cause of a lower-tropospheric high-ozone layer in spring over Hanoi. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035727 The ozonesonde observations in Hanoi, Vietnam, over 14 years since 2004, have confirmed an enhancement in lower tropospheric ozone concentration at about 3 km altitude in the spring season. We investigated the evolution of the ozone enhance... EOL Affiliations: ISF, SND Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Huang, H., Li, Q., Zhao, K., Dai, H., Ming, J., et al. (2022). Microphysical characteristics of the phase-locking VRW-induced asymmetric convection in the outer eyewall of Super Typhoon Lekima (2019). Geophysical Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096869 Microphysical signatures relevant to the asymmetric convection in the outer eyewall of Super Typhoon Lekima (2019) before its landfall in China were analyzed from ground-based radar observations. The results indicate that the microphysical ... EOL Affiliations: RSF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
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Amazonian terrestrial water balance inferred from satellite-observed water vapor isotopes Shi, M., Worden, J. R., Bailey, A., Noone, D., Risi, C., et al. (2022). Amazonian terrestrial water balance inferred from satellite-observed water vapor isotopes. Nature Communications, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30317-4 Atmospheric humidity and soil moisture in the Amazon forest are tightly coupled to the region's water balance, or the difference between two moisture fluxes, evapotranspiration minus precipitation (ET-P). However, large and poorly character... EOL Affiliations: RAF Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |