This article examines to what extent the NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS) weeks 3–4 reforecasts reproduce the CFS Reanalysis (CFSR) storm-track pr...
Interannual variability of tropospheric moisture and temperature are key aspects of Earth’s climate. In this study, monthly mean specific humidity (...
2023 | Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(11), 1939-1954
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Reliable quantitative precipitation estimation with a rich spatiotemporal resolution is vital for understanding the Earth’s hydrological cycle. Prec...
Coral reefs are on a steep trajectory of decline, with natural recovery in many areas unlikely.1, 2, 3 Eutrophication, overfishing, climate change, an...
A series of numerical experiments where both physical and numerical model parameters are varied with respect to a reference setup is used to investiga...
In early 2018, due in part to a severe and extended meteorological drought, Cape Town was at risk of being one of the first major metropolitan areas i...
A competitive neural network known as the self-organizing map (SOM) is used to objectively identify synoptic patterns in the North American Regional R...
2023 | Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(8), 1365-1376
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Changes in surface water and energy balance can influence weather through interactions between the land and lower atmosphere. In convecting atmosphere...
The benefits of assimilating Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) radial velocity data for convective systems have been demonstrated in previous stu...
Severe losses in aquacultured and wild hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) stocks have been previously reported in the northeastern United States due to...
2023 | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 80(11), 2701-2710
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In the absence of scattering, thermal contrast in the atmosphere is the key to infrared remote sensing. Without the thermal contrast, the amount of ab...
Time of emergence of anthropogenic climate change is a crucial metric in risk assessments surrounding future climate predictions. However, internal cl...
Characteristic patterns of precipitation-associated tropical intraseasonal oscillations, including the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) and boreal su...
Accurate and skillful subseasonal forecasts have tremendous potential for sectors that are sensitive to hazardous weather and climate events. Analysis...
This study examines the possible relationship between predictions of weekly and biweekly averages of 10-m winds at 3-week lead time and interannual va...
2021 | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78(6), 1869-1888
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Despite the great importance of interactions between moisture, clouds, radiation, and convection in the Madden–Julian oscillation, their role in the...
2019 | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 36(7), 1285-1296
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A novel 3D discriminant function is introduced as part of a ground clutter detection algorithm for improving weather radar observations. The 3D discri...
2023 | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 40(3), 305-326
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The present work details the measurement capabilities of Wave Glider autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) for research-grade meteorology, wave, and curr...
Aerosol cooling reduces tropical cyclone (TC) potential intensity (PI) more strongly, by about a factor of 2 per degree of sea surface temperature cha...
2020 | Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(12), 2893-2906
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This study presents the Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information Using Artificial Neural Networks–Dynamic Infrared Rain Rate (PDIR-...
Real-time prediction of storm longevity is a critical challenge for National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters. These predictions can guide forecaster...
2023 | Journal of Physical Oceanography, 53(9), 2121-2135
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Turbulence in the ocean surface layer is forced by a mixture of buoyancy, wind, and wave processes that evolves over time scales from the diurnal scal...
2022 | Weather, Climate, and Society, 14(4), 1287-1305
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Nearly one-half of the residents of North and South Carolina use decentralized or onsite wastewater treatment systems (OWTS). As the climate changes, ...
Using vertical temperature profiles obtained from upper-air observations or numerical weather prediction models, the Bourgouin technique calculates ar...
2023 | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 40(11), 1433-1448
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Turbulence is what we want to avoid the most during flight. Numerical weather prediction (NWP) model–based methods for diagnosing turbulence have of...
Researchers have long recognized the importance of ecological differences at the species level in structuring natural communities yet until recently h...
2022 | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 39(6), 771-787
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Profiles of atmospheric temperature and water vapor from remotely sensed platforms provide critical observations within the temporal and spatial gaps ...
Tornadoes produced by quasi-linear convective systems (QLCSs) in low instability environments present distinctive challenges for forecasters. This stu...
2022 | Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(3), 519-535
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Various forms of regime diagrams have become an accepted means of identifying the dominant type of forcing of turbulence in the ocean surface layer. H...
2017 | Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 56(9), 2421-2439
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An approach for downscaling daily precipitation extremes using historical analogs is applied to simulations from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercom...
Whales are now largely protected from direct harvest, leading to partial recoveries in many previously depleted species.1 However, most populations re...
2018 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1874), 20172571
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Foundation species define the ecosystems they live in, but ecologists have often characterized dominant plants as foundational without supporting evid...
2019 | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 74(8), 2176-2180
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Background Limited studies have investigated the microbial diversity of wild marine mammals. Objectives This study characterized Escherichia coli isol...
Circulation more than temperature Changes in continental configuration and sea level affected the ocean's oxygen levels and the rate of denitrificatio...
2022 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(4), 5743-5754
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Below the acoustic cut-off frequency, oscillations are trapped within the solar interior and become resonant. However, signatures of oscillations pers...
2016 | ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73(7), 1725-1738
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In many marine fisheries assessments, population abundance indices from surveys collected by different states and agencies do not always agree with ea...
To solve the radiative transfer equation and relate inherent optical properties (IOPs) to apparent optical properties (AOPs), knowledge of the volume ...
Animals use diverse feeding strategies to capture and consume prey, with many species switching between strategies to accommodate different prey. Many...
A demanding lifestyle Polar bears appear to be well adapted to the extreme conditions of their Arctic habitat. Pagano et al. , however, show that the ...
2020 | ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77(4), 1440-1455
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A novel plankton imager was developed and deployed aboard a profiling mooring in Prince William Sound in 2016–2018. The imager consisted of a 12-MP ...
Ursids are the largest mammals to retain a plantigrade posture. This primitive posture has been proposed to result in reduced locomotor speed and econ...
2016 | Journal of Experimental Biology, 219(18), 2828-2836
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Little is known about the postnatal development of the physiological characteristics that support breath-hold in cetaceans, despite their need to swim...
2019 | ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77(1), 136-147
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Stock assessment methods for many invertebrate stocks, including crab stocks in the Bering Sea of Alaska, rely on size-structured population dynamics ...
2019 | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 187(3), 774-781
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Although intraspecific interactions likely affect habitat choice and foraging behaviour in animals, our knowledge regarding how these factors interact...
Understanding foraging strategies and decision-making processes of predators provide crucial insights into how they might respond to changes in prey a...
Surface freezing is a phenomenon in which crystallization is enhanced at a vapor-liquid interface. In some systems, such as n-alkanes, this enhancemen...
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