One proxy for global climate change is the change in the total mass of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Several complementary techniques have been used to estimate these changes with varying degrees of success. In this article, we describe a new approach that relies on the resonant behavior of ice masses. For very low electromagnetic (EM) frequencies (i.e., ≤2 kHz), pure ice acts like a strong dielectric resonator. Resonances can be excited in ice sheets by ambient EM noise from, for example, distant thunderstorms. The EM frequency spectrum measured in the vicinity of the ice mass should exhibit corresponding resonant frequencies. The evolution of the resonant modes over time can be used to monitor changes in ice mass and shape. The same approach can be, in principle, applied to monitor changes in the volume of fresh water reservoirs.
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This is the second part of a series on benchmarking raw 1-h high-resolution numerical weather prediction surface-temperature forecasts from NOAA’s H...
Probabilistic fire-weather forecasts provide pertinent information to assess fire behavior and danger of current or potential fires. Operational fire-...
2020 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(10), E1653-E1676.
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The Year of Polar Prediction in the Southern Hemisphere (YOPP-SH) had a special observing period (SOP) that ran from 16 November 2018 to 15 February 2...
2020 | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, e2020MS002260.
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In the atmosphere, convection can organize from smaller scale updrafts into more coherent structures on various scales. In bulk-plume cumulus convecti...
2020 | Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(11), 2487-2505.
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Downscaling precipitation fields is a necessary step in a number of applications, especially in hydrological modeling where the meteorological forcing...
The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR), located in central North America, is an important region hydrologically and ecologically. Millions of wetlands, many...
2021 | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene (2021) 9 (1): 00146.
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Transport of pollution into pristine wilderness areas is of concern for both federal and state agencies. Assessing such transport in complex terrain i...
The Indian Ocean has received increasing attention for its large impacts on regional and global climate. However, sea surface temperature (SST) variab...
Whether distinct wintertime U.S. climate conditions exist for central-Pacific (CP) versus eastern-Pacific (EP) El Niño events is explored using atmos...
2020 | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2020MS002226.
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Atmospheric radiation is the main driver of weather and climate, yet due to a complicated absorption spectrum, the precise treatment of radiative tran...
2020 | Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(11), 2655-2673.
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Combined airborne, shipboard, and satellite measurements provide the first observational assessment of all major terms of the vertically integrated wa...
2021 | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene (2021) 9 (1): 00055.
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The Gulf of Maine (GoM) is currently experiencing its warmest period in the instrumental record. Two high-resolution numerical ocean models were used ...
2020 | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58(2): 982-994
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Space-based precipitation products are often used for regional and/or global hydrologic modeling and climate studies. A number of precipitation produc...
2020 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(10), E1781-E1800.
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The Russian River Hydrometeorological Observing Network (RHONET) is a unique suite of high-resolution in situ and remote sensing observations deployed...
2020 | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77(5), 1801-1819.
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The exponential increase in precipitation with increasing column saturation fraction (CSF) is used to investigate the role of moisture in convective c...
High-quality, high-resolution, hourly unbiased surface (2 m) temperature analyses are needed for many applications, including training and validation ...