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Creator:: Mildrexler, D. J., Zhao, M., Cohen, W. B., Running, S. W., Song, X. P., and Jones, M. O.
Abstract:: Measurements that link surface conditions and climate can provide critical information on important biospheric changes occurring in the Earth system. As the direct driving force of energy and water fluxes at the surface-atmosphere interface, land surface temperature (LST) provides information on physical processes of land-cover change and energy-balance changes that...
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Creator:: Oh, Hyun-Mi, Kim, Kyung-Eak, Ha, Kyung-Ja, Mahrt, Larry, and Shim, Jae-Seol
Abstract:: This study investigates atmospheric factors influencing the quality and the postprocessing (e.g., tilt correction) of fast-response measurements of turbulent fluxes for difficult open-sea measurements over an offshore platform. The data were collected at the Ieodo Ocean Research Station over the Yellow Sea during the period from 5 November 2007 to...
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Creator:: Mahrt, L.
Abstract:: Data from three micronetworks with eddy correlation data and three additional micronetworks without eddy correlation data are analyzed to study the spatial variability of surface air temperature in complex terrain. A simple similarity relationship is constructed to relate the spatial variation of air temperature along the slope to the thermal...
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Creator:: Vickers, Dean, Mahrt, Larry, and Andreas, Edgar L.
Abstract:: Over 5000 aircraft eddy-covariance measurements from four different aircraft in nine different experiments are used to develop a simple model for the friction velocity over the sea. Unlike the widely used Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) bulk flux scheme, the simple model (i) does not use Monin–Obukhov similarity theory (MOST)...
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Creator:: Hristova-Veleva, S. M., Callahan, P. S., Dunbar, R. S., Stiles, B. W., Yueh, S. H., Huddleston, J. N., Hsiao, S. V., Neumann, G., Vanhoff, B. A., Gaston, R. W., Rodriguez, E., and Weissman, D. E.
Abstract:: Scatterometer ocean surface winds have been providing very valuable information to researchers and operational weather forecasters for over 10 years. However, the scatterometer wind retrievals are compromised when rain is present. Merely flagging all rain-affected areas removes the most dynamic and interesting areas from the wind analysis. Fortunately, the Advanced...
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Creator:: Mahrt, L., Vickers, Dean, and Andreas, Edgar L.
Abstract:: A Rutan Aircraft Factory Long-EZ aircraft flew numerous low-level slant soundings on two summer days in 2001 off the northeastern coast of the United States. The soundings are analyzed here to study the nonstationary vertical structure of the wind, temperature, and turbulence. An error analysis indicates that fluxes computed from...
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Creator:: Bumbaco, Karin A., Dello, Kathie D., and Bond, Nicholas A.
Abstract:: A historical record of Pacific Northwest (defined here as west of the Cascade Mountains in Washington and Oregon) heat waves is identified using the U.S. Historical Climate Network, version 2, daily data (1901–2009). Both daytime and nighttime events are examined, defining a heat wave as three consecutive days above the...
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Creator:: Daly, Christopher, Widrlechner, Mark P., Halbleib, Michael D., Smith, Joseph I., and Gibson, Wayne P.
Abstract:: In many regions of the world, the extremes of winter cold are a major determinant of the geographic distribution of perennial plant species and of their successful cultivation. In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM) is the primary reference for defining geospatial...
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Creator:: Bieniek, Peter A., Bhatt, Uma S., Thoman, Richard L., Angeloff, Heather, Partain, James, Papineau, John, Fritsch, Frederick, Holloway, Eric, Walsh, John E., Daly, Christopher, Shulski, Martha, Hufford, Gary, Hill, David F., Calos, Stavros, and Gens, Rudiger
Abstract:: Alaska encompasses several climate types because of its vast size, high-latitude location, proximity to oceans, and complex topography. There is a great need to understand how climate varies regionally for climatic research and forecasting applications. Although climate-type zones have been established for Alaska on the basis of seasonal climatological mean...
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Creator:: Steeneveld, G. J., Holtslag, A. A. M., Nappo, C. J., van de Wiel, B. J. H., and Mahrt, L.
Abstract:: This paper addresses the possible role of unresolved terrain drag, relative to the turbulent drag on the development of the stable atmospheric boundary layer over land. Adding a first-order estimate for terrain drag to the turbulent drag appears to provide drag that is similar to the enhanced turbulent drag obtained...
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