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The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a next-generation mesocale numerical weather prediction system designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs.

Events: Next 2 Weeks

Seminar
When: Tuesday, 15 November 2011, at 3:30 pm
Location: ML Main Seminar
Update on the
Brian O'Neill, (NCAR) - Speaker's Homepage

Seminar
When: Tuesday, 22 November 2011, at 3:30 pm
Location: ML Main Seminar
Reflections on next steps in integrated assessment of climate change
Arnulf Grubler, (IIASA) - Speaker's Homepage

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Recent NESL Publications

Inter-annual to multi-decadal Arctic sea ice extent trends in a warming world Geophysical Research Letters, 2011-08-11. Jennifer Kay; Marika Holland; Alexandra Jahn. [OpenSky] [DOI] [PDF]

The extratropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere Reviews of Geophysics, 2011-08-09. Andrew Gettelman; P Hoor; L Pan; William Randel; M Hegglin; T Birner. [OpenSky] [DOI]

Orogenic propagating precipitation systems over the United States in a global climate model with embedded explicit convection Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2011-08-01. Michael Pritchard; Mitchell Moncrieff; Richard Somerville. [OpenSky] [DOI]

Evaluation of the HOMME dynamical core in the aqua-planet configuration of NCAR CAM4: Rainfall Journal of Climate, 2011-08-01. Saroj Mishra; Mark Taylor; Ramachandran Nair; Peter Lauritzen; Joseph Tribbia. [OpenSky]

Influence of tropospheric ozone control on exposure to ultraviolet radiation at the surface Environmental Science & Technology, 2011-07-14. Sasha Madronich; Mark Wagner; Philip Groth. [OpenSky] [DOI]

Forests and global change Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry: Synthesis of Past Research and Future Directions, 2011-07-13. . [OpenSky]

Characterization of a thermal decomposition chemical ionization mass spectrometer for the measurement of peroxy acyl nitrates (PANs) in the atmosphere Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2011-07-08. W Zheng; Frank Flocke; Geoffrey Tyndall; Aaron Swanson; John Orlando; J Roberts; L Huey; David Tanner. [OpenSky] [DOI] [PDF]

Boreal forest fire emissions in fresh Canadian smoke plumes: C1-C10 volatile organic compounds (VOCs), CO₂, CO, NO₂, NO, HCN and CH₃CN Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2011-07-07. I Simpson; S Akagi; B Barletta; N Blake; Y Choi; G Diskin; Alan Fried; Henry Fuelberg; S Meinardi; F. Rowland; S Vay; Andrew Weinheimer; P Wennberg; P Wiebring; Armin Wisthaler; M Yang; R Yokelson; D Blake. [OpenSky] [DOI] [PDF]

The response of the climate system to very high greenhouse gas emission scenarios Environmental Research Letters, 2011-07-05. Benjamin Sanderson; Brian O'Neill; Jeffrey Kiehl; Gerald Meehl; Reto Knutti; Warren Washington. [OpenSky] [DOI] [PDF]

The Monge-Ampère differential equation and semi-Lagrangian advection schemes Computers and Fluids, 2011-07-01. Jean-François Cossetter; Piotr Smolarkiewicz. [OpenSky]

FY2010 NESL Annual Report

NESL Research Topics

  • Science of Weather Prediction
  • Global Atmospheric Dynamics
  • Physical Meteorology
  • Atmospheric Photochemistry
  • Oceanography and Cryosphere
  • Land Biophysics and Biogeochemistry
  • Experimental Meteorology
  • Earth's Middle Atmosphere
  • Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing
  • Climate System and Climate Change
  • Paleo-Climatology
  • Global Water System
  • Regional Climate