Abstract: North Pacific sea surface temperature variations during the cooling season are simulated using climatological surface boat flux data in conjunction with a deepening mixed layer as determined by a convective adjustment ...

Abstract: A model of the thermally mixed layer in the upper ocean as developed by Kraus and Turner and extended by Denman is further extended to investigate the effects of salinity. In the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean ...

Abstract: The annual energy budget of the Arctic Ocean is characterized by a net heat loss at the air?sea interface that is balanced by oceanic heat transport into the Arctic. Two 150-yr simulations (1950?2099) of a global climate ...

Abstract: The hydrologic cycle is a major part of the global climate system. There is an atmospheric flux of water from the ocean surface to the continents. The cycle is closed by return flow in rivers. In this paper a river routing ...

Abstract: Rain rates and their evolution during summertime convective storms were analyzed for the semiarid climate of the northern High Plains. Radar data from a total of 750 radar echo clusters from the 1980 and 1981 summer cloud ...

Abstract: Surface temperature is a fundamental parameter for climate research. Over the Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas conventional temperature observations are often of uncertain quality, however, owing to logistical obstacles ...

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Abstract: A neural network technique is used to quantify relationships involved in cloud?radiation feedbacks based on observations from the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic (SHEBA) project. Sensitivities of longwave cloud forcing ...

Abstract: Monthly total precipitation and mean temperature data records extending from the late nineteenth century to 1990 were collected for 147 stations in South Dakota, North Dakota, and portions of adjacent states and provinces. ...

Abstract: Spatially homogeneous climate regions were developed from long-term monthly temperature and precipitation data for a subset of the U.S. Northern Plains. Climate regions were initially defined using the ?best? of three ...