Abstract: hortwave absorption is one of the most important, but the most uncertain, components of direct radiative effect by mineral dust. It has a broad range of estimates from different observational and modeling studies and there ...

Abstract: The reasons for biases in regional climate simulations were investigated in an attempt to discern whether they arise from deficiencies in the model parameterizations or are due to dynamical problems. Using the Regional ...

Abstract: he major sources of atmospheric moisture over the Red Sea are analyzed using ERA-Interim for the 1979?2013 period. The vertical structure of moisture transports across the coastlines has been computed separately for the ...

Abstract: The longitudinal dependence of interannual variations of tropical stratospheric wind is examined in a detailed general circulation model simulation and in the limited observations available. A version of the SKYHI model ...

Abstract: Contemporary large-scale changes in satellite-derived snow cover were examined over the Northern Hemisphere extratropical land (NEL) areas. These areas encompass 55% of the land in the Northern Hemisphere. Snow cover (S) ...

Abstract: The impact of introducing a realistic orographic forcing into a uniform- and variable-resolution stretched-grid GCM dynamical core is investigated by performing long-term and medium-range integrations. Comparisons are made ...

Abstract: oupled climate model simulations of volcanic eruptions and abrupt changes in CO2 concentration are compared in multiple realizations of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Climate Model, version 2.1 (GFDL CM2.1). The ...

Abstract: he challenges of monitoring and forecasting flash-flood-producing storm events in data-sparse and arid regions are explored using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model (version 3.5) in conjunction with a range ...