The advent of global precipitation data sets with increasing temporal span has made it
possible to use them for validating climate models. In order to fulfill the requirement of global …

Topic 3 of the Model Inter-Comparison Study for Asia (MICS-Asia) Phase III examines how
online coupled air quality models perform in simulating high aerosol pollution in the North …

Airborne particles of mineral dust play a key role in Earth's climate system and affect human
activities around the globe. The numerical weather modeling community has undertaken …

This study presents results from a model intercomparison project, focusing on the range of
responses in deep convective cloud updrafts to varying cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) …

The Goddard microphysics was recently improved by adding a fourth ice class (frozen
drops/hail). This new 4ICE scheme was developed and tested in the Goddard Cumulus …

Adegoke, JO, Pielke RA Sr., Eastman J., Mahmood R., and Hubbard KG, 2003: Impact of
irrigation on midsummer surface fluxes and temperature under dry synoptic conditions: A …

The role of soil moisture in NWP has gained more attention in recent years, as studies have
demonstrated impacts of land surface states on ambient weather from diurnal to seasonal …

The boreal summer of 2008 was unusual for the Indian monsoon, featuring exceptional
heavy loading of dust aerosols over the Arabian Sea and northern-central India, near normal …

Despite the significant progress in improving chemical transport models (CTMs),
applications of these modeling endeavors are still subject to large and complex model …

Soil moisture is a critical component of the climate system due to the link it provides between
atmospheric and terrestrial energy, water, and carbon cycles. A better understanding of …