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The Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (JAS) publishes basic research related to the physics, dynamics, and chemistry of the atmosphere of Earth and other planets, with emphasis on the quantitative and deductive aspects of the subject.

ISSN: 0022-4928; eISSN: 1520-0469

Anne K. Smith, National Center for Atmospheric Research

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2021 Journal Impact Factors in the Meteorology and Atmospheric Science category

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An Analytical Solution to The Perturbation Analysis of The Interaction between Downburst Outflows and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Winds

Masoud Moeini and Djordje Romanic

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0123.1

Published Online:: 26 Sep 2022

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Explicitly Modeling the Effects of Cloud Condensation Nuclei on Warm Rain Initiation

Xiping Zeng and Xiaowen Li

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0017.1

Published Online:: 26 Sep 2022

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Importance of Diabatic Heating for the Eastward-Moving Heavy Rainfall Events along the Yangtze River, China

Yang Zhao, Chanil Park, and Seok-Woo Son

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0321.1

Published Online:: 26 Sep 2022

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Stratospheric Modulation of the MJO through Cirrus Cloud Feedbacks

Jonathan Lin and Kerry Emanuel

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0083.1

Published Online:: 23 Sep 2022

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A Wavenumber–Frequency Spectrum Model for Sheared Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows

Naseem Ali, Juan Pedro Mellado, and Michael Wilczek

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0079.1

Published Online:: 23 Sep 2022

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Turbulent kinetic energy budgets over gentle topography covered by forests

Bicheng Chen and Marcelo Chamecki

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0027.1

Published Online:: 20 Sep 2022

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Low-level circulation and its coupling with free-tropospheric variability as a mechanism of spontaneous aggregation of moist convection

Tomoro Yanase, Seiya Nishizawa, Hiroaki Miura, Tetsuya Takemi, and Hirofumi Tomita

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0313.1

Published Online:: 19 Sep 2022

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Disentangling the influences of storm-relative flow and horizontal streamwise vorticity on low-level mesocyclones in supercells

John M. Peters, Brice E. Coffer, Matthew D Parker, Christopher J. Nowotarski, Jake P. Mulholland, Cameron J. Nixon, and John T. Allen

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0114.1

Published Online:: 16 Sep 2022

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Estimating Phase Transition Rates in Shallow Cumulus Clouds from Mass Flux. Part I: Theory and Numerical Simulations

Yefim L. Kogan

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0060.1

Published Online:: 16 Sep 2022

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Precipitation Growth Processes in the Comma Head Region of the 7 February 2020 Northeast Snowstorm: results from IMPACTS

Megan M. Varcie, Troy J. Zaremba, Robert M. Rauber, Greg M. McFarquhar, Joseph A. Finlon, Lynn A. McMurdie, Alexander Ryzhkov, Martin Schnaiter, Emma Järvinen, Fritz Waitz, David J. Delene, Michael R. Poellot, Matthew McLinden, and Andrew Janiszeski

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0118.1

Published Online:: 16 Sep 2022

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Improvements of the double-moment bulk cloud microphysics scheme in the Nonhydrostatic ICosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM)

Tatsuya Seiki and Tomoki Ohno

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0049.1

Published Online:: 15 Sep 2022

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Dynamics of the Transient Negative Eddy Response to Zonal-Mean Zonal Wind Variations

David J. Lorenz

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0084.1

Published Online:: 14 Sep 2022

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A Simple Mechanistic Model ofWave-Mean Flow Feedbacks, Poleward Jet Shifts and the Annular Mode

David J. Lorenz

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0056.1

Published Online:: 14 Sep 2022

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Tangent-Linear and Adjoint Models for the Transfer of Polarized Radiation

Jiachen Ding and Ping Yang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0112.1

Published Online:: 14 Sep 2022

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Tropical cyclone potential size

Danyang Wang, Yanluan Lin, and Daniel R. Chavas

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0325.1

Published Online:: 13 Sep 2022

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First Detection of the Pekeris Internal Global Atmospheric Resonance: Evidence from the 2022 Tonga Eruption and from Global Reanalysis Data

Shingo Watanabe, Kevin Hamilton, Takatoshi Sakazaki, and Masuo Nakano

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0078.1

Published Online:: 12 Sep 2022

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A sea surface-based drag model for Large Eddy Simulation of wind-wave interaction

Aditya K. Aiyer, Luc Deike, and Michael E. Mueller

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0329.1

Published Online:: 12 Sep 2022

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Studies of stable stratification effect on dynamic and thermal roughness lengths of urban-type canopy using large-eddy simulation

Andrey Glazunov, Evgeny Mortikov, and Andrey Debolskiy

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0044.1

Published Online:: 12 Sep 2022

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Upscale versus ‘up-amplitude’ growth of forecast-error spectra

Richard Rotunno, Chris Snyder, and Falko Judt

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0070.1

Published Online:: 12 Sep 2022

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Variations of Subgrid-scale Turbulent Fluxes in the Dry Convective Boundary Layer at Gray Zone Resolutions

Mengjuan Liu and Bowen Zhou

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0085.1

Published Online:: 06 Sep 2022

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Comprehensive Satellite Observations and a Numerical Study of a Wintertime Shallow Sea Smoke Event in the Yellow Sea

Xiaofeng Li, Dongliang Shen, Gang Zheng, Lizhang Zhou, and Aiyue Liu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0065.1

Published Online:: 02 Sep 2022

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Generalization of Atmospheric Nonspherical Particle Size: Interconversions of Size Distributions and Optical Equivalence

Masanori Saito and Ping Yang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0086.1

Published Online:: 02 Sep 2022

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Markovian statistical model of cloud optical thickness. Part I: Theory and examples

Mikhail D. Alexandrov, Alexander Marshak, Brian Cairns, and Andrew S. Ackerman

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0125.1

Published Online:: 02 Sep 2022

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Seasonal Superrotation in Earth’s Troposphere

Pengcheng Zhang and Nicholas J. Lutsko

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0066.1

Published Online:: 02 Sep 2022

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Dependencies of four mechanisms of secondary ice production on cloud top temperature in a continental convective storm

Deepak Waman, Sachin Patade, Arti Jadav, Akash Deshmukh, Ashok Kumar Gupta, Vaughan T. J. Phillips, Aaron Bansemer, and Paul DeMott

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0278.1

Published Online:: 29 Aug 2022

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Vertical structure and ice production processes of shallow convective post-frontal clouds over the Southern Ocean in MARCUS, Part II: Modeling study

Yishi Hu, Zachary J. Lebo, Bart Geerts, Yonggang Wang, and Yazhe Hu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0272.1

Published Online:: 26 Aug 2022

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What Determines Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume Infrared Temperature?

Elisa M. Murillo and Cameron R. Homeyer

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0080.1

Published Online:: 24 Aug 2022

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Dynamical Core Damping of Thermal Tides in the Martian Atmosphere

Yuan Lian, Mark I. Richardson, Claire E. Newman, Chris Lee, Anthony Toigo, Scott Guzewich, and Roger V. Yelle

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0026.1

Published Online:: 22 Aug 2022

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Shallow cumulus entrainment dynamics in a sheared environment

Lucas A. McMichael, David B. Mechem, and Thijs Heus

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0062.1

Published Online:: 22 Aug 2022

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Quantifying Uncertainty in Ice Particle Velocity-Dimension Relationships Using MC3E Observations

Andrew M. Dzambo, Greg McFarquhar, and Joseph A. Finlon

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0322.1

Published Online:: 15 Aug 2022

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Large-scale coherent turbulence structures in the atmospheric boundary layer over flat terrain

Leonardo Alcayaga, Gunner Chr. Larsen, Mark Kelly, and Jakob Mann

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0083.1

Published Online:: 12 Aug 2022

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Sources of stochasticity in the growth of cloud droplets: supersaturation fluctuations versus turbulent transport

Prasanth Prabhakaran, Subin Thomas, Will Cantrell, Raymond A. Shaw, and Fan Yang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0051.1

Published Online:: 12 Aug 2022

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Three-Dimensional Static Instability of Gravity Waves and a Possible Parameterization of the Associated Wave Breaking

Sebastian Borchert and Günther Zängl

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0287.1

Published Online:: 09 Aug 2022

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Transmission and reflection of upward propagating Rossby waves in the lowermost stratosphere: Importance of the Tropopause Inversion Layer

Israel Weinberger, Chaim I. Garfinkel, Nili Harnik, and Nathan Paldor

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0025.1

Published Online:: 08 Aug 2022

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An Analytical Solution of the Effective-Buoyancy Equation

Robert Davies-Jones

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0106.1

Published Online:: 04 Aug 2022

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The Diabatic Rossby Vortex: Growth Rate, Length Scale and the Wave-Vortex Transition

Matthieu Kohl and Paul A. O’Gorman

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0022.1

Published Online:: 03 Aug 2022

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Dependence of Ice Crystal Size Distributions in High Ice Water Content Conditions on Environmental Conditions: Results from the HAIC-HIWC Cayenne Campaign

Yachao Hu, Greg M. McFarquhar, Peter Brechner, Wei Wu, Yongjie Huang, Alexei Korolev, Alain Protat, Cuong Nguyen, Mengistu Wolde, Alfons Schwarzenboeck, Robert M Rauber, and Hongqing Wang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0008.1

Published Online:: 02 Aug 2022

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Controls on the Development and Circulation of Terminal versus Transient Congestus Clouds and Implications for Midlevel Aerosol Transport

Gabrielle R. Leung and Susan C. van den Heever

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0314.1

Published Online:: 01 Aug 2022

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Impact of Meteorological Factors on the Mesoscale Morphology of Cloud Streets during a Cold Air Outbreak over the Western North Atlantic

Jingyi Chen, Hailong Wang, Xiangyu Li, David Painemal, Armin Sorooshian, Kenneth Lee Thornhill, Claire Robinson, and Taylor Shingler

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0034.1

Published Online:: 27 Jul 2022

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Assessing Rain Drop Breakup Parameterizations using Disdrometer Observations

Stephen M. Saleeby, Brenda Dolan, Jennie Bukowski, Kristen Van Valkenburg, Susan C. van den Heever, and Steven A. Rutledge

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0335.1

Published Online:: 25 Jul 2022

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Impact of cloud base turbulence on CCN activation: CCN distribution

Wojciech W. Grabowski, Lois Thomas, and Bipin Kumar

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0075.1

Published Online:: 25 Jul 2022

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Uncovering the Intrinsic Intensity-Size Relationship of Tropical Cyclones

Jie Sun, Ming Cai, Guosheng Liu, Ruikai Yan, and Da-Lin Zhang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0082.1

Published Online:: 25 Jul 2022

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Effects of Varying Land Coverage, Rotation Period, and Water Vapor on Equatorial Climates that Bridge the Gap between Earth-like and Titan-like

M. M. McKinney, J. Mitchell, and S. I. Thomson

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0295.1

Published Online:: 22 Jul 2022

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Convective couplings with equatorial Rossby waves and equatorial Kelvin waves. Part II: Coupled precipitation characteristics

Yuhi Nakamura and Yukari N. Takayabu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0003.1

Published Online:: 21 Jul 2022

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Convectively-Generated Negative Potential Vorticity Enhancing the Jet Stream Though an Inverse Energy Cascade During the Extratropical Transition of Hurricane Irma

Kevin C. Prince and Clark Evans

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0094.1

Published Online:: 21 Jul 2022

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A Parameterization of Interstitial Aerosol Extinction and its Application to Marine Cloud Brightening

Fabian Hoffmann, Bernhard Mayer, and Graham Feingold

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0047.1

Published Online:: 21 Jul 2022

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Exploring the Role of Deep Moist Convection in the Wavenumber Spectra of Atmospheric Kinetic Energy and Brightness Temperature

Da Fan, Steven J. Greybush, Xingchao Chen, Yinghui Lu, Fuqing Zhang, and George S. Young

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0285.1

Published Online:: 18 Jul 2022

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Dynamic pressure drag on rising buoyant thermals in a neutrally stable environment

Hugh Morrison, Nadir Jeevanjee, and Jun-Ichi Yano

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0274.1

Published Online:: 14 Jul 2022

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Microphysical characteristics of precipitating stratiform clouds in north China revealed by joint observations of an aircraft and a polarimetric radar

Xiangfeng Hu, Hao Huang, Haixia Xiao, Yi Cui, Feng Lv, Liwei Zhao, and Xueshuai Ji

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0248.1

Published Online:: 14 Jul 2022

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Quantifying Eddy Generation and Dissipation in the Jet Response to Upper-versus Lower-level Thermal Forcing

Yu Nie, Yang Zhang, Gang Chen, and Xiu-Qun Yang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0307.1

Published Online:: 14 Jul 2022

Volume 79 (2022): Issue 10 (Oct 2022)

ARTICLES

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A Study of Aerosol Impacts on Clouds and Precipitation Development in a Large Winter Cyclone

Gregory Thompson and Trude Eidhammer

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-13-0305.1

Published Online:: Oct 2014

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Review of Aerosol–Cloud Interactions: Mechanisms, Significance, and Challenges

Jiwen Fan, Yuan Wang, Daniel Rosenfeld, and Xiaohong Liu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-16-0037.1

Published Online:: Nov 2016

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Spectrally Consistent Scattering, Absorption, and Polarization Properties of Atmospheric Ice Crystals at Wavelengths from 0.2 to 100 μm

Ping Yang, Lei Bi, Bryan A. Baum, Kuo-Nan Liou, George W. Kattawar, Michael I. Mishchenko, and Benjamin Cole

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-12-039.1

Published Online:: Jan 2013

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Parameterization of Cloud Microphysics Based on the Prediction of Bulk Ice Particle Properties. Part I: Scheme Description and Idealized Tests

Hugh Morrison and Jason A. Milbrandt

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-14-0065.1

Published Online:: Jan 2015

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Moisture Modes and the Eastward Propagation of the MJO

Adam Sobel and Eric Maloney

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-12-0189.1

Published Online:: Jan 2013

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Have Aerosols Caused the Observed Atlantic Multidecadal Variability?

Rong Zhang, Thomas L. Delworth, Rowan Sutton, Daniel L. R. Hodson, Keith W. Dixon, Isaac M. Held, Yochanan Kushnir, John Marshall, Yi Ming, Rym Msadek, Jon Robson, Anthony J. Rosati, MingFang Ting, and Gabriel A. Vecchi

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-12-0331.1

Published Online:: Apr 2013

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A Particle-Surface-Area-Based Parameterization of Immersion Freezing on Desert Dust Particles

Monika Niemand, Ottmar Möhler, Bernhard Vogel, Heike Vogel, Corinna Hoose, Paul Connolly, Holger Klein, Heinz Bingemer, Paul DeMott, Julian Skrotzki, and Thomas Leisner

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-11-0249.1

Published Online:: Oct 2012

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Representing Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Convection in Large-Scale Models

Peter Bechtold, Noureddine Semane, Philippe Lopez, Jean-Pierre Chaboureau, Anton Beljaars, and Niels Bormann

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-13-0163.1

Published Online:: Feb 2014

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The Effect of Mesh Resolution on Convective Boundary Layer Statistics and Structures Generated by Large-Eddy Simulation

Peter P. Sullivan and Edward G. Patton

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-10-05010.1

Published Online:: Oct 2011

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An Idealized Semi-Empirical Framework for Modeling the Madden–Julian Oscillation

Adam Sobel and Eric Maloney

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-11-0118.1

Published Online:: May 2012

Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow

Edward N. Lorenz

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1963)020<0130:DNF>2.0.CO;2

Page(s):: 130–141

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Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity

Syukuro Manabe and Richard T. Wetherald

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1967)024<0241:TEOTAW>2.0.CO;2

Page(s):: 241–259

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The Effects of Doubling the CO2 Concentration on the climate of a General Circulation Model

Syukuro Manabe and Richard T. Wetherald

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1975)032<0003:TEODTC>2.0.CO;2

Page(s):: 3–15

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What Is the Predictability Limit of Midlatitude Weather?

Fuqing Zhang, Y. Qiang Sun, Linus Magnusson, Roberto Buizza, Shian-Jiann Lin, Jan-Huey Chen, and Kerry Emanuel

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0269.1

Page(s):: 1077–1091

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The Mysteries of Mammatus Clouds: Observations and Formation Mechanisms

David M. Schultz, Katharine M. Kanak, Jerry M. Straka, Robert J. Trapp, Brent A. Gordon, Dusan S. Zrnić, George H. Bryan, Adam J. Durant, Timothy J. Garrett, Petra M. Klein, and Douglas K. Lilly