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Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

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Volume 79, Issue 4

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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

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Anne K. Smith, National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Environmental controls on simulated deep moist convection initiation occurring during RELAMPAGO-CACTI

T. Connor Nelson, James Marquis, John M. Peters, and Katja Friedrich
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Tropical Thermodynamic-Convection Coupling in Observations and Reanalyses

Brandon Wolding, Scott W. Powell, Fiaz Ahmed, Juliana Dias, Maria Gehne, George Kiladis, and J. David Neelin
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Global tropical precipitation relationships to free tropospheric water vapor using Radio Occultations

Ramon Padullés, Yi-Hung Kuo, J. David Neelin, F. Joseph Turk, Chi O. Ao, and Manuel De la Torre Juárez
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Cross-tropopause transport of surface pollutants during the Beijing July 21 deep convection event

Xi Chen, Luolin Wu, Xiaoyang Chen, Yan Zhang, Jianping Guo, Sarah Safieddine, Fuxiang Huang, and Xuemei Wang
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Indian Monsoon Teleconnections and the Impact of Correcting Tropical Diabatic Heating

Erik T. Swenson, David M. Straus, and Debanjana Das
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Hydrometeor Storage and Advection Effects in DYNAMO Budget Analyses

Richard H. Johnson, Paul E. Ciesielski, and Wayne H. Schubert
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The influence of shear on deep convection initiation. Part 1: Theory

John M. Peters, Hugh Morrison, T. Connor Nelson, James N. Marquis, Jake P. Mulholland, and Christopher J. Nowotarski
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The influence of shear on deep convection initiation. Part 2: Simulations

John M. Peters, Hugh Morrison, T. Connor Nelson, James N. Marquis, Jake P. Mulholland, and Christopher J. Nowotarski
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The sensitivity of superrotation to the latitude of baroclinic forcing in a terrestrial dry dynamical core

Pablo Zurita-Gotor, Álvaro Anaya-Benlliure, and Isaac M. Held
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The Detection, Genesis, and Modeling of Turbulence Intermittency in the Stable Atmospheric Surface Layer

Mohammad Allouche, Elie Bou-Zeid, Cedrick Ansorge, Gabriel G. Katul, Marcelo Chamecki, Otavio Acevedo, Sham Thanekar, and Jose D. Fuentes
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Emergence of a nocturnal low-level jet from a broad baroclinic zone

Alan Shapiro, Joshua G. Gebauer, and David B. Parsons
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Water lifting and outflow gain of kinetic energy in tropical cyclones

Anastassia M. Makarieva, Victor G. Gorshkov, Andrei V. Nefiodov, Alexander V. Chikunov, Douglas Sheil, Antonio Donato Nobre, Paulo Nobre, Günter Plunien, and Ruben D. Molina
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Linking Equatorial African precipitation to Kelvin wave processes in the CP4-Africa convection-permitting regional climate simulation

Godwin Ayesiga, Christopher E. Holloway, Charles JR. Williams, Gui-Ying Yang, Rachel Stratton, and Malcolm Roberts
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On the tropospheric response to transient stratospheric momentum torques

Ian P. White, Chaim I. Garfinkel, and Peter Hitchcock
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A Closure for the Virtual Origin of Turbulent Plumes

Nathaniel Tarshish and David M. Romps

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

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

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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
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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
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Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves Simulated on an Aquaplanet in a Global Nonhydrostatic Experiment

Tomoe Nasuno, Hirofumi Tomita, Shinichi Iga, Hiroaki Miura, and Masaki Satoh

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