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View article: Diurnal urban rainfall anomalies across different landscapes
Diurnal urban rainfall anomalies across different landscapes Open
Urbanization influences regional climates and extreme weather. While previous research has documented urban-induced precipitation for specific cities or storm cases, diurnal urban precipitation anomalies across different landscapes remain …
View article: Increasing Trends in Soil Heat Extremes Following Flash Drought Outbreaks
Increasing Trends in Soil Heat Extremes Following Flash Drought Outbreaks Open
Flash droughts, characterized by rapid declines in soil moisture (SM), pose significant threats to ecosystems. Understanding the response of soil temperature (ST) to the rapid SM decline during flash droughts has critical implications for …
View article: NMH-CS 3.0: a C# programming language and Windows-system-based ecohydrological model derived from Noah-MP
NMH-CS 3.0: a C# programming language and Windows-system-based ecohydrological model derived from Noah-MP Open
The community Noah with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) land surface model (LSM) is widely used in studies ranging from uncoupled land surface hydrometeorology and ecohydrology to coupled weather and climate predictions. In this s…
View article: Urban Heat Mitigation Under Realistic Constraints: A Case Study in Austin, TX
Urban Heat Mitigation Under Realistic Constraints: A Case Study in Austin, TX Open
As urban heat stress affects both the physiological and psychological health of people, many city administrations are planning to implement heat mitigation strategies that include built and green infrastructure as a part of their action pl…
View article: Urban Influence on Convection and Precipitation in the Coastal City of Houston, TX
Urban Influence on Convection and Precipitation in the Coastal City of Houston, TX Open
Urban environments significantly modify boundary layer processes through spatial heterogeneities in surface heat and momentum fluxes. These heterogeneities are shaped by variations in building heights and land cover and impact the initiati…
View article: Selection and Use of <scp>GCM</scp> Projections in Planning for Future Water Supply
Selection and Use of <span>GCM</span> Projections in Planning for Future Water Supply Open
Austin Water (AW) is the municipal water utility for Austin, Texas, and performs future water supply planning through an integrated water resource planning process known as Water Forward. This article details Austin Water's methodology for…
View article: A Unified Framework to Reconcile Different Approaches of Modeling Transpiration Response to Water Stress: Plant Hydraulics, Supply Demand Balance, and Empirical Soil Water Stress Function
A Unified Framework to Reconcile Different Approaches of Modeling Transpiration Response to Water Stress: Plant Hydraulics, Supply Demand Balance, and Empirical Soil Water Stress Function Open
Plant responses to water stress is a major uncertainty to predicting terrestrial ecosystem sensitivity to drought. Different approaches have been developed to represent plant water stress. Empirical approaches (the empirical soil water str…
View article: A global dataset of average specific yield for soils
A global dataset of average specific yield for soils Open
Specific yield ( S y ) stands as a critical parameter and a significant source of error in groundwater simulations. However, there is still a lack of reliable global S y datasets. Based on the trilinear graph of S y and soil textures, we d…
View article: Enhancing Near Real Time AI-NWP Hurricane Forecasts: Improving Explainability and Performance Through Physics-Based Models and Land Surface Feedback
Enhancing Near Real Time AI-NWP Hurricane Forecasts: Improving Explainability and Performance Through Physics-Based Models and Land Surface Feedback Open
Hurricane track forecasting remains a significant challenge due to the complex interactions between the atmosphere, land, and ocean. Although AI-based numerical weather prediction models, such as Google Graphcast operation, have significan…
View article: Gross primary productivity is more sensitive to accelerated flash droughts
Gross primary productivity is more sensitive to accelerated flash droughts Open
View article: Decoding sub-seasonal predictors of extreme heat with interpretable machine learning
Decoding sub-seasonal predictors of extreme heat with interpretable machine learning Open
As climate change accelerates, heat waves are becoming more frequent, intense, and deadly. A better understanding of sub-seasonal predictors of extreme heat is crucial for adaptation efforts. This study utilizes an interpretable machine le…
View article: Refining water and carbon fluxes modeling in terrestrial ecosystems via plant hydraulics integration
Refining water and carbon fluxes modeling in terrestrial ecosystems via plant hydraulics integration Open
View article: Developing Gridded Emission Inventory from High-Resolution Satellite Object Detection for Improved Air Quality Forecasts
Developing Gridded Emission Inventory from High-Resolution Satellite Object Detection for Improved Air Quality Forecasts Open
This study presents an innovative approach to creating a dynamic, AI based emission inventory system for use with the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry (WRF Chem), designed to simulate vehicular and other anthro…
View article: NMP-Hydro 1.0: a C# language and Windows System based Ecohydrological Model Derived from Noah-MP
NMP-Hydro 1.0: a C# language and Windows System based Ecohydrological Model Derived from Noah-MP Open
The community Noah with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) land surface model (LSM) that is widely used in studies from uncoupled land surface hydrometeorology and ecohydrology to coupled weather and climate predictions. In this stud…
View article: Capturing Urban Heterogeneity Enhances Tropical Cyclones Simulation in Houston
Capturing Urban Heterogeneity Enhances Tropical Cyclones Simulation in Houston Open
Urbanization in the coastal region has increased socioeconomic losses from landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs). Although previous studies have explored the broad impacts of urbanization on TCs, the effect of heterogeneity caused by local i…
View article: Global scale assessment of urban precipitation anomalies
Global scale assessment of urban precipitation anomalies Open
Urbanization has accelerated dramatically across the world over the past decades. Urban influence on surface temperatures is now being considered as a correction term in climatological datasets. Although prior research has investigated urb…
View article: Prioritizing social vulnerability in urban heat mitigation
Prioritizing social vulnerability in urban heat mitigation Open
We utilized city-scale simulations to quantitatively compare the diverse urban overheating mitigation strategies, specifically tied to social vulnerability and their cooling efficacies during heatwaves. We enhanced the Weather Research and…
View article: GLObal Building heights for Urban Studies (UT-GLOBUS) for city- and street- scale urban simulations: Development and first applications
GLObal Building heights for Urban Studies (UT-GLOBUS) for city- and street- scale urban simulations: Development and first applications Open
View article: An ensemble of 48 physically perturbed model estimates of the 1/8° terrestrial water budget over the conterminous United States, 1980–2015
An ensemble of 48 physically perturbed model estimates of the 1/8° terrestrial water budget over the conterminous United States, 1980–2015 Open
This dataset contains the 1980–2015 monthly terrestrial water budget simulated by a 48-member perturbed-physics ensemble configured from the Noah LSM with multi-physics options (Noah‑MP v3.6). Simulation outputs include total evapotranspir…
View article: Dynamical Downscaling Simulation of Asian Climate with a Bias-Corrected CMIP6 Dataset: Evaluation&#160;
Dynamical Downscaling Simulation of Asian Climate with a Bias-Corrected CMIP6 Dataset: Evaluation  Open
In this study, we aim to assess the impacts of GCM bias correction on dynamical downscaling simulation over the Asia-western North Pacific region. Three simulations were conducted with a 25-km grid spacing for the period…
View article: Analyzing urban influence on extreme winter precipitation through observations and numerical simulation of two South China case studies
Analyzing urban influence on extreme winter precipitation through observations and numerical simulation of two South China case studies Open
This study investigates the impact of urbanization on extreme winter rainfall in the South China Greater Bay Area (GBA) through the analysis of hourly station observations and simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model wi…
View article: Nmp-Hydro: A Csharp-Based Hydrological Model Derived from Noah-Mp
Nmp-Hydro: A Csharp-Based Hydrological Model Derived from Noah-Mp Open
View article: Refining Water and Carbon Fluxes Modeling in Terrestrial Ecosystems Via Plant Hydraulics Integration
Refining Water and Carbon Fluxes Modeling in Terrestrial Ecosystems Via Plant Hydraulics Integration Open
View article: Accelerated soil drying linked to increasing evaporative demand in wet regions
Accelerated soil drying linked to increasing evaporative demand in wet regions Open
The rapid decline in soil water affects water resources, plant physiology, and agricultural development. However, the changes in soil drying rate and associated climatic mechanisms behind such changes remain poorly understood. Here, we fin…
View article: Impact of Urban Representation on Simulation of Hurricane Rainfall
Impact of Urban Representation on Simulation of Hurricane Rainfall Open
Taking the examples of Hurricane Florence (2018) over the Carolinas and Hurricane Harvey (2017) over the Texas Gulf Coast, the study attempts to understand the performance of slab, single‐layer Urban Canopy Model (UCM), and Building Enviro…
View article: Enhancing the Community Noah-MP Land Model Capabilities for Earth Sciences and Applications
Enhancing the Community Noah-MP Land Model Capabilities for Earth Sciences and Applications Open
Land surface plays an important role in the Earth system, modulating global and regional energy and water balances through interacting with the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, ocean, and sea ice. Accordingly, land surface …
View article: Urbanization alters atmospheric dryness through land evapotranspiration
Urbanization alters atmospheric dryness through land evapotranspiration Open
‘Urban Dry (Wet) Islands’ (UDI/UWI) represents microclimate change that impacts ecosystems and human well-being. However, causes of the UDI (UWI) phenomena are not fully understood due to the lack of empirical data. Here, we quantify UDI (…
View article: Prioritizing equity in urban heat reduction: Beyond cooling as a metric
Prioritizing equity in urban heat reduction: Beyond cooling as a metric Open
Archived simulations for five heat wave events happened over Houston from 2017 - 2019 with different urban overheating mitigation strategies.
View article: Prioritizing equity in urban heat reduction: Beyond cooling as a metric
Prioritizing equity in urban heat reduction: Beyond cooling as a metric Open
Archived simulations for five heat wave events happened over Houston from 2017 - 2019 with different urban overheating mitigation strategies.
View article: Modernizing the open-source community Noah with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) land surface model (version 5.0) with enhanced modularity, interoperability, and applicability
Modernizing the open-source community Noah with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) land surface model (version 5.0) with enhanced modularity, interoperability, and applicability Open
The widely used open-source community Noah with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) land surface model (LSM) is designed for applications ranging from uncoupled land surface hydrometeorological and ecohydrological process studies to c…