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The association of anomalies of snowpack, surface temperature, and precipitation over western North America had been extensively investigated based on observational data. It has been found that the conditions with heavy snow cover and cold subsurface soil temperature (SUBT) in the western U.S. in the spring have high probably to associate with drie...

The goal in this commentary is to share the development of the NASA Applied Science pre‐launch protocol called the Early Adopter Program (EAP) that is designed to build user‐readiness of planned satellite Earth observing missions proactively and before the launch. Here we focus in particular on the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite missi...

Plain Language Summary Natural lakes and artificial reservoirs are important parts of the Earth system and provide many benefits for humanity. Despite this importance, there are key things about lakes and reservoirs that are unknown globally, including how and when surface areas vary. This study uses satellite‐based radar observations to estimate s...

The NASA open data policy and the increases in data volume from recent and future missions have resulted in a need to re-evaluate data archive information systems and services. For example, the Surface Water Ocean Topography mission (SWOT) will produce ∼15 TB of data every day that needs to be freely and openly accessible through the NASA Physical...

The Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) has been distributing satellite oceanographic data, including altimetry data, since the early 1980s. While it started by mailing magnetic storage tapes, PO.DAAC now distributes terabytes of data accessible within seconds, which will exponentially increase with future missions, su...

Numerical simulations of snow water equivalent (SWE) in mountain systems can be biased, and few SWE observations have existed over large domains. New approaches for measuring SWE, like NASA's ultra-high-resolution Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO), offer an opportunity to improve model estimates by providing a high-quality validation target. In this...

Sea surface temperature (SST) variability has been shown to have predictive value for land precipitation, although SSTs are unable to fully predict intraseasonal to interannual hydrologic extremes. The possible remote effects of large-scale land surface temperature (LST) and subsurface temperature (SUBT) anomalies in geographical areas upstream and...

Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience Spring land temperature anomalies in northwestern US and the summer drought over Southern Plains and adjacent areas This content has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text. 2016 Environ. Res. Lett. 11 044018 (http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/11/4/04...

Recurrent drought and associated heatwave episodes are important features of the US climate. Many studies have examined the connection between ocean surface temperature changes and conterminous US droughts. However, remote effects of large-scale land surface temperature variability, over shorter but still considerable distances, on US regional drou...

Two important factors that control snow albedo are snow grain growth and presence of light-absorbing impurities (aerosols) in snow. However, current regional climate models do not include such processes in a physically-based manner in their land surface models. We improve snow albedo calculations in the Simplified Simple Biosphere (SSiB) land surfa...

Two important factors that control snow albedo are snow grain growth and presence of light-absorbing impurities (aerosols) in snow. However, current regional climate models do not include such processes in a physically-based manner in their land surface models. We improve snow albedo calculations in the Simplified Simple Biosphere (SSiB) land surfa...

Radiative processes play an important role on both global and regional scales. This study focuses on their effects over snow-covered surfaces, both clean and dust loaded. It is well understood that dust in snow enhances solar radiation absorption, leading to a decrease in snow albedo. However, the quantitative assessment of dust's influence on radi...

The Great Lakes hold specific significance to the economy and ecology of the eight states it unites. For this project, using the 25-year long record of meteorological data from NOAA's National Buoy Data Center (NDBC) for ice-free conditions, it can be shown that despite large variability, climate change effects on the Great Lakes region can be dete...

While uncertainties in future projections of the climate change are large it is clear that globally the world will become warmer and will require an adaptation. A search for immediate indicators of climate change reside on the data collections that are sometimes sparse and not long enough for their use for predictions of future climate but are esse...