Research Highlights

Research Highlights

A selection of highlights culled from publications by HAO staff.

Accuracy of temperature estimates in the measurement update step for four different assimilated observations

Upper atmosphere radiance data assimilation: A feasibility study for GOLD far ultraviolet observations

Availability of far ultraviolet observations of Earth’s dayglow by the NASA Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission presents an unparalleled opportunity for upper atmosphere radiance data assimilation.

Differences in the monthly mean temperature from the long-term average over three WACCM realizations

Interhemispheric Coupling Mechanisms in the Middle Atmosphere of WACCM6

Simulations with the Community Earth System Model 2 using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model configuration, known as CESM2(WACCM6), show evidence of dynamical coupling from the high latitudes of the winter middle atmosphere to the tropics and the middle and high latitudes of the summer hemisphere.

Seasonally averaged data for the CaII“S-index” and for the average magnitudes of the Strömgrenbplusy filters are shown for the star 18 Sco

Sun-Like Stars Shed Light on Solar Climate Forcing

Recently published, precise stellar photometry of 72 Sun-like stars obtained at the Fairborn Observatory between 1993 and 2017 is used to set limits on the solar forcing of Earth’s atmosphere of ±4.5 W m−2 since 1750. This compares with the +2.2 ± 1.1 W m−2 IPCC estimate for anthropogenic forcing.