Expansion of the tropics will likely affect subtropical precipitation, but observed and modeled precipitation trends disagreewith each other.Moreover, the dynamic processes at the tropical edge and their interactionswith precipitation are not well understood. This study assesses the skill of climate models to reproduce observed Australian precipitation variability at the tropical edge. A multiv...

High resolution multi-monochromatic measurements of auroral emissions have revealed the first optical evidence of co-existing small-scale auroral features resulting from separate high and low energy populations of precipitating electrons on the same field line. The features exhibit completely separate motion and morphology. From emission ratios and ion chemistry modeling, the average energy and...

We describe the first simulation experiment and output archives of the Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS). Initial results from simulations of the summer 1988 drought over the central U.S. indicate that limited-area models forced by large-scale information at the lateral boundaries are able to reproduce bulk temporal and spatial characteristics of meteorological fields...

We assessed if the relative importance of biotic and abiotic factors for plant community composition differs along environmental gradients and between functional groups, and asked which implications this may have in a warmer and wetter future. The study location is a unique grid of sites spanning regional-scale temperature and precipitation gradients in boreal and alpine grasslands in southern ...

Mineral precipitation affects the pore structure and thus transport properties of porous media. In this study, we investigated pore-scale dynamics in diffusion controlled systems resulting impacts on effective diffusivity, using a micro-continuum reactive model. Forty two-dimensional structures representing both idealized realistic geometries were simulated with consideration different scenario...

Most models evaluated by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate change estimate projected increases in temperature and precipitation with rising atmospheric CO2 levels. Researchers have suggested that increases in CO2 and associated increases in temperature and precipitation may stimulate vegetation growth and increase evapotranspiration (ET), which acts as a cooling mechanism, and on a global...

Century-to-millennial scale fluctuations in precipitation and temperature are an established feature of European Holocene climates. Changes in moisture delivery are driven by complex interactions between ocean moisture sources and atmospheric circulation modes, making it difficult to resolve the drivers behind millennial scale variability in European precipitation. Here, we present two overlapp...

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In this paper we discuss a pore scale model for crystal dissolution and precipitation in porous media. We consider first general domains, for which existence of weak solutions is proven. For the particular case of strips we show that free boundaries occur in the form of dissolution/precipitation fronts. As the ratio between the thickness and the length of the strip vanishes we obtain the upscal...