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Dec 27, 2023
Jonathan Jiang, 2023, "Reflecting on Our Present Self-Awareness of Not Having Found Any Life Beyond Earth", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.62LUB3, Earth and Space Science, JPL Open Repository
The quest for finding extraterrestrial life has been a fascination for humanity for centuries, yet we have not yet found any concrete evidence of life beyond our planet, except possible hints of methane on Mars. It is essential to document this time of not having found any life t... |
Dec 27, 2023
Jonathan Jiang, 2023, "Vientos - A new satellite mission concept for 3D wind measurements by combining passive water vapor sounders with Doppler wind lidar", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.46WAMZ, BAMS, JPL Open Repository
It is challenging to accurately characterize the three-dimensional distribution of horizontal wind vectors (known as 3D winds). Feature-matching satellite cloud top or water vapor fields have been used for decades to retrieve atmospheric motion vectors, but this approach is mostl... |
Nov 29, 2023
Jonathan Jiang, 2023, "Aerosol Atmospheric Rivers as Drivers of Extreme Poor Air Quality Events and Record PM2.5 Levels", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.DFEMUB, Science Advances, JPL Open Repository
This study investigates the impacts of aerosol atmospheric rivers (AARs) on extreme Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5) levels (i.e. PM2.5 > 15μgm-3, daily guideline by the World Health Organization) and on aerosol optical depth (AOD) extremes (AOD > local 98th percentile) over the US... |
Nov 29, 2023
Jonathan Jiang, 2023, "Aerosol Atmospheric Rivers as Drivers of Extreme Poor Air Quality Events and Record PM2.5 Levels", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.CWOCK2, Science Advances, JPL Open Repository
This study investigates the impacts of aerosol atmospheric rivers (AARs) on extreme Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5) levels (i.e. PM2.5 > 15μgm-3, daily guideline by the World Health Organization) and on aerosol optical depth (AOD) extremes (AOD > local 98th percentile) over the US... |
Nov 20, 2023
Jonathan Jiang, 2023, "Exoplanets Around Red Giants: Distribution and Habitability", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.SS0RHM, Galaxies, JPL Open Repository
As the search for exoplanets continues, more are being discovered orbiting Red Giant stars. We use current data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive to investigate planet distribution around Red Giant stars and their presence in the host’s habitable zone. As well, we explore the distr... |
Nov 15, 2023
Jonathan Jiang, 2023, "Message in a Bottle – An Update to the Golden Record", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.4PLAZ3, Nature Communications, JPL Open Repository
Communication is an essential asset enabling humankind to forge an advanced civilization. Using approximately 31,000 languages from the Stone Age to our present digital information society, humans have connected and collaborated to accomplish remarkable feats. As the newly dawned... |
Sep 25, 2023
Juilin Li, 2023, "Radiatively Active Hydrometeors Frequencies Derived from CloudSat-CALIPSO Data for Evaluating Cloud Fraction in Global Climate Models", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.CVPOAT, JGR-atmosphere, JPL Open Repository
Abstract This study derives radiatively-active hydrometeors frequencies (HFs) from CloudSat-CALIPSO satellite data to evaluate cloud fraction in present-day simulations by CMIP5 and CMIP6 models. Most CMIP5 models do not consider precipitating and/or convective hydrometeors but o... |
Sep 18, 2023
Juilin Li, 2023, "Evaluation of Radiatively Active Frozen Hydrometeors Mass in CMIP6 Global Climate Models Using CloudSat-CALIPSO Observations", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.RWY3YS, Environmental Research Communication, JPL Open Repository
Abstract While most of models participated in CMIP6 do not consider precipitating ice (snow) radiative effects (NOS), there are several models implement prognostic snow in addition to cloud ice separately (CESM2-CAM6 and its family models: SON2) or combined as a parcel interactin... |
Sep 14, 2023
Juilin Li, 2023, "Warm Clouds Biases in CMIP6 Models Linked to Indirect effects of Falling ice-Radiation Interactions over the Tropical and Subtropical Pacific", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.U7WAAO, GRL, JPL Open Repository
Abstract We examine the spatial distributions of CMIP6-simulated cloud liquid water path (CLWP) and content (CLWC) against MODIS and CloudSat synthesized data over the tropical and subtropical Pacific. Three subsets of models are categorized based on their treatments of frozen ic... |
Sep 11, 2023
Jonathan Jiang, 2023, "Assessing the destructiveness of tropical cyclone by anthropogenic aerosols under an atmosphere-ocean coupled framework", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.JVY1SJ, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, JPL Open Repository
Intense tropical cyclones (TCs) can cause catastrophic damages to coastal regions after landfall. Recent studies have linked the TC’s devastation to climate change that induces favorable conditions, such as increasing sea-surface temperature, to supercharge the storms. Meanwhile,... |
