• Surface and vertical profile NWP performance evaluated with multi-scale observations. Land surface models, not PBL schemes, drive variations between simulations. models added cropland parameters do necessarily improve skill. Simulations underestimate moisture quantities overestimate heights. We suggest strategies better understand model these processes for arid regions. Soil links hydrologic ...

A polar-optimized version of the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University–National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model (MM5) was developed to fill climate and synoptic needs of the polar science community and to achieve an improved regional performance. To continue the goal of enhanced polar mesoscale modeling, polar optimization should now be applied toward the state-of-the-a...

Erik Noji, mentioned, tongue in cheek, Noah as the first disaster manager during a lecture in 2005. The canonical description of "The Genesis Flood" does describe Noah as a master planner and executer of an evacuation of biblical proportions. After gaining knowledge of a potential catastrophic disaster he planned and executed an evacuation to mitigate the effects of the "Genesis Flood" by build...

A surface soil moisture (SSM) product at a 1-km spatial resolution derived from the Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) Global Monitoring (GM) mode data was evaluated over the entire African continent using coarse spatial resolution SSM acquisitions from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) and the Noah land surface model from the Global La...

Several large-scale Bible epics have been produced in the decade after revival of epic cinema at turn millennium. Yet, while many biblical films this period were primarily aimed religious audiences, Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (2014) and Ridley Scott’s Exodus:Gods Kings stand out due to their broader appeal skepticism. Using Gilles Deleuze’s concepts impulse-image action-image as framework, article...