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Research: December 2008

  1. November 2008
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  2. January 2009

  1. Global Distribution of Atmospheric Phosphorus Sources, Concentrations and Deposition Rates, and Anthropogenic Impacts, Mahowald, N., et al., Global Biogeochemical Cycles, December 31, 2008 (Vol. 22, GB4026, doi:10.1029/2008GB003240)

  2. Changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation Influence CO2 Uptake in the North Atlantic Over the Past 2 Decades, Thomas, H., A. E. Friederike Prowe, I. D. Lima, S. C. Doney, R. Wanninkhof, R. J. Greatbatch, U. Schuster, and A. Corbière, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, December 31, 2008 (Vol. 22, GB4027, doi:10.1029/2007GB003167)

  3. Scale Effect on Statistics of the Macrophysical Properties of Trade Wind Cumuli Over the Tropical Western Atlantic During RICO, Dey, S., L. Di Girolamo, and G. Zhao, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 31, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24214, doi:10.1029/2008JD010295)

  4. Aerosol Relationships to Warm Season Clouds and Rainfall at Monthly Scales Over East China: Urban Land Versus Ocean, Jin, M., and J. M. Shepherd, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 31, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24S90, doi:10.1029/2008JD010276)

  5. Spatial and Temporal Rainfall Variability Near the Amazon-Tapajós Confluence, Fitzjarrald, D. R., R. K. Sakai, O. L. L. Moraes, R. Cosme de Oliveira, O. C. Acevedo, M. J. Czikowsky, and T. Beldini, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, December 31, 2008 (Vol. 113, G00B11, doi:10.1029/2007JG000596)

  6. Quantifying Landscape Differences Across the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for Topographic Relief Evolution, Liu-Zeng, J., P. Tapponnier, Y. Gaudemer, and L. Ding, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, December 31, 2008 (Vol. 113, F04018, doi:10.1029/2007JF000897)

  7. Global Irrigation Water Demand: Variability and Uncertainties Arising from Agricultural and Climate Data Sets, Wisser, D., S. Frolking, E. M. Douglas, B. M. Fekete, C. J. Vörösmarty, and A. H. Schumann, Geophysical Research Letters, December 31, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24408, doi:10.1029/2008GL035296)

  8. Sea-Salt and Dust Aerosols in the ECMWF IFS Model, Morcrette, J.-J., A. Beljaars, A. Benedetti, L. Jones, and O. Boucher, Geophysical Research Letters, December 31, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24813, doi:10.1029/2008GL036041)

  9. Step-Wise Changes in Glacier Flow Speed Coincide with Calving and Glacial Earthquakes at Helheim Glacier, Greenland, Nettles, M., et al., Geophysical Research Letters, December 30, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24503, doi:10.1029/2008GL036127)

  10. How Unusual is the Recent Series of Warm Years?, Zorita, E., T. F. Stocker, and H. von Storch, Geophysical Research Letters, December 30, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24706, doi:10.1029/2008GL036228)

  11. Simulation of Upper Tropospheric CO2 from Chemistry and Transport Models, Jiang, X., Q. Li, M.-C. Liang, R.-L. Shia, M. T. Chahine, E. T. Olsen, L. L. Chen, and Y. L. Yung, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, December 30, 2008 (Vol. 22, GB4025, doi:10.1029/2007GB003049)

  12. Denitrification Effects on Air-Sea CO2 Flux in the Coastal Ocean: Simulations for the Northwest North Atlantic, Fennel, K., J. Wilkin, M. Previdi, and R. Najjar, Geophysical Research Letters, December 27, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24608, doi:10.1029/2008GL036147)

  13. Observed Vertical Structure of Tropical Oceanic Clouds Sorted in Large-Scale Regimes, Su, H., J. H. Jiang, D. G. Vane, and G. L. Stephens, Geophysical Research Letters, December 27, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24704, doi:10.1029/2008GL035888)

  14. What Controls the Isotopic Composition of the African Monsoon Precipitation? Insights from Event-Based Precipitation Collected During the 2006 AMMA Field Campaign, Risi, C., S. Bony, F. Vimeux, L. Descroix, B. Ibrahim, E. Lebreton, I. Mamadou, and B. Sultan, Geophysical Research Letters, December 27, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24808, doi:10.1029/2008GL035920)

  15. Effects of Precipitation on the Relationships Between Cloud Optical Thickness and Drop Size Derived from Space-Borne Measurements, Kobayashi, T., and K. Masuda, Geophysical Research Letters, December 27, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24809, doi:10.1029/2008GL036140)

  16. Ensemble Reforecasts of Recent Warm-Season Weather: Impacts of a Dynamic Vegetation Parameterization, Beltrán-Przekurat, A., C. H. Marshall, and R. A. Pielke, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 27, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24116, doi:10.1029/2007JD009480)

  17. Aerosol Vertical Distribution in Dust Outflow Over the Atlantic: Comparisons Between GEOS-Chem and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO), Generoso, S., I. Bey, M. Labonne, and F.-M. Bréon, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 27, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24209, doi:10.1029/2008JD010154)

  18. Soil Respiration and Aboveground Litter Dynamics of a Tropical Transitional Forest in Northwest Mato Grosso, Brazil, Valentini, C. M. A., L. Sanches, S. R. de Paula, G. L. Vourlitis, J. de Souza Nogueira, O. B. Pinto Jr., and F. de Almeida Lobo, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, December 27, 2008 (Vol. 113, G00B10, doi:10.1029/2007JG000619)

  19. Linking Soil Organic Matter Dynamics and Erosion-Induced Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration at Different Landform Positions, Berhe, A. A., J. W. Harden, M. S. Torn, and J. Harte, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, December 27, 2008 (Vol. 113, G04039, doi:10.1029/2008JG000751)

  20. Controls on the Spacing of First-Order Valleys, Perron, J. T., W. E. Dietrich, and J. W. Kirchner, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, December 24, 2008 (Vol. 113, F04016, doi:10.1029/2007JF000977)

  21. Assessing the Representativeness of the AmeriFlux Network Using MODIS and GOES Data, Yang, F., A.-X. Zhu, K. Ichii, M. A. White, H. Hashimoto, and R. R. Nemani, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, December 24, 2008 (Vol. 113, G04036, doi:10.1029/2007JG000627)

  22. Exploring the Error Characteristics of Thin Ice Cloud Property Retrievals Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm, Posselt, D. J., T. S. L'Ecuyer, and G. L. Stephens, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 24, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24206, doi:10.1029/2008JD010832)

  23. Importance of Molecular Rayleigh Scattering in the Enhancement of Clear Sky Reflectance in the Vicinity of Boundary Layer Cumulus Clouds, Wen, G., A. Marshak, and R. F. Cahalan, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 24, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24207, doi:10.1029/2008JD010592)

  24. Impact of Online Empirical Model Correction on Nonlinear Error Growth, Danforth, C. M., and E. Kalnay, Geophysical Research Letters, December 24, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24805, doi:10.1029/2008GL036239)

  25. Fixed Point Theorems of GPS Carrier Phase Ambiguity Resolution and Their Application to Massive Network Processing: Ambizap, Blewitt, G., Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, December 23, 2008 (Vol. 113, B12410, doi:10.1029/2008JB005736)

  26. Climate Regulation of Fire Emissions and Deforestation in Equatorial Asia, G. R. van der Werf, J. Dempewolf, S. N. Trigg, J. T. Randerson, P. S. Kasibhatla, L. Giglio, D. Murdiyarso, W. Peters, D. C. Morton, G. J. Collatz, A. J. Dolman, and R. S. DeFries, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, December 23, 2008 (Vol. 105, No. 51, doi:10.1073/pnas.0803375105)

  27. Representing Cloud Overlap with an Effective Decorrelation Length: An Assessment Using CloudSat and CALIPSO Data, Barker, H. W., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 23, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24205, doi:10.1029/2008JD010391)

  28. The Influence of Mesoscale Eddies on the Detection of Quasi-Zonal Jets in the Ocean, Schlax, M. G., and D. B. Chelton, Geophysical Research Letters, December 19, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24602, doi:10.1029/2008GL035998)

  29. Global Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Cloud Detection and Height Evaluation Using CALIOP, Holz, R. E., S. A. Ackerman, F. W. Nagle, R. Frey, S. Dutcher, R. E. Kuehn, M. A. Vaughan, and B. Baum, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 19, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00A19, doi:10.1029/2008JD009837)

  30. Ground-Based Infrared Retrievals of Optical Depth, Effective Radius, and Composition of Airborne Mineral Dust Above the Sahel, Turner, D. D., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 19, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00E03, doi:10.1029/2008JD010054)

  31. Mineral Dust Plume Evolution Over the Atlantic from MISR and MODIS Aerosol Retrievals, Kalashnikova, O. V., and R. A. Kahn, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 19, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24204, doi:10.1029/2008JD010083

  32. Wind Stress Measurements from the QuikSCAT-SeaWinds Scatterometer Tandem Mission and the Impact on an Ocean Model, Lee, T., O. Wang, W. Tang, and W. T. Liu, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, December 19, 2008 (Vol. 113, C12019, doi:10.1029/2008JC004855)

  33. Assessing the Performance of 20–25 m Footprint Waveform Lidar Data Collected in ICESat Data Corridors in Greenland, Hofton, M. A., J. B. Blair, S. B. Luthcke, and D. L. Rabine, Geophysical Research Letters, December 18, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24501, doi:10.1029/2008GL035774)

  34. Summer Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice: Role of Summer Winds, Ogi, M., I. G. Rigor, M. G. McPhee, and J. M. Wallace, Geophysical Research Letters, December 18, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24701, doi:10.1029/2008GL035672)

  35. Retrievals of Aerosol Single-Scattering Albedo and Effective Aerosol Layer Height for Biomass-Burning Smoke: Synergy Derived from “A-Train” Sensors, Jeong, M.-J., and N. C. Hsu, Geophysical Research Letters, December 18, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24801, doi:10.1029/2008GL036279)

  36. Sources of Carbon Monoxide and Formaldehyde in North America Determined from High-Resolution Atmospheric Data, Miller, S. M., Matross, D. M., Andrews, A. E., Millet, D. B., Longo, M., Gottlieb, E. W., Hirsch, A. I., Gerbig, C., Lin, J. C., Daube, B. C., Hudman, R. C., Dias, P. L. S., Chow, V. Y., and Wofsy, S. C., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, December 18, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 24)

  37. Combining Altimeter and Subsurface Float Data to Estimate the Time-Averaged Circulation in the Upper Ocean, Willis, J. K., and L.-L. Fu, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, December 17, 2008 (Vol. 113, C12017, doi:10.1029/2007JC004690)

  38. Errors in Sounding of the Atmosphere Using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) Kinetic Temperature Caused by Non-Local-Thermodynamic-Equilibrium Model Parameters, García-Comas, M., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 17, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24106, doi:10.1029/2008JD010105)

  39. Quantifying Uncertainty in Estimates of Mineral Dust Flux: An Intercomparison of Model Performance Over the Bodélé Depression, Northern Chad, Todd, M. C., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 17, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24107, doi:10.1029/2008JD010476)

  40. Comparison of Lower Stratospheric Tropical Mean Vertical Velocities, Schoeberl, M. R., A. R. Douglass, R. S. Stolarski, S. Pawson, S. E. Strahan, and W. Read, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 17, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24109, doi:10.1029/2008JD010221)

  41. Aerosol and Cloud Interaction Observed from High Spectral Resolution Lidar Data, Su, W., G. L. Schuster, N. G. Loeb, R. R. Rogers, R. A. Ferrare, C. A. Hostetler, J. W. Hair, and M. D. Obland, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 17, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24202, doi:10.1029/2008JD010588)

  42. A Possible Solution for the Problem of Estimating the Error Structure of Global Soil Moisture Data Sets, Scipal, K., T. Holmes, R. de Jeu, V. Naeimi, and W. Wagner, Geophysical Research Letters, December 17, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24403, doi:10.1029/2008GL035599)

  43. Remotely Sensed Dune Celerity and Sand Flux Measurements of the World's Fastest Barchans (Bodélé, Chad), Vermeesch, P., and N. Drake, Geophysical Research Letters, December 17, 2008 (Vol. 35, L24404, doi:10.1029/2008GL035921)

  44. Cloud Phase Identification of Arctic Boundary-Layer Clouds from Airborne Spectral Reflection Measurements: Test of Three Approaches, Ehrlich, A., Bierwirth, E., Wendisch, M., Gayet, J.-F., Mioche, G., Lampert, A., and Heintzenberg, J., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, December 16, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 24)

  45. Parameterization of Middle Atmospheric Water Vapor Photochemistry for High-Altitude NWP and Data Assimilation, McCormack, J. P., Hoppel, K. W., and Siskind, D. E., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, December 16, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 24)

  46. Exploring the Stratospheric/Tropospheric Response to Solar Forcing, Rind, D., J. Lean, J. Lerner, P. Lonergan, and A. Leboissitier, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, December 16, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24103, doi:10.1029/2008JD010114)

  47. Transparency of the Atmosphere to Short Horizontal Wavelength Gravity Waves, Preusse, P., S. D. Eckermann, and M. Ern, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 16, 2008 (Vol. 113, D24104, doi:10.1029/2007JD009682)

  48. Estimating Weights for the Use of Time-Dependent Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Data in Constraining Ocean Models, Quinn, K. J., and R. M. Ponte, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, December 16, 2008 (Vol. 113, C12013, doi:10.1029/2008JC004903)

  49. Detection of Reactive Nitrogen Containing Particles in the Tropopause Region - Evidence for a Tropical Nitric Acid Trihydrate (NAT) Belt, Voigt, C., Schlager, H., Roiger, A., Stenke, A., de Reus, M., Borrmann, S., Jensen, E., Schiller, C., Konopka, P., and Sitnikov, N., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, December 15, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 24)

  50. Distribution of Sunken Macroalgae Against the Background of Tidal Circulation in the Coastal Waters of Qingdao, China, in Summer 2008, Lü, X., and F. Qiao, Geophysical Research Letters, December 13, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23614, doi:10.1029/2008GL036084)

  51. Relationship Between MODIS Fire Hot Spot Count and Burned Area in a Degraded Tropical Peat Swamp Forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tansey, K., J. Beston, A. Hoscilo, S. E. Page, and C. U. Paredes Hernández, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 13, 2008 (Vol. 113, D23112, doi:10.1029/2008JD010717)

  52. Have Tropical Cyclones Been Feeding More Extreme Rainfall?, Lau, K.-M., Y. P. Zhou, and H.-T. Wu, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 13, 2008 (Vol. 113, D23113, doi:10.1029/2008JD009963)

  53. Extratropical Waves Transport Boreal Wildfire Emissions and Drive Regional Air Quality Dynamics, Bein, K. J., Y. Zhao, M. V. Johnston, G. J. Evans, and A. S. Wexler, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 13, 2008 (Vol. 113, D23213, doi:10.1029/2008JD010169)

  54. Atmospheric Correction for the Monitoring of Land Surfaces, Vermote, E. F., and S. Kotchenova, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 13, 2008 (Vol. 113, D23S90, doi:10.1029/2007JD009662)

  55. Model Analysis of the Factors Regulating the Trends and Variability of Carbon Monoxide Between 1988 and 1997, Duncan, B. N. and Logan, J. A., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, December 12, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 23)

  56. Persistent Elastic Behavior Above a Megathrust Rupture Patch: Nias Island, West Sumatra, Briggs, R. W., K. Sieh, W. H. Amidon, J. Galetzka, D. Prayudi, I. Suprihanto, N. Sastra, B. Suwargadi, D. Natawidjaja, and T. G. Farr, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, December 12, 2008 (Vol. 113, B12406, doi:10.1029/2008JB005684)

  57. Do Contrails Significantly Reduce Daily Temperature Range?, Hong, G., P. Yang, P. Minnis, Y. X. Hu, and G. North, Geophysical Research Letters, December 12, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23815, doi:10.1029/2008GL036108)

  58. Investigation of Clear-Sky Occurrence Rate Estimated from CALIOP and MODIS Observations, Eguchi, N., and T. Yokota, Geophysical Research Letters, December 12, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23816, doi:10.1029/2008GL035897)

  59. Motion on Upper-Plate Faults During Subduction Zone Earthquakes: Case of the Atacama Fault System, Northern Chile, Loveless, J. P., and M. E. Pritchard, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, December 12, 2008 (Vol. 9, Q12017, doi:10.1029/2008GC002155)

  60. Cross-Validation of Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit and Lidar for Long-Term Upper-Stratospheric Temperature Monitoring, Funatsu, B. M., C. Claud, P. Keckhut, and A. Hauchecorne, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 11, 2008 (Vol. 113, D23108, doi:10.1029/2008JD010743)

  61. Long-Range Transport and Vertical Structure of Asian Dust from CALIPSO and Surface Measurements During PACDEX, Huang, J., P. Minnis, B. Chen, Z. Huang, Z. Liu, Q. Zhao, Y. Yi, and J. K. Ayers, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 11, 2008 (Vol. 113, D23212, doi:10.1029/2008JD010620)

  62. DMS Air/Sea Flux and Gas Transfer Coefficients from the North Atlantic Summertime Coccolithophore Bloom, Marandino, C. A., W. J. De Bruyn, S. D. Miller, and E. S. Saltzman, Geophysical Research Letters, December 11, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23812, doi:10.1029/2008GL036370)

  63. Mechanisms for Synoptic Variations of Atmospheric CO2 in North America, South America and Europe, Parazoo, N. C., Denning, A. S., Kawa, S. R., Corbin, K. D., Lokupitiya, R. S., and Baker, I. T., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, December 10, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 23)

  64. Identifying Multiple-Scattering-Affected Profiles in CloudSat Observations Over the Oceans, Battaglia, A., J. M. Haynes, T. L'Ecuyer, and C. Simmer, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 10, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00A17, doi:10.1029/2008JD009960)

  65. CloudSat Mission: Performance and Early Science After the First Year of Operation, Stephens, G. L., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 10, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00A18, doi:10.1029/2008JD009982)

  66. Understanding Ice Supersaturation, Particle Growth, and Number Concentration in Cirrus Clouds, Comstock, J. M., R.-F. Lin, D. O'C. Starr, and P. Yang, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 10, 2008 (Vol. 113, D23211, doi:10.1029/2008JD010332)

  67. Ozone Profile Retrieval from GOMOS Limb Scattering Measurements, Taha, G., G. Jaross, D. Fussen, F. Vanhellemont, E. Kyrölä, and R. D. McPeters, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 10, 2008 (Vol. 113, D23307, doi:10.1029/2007JD009409)

  68. Preliminary Assessment of the Scalability of GPS Radio Occultations Impact in Numerical Weather Prediction, Poli, P., S. B. Healy, F. Rabier, and J. Pailleux, Geophysical Research Letters, December 10, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23811, doi:10.1029/2008GL035873)

  69. Characteristics of the NO-NO2-O3 System in Different Chemical Regimes During the MIRAGE-Mex Field Campaign, Shon, Z.-H., Madronich, S., Song, S.-K., Flocke, F. M., Knapp, D. J., Anderson, R. S., Shetter, R. E., Cantrell, C. A., Hall, S. R., and Tie, X., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, December 9, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 23)

  70. Canopy Nitrogen, Carbon Assimilation, and Albedo in Temperate and Boreal Forests: Functional Relations and Potential Climate Feedbacks, S. V. Ollinger, A. D. Richardson, M. E. Martin, D. Y. Hollinger, S. E. Frolking, P. B. Reich, L. C. Plourde, G. G. Katul, J. W. Munger, R. Oren, M.-L. Smith, K. T. Paw U, P. V. Bolstad, B. D. Cook, M. C. Day, T. A. Martin, R. K. Monson, and H. P. Schmid, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 9, 2008 (Vol. 105, No. 49, doi:10.1073/pnas.0810021105)

  71. Short-Term Effects of Agriculture on Air Pollution and Climate in California, Jacobson, M. Z., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, December 9, 2008 (Vol. 113, D23101, doi:10.1029/2008JD010689)

  72. Climate forcing and air quality change due to regional emissions reductions by economic sector, Shindell, D., Lamarque, J.-F., Unger, N., Koch, D., Faluvegi, G., Bauer, S., Ammann, M., Cofala, J., and Teich, H., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, December 8, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 23)

  73. Mechanisms of South Indian Ocean Intraseasonal Cooling, Vinayachandran, P. N., and N. H. Saji, Geophysical Research Letters, December 6, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23607, doi:10.1029/2008GL035733)

  74. Impact of Clouds on Atmospheric Heating Based on the R04 CloudSat Fluxes and Heating Rates Data Set, L'Ecuyer, T. S., N. B. Wood, T. Haladay, G. L. Stephens, and P. W. Stackhouse Jr., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmpspheres, December 6, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00A15, doi:10.1029/2008JD009951)

  75. A Comparison Between CloudSat and Aircraft Data for a Multilayer, Mixed Phase Cloud System During the Canadian CloudSat-CALIPSO Validation Project, Barker, H. W., A. V. Korolev, D. R. Hudak, J. W. Strapp, K. B. Strawbridge, and M. Wolde, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmpspheres, December 6, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00A16, doi:10.1029/2008JD009971)

  76. Analysis of the Summer 2004 Ozone Budget Over the United States Using Intercontinental Transport Experiment Ozonesonde Network Study (IONS) Observations and Model of Ozone and Related Tracers (MOZART-4) Simulations, Pfister, G. G., L. K. Emmons, P. G. Hess, J.-F. Lamarque, A. M. Thompson, and J. E. Yorks, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmpspheres, December 6, 2008 (Vol. 113, D23306, doi:10.1029/2008JD010190)

  77. Impact of a Fram Strait Cyclone on Ice Edge, Drift, Divergence, and Concentration: Possibilities and Limits of an Observational Analysis, Brümmer, B., D. Schröder, G. Müller, G. Spreen, A. Jahnke-Bornemann, and J. Launiainen, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, December 6, 2008 (Vol. 113, C12003, doi:10.1029/2007JC004149)

  78. Cloud Tomography: Role of Constraints and a New Algorithm, Huang, D., Y. Liu, and W. Wiscombe, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmpspheres, December 5, 2008 (Vol. 113, D23203, doi:10.1029/2008JD009952)

  79. Estimation of Phytoplankton Loss Rate by Remote Sensing, Zhai, L., T. Platt, C. Tang, M. Dowd, S. Sathyendranath, and M.-H. Forget, Geophysical Research Letters, December 5, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23606, doi:10.1029/2008GL035666)

  80. Shocked H2O Ice: Thermal Emission Measurements and the Criteria for Phase Changes During Impact Events, Stewart, S. T., A. Seifter, and A. W. Obst, Geophysical Research Letters, December 5, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23203, doi:10.1029/2008GL035947)

  81. Dynamical Prediction of Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle: A 25-Year Hindcast Experiment, Zeng, N., J.-H. Yoon, A. Vintzileos, G. J. Collatz, E. Kalnay, A. Mariotti, A. Kumar, A. Busalacchi, and S. Lord, Journal of Geophysical Research – Global Biogeochemical Cycles, December 4, 2008 (Vol. 22, GB4015, doi:10.1029/2008GB003183)

  82. Impact of Land Cover Uncertainties on Estimates of Biospheric Carbon Fluxes, Quaife, T., S. Quegan, M. Disney, P. Lewis, M. Lomas, and F. I. Woodward, Journal of Geophysical Research – Global Biogeochemical Cycles, December 4, 2008 (Vol. 22, GB4016, doi:10.1029/2007GB003097)

  83. Ice Stream Basal Conditions from Block-Wise Surface Data Inversion and Simple Regression Models of Ice Stream Flow: Application to Bindschadler Ice Stream, Sergienko, O. V., R. A. Bindschadler, P. L. Vornberger, and D. R. MacAyeal, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, December 4, 2008 (Vol. 113, F04010, doi:10.1029/2008JF001004)

  84. Monthly-Averaged Anthropogenic Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing Over the Mediterranean Based on AERONET Aerosol Properties, Bergamo, A., Tafuro, A. M., Kinne, S., De Tomasi, F., and Perrone, M. R., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, December 4, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 23)

  85. On the Influence of Sea-Ice Inhomogeneities onto Roll Convection in Cold-Air Outbreaks, Gryschka, M., C. Drüe, D. Etling, and S. Raasch, Geophysical Research Letters, December 3, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23804, doi:10.1029/2008GL035845)

  86. Evidence of a Microbial Community Associated with Rock Varnish at Yungay, Atacama Desert, Chile, Kuhlman, K. R., P. Venkat, M. T. La Duc, G. M. Kuhlman, and C. P. McKay, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, December 3, 2008 (Vol. 113, G04022, doi:10.1029/2007JG000677)

  87. Comparison of Cloud Statistics from Spaceborne Lidar Systems, Berthier, S., Chazette, P., Pelon, J., and Baum, B., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, December 3, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 23)

  88. Convergence of the UK OSGM05 GRACE-Based Geoid and the UK Fundamental Benchmark Network, Ziebart, M. K., J. C. Iliffe, R. Forsberg, and G. Strykowski, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, December 3, 2008 (Vol. 113, B12401, doi:10.1029/2007JB004959)

  89. Hurricane Driven Changes in Land Cover Create Biogeophysical Climate Feedbacks, Juárez, R. I. N., J. Q. Chambers, H. Zeng, and D. B. Baker, Geophysical Research Letters, December 2, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23401, doi:10.1029/2008GL035683)

  90. Satellite Evidence of Wintertime Atmospheric Boundary Layer Responses to Multiple SST Fronts in the Japan Sea, Shimada, T., and H. Kawamura, Geophysical Research Letters, December 2, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23602, doi:10.1029/2008GL035810)

  91. Summertime Taklimakan Dust Structure, Hara, Y., I. Uno, K. Yumimoto, M. Tanaka, A. Shimizu, N. Sugimoto, and Z. Liu, Geophysical Research Letters, December 2, 2008 (Vol. 35, L23801, doi:10.1029/2008GL035630)

  92. A Regional Scale Chemical Transport Modeling of Asian Aerosols with Data Assimilation of AOD Observations Using Optimal Interpolation Technique, B. Adhikary, S. Kulkarni, A. Dallura, Y. Tang, T. Chai, L.R. Leung, Y. Qian, C.E. Chung, V. Ramanathan, G.R. Carmichael, Atmospheric Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 42, No. 37, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.08.031)

  93. A Review of Global Stratospheric Aerosol: Measurements, Importance, Life Cycle, and Local Stratospheric Aerosol, Terry Deshler, Atmospheric Research, December 2008 (Vol. 90, No. 2-4, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.03.016)

  94. Global Gravity Wave Variances from Aura MLS: Characteristics and Interpretation, Dong L. Wu and Stephen D. Eckermann, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, December 2008 (Vol. 65, No. 12, doi:10.1175/2008JAS2489.1)

  95. A Toy Model of the Instability in the Equatorially Trapped Convectively Coupled Waves on the Equatorial Beta Plane, Joseph Allan Andersen and Zhiming Kuang, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, December 2008 (Vol. 65, No. 12, doi:10.1175/2008JAS2776.1)

  96. Diagnostic Analysis of Tidal Winds and the Eliassen–Palm Flux Divergence in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere from TIMED/SABER Temperatures, Xun Zhu, Jeng-Hwa Yee, E. R. Talaat, M. Mlynczak, and J. M. Russell III, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, December 2008 (Vol. 65, No. 12, doi:10.1175/2008JAS2801.1)

  97. Validity of a Linear Stochastic View of ENSO in an ACGCM, Rameshan Kallummal and Ben P. Kirtman, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, December 2008 (Vol. 65, No. 12, doi:10.1175/2008JAS2286.1)

  98. Inferring the Pattern of the Oceanic Meridional Transport from the Air–Sea Density Flux, Timour Radko, Igor Kamenkovich, and Pierre-Yves Dare, Journal of Physical Oceanography, December 2008 (Vol. 38, No. 12, doi:10.1175/2008JPO3748.1)

  99. Pacific Decadal Oscillation and Sea Level Variability in the Bohai, Yellow, and East China Seas, Guoqi Han and Weigen Huang, Journal of Physical Oceanography, December 2008 (Vol. 38, No. 12, doi:10.1175/2008JPO3885.1)

  100. Control of Lower-Limb Overturning Circulation in the Southern Ocean by Diapycnal Mixing and Mesoscale Eddy Transfer, Taka Ito and John Marshall, Journal of Physical Oceanography, December 2008 (Vol. 38, No. 12, doi:10.1175/2008JPO3878.1)

  101. Effects of Multiple Scattering on Attenuation-Based Retrievals of Stratiform Rainfall from CloudSat, Sergey Y. Matrosov, Alessandro Battaglia, and Peter Rodriguez, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, December 2008 (Vol. 25, No. 12, doi:10.1175/2008JTECHA1095.1)

  102. Ten Years of TRMM/VIRS On-Orbit Calibrations and Multiyear Comparisons of VIRS and MODIS, Cheng-Hsuan Lyu and William L. Barnes, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, December 2008 (Vol. 25, No. 12, doi:10.1175/2008JTECHA1110.1)

  103. Observed and Simulated Soil Moisture Variability over the Lower Mississippi Delta Region, Georgy V. Mostovoy and Valentine G. Anantharaj, Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 6, doi:10.1175/2008JHM999.1)

  104. Impacts of High-Resolution Land Surface Initialization on Regional Sensible Weather Forecasts from the WRF Model, Jonathan L. Case, William L. Crosson, Sujay V. Kumar, William M. Lapenta, and Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 6, doi:10.1175/2008JHM990.1)

  105. A Remote Sensing Survey of the Role of Landform on the Organization of Orographic Precipitation in Central and Southern Mexico, Jason P. Giovannettone and Ana P. Barros, Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 6, doi:10.1175/2008JHM947.1)

  106. An Investigation of the Thermal and Energy Balance Regimes of Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes, Wayne R. Rouse, Peter D. Blanken, Normand Bussières, Claire J. Oswald, William M. Schertzer, Christopher Spence, and Anne E. Walker, Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 6, doi:10.1175/2008JHM977.1)

  107. Changes in Water Vapor Transport and the Production of Precipitation in the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Result of Global Warming, J. P. Evans, Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 6, doi:10.1175/2008JHM998.1)

  108. Snow Model Verification Using Ensemble Prediction and Operational Benchmarks, Kristie J. Franz, Terri S. Hogue, and Soroosh Sorooshian, Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 6, doi:10.1175/2008JHM995.1)

  109. NASA Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX 2002/03): Spaceborne Remote Sensing, Robert E. Davis, Thomas H. Painter, Don Cline, Richard Armstrong, Terry Haran, Kyle McDonald, Rick Forster, and Kelly Elder, Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 6, doi:10.1175/2008JHM926.1)

  110. NASA Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX 2002/03): Local Scale Observation Site, Janet Hardy, Robert Davis, Yeohoon Koh, Don Cline, Kelly Elder, Richard Armstrong, Hans-Peter Marshall, Thomas Painter, Gilles Castres Saint-Martin, Roger DeRoo, Kamal Sarabandi, Tobias Graf, Toshio Koike, and Kyle McDonald, Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 6, doi:10.1175/2008JHM875.1)

  111. Comparison of FASST and SNTHERM in Three Snow Accumulation Regimes, Susan Frankenstein, Anne Sawyer, and Julie Koeberle, Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 6, doi:10.1175/2008JHM865.1)

  112. Multimodel Estimation of Snow Microwave Emission during CLPX 2003 Using Operational Parameterization of Microphysical Snow Characteristics, Rafał Wójcik, Konstantinos Andreadis, Marco Tedesco, Eric Wood, Tara Troy, and Dennis Lettenmeier, Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 6, doi:10.1175/2008JHM909.1)

  113. Developing Clear-Sky, Cloud and Cloud Shadow Mask for Producing Clear-Sky Composites at 250-Meter Spatial Resolution for the Seven MODIS Land Bands Over Canada and North America, Yi Luo, Alexander P. Trishchenko, Konstantin V. Khlopenkov, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.06.010)

  114. The Origin and Global Distribution of Second Order Variability in Satellite Ocean Color and its Potential Applications to Algorithm Development, Catherine A. Brown, Yannick Huot, P. Jeremy Werdell, Bernard Gentili, Hervé Claustre, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.06.008)

  115. Estimation of Volume Change Rates of Greenland's Ice Sheet from ICESat Data Using Overlapping Footprints, D.C. Slobbe, R.C. Lindenbergh, P. Ditmar, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.004)

  116. The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica, Robert Bindschadler, Patricia Vornberger, Andrew Fleming, Adrian Fox, Jerry Mullins, Douglas Binnie, Sara Jean Paulsen, Brian Granneman, David Gorodetzky, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.006)

  117. A Thermal-Based Remote Sensing Technique for Routine Mapping of Land-Surface Carbon, Water and Energy Fluxes from Field to Regional Scales, M.C. Anderson, J.M. Norman, W.P. Kustas, R. Houborg, P.J. Starks, N. Agam, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.009)

  118. Inferring Missing Data in Satellite Chlorophyll Maps Using Turbulent Cascading, Claire Pottier, Antonio Turiel, Véronique Garçon, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.010)

  119. Scaling-Based Forest Structural Change Detection Using an Inverted Geometric-Optical Model in the Three Gorges Region of China, Yuan Zeng, Michael E. Schaepman, Bingfang Wu, Jan G.P.W. Clevers, Arnold K. Bregt, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.007)

  120. Mapping Live Fuel Moisture with MODIS Data: A Multiple Regression Approach, Seth H. Peterson, Dar A. Roberts, Philip E. Dennison, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.012)

  121. Microwave Vegetation Indices for Short Vegetation Covers from Satellite Passive Microwave Sensor AMSR-E, Jiancheng Shi, T. Jackson, J. Tao, J. Du, R. Bindlish, L. Lu, K.S. Chen, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.015)

  122. Generating Vegetation Leaf Area Index Earth System Data Record from Multiple Sensors. Part 2: Implementation, Analysis and Validation, Sangram Ganguly, Arindam Samanta, Mitchell A. Schull, Nikolay V. Shabanov, Cristina Milesi, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Yuri Knyazikhin, Ranga B. Myneni, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.013)

  123. Generating Vegetation Leaf Area Index Earth System Data Record from Multiple Sensors. Part 1: Theory, Sangram Ganguly, Mitchell A. Schull, Arindam Samanta, Nikolay V. Shabanov, Cristina Milesi, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Yuri Knyazikhin, Ranga B. Myneni, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.014)

  124. A lidar-based hierarchical approach for assessing MODIS fPAR, L. Chasmer, C. Hopkinson, P. Treitz, H. McCaughey, A. Barr, A. Black, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.08.003)

  125. Evaluating the Species Energy Relationship with the Newest Measures of Ecosystem Energy: NDVI Versus MODIS Primary Production, Linda B. Phillips, Andrew J. Hansen, Curtis H. Flather, Remote Sensing of the Environment, December 2008 (Vol. 112, No. 12, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.08.002)

  126. Spurious Annual Vertical Deformations Over Japan Due to Mismodelling of Tropospheric Delays, H. Munekane, Y. Kuroishi, Y. Hatanaka, H. Yarai, Geophysical Journal International, December 2008 (Vol. 175, No. 3, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03980.x)

  127. New Constraints on Terrestrial and Oceanic Sources of Atmospheric Methanol, Millet, D. B., Jacob, D. J., Custer, T. G., de Gouw, J. A., Goldstein, A. H., Karl, T., Singh, H. B., Sive, B. C., Talbot, R. W., Warneke, C., and Williams, J., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, December 1, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 23)

  128. From Model-Based Parameterizations to Lookup Tables: An EOF Approach, Giovanni Leoncini, Roger A. Pielke Sr., and Philip Gabriel, Weather and Forecasting, December 2008 (Vol. 23, No. 6, doi:10.1175/2008WAF2007033.1)

  129. Observed and CAM3 GCM Sea Surface Wind Speed Distributions: Characterization, Comparison, and Bias Reduction, Scott B. Capps and Charles S. Zender, Journal of Climate, December 2008 (Vol. 21, No. 24, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2374.1)

  130. The Impact of Air–Sea Interactions on the Simulation of Tropical Intraseasonal Variability, Kathy Pegion and Ben P. Kirtman, Journal of Climate, December 2008 (Vol. 21, No. 24, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2180.1)

  131. Statistical Analyses of Satellite Cloud Object Data from CERES. Part V: Relationships between Physical Properties of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds, Zachary A. Eitzen, Kuan-Man Xu, and Takmeng Wong, Journal of Climate, December 2008 (Vol. 21, No. 24, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2307.1)

  132. Controls of Global-Mean Precipitation Increases in Global Warming GCM Experiments, Graeme L. Stephens and Todd D. Ellis, Journal of Climate, December 2008 (Vol. 21, No. 23, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2144.1)

  133. Energy Spectrum Characteristics of Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillations: Climatology and Variations during the ENSO Developing and Decaying Phases, Ailan Lin and Tim Li, Journal of Climate, December 2008 (Vol. 21, No. 23, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2331.1)

  134. Coupled Air, Sea, and Land Interactions of the South American Monsoon, Vasubandhu Misra, Journal of Climate, December 2008 (Vol. 21, No. 23, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2497.1)

  135. NOAA's Sea Surface Temperature Products From Operational Geostationary Satellites, Eileen Maturi, Andy Harris, Chris Merchant, Jon Mittaz, Bob Potash, Wen Meng, and John Sapper, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, December 2008 (Vol. 89, No. 12, doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2528.1)

  136. Mismo Field Experiment in the Equatorial Indian Ocean*, Kunio Yoneyama, Yukio Masumoto, Yoshifumi Kuroda, Masaki Katsumata, Keisuke Mizuno, Yukari N. Takayabu, Masanori Yoshizaki, Ali Shareef, Yasushi Fujiyoshi, Michael J. McPhaden, V. S. N. Murty, Ryuichi Shirooka, Kazuaki Yasunaga, Hiroyuki Yamada, Naoki Sato, Tomoki Ushiyama, Qoosaku Moteki, Ayako Seiki, Mikiko Fujita, Kentaro Ando, Hideaki Hase, Iwao Ueki, Takanori Horii, Chie Yokoyama, and Tomoki Miyakawa, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, December 2008 (Vol. 89, No. 12, doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2519.1)

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