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Edwards, D. P., L. K. Emmons, D. A. Hauglustaine, D. A. Chu, J. C. Gille, Y. J. Kaufman, G. Petron, L. N. Yurganov, L. Giglio, M. N. Deeter, V. Yudin, D. C. Ziskin, J. Warner, J.-F. Lemarque, G. L. Francis, S. P. Ho, D. Mao, J. Chen, E. I. Grechko, and J. R. Drummond, 2004: Observations of Carbon Monoxide and Aerosol From the Terra Satellite: Northern Hemisphere Variability. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D24202, doi: 10.1029/2004JD004727. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)] [Aerosols, Remote Sensing]

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Figueras, D., A. Karnieli, A. Brenner, and Y. J. Kaufman, 2004: Masking turbid water in the southeastern Mediterranean Sea utilizing the Sea WiFS 510 nm spectral band. Int. J. Rem. Sen., 25, No. 19, 4051-4059. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

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Gao, B. C., P. K. Chan, and R. R. Li, 2004: A global water vapor data set obtained by merging the SSMI and MODIS data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L18103, 1-4, doi:10.1029/2004GL020656.. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

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Jin, M., 2004: Analyzing skin temperature variations from long-term AVHRR. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 85, No. 4, 587-600, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-85-4-587. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

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Kahn, R. A., J. Anderson, T. L. Anderson, T. Bates, F. Brechtel, C. M. Carrico, A. Clarke, S. J. Doherty, E. Dutton, R. Flagan, R. Frouin, H. Fukushima, B. Holben, S. Howell, B. Huebert, A. Jefferson, H. Jonsson, O. Kalashnikova, J. Kim, S.-W. Kim, P. Kus, W.-H. Li, J. M. Livingston, C. McNaughton, J. Merrill, S. Mukai, T. Murayama, T. Nakajima, P. Quinn, J. Redemann, M. Rood, P. Russell, I. Sano, B. Schmid, J. Seinfeld, N. Sugimoto, J. Wang, E. J. Welton, J.-G. Won, and S.-C. Yoon, 2004: Environmental snapshots from ACE-Asia. J. Geophys. Res., doi: 2003jd004339.

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Kim, M.-K., I.-S. Kang, C.-K. Park, and K.-M. Kim, 2004: Superensemble prediction of regional precipitation over Korea. Int. J. Climatol., 24 (6), 777-790.

King, M. D., S. Platnick, P. Yang, G. T. Arnold, M. A. Gray, J. Riedi, S. A. Ackerman, and K. N. Liou, 2004: Remote sensing of liquid water and ice cloud optical thickness and effective radius in the Arctic: Application of airborne multispectral MAS data. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 21, 857-875. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)] [Clouds, Remote Sensing]

Koren, I., and Y. J. Kaufman, 2004: Direct wind measurements of Saharan dust events from Terra and Aqua satellites. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L06122, doi: 10.1029/2003GL019338. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)] [Aerosols, Remote Sensing]

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Koster, R. D., P. A. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, C. T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, K. Mitchell, D. Mocko, T. Oki, K. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. C. Sud, et al., 2004: Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation. Science, 305(5687), 1138-1140. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)] [Modeling, Rainfall, Surface Properties]

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Lau, K.-M., J.-Y. Lee, K.-M. Kim, and I.-S. Kang, 2004: The North Pacific as a regulator of summertime climate over Eurasia and North America. J. Climate, 17 (4), 819-833.

Levy, R. C., L. A. Remer, and Y. J. Kaufman, 2004: Effects of neglecting polarization on the MODIS aerosol retrieval over land. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience & Rem. Sens., 42 (11), 2576-2583. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)] [Aerosols, Analysis, Remote Sensing, Solar Radiation, Surface Properties]

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Matsui, T., S. Kreidenweis, R. A. Pielke, B. Schichtel, H. Yu, M. Chin, A. Chu, and D. Niyogi, 2004: Regional comparison and assimilation of GOCART and MODIS aerosol optical depth across the eastern U.S.. Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol 31, L21101, doi:10.1029/2004GL021017. [Aerosols, Analysis, Modeling, Remote Sensing]

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Procopio, A. S., P. Artaxo, Y. J. Kaufman, L. A. Remer, J. S. Schafer, and B. N. Holben, 2004: Multiyear analysis of Amazonian biomass burning smoke radiative forcing of climate. J. Geophys. Res., 31 (3), L03108, doi: 10.1029/2003GL018646. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

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Tian, Y., R. E. Dickinson, L. Zhou, X. Zeng, Y. Dai, R. B. Myneni, Y. Knyazikhin, X. Zhang, M. Friedl, H. Yu, W. Wu, and M. Shaikh, 2004: Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of LAI/FPAR from MODIS and Common Land Model. J. of Geophys. Res., 109 (D1), D01103, 10.1029/2003JD003777. [Analysis, Remote Sensing, Surface Properties]

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Wei, H., P. Yang, J. Li, B. A. Baum, H.-L. Huang, S. Platnick, Y. X. Hu, and L. Strow, 2004: Retrieval of ice cloud optical thickness from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) measurements. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 42, 2254-2266. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)] [Clouds, Remote Sensing]

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