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A list of research articles recently published in the scientific literature.

On Retrieving the Microphysical Properties of Cirrus Clouds Using the Moments of the Millimeter-Wavelength Doppler Spectrum, Mace, G.G.; Heymsfield, A.J.; Poellot, M.R.; Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 31, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Impact of Doubled CO2 on Global-Scale Leaf Area Index and Evapotranspiration: Conflicting Stomatal Conductance and LAI Responses, Kergoat, L., et. al; Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 31, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Validation and Data Characteristics Of Water Vapor Profiles Observed by the Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer (ILAS) and Processed With the Version 5.20 Algorithm; Kanzawa, H.; Schiller, C.; Ovarlez, J.; Camy-Peyret, C.; Payan, S.; Jeseck, P.; Oelhaf, H.; Stowasser, M.; Traub, W. A.; Jucks, K. W.; Johnson, D. G.; Toon, G. C.; Sen, B.; Blavier, J.-F.; Park, J. H.; et. al; Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 31, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Evolution of 1996-1999 La Ni�a and El Ni�o Conditions Off the Western Coast of South America: A Remote Sensing Perspective, Carr, M.-E.; Strub, P.T.; Thomas, A.C.; Blanco, J.L., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Oceans, December 31, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 12)

Freshening of the Labrador Sea surface waters in the 1990s: Another great salinity anomaly?, H�kkinen, Sirpa; Geophysical Research Letters, December 28, 2002 (Vol. 29, No. 24)

On the Tropospheric Measurements of Ozone by the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II (SAGE II, version 6.1) in the Tropics, Kar, J.; Trepte, C.R.; Thomason, L.W.; Zawodny, J.M.; Cunnold, D.M.; Wang, H.J.; Geophysical Research Letters, December 27, 2002 (Vol. 29, No. 24)

Arctic Oscillation Response to the 1991 Mount Pinatubo Eruption: Effects of Volcanic Aerosols and Ozone Depletion, Stenchikov, Georgiy; et. al, Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 28, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Sensitivity of Tracer Transports and Stratospheric Ozone to Sea Surface Temperature Patterns in the Doubled CO2 Climate, Rind, D.; Lerner, J.; Perlwitz, J.; McLinden, C.; Prather, M.; Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 28, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Mixing Events Revealed by Anomalous Tracer Relationships in the Arctic Vortex During Winter 1999/2000, Jost, H.-J.; Loewenstein, M.; Greenblatt, J.B.; Podolske, J.R.; Bui, T.P.; Hurst, D.F.; Elkins, J.W.; Herman, R.L.; Webster, C.R.; Schauffler, S.M.; Atlas, E.L.; Newman, P.A.; Lait, L.R.; Wofsy, S.C.; Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 28, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Observations of Deep Convection in the Tropics Using the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar, Alcala, C.M.; Dessler, A.E.,Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 28, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Evidence for Weak Oceanic Transform Faults, Behn, M.D.; Lin, J.; Zuber, M.T.; Geophysical Research Letters, December 27, 2002 (Vol. 29, No. 24)

A Case Study for Land Model Evaluation: Simulation of Soil Moisture Amplitude Damping and Phase Shift, Wu, W.; Geller, M.A.; Dickinson, R.E., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 26, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

LF/VLF and VHF Lightning Fast-Stepped Leader Observations, Heavner, M.J.; Smith, D.A.; Jacobson, A.R.; Sheldon, R.J., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 26, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Variability of the Arctic Atmospheric Moisture Budget from TOVS Satellite Data, Groves, D.G.; Francis, J.A.; Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 26, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Analyses and simulations of the upper ocean's response to Hurricane Felix at the Bermuda Testbed Mooring site: 13-23 August 1995, Zedler, S.E.; Dickey, T.D.; Doney, S.C.; Price, J.F.; Yu, X.; Mellor, G.L., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Oceans, December 26, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 12)

Global Distribution and Dynamics of Colored Dissolved and Detrital Organic Materials, Siegel, D. A.; Maritorena, S.; Nelson, N.B.; Hansell, D.A.; Lorenzi-Kayser, M., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Oceans, December 26, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 12)

Evaluation of Midlatitude Cloud Properties in a Weather and a Climate Model: Dependence on Dynamic Regime and Spatial Resolution, Tselioudis, G.; Jakob, C.; Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 24, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Canadian Aerosol Module (CAM): A Size-Segregated Simulation of Atmospheric Aerosol Processes for Climate and Air Quality Models 2. Global Sea-Salt Aerosol and its Budgets, Gong, S. L.; Barrie, L. A.; Lazare, M., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 21, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Trends and Uncertainties in Thermal Calibration of AVHRR Radiometers Onboard NOAA-9 to NOAA-16, Trishchenko, A.P.; Fedosejevs, G.; Li, Z.; Cihlar, J.; Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 21, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Satellite-based Detection of Global Urban Heat-Island Temperature Influence, Gallo, Kevin P., et. al, Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 21, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Hydration, Dehydration, and the Total Hydrogen Budget of the 1999/2000 Winter Arctic Stratosphere, Herman, R.L.; Drdla, K.; Spackman, J.R.; Hurst, D.F.; Popp, P.J.; Webster, C.R.; Romashkin, P.A.; Elkins, J.W.; Weinstock, E.M.; Gandrud, B.W.; Toon, G.C.; Schoeberl, M.R.; et. al, Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 21, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Microphysical Modeling of the 1999-2000 Arctic Winter 2. Chlorine Activation and Ozone Depletion, Drdla, K.; Schoeberl, M.R., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 21, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

A Variable-Resolution Stretched-Grid General Circulation Model and Data Assimilation System with Multiple Areas of Interest: Studying the Anomalous Regional Climate Events of 1998, Fox-Rabinovitz, M.S.; Takacs, L.L.; Govindaraju, R.C., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 20, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Large Forest Fires in Canada, 1959-1997, Stocks, B. J.; Mason, J. A.; Todd, J. B.; Bosch, E. M.; Wotton, B. M.; Amiro, B. D.; et. al, Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 20, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Inverse modeling of carbon monoxide surface emissions using Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory network observations, P�tron, G.; Granier, C.; Khattatov, B., et. al, Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 19, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) III Measurements: A Study on the Retrieval of Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide, and Aerosol Extinction Coefficients, Brogniez, C.; Bazureau, A.; Lenoble, J.; Chu, W.P., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 19, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Chemical Evidence of Long-Range Atmospheric Transport Over Southern Africa, Piketh, S.J.; Swap, R.J.; Maenhaut, W.; Annegarn, H. J.; Formenti, P., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 19, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

General Circulation Model Simulations of Recent Cooling in the East-Central United States, Robinson, W.A.; Reudy, R.; Hansen, J.E., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 19, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

Large-scale Chemical Evolution of the Arctic Vortex During the 1999/2000 Winter: HALOE/POAM III Lagrangian Photochemical Modeling for the SAGE III-Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE) campaign, Pierce, R.B., et. al. Journal of Geophysical Research ? Atmospheres, December 19, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 24)

A Method of Inferring Changes in Deep Ocean Currents from Satellite Measurements of Time-Variable Gravity, Wahr, John M.; et. al, Journal of Geophysical Research ? Oceans, December 19, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 12)

Time-Variable Gravity Signal During the Water Impoundment of China's Three-Gorges Reservoir, Boy, J.-P.; Chao, B.F.; Geophysical Research Letters, December 26, 2002 (Vol. 29, No. 24)

Atmospheric Pressure Corrections in Geodesy and Oceanography: A Strategy for Handling Air Tides, Ponte, R.M.; Ray, R.D.; Geophysical Research Letters, December 18, 2002 (Vol. 29, No. 24)

Sea Surface Salinity Measurements in the Historical Database, Bingham, F.M.; Howden, S.D.; Koblinsky, C.J., Journal of Geophysical Research ? Oceans, December 18, 2002 (Vol. 107, No. 12)

Influence of the Interannual Variability of Vegetation on the Surface Energy Balance - A Global Sensitivity Study, Guillevic, P.; Koster, R.D.; Suarez, M.J.; Bounoua, L.; et. al. Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 15, 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 617-629)

Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval and Mapping Using High-Frequency Microwave Satellite Observations in the Southern Great Plains, Jackson, T.J.; Hsu, A.Y.; O'Neill, P.E.; Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 15, 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 6, pp.. 688-699)

Extended versus Ensemble Kalman Filtering for Land Data Assimilation, Reichle, R.H.; Walker, J.P.; Koster, R.D.; Houser, P.R; Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 15, 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 728-740)

Role of Terrestrial Hydrologic Memory in Modulating ENSO Impacts in North America, Chen, J.; Kumar, P.; Journal of Climate, December 15, 2002 (Vol. 15, No. 24, pp. 3569-3585)

The Influence of the North Atlantic-Arctic Oscillation on Mean, Variance, and Extremes of Temperature in the Northeastern United States and Canada, Wettstein, J.J.; Mearns, L.O.; Journal of Climate, December 15, 2002 (Vol. 15, No. 24, pp. 3586-3600)

Differences between East and West Pacific Rainfall Systems, Berg, W.; Kummerow, C.; Morales, C.; Journal of Climate, December 15, 2002 (Vol. 15, No. 24, pp. 3659-3672)

Surface Temperature of the Arctic: Comparison of TOVS Satellite Retrievals with Surface Observations, Chen, Y.; Francis, J.A.; Miller, J.R.; Journal of Climate, December 15, 2002 (Vol. 15, No. 24, pp. 3698-3708)

Examination of New CERES Data for Evidence of Tropical Iris Feedback, Chambers, L.H.; Lin, B.; Young, D.F.; Journal of Climate, December 15, 2002 (Vol. 15, No. 24, pp. 3719-3726)

Observations and Parametrizations of Particle Size Distributions in Deep Tropical Cirrus and Stratiform Precipitating Clouds: Results from In Situ Observations in TRMM Field Campaigns, Heymsfield, A.J.; Bansemer, A.; Field, P.R.; Durden, S.L.; Stith, J.L.; Dye, J.E.; Hall, W.; Grainger, C.A., Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, December 5, 2002 (Vol. 59, No. 24, pp. 3457-3491)

A Study of the Response of Deep Tropical Clouds to Large-Scale Thermodynamic Forcings. Part 1: Modeling Strategies and Simulations of TOGA COARE Convective Systems, Johnson, D.E.; Tao, W.K.; Simpson, J.; Sui, C.H., Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, December 5, 2002 (Vol. 59, No. 24, pp. 3492-3518)

A Missing Solution to the Transport Equation and Its Effect on Estimation of Cloud Absorptive Properties, Knyazikhin, Y.; Marshak, A.; Wiscombe, W.J.; Martonchik, J.V.; Myneni, R.B., Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, December 5, 2002 (Vol. 59, No. 24, pp. 3572-3585)

Influence of the Interannual Variability of Vegetation on the Surface Energy Balance?A Global Sensitivity Study, Guillevic, P.; Koster, R.D.; Suarez, M.J.; Bounoua, L.; Collatz, G.J.; Los, S.O.; Mahanama, S. P. P., Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 617-629)

Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval and Mapping Using High-Frequency Microwave Satellite Observations in the Southern Great Plains, Jackson, T.J.; Hsu, A.Y.; O?Neill, P.E., Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 688-699)

Extended versus Ensemble Kalman Filtering for Land Data Assimilation, Reichle, R.H.; Walker, J.P.; Koster, R.D.; Houser, P.R., Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 728-740)

Environmental Characterization of Global Sources of Atmospheric Soil Dust Itentified With The Nimbus 7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Absorbing Aerosol Product, Prospero, J.M.; Ginoux, P.; et. al., Reviews of Geophysics, December 01, 2002 (Vol. 40, No. 4)

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