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Are the TRACE-P Measurements Representative of the Western Pacific during March 2001?, Hsu, J.; Prather, M.J.; Wild, O.; Sundet, J.K.; Isaksen, I.S.A.; Browell, E.V.; Avery, M.A.; Sachse, G.W., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, January 31, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D2, D02314, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004002)

A Distribution Technique for Radiative Transfer Simulation in Inhomogeneous Atmosphere: 1. FKDM, Fast K-Distribution Model for the Longwave, Fomin, B.A., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, January 31, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D2, D02110, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003802)

Formation of an Aggregate Scale in Arctic Sea Ice, Hopkins, M.A.; Frankenstein, S.; Thorndike, A.S., Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, January 31, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. C1, C01032, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JC001855)

Seasonal Ventilation of the Cavity Beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Simulated with an Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model, Jenkins, A.; Holland, D.M.; Nicholls, K.W.; Schroder, M.; Yusterhus, S., Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, January 30, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. C1, C01024, Paper No. 10.1029/2001JC001086)

Estimation of Instantaneous TOA Albedo at 670 Nm over Ice Clouds from POLDER Multidirectional Measurements, Sun, W.; Loeb, N.G.; Kato, S., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, January 29, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D2, D02210, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003801)

Denudation Processes and Rates in the Transverse Ranges, Southern California: Erosional Response of a Transitional Landscape to External and Anthropogenic Forcing, Lave, J.; Burbank, D., Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, January 29, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. F1, F01006, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JF000023)

Transport and Freeze-Drying in the Tropical Tropopause Layer, Jensen, E.; Pfister, L., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, January 27, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D2, D02207, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004022)

A Barotropic Inverse Tidal Model for the Arctic Ocean, Padman, L.; Erofeeva, S., Geophysical Research Letters, January 24, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 2, L02303, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL019003)

Initiation of Subduction by Small-scale Convection, Solomatov, V.S., Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, January 24, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. B1, B01412, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JB002628)

Effect of Precipitation Sampling Error on Simulated Hydrological Fluxes and States: Anticipating the Global Precipitation Measurement Satellites, Nijssen, B.; Lettenmaier, D.P., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, January 23, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D2, D02103, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003497)

Observations of Overturning in the Upper Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere, Larsen, M.F.; Liu, A.Z.; Gardner, C.S.; Kelley, M.C.; Collins, S.; Friedman, J.; Hecht, J.H., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, January 22, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D2, D02S04, Paper No. 10.1029/2002JD003067)

Interpretation of Recent Antarctic Sea Ice Variability, Liu, J.; Curry, J.A.; Martinson, D.G., Geophysical Research Letters, January 22, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 2, L02205, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL018732)

Smoke over Haze: Aircraft Observations of Chemical and Optical Properties and the Effects on Heating Rates and Stability, Taubman, B.F.; Marufu, L.T.; Vant-Hull, B.L.; Piety, C.A.; Doddridge, B.G.; Dickerson, R.R.; Li, Z., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, January 22, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D2, D02206, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003898)

Observed Variations Of Tropical Convective Available Potential Energy, DeMott, C.A.; Randall, D.A., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, January 21, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D2, D02102, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003784)

A Microscopic and Nanoscopic View of Storm-time Chorus on 31 March 2001, Santol�k, O.; Gurnett, D.A.; Pickett, J.S.; Parrot, M.; Cornilleau-Wehrlin, N., Geophysical Research Letters, January 21, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 2, L02801, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL018757)

Simulated Sea Surface Salinity Variability in The Tropical Pacific, Wang, X.; Chao, Y., Geophysical Research Letters, January 21, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 2, L02302, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL018146)

Observing Geomagnetic Induction in Magnetic Satellite Measurements and Associated Implications for Mantle Conductivity, Constable, S.; Constable, C., Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, January 20, 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 1, Q01006, Paper No. DOI 10.1029/2003GC000634)

Regional Evaluation of an Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Two-channel Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm, Zhao, Tom X.-P.; Dubovik, O.; Smirnov, A.; Holben, B.N.; Sapper, J.; Pietras, C.; Voss, K.J.; Frouin, R., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, January 20, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D2, D02204, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003817)

Unstable Layers in the Mesopause Region Observed with Lidar during the Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment (TOMEX) Campaign, Liu, A.Z.; Roble, R.G.; Hecht, J.H.; Larsen, M.F.; Gardner, C.S., Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, January 17, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D2, D02S02, Paper No. 10.1029/2002JD003056)

Effective Ice Particle Densities for Cold Anvil Cirrus, Heymsfield, A.J.; Schmitt, C.G.; Bansemer, A.; Baumgardner, D.; Weinstock, E.M.; Smith, J.T.; Sayres, D., Geophysical Research Letters, January 16, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 2, L02101, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL018311)

Differences between Surface and Column Atmospheric [CO2] and Implications for Carbon Cycle Research, Olsen, S.C.; Randerson, J.T., Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, January 16, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D2, D02301, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003968)

An Intercomparison of Soil Moisture Fields in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS), Schaake, J.C.; Duan, Q.; Koren, V.; Mitchell, K.E.; Houser, P.R.; Wood, E.F.; Robock, A.; Lettenmaier, D.P.; Lohmann, D.; Cosgrove, B.; Sheffield, J.; Luo, L.; Higgins, R.W.; Pinker, R.T.; Tarpley, J.D., Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, January 15, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D1, D01S90, Paper No. 10.1029/2002JD003309)

Measurements of N2O Isotopologues in the Stratosphere: Influence of Transport on the Apparent Enrichment Factors and the Isotopologue Fluxes to the Troposphere, Park, S.; Atlas, E.L.; Boering, K.A., Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, January 15, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D1, D01305, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003731)

Atmospheric and Oceanic Excitation of Length-of-Day Variations During 1980-2000, Gross, R.S.; Fukumori, I.; Menemenlis, D.; Gegout, P., Journal of Geophysical Research- Solid Earth, January 15, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. B1, B01406, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JB002432)

Retrieval of Cloud Pressure and Oceanic Chlorophyll Content Using Raman Scattering in GOME Ultraviolet Spectra, Joiner, J.; Vasilkov, A.P.; Flittner, D.E.; Gleason, J.F.; Bhartia, P.K., Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, January 14, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D1, D01109, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003698)

Vertical Crustal Motion Determined by Satellite Altimetry and Tide Gauge Data in Fennoscandia, Kuo, C.Y.; Shum, C.K.; Braun, A.; Mitrovica, J.X., Geophysical Research Letters, January 14, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 2, L01608, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL019106)

Toward Mapping Surface Deformation in Three Dimensions Using Insar, Wright, T.J.; Parsons, B.E.; Lu, Z., Geophysical Research Letters, January 14, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 2, L01607, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL018827)

Rotational Raman Lidar Measurements of Atmospheric Temperature in the UV, Di Girolamo, P.; Marchese, R.; Whiteman, D.N.; Demoz, B.B., Geophysical Research Letters, January 13, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 1, L01606, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL018342)

Lattice Boltzmann Method for Modeling Liquid-vapor Interface Configurations in Porous Media, Sukop, M.C.; Or, D., Water Resources Research, January 13, 2004 (Vol. 40, No. 1, W01509, Paper No. 10.1029/2003WR002333)

Liquid Terenary Aerosols of [HNO3], [H2SO4], [H2O] in the Arctic Tropopause, Irie, H.; Kondo, Y.; Koike, M.; Takegawa, N.; Tabazadeh, A.; Reeves, J. M.; Sachse, G. W.; Vay, S. A.; Anderson, B. E.; Mahoney, M. J., Geophysical Research Letters, January 8, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 1, L01105, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL018678)

Top-down Estimates of Global [CO] Sources Using MOPITT Measurements, Arellano, A.F.; Kasibhatla, P.S.; Giglio, L.; van der Werf, G.R.; Randerson, J.T., Geophysical Research Letters, January 8, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 1, L01104, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL018609)

Relationships Between Surface and Column Aerosol Radiative Properties and Air Mass Transport at a Rural New England Site, Slater, J.F.; Dibb, J.E., Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, January 8, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D1, D01303, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003406)

Ice-oxyhydrocarbon Interactions in the Troposphere, Huffman, W.A.; Snider, J.R., Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, January 8, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D1, D01302, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003778)

Comparison of Seasonal and Spatial Variations of Leaf Area Index and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common Land Model, Tian, Y.; Dickinson, R.E.; Zhou, L.; Zeng, X.; Dai, Y.; Myneni, R.B.; Knyazikhin, Y.; Zhang, X.; Friedl, M.; Yu, H.; Wu, W.; Shaikh, M., Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, January 8, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D1, D01303, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003777)

Fram Strait Sea Ice Outflow, Kwok, R.; Cunningham, G.F.; Pang, S.S., Journal of Geophysical Research- Oceans, January 6, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. C1, C01009, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JC001785)

Spectral Properties of Backscattered UV Radiation in Cloudy Atmospheres, Ahmad, Z.; Bhartia, P.K.; Krotkov, N., Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, January 3, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D1, D01201, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003395)

Anisotropy of Water Cloud Reflectance: A Comparison of Measurements And 1-D Theory, Horvoth, I.; Davies, R., Geophysical Research Letters, January 3, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 1, L01102, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL018386)

An Adjoint Sensitivity Study of Chlorofluorocarbons in the North Atlantic, Li, X.; Wunsch, C., Journal of Geophysical Research- Oceans, January 3, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. C1, C01007, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JC002014)

Transient Volcano Deformation Sources Imaged with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar: Application to Seguam Island, Alaska, Masterlark, T.; Lu, Z., Journal of Geophysical Research- Solid Earth, January 2, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. B1, B01401, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JB002568)

Lower Stratospheric Densities from Solar Occultation Measurements of Continuum Absorption near 2400 Cm^-1, Rinsland, C.P.; McHugh, M.J.; Irion, F.W., Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, January 2, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D1, D01301, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003803)

Modeling the ENSO Modulation of Antarctic Climate in the Late 1990s with the Polar MM5, Bromwich, D.H.; Monaghan, A.J.; Guo, Z., Journal of Climate, January 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 1, 109-132)

Potential Effects of Long-Lead Hydrologic Predictability on Missouri River Main-Stem Reservoirs, Maurer, E.P.; Lettenmaier, D.P., Journal of Climate, January 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 1, 174-186)

Mechanisms for Torrential Rain Associated with The Mei-Yu Development During SCSMEX 1998, Qian, J.-H.; Tao, W.-K.; Lau, K.-M., Monthly Weather Review, January 2004 (Vol. 132, No. 1, 3-27)

The Impact of Anthropogenic Land-Cover Change on the Florida Peninsula Sea Breezes and Warm Season Sensible Weather, Marshall, C.H.; Roger Pielke, R.A.; Steyaert, L.T.; Willard, D.A., Monthly Weather Review, January 2004 (Vol. 132, No. 1, 28-52)

Numerical Simulation of Hurricane Bonnie (1998). Part I: Eyewall Evolution and Intensity Changes, Zhu, T.; Zhang, D.-A.; Weng, F., Monthly Weather Review, January 2004 (Vol. 132, No. 1, 225-241)

Regional Model Simulations of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Southeast Pacific off South America. Part I: Control Experiment, Wang, Y.; Xie, S.-P.; Xu, H.; Wang, B., Monthly Weather Review, January 2004 (Vol. 132, No. 1, 274-296)

Properties of Rossby Waves in the North Atlantic Estimated from Satellite Data, Osychny, V., Cornillon, P., Journal of Physical Oceanography, January 2004 (Vol. 34, No. 1, 61-76)

Observations of Inflow of Philippine Sea Surface Water into the South China Sea through the Luzon Strait, Centurioni, L.R.; Niiler, P.P.; Lee, D.-K., Journal of Physical Oceanography, January 2004 (Vol. 34, No. 1, 113-121)

Modeling the Effects of Wind Redistribution on the Snow Mass Budget of Polar Sea Ice, Deacutery, S.J.; Tremblay, L.-B., Journal of Physical Oceanography, January 2004 (Vol. 34, No. 1, 258-271)

Propagating Bottom Pressure Signals around Antarctica at 1-Day and 2-Day Periods and Implications for Ocean Modes, Ponte, R.M.; Hirose, N., Journal of Physical Oceanography, January 2004 (Vol. 34, No. 1, 284-292)

How Sensitive Are Coarse General Circulation Models to Fundamental Approximations in the Equations of Motion?, Losch, M.; Adcroft, A.; Campin, J.-M., Journal of Physical Oceanography, January 2004 (Vol. 34, No. 1, 306-319)

Transmission of Solar Radiation by Clouds over Snow and Ice Surfaces: A Parameterization in Terms of Optical Depth, Solar Zenith Angle, and Surface Albedo, Fitzpatrick, M.F.; Brandt, R.E.; Warren, S.G., Journal of Climate, January 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 2, 266-275)

Impact of Orographically Induced Spatial Variability in PBL Stratiform Clouds on Climate Simulations, Terra, R.; Mechoso, C.R.; Arakawa, A., Journal of Climate, January 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 2, 276-293)

Uncertainties in Precipitation and Their Impacts on Runoff Estimates, Fekete, B.M.; Voumlroumlsmarty, C.G.; Roads, J.O.; Willmott, C.J., Journal of Climate, January 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 2, 294-304)

An Evaluation of the Apparent Interdecadal Shift in the Tropical Divergent Circulation in the NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis, Kinter, J.L.; Fennessy, M.J.; Krishnamurthy, V.; Marx, L., Journal of Climate, January 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 2, 349-361)

Improving Latent and Sensible Heat Flux Estimates for the Atlantic Ocean (1988-99) by a Synthesis Approach, Yu, L.; Weller, R.A.; Sun, B., Journal of Climate, January 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 2, 373-393)

Interannual Variation of the East Asian Cold Surge Activity, Chen, T.-C.; Huang, W.-R.; Yoon, J., Journal of Climate, January 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 2, 401-413)

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