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The 1997/98 El Nino: A Test for Climate Models, Lu, R.; Dong, B.; Cess, R.D.; Potter, G.L., Geophysical Research Letters, June 30, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 12, L12216, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019956)

A Procedure for Evaluating Feedback Mechanisms in Coupled Atmosphere/Ocean Climate Models, Sun, M.; Cess, R.D., Geophysical Research Letters, June 30, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 12, L12215, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019876)

Observations of Organic Species and Atmospheric Ice Formation, Cziczo, D.J.; DeMott, P.J.; Brooks, S.D.; Prenni, A.J.; Thomson, D.S.; Baumgardner, D.; Wilson, J.C.; Kreidenweis, S.M.; Murphy, D.M., Geophysical Research Letters, June 30, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 12, L12216, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019822)

Mesoscale Gravity Wave Variances from AMSU-A Radiances, Wu, D.L., Geophysical Research Letters, June 29, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 12, L12214, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019562)

Anomalous Recent Growth of Part of a Large Arctic Ice Cap: Austfonna, Svalbard, Bamber, J.; Krabill, W.; Raper, V.; Dowdeswell, J., Geophysical Research Letters, June 25, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 12, L12402, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019667)

The Footprint of Urban Climates on Vegetation Phenology, Zhang, X.; Friedl, M.A.; Schaaf, C.B.; Strahler, A.H.; Schneider, A., Geophysical Research Letters, June 25, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 12, L12209, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020137)

A three-dimensional regional modeling study of the impact of clouds on sulfate distributions during TRACE-P, Kittaka, C.; Pierce, R.B.; Crawford, J.H.; Hitchman, M.H.; Johnson, D.R.; Tripoli, G.J.; Chin, M.; Bandy, A.R.; Weber, R.J.; Talbot, R.W.; Anderson, B.E., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 25, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15S11, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004353)

Aerosol Particles from Tropical Convective Systems: Cloud Tops and Cirrus Anvils, Kojima, T.; Buseck, P.R.; Wilson, J.C.; Reeves, J.M.; Mahoney, M.J., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 25, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D12, D12201, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004504)

Use Of Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function Products to Enhance Simulated Surface Albedos, Roesch, A.; Schaaf, C.; Gao, F., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 25, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D12, D12105, Paper No. 10.1029/2004JD004552)

A Comparison of Geographical Information Systems-based Algorithms for Computing the TOPMODEL Topographic Index, Pan, F.; Peters-Lidard, C.D.; Sale, M.J.; King, A.W.,Water Resources Research, June 24, 2004 (Vol. 40, No. 6, W06303, Paper No. 10.1029/2004WR003069)

Testing Fast Photochemical Theory during TRACE-P Based on Measurements of [OH], [HO2], and [CH2O], Olson, J.R.; Crawford, J.H.; Chen, G.; Fried, A.; Evans, M.J.; Jordan, C.E.; Sandholm, S.T.; Davis, D.D.; Anderson, B.E.; Avery, M.A.; Barrick, J.D.; Blake, D.R.; Brune, W.H.; Eisele, F.L.; Flocke, F.; Harder, H.; Jacob, D.J.; Kondo, Y.; Lefer, B.L.; Martinez, M.; Mauldin, R.L.; Sachse, G.W.; Shetter, R.E.; Singh, H.B.; Talbot, R.W.; Tan, D. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 22, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15S10, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004278)

Spatial and Temporal Variation of MOPITT [CO] in Africa and South America: A Comparison with SHADOZ Ozone and MODIS Aerosol, Bremer, H.; Kar, J.; Drummond, J.R.; Nichitu, F.; Zou, J.; Liu, J.; Gille, J.C.; Deeter, M.N.; Francis, G.; Ziskin, D.; Warner, J., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 22, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D12, D12304, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004234)

Generalized Hydraulic Geometry: Derivation Based on a Multiscaling Formalism, Dodov, B.; Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Water Resources Research, June 18, 2004 (Vol. 40, No. 6, W06302, Paper No. 10.1029/2003WR002082)

Does the Taiwan Warm Current Exist in Winter?, Zhu, J.; Chen, C.; Ding, P.; Li, C.; Lin, H., Geophysical Research Letters, June 16, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 12, L12302, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019997)

The Pattern of Northern Hemisphere Surface Air Temperature during Prolonged Periods of Low Solar Output, Ruzmaikin, A.; Feynman, J.; Jiang, X.; Noone, D.C.; Waple, A.M.; Yung, Y.L., Geophysical Research Letters, June 16, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 12, L12201, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019955)

Seasonal Mass Balance of Halogens in Simulated Rice Paddies, Redeker, K.R.; Manley, S.L.; Brothers, L.; McDuffee, K.; Walser, M.; Cicerone, R.J., Geophysical Research Letters, June 15, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 11, L11504, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019579)

A Study of the [Nox] Dependence of Isoprene Oxidation, Barket, D.J., Jr.; Grossenbacher, J.W.; Hurst, J.M.; Shepson, P.B.; Olszyna, K.; Thornberry, T.; Carroll, M.A.; Roberts, J.; Stroud, C.; Bottenheim, J.; Biesenthal, T., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 15, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D11, D11310, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003965)

A Generalized Omori's Law for Earthquake Aftershock Decay, Shcherbakov, R.; Turcotte, D.L.; Rundle, J.B., Geophysical Research Letters, June 12, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 11, L11613, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019808)

The 2003 Bam (Iran) Earthquake: Rupture of a Blind Strike-Slip Fault, Talebian, M.; Fielding, E.J.; Funning, G.J.; Ghorashi, M.; Jackson, J.; Nazari, H.; Parsons, B.; Priestley, K.; Rosen, P.A.; Walker, R.; Wright, T.J., Geophysical Research Letters, June 11, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 11, L11611, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020058)

Emissions from Miombo Woodland and Dambo Grassland Savanna Fires, Sinha, P.; Hobbs, P.V.; Yokelson, R.J.; Blake, D.R.; Gao, S.; Kirchstetter, T.W., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 10, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. D11, D11305, Paper No. 10.1029/2004JD004521)

Time-Variable Gravity From GRACE: First Results, Wahr, J.; Swenson, S.; Zlotnicki, V.; Velicogna, I., Geophysical Research Letters, June 9, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 11, L11501, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019779)

Anatomy of a Flux Transfer Event Seen By Cluster, Sonnerup, B.U.; Hasegawa, H.; Paschmann, G., Geophysical Research Letters, June 8, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 11, L11803, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020134)

Size Distributions and Mixtures of Dust and Black Carbon Aerosol in Asian Outflow: Physiochemistry and Optical Properties, Clarke, A.D.; Shinozuka, Y.; Kapustin, V.N.; Howell, S.; Huebert, B.; Doherty, S.; Anderson, T.; Covert, D.; Anderson, J.; Hua, X.; Moore, K.G., II; McNaughton, C.; Carmichael, G.; Weber, R., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 8, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15S09, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004378)

Daily Changes in Global Cloud Cover and Earth Transits of the Heliospheric Current Sheet, Kniveton, D.R.; Tinsley, B.A., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 8, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D11, D11201, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004232)

Characterization of the Temporal Sampling Error in Space-Time-Averaged Rainfall Estimates from Satellites, Gebremichael, M.; Krajewski, W.F., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 8, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D11, D11110, Paper No. 10.1029/2004JD004509)

[CO2] Seasonality Indicates Origins of Post-Pinatubo Sink, Angert, A.; Biraud, S.; Bonfils, C.; Buermann, W.; Fung, I., Geophysical Research Letters, June 5, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 11, L11103, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019760)

Impact of Elevated Atmospheric [CO2] on Forest Floor Respiration in a Temperate Pine Forest, Suwa, M.; Katul, G.G.; Oren, R.; Andrews, J.; Pippen, J.; Mace, A.; Schlesinger, W.H., Global Biogeochemical Cycles, June 5, 2004 (Vol. 18, No. 2, GB2013, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GB002182)

Global Estimates of Biomass Burning Emissions Based on Satellite Imagery for the Year 2000, Ito, A.; Penner, J.E., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 5, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D14, D14S05, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004423)

Borehole Climate Reconstructions: Spatial Structure and Hemispheric Averages, Pollack, H.N.; Smerdon, J.E., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 5, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D11, D11106, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004163)

A Study of Ozone Variability and Its Connection with Meridional Transport in the Northern Pacific Lower Stratosphere during Summer 2002, Leblanc, T.; McDermid, I.S.; Hauchecorne, A., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 4, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D11, D11105, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004027)

Soil Moisture as an Indicator of Weather Extremes, Lakshmi, V.; Piechota, T.; Narayan, U.; Tang, C., Geophysical Research Letters, June 4, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 11, L11401, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019930)

Pattern and Trend Analysis of Temperature in a Set of Seasonal Ensemble Simulations, Zhao, M.; Dirmeyer, P.A., Geophysical Research Letters, June 4, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 11, L11202, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL019298)

Underestimation of Deep Convective Cloud Tops by Thermal Imagery, Sherwood, S.C.; Chae, J.-H.; Minnis, P.; McGill, M., Geophysical Research Letters, June 4, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 11, L11102, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019699)

Long-range Transport of Sulfur Dioxide in the Central Pacific, Tu, F.H.; Thornton, D.C.; Bandy, A.R.; Carmichael, G.R.; Tang, Y.; Thornhill, K.L.; Sachse, G.W.; Blake, D.R., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 3, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15S08, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004309)

Analysis of the Atmospheric Distribution, Sources, and Sinks of Oxygenated Volatile Organic Chemicals Based on Measurements over the Pacific during TRACE-P, Singh, H.B.; Salas, L.J.; Chatfield, R.B.; Czech, E.; Fried, A.; Walega, J.; Evans, M.J.; Field, B.D.; Jacob, D.J.; Blake, D.; Heikes, B.; Talbot, R.; Sachse, G.; Crawford, J.H.; Avery, M.A.; Sandholm, S.; Fuelberg, H., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 3, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15S07, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003883)

Intercomparisons of Airborne Measurements of Aerosol Ionic Chemical Composition during TRACE-P and ACE-Asia, Ma, Y.; Weber, R.J.; Maxwell-Meier, K.; Orsini, D.A.; Lee, Y.-N.; Huebert, B.J.; Howell, S.G.; Bertram, T.; Talbot, R.W.; Dibb, J.E.; Scheuer, E., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 3, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15S06, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003673)

Carbonyl Sulfide and Carbon Disulfide: Large-scale Distributions over the Western Pacific and Emissions from Asia during Trace-P, Blake, N.J.; Streets, D.G.; Woo, J.-H.; Simpson, I.J.; Green, J.; Meinardi, S.; Kita, K.; Atlas, E.; Fuelberg, H.E.; Sachse, G.; Avery, M.A.; Vay, S.A.; Talbot, R.W.; Dibb, J.E.; Bandy, A.R.; Thornton, D.C.; Rowland, F.S.; Blake, D.R., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, June 3, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15S05, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004259)

In-Situ Observations of Mid-Latitude Forest Fire Plumes Deep in the Stratosphere, Jost, H.; Drdla, K.; Stohl, A.; Pfister, L.; Loewenstein, M.; Lopez, J.P.; Hudson, P.K.; Murphy, D.M.; Cziczo, D.J.; Fromm, M.; Bui, T.P.; Dean-Day, J.; Gerbig, C.; Mahoney, M.J.; Richard, E.C.; Spichtinger, N.; Pittman, J.V.; Weinstock, E.M.; Wilson, J.C.; Xueref, I., Geophysical Research Letters, June 2, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 11, L11101, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GL019253)

Observational Evidence for the Mutual Regulation of the Tropical Hydrological Cycle and Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures, Stephens, G.L.; Webster, P.J.; Johnson, R.H.; Engelen, R.; L'Ecuyer, T., Journal of Climate, June 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 11, 2213-2224)

Globally Unified Monsoon Onset and Retreat Indexes, Zeng, X.; Lu, E., Journal of Climate, June 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 11, 2241-2248)

A Method for Unbiased High-Resolution Aerosol Retrieval from Landsat, Lyapustin, A.; Williams, D.L.; Markham, B.; Irons, J.; Holben, B.; Wang, Y., Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, June 2004 (Vol. 61, No. 11, 1233-1244)

Mountain Torques and Northern Hemisphere Low-Frequency Variability.Part I: Hemispheric Aspects, Lott, F.; Robertson, A.W.; Ghil, M., Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, June 2004 (Vol. 61, No. 11, 1259-1271)

Mountain Torques and Northern Hemisphere Low-Frequency Variability. Part II: Regional Aspects, Lott, F.; Robertson, A.W.; Ghil, M., Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, June 2004 (Vol. 61, No. 11, 1272-1283)

Internal Waves in a Lagrangian Reference Frame, Broutman, D.; Grimshaw, R.H.J.; Eckermann, S.D., Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, June 2004 (Vol. 61, No. 11, 1308-1313)

Factors Affecting the Posttransition Intensification of Hurricane Irene (1999), Evans, J.L.; Prater-Mayes, B.E.; Monthly Weather Review, June 2004 (Vol. 132, No. 6, 1355-1368)

A Multi-scale Numerical Study of Hurricane Andrew (1992). Part VI: Small-Scale Inner-Core Structures and Wind Streaks, Yau, M.K; Liu, Y.; Zhang, D.-L.; Chen, Y., Monthly Weather Review, June 2004 (Vol. 132, No. 6, 1410-1433)

A Modeling Study of Coastal-Trapped Wave Propagation in the Gulf of California. Part I: Response to Remote Forcing, Martinez, J.A.; Allen, J.S., Journal of Physical Oceanography, June 2004 (Vol. 34, No. 6, 1313-1331)

A Modeling Study of Coastal-Trapped Wave Propagation in the Gulf of California. Part II: Response to Idealized Forcing, Martinez, J.A.; Allen, J.S., Journal of Physical Oceanography, June 2004 (Vol. 34, No. 6, 1332-1349)

Remote Sensing of Liquid Water and Ice Cloud Optical Thickness and Effective Radius in the Arctic: Application of Airborne Multispectral MAS Data, King, M.D.; Platnick, S.; Yang, P.; Arnold, G.T.; Gray, M.A.; Riedi, J.C.; Ackerman, S.A.; Liou, K.-N., Journal of of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, June 2004 (Vol. 21, No. 6, 857-875)

Velocity Error for Coherent Doppler Lidar with Pulse Accumulation, Frehlich, R., Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, June 2004 (Vol. 21, No. 6, 905-920)

Interannual, Monthly, and Regional Variability in the Wet Season Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Mohr, K.I., Journal of Climate, June 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 12, 2441-2453)

Central U.S. Atmospheric Water and Energy Budgets Adjusted for Diurnal Sampling Biases Using Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation, Kanamaru, H.; Salvucci, G.D.; Entekhabi, D., Journal of Climate, June 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 12, 2454-2465)

Global Soil Moisture from Satellite Observations, Land Surface Models, and Ground Data: Implications for Data Assimilation, Reichle, R.H.; Koster, R.D.; Dong, J.; Berg, A.A., Journal of Hydrometeorology, June 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 3, 430-442)

CMORPH: A Method That Produces Global Precipitation Estimates from Passive Microwave and Infrared Data at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution, Joyce, R.J.; Janowiak, J.E.; Arkin, P.A.; Xie, P., Journal of Hydrometeorology, June 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 3, 487-503)

Suggestions in the Observational Record of Land-Atmosphere Feedback Operating at Seasonal Time Scales, Koster, R.D.; Suarez, M.J., Journal of Hydrometeorology, June 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 3, 567-572)

The Tropopause and the Thermal Stratification in the Extratropics of a Dry Atmosphere, Schneider, T., Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, June 2004 (Vol. 61, No. 12, 1317-1340)

The Tropical Dynamical Response to Latent Heating Estimates Derived from the TRMM Precipitation Radar, Schumacher, C.; Houze, R.A.; Kraucunas, I., Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, June 2004 (Vol. 61, No. 12, 1341-1358)

Validation of Maritime Rainfall Retrievals from the TRMM Microwave Radiometer, Kim, M.-J.; Weinman, J.A.; Houze, R.A., Journal of Applied Meteorology, June 2004 (Vol. 43, No. 6, 847-859)

A Cloud Fraction versus View Angle Technique for Automatic In-Scene Evaluation of the MISR Cloud Mask, Zhao, G.; Di Girolamo, L., Journal of Applied Meteorology, June 2004 (Vol. 43, No. 6, 860-869)

Modeling Carbon Sequestration over the Large-Scale Amazon Basin, Aided by Satellite Observations. Part I: Wet- and Dry-Season Surface Radiation Budget Flux and Precipitation Variability Based on GOES Retrievals, Gu, J. Eric A. Smith, E.A.; Cooper, H.J.; Andrew Grose, Guosheng Liu, James D. Merritt, Maarten J. Waterloo, Alessandro C. de Ara[uacute]jo, Antonio D. Nobre, Antonio O. Manzi, Jose Marengo, Paulo J. de Oliveira, Celso von Randow, John Norman, Pedro Silva DiasJournal of Applied Meteorology, June 2004 (Vol. 43, No. 6, 860-869)

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