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Modelling of Rift Propagation on Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, and Sensitivity to Climate Change, Larour, E.; Rignot, E.; Aubry, D., Geophysical Research Letters, August 31, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 16, L16404, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020077)

Microbreaking and the Enhancement of Air-Water Transfer Velocity, Zappa, C.J.; Asher, W.E.; Jessup, A.T.; Klinke, J.; Long, S.R., Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, August 27, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. C8, C08S16, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JC001897)

Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance 1991�2000: Application of Polar MM5 Mesoscale Model and In Situ Data, Box, J.E.; Bromwich, D.H.; Bai, L.-S., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 26, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D16, D16105, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004451)

Three-dimensional Simulations of Inorganic Aerosol Distributions in East Asia during Spring 2001, Tang, Y.; Carmichael, G.R.; Seinfeld, J.H.; Dabdub, D.; Weber, R.J.; Huebert, B.; Clarke, A.D.; Guazzotti, S.A.; Sodeman, D.A.; Prather, K.A.; Uno, I.; Woo, J.-H.; Yienger, J.J.; Streets, D.G.; Quinn, P.K.; Johnson, J.E.; Song, C.-H.; Grassian, V.H.; Sandu, A.; Talbot, R.W.; Dibb, J.E., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 25, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D16, D19S23, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004201)

Southern Cascadia Episodic Slow Earthquakes, Szeliga, W.; Melbourne, T.I.; Miller, M.M.; Santillan, V.M., Geophysical Research Letters, August 24, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 16, L16602, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020824)

Air-Sea Gas Transfer: Its Dependence On Wind Stress, Small-Scale Roughness, And Surface Films, Frew, N.M.; Bock, E.J.; Schimpf, U.; Hara, T.; Hauecker, H.; Edson, J.B.; McGillis, W.R.; Nelson, R.K.; McKenna, S.P.; Uz, B.M.; J�hne, B., Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, August 21, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. C8, C08S17, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JC002131)

Global Radiative Forcing of Coupled Tropospheric Ozone and Aerosols in a Unified General Circulation Model, Liao, H.; Seinfeld, J.H.; Adams, P.J.; Mickley, L.J., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 21, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D16, D16207, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004456)

A 3-D Model Analysis of the Slowdown and Interannual Variability in the Methane Growth Rate from 1988 to 1997, Wang, J.S.; Logan, J.A.; McElroy, M.B.; Duncan, B.N.; Megretskaia, I.A.; Yantosca, R.M., Global Biogeochemical Cycles, August 21, 2004 (Vol. 18, No. 3, GB3011, Paper No. 10.1029/2003GB002180)

Long-range Transport of Siberian Biomass Burning Emissions and Impact on Surface Ozone in Western North America, Jaffe, D.; Bertschi, I.; Jaegl�, L.; Novelli, P.; Reid, J.S.; Tanimoto, H.; Vingarzan, R.; Westphal, D.L., Geophysical Research Letters, August 20, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 16, L16106, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020093)

Islands as Miniature Continents: Another Look at the Land-Ocean Lightning Contrast, Williams, E.; Chan, T.; Boccippio, D., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 20, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D16, D16206, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003833)

Application of a Bias Estimator for the Improved Assimilation of Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) Carbon Monoxide Retrievals, Lamarque, J.-F.; Khattatov, B.; Yudin, V.; Edwards, D.P.; Gille, J.C.; Emmons, L.K.; Deeter, M.N.; Warner, J.; Ziskin, D.C.; Francis, G.L.; Ho, S.; Mao, D.; Chen, J.; Drummond, J.R., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 20, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D16, D16304, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004466)

Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation�Annual Beat in the Tropical Total Column Ozone: A Two-Dimensional Model Simulation, Jiang, X.; Camp, C.D.; Shia, R.; Noone, D.; Walker, C.; Yung, Y.L., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 20, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D16, D16305, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004377)

A Numerical Study of the Southwestern Atlantic Shelf Circulation: Barotropic Response to Tidal and Wind Forcing, Palma, E.D.; Matano, R.P.; Piola, A.R., Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, August 20, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. C8, C08014, Paper No. 10.1029/2004JC002315)

Variability in Arctic Sea Ice Drift, Pfirman, S.; Haxby, W.F.; Colony, R.; Rigor, I., Geophysical Research Letters, August 19, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 16, L16402, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020063)

Latitude-Dependent Vertical Mixing and the Tropical Thermocline in a Global OGCM, Canuto, V.M.; Howard, A.; Cheng, Y.; Miller, R.L., Geophysical Research Letters, August 19, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 16, L16305, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019891)

Fields of Nonlinear Regression Models for Inversion of Satellite Data, Pelletier, B.; Frouin, R., Geophysical Research Letters, August 19, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 16, L16304, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019840)

ICESat Observations of Arctic Sea Ice: A First Look, Kwok, R.; Zwally, H.J.; Yi, D., Geophysical Research Letters, August 18, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 16, L16401, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020309)

Methane Fluxes Between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere at Northern High Latitudes during The Past Century: A Retrospective Analysis with a Process-Based Biogeochemistry Model, Zhuang, Q.; Melillo, J.M.; Kicklighter, D.W.; Prinn, R.G.; McGuire, A.D.; Steudler, P.A.; Felzer, B.S.; Hu, S., Global Biogeochemical Cycles, August 18, 2004 (Vol. 18, No. 3, GB3010, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GB002239)

Mercury in the Atmosphere Around Japan, Korea, and China as Observed during the 2001 ACE-Asia Field Campaign: Measurements, Distributions, Sources, And Implications, Friedli, H.R.; Radke, L.F.; Prescott, R.; Li, P.; Woo, J.-H.; Carmichael, G.R., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 18, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D19, D19S25, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004244)

Electric Field Measurements in Noctilucent Clouds, Holzworth, R.; Goldberg, R.A., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 18, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D16, D16203, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004468)

Validation of a Global Reanalysis Model in Representing Synoptic�Scale Eddies Using Scatterometer Data: A Case Study, Peng, G., Geophysical Research Letters, August 17, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 16, L16201, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020297)

Comparison of MISR And AERONET Aerosol Optical Depths over Desert Sites, Martonchik, J.V.; Diner, D.J.; Kahn, R.; Gaitley, B.; Holben, B.N., Geophysical Research Letters, August 17, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 16, L16102, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL019807)

Radicals and Reservoirs in the GMI Chemistry and Transport Model: Comparison to Measurements, Douglass, A.R.; Stolarski, R.S., Strahan, S.E.; Connell, P.S., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 17, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D16, D16302, Paper No. 10.1029/2004JD004632)

Scattering Matrices of Volcanic Ash Particles of Mount St. Helens, Redoubt, and Mount Spurr Volcanoes, Munoz, O.; Volten, H.; Hovenier, J.W.; Veihelmann, B.; van der Zande, W.J.; Waters, L.B.F.M.; Rose, W.I., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 17, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D16, D16201, Paper No. 10.1029/2004JD004684)

Anomalously High Levels of NOx in the Polar Upper Stratosphere during April, 2004: Photochemical Consistency of HALOE Observations, Natarajan, M.; Remsberg, E.E.; Deaver, L.E.; Russell, J.M., III, Geophysical Research Letters, August 14, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 15, L15113, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020566)

Vertical Resolution and Information Content of [CO] Profiles Retrieved by MOPITT, Deeter, M.N.; Emmons, L.K.; Edwards, D.P.; Gille, J.C.; Drummond, J.R., Geophysical Research Letters, August 14, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 15, L15112, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020235)

An Extraordinary Upwelling Event in a Deep Thermally Stratified Lake GRL, Schladow, S.G.; P�lmarsson, S.�.; Steissberg, T.E.; Hook, S.J.; Prata, F.E., Geophysical Research Letters, August 13, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 15, L15504, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020392)

On the Cause of Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean T-S Variations Associated with El Ni�o, Wang, O.; Fukumori, I.; Lee, T.; Cheng, B., Geophysical Research Letters, August 12, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 15, L15309, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020188)

Natural and Transboundary Pollution Influences on Sulfate-Nitrate-Ammonium Aerosols in the United States: Implications for Policy, Park, R.J.; Jacob, D.J.; Field, B.D.; Yantosca, R.M.; Chin, M., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 12, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15204, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004473)

Export of Asian Pollution During Two Cold Front Episodes of the TRACE-P Experiment, Mari, C.; Evans, M.J.; Palmer, P.I.; Jacob, D.J.; Sachse, G. W., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 11, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15S17, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004307)

Linkages between Coastal Runoff and the Florida Keys Ecosystem: A Study of a Dark Plume Event, Hu, C.; Muller-Karger, F.E.; Vargo, G.A.; Neely, M.B.; Johns, E., Geophysical Research Letters, August 10, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 15, L15307, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020382)

Constraints on Asian and European Sources of Methane from CH4-C2H6-CO Correlations in Asian Outflow, Xiao, Y.; Jacob, D.J.; Wang, J.S.; Logan, J.A.; Palmer, P.I.; Suntharalingam, P.; Yantosca, R.M.; Sachse, G.W.; Blake, D.R.; Streets, D.G., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 10, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15S16, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004475)

Three-dimensional Structure and Evolution of Stratospheric HNO3 based on UARS Microwave Limb Sounder Measurements, Santee, M.L.; Manney, G.L.; Livesey, N.J.; Read, W.G., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 7, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15306, Paper No. 10.1029/2004JD004578)

Changes in the Thickness Distribution of Arctic Sea Ice between 1958�1970 and 1993�1997, Yu, Y.; Maykut, G.A.; Rothrock, D.A., Journal Of Geophysical Research-Oceans, August 6, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. C8, C08004, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JC001982)

Seasonal Variability of the South Equatorial Countercurrent, Chen, S.; Qui, B., Journal Of Geophysical Research-Oceans, August 5, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. C8, C08003, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JC002243)

Measuring Fluxes of Trace Gases at Regional Scales by Lagrangian Observations: Application to the CO2 Budget and Rectification Airborne (COBRA) Study, Lin, J.C.; Gerbig, C.; Wofsy, S.C.; Andrews, A.E.; Daube, B.C.; Grainger, C.A.; Stephens, B.B.; Bakwin, P.S.; Hollinger, D.Y.,Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 5, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15304, Paper No. 10.1029/2004JD004754)

Impacts of Dust on Regional Tropospheric Chemistry during the ACE-Asia Experiment: A Model Study with Observations, Tang, Y.; Carmichael, G.R.; Kurata, G.; Uno, I.; Weber, R.J.; Song, C.-H.; Guttikunda, S.K.; Woo, J.-H.; Streets, D.G.; Wei, C.; Clarke, A.D.; Huebert, B.; Anderson, T.L., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 4, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D19, D19S21, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD003806)

A New Way to Measure Cirrus Cloud Ice Water Content by Using Ice Raman Scatter With Raman Lidar, Wang, Z.; Whiteman, D.N.; Demoz, B.B.; Dixon, T.H.; Veselovskii, I., Geophysical Research Letters, August 4, 2004 (Vol. 31, No. 15, L15101, Paper No. 10.1029/2004GL020004)

Sensitivity of Global Modeling Initiative Model Predictions of Antarctic Ozone Recovery to Input Meteorological Fields, Considine, D.B.; Connell, P.S.; Bergmann, D.J.; Rotman, D.A.; Strahan, S.E., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, August 3, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. D15, D15301, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JD004487)

Modeling the Effects of Vegetation-Erosion Coupling on Landscape Evolution, Collins, D.B.G.; Bras, R.L.; Tucker, G.E.Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, August 3, 2004 (Vol. 109, No. F3, F03004, Paper No. 10.1029/2003JF000028)

Nonconservation of Ertel Potential Vorticity in Hydrogen Atmospheres, Gierasch, P.J.; Conrath, B.J.; Read, P.L., Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, August 2004 (Vol. 61, No. 15, 1953-1965)

Latitudinal and Frequency Characteristics of the Westward Propagation of Large-Scale Oceanic Variability, Fu, L.-L., Journal of Physical Oceanography, August 2004 (Vol. 34, No. 8, 1907-1921)

The Global S1 Tide, Ray, R.D.; Egbert, G.D., Journal of Physical Oceanography, August 2004 (Vol. 34, No. 8, 1922-1935)

Temperature Advection: Internal Versus External Processes, Lee, T.; Fukumori, I.; Tang, B., Journal of Physical Oceanography, August 2004 (Vol. 34, No. 8, 1936-1944)

Daytime Multilayered Cloud Detection Using Multispectral Imager Data, Nasiri, S.L.; Baum, B.A., Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, August 2004 (Vol. 21, No. 8, 1145-1155)

Wind Stress Curl and Wind Stress Divergence Biases from Rain Effects on QSCAT Surface Wind Retrievals, Milliff, R.F.; Morzel, J.; Chelton, D.B.; Freilich, M.H., Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, August 2004 (Vol. 21, No. 8, 1216-1231)

Blooms of Sigma TOPEX Radar Altimeter Data, Mitchum, G.T.; Hancock, D.W.; Hayne, G.S.; Vandemark, D.C., Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, August 2004 (Vol. 21, No. 8, 1232-1245)

Sea Surface Temperature of the Bay of Bengal Derived from the TRMM Microwave Imager, Bhat, G.S.; Vecchi, G.A.; Gadgil, S., Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, August 2004 (Vol. 21, No. 8, 1283-1290)

Variational Continuous Assimilation of TMI and SSM/I Rain Rates: Impact on GEOS-3 Hurricane Analyses and Forecasts, Hou, A.Y., Zhang, S.Q.; Reale, O., Monthly Weather Review, August 2004 (Vol. 132, No. 8, 2094-2109)

Scatterometer and Model Wind and Wind Stress in the Oregon-Northern California Coastal Zone, Perlin, N.; Samelson, R.M.; Chelton, D.B., Monthly Weather Review, August 2004 (Vol. 132, No. 8, 2110-2129)

Temperature Fields in the Tropical Tropopause Transition Layer, Zhou, X.L.; Geller, M.A.; Zhang, M., Journal of Climate, August 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 15, 2901-2908)

The Short-Term Cooling but Long-Term Global Warming Due to Biomass Burning, Jacobson, M.Z., Journal of Climate, August 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 15, 2909-2926)

Characteristics and Radiative Effects of Diamond Dust over the Western Arctic Ocean Region, Intrieri, J.M.; Shupe, M.D., Journal of Climate, August 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 15, 2953-2960)

Global Climate Simulation with the University of Wisconsin Global Hybrid Isentropic Coordinate Model, Schaack, T.D.; Zapotocny, T.H.; Lenzen, A.J.; Johnson, D.R., Journal of Climate, August 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 15, 2998-3016)

Impacts of the Indian Ocean on the Indian Summer Monsoon�ENSO Relationship, Wu, R.; Kirtman, B.P., Journal of Climate, August 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 15, 3037-3054)

Study of Ice Crystal Orientation in Cirrus Clouds Based on Satellite Polarized Radiance Measurements, Noel, V.; Chepfer, H., Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, August 2004 (Vol. 61, No. 6, 2073-2081)

Testing Mixed-Phase Cloud Water Vapor Parameterizations with SHEBA/FIRE-ACE Observations, Fu, Q.; Hollars, S., Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, August 2004 (Vol. 61, No. 6, 2083-2091)

Effects of Land Cover Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Mississippi River Basin, Twine, T.E.; Kucharik, C.J.; Foley, J.A., Journal of Hydrometeorology, August 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 4, 640-655)

The Summertime Atmospheric Hydrologic Cycle over the Southwestern United States, Anderson, B.T.; Kanamaru, H.; Roads, J.O., Journal of Hydrometeorology, August 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 4, 679-692)

A Markov Model for Seasonal Forecast of Antarctic Sea Ice, Chen, D.; Yuan, X., Journal of Climate, August 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 16, 3156-3168)

Cloud Radiative Forcing in Pacific, African, and Atlantic Tropical Convective Regions, Futyan, J.M.; Russell, J.E.; Harries, J.E., Journal of Climate, August 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 16, 3192-3202)

Sensitivity of Antarctic Precipitation to Sea Ice Concentrations in a General Circulation Model, Weatherly, J.W., Journal of Climate, August 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 16, 3214-3223)

On the Forcing of ENSO Teleconnections by Anomalous Heating and Cooling, DeWeaver, E.; Nigam, S., Journal of Climate, August 2004 (Vol. 17, No. 16, 3225-3235)

AIRS Subpixel Cloud Characterization Using MODIS Cloud Products , Li, J.; Menzel, W.P.; Sun, F.; Schmit, T.J.; Gurka, J., Journal of Applied Meteorology, August 2004 (Vol. 43, No. 8, 1083-1094)

Spectral Retrieval of Latent Heating Profiles from TRMM PR Data. Part I: Development of a Model-Based Algorithm, Shige, S.; Takayabu, Y.N.; Tao, W.-K., Johnson, D.E., Journal of Applied Meteorology, August 2004 (Vol. 43, No. 8, 1095-1113)

Uncertainties in Oceanic Radar Rain Maps at Kwajalein and Implications for Satellite Validation, Houze, R.A., Jr.; Brodzik, S.; Schumacher, C.; Yuter, S.E.; Williams, C.R., Journal of Applied Meteorology, August 2004 (Vol. 43, No. 8, 1114-1132)

Assessment of the Statistical Characterization of Small-Scale Rainfall Variability from Radar: Analysis of TRMM Ground Validation Datasets, Gebremichael, M.; Krajewski, W.F., Journal of Applied Meteorology, August 2004 (Vol. 43, No. 8, 1180-1199)

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