OUR CHANGING PLANET
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program
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Chapter References

The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for FY 2009 Chapter References

1)  IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor, and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

2)  NSTC Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology, 2007: Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States for the Next Decade:An Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy. Washington, DC, 84 pp.

3)  Meehl, G.A., C. Covey, T. Delworth, M. Latif, B. McAvaney, J.F.B. Mitchell, R.J. Stouffer, and K.E. Taylor, 2007: The WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset:A new era in climate change research. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88(9), 1383-1394, doi:10.1175/BAMS-88-9-1383.

4)  Meehl, G. A., W. M. Washington, B. D. Santer, W. D. Collins, J. M. Arblaster, A. Hu, D. Lawrence, H. Teng, L. E. Buja, and W. G. Strand, 2006: Climate change projections for twenty-first century and climate change commitment in the CCSM3. Journal of Climate, 19, 2597-2616.

5)  Thompson, L.G., E. Mosley-Thompson, H. Brecher, M. Davis, B. León, D. Les, P.-N. Lin, T. Mashiotta, and K. Mountain, 2006: Abrupt tropical climate change: Past and present. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 10536-10543, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603900103.

6)  Lyman, J.M., J.K. Willis, and G.C. Johnson, 2006: Recent cooling of the upper ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 33(18), L18604, doi:10.1029/2006GL027033.

7)  Willis, J.K., J.M. Lyman, G.C. Johnson, and J. Gilson, 2007: Correction to "Recent cooling of the upper ocean." Geophysical Research Letters, 34(16), L16601, doi:10.1029/2007GL030323.

8)  CCSP, 2007: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences. A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research [Karl, T.R., S.J. Hassol, C.D. Miller, and W.L. Murray (eds.)]. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC, 164 pp.

9)  Vinnikov, K.Y., N.C. Grody, A. Robock, R.J. Stouffer, P.D. Jones, and M.D. Goldberg, 2006: Temperature trends at the surface and in the troposphere. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D03106, doi:10.1029/2005jd006392.

10)  Sherwood, S.C., J. Lanzante, and C. Meyer, 2005: Radiosonde daytime biases and late 20th century warming. Science, 309, 1556-1559.

11)  Stroeve, J., M. Serreze, S. Drobot, S. Gearheard, M. Holland, J. Maslanik, W. Miere, and T. Scambos, 2008: Arctic sea ice extent plummets in 2007. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 89(2), 13-14.

12)  Luthcke, S.B., H.J. Zwally, W. Abdalati, D.D. Rowlands, R.D. Ray, R.S Nerem, F.G. Lemoine, J.J. McCarthy, and D.S. Chinn, 2006: Recent Greenland ice mass loss by drainage system from satellite gravity observations. Science, 314, 1286-1289, doi:10.1126/science.1130776.

13)  Lockwood, M. and C. Frohlich, 2007: Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate forcings and the global mean surface air temperature. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 463, 2447-2460, doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1880.

14)  Svensmark, H., 2007: Cosmoclimatology: a new theory emerges. Astronomy and Geophysics, 48(1), 18-24.

15)  McConnell, J.R., R. Edwards, G.L. Kok, M.G. Flanner, C.S. Zender, E.S. Saltzman, J.R. Banta, D.R. Pasteris, M.M. Carter, and J.D.W. Kahl, 2007: 20th-century industrial black carbon emissions altered arctic climate forcing. Science, 317, 1381-1384.

16)  Ramanathan, V., M.V. Ramana, G. Roberts, D. Kim, C. Corrigan, C. Chung, and D.Winker, 2007: Warming trends in Asia amplified by brown cloud solar absorption. Nature, 448, 575-578.

17)  Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, J.S. Reid, A. Sinyuk, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, D. Giles, N.T. O'Neill, S.-C. Tsay, Q. Ji, A. Al Mandoos, M. Ramzan Khan, E.A. Reid, J.S. Schafer,M. Sorokine, W. Newcomb, and I. Slutsker, 2008: Spatial and temporal variability of column-integrated aerosol optical properties in the southern Arabian Gulf and United Arab Emirates in summer. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D01204, doi:10.1029/2007JD008944.

18)  Quinn, P.K., G. Shaw, E. Andrews, E.G. Dutton, T. Ruoho-Airola, and S.L. Gong, 2007: Arctic haze: current trends and knowledge gaps. Tellus, 59B(1), 99-114.

19)  Sorooshian, A., M.-L. Lu, F.J. Brechtel, H. Fonsson, G. Feingold, R.C. Flagan, and J.H. Seinfeld, 2007: On the source of organic acid aerosol layers above clouds. Environmental Science and Technology, 41, 4647-4654.

20)  Xue, H., G. Feingold, and B. Stevens, 2008: Aerosol effects on clouds, precipitation, and the organization of shallow cumulus convection. Journal of Atmospheric Science, 65, 392-406, doi:10.1175/2007JAS2428.1.

21)  Cooper, O.R., M. Trainer, A.M. Thompson, S.J. Oltmans, D.W. Tarasick, J.C. Witte, A. Stohl, S. Eckhardt, J. Lelieveld,M.J. Newchurch, B.J. Johnson, R.W. Portmann, L. Kalnajs, M.K. Dubey, T. Leblanc, I.S. McDermid, G. Forbes, D. Wolfe, T. Carey-Smith, G.A. Morris, B. Lefer, B. Rappenglück, E. Joseph, F. Schmidlin, J. Meagher, F.C. Fehsenfeld, T.J. Keating, R.A. Van Curen, and K. Minschwaner, 2007: Evidence for a recurring eastern North America upper tropospheric ozone maximum during summer. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D23304, doi:10.1029/2007JD008710.

22)  Dong, X., B. Xi, and P. Minnis, 2006: Observational evidence of changes in water vapor, clouds, and radiation at the ARM SGP site. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L19818, doi:10.1029/2006GL027132.

23)  Jiang, J.H., N.J. Livesey, H. Su, L. Neary, J.C. McConnell, and N.A.D. Richards, 2007: Connecting surface emissions, convective uplifting, and long-range transport of carbon monoxide in the upper troposphere: New observations from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L18812, doi:10.1029/2007GL030638.

24)  Tao, Z., A. Williams, H.-C. Huang, M. Caughey, and X.-Z. Liang, 2007: Sensitivity of U.S. surface ozone to future emissions and climate changes. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L08811, doi:10.1029/2007GL029455.

25)  Newman, P.A., J.S. Daniel, D.W. Waugh, and E.R. Nash, 2007 .A new formulation of equivalent effective stratospheric chlorine (EESC). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7, 4537-4552.

26)  LeMone, M.A., F. Chen, J.G. Alfieri, M. Tewari, B. Geerts, Q. Miao, R.L. Grossman, and R.L. Coulter, 2007: Influence of land cover and soil moisture on the horizontal distribution of sensible and latent heat fluxes in southeast Kansas during IHOP_2002 and CASES-97. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8(1), 68-87.

27)  Magnani, F., M. Mencuccini, M. Borghetti, P. Berbigier, F. Berninger, S. Delzon, A. Grelle, P. Hari, P.G. Jarvis, P. Kolari, A.S. Kowalski, H. Lankreijer, B.E. Law, A. Lindroth, D. Loustau, G. Manca, J.B. Moncrieff, M. Rayment, V.Tedeschi, R.Valentini, and J. Grace, 2007: The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests. Nature, 447(7146), 849-851.

28)  CCSP, 2007. The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research [King, A.W., L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks (eds.)]. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA, 242 pp.

29)  Bamber, J.L., R.B. Alley, and I. Joughin, 2007: Rapid response of modern day ice sheets to external forcing. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 257(1-2), 1-13.

30)  Francis, J.A., and E. Hunter, 2007: Drivers of declining sea ice in the Arctic winter: A tale of two seas. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L17503, doi:10:1029/2007GL030995.

31)  Meier, M.F., M.B. Dyurgerov, U.K. Rick, S. O’Neel, W.T. Pfeffer, R.S. Anderson, S. Anderson, and A.F. Glazovsk, 2007: Glaciers dominate eustatic sea-level rise in the 21st century. Science, 317(5841), 1064-1067.

32)  Rahmstorf, S., 2007: A semi-empirical approach to projecting future sea-level rise. Science, 315(5810), 368-370.

33)  Walter, K.M., S.A. Zimov, J.P. Chanton, D. Verbyla, and F.S. Chapin, 2006: Methane bubbling from Siberian thaw lakes as a positive feedback to climate warming. Nature, 443(7107), 71-75.

34)  Johansson, T., and D. Lesnic, 2006: Reconstruction of a stationary flow from incomplete boundary data using iterative methods. European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 17(6), 651-663.

35)  Seager, R., 2007: The turn of the century North American drought: Global context, dynamics, and past analogs. Journal of Climate, 20(22), 5527-5552.

36)  Bates, N.R., and A.J. Peters, 2007: The contribution of acid deposition to ocean acidification in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean. Marine Chemistry, 107, 547-558.

37)  Doney, S.C., N. Mahowald, I. Lima, R.A. Feely, F.T. Mackenzie, J.-F. Lamarque, and P.J. Rasch, 2007: The impact of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen and sulfur deposition on ocean acidification and the inorganic carbon system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 14580-14585, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702218104.

38)  CCSP, 2007: Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the United States. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the subcommittee on Global Change Research [Wilbanks, T. J., V. Bhatt, D.E. Bilello, S.R. Bull, J. Ekmann, W.C. Horak, Y.J. Huang, M.D. Levine, M.J. Sale, D.K. Schmalzer, and M.J. Scott (authors)]. Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, DC, USA, 160 pp.

39)  Bradley, R.S., M. Vuille, H.F. Diaz, and W. Vergara, 2006: Threats to water supplies in the tropical Andes. Science, 312(5781), 1755-1756.

40)  CCSP, 2007: Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations (Part A) and Global- Change Scenarios: Their Development and Use (Part B). A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research [Clarke, L., J. Edmonds, J. Jacoby, H. Pitcher, J. Reilly, R. Richels, E. Parson, V. Burkett, K. Fisher-Vanden, D. Keith, L. Mearns, C. Rosenzweig, M. Webster (authors)]. Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, DC, USA, 260 pp.

41)  Snover, A.K., L. Whitely Binder, J. Lopez, E. Willmott, J. Kay, D. Howell, and J. Simmonds, 2007: Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments. In association with and published by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Oakland, CA.