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Projected Changes in Arctic Ocean Freshwater Budgets, Holland, M. M., J. Finnis, A. P. Barrett, and M. C. Serreze, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, October 26, 2007 (Vol. 112, G04S55, doi: 10.1029/2006JG000354)

Impacts of Climate Warming and Permafrost Thaw on the Riverine Transport of Nitrogen and Phosphorus to the Kara Sea, Frey, K. E., J. W. McClelland, R. M. Holmes, and L. C. Smith, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, October 26, 2007 (Vol. 112, G04S58, doi: 10.1029/2006JG000369)

On the Opposing Roles of Air Temperature and Wind Speed Variability in Flux Estimation From Remotely Sensed Land Surface States, Bertoldi, G., J. D. Albertson, W. P. Kustas, F. Li, and M. C. Anderson, Water Resources Journal, October 26, 2007 (Vol. 43, W10433, doi: 10.1029/2007WR005911)

Recent Widening of the Tropical Belt: Evidence From Tropopause Observations, Seidel, D. J., and W. J. Randel, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 25, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20113, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008861)

Potential Impact of Changes in River Nutrient Supply on Global Ocean Biogeochemistry, Cotrim da Cunha, L., E. T. Buitenhuis, C. Le Qu�r�, X. Giraud, and W. Ludwig, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, October 24, 2007 (Vol. 21, GB4007, doi: 10.1029/2006GB002718)

Near Global Observations of the Warm Rain Coalescence Process, Stephens, G. L., and J. M. Haynes, Geophysical Research Letters, October 23, 2007 (Vol. 34, L20805, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030259)

Role of Isoprene in Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation on a Regional Scale, Zhang, Y., J. Huang, D. K. Henze, and J. H. Seinfeld, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 23, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20207, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008675)

A Methodology to Retrieve Self-Consistent Aerosol Optical Properties Using Common Aircraft Measurements, Magi, B. I., Q. Fu, and J. Redemann, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 23, 2007 (Vol. 112, D24S12, doi: 10.1029/2006JD008312)

Variability of Mesospheric Diurnal Tides and Tropospheric Diurnal Heating During 1997�1998, Lieberman, R. S., D. M. Riggin, D. A. Ortland, S. W. Nesbitt, and R. A. Vincent, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 20, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20110, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008578)

Developing a Spatially Continuous 1 km Surface Albedo Data Set Over North America from Terra MODIS Products, Fang, H., S. Liang, H. Kim, J. R. Townshend, C. L. Schaaf, A. H. Strahler, and R. E. Dickinson, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 20, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20206, doi: 10.1029/2006JD008377)

Effect of Dynamical-Photochemical Coupling on Oxygen Airglow Emission and Implications for Daytime Ozone Retrieved From 1.27 �m Emission, Zhu, X., J. Yee, and E. R. Talaat, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 20, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20304, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008447)

Midlatitude Tropospheric Ozone Columns Derived From the Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument and Microwave Limb Sounder Measurements, Yang, Q., D. M. Cunnold, H. Wang, L. Froidevaux, H. Claude, J. Merrill, M. Newchurch, and S. J. Oltmans, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 20, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20305, doi: 10.1029/2007JD0085287)

Surface and Subsurface Composition of the Life in the Atacama Field Sites From Rover Data and Orbital Image Analysis, Piatek, J. L. et al., Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, October 20, 2007 (Vol. 112, G04S04, doi: 10.1029/2006JG000317)

Estimates of Tidal Energy Dissipation and Diapycnal Diffusivity in the Kuril Straits Using TOPEX/POSEIDON Altimeter Data, Tanaka, Y., T. Hibiya, and Y. Niwa, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, October 20, 2007 (Vol. 112, C10021, doi: 10.1029/2007JC004172)

A Synthesis of Global Particle Export From the Surface Ocean and Cycling Through the Ocean Interior and on the Seafloor, Dunne, J. P., J. L. Sarmiento, and A. Gnanadesikan, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, October 19, 2007 (Vol. 21, GB4006, doi: 10.1029/2006GB002907)

Manifestation of Remote Response Over the Equatorial Pacific in a Climate Model, Misra, V., and L. Marx, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 19, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20105, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008597)

Seasonal Heat Budgets of the Red and Black Seas, Matsoukas, C., A. C. Banks, K. G. Pavlakis, N. Hatzianastassiou, P. W. Stackhouse, and I. Vardavas, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, October 19, 2007 (Vol. 112, C10017, doi: 10.1029/2006JC003849)

Retrieval of Volcanic SO2 Column Abundance from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Data, Prata, A. J., and C. Bernardo, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 19, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20204, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007955)

Nd Isotopic Constraints on the Origin of Suspended Particles in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean, Hegner, E., H. J. Dauelsberg, M. M. Rutgers van der Loeff, C. Jeandel, H. J. W. de Baar, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, October 18, 2007 (Vol. 8, Q10008, doi: 10.1029/2007GC001666)

Reversal of Trend of Biomass Burning in the Amazon, Koren, I., L. A. Remer, and K. Longo, Geophysical Research Letters, October 18, 2007 (Vol. 34, L20404, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031530)

Airborne Validation of Spatial Properties Measured by the CALIPSO Lidar, McGill, M. J., M. A. Vaughan, C. R. Trepte, W. D. Hart, D. L. Hlavka, D. M. Winker, and R. Kuehn, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 17, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20201, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008768)

Relationship of Electric Field and Charged Particle Density Fluctuations to Air Turbulence in the Mesosphere, Robertson, S., Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 17, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20203, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008412)

Sensitivity of Chemical Tracers to Meteorological Parameters in the MOZART-3 Chemical Transport Model, Kinnison, D. E. et al., Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 17, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20302, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007879)

An Evaluation of MODIS 250-m Data for Green LAI Estimation in Crops, Lawrence, J. E., and G. M. Hornberger, Geophysical Research Letters, October 16, 2007 (Vol. 34, L20403, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031620)

Temperature Anomaly Reemergence in Seasonally Frozen Soils, Schaefer, K. M., T. Zhang, P. P. Tans, and R. St�ckli, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 16, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20102, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008630)

Climate Response to Projected Changes in Short-Lived Species Under an A1B Scenario From 2000�2050 in the GISS Climate Model, Shindell, D. T., G. Faluvegi, S. E. Bauer, D. M. Koch, N. Unger, S. Menon, R. L. Miller, G. A. Schmidt, and D. G. Streets, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 16, 2007 (Vol. 112, D20103, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008753)

Annual Temperature Cycle of the Tropical Tropopause: A Simple Model Study, Chae, J. H., and S. C. Sherwood, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 13, 2007 (Vol. 112, D19111, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007956)

Maintenance of Ecosystem Nitrogen Limitation by Ephemeral Forest Disturbance: An Assessment Using MODIS, Hyperion, and Landsat ETM+, McNeil, B. E., K. M. de Beurs, K. N. Eshleman, J. R. Foster, and P. A. Townsend, Geophysical Research Letters, October 13, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19406, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031387)

On the Variability of Mesospheric OH Emission Profiles, Nikoukar, R., G. R. Swenson, A. Z. Liu, and F. Kamalabadi, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 12, 2007 (Vol. 112, D19109, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008601)

Comparison of Measured and Modeled Ozone Above McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 1989�2003, During Austral Winter/Spring, Mercer, J. L., C. Kr�ger, B. Nardi, B. J. Johnson, M. P. Chipperfield, S. W. Wood, S. E. Nichol, M. L. Santee, and T. Deshler, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 12, 2007 (Vol. 112, D19307, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007982)

Isotopic Evidence for Mesoarchaean Anoxia and Changing Atmospheric Sulphur Chemistry, Farquhar, J., M. Peters, D. T. Johnston, H. Strauss, A. Masterson, U. Wiechert, A. J. Kaufman, Nature, October 11, 2007 (Vol. 449, doi: 10.1038/nature06202)

Observations of a Noctilucent Cloud above Logan, Utah (41.7�N, 111.8�W) in 1995, Herron, J. P., V. B. Wickwar, P. J. Espy, and J. W. Meriwether, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 11, 2007 (Vol. 112, D19203, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007158)

Assessment of the Performance of ECC-Ozonesondes Under Quasi-Flight Conditions in the Environmental Simulation Chamber: Insights From the Juelich Ozone Sonde Intercomparison Experiment (JOSIE), Smit, H. G. J. et al., Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 11, 2007 (Vol. 112, D19306, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007308)

Increasing Solar Heating of the Arctic Ocean and Adjacent Seas, 1979�2005: Attribution and Role in the Ice-Albedo Feedback, Perovich, D. K., B. Light, H. Eicken, K. F. Jones, K. Runciman, and S. V. Nghiem, Geophysical Research Letters, October 11, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19505, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031480)

Detecting Tsunami Genesis and Scales Directly From Coastal GPS Stations, Song, Y. T., Geophysical Research Letters, October 11, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19602, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031681)

Simple Doppler Wind Lidar Adaptive Observation Experiments With 3D-Var and an Ensemble Kalman Filter in a Global Primitive Equations Model, Liu, J., and E. Kalnay, Geophysical Research Letters, October 11, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19808, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030707)

Contemporary Estimates of Pan-Arctic Freshwater Discharge from GRACE and Reanalysis, Syed, T. H., J. S. Famiglietti, V. Zlotnicki, and M. Rodell, Geophysical Research Letters, October 10, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19307, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031076)

An Improved Derivation of the Top-of-Atmosphere Albedo From POLDER/ADEOS-2: 2. Broadband Albedo, Buriez, J., F. Parol, Z. Poussi, and M. Viollier, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 10, 2007 (Vol. 112, D19201, doi: 10.1029/2006JD008257)

An Explanation for the Effect of Clouds Over Snow on the Top-of-Atmosphere Bidirectional Reflectance, Hudson, S. R., and S. G. Warren, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 10, 2007 (Vol. 112, D19202, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008541)

Impact of Argo, SST, and Altimeter Data on an Eddy-Resolving Ocean Reanalysis, Oke, P. R., and A. Schiller, Geophysical Research Letters, October 9, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19601, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031549)

Intraseasonal Variability in the Summer South China Sea: Wind jet, Cold Filament, and Recirculations, Xie, S., C. Chang, Q. Xie, and D. Wang, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, October 9, 2007 (Vol. 112, C10008, doi: 10.1029/2007JC004238)

Rapid Decline of the CO2 Buffering Capacity in the North Sea and Implications for the North Atlantic Ocean, Thomas, H. et al., Global Biogeochemical Cycles, October 6, 2007 (Vol. 21, GB4001, doi: 10.1029/2006GB002825)

Multiyear Satellite Observations of the Atmospheric Response to Atlantic Tropical Instability Waves, Wu, Q., and K. P. Bowman, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 5, 2007 (Vol. 112, D19104, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008627)

P�hoehoe Flow Cooling, Discharge, and Coverage Rates From Thermal Image Chronometry, Harris, A. J. L., J. Dehn, M. R. James, C. Hamilton, R. Herd, L. Lodato, and A. Steffke, Geophysical Research Letters, October 5, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19303, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030791)

Atmospheric Total Precipitable Water from AIRS and ECMWF During Antarctic Summer, Ye, H., E. J. Fetzer, D. H. Bromwich, E. F. Fishbein, E. T. Olsen, S. L. Granger, S. Lee, L. Chen, and B. H. Lambrigtsen, Geophysical Research Letters, October 5, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19701, doi: 10.1029/2006GL028547)

Larsen B Ice Shelf Rheology Preceding its Disintegration Inferred by a Control Method, Khazendar, A., E. Rignot, and E. Larour, Geophysical Research Letters, October 4, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19503, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030980)

Rapid Reduction of Arctic Perennial Sea Ice, Nghiem, S. V., I. G. Rigor, D. K. Perovich, P. Clemente-Col�n, J. W. Weatherly, and G. Neumann, Geophysical Research Letters, October 4, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19504, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031138)

Modeling the Photochemical Origins of the Extreme Deuterium Enrichment in Sstratospheric H2, Mar, K. A., M. C. McCarthy, P. Connell, and K. A. Boering, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 4, 2007 (Vol. 112, D19302, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007403)

Parameterization for the Relative Humidity Dependence of Light Extinction: Organic-Ammonium Sulfate Aerosol, Garland, R. M., A. R. Ravishankara, E. R. Lovejoy, M. A. Tolbert, and T. Baynard, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, October 4, 2007 (Vol. 112, D19303, doi: 10.1029/2006JD008179)

Assessment of Second-Generation MODIS Aerosol Retrieval (Collection 005) at Kanpur, India, Jethva, H., S. K. Satheesh, and J. Srinivasan, Geophysical Research Letters, October 3, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19802, doi: 10.1029/2007GL029647)

Initial Performance Assessment of CALIOP, Winker, D. M., W. H. Hunt, and M. J. McGill, Geophysical Research Letters, October 3, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19803, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030135)

Baffin Bay Ice Drift and Export: 2002�2007, Kwok, R., Geophysical Research Letters, October 2, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19501, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031204)

Observed and Modeled HOCl Profiles in the Midlatitude Stratosphere: Implication for Ozone Loss, Kovalenko, L. J. et al., Geophysical Research Letters, October 2, 2007 (Vol. 34, L19801, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031100)

Evaluation of the MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval Over Different Ecosystems in China During EAST-AIRE, Wang, L.; Xin, J.; Wang, Y.; Li, Z.; Liu, G.; Li, J., Atmospheric Environment, October 2007 (Vol. 41, No. 33, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.05.001)

The Effect of Cumulus Cloud Field Anisotropy on Domain-Averaged Solar Fluxes and Atmospheric Heating Rates, Hinkelman, L. M., K. F. Evans, E. E. Clothiaux, T. P. Ackerman, and P. W. Stackhouse Jr., Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, October 2007, (Vol. 64, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/JAS4032.1)

Rainfall-Induced Changes in Actual Surface Backscattering Cross Sections and Effects on Rain-Rate Estimates by Spaceborne Precipitation Radar, Seto, S. and T. Iguchi, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, October 2007, (Vol. 24, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/JTECH2088.1)

Improvement of the Temperature and Moisture Retrievals in the Lower Troposphere Using AIRS and GPS Radio Occultation Measurements, Ho, S. P., Y.-H. Kuo, and S. Sokolovskiy, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, October 2007, (Vol. 24, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/JTECH2071.1)

Estimation of Thin Ice Thickness and Detection of Fast Ice from SSM/I Data in the Antarctic Ocean, Tamura, T., K. I. Ohshima, T. Markus, D. J. Cavalieri, S. Nihashi, and N. Hirasawa, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, October 2007, (Vol. 24, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/JTECH2113.1)

Comparison of In Situ and Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Temperatures in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Barton, I. J., Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, October 2007, (Vol. 24, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/JTECH2084.1)

An FPGA-Based Doppler Processor for a Spaceborne Precipitation Radar, Durden, S. L., M. A. Fischman, R. A. Johnson, A. J. Chu, M. N. Jourdan, and S. Tanelli, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, October 2007, (Vol. 24, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/JTECH2086.1)

Deep Convective System Evolution over Africa and the Tropical Atlantic, Futyan, J. M. and A. D. Del Genio, Journal of Climate , October 2007, (Vol. 20, No. 20, doi: 10.1175/JCLI4297.1)

The Plane-Parallel Albedo Bias of Liquid Clouds from MODIS Observations, Oreopoulos, L., R. F. Cahalan, and S. Platnick, Journal of Climate , October 2007, (Vol. 20, No. 20, doi: 10.1175/JCLI4305.11)

Changes of the Boreal Winter Hadley Circulation in the NCEP�NCAR and ECMWF Reanalyses: A Comparative Study, Song, H. and M. Zhang, Journal of Climate , October 2007, (Vol. 20, No. 20, doi: 10.1175/JCLI4260.1)

Westerly Wind Bursts and Their Relationship with Intraseasonal Variations and ENSO. Part I: Statistics, Seiki, A. and Y. N. Takayabu, Monthly Weather Review, October 2007, (Vol. 135, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/MWR3477.1)

Observed Enhancement of Reflectivity and the Electric Field in Long-Lived Florida Anvils, Dye, J. E. and J. C. Willett, Monthly Weather Review, October 2007, (Vol. 135, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/MWR3484.1)

The Interannual Variability of Tropical Cyclones, Frank, W. M. and G. S. Young, Monthly Weather Review, October 2007, (Vol. 135, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/MWR3435.1)

Prediction of the Diurnal Change Using a Multimodel Superensemble. Part I: Precipitation, Krishnamurti, T. N., C. Gnanaseelan, and A. Chakraborty, Monthly Weather Review, October 2007, (Vol. 135, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/MWR3446.1)

Aviation Applications for Satellite-Based Observations of Cloud Properties, Convection Initiation, In-Flight Icing, Turbulence, and Volcanic Ash, Mecikalski, J. R., W.F. Feltz, J. J. Murray, D. B. Johnson, K. M. Bedka, S. T. Bedka, A. J. Wimmers, M. Pavolonis, T. A. Berendes, J. Haggerty, P. Minnis, B. Bernstein, and E. Williams, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, October 2007 (Vol. 88, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-88-10-1589)

Predicting Drought on Seasonal-to-Decadal Time Scales, Schubert, S., R. Koster, M. Hoerling, R. Seager, D. Lettenmaier, A. Kumar, and D. Gutzler, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, October 2007 (Vol. 88, No. 10, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-88-10-1625)

Use of a Rain Gauge Network to Infer the Influence of Environmental Factors on the Propagation of Quasi-Linear Convective Systems in West Africa, Schrage, J. M., and A. H. Fink, Weather and Forecasting, October 2007 (Vol. 22, No. 5, doi: 10.1175/WAF1037.1)

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