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A list of research articles recently published in the scientific literature.

Eco-Geomorphic Implications of Hillslope Aspect: Inferences from Analysis of Landscape Morphology in Central New Mexico, Istanbulluoglu, E., O. Yetemen, E. R. Vivoni, H. A. Gutiérrez-Jurado, and R. L. Bras, Geophysical Research Letters, July 31, 2008 (Vol. 35, L14403, doi:10.1029/2008GL034477)

Radar Polarimetric Signatures of Fire Plumes in Oklahoma, Melnikov, V. M., D. S. Zrnic, R. M. Rabin, and P. Zhang, Geophysical Research Letters, July 31, 2008 (Vol. 35, L14815, doi:10.1029/2008GL034311)

Modeling of Sea Salt in a Regional Climate Model: Fluxes and Radiative Forcing, Zakey, A. S., F. Giorgi, and X. Bi, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 31, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14221, doi:10.1029/2007JD009209)

Circumpolar Transport of a Volcanic Cloud from Hekla (Iceland), Carn, S. A., A. J. Prata, and S. Karlsdóttir, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 31, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14311, doi:10.1029/2008JD009878)

Performance of the Ground-Based Total Ozone Network Assessed Using Satellite Data, Fioletov, V. E., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 31, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14313, doi:10.1029/2008JD009809)

Measurements of Low Amounts of Precipitable Water Vapor by Millimeter Wave Spectroscopy: An Intercomparison with Radiosonde, Raman lidar, and Fourier Transform Infrared Data, Fiorucci, I., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 31, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14314, doi:10.1029/2008JD009831)

The Effect of the Leeuwin Current on Phytoplankton Biomass and Production off Southwestern Australia, Koslow, J. A., S. Pesant, M. Feng, A. Pearce, P. Fearns, T. Moore, R. Matear, and A. Waite, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 30, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07050, doi:10.1029/2007JC004102)

Algorithm Development and Validation for Satellite-Derived Distributions of DOC and CDOM in the U.S. Middle Atlantic Bight, Mannino, A., M. E. Russ, and S. B. Hooker, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 30, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07051, doi:10.1029/2007JC004493)

Grain Size Variations in the Earth's Mantle and the Evolution of Primordial Chemical Heterogeneities, Solomatov, V. S., and C. C. Reese, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, July 30, 2008 (Vol. 113, B07408, doi:10.1029/2007JB005319)

Modeling Mineral Dust Emissions from the Sahara Desert Using New Surface Properties and Soil Database, Laurent, B., B. Marticorena, G. Bergametti, J. F. Léon, and N. M. Mahowald, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 30, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14218, doi:10.1029/2007JD009484)

Ground Surface Temperature Reconstructions: Using In Situ Estimates for Thermal Conductivity Acquired with a Fiber-Optic Distributed Thermal Perturbation Sensor, Freifeld, B. M., S. Finsterle, T. C. Onstott, P. Toole, and L. M. Pratt, Geophysical Research Letters, July 30, 2008 (Vol. 35, L14309, doi:10.1029/2008GL034762)

An Ensemble Approach for Attribution of Hydrologic Prediction Uncertainty, Wood, A. W., and D. P. Lettenmaier, Geophysical Research Letters, July 30, 2008 (Vol. 35, L14401, doi:10.1029/2008GL034648)

Production of 15N-Depleted Biomass During Cyanobacterial N2-Fixation at High Fe Concentrations, Zerkle, A. L., C. K. Junium, D. E. Canfield, and C. H. House, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, July 30, 2008 (Vol. 113, G03014, doi:10.1029/2007JG000651)

Occurrence of Weak, Sub-Micron, Tropospheric Aerosol Events at High Arctic Latitudes, O'Neill, N. T., O. Pancrati, K. Baibakov, E. Eloranta, R. L. Batchelor, J. Freemantle, L. J. B. McArthur, K. Strong, and R. Lindenmaier, Geophysical Research Letters, July 30, 2008 (Vol. 35, L14814, doi:10.1029/2008GL033733)

Aerosol Optical Thicknesses Over North Africa: 1. Development of a Product for Model Validation Using Ozone Monitoring Instrument, Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer, and Aerosol Robotic Network, Christopher, S. A., P. Gupta, J. Haywood, and G. Greed, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 29, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00C04, doi:10.1029/2007JD009446)

Aerosol Optical Depths over North Africa: 2. Modeling and Model Validation, Greed, G., J. M. Haywood, S. Milton, A. Keil, S. Christopher, P. Gupta, and E. J. Highwood, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 29, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00C05, doi:10.1029/2007JD009457)

Metrics to Describe the Dynamical Evolution of Atmospheric Moisture: Intercomparison of Model (NARR) and Observations (ISCCP), Tao, K., and A. P. Barros, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 29, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14125, doi:10.1029/2007JD009337)

Modeling the Influence of Aerosols on Cloud Microphysical Properties in the East Asia Region Using a Mesoscale Model Coupled with a Bin-Based Cloud Microphysics Scheme, Iguchi, T., T. Nakajima, A. P. Khain, K. Saito, T. Takemura, and K. Suzuki, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 29, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14215, doi:10.1029/2007JD009774)

Analysis of the Weekly Cycle of Aerosol Optical Depth Using AERONET and MODIS Data, Xia, X., T. F. Eck, B. N. Holben, G. Phillippe, and H. Chen, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 29, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14217, doi:10.1029/2007JD009604)

Global Aerosol Climatology from the MODIS Satellite Sensors, Remer, L. A., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 29, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14S07, doi:10.1029/2007JD009661)

Physical Description of an Upwelling Filament West of Cape St. Vincent in late October 2004, Sánchez, R. F., P. Relvas, A. Martinho, and P. Miller, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 29, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07044, doi:10.1029/2007JC004430)

Rapid Development and Persistence of a Massive Antarctic Sea Ice Tongue, Rintoul, S. R., S. Sokolov, and R. A. Massom, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 29, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07045, doi:10.1029/2007JC004541)

A Global Climatology of Ionospheric Irregularities Derived from GPS Radio Occultation, Arras, C., J. Wickert, G. Beyerle, S. Heise, T. Schmidt, and C. Jacobi, Geophysical Research Letters, July 26, 2008 (Vol. 35, L14809, doi:10.1029/2008GL034158)

Role of Ozone in the Solar Cycle Modulation of the North Atlantic Oscillation, Kuroda, Y., K. Yamazaki, and K. Shibata, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 26, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14122, doi:10.1029/2007JD009336)

An Observational Study of the Relationship Between Cloud, Aerosol and Meteorology in Broken Low-Level Cloud Conditions, Loeb, N. G., and G. L. Schuster, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 26, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14214, doi:10.1029/2007JD009763)

Fast Airborne Aerosol Size and Chemistry Measurements Above Mexico City and Central Mexico During the MILAGRO Campaign, DeCarlo, P. F., Dunlea, E. J., Kimmel, J. R., Aiken, A. C., Sueper, D., Crounse, J., Wennberg, P. O., Emmons, L., Shinozuka, Y., Clarke, A., Zhou, J., Tomlinson, J., Collins, D. R., Knapp, D., Weinheimer, A. J., Montzka, D. D., Campos, T., and Jimenez, J. L., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 14)

Radiative Forcing from Particle Emissions by Future Supersonic Aircraft, Pitari, G., Iachetti, D., Mancini, E., Montanaro, V., De Luca, N., Marizy, C., Dessens, O., Rogers, H., Pyle, J., Grewe, V., Stenke, A., and Søvde, O. A., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 14)

Studying the Vertical Variation of Cloud Droplet Effective Radius Using Ship and Space-Borne Remote Sensing Data, Chen, R., R. Wood, Z. Li, R. Ferraro, and F.-L. Chang, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00A02, doi:10.1029/2007JD009596)

Validation of the Community Radiative Transfer Model by Using CloudSat Data, Chen, Y., F. Weng, Y. Han, and Q. Liu, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00A03, doi:10.1029/2007JD009561)

Analysis of Aerosol Vertical Distribution and Variability in Hong Kong, He, Q., C. Li, J. Mao, A. K.-H. Lau, and D. A. Chu, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14211, doi:10.1029/2008JD009778)

Dynamics of Southwest Asian Dust Particle Size Characteristics with Implications for Global Dust Research, Reid, J. S., E. A. Reid, A. Walker, S. Piketh, S. Cliff, A. Al Mandoos, S.-C. Tsay, and T. F. Eck, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14212, doi:10.1029/2007JD009752)

An Overview of UAE2 Flight Operations: Observations of Summertime Atmospheric Thermodynamic and Aerosol Profiles of the Southern Arabian Gulf, Reid, J. S., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14213, doi:10.1029/2007JD009435)

Radiative Susceptibility of Cloudy Atmospheres to Droplet Number Perturbations: 1. Theoretical Analysis and Examples from MODIS, Platnick, S., and L. Oreopoulos, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14S20, doi:10.1029/2007JD009654)

Radiative Susceptibility of Cloudy Atmospheres to Droplet Number Perturbations: 2. Global Analysis from MODIS, Oreopoulos, L., and S. Platnick, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14S21, doi:10.1029/2007JD009655)

The 2005 and 2006 DANDELIONS NO2 and Aerosol Intercomparison Campaigns, Brinksma, E. J., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 113, D16S46, doi:10.1029/2007JD008808)

The 2005 and 2006 DANDELIONS NO2 and Aerosol Intercomparison Campaigns, Brinksma, E. J., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 113, D16S46, doi:10.1029/2007JD008808)

Tetrafluoromethane in the Deep North Pacific Ocean, Deeds, D. A., J. Mühle, and R. F. Weiss, Geophysical Research Letters, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 35, L14606, doi:10.1029/2008GL034355)

Observations of the 2004 and 2006 Indian Ocean Tsunamis from a Pressure Gauge Array in Indonesia, Drushka, K., J. Sprintall, S. T. Gille, and W. S. Pranowo, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 25, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07038, doi:10.1029/2007JC004662)

Estimation of Energy and Moisture Fluxes for Dynamic Vegetation Using Coupled SVAT and Crop-Growth Models, Casanova, J. J., and J. Judge, Water Resources Research, July 26, 2008 (Vol. 44, W07415, doi:10.1029/2007WR006503)

Equatorial Kelvin Wave Influences May Reach the Bering Sea During 2002 to 2005, Lyman, J. M., and G. C. Johnson, Geophysical Research Letters, July 26, 2008 (Vol. 35, L14607, doi:10.1029/2008GL034761)

Analysis of the In Situ and MODIS Albedo Variability at Multiple Timescales in the Sahel, Samain, O., L. Kergoat, P. Hiernaux, F. Guichard, E. Mougin, F. Timouk, and F. Lavenu, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 24, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14119, doi:10.1029/2007JD009174)

Relationship of Loss, Mean Age of Air and the Distribution of CFCs to Stratospheric Circulation and Implications for Atmospheric Lifetimes, Douglass, A. R., R. S. Stolarski, M. R. Schoeberl, C. H. Jackman, M. L. Gupta, P. A. Newman, J. E. Nielsen, and E. L. Fleming, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 24, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14309, doi:10.1029/2007JD009575)

The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and Annual Variations in Tropical Ozone from SHADOZ and HALOE, Witte, J. C., Schoeberl, M. R., Douglass, A. R., and Thompson, A. M., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 24, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 14)

CCN Activity and Droplet Growth Kinetics of Fresh and Aged Monoterpene Secondary Organic Aerosol, Engelhart, G. J., Asa-Awuku, A., Nenes, A., and Pandis, S. N., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 24, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 14)

Objective Indicators of Pasture Degradation from Spectral Mixture Analysis of Landsat Imagery, Davidson, E. A., G. P. Asner, T. A. Stone, C. Neill, and R. O. Figueiredo, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, July 23, 2008 (Vol. 113, G00B03, doi:10.1029/2007JG000622)

Evaluating the Present-Day Simulation of Clouds, Precipitation, and Radiation in Climate Models, Pincus, R., C. P. Batstone, R. J. P. Hofmann, K. E. Taylor, and P. J. Glecker, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 23, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14209, doi:10.1029/2007JD009334)

Diagnosing Recent CO Emissions and Ozone Evolution in East Asia Using Coordinated Surface Observations, Adjoint Inverse Modeling, and MOPITT Satellite Data, Tanimoto, H., Sawa, Y., Yonemura, S., Yumimoto, K., Matsueda, H., Uno, I., Hayasaka, T., Mukai, H., Tohjima, Y., Tsuboi, K., and Zhang, L., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 22, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 14)

Estimation of the Vertical Profile of Sulfur Dioxide Injection into the Atmosphere by a Volcanic Eruption Using Satellite Column Measurements and Inverse Transport Modeling, Eckhardt, S., Prata, A. J., Seibert, P., Stebel, K., and Stohl, A., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 22, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 14)

Baroclinic Tides in the Indonesian Seas: Tidal Fields and Comparisons to Observations, Robertson, R., and A. Ffield, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 22, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07031, doi:10.1029/2007JC004677)

Annual Period Temperature and Salinity Signals of Surface Waters in Prince William Sound, Alaska, Okkonen, S. R., and C. Bélanger, Geophysical Research Letters, July 22, 2008 (Vol. 35, L14604, doi:10.1029/2008GL034456)

Annual and Semiannual TEC Effects at Low Solar Activity in Midlatitude Atlantic Region Based on TOPEX, Meza, A., and M. P. Natali, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 22, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14115, doi:10.1029/2007JD009088)

A Catchment-Based Hydrologic and Routing Modeling System with Explicit River Channels, Goteti, G., J. S. Famiglietti, and K. Asante, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 22, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14116, doi:10.1029/2007JD009691)

POLDER2/ADEOSII, MISR, and MODIS/Terra Reflectance Comparisons, Lallart, P., R. Kahn, and D. Tanré, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 22, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14S02, doi:10.1029/2007JD009656)

Aerosol Light Scattering Effect on Terrestrial Plant Productivity and Energy Fluxes Over the Eastern United States, Matsui, T., A. Beltrán-Przekurat, D. Niyogi, R. A. Pielke, and M. Coughenour, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 22, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14S14, doi:10.1029/2007JD009658)

Amazon Rain Forest Subcanopy Flow and the Carbon Budget: Santarém LBA-ECO Site, Tóta, J., D. R. Fitzjarrald, R. M. Staebler, R. K. Sakai, O. M. M. Moraes, O. C. Acevedo, S. C. Wofsy, and A. O. Manzi, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, July 22, 2008 (Vol. 113, G00B02, doi:10.1029/2007JG000597)

Three Years of Greenhouse Gas Column-Averaged Dry Air Mole Fractions Retrieved from Satellite – Part 1: Carbon Dioxide, Schneising, O., Buchwitz, M., Burrows, J. P., Bovensmann, H., Reuter, M., Notholt, J., Macatangay, R., and Warneke, T., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 21, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 14)

How Small is a Small Cloud?, Koren, I., Oreopoulos, L., Feingold, G., Remer, L. A., and Altaratz, O., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 21, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 14)

Flank Collapse and Large-Scale Landsliding in the Cape Verde Islands, off West Africa, Masson, D. G., T. P. Le Bas, I. Grevemeyer, and W. Weinrebe, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, July 19, 2008 (Vol. 9, Q07015, doi:10.1029/2008GC001983)

Overlap of Fractional Cloud for Radiation Calculations in GCMs: A Global Analysis Using CloudSat and CALIPSO Data, Barker, H. W., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 18, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00A01, doi:10.1029/2007JD009677)

An Upper Tropospheric Humidity Data Set from Operational Satellite Microwave Data, Buehler, S. A., M. Kuvatov, V. O. John, M. Milz, B. J. Soden, D. L. Jackson, and J. Notholt, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 18, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14110, doi:10.1029/2007JD009314)

Long-Range Convective Ozone Transport During INTEX, Büker, M. L., M. H. Hitchman, G. J. Tripoli, R. B. Pierce, E. V. Browell, and J. A. Al-Saadi, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 18, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14S90, doi:10.1029/2007JD009345)

Clean and Polluted Clouds: Relationships Among Pollution, Ice Clouds, and Precipitation in South America, Jiang, J. H., H. Su, M. R. Schoeberl, S. T. Massie, P. Colarco, S. Platnick, and N. J. Livesey, Geophysical Research Letters, July 17, 2008 (Vol. 35, L14804, doi:10.1029/2008GL034631)

Delineation of Carbonate Dust, Aluminous Dust, and Sea Salt Deposition in a Greenland Glaciochemical Array Using Positive Matrix Factorization, Banta, J. R., J. R. McConnell, R. Edwards, and J. P. Engelbrecht, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, July 17, 2008 (Vol. 9, Q07013, doi:10.1029/2007GC001908)

Spatiotemporal Evolution of Upwelling Regime Along the Western Coast of the Iberian Peninsula, Alvarez, I., M. Gomez-Gesteira, M. deCastro, and J. M. Dias, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 17, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07020, doi:10.1029/2008JC004744)

Uncertainties in atmospheric surface pressure fields from global analyses, Salstein, D. A., R. M. Ponte, and K. Cady-Pereira, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 17, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14107, doi:10.1029/2007JD009531)

Interannual Variations of Middle Atmospheric Temperature as Measured by the JPL Lidar at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (19.5°N, 155.6°W), Li, T., T. Leblanc, and I. S. McDermid, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 17, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14109, doi:10.1029/2007JD009764)

Calculations of Solar Shortwave Heating Rates Due to Black Carbon and Ozone Absorption Using In Situ Measurements, Gao, R. S., S. R. Hall, W. H. Swartz, J. P. Schwarz, J. R. Spackman, L. A. Watts, D. W. Fahey, K. C. Aikin, R. E. Shetter, and T. P. Bui, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 17, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14203, doi:10.1029/2007JD009358)

Evaluation of Emissions and Transport of CFCs Using Surface Observations and their Seasonal Cycles and the GEOS CCM Simulation with Emissions-Based Forcing, Liang, Q., R. S. Stolarski, A. R. Douglass, P. A. Newman, and J. E. Nielsen, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 17, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14302, doi:10.1029/2007JD009617)

The Strongest Desert Dust Intrusion Mixed with Smoke over the Iberian Peninsula Registered with Sun Photometry, Cachorro, V. E., C. Toledano, N. Prats, M. Sorribas, S. Mogo, A. Berjón, B. Torres, R. Rodrigo, J. de la Rosa, and A. M. De Frutos, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 17, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14S04, doi:10.1029/2007JD009582)

On the Volatility and Production Mechanisms of Newly Formed Nitrate and Water Soluble Organic Aerosol in Mexico City, Hennigan, C. J., Sullivan, A. P., Fountoukis, C. I., Nenes, A., Hecobian, A., Vargas, O., Peltier, R. E., Case Hanks, A. T., Huey, L. G., Lefer, B. L., Russell, A. G., and Weber, R. J., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 16, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 13)

Study on Lightning Activity and Precipitation Characteristics Before and After the Onset of the South China Sea Summer Monsoon, Yuan, T., and X. Qie, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 16, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14101, doi:10.1029/2007JD009382)

Seasonal Variation of Short-Period (<2 h) Gravity Wave Activity Over Gadanki, India (13.5°N, 79.2°E), Dutta, G., T. Tsuda, P. V. Kumar, M. C. A. Kumar, S. P. Alexander, and T. Kozu, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 16, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14103, doi:10.1029/2007JD009178)

Ionospheric Localisation and Expansion of Long-Period Pi1 Pulsations at Substorm Onset, Milling, D. K., I. J. Rae, I. R. Mann, K. R. Murphy, A. Kale, C. T. Russell, V. Angelopoulos, and S. Mende, Geophysical Research Letters, July 16, 2008 (Vol. 35, L17S20, doi:10.1029/2008GL033672)

Multipoint Observations of Magnetospheric Compression-Related EMIC Pc1 Waves by THEMIS and CARISMA, Usanova, M. E., I. R. Mann, I. J. Rae, Z. C. Kale, V. Angelopoulos, J. W. Bonnell, K.-H. Glassmeier, H. U. Auster, and H. J. Singer, Geophysical Research Letters, July 16, 2008 (Vol. 35, L17S25, doi:10.1029/2008GL034458)

Comparing the Ability of a Genetic Algorithm Based Clustering Analysis and a Physically Based Dynamic Vegetation Model to Predict Vegetation Distribution, Sun, X., and G. Wang, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 113, G03007, doi:10.1029/2007JG000655)

Comparing the Ability of a Genetic Algorithm Based Clustering Analysis and a Physically Based Dynamic Vegetation Model to Predict Vegetation Distribution, Sun, X., and G. Wang, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 113, G03007, doi:10.1029/2007JG000655)

ASTER Land Surface Emissivity Database of California and Nevada, Hulley, G. C., S. J. Hook, and A. M. Baldridge, Geophysical Research Letters, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13401, doi:10.1029/2008GL034507)

An Evaluation of Operational GOES-Derived Single-Layer Cloud Top Heights with ARSCL Data Over the ARM Southern Great Plains Site, Smith, W. L., Jr., P. Minnis, H. Finney, R. Palikonda, and M. M. Khaiyer, Geophysical Research Letters, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13820, doi:10.1029/2008GL034275)

Increased Winter Precipitation Over the North Pacific from 1984–1994 to 1995–2005 Inferred from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project, Li, G., Y. Wang, K.-H. Lee, Y. Diao, and R. Zhang, Geophysical Research Letters, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13821, doi:10.1029/2008GL034668)

Increased Winter Precipitation Over the North Pacific from 1984–1994 to 1995–2005 Inferred from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project, Li, G., Y. Wang, K.-H. Lee, Y. Diao, and R. Zhang, Geophysical Research Letters, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13821, doi:10.1029/2008GL034668)

Altitude Resolved Ice-Fraction in the Uppermost Tropical Troposphere, Ekström, M., and P. Eriksson, Geophysical Research Letters, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13822, doi:10.1029/2008GL034305)

Modeled and Observed Atmospheric Radiation Balance During the West African Dry Season: Role of Mineral Dust, Biomass Burning Aerosol, and Surface Albedo, Milton, S. F., G. Greed, M. E. Brooks, J. Haywood, B. Johnson, R. P. Allan, A. Slingo, and W. M. F. Grey, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 113, D00C02, doi:10.1029/2007JD009741)

Evidence for and Implications of a Bering Plate Based on Geodetic Measurements from the Aleutians and Western Alaska, Cross, R. S., and J. T. Freymueller, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 113, B07405, doi:10.1029/2007JB005136)

Recent Changes in Thickness of the Devon Island Ice Cap, Burgess, D., and M. J. Sharp, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 113, B07204, doi:10.1029/2007JB005238)

Crustal-Scale Structural Architecture, Shortening, and Exhumation of an Active, Eroding Orogenic Wedge (Chugach/St. Elias Range, Southern Alaska), Meigs, A., S. Johnston, J. Garver, and J. Spotila, Tectonics, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 27, TC4003, doi:10.1029/2007TC002168)

Source-Receptor Relationships Between East Asian Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Northern Hemisphere Sulfate Concentrations, Liu, J., Mauzerall, D. L., and Horowitz, L. W., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 13)

CCN Activation Experiments with Adipic Acid: Effect of Particle Phase and Adipic Acid Coatings on Soluble and Insoluble Particles, Hings, S. S., Wrobel, W. C., Cross, E. S., Worsnop, D. R., Davidovits, P., and Onasch, T. B., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 15, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 13)

Aerosol Radiative Forcing During Dust Events Over New Delhi, India, Pandithurai, G., S. Dipu, K. K. Dani, S. Tiwari, D. S. Bisht, P. C. S. Devara, and R. T. Pinker, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 12, 2008 (Vol. 113, D13209, doi:10.1029/2008JD009804)

Aboveground Biomass and Leaf Area Index (LAI) Mapping for Niassa Reserve, Northern Mozambique, Ribeiro, N. S., S. S. Saatchi, H. H. Shugart, and R. A. Washington-Allen, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, July 12, 2008 (Vol. 113, G02S02, doi:10.1029/2007JG000550)

Seasonal Drought Stress in the Amazon: Reconciling Models and Observations, Baker, I. T., L. Prihodko, A. S. Denning, M. Goulden, S. Miller, and H. R. da Rocha, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, July 12, 2008 (Vol. 113, G00B01, doi:10.1029/2007JG000644)

Stratospheric Winter Climate Response to ENSO in Three Chemistry-Climate Models, Fischer, A. M., D. T. Shindell, B. Winter, M. S. Bourqui, G. Faluvegi, E. Rozanov, M. Schraner, and S. Brönnimann, Geophysical Research Letters, July 11, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13819, doi:10.1029/2008GL034289)

Aerosol Impact and Correction on Temperature Profile Retrieval from MODIS, Zhang, J., and Q. Zhang, Geophysical Research Letters, July 11, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13818, doi:10.1029/2008GL034419)

Basin-Scale Wind-Forced Dynamics of the Seasonal Southern South China Sea Gyre, Bayler, E. J., and Z. Liu, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 11, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07014, doi:10.1029/2007JC004519

Assessment of Uncertainty in the Ocean Reflectance Determined by Three Satellite Ocean Color Sensors (MERIS, SeaWiFS and MODIS-A) at an Offshore Site in the Mediterranean Sea (BOUSSOLE Project), Antoine, D., F. d'Ortenzio, S. B. Hooker, G. Bécu, B. Gentili, D. Tailliez, and A. J. Scott, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 11, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07013, doi:10.1029/2007JC004472)

Validation of Aerosol and Cloud Layer Structures from the Space-Borne Lidar CALIOP Using a Ground-Based Lidar in Seoul, Korea, S.-W. Kim, S. Berthier, J.-C. Raut, P. Chazette, F. Dulac, and S.-C. Yoon, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 11, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 13)

Cloud Field Segmentation Via Multiscale Convexity Analysis, Lim, S. L., and B. S. Daya Sagar, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 10, 2008 (Vol. 113, D13208, doi:10.1029/2007JD009369)

Oceanic Alkyl Nitrates as a Natural Source of Tropospheric Ozone, Neu, J. L., M. J. Lawler, M. J. Prather, and E. S. Saltzman, Geophysical Research Letters, July 10, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13814, doi:10.1029/2008GL034189)

The Role of Iron and Black Carbon in Aerosol Light Absorption, Derimian, Y., Karnieli, A., Kaufman, Y. J., Andreae, M. O., Andreae, T. W., Dubovik, O., Maenhaut, W., and Koren, I., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 10, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 13)

Measurement of the Mixing State, Mass, and Optical Size of Individual Black Carbon Particles in Urban and Biomass Burning Emissions, Schwarz, J. P., et al., Geophysical Research Letters, July 9, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13810, doi:10.1029/2008GL033968)

Simultaneous Measurements of Particulate and Gas-Phase Water-Soluble Organic Carbon Concentrations at Remote and Urban-Influenced Locations, Anderson, C., J. E. Dibb, R. J. Griffin, and M. H. Bergin, Geophysical Research Letters, July 9, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13706, doi:10.1029/2008GL033966)

Validation of OMI Tropospheric NO2 Column Densities Using Direct-Sun Mode Brewer Measurements at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wenig, M. O., A. M. Cede, E. J. Bucsela, E. A. Celarier, K. F. Boersma, J. P. Veefkind, E. J. Brinksma, J. F. Gleason, and J. R. Herman, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 9, 2008 (Vol. 113, D16S45, doi:10.1029/2007JD008988)

A Model Tool for Assessing Real-Time Mixing of Mineral and Anthropogenic Pollutants in East Asia: A Case Study of April 2005, Lasserre, F., Cautenet, G., Bouet, C., Dong, X., Kim, Y. J., Sugimoto, N., Matsui, I., and Shimizu, A., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 9, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 13)

Decreases in Atomic Hydrogen Over the Summer Pole: Evidence for Dehydration from Polar Mesospheric Clouds?, Siskind, D. E., D. R. Marsh, M. G. Mlynczak, F. J. Martin-Torres, and J. M. Russell III, Geophysical Research Letters, July 8, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13809, doi:10.1029/2008GL033742)

Wind Power Distribution Over the Ocean, Liu, W. T., W. Tang, and X. Xie, Geophysical Research Letters, July 8, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13808, doi:10.1029/2008GL034172)

Lack of Correlation Between Chlorophyll A and Cloud Droplet Effective Radius in Shallow Marine Clouds, Miller, M. A., and S. E. Yuter, Geophysical Research Letters, July 8, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13807, doi:10.1029/2008GL034354)

In-flight Comparison of Brewer-Mast and Electrochemical Concentration Cell Ozonesondes, Stübi, R., G. Levrat, B. Hoegger, P. Viatte, J. Staehelin, and F. J. Schmidlin, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 8, 2008 (Vol. 113, D13302, doi:10.1029/2007JD009091)

Warming of SST in the Cool Wake of a Moving Hurricane, Price, J. F., J. Morzel, and P. P. Niiler, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 8, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07010, doi:10.1029/2007JC004393)

Oceanic Kelvin Waves and Tropical Atlantic Intraseasonal Variability: 1. Kelvin Wave Characterization, Polo, I., A. Lazar, B. Rodriguez-Fonseca, and S. Arnault, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 8, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07009, doi:10.1029/2007JC004495)

Sea Surface Wind Speed Estimation from Space-Based Lidar Measurements, Hu, Y., Stamnes, K., Vaughan, M., Pelon, J., Weimer, C., Wu, D., Cisewski, M., Sun, W., Yang, P., Lin, B., Omar, A., Flittner, D., Hostetler, C., Trepte, C., Winker, D., Gibson, G., and Santa-Maria, M., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 8, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 13)

Validation of HNO3, ClONO2, and N2O5 from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS), Wolff, M. A. and Kerzenmacher, T. et. al, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 7, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 13)

Interannual Memory Effects for Spring NDVI in Semi-Arid South Africa, Richard, Y., N. Martiny, N. Fauchereau, C. Reason, M. Rouault, N. Vigaud, and Y. Tracol, Geophysical Research Letters, July 4, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13704, doi:10.1029/2008GL034119)

Association of Antarctic Polar Stratospheric Cloud Formation on Tropospheric Cloud Systems, Wang, Z., G. Stephens, T. Deshler, C. Trepte, T. Parish, D. Vane, D. Winker, D. Liu, and L. Adhikari, Geophysical Research Letters, July 4, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13806, doi:10.1029/2008GL034209)

Characterization and Validation of Methane Products from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), Xiong, X., C. Barnet, E. Maddy, C. Sweeney, X. Liu, L. Zhou, and M. Goldberg, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, July 4, 2008 (Vol. 113, G00A01, doi:10.1029/2007JG000500)

Phanerozoic Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates, John Alroy and Martin Aberhan et. al, Science, July 4, 2008 (Vol. 321, No. 5885, doi: 10.1126/science.1156963)

Modeling Air Temperature Through a Combination of Remote Sensing and GIS Data, Cristóbal, J., M. Ninyerola, and X. Pons, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 3, 2008 (Vol. 113, D13106, doi:10.1029/2007JD009318)

Diurnal Cycle of Surface Winds Over the Subtropical Southeast Pacific, Muñoz, R. C., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 3, 2008 (Vol. 113, D13107, doi:10.1029/2008JD009957)

Model for Simulating Aerosol Interactions and Chemistry (MOSAIC), Zaveri, R. A., R. C. Easter, J. D. Fast, and L. K. Peters, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 3, 2008 (Vol. 113, D13204, doi:10.1029/2007JD008782)

Quantifying Above-Cloud Aerosol Using Spaceborne Lidar for Improved Understanding of Cloudy-Sky Direct Climate Forcing, Chand, D., T. L. Anderson, R. Wood, R. J. Charlson, Y. Hu, Z. Liu, and M. Vaughan, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 3, 2008 (Vol. 113, D13206, doi:10.1029/2007JD009433)

Estimation of Transboundary Transport of Pollution Aerosols by Remote Sensing in the Eastern Mediterranean, Rudich, Y., Y. J. Kaufman, U. Dayan, H. Yu, and R. G. Kleidman,Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 3, 2008 (Vol. 113, D14S13, doi:10.1029/2007JD009601)

Global Observations of HNO3 from the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS): First Results, Kinnison, D. E., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 3, 2008 (Vol. 113, D16S44, doi:10.1029/2007JD008814)

A Three-Dimensional Coupled Model of the Western Black Sea Plankton Dynamics: Seasonal Variability and Comparison to SeaWiFS Data, Tsiaras, K. P., V. H. Kourafalou, A. Davidov, and J. Staneva, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 3, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07007, doi:10.1029/2006JC003959)

Growing Temperate Shrubs Over Arid and Semiarid Regions in the Community Land Model–Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, Zeng, X. D., X. Zeng, and M. Barlage, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, July 3, 2008 (Vol. 22, GB3003, doi:10.1029/2007GB003014)

Sea Level Anomaly Signals in the Agulhas Current Region, Byrne, D. A., and J. L. McClean, Geophysical Research Letters, July 3, 2008 (Vol. 35, L13601, doi:10.1029/2008GL034087)

Seasonal Distribution and Succession of Dominant Phytoplankton Groups in the Global Ocean: A Satellite View, Alvain, S., C. Moulin, Y. Dandonneau, and H. Loisel, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, July 2, 2008 (Vol. 22, GB3001, doi:10.1029/2007GB003154)

Determination of Cloud Liquid Water Distribution Using 3D Cloud Tomography, Huang, D., Y. Liu, and W. Wiscombe, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 2, 2008 (Vol. 113, D13201, doi:10.1029/2007JD009133)

A Study of Ozone Depletion in the 2004/2005 Arctic Winter Based on Data from Odin/SMR and Aura/MLS, Rösevall, J. D., D. P. Murtagh, J. Urban, W. Feng, P. Eriksson, and S. Brohede, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, July 2, 2008 (Vol. 113, D13301, doi:10.1029/2007JD009560)

Arctic Sea Ice Variability and Trends, 1979–2006, Parkinson, C. L., and D. J. Cavalieri, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 1, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07003, doi:10.1029/2007JC004558)

Antarctic sea ice variability and trends, 1979–2006, Cavalieri, D. J., and C. L. Parkinson, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, July 1, 2008 (Vol. 113, C07004, doi:10.1029/2007JC004564)

Mesoscale Inversion: First Results from the CERES Campaign with Synthetic Data, T. Lauvaux, M. Uliasz, C. Sarrat, F. Chevallier, P. Bousquet, C. Lac, K. J. Davis, P. Ciais, A. S. Denning, and P. J. Rayner, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 2, 2008 (Vol. 8, No. 13)

Seasonal and Spatial Patterns of Mercury Wet Deposition in the United States: Constraints on the Contribution from North American Anthropogenic Sources, Noelle E. Selin, Daniel J. Jacob, Atmospheric Environment, July 2008 (Vol. 42, No. 21, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.02.069)

Retrieving Earthquake Signature in Grace Gravity Solutions, O. de Viron, I. Panet, V. Mikhailov, M. Van Camp, M. Diament, Geophysical Journal International, July 2008 (Vol. 174, No.1, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03807.x)

Constraints on Surface Deformation in the Seattle, WA, Urban Corridor from Satellite Radar Interferometry Time-Series Analysis, Noah J. Finnegan, Mathew E. Pritchard, Rowena B. Lohman, Paul R. Lundgren, Geophysical Journal International, July 2008 (Vol. 174, No.1, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03822.x)

Land Subsidence Pattern Controlled by Old Alpine Basement Faults in the Kashmar Valley, Northeast Iran: Results from InSAR and Levelling, Jan Anderssohn, Hans-Ulrich Wetzel, Thomas R. Walter, Mahdi Motagh, Yahya Djamour, Hermann Kaufmann, Geophysical Journal International, July 2008 (Vol. 174, No.1, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03805.x)

Estimating Seasonal Changes in Volumetric Soil Water Content at Landscape Scales in a Savanna Ecosystem Using Two-Dimensional Resistivity Profiling, Diana C. Garcia-Montiel, Michael T. Coe, Meyr P. Cruz, Joice N. Ferreira, Euzebio M. da Silva, and Eric A. Davidson, Earth Interactions, July 2008 (Vol. 12, No.2, doi: 10.1175/2007EI238.1)

Diurnal to Annual Precipitation Sensitivity to Convective and Land Surface Schemes, Alex C. Ruane and John O. Roads, Earth Interactions, July 2008 (Vol. 12, No.2, doi: 10.1175/2008EI256.1)

Estimating the Surface Area of Small Rivers in the Southwestern Amazon and Their Role in CO2 Outgassing, Maria de Fátima F. L. Rasera, Maria Victoria R. Ballester, Alex V. Krusche, Cleber Salimon, Letícia A. Montebelo, Simone R. Alin, Reynaldo L. Victoria, and Jeffrey E. Richey, Earth Interactions, July 2008 (Vol. 12, No.2, doi: 10.1175/2008EI257.1)

Terrestrial Vegetation Dynamics and Global Climate Controls in North America: 2001–05, Christopher Potter, Shyam Boriah, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, and Steven Klooster, Earth Interactions, July 2008 (Vol. 12, No.2, doi: 10.1175/2008EI249.1)

Analytical Solutions to the Stochastic Kinetic Equation for Liquid and Ice Particle Size Spectra. Part I: Small-Size Fraction, Vitaly I. Khvorostyanov and Judith A. Curry, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, July 2008 (Vol. 65, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007JAS2484.1)

Analytical Solutions to the Stochastic Kinetic Equation for Liquid and Ice Particle Size Spectra. Part II: Large-Size Fraction in Precipitating Clouds, Vitaly I. Khvorostyanov and Judith A. Curry, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, July 2008 (Vol. 65, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007JAS2485.1)

Seasonal Variation of Cloud Systems over ARM SGP, Xiaoqing Wu, Sunwook Park, and Qilong Min, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, July 2008 (Vol. 65, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007JAS2394.1)

A New Bulk Shallow-Cumulus Model and Implications for Penetrative Entrainment Feedback on Updraft Buoyancy, Christopher S. Bretherton and Sungsu Park, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, July 2008 (Vol. 65, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007JAS2242.1)

Morphology of Tropical Upwelling in the Lower Stratosphere, Marvin A. Geller, Tiehan Zhou, and Kevin Hamilton, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, July 2008 (Vol. 65, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007JAS2421.1)

Stably Stratified Flows: A Model with No Ri(cr), V. M. Canuto, Y. Cheng, A. M. Howard, and I. N. Esau, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, July 2008 (Vol. 65, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007JAS2470.1)

Radar Measurement of Rainfall with and without Polarimetry, Carlton W. Ulbrich and David Atlas, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, July 2008 (Vol. 47, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007JAMC1804.1)

Continental Passive Microwave-Based Rainfall Estimation Algorithm: Application to the Amazon Basin, Thiago S. Biscaro and Carlos A. Morales, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, July 2008 (Vol. 47, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007JAMC1744.1)

Near-Real-Time Applications of CloudSat Data, Cristian Mitrescu, Steven Miller, Jeffrey Hawkins, Tristan L’Ecuyer, Joseph Turk, Philip Partain, and Graeme Stephens, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, July 2008 (Vol. 47, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007JAMC1794.1)

Length Scales of Eddy Generation and Nonlinear Evolution of the Seasonally Modulated South Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent, Bo Qiu, Robert B. Scott, and Shuiming Chen, Journal of Physical Oceanography, July 2008 (Vol. 38, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007JPO3856.1)

Seasonal Influence of Indonesian Throughflow in the Southwestern Indian Ocean, Lei Zhou, Raghu Murtugudde, and Markus Jochum, Journal of Physical Oceanography, July 2008 (Vol. 38, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007JPO3851.1)

Sensitivity of the PBL and Precipitation in 12-Day Simulations of Warm-Season Convection Using Different Land Surface Models and Soil Wetness Conditions, S. B. Trier, F. Chen, K. W. Manning, M. A. LeMone, and C. A. Davis, Monthly Weather Review, July 2008 (Vol. 136, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007MWR2289.1)

Comparison of Four Cloud Schemes in Simulating the Seasonal Mean Field Forced by the Observed Sea Surface Temperature, Akihiko Shimpo, Masao Kanamitsu, Sam F. Iacobellis, and Song-You Hong, Monthly Weather Review, July 2008 (Vol. 136, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007MWR2179.1)

Improving Ocean Model Initialization for Coupled Tropical Cyclone Forecast Models Using GODAE Nowcasts, G. R. Halliwell Jr., L. K. Shay, S. D. Jacob, O. M. Smedstad, and E. W. Uhlhorn, Monthly Weather Review, July 2008 (Vol. 136, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007MWR2154.1)

Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Deep Convection during KWAJEX. Part I: Comparison to TRMM Satellite and Ground-Based Radar Observations, Yaping Li, Edward J. Zipser, Steven K. Krueger, and Mike A. Zulauf, Monthly Weather Review, July 2008 (Vol. 136, No. 7, doi: 10.1175/2007MWR2258.1)

Cloud Detection with MODIS. Part I: Improvements in the MODIS Cloud Mask for Collection 5, Richard A. Frey, Steven A. Ackerman, Yinghui Liu, Kathleen I. Strabala, Hong Zhang, Jeffrey R. Key, and Xuangi Wang, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, July 2008 (Vol. 25, doi: 10.1175/2008JTECHA1052.1)

Cloud Detection with MODIS. Part II: Validation, S. A. Ackerman, R. E. Holz, R. Frey, E. W. Eloranta, B. C. Maddux, and M. McGill, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, July 2008 (Vol. 25, doi: 10.1175/2007JTECHA1053.1)

Unfiltering of the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) Data. Part I: Shortwave Radiation, N. Clerbaux, S. Dewitte, C. Bertrand, D. Caprion, B. De Paepe, L. Gonzalez, A. Ipe, J. E. Russell, and H. Brindley, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, July 2008 (Vol. 25, doi: 10.1175/2007JTECHA1001.1)

Unfiltering of the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) Data. Part II: Longwave Radiation, N. Clerbaux, S. Dewitte, C. Bertrand, D. Caprion, B. De Paepe, L. Gonzalez, A. Ipe, and J. E. Russell, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, July 2008 (Vol. 25, doi: 10.1175/2008JTECHA1002.1)

Three-Way Error Analysis between AATSR, AMSR-E, and In Situ Sea Surface Temperature Observations, Anne G. O’Carroll, John R. Eyre, and Roger W. Saunders, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, July 2008 (Vol. 25, doi: 10.1175/2007JTECHO542.1)

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