NOAA Research 2007 Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards

NOAA Research director Richard Spinrad and deputy director Sandy MacDonald acknowledge the award recipients during a webcast.
CLIMATE
“Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing”
Gabriel A. Vecchi, Brian J. Soden, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Isaac M. Held, Ants Leetmaa, and Matthew J. Harrison (Nature 441, 73-76.)
“The role of carbon dioxide in climate forcing from 1979 to 2004: introduction of the Annual Greenhouse Gas Index”
David J. Hofmann, James H. Butler, Edward J. Dlugokencky, James W. Elkins, Kenneth Masarie, Stephen A. Montzka and Pieter Tans (Tellus, 58B, 614-619.)
“Large upper tropospheric ozone enhancements above midlatitude North America during summer: In situ evidence from the IONS and MOZAIC ozone measurement network”
Owen R. Cooper, Andreas Stohl, Michael Trainer, Anne M. Thompson, Jacquelyn C. Witte, Samuel J. Oltmans, Gary Morris, Kenneth E. Pickering, James H. Crawford, Gao Chen, Ronald C. Cohen, Timothy H. Bertram, Paul J. Wooldridge, Anne E. Perring, William H. Brune, John Merrill, Jennie L. Moody, David Tarasick, Philippe Nédélec, Gerry Forbes, Michael J. Newchurch, Frank J. Schmidlin, Bryan J. Johnson Solene Turquety, Steven L. Baughcum, Xinrong Ren, Fred. C. Fehsenfeld, James F. Meagher, Nicole Spichtinger, Clyde C. Brown, Stuart A. McKeen, I. Stuart McDermid, and Thierry Leblanc (Journal Of Geophysical Research, 111, D24S05, doi:10.1029/2006JD007306)
ECOSYSTEMS
“Submarine venting of liquid carbon dioxide on a Mariana Arc volcano”
John Lupton, David Butterfield, Marvin Lilley, Leigh Evans, Ko-ichi Nakamura, William Chadwick Jr., Joseph Resing, Robert Embley, Eric Olson, Giora Proskurowski, Edward Baker, Cornel de Ronde, Kevin Roe, Ronald Greene, Geoff Lebon, Conrad Young (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 7, Q08007, doi:10.1029/2005GC001152)
WEATHER & WATER
“Flooding on California’s Russian River: Role of atmospheric rivers”
F. Martin Ralph, Paul J. Neiman, Gary A. Wick, Seth I. Gutman, Michael D. Dettinger, Daniel R. Cayan, Allen B. White (Geophysical Research Letters, 33: L13801, doi: 10.1029/2006GL026689.)
“The Joint Polarization Experiment: Polarimetric Rainfall Measurements and Hydrometeor Classification”
Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Terry J. Schuur, Donald W. Burgess, Pamela L. Heinselman, Scott E. Giangrande, Dusan S. Zrnic (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Jun 2005, 86: 809-824.)
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
“Dynamic Data Assimilation: A Least Squares Approach”
John M. Lewis, S. Lakshmivarahan, Sudarshan Dhall (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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