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Oreste Reale Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland

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Corresponding author address: Oreste Reale, Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613.0, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771. Email: oreste.reale-1@nasa.gov

Corresponding author address: Oreste Reale, Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613.0, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771. Email: oreste.reale-1@nasa.gov

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  • Bosilovich, M. G., and Coauthors, 2006: NASA’s modern era retrospective analysis for research and applications. U.S. CLIVAR Variations, No. 4, International CLIVAR Project Office, Southampton, United Kingdom 5–8. [Available online at http://www.usclivar.org/Newsletter/Variations_V4N2/CLIVAR%20NL%20MERRA.pdf].

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  • Braun, S., 2010: Comments on “Atlantic tropical cyclogenetic processes during SOP-3 NAMMA in the GEOS-5 Global Data Assimilation and Forecast System”. J. Atmos. Sci., 67 , 24022410.

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  • Dunion, J., and C. S. Velden, 2004: The impact of the Saharan air layer on Atlantic tropical cyclone activity. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85 , 353365.

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  • Lau, K. M., and K-M. Kim, 2007: Cooling of the Atlantic by Saharan dust. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34 , L23811. doi:10.1029/2007GL031538.

  • Reale, O., W. K. Lau, K-M. Kim, and E. Brin, 2009a: Atlantic tropical cyclogenetic processes during SOP-3 NAMMA in the GEOS-5 global data assimilation and forecast system. J. Atmos. Sci., 66 , 35633578.

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  • Reale, O., W. K. Lau, J. Susskind, E. Brin, E. Liu, L. P. Riishojgaard, M. Fuentes, and R. Rosenberg, 2009b: AIRS impact on the analysis and forecast track of Tropical Cyclone Nargis in a global data assimilation and forecasting system. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36 , L06812. doi:10.1029/2008GL037122.

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  • Susskind, J., C. Barnet, J. Blaisdell, L. Iredell, F. Keita, L. Kouvaris, G. Molnar, and M. Chahine, 2006: Accuracy of geophysical parameters derived from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder/Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit as a function of fractional cloud cover. J. Geophys. Res., 111 , D09S17. doi:10.1029/2005JD006272.

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  • Wong, S., A. E. Dessler, N. M. Manowald, P. Yang, and Q. Feng, 2009: Maintenance of lower tropospheric temperature inversion in the Saharan air layer by dust and dry air anomaly. J. Climate, 22 , 51495162.

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  • Zhou, Y., W. K. Lau, O. Reale, and R. Rosenberg, 2010: AIRS impact on precipitation analysis and forecast of tropical cyclones in a global data assimilation and forecasting system. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37 , L02806. doi:10.1029/2009GL041494.

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