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Volume 105 (2024): Issue 4 (Apr 2024)

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A framework for joint verification and evaluation of seasonal climate services across socio-economic sectors

Louise Crochemore
,
Stefano Materia
,
Elisa Delpiazzo
,
Stefano Bagli
,
Andrea Borrelli
,
Francesco Bosello
,
Eva Contreras
,
Francesco Dalla Valle
,
Silvio Gualdi
,
Javier Herrero
,
Francesca Larosa
,
Rafael Lopez
,
Valerio Luzzi
,
Paolo Mazzoli
,
Andrea Montani
,
Isabel Moreno
,
Valentina Pavan
,
Ilias Pechlivanidis
,
Fausto Tomei
,
Giulia Villani
,
Christiana Photiadou
,
María José Polo
, and
Jaroslav Mysiak
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Making Progress on the Operational Alerting of El Niño and La Niña in a Warming World

Matthew C. Wheeler
,
Hanh Nguyen
,
Chris Lucas
,
Zhi-Weng Chua
,
Simon Grainger
,
David A. Jones
,
Michelle L. L'Heureux
,
Ben Noll
,
Tristan Meyers
,
Nicolas C. Fauchereau
,
Alexandre Peltier
,
Thea Turkington
,
Hyung-Jin Kim
, and
Takafumi Umeda
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Predicting September Arctic Sea Ice: A Multi-Model Seasonal Skill Comparison

Mitchell Bushuk
,
Sahara Ali
,
David A. Bailey
,
Qing Bao
,
Lauriane Batté
,
Uma S. Bhatt
,
Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth
,
Ed Blockley
,
Gavin Cawley
,
Junhwa Chi
,
François Counillon
,
Philippe Goulet Coulombe
,
Richard I. Cullather
,
Francis X. Diebold
,
Arlan Dirkson
,
Eleftheria Exarchou
,
Maximilian Göbel
,
William Gregory
,
Virginie Guemas
,
Lawrence Hamilton
,
Bian He
,
Sean Horvath
,
Monica Ionita
,
Jennifer E. Kay
,
Eliot Kim
,
Noriaki Kimura
,
Dmitri Kondrashov
,
Zachary M. Labe
,
WooSung Lee
,
Younjoo J. Lee
,
Cuihua Li
,
Xuewei Li
,
Yongcheng Lin
,
Yanyun Liu
,
Wieslaw Maslowski
,
François Massonnet
,
Walter N. Meier
,
William J. Merryfield
,
Hannah Myint
,
Juan C. Acosta Navarro
,
Alek Petty
,
Fangli Qiao
,
David Schröder
,
Axel Schweiger
,
Qi Shu
,
Michael Sigmond
,
Michael Steele
,
Julienne Stroeve
,
Nico Sun
,
Steffen Tietsche
,
Michel Tsamados
,
Keguang Wang
,
Jianwu Wang
,
Wanqiu Wang
,
Yiguo Wang
,
Yun Wang
,
James Williams
,
Qinghua Yang
,
Xiaojun Yuan
,
Jinlun Zhang
, and
Yongfei Zhang
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The Tornado Archive: Compiling and Visualizing a Worldwide, Digitized Tornado Database

Malcolm Maas
,
Timothy Supinie
,
Andrew Berrington
,
Samuel Emmerson
,
Ava Aidala
, and
Michael Gavan
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Supercell Tornadogenesis: Recent Progress in our State of Understanding

Jannick Fischer
,
Johannes M. L. Dahl
,
Brice E. Coffer
,
Jana Lesak Houser
,
Paul M. Markowski
,
Matthew D. Parker
,
Christopher C. Weiss
, and
Alex Schueth
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WMO Typhoon Landfall Forecast Demonstration Project (2010–2022): A Decade of Transition from Track Forecasts to Impact Forecasts

Hui Yu
,
Guomin Chen
,
Wai-Kin Wong
,
Jonathan L. Vigh
,
Chi-kin Pan
,
Xiaoqin Lu
,
Jun A. Zhang
,
Jie Tang
,
Kun Zhao
,
Peiyan Chen
,
Zifeng Yu
,
Mengqi Yang
,
Jason Dunion
,
Zheqing Fang
,
Xiaotu Lei
,
Ajit Tyagi
, and
Lianshou Chen
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The Saltzman-Lorenz Exchange in 1961: Bridge to Chaos Theory

John M. Lewis
and
S. Lakshmivarahan
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Linking ocean mixing and overturning circulation

Hans Burchard
,
Matthew Alford
,
Manita Chouksey
,
Giovanni Dematteis
,
Carsten Eden
,
Isabelle Giddy
,
Knut Klingbeil
,
Arnaud Le Boyer
,
Dirk Olbers
,
Julie Pietrzak
,
Friederike Pollmann
,
Kurt Polzin
,
Fabien Roquet
,
Pablo Sebastia Saez
,
Sebastiaan Swart
,
Lars Umlauf
,
Gunnar Voet
, and
Bethan Wynne-Cattanach
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Rapidly Developing a Community and Evidence Based Heat Action Plan

Christopher K. Uejio
,
Jane Gilbert
,
Yoonjung Ahn
,
Ludovica Martella
,
Leiqiu Hu
, and
Julia Marturano
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Leveraging Collaborative Partnerships to Enhance NWS and Emergency Management Communications Through Exercising

David Hogg
,
Richard Smith
,
Jennifer Thompson
,
Ryan Bunker
,
Rachael Huey
, and
Makenzie J. Krocak
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Multi-Agency Ensemble Forecast of Wildfire Air Quality in the United States: Toward Community Consensus of Early Warning

Yunyao Li
,
Daniel Tong
,
Peewara Makkaroon
,
Timothy DelSole
,
Youhua Tang
,
Patrick Campbell
,
Barry Baker
,
Mark Cohen
,
Anton Darmenov
,
Ravan Ahmadov
,
Eric James
,
Edward Hyer
, and
Peng Xian
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Towards a South American High Impact Weather Reports Database

Paola Salio
,
Hernán Bechis
,
Bruno Z. Ribeiro
,
Ernani de Lima Nascimento
,
Vito Galligani
,
Fernando Garcia
,
Lucas Alvarenga
,
Maria de los Milagros Alvarez Imaz
,
Daiana Marlene Baissac
,
María Florencia Barle
,
Cristian Bastías-Curivil
,
Marcos Benedicto
,
Maite Cancelada
,
Izabelly Carvalho da Costa
,
Daniela D’Amen
,
Ramon de Elia
,
David Eduardo Diaz
,
Anthony Duarte Páez
,
Sergio González
,
Vitor Goede
,
Julián Goñi
,
Agustín Granato
,
Murilo Machado Lopes
,
Matias Mederos
,
Matias Menalled
,
Romina Mezher
,
Eduardo José Mingo Vega
,
María Gabriela Nicora
,
Lucía Pini
,
Roberto Rondanelli
,
Juan Jose Ruiz
,
Nestor Santayana
,
Laís Santos
,
Guilherme Schild
,
Inés Simone
,
Raul Valenzuela
,
Yasmin Romina Velazquez
,
Luciano Vidal
, and
Constanza Inés Villagrán Asiares
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Sublimation of Snow

Jessica D. Lundquist
,
Julie Vano
,
Ethan Gutmann
,
Daniel Hogan
,
Eli Schwat
,
Michael Haugeneder
,
Emilio Mateo
,
Steve Oncley
,
Chris Roden
,
Elise Osenga
, and
Liz Carver
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Advances in the Use of Global Navigation Satellite System Polarimetric Radio Occultation Measurements for NWP and Weather Applications

F. Joseph Turk
,
Estel Cardellach
,
Manuel de la Torre-Juárez
,
Ramon Padullés
,
Kuo-Nung Wang
,
Chi O. Ao
,
Terence Kubar
,
Michael Murphy
,
J. David Neelin
,
Todd Emmenegger
,
Dong Wu
,
Vu Nguyen
,
E. Robert Kursinki
,
Dallas Masters
,
Pierre Kirstetter
,
Lidia Cucurull
, and
Katrin Lonitz
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Gathering users and developers to shape together the next-generation ocean reanalyses: Ocean reanalyses workshop of the European Copernicus Marine Service

Chunxue Yang
,
Romain Bourdallé-Badie
,
Marie Drevillon
,
Dillon Amaya
,
Lotfi Aouf
,
Ali Aydogdu
,
Benjamin Barton
,
Mike Bell
,
Tim Boyer
,
Anouk Blauw
,
James Carton
,
Tony Candela
,
Gianpiero Cossarini
,
Tomasz Dabrowski
,
Eric de Boisseson
,
Lee de Mora
,
Ronan Fablet
,
Gaël Forget
,
Yosuke Fujii
,
Gilles Garric
,
Valentina Giunta
,
Peter Salamon
,
Hans Hersbach
,
Mélanie Juza
,
Julien Le Sommer
,
Matthew Martin
,
Ronan McAdam
,
Melisa Menendez Garcia
,
Joao Morim
,
Dario Nicolì
,
Antonio Reppucci
,
Annette Samuelsen
,
Raphaëlle Sauzède
,
Laura Slivinski
,
Damien Specq
,
Andrea Storto
,
Laura Tuomi
,
Luc Vandenbulcke
,
Roland Aznar
,
Jonathan Beuvier
,
Andrea Cipollone
,
Emanuela Clementi
,
Valeria Di Biagio
,
Romain Escudier
,
Rianne Giesen
,
Eric Greiner
,
Karen Guihou
,
Vasily Korabel
,
Julien Lamouroux
,
Stephane Law Chune
,
Jean- Michel Lellouche
,
Bruno Levier
,
Leonardo Lima
,
Antoine Mangin
,
Michael Mayer
,
Angelique Melet
,
Pietro Miraglio
,
Charikleia Oikonomou
,
Julia Pfeffer
,
Richard Renshaw
,
Ida Ringgaard
,
Sulian Thual
,
Olivier Titaud
,
Marina Tonani
,
Simon van Gennip
,
Karina von Schuckmann
,
Yann Drillet
, and
Pierre-Yves Le Traon
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Making Social Science Actionable for the NWS: The Brief Vulnerability Overview Tool (BVOT)

Jack R. Friedman
,
Daphne S. LaDue
,
Elizabeth H. Hurst
,
Michelle E. Saunders
, and
Alex N. Marmo
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Routine Climate Monitoring in the State of Hawai‘i: Establishment of State Climate Divisions

Xiao Luo
,
Abby G. Frazier
,
Henry F. Diaz
,
Ryan Longman
, and
Thomas W. Giambelluca
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Lifetime Performance of the Operational Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) Model for North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones

Ghassan J. Alaka Jr.
,
Jason A. Sippel
,
Zhan Zhang
,
Hyun-Sook Kim
,
Frank D. Marks
,
Vijay Tallapragada
,
Avichal Mehra
,
Xuejin Zhang
,
Aaron Poyer
, and
Sundararaman G. Gopalakrishnan
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Integration of emerging data-driven models into the NOAA research to operation pipeline for numerical weather prediction

Sergey Frolov
,
Kevin Garrett
,
Isidora Jankov
,
Daryl Kleist
,
Jebb Q. Stewart
, and
John Ten Hoeve
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Delivering an improved framework for the new generation of CMIP6-driven EURO-CORDEX regional climate simulations

E. Katragkou
,
S. P. Sobolowski
,
C. Teichmann
,
F. Solmon
,
V. Pavlidis
,
D. Rechid
,
P. Hoffmann
,
J. Fernandez
,
G. Nikulin
, and
D. Jacob
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Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) in Support of Next-Generation NOAA Satellite Constellation

Lidia Cucurull
,
Richard A. Anthes
,
Sean P. F. Casey
,
Michael J. Mueller
, and
Andres Vidal
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The rise of data-driven weather forecasting: A first statistical assessment of machine learning-based weather forecasts in an operational-like context

Zied Ben Bouallègue
,
Mariana C A Clare
,
Linus Magnusson
,
Estibaliz Gascón
,
Michael Maier-Gerber
,
Martin Janoušek
,
Mark Rodwell
,
Florian Pinault
,
Jesper S Dramsch
,
Simon T K Lang
,
Baudouin Raoult
,
Florence Rabier
,
Matthieu Chevallier
,
Irina Sandu
,
Peter Dueben
,
Matthew Chantry
, and
Florian Pappenberger
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NWS Regional and Local Climate Services: Past 20 years, Present, and Future

M. Timofeyeva-Livezey
,
Jenna Meyers
,
Stephen Baxter
,
Margaret Hurwitz
,
James Zdrojewski
,
Keith White
,
David Ross
,
Barbara Mayes Boustead
,
Viviane Silva
,
Christopher Stachelski
,
Audra Bruschi
,
Victor Murphy
,
Andrea Bair
,
David DeWitt
,
Richard Thoman
,
Fiona Horsfall
,
Brian Brettschneider
,
Elizabeth Vickery
,
Ray Wolf
, and
Bill Ward
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Advances in Precipitation Retrieval and Applications from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite Information

Vesta Afzali Gorooh
,
Kuolin Hsu
,
Ralph Ferraro
,
Joe Turk
,
Huan Meng
,
Phu Nguyen
,
Claudia Jimenez Arellano
,
Satya Kalluri
, and
Soroosh Sorooshian

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The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

E. Kalnay
,
M. Kanamitsu
,
R. Kistler
,
W. Collins
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D. Deaven
,
L. Gandin
,
M. Iredell
,
S. Saha
,
G. White
,
J. Woollen
,
Y. Zhu
,
M. Chelliah
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W. Ebisuzaki
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W. Higgins
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J. Janowiak
,
K. C. Mo
,
C. Ropelewski
,
J. Wang
,
A. Leetmaa
,
R. Reynolds
,
Roy Jenne
, and
Dennis Joseph
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A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis

Christopher Torrence
and
Gilbert P. Compo
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A Pacific Interdecadal Climate Oscillation with Impacts on Salmon Production*

Nathan J. Mantua
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Steven R. Hare
,
Yuan Zhang
,
John M. Wallace
, and
Robert C. Francis
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NCEP–DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis (R-2)

Masao Kanamitsu
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Wesley Ebisuzaki
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Jack Woollen
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Shi-Keng Yang
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J. J. Hnilo
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M. Fiorino
, and
G. L. Potter
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The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

Suranjana Saha
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Shrinivas Moorthi
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Hua-Lu Pan
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Xingren Wu
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Jiande Wang
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Sudhir Nadiga
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Patrick Tripp
,
Robert Kistler
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John Woollen
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David Behringer
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Haixia Liu
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Diane Stokes
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Robert Grumbine
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George Gayno
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Jun Wang
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Yu-Tai Hou
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Hui-ya Chuang
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Hann-Ming H. Juang
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Joe Sela
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Mark Iredell
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Russ Treadon
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Daryl Kleist
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Paul Van Delst
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Dennis Keyser
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John Derber
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Stephen Lord
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Craig Long
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Muthuvel Chelliah
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Yan Xue
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Boyin Huang
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Jae-Kyung Schemm
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Wesley Ebisuzaki
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Roger Lin
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Pingping Xie
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Mingyue Chen
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Shuntai Zhou
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Wayne Higgins
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Cheng-Zhi Zou
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Quanhua Liu
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Yong Chen
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Yong Han
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Lidia Cucurull
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Richard W. Reynolds
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Glenn Rutledge
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Mitch Goldberg
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NOAA’s HYSPLIT Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion Modeling System

A. F. Stein
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R. R. Draxler
,
G. D. Rolph
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B. J. B. Stunder
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M. D. Cohen
, and
F. Ngan
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The Global Land Data Assimilation System

M. Rodell
,
P. R. Houser
,
U. Jambor
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J. Gottschalck
,
K. Mitchell
,
C.-J. Meng
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K. Arsenault
,
B. Cosgrove
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J. Radakovich
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M. Bosilovich
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J. K. Entin
,
J. P. Walker
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D. Lohmann
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D. Toll
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The NCEP–NCAR 50-Year Reanalysis: Monthly Means CD-ROM and Documentation

Robert Kistler
,
Eugenia Kalnay
,
William Collins
,
Suranjana Saha
,
Glenn White
,
John Woollen
,
Muthuvel Chelliah
,
Wesley Ebisuzaki
,
Masao Kanamitsu
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Vernon Kousky
,
Huug van den Dool
,
Roy Jenne
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Michael Fiorino
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North American Regional Reanalysis

Fedor Mesinger
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Geoff DiMego
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Eugenia Kalnay
,
Kenneth Mitchell
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Perry C. Shafran
,
Wesley Ebisuzaki
,
Dušan Jović
,
Jack Woollen
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Eric Rogers
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Ernesto H. Berbery
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Michael B. Ek
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Yun Fan
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Robert Grumbine
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Wayne Higgins
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Hong Li
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Ying Lin
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Geoff Manikin
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David Parrish
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Wei Shi

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NOAA’s HYSPLIT Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion Modeling System

A. F. Stein
,
R. R. Draxler
,
G. D. Rolph
,
B. J. B. Stunder
,
M. D. Cohen
, and
F. Ngan
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The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

E. Kalnay
,
M. Kanamitsu
,
R. Kistler
,
W. Collins
,
D. Deaven
,
L. Gandin
,
M. Iredell
,
S. Saha
,
G. White
,
J. Woollen
,
Y. Zhu
,
M. Chelliah
,
W. Ebisuzaki
,
W. Higgins
,
J. Janowiak
,
K. C. Mo
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C. Ropelewski
,
J. Wang
,
A. Leetmaa
,
R. Reynolds
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Roy Jenne
, and
Dennis Joseph
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THE MYTH OF THE 1970s GLOBAL COOLING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS

Thomas C. Peterson
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William M. Connolley
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John Fleck
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The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

Suranjana Saha
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Shrinivas Moorthi
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Hua-Lu Pan
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Xingren Wu
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Jiande Wang
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Sudhir Nadiga
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Patrick Tripp
,
Robert Kistler
,
John Woollen
,
David Behringer
,
Haixia Liu
,
Diane Stokes
,
Robert Grumbine
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George Gayno
,
Jun Wang
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Yu-Tai Hou
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Hui-ya Chuang
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Hann-Ming H. Juang
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Joe Sela
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Mark Iredell
,
Russ Treadon
,
Daryl Kleist
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Paul Van Delst
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Dennis Keyser
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John Derber
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Michael Ek
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Jesse Meng
,
Helin Wei
,
Rongqian Yang
,
Stephen Lord
,
Huug van den Dool
,
Arun Kumar
,
Wanqiu Wang
,
Craig Long
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Muthuvel Chelliah
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Yan Xue
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Boyin Huang
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Jae-Kyung Schemm
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Wesley Ebisuzaki
,
Roger Lin
,
Pingping Xie
,
Mingyue Chen
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Shuntai Zhou
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Wayne Higgins
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Cheng-Zhi Zou
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Quanhua Liu
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Yong Chen
,
Yong Han
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Lidia Cucurull
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Richard W. Reynolds
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Glenn Rutledge
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Mitch Goldberg
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An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

Karl E. Taylor
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Ronald J. Stouffer
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Gerald A. Meehl
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Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part II: Projected Response to Anthropogenic Warming

Thomas Knutson
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Suzana J. Camargo
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Johnny C. L. Chan
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Kerry Emanuel
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Chang-Hoi Ho
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James Kossin
,
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra
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Masaki Satoh
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Masato Sugi
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Kevin Walsh
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Liguang Wu
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A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis

Christopher Torrence
and
Gilbert P. Compo
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The Global Land Data Assimilation System

M. Rodell
,
P. R. Houser
,
U. Jambor
,
J. Gottschalck
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K. Mitchell
,
C.-J. Meng
,
K. Arsenault
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B. Cosgrove
,
J. Radakovich
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M. Bosilovich
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J. K. Entin
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J. P. Walker
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D. Lohmann
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D. Toll
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The Economic, Political, and Social Implications of Environmental Crises

Tobias Ide
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Christiane Fröhlich
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Jonathan F. Donges
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Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part I: Detection and Attribution

Thomas Knutson
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Suzana J. Camargo
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Johnny C. L. Chan
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Kerry Emanuel
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Chang-Hoi Ho
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James Kossin
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Mrutyunjay Mohapatra
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Masaki Satoh
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Masato Sugi
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Kevin Walsh
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Liguang Wu

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