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Campaign for direct in-situ study of residual layer chemistry in urban Beijing

Yonghong Wang
,
Nianci Yao
,
Yuan Liu
,
Shuying Li
,
Pengkun Ma
,
Zhiheng Liao
,
Xinbing Ren
,
Sixuan Li
,
Biwu Chu
,
Qingxin Ma
,
Jinyuan Xin
,
Yongjing Ma
,
Jiannong Quan
, and
Hong He
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Scientific Directions for Cloud Chamber Research: Instrumentation, Modeling, New Chambers, and Emerging Chamber Concepts

Raymond A. Shaw
,
Sisi Chen
,
Matt Freer
,
Alexei Korolev
,
Steve Krueger
,
Masataka Murakami
,
Dennis Niedermeier
,
Mikhail Ovchinnikov
,
Silvio Schmalfuß
,
Ping Tian
,
Fan Yang
,
Seong Soo Yum
,
Zeen Zhu
,
Joo Wan Cha
, and
Ottmar Möhler
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GMCP: A fully Global multi-source Merging-and-Calibration Precipitation dataset (1-hourly, 0.1°, global, 2000–Present)

Ziqiang Ma
,
Jintao Xu
,
Bo Dong
,
Xie Hu
,
Hao Hu
,
Songkun Yan
,
Siyu Zhu
,
Kang He
,
Zhou Shi
,
Yun Chen
,
Xiang Fang
,
Qinghong Zhang
,
Songyan Gu
, and
Fuzhong Weng
Open access

On the determination of GCOS ECV product requirements for climate applications

R. A. Roebeling
,
S. Bojinski
,
P. Poli
,
V. O. John
, and
J. Schulz
Open access

Earth, wind and fire: Are Boulder’s extreme downslope winds changing?

Gerald A. Meehl
,
Christine A. Shields
,
Brendan M. Myers
,
McKenzie L. Larson
,
Dale Durran
,
Muntaha Pasha
,
Annareli Morales
,
Aneesh Subramanian
,
Andrew C. Winters
,
Paul Schlatter
, and
Morris Weisman
Open access

Datasheets for Earth Science Datasets

Charlotte J. Connolly
,
Daniel M. Hueholt
, and
Melissa A. Burt
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Advancing Global Precipitation Data Products: Recommendations from the International Precipitation Working Group

T. Kubota
,
C. Kummerow
,
G. Panegrossi
,
S. Ringerud
,
N. Utsumi
, and
F. Joseph Turk
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Celebrating 50 years since GATE

Andrea M. Jenney
,
Robert A. Houze Jr.
,
Margaret LeMone
,
Elizabeth J. Thompson
,
Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio
,
Chidong Zhang
, and
Terrence R. Nathan
Open access

NOAA Fire Weather Testbed Launches First In-Person Evaluation

E.M. Wells
,
B.J. Hatchett
,
K. Thiem
,
Z. Tolby
,
S. Hoekstra
,
J. Vickery
, and
D. Nietfeld
Open access

Student Hands-on Atmospheric Discovery during an Eclipse (SHADE) Over Texas

Audrey Garza
,
Chuntao Liu
,
Thomas Lavigne
,
Florian Morvais
,
Quincy Walker
,
Hailey Santa Ana
,
Jerricca Rossilli
,
Delaynie Peters
,
Carl Meade
,
Juan Camacho
, and
Paul Walter
Open access

Recommendations for the NSF Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education (FARE): Access and Capabilities

Bart Geerts
,
Brigitte Baeuerle
,
Minghui Diao
,
Ruben Delgado
,
Anna Gannet Hallar
,
Julie K. Lundquist
,
John Mak
,
David D. Turner
,
Patrick Veres
, and
Jothiram Vivekanandan
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The Imminent Data Desert: The Future of Stratospheric Monitoring in a Rapidly Changing World

Ross J. Salawitch
,
Jessica B. Smith
,
Henry Selkirk
,
Krzysztof Wargan
,
Martyn P. Chipperfield
,
Ryan Hossaini
,
Pieternel F. Levelt
,
Nathaniel J. Livesey
,
Laura A. McBride
,
Luis F. Millán
,
Elisabeth Moyer
,
Michelle L. Santee
,
Mark R. Schoeberl
,
Susan Solomon
,
Kane Stone
, and
Helen M. Worden
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Engaging high school students in rescuing and digitizing data from historical observations in Italy: the citizen-science project Cli-DaRe@School

Veronica Manara
,
Michele Brunetti
,
Maria Carmen Beltrano
,
Giacomo Bertoldi
,
Yuri Brugnara
,
Daniele Cat Berro
,
Alessandro Ceppi
,
Alice Crespi
,
Federico Mattia Stefanini
,
Francesco Sudati
,
Dino Zardi
, and
Maurizio Maugeri
Open access

S-MODE: the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment

J. Thomas Farrar
,
Eric D’Asaro
,
Ernesto Rodríguez
,
Andrey Shcherbina
,
Luc Lenain
,
Melissa Omand
,
Alex Wineteer
,
Paban Bhuyan
,
Fred Bingham
,
A. B. Villas Boas
,
Erin Czech
,
Joseph D’Addezio
,
Mara Freilich
,
Laurent Grare
,
Delphine Hypolite
,
Gregg Jacobs
,
Patrice Klein
,
Sarah Lang
,
Inés M. Leyba
,
Zhijin Li
,
Amala Mahadevan
,
James McWilliams
,
Dimitris Menemenlis
,
Leo Middleton
,
Jeroen Molemaker
,
Larry O’Neill
,
Dragana Perkovic-Martin
,
Nick Pizzo
,
Luc Rainville
,
Cesar Rocha
,
R. M. Samelson
,
Iury Simoes-Sousa
,
Nick Statom
,
Andrew Thompson
,
David Thompson
,
Hector Torres
,
Igor Uchoa
,
Jacob Wenegrat
, and
Elizabeth Westbrook
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Fatima-GB: Searching Clarity within Marine Fog

H.J.S. Fernando
,
C. Dorman
,
E. Pardyjak
,
L. Shen
,
Q. Wang
,
E. Creegan
,
S. Gaberšek
,
I. Gultepe
,
S. Hoch
,
L. Lenain
,
D. Richter
,
R. Chang
,
T.C. VandenBoer
,
S. Bardoel
,
A. Barve
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B. Blomquist
,
T. Bullock
,
Z. Chen
,
L. Colosi
,
R.S. Coppersmith
,
I. Crawford
,
L.R. Crilley
,
R. Dimitrova
,
A. Dowling
,
D. Eleuterio
,
S. Fiorino
,
M. Gallagher
,
N. Gapp
,
G. Giacosa
,
A. Grachev
,
L. Grare
,
T. Hintz
,
C. Hocut
,
K.Y. Huang
,
O. Hyde
,
K. Keefer
,
D.G. Ortiz-Suslow
,
A. Perelet
,
W. Perrie
,
J. Ruiz-Plancarte
,
L. Salehpoor
,
D. Singh
,
N. Statom
,
P. Taylor
,
S. Wang
, and
R. Yamaguchi
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The Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP): Achievements, impacts and lessons learnt

Thomas Jung
,
Jeff Wilson
,
Eric Bazile
,
David Bromwich
,
Barbara Casati
,
Jonathan Day
,
Estelle De Coning
,
Clare Eayrs
,
Oystein Godoy
,
Helge Goessling
,
Robert Grumbine
,
Victoria J. Heinrich
,
Jun Inoue
,
Siri Jodha S. Khalsa
,
Jorn Kristiansen
,
Machiel Lamers
,
Daniela Liggett
,
Steffen M. Olsen
,
Donald Perovich
,
Ian A. Renfrew
,
Irina Sandu
,
Matthew D. Shupe
,
Vasily Smolyanitsky
,
Gunilla Svensson
,
Qizhen Sun
,
Taneil Uttal
,
Kirstin Werner
, and
Qinghua Yang
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Measurements from Inside Hurricane Ian using a Mobile Instrumentation Network

Jacquelyn Ringhausen
,
Addison Alford
,
Noah Brauer
,
Kristin Calhoun
,
Vanna Chmielewski
, and
Sean Waugh
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Storm Peak Laboratory: A Research and Training Facility for the Atmospheric Sciences

A. Gannet Hallar
,
Ian B. McCubbin
,
Randolph Borys
,
Douglas H. Lowenthal
,
Melanie Wetzel
,
Edward Hindman
,
Sarah D. Brooks
,
W. James Steenburgh
,
Lynne Gratz
,
Sebastian Hoch
,
Britton Stephens
,
John D. Horel
,
Noah P. Molotch
,
Gerald G. Mace
,
Adriana Bailey
,
Claire Pettersen
,
Elisabeth Andrews
,
Dan J. Cziczo
, and
Maria Garcia
Open access

Recent extreme cold waves are likely not to happen again this century

Aurélien Ribes
,
Yoann Robin
,
Octave Tessiot
, and
Julien Cattiaux
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Challenges and opportunities offered by geostationary space observations for air quality research and emission monitoring

Tai-Long He
,
Glenn-Michael Oomen
,
Wenfu Tang
,
Idir Bouarar
,
Kelly Chance
,
Cathy Clerbaux
,
David P. Edwards
,
Henk Eskes
,
Benjamin Gaubert
,
Claire Granier
,
Marc Guevara
,
Daniel J. Jacob
,
Jennifer Kaiser
,
Jhoon Kim
,
Shobha Kondragunta
,
Xiong Liu
,
Eloise A. Marais
,
Kazuyuki Miyazaki
,
Rokjin Park
,
Vincent-Henri Peuch
,
Gabriele Pfister
,
Andreas Richter
,
Trissevgeni Stavrakou
,
Raid M. Suleiman
,
Alexander J. Turner
,
Ben Veihelmann
,
Zhao-Cheng Zeng
, and
Guy P. Brasseur
Open access

Development of the next-generation air quality prediction system in the Unified Forecast System framework: Enhancing predictability of wildfire air quality impacts

Jianping Huang
,
Ivanka Stajner
,
Raffaele Montuoro
,
Fanglin Yang
,
Kai Wang
,
Ho-Chun Huang
,
Chan-Hoo Jeon
,
Brian Curtis
,
Jeff McQueen
,
Haixia Liu
,
Barry Baker
,
Daniel Tong
,
Youhua Tang
,
Patrick Campbell
,
Georg Grell
,
Gregory Frost
,
Rebecca Schwantes
,
Siyuan Wang
,
Shobha Kondragunta
,
Fangjun Li
, and
Youngsun Jung
Open access

Uncertainty hotspots in global hydrologic modeling: the impact of precipitation and temperature forcings

Guoqiang Tang
,
Martyn P. Clark
,
Wouter J. M. Knoben
,
Hongli Liu
,
Shervan Gharari
,
Louise Arnal
,
Andrew W. Wood
,
Andrew J. Newman
,
Jim Freer
, and
Simon Michael Papalexiou
Open access

Harnessing UAS and high-resolution satellite imagery to better characterize wind damage and understand tornado behavior

Melissa Wagner
,
Michael Coniglio
,
Erik Rasmussen
,
Martin Satrio
,
David Bodine
,
Dominic Candela
,
Doug Kennedy
, and
Elizabeth Tirone
Open access

Integrating High-Resolution Modeling with Diverse Field Campaign Observations through an Open Science Summer School

Maxwell A. Grover
,
Scott Collis
,
Daniel Feldman
,
Ann Fridlind
,
Ya-Chien Feng
,
Michael Giansiracusa
,
Sujata Goswami
,
William I. Gustafson Jr.
,
Thijs Heus
,
Robert C. Jackson
,
Timothy W. Juliano
,
Lishan Li
,
Joseph R. O’Brien
, and
Damao Zhang
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Insights from Nowcasting and Mesoscale Research Working Group Projects of the World Weather Research Programme

Paul Joe
,
Elizabeth Ebert
,
Tom Keenan
,
J.J. Wang
,
Yihong Duan
,
George Isaac
,
Yong Wang
,
Dmitry Kiktev
,
Ping Wah Li
,
Kazuo Saito
,
Gyu Won Lee
,
Valéry Masson
,
Barb Brown
,
Jeanette Onvlee-Hooimeijer
,
Peter Steinle
,
Paola Salio
,
Rachel Albrecht
,
Jim Wilson
,
Rita Roberts
,
Juanzhen Sun
,
Feng Liang
,
Celeste Saulo
,
Claudia Campetella
,
Steve Goodman
,
Bill Conway
,
Chris Doyle
,
Stéphane Bélair
,
Jason Milbrandt
,
Sylvie Leroyer
,
Thibaut Montmerle
,
Augusto Jose Pereira Filho
,
Brian Golding
,
Peter May
,
Alan Seed
,
Yinchun Wang
,
Daniel Michelson
,
Alexander Baklanov
, and
Estelle de Coning

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The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

E. Kalnay
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M. Kanamitsu
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R. Kistler
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W. Collins
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D. Deaven
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L. Gandin
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M. Iredell
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R. Reynolds
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Roy Jenne
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Dennis Joseph
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A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis

Christopher Torrence
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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
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Yuan Zhang
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John M. Wallace
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Robert C. Francis
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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
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Robert Kistler
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John Woollen
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David Behringer
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NCEP–DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis (R-2)

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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
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G. L. Potter
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NOAA’s HYSPLIT Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion Modeling System

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

M. Rodell
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P. R. Houser
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U. Jambor
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J. Gottschalck
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K. Mitchell
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C.-J. Meng
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K. Arsenault
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B. Cosgrove
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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 NCEP–NCAR 50-Year Reanalysis: Monthly Means CD-ROM and Documentation

Robert Kistler
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Eugenia Kalnay
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William Collins
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Suranjana Saha
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Glenn White
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John Woollen
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Muthuvel Chelliah
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Wesley Ebisuzaki
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Masao Kanamitsu
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Vernon Kousky
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Huug van den Dool
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Roy Jenne
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Michael Fiorino
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FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

Dennis Baldocchi
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Eva Falge
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Lianhong Gu
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Richard Olson
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David Hollinger
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Steve Running
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Peter Anthoni
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Ch. Bernhofer
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Kenneth Davis
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Robert Evans
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Jose Fuentes
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Allen Goldstein
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Gabriel Katul
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Xuhui Lee
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Tilden Meyers
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Riccardo Valentini
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Shashi Verma
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Timo Vesala
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Kell Wilson
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NOAA’s HYSPLIT Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion Modeling System

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

E. Kalnay
,
M. Kanamitsu
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R. Kistler
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W. Collins
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D. Deaven
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L. Gandin
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M. Iredell
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S. Saha
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Y. Zhu
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W. Ebisuzaki
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W. Higgins
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C. Ropelewski
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J. Wang
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A. Leetmaa
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R. Reynolds
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Roy Jenne
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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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An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

Karl E. Taylor
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Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part II: Projected Response to Anthropogenic Warming

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Suzana J. Camargo
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James Kossin
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Mrutyunjay Mohapatra
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Masato Sugi
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The Global Land Data Assimilation System

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C.-J. Meng
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The Economic, Political, and Social Implications of Environmental Crises

Tobias Ide
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