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  • Bourassa, M. A., D. M. Legler, J. J. O’Brien, and S. R. Smith, 2003: SeaWinds Validation with Research Vessels, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 3019, DOI 10.1029/2001JC001081.
  • Jackson, D. L., G. A. Wick, and J. J. Bates, 2006: Near-surface retrieval of air temperature and specific humidity using multisensor microwave satellite observations, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D10306, doi:10.1029/2005JD006431.
  • Langland, R. H., R. N. Maue, and C. H. Bishop, 2008: Uncertainty in Atmospheric Temperature Analyses. Tellus. (in revision).
  • Moore, G. W. K., R. S. Pickart, and I. A. Renfrew 2008: Buoy observations from the windiest location in the world ocean, Cape Farewell, Greenland, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L18802, doi:10.1029/2008GL034845.
  • Renfrew, I. A., G. W. K. Moore, J. E. Kristjánsson, H. Ólafsson, S. L. Gray, G. N. Petersen, K. Bovis, P. R. A. Brown, I. Føre, T. Haine, C. Hay, E. A. Irvine, A. Lawrence, T. Ohigashi, S. Outten, R. S. Pickart, M. Shapiro, D. Sproson, R. Swinbank, A. Woolley, and S. Zhang, 2008: The Greenland Flow Distortion experiment, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89, 1307-1324. 
  • Risien, C. M., and D. B. Chelton, 2008: A Global Climatology of Surface Wind and Wind Stress Fields from Eight Years of QuikSCAT Scatterometer Data. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 2379-2413.
  • Roberts, J. B., C. A. Clayson, F. R. Robertson, and D. Jackson, 2009: Predicting near-surface characteristics from SSM/I using neural networks with a first guess approach. J. Geophys. Res., (submitted).
  • Sampe, T., and S. P. Xie, 2007: Mapping high sea winds from space: A global climatology, Bull. Amer. Meteorolog. Soc., 88, 1965-1978.
  • Shapiro, M. A., L. S. Fedor and T. Hampel, 1987: Research aircraft measurements of a polar low over the Norwegian Sea, Tellus, 37A, 272-306.

 

 

Announcements

U.S. CLIVAR Call for New Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR joint call with Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Group (OCB) for Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR Summit 2011 presentations online

U.S. CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group publishes paper in BAMS (Feb. 2011, Vol. 92, No. 2)

NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium - 6-24 June 2011; Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under climate Change - presentations online

More Announcements

Science Tidbits    

26 September 2011: Seeking better answers to climate change, extreme weather

20 September 2011: Earth is losing Arctic sea ice: consequences could be global

17 August 2011: Study blames humans for half of recent Arctic ice melt

9 July 2011: Record south-central drought could continue into 2012, National Weather Service predicts

7 July 2011 - US Climate: The New Normal

10 June 2011 - NASA launches Aquarius

 

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