Search Results - "Journal of Geophysical Research"

Impacts of climate change from 2000 to 2050 on wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations in the western United States by Spracklen, D. V., Mickley, L. J., Logan, J. A., Hudman, R. C., Yevich, R., Flannigan, M. D., Westerling, A. L.

“…We investigate the impact of climate change on wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations in the western United States. We regress observed area…”
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Emissions of trace gases and aerosols during the open combustion of biomass in the laboratory by McMeeking, Gavin R., Kreidenweis, Sonia M., Baker, Stephen, Carrico, Christian M., Chow, Judith C., Collett Jr, Jeffrey L., Hao, Wei Min, Holden, Amanda S., Kirchstetter, Thomas W., Malm, William C., Moosmüller, Hans, Sullivan, Amy P., Wold, Cyle E.

“…We characterized the gas‐ and speciated aerosol‐phase emissions from the open combustion of 33 different plant species during a series of 255 controlled…”
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Evolution of ozone, particulates, and aerosol direct radiative forcing in the vicinity of Houston using a fully coupled meteorology-chemistry-aerosol model by Fast, Jerome D., Gustafson Jr, William I., Easter, Richard C., Zaveri, Rahul A., Barnard, James C., Chapman, Elaine G., Grell, Georg A., Peckham, Steven E.

“…A new fully coupled meteorology‐chemistry‐aerosol model is used to simulate the urban‐ to regional‐scale variations in trace gases, particulates, and aerosol…”
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Multimodel ensemble simulations of present-day and near-future tropospheric ozone by Stevenson, D.S, Dentener, F.J, Schultz, M.G, Ellingsen, K, Noije, T.P.C. van, Wild, O, Zeng, G, Amann, M, Atherton, C.S, Bell, N, Bergmann, D.J, Bey, I, Butler, T, Cofala, J, Collins, W.J, Derwent, R.G, Doherty, R.M, Drevet, J, Eskes, H.J, Fiore, A.M, Gauss, M, Hauglustaine, D.A, Horowitz, L.W, Isaksen, I.S.A, Krol, M.C, Lamarque, J.F, Lawrence, M.G, Montanaro, V, Muller, J.F, Pitari, G, Prather, M.J, Pyle, J.A, Rast, S, Rodriguez, J.M, Sanderson, M.G, Savage, N.H, Shindell, D.T, Strahan, S.E, Sudo, K, Szopa, S

“…Global tropospheric ozone distributions, budgets, and radiative forcings from an ensemble of 26 state‐of‐the‐art atmospheric chemistry models have been…”
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Quantifying uncertainties in global and regional temperature change using an ensemble of observational estimates: The HadCRUT4 data set by Morice, Colin P., Kennedy, John J., Rayner, Nick A., Jones, Phil D.

“…Recent developments in observational near‐surface air temperature and sea‐surface temperature analyses are combined to produce HadCRUT4, a new data set of…”
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Inverse modeling of global and regional CH4 emissions using SCIAMACHY satellite retrievals by Bergamaschi, P, Frankenberg, C, Meirink, J.F, Krol, M.C, Villani, M.G, Houweling, S, Dentener, F

“…Methane retrievals from the Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument onboard ENVISAT provide important…”
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Radiative forcing by long-lived greenhouse gases: Calculations with the AER radiative transfer models by Iacono, Michael J., Delamere, Jennifer S., Mlawer, Eli J., Shephard, Mark W., Clough, Shepard A., Collins, William D.

“…A primary component of the observed recent climate change is the radiative forcing from increased concentrations of long‐lived greenhouse gases (LLGHGs)…”
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Model for Simulating Aerosol Interactions and Chemistry (MOSAIC) by Zaveri, Rahul A., Easter, Richard C., Fast, Jerome D., Peters, Leonard K.

“…This paper describes and evaluates a new Model for Simulating Aerosol Interactions and Chemistry (MOSAIC), with a special focus on addressing the long‐standing…”
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A European daily high-resolution gridded data set of surface temperature and precipitation for 1950–2006 by Haylock, M. R., Hofstra, N., Klein Tank, A. M. G., Klok, E. J., Jones, P. D., New, M.

“…We present a European land‐only daily high‐resolution gridded data set for precipitation and minimum, maximum, and mean surface temperature for the period…”
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Bias correction of monthly precipitation and temperature fields from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR4 models using equidistant quantile matching by Li, Haibin, Sheffield, Justin, Wood, Eric F.

“…A new quantile‐based mapping method is developed for the bias correction of monthly global circulation model outputs. Compared to the widely used…”
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Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products by Xia, Youlong, Mitchell, Kenneth, Ek, Michael, Sheffield, Justin, Cosgrove, Brian, Wood, Eric, Luo, Lifeng, Alonge, Charles, Wei, Helin, Meng, Jesse, Livneh, Ben, Lettenmaier, Dennis, Koren, Victor, Duan, Qingyun, Mo, Kingtse, Fan, Yun, Mocko, David

“…Results are presented from the second phase of the multiinstitution North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS‐2) research partnership. In NLDAS, the…”
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Global aerosol optical properties and application to Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aerosol retrieval over land by Levy, Robert C., Remer, Lorraine A., Dubovik, Oleg

“…As more information about global aerosol properties has become available from remotely sensed retrievals and in situ measurements, it is prudent to evaluate…”
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Detecting inhomogeneities in Caribbean and adjacent Caribbean temperature data using sea-surface temperatures by Stephenson, T. S., Goodess, C. M., Haylock, M. R., Chen, A. A., Taylor, M. A.

“…This study presents a systematic evaluation of the homogeneity of daily surface temperature observations for the Caribbean and neighboring regions on a monthly…”
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Second-generation operational algorithm: Retrieval of aerosol properties over land from inversion of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer spectral reflectance by Levy, Robert C., Remer, Lorraine A., Mattoo, Shana, Vermote, Eric F., Kaufman, Yoram J.

“…Since first light in early 2000, operational global quantitative retrievals of aerosol properties over land have been made from Moderate Resolution Imaging…”
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The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local-scale measurements by Niu, Guo-Yue, Yang, Zong-Liang, Mitchell, Kenneth E., Chen, Fei, Ek, Michael B., Barlage, Michael, Kumar, Anil, Manning, Kevin, Niyogi, Dev, Rosero, Enrique, Tewari, Mukul, Xia, Youlong

“…This first paper of the two‐part series describes the objectives of the community efforts in improving the Noah land surface model (LSM), documents, through…”
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Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation by Alexander, L. V., Zhang, X., Peterson, T. C., Caesar, J., Gleason, B., Klein Tank, A. M. G., Haylock, M., Collins, D., Trewin, B., Rahimzadeh, F., Tagipour, A., Rupa Kumar, K., Revadekar, J., Griffiths, G., Vincent, L., Stephenson, D. B., Burn, J., Aguilar, E., Brunet, M., Taylor, M., New, M., Zhai, P., Rusticucci, M., Vazquez-Aguirre, J. L.

“…A suite of climate change indices derived from daily temperature and precipitation data, with a primary focus on extreme events, were computed and analyzed. By…”
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Organic tracers of primary biological aerosol particles at subtropical Okinawa Island in the western North Pacific Rim by Zhu, Chunmao, Kawamura, Kimitaka, Kunwar, Bhagawati

“…Primary biological aerosol particles (PBAPs) play an important role in affecting atmospheric physical and chemical properties. Aerosol samples were collected…”
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Hemispheric and large-scale land-surface air temperature variations: An extensive revision and an update to 2010 by Jones, P. D., Lister, D. H., Osborn, T. J., Harpham, C., Salmon, M., Morice, C. P.

“…This study is an extensive revision of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) land station temperature database that has been used to produce a grid‐box data set of…”
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Present-day climate forcing and response from black carbon in snow by Flanner, Mark G., Zender, Charles S., Randerson, James T., Rasch, Philip J.

“…We apply our Snow, Ice, and Aerosol Radiative (SNICAR) model, coupled to a general circulation model with prognostic carbon aerosol transport, to improve…”
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Global dimming and brightening: A review by Wild, Martin

“…There is increasing evidence that the amount of solar radiation incident at the Earth's surface is not stable over the years but undergoes significant decadal…”
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