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Empirical Orthogonal Functions: The Medium is the Message by Monahan, Adam H., Fyfe, John C., Ambaum, Maarten H. P., Stephenson, David B., North, Gerald R.

“…Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis is a powerful tool for data compression and dimensionality reduction used broadly in meteorology and oceanography…”
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More evidence for anthropogenic influence on climate change by North, Gerald R.

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Apportioning natural and forced components in climate change by North, Gerald R.

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Study of the Impact of Summer Monsoon Circulation on Spatial Distribution of Aerosols in East Asia Based on Numerical Simulations by Yan, Libin, Liu, Xiaodong, Yang, Ping, Yin, Zhi-Yong, North, Gerald R.

“…The regional coupled climate–chemistry/aerosol model (RegCM3) is used to investigate the difference in the spatial distribution of aerosol optical depth (AOD)…”
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Influence of Indian Summer Monsoon on Aerosol Loading in East Asia by Liu, Xiaodong, Yan, Libin, Yang, Ping, Yin, Zhi-Yong, North, Gerald R.

“…The spatial and temporal variations of aerosol loading over eastern Asia specified in terms of the aerosol optical depth (AOD) at the 550-nm wavelength during…”
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Energy balance models in climate science by North, Gerald R

“…Energy Balance Climate Models have a long history but only drew much attention in the late 1960s. This class of climate models is mainly based upon the balance…”
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Diurnal cycle of tropical precipitation in Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite and ocean buoy rain gauge data by Bowman, Kenneth P., Collier, J. Craig, North, Gerald R., Wu, Qiaoyan, Ha, Eunho, Hardin, James

“…The climatological diurnal cycle of precipitation in the tropics is analyzed using data from rain gauges on ocean buoys and satellite measurements by the…”
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Role of water vapor feedback on the amplitude of season cycle in the global mean surface air temperature by Wu, Qigang, Karoly, David J., North, Gerald R.

“…We have analyzed the seasonal variations of global mean surface air temperature (SAT) and surface energy budgets of 17 AR4 models. Considerable differences in…”
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Statistical significance of trends in monthly heavy precipitation over the US by Mahajan, Salil, North, Gerald R., Saravanan, R., Genton, Marc G.

“…Trends in monthly heavy precipitation, defined by a return period of one year, are assessed for statistical significance in observations and Global Climate…”
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Correlation Models for Temperature Fields by North, Gerald R., Wang, Jue, Genton, Marc G.

“…This paper presents derivations of some analytical forms for spatial correlations of evolving random fields governed by a white-noise-driven damped diffusion…”
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Equatorial Waves Including the Madden–Julian Oscillation in TRMM Rainfall and OLR Data by Cho, Hye-Kyung, Bowman, Kenneth P., North, Gerald R.

“…Four years of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and rainfall data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) are investigated to find the dominant…”
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Thomas J. Crowley: A broad view of climate history by North, Gerald R

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How Sustainable are Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands? by Schmandt, Jurgen, North, Gerald R., Ward, George H.

“…Engineered rivers in arid lands play an important role in feeding the world’s growing population. Each continent has rivers that carry water from distant…”
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Analysis of the correlations between atmospheric boundary-layer and free-tropospheric temperatures in the tropics by Wu, Wei, Dessler, Andrew E., North, Gerald R.

“…We investigate the vertical correlations between temperature variations at 925 hPa, in the atmospheric boundary layer, and temperature variations in the free…”
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Hysteresis of glaciations in the Permo-Carboniferous by Zhuang, Kelin, North, Gerald R., Giardino, John R.

“…The hysteresis of glaciations in the Permo‐Carboniferous is simulated in an iterative energy balance model with 84 scenarios of varied orbital elements, CO2…”
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A Summary of Reflectivity Profiles from the First Year of TRMM Radar Data by Shin, Dong-Bin, North, Gerald R., Bowman, Kenneth P.

“…A preliminary climatology of reflectivity profiles derived from the first spaceborne precipitation radar (PR), which is on board the Tropical Rainfall…”
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A NetCDF version of the two-dimensional energy balance model based on the full multigrid algorithm by Zhuang, Kelin, North, Gerald R., Stevens, Mark J.

“…A NetCDF version of the two-dimensional energy balance model based on the full multigrid method in Fortran is introduced for both pedagogical and research…”
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Climate sensitivity and thermal inertia by Wu, Qigang, North, Gerald R.

“…We compare several Atmosphere/Ocean General Circulation model control runs by fitting long control runs to a simple discrete (annual averages) stochastic…”
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A Proposed Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Satellite by Simpson, Joanne, Adler, Robert F., North, Gerald R.

“…The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite is planned for an operational duration of at least three years, beginning in the mid-1990's. The main…”
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Exploration of the MODIS Cloud-Top Property Products for the Investigation of Equatorial Wave Systems by Li, Yue, North, Gerald R., Yang, Ping, Baum, Bryan A.

“…The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) observations provide an unprecedented opportunity for studying cloud macrophysical (cloud-top…”
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