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Unveiling aerosol–cloud interactions – Part 1: Cloud contamination in satellite products enhances the aerosol indirect forcing estimate by Christensen, Matthew W, Neubauer, David, Poulsen, Caroline A, Thomas, Gareth E, McGarragh, Gregory R, Povey, Adam C, Proud, Simon R, Grainger, Roy G

“…Increased concentrations of aerosol can enhance the albedo of warm low-level cloud. Accurately quantifying this relationship from space is challenging due in…”
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Evaluation of seven European aerosol optical depth retrieval algorithms for climate analysis by de Leeuw, Gerrit, Holzer-Popp, Thomas, Bevan, Suzanne, Davies, William H., Descloitres, Jacques, Grainger, Roy G., Griesfeller, Jan, Heckel, Andreas, Kinne, Stefan, Klüser, Lars, Kolmonen, Pekka, Litvinov, Pavel, Martynenko, Dmytro, North, Peter, Ovigneur, Bertrand, Pascal, Nicolas, Poulsen, Caroline, Ramon, Didier, Schulz, Michael, Siddans, Richard, Sogacheva, Larisa, Tanré, Didier, Thomas, Gareth E., Virtanen, Timo H., von Hoyningen Huene, Wolfgang, Vountas, Marco, Pinnock, Simon

“…Satellite data are increasingly used to provide observation-based estimates of the effects of aerosols on climate. The Aerosol-cci project, part of the…”
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Chronic exposure to environmental temperature attenuates the thermal sensitivity of salmonids by González-Ferreras, Alexia M., Barquín, Jose, Blyth, Penelope S. A., Hawksley, Jack, Kinsella, Hugh, Lauridsen, Rasmus, Morris, Olivia F., Peñas, Francisco J., Thomas, Gareth E., Woodward, Guy, Zhao, Lei, O’Gorman, Eoin J.

“…Metabolism, the biological processing of energy and materials, scales predictably with temperature and body size. Temperature effects on metabolism are…”
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Effects of Dispersants and Biosurfactants on Crude-Oil Biodegradation and Bacterial Community Succession by Thomas, Gareth E., Brant, Jan L., Campo, Pablo, Clark, Dave R., Coulon, Frederic, Gregson, Benjamin H., McGenity, Terry J., McKew, Boyd A.

“…This study evaluated the effects of three commercial dispersants (Finasol OSR 52, Slickgone NS, Superdispersant 25) and three biosurfactants (rhamnolipid,…”
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Bacterial Community Legacy Effects Following the Agia Zoni II Oil-Spill, Greece by Thomas, Gareth E., Cameron, Tom C., Campo, Pablo, Clark, Dave R., Coulon, Frederic, Gregson, Benjamin H., Hepburn, Leanne J., McGenity, Terry J., Miliou, Anastasia, Whitby, Corinne, McKew, Boyd A.

“…In September 2017 the Agia Zoni II sank in the Saronic Gulf, Greece, releasing approximately 500 tonnes of heavy fuel oil, contaminating the Salamina and…”
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Evaluation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Pollution From the HMS Royal Oak Shipwreck and Effects on Sediment Microbial Community Structure by Thomas, Gareth E., Bolam, Stefan G., Brant, Jan L., Brash, Rodney, Goodsir, Freya, Hynes, Clare, McGenity, Terry J., McIlwaine, Paul S. O., McKew, Boyd A.

“…Despite many shipwrecks containing oil there is a paucity of studies investigating their impact on surrounding environments. This study evaluates any potential…”
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The vertical distribution of volcanic SO 2 plumes measured by IASI by Carboni, Elisa, Grainger, Roy G., Mather, Tamsin A., Pyle, David M., Thomas, Gareth E., Siddans, Richard, Smith, Andrew J. A., Dudhia, Anu, Koukouli, Mariliza E., Balis, Dimitrios

“…Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is an important atmospheric constituent that plays a crucial role in many atmospheric processes. Volcanic eruptions are a significant…”
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Determination of Protein Denaturation and Glass Transition Temperatures Using High-Frequency Time Domain Reflectometry by Thomas, Gareth E, Bone, Stephen, Drago, Guido

“…Hydrated proteins exhibit a broad dielectric loss extending over the frequency range from 1 MHz to 10 GHz which can be decomposed into a number of constituent…”
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Oil and gas platforms degrade benthic invertebrate diversity and food web structure by Chen, Zelin, Cameron, Tom C., Couce, Elena, Garcia, Clement, Hicks, Natalie, Thomas, Gareth E., Thompson, Murray S.A., Whitby, Corinne, O'Gorman, Eoin J.

“…Oil and gas exploitation introduces toxic contaminants such as hydrocarbons and heavy metals to the surrounding sediment, resulting in deleterious impacts on…”
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Regional and seasonal variations of the Twomey indirect effect as observed by the ATSR-2 satellite instrument by Bulgin, Claire E., Palmer, Paul I., Thomas, Gareth E., Arnold, Christopher P. G., Campmany, Elies, Carboni, Elisa, Grainger, Roy G., Poulsen, Caroline, Siddans, Richard, Lawrence, Bryan N.

“…We use satellite observations of aerosol optical depth τa and cloud effective radius re from the ATSR‐2 instrument in 1997 to investigate the Twomey indirect…”
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The vertical distribution of volcanic SO2 plumes measured by IASI by Carboni, Elisa, Grainger, Roy G, Mather, Tamsin A, Pyle, David M, Thomas, Gareth E, Siddans, Richard, Smith, Andrew J A, Dudhia, Anu, Koukouli, Mariliza E, Balis, Dimitrios

“…Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is an important atmospheric constituent that plays a crucial role in many atmospheric processes. Volcanic eruptions are a significant…”
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Reconciling satellite-derived atmospheric properties with fine-resolution land imagery: Insights for atmospheric correction by Zelazowski, Przemyslaw, Sayer, Andrew M., Thomas, Gareth E., Grainger, Roy G.

“…This paper investigates to what extent satellite measurements of atmospheric properties can be reconciled with fine-resolution land imagery, in order to…”
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The Community Cloud retrieval for CLimate (CC4CL) – Part 2: The optimal estimation approach by McGarragh, Gregory R, Poulsen, Caroline A, Thomas, Gareth E, Povey, Adam C, Sus, Oliver, Stapelberg, Stefan, Schlundt, Cornelia, Proud, Simon, Christensen, Matthew W, Stengel, Martin, Hollmann, Rainer, Grainger, Roy G

“…The Community Cloud retrieval for Climate (CC4CL) is a cloud property retrieval system for satellite-based multispectral imagers and is an important component…”
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Use of MODIS-derived surface reflectance data in the ORAC-AATSR aerosol retrieval algorithm: Impact of differences between sensor spectral response functions by Sayer, Andrew M., Thomas, Gareth E., Grainger, Roy G., Carboni, Elisa, Poulsen, Caroline, Siddans, Richard

“…The aerosol component of the Oxford-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Aerosol and Clouds (ORAC) retrieval scheme for the Advanced Along-Track Scanning…”
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Synergy of stereo cloud top height and ORAC optimal estimation cloud retrieval: evaluation and application to AATSR by Fisher, Daniel, Poulsen, Caroline A, Thomas, Gareth E, Muller, Jan-Peter

“…In this paper we evaluate the impact on the cloud parameter retrievals of the ORAC (Optimal Retrieval of Aerosol and Cloud) algorithm following the inclusion…”
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Cloud_cci ATSR-2 and AATSR data set version 3: a 17-year climatology of global cloud and radiation properties by Poulsen, Caroline A, McGarragh, Gregory R, Thomas, Gareth E, Stengel, Martin, Christensen, Matthew W, Povey, Adam C, Proud, Simon R, Carboni, Elisa, Hollmann, Rainer, Grainger, Roy G

“…We present version 3 (V3) of the Cloud_cci Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) and Advanced ATSR (AATSR) data set. The data set was created for the European…”
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Quantifying the response of the ORAC aerosol optical depth retrieval for MSG SEVIRI to aerosol model assumptions by Bulgin, Claire E., Palmer, Paul I., Merchant, Christopher J., Siddans, Richard, Gonzi, Siegfried, Poulsen, Caroline A., Thomas, Gareth E., Sayer, Andrew M., Carboni, Elisa, Grainger, Roy G., Highwood, Eleanor J., Ryder, Claire L.

“…We test the response of the Oxford‐RAL Aerosol and Cloud (ORAC) retrieval algorithm for Meteosat Second Generation Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed…”
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An Evaluation of the Effects of Marine Oil-Spills, Remediation Strategies, and Shipwrecks on Microbial Community Structure and Succession by Thomas, Gareth E

“…The evaluation of how Bacteria respond to oil-contamination, and the application of dispersants and biosurfactants, in North Sea seawater microcosms is the…”
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Analysis Framework for the Prompt Discovery of Compact Binary Mergers in Gravitational-wave Data by Messick, Cody, Blackburn, Kent, Brady, Patrick, Brockill, Patrick, Cannon, Kipp, Cariou, Romain, Caudill, Sarah, Chamberlin, Sydney J, Creighton, Jolien D. E, Everett, Ryan, Hanna, Chad, Keppel, Drew, Lang, Ryan N, Li, Tjonnie G. F, Meacher, Duncan, Nielsen, Alex, Pankow, Chris, Privitera, Stephen, Qi, Hong, Sachdev, Surabhi, Sadeghian, Laleh, Singer, Leo, Thomas, E. Gareth, Wade, Leslie, Wade, Madeline, Weinstein, Alan, Wiesner, Karsten

“…Phys. Rev. D 95, 042001 (2017) We describe a stream-based analysis pipeline to detect gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron stars, binary black…”
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The vertical distribution of volcanic SO.sub.2 plumes measured by IASI by Carboni, Elisa, Grainger, Roy G, Mather, Tamsin A, Pyle, David M, Thomas, Gareth E, Siddans, Richard, Smith, Andrew J. A, Dudhia, Anu, Koukouli, Mariliza E, Balis, Dimitrios

“…Sulfur dioxide (SO.sub.2) is an important atmospheric constituent that plays a crucial role in many atmospheric processes. Volcanic eruptions are…”
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