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(124) Evaluating uncertainty in integrated environmental models: A review of concepts and tools

(116) Is the climate warming or cooling?

(108) Do all raindrops fall at terminal speed?

(81) Stratospheric ozone depletion reduces ocean carbon uptake and enhances ocean acidification

(71) Introduction to special section on Impacts of Land Use Change on Water Resources

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

(42) Physical forcing of nitrogen fixation and diazotroph community structure in the North Pacific subtropical gyre

(35) Carbon cycling under 300 years of land use change: Importance of the secondary vegetation sink

(31) Year-round observations of carbon biomass and flux variability in the Southern Ocean

(21) Spatial changes in soil organic carbon density and storage of cultivated soils in China from 1980 to 2000

(20) Temporal and among-site variability of inherent water use efficiency at the ecosystem level

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

(61) Lower crustal earthquakes near the Ethiopian rift induced by magmatic processes

(55) Intraplate volcanism with complex age-distance patterns: A case for small-scale sublithospheric convection

(51) Land2Sea database of river drainage basin sizes, annual water discharges, and suspended sediment fluxes

(31) Molybdenum behavior during early diagenesis: Insights from Mo isotopes

(21) Lithospheric controls on melt production during continental breakup at slow rates of extension: Application to the North Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

(116) Is the climate warming or cooling?

(108) Do all raindrops fall at terminal speed?

(81) Stratospheric ozone depletion reduces ocean carbon uptake and enhances ocean acidification

(62) Higher surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet revealed by high-resolution climate modeling

(58) STEREO observations of upstream and downstream waves at low Mach number shocks

Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres

(52) Global dimming and brightening: A review

(43) Trends and solar cycle effects in temperature versus altitude from the Halogen Occultation Experiment for the mesosphere and upper stratosphere

(37) Spatial analysis of trends in extreme precipitation events in high-resolution climate model results and observations for Germany

(36) Light-induced ozone depletion by humic acid films and submicron aerosol particles

(32) Numerical model simulation of the Saharan dust event of 6–11 March 2006 using the Regional Climate Model version 3 (RegCM3)

Journal of Geophysical Research — Biogeosciences

(21) Comparison of morphological and biological control of exchange with transient storage zones in a field-scale flume

(9) Isotopologue signatures of N2O produced by denitrification in soils

(5) Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle

(4) Contribution of ocean, fossil fuel, land biosphere, and biomass burning carbon fluxes to seasonal and interannual variability in atmospheric CO2

(4) Daily heterotrophic respiration model considering the diurnal temperature variability in the soil

Journal of Geophysical Research — Earth Surface

(18) Improving simulated soil temperatures and soil freeze/thaw at high-latitude regions in the Simple Biosphere/Carnegie-Ames-Stanford Approach model

(14) Deep water geomorphology of the mixed siliciclastic-carbonate system, Gulf of Papua

(13) Neogene evolution of the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic system in the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea

(8) Large-eddy simulations of unidirectional water flow over dunes

(6) Landslide rupture and the probability distribution of mobilized debris volumes

Journal of Geophysical Research — Oceans

(39) Planktonic growth and grazing in the Columbia River plume region: A biophysical model study

(36) Representing eddy stress in an Arctic Ocean model

(26) Changes in wave climate over the northwest European shelf seas during the last 12,000 years

(26) Seasonal sea surface temperature variability in the Indonesian Seas

(26) Beaufort Gyre freshwater reservoir: State and variability from observations

Journal of Geophysical Research — Solid Earth

(63) Three-dimensional model of Hellenic Arc deformation and origin of the Cretan uplift

(36) Poisson's ratio in the lower mantle beneath Alaska: Evidence for compositional heterogeneity

(32) Dynamic modeling of slow earthquakes based on thermoporoelastic effects and inelastic generation of pores

(28) Glacial isostatic adjustment and nonstationary signals observed by GRACE

(27) Spatial variations of P wave attenuation in the mantle beneath North America

Journal of Geophysical Research — Planets

(15) Wavelength dependence of dust aerosol single scattering albedo as observed by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer

(12) Seeking phyllosilicates in thermal infrared data: A laboratory and Martian data case study

(12) Effects of ejecta accumulation on the crater population of asteroid 433 Eros

(10) Retrieval of Mars surface physical properties from OMEGA hyperspectral images using regularized sliced inverse regression

(7) Overview of the magnetic properties experiments on the Mars Exploration Rovers

Journal of Geophysical Research — Space Physics

(21) Substorm entropies

(20) Tailward flows with positive BZ in the near-Earth plasma sheet

(19) Response of the equatorial and low-latitude ionosphere in the Indian sector to the geomagnetic storms of January 2005

(19) Cold dense magnetopause boundary layer under northward IMF: Results from THEMIS and MHD simulations

(17) FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC observations of seasonal and longitudinal variations of equatorial ionization anomaly and its interhemispheric asymmetry during the solar minimum period

Paleoceanography

(44) High-amplitude variations in North Atlantic sea surface temperature during the early Pliocene warm period

(38) African monsoon enhancement during the penultimate glacial period (MIS 6.5 ∼ 170 ka) and its atmospheric impact

(27) Foraminiferal assemblage changes over the last 15,000 years on the Mackenzie-Beaufort Sea Slope and Amundsen Gulf, Canada: Implications for past sea ice conditions

(24) Impact of a permanent El Niño (El Padre) and Indian Ocean Dipole in warm Pliocene climates

(13) Origin of rhythmic Albian black shales (Piobbico core, central Italy): Calcareous nannofossil quantitative and statistical analyses and paleoceanographic reconstructions

Radio Science

(11) Global Positioning System and solar radio burst forensics

(5) Nondestructive electromagnetic material characterization using a dual waveguide probe: A full wave solution

(5) Characterization of dense focal plane array feeds for parabolic reflectors in achieving closely overlapping or widely separated multiple beams

(4) Dual elliptically tapered antipodal slot antenna loaded by curved terminations for ultrawideband applications

(4) Measurements and simulation of ionospheric scattering on VHF and UHF radar signals: Channel scattering function

Reviews of Geophysics

(19) Indian Ocean circulation and climate variability

(9) State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate system

(6) On the driving processes of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

(6) Global plate motion frames: Toward a unified model

(5) Anatomy of the Dead Sea Transform from lithospheric to microscopic scale

Space Weather

(12) Space Weather Studies in Australia

(11) A technique for short‐term warning of solar energetic particle events based on flare location, flare size, and evidence of particle escape

(9) Building and Using Coupled Models for the Space Weather System: Lessons Learned

(7) Global, low-latitude, vertical E × B drift velocities inferred from daytime magnetometer observations

(5) The Need for Long-Term Solar-Terrestrial Data Series

Tectonics

(41) Thrust or detachment? Exhumation processes in the Aegean: Insight from a field study on Ios (Cyclades, Greece)

(30) How old is the Baikal Rift Zone? Insight from apatite fission track thermochronology

(9) Mesoproterozoic plume-modified orogenesis in eastern Precambrian Australia

(8) Slowing of India's convergence with Eurasia since 20 Ma and its implications for Tibetan mantle dynamics

(4) Phanerozoic tectonics of south China block: New insights from the polyphase deformation in the Yunkai massif

Water Resources Research

(124) Evaluating uncertainty in integrated environmental models: A review of concepts and tools

(71) Introduction to special section on Impacts of Land Use Change on Water Resources

(35) Streamflow changes in Alaska between the cool phase (1947–1976) and the warm phase (1977–2006) of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation: The influence of glaciers

(34) The ah ha moment of measurement: Introduction to the special section on Hydrologic Measurement Methods

(33) Estimation of wet surface evaporation from sensible heat flux measurements

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