Science Highlights: 2011
December
- Long-Term TRMM Data Improve Cloud Simulations
- Recent trends of tropical hydrological cycle inferred from GPCP and ISCCP data
- Global Total Ozone Impacts Due to Greenhouse Gases and Chlorine- and Bromine-Containing Compounds, 1850-2100
November
- Towards a Global Census of Rainfall Microphysics
- More tornados and hailstorms observed in the middle of the week
- What caused unusually low Arctic O3 in Spring 2011?
October
- TRMM data show a super-Clausius Clapeyron sensitivity in heavy rain in a warmer climate
- First Full Tropospheric Wind Profiles Obtained with the TWiLiTE Doppler Lidar
- First Ultraviolet Reflectivity Measurements of Diurnal Variations of Clouds
September
- Monitoring Trends in Atmospheric Water Vapor Require Increasing Frequency of Measurements
- Reduction of aerosol absorption in Beijing since 2007 from MODIS and AERONET
- Destruction of Mesospheric Arctic Ozone Caused by Solar Protons in January 2005
August
- Environmental Influences on the Strength of Tropical Storm Debby
- Aerosol Observations and Cloud Contamination: Detection of thin cirrus bias using MPLNET
- Low Clouds Aid Sea Ice Loss
- Unusual Dynamical Conditions in the Arctic Stratosphere in March 2011
July
- A New-Generation Bulk Microphysics Scheme for Multi-scale Modeling
- Satellite Remote Sensing of Blowing Snow Properties over Antarctica
- A new tool for climate research: longest single-satellite aerosol dataset is now available
- A-train observations of Nabro (Eritrea) eruption on June 13-16, 2011
June
- Advances in Multi-scale Modeling of Global Water and Energy Cycles
- Validation of Cirrus Cloud Properties Derived from CALIPSO
- First large-scale Demonstration of Aerosol-cloud interactions increasing Cloud Fraction
- A New Satellite-based Technique for Measuring Aerosols Above Clouds
May
- Retrieval of Latent Heat in a Rapidly Intensifying Hurricane
- A Dual-Frequency Radar Accuracy Improvement Technique
- Cloud Regime Radiative Forcing from ISCCP
- Ozone and Reactive Nitrogen in Arctic Free Troposhere Determined Primarily by Stratospheric Influx
April
- Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar (MABEL) First Flights and Initial Results
- Comparing the ENSO and Volcanic Effects on the Global Water Cycle
- Near-cloud changes impact global aerosol statistics
- The Response of Tropical Tropospheric Ozone to ENSO
March
- Do Spaceborne Passive Microwave Radiometer Channels See Falling Snow?
- MISR Contributes to Iceland Volcano Ash Plume Safety Analysis
- Ozone Hole and Southern Hemisphere Circulation Change
February
- New Capabilities for Hurricane Measurements - HIWRAP
- First Global Measurements of Vegetation Fluorescence from Space
- A Contribution by Ice Nuclei to Global Warming
- Russia Heat Wave and Pakistan Flood, 2010: Teleconnection of Hydrometeorologic Extremes
January
- Systematic Eastward Propagation of Summertime Diurnal Rainfall over the Conterminous U.S.
- Aerosols Enhance Convective Vigour and Lightning for Maritime Clouds
- A-train Sensors Detect Merapi Volcano SO2 and Aerosol Injections into Tropical Tropopause
- Re-evaluating the Role of the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) in Atlantic Hurricane Evolution
