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A Comparative Study of ASOS and USCRN Temperature Measurements

article published in 2005

A MODIS Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI) as an Estimator of Isoprene Emissions in a Temperate Deciduous Forest

A Revised U.S. Climate Extremes Index

A fast-scanning DMA train for precision quantification of early nanoparticle growth

A new face for climate dice

scientific article (publication date: 11 September 2012)

A new paradigm of quantifying ecosystem stress through chemical signatures

scientific article published in 2016

A novel Whole Air Sample Profiler (WASP) for the quantification of volatile organic compounds in the boundary layer

scholarly article by J. E. Mak et al published 16 October 2013 in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Aerosol properties, in-canopy gradients, turbulent fluxes and VOC concentrations at a pristine forest site in Amazonia

Airborne Flux Measurements of BVOCs above Californian Oak Forests: Experimental Investigation of Surface and Entrainment Fluxes, OH Densities, and Damköhler Numbers

Airborne flux measurements of biogenic isoprene over California

scholarly article

Airborne flux measurements of methane and volatile organic compounds over the Haynesville and Marcellus shale gas production regions

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Airborne observations of methane emissions from rice cultivation in the Sacramento Valley of California

scientific article

An overview of the Amazonian Aerosol Characterization Experiment 2008 (AMAZE-08)

scholarly article

Atmospheric variability of biogenic VOCs in the surface layer measured by proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry

Biogenic volatile organic compound emissions from desert vegetation of the southwestern US

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CLIMATE CHANGE. Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus

scientific article

CMIP5 Climate Model Analyses: Climate Extremes in the United States

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Can a “state of the art” chemistry transport model simulate Amazonian tropospheric chemistry?

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Carbon isotope analysis of acetaldehyde emitted from leaves following mechanical stress and anoxia.

scientific article

Changes in Cloud-Ceiling Heights and Frequencies over the United States since the Early 1950s

Changes in Intense Precipitation over the Central United States

scholarly article by Pavel Groisman et al published February 2012 in Journal of Hydrometeorology

Changes in the Probability of Heavy Precipitation: Important Indicators of Climatic Change

article by Pavel Groisman et al published 1999 in Climatic Change

Changes in weather and climate extremes: state of knowledge relevant to air and water quality in the United States

scientific article

Climate Change Detection and Attribution: Beyond Mean Temperature Signals

scholarly article by Gabriele C. Hegerl et al published October 2006 in Journal of Climate

Combined effects of ozone and drought stress on the emission of biogenic volatile organic compounds from <i>Quercus robur</i> L.

scientific article published in 2021

Comparison of different real time VOC measurement techniques in a ponderosa pine forest

scholarly article

Comprehensive characterization of atmospheric organic carbon at a forested site

Constraining nucleation, condensation, and chemistry in oxidation flow reactors using size-distribution measurements and aerosol microphysical modeling

scholarly article

Constraining nucleation, condensation, and chemistry in oxidation flow reactors using size-distribution measurements and aerosol microphysical modelling

Contemporary Changes of the Hydrological Cycle over the Contiguous United States: Trends Derived from In Situ Observations

Contrasting organic aerosol particles from boreal and tropical forests during HUMPPA-COPEC-2010 and AMAZE-08 using coherent vibrational spectroscopy

scholarly article

Contribution of leaf and needle litter to whole ecosystem BVOC fluxes

Contributions of primary and secondary biogenic VOC tototal OH reactivity during the CABINEX (Community Atmosphere-Biosphere INteractions Experiments)-09 field campaign

scholarly article

Coupling between Land Ecosystems and the Atmospheric Hydrologic Cycle through Biogenic Aerosol Pathways

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Current estimates of biogenic emissions from eucalypts uncertain for southeast Australia

scholarly article

Deposition Fluxes of Terpenes over Grassland

scientific article published on July 2011

Development of an Automated Cylindrical Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer for the Determination of Atmospheric Volatile Organic Compounds

scientific article published in 2007

Drought impacts on photosynthesis, isoprene emission and atmospheric formaldehyde in a mid-latitude forest

scholarly article by Yiqi Zheng et al published October 2017 in Atmospheric Environment

Ecosystem-scale volatile organic compound fluxes during an extreme drought in a broadleaf temperate forest of the Missouri Ozarks (central USA).

scientific article

Eddy covariance VOC emission and deposition fluxes above grassland using PTR-TOF.

scholarly article

Efficient atmospheric cleansing of oxidized organic trace gases by vegetation

scientific article published on 21 October 2010

Emission factors for open and domestic biomass burning for use in atmospheric models

scholarly article

Emissions of putative isoprene oxidation products from mango branches under abiotic stress

scientific article published on 23 July 2013

Evaluation and improvements of two community models in simulating dry deposition velocities for peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) over a coniferous forest

scientific article

Evaluation of HO<sub>x</sub> sources and cycling using measurement-constrained model calculations in a 2-methyl-3-butene-2-ol (MBO) and monoterpene (MT) dominated ecosystem

scholarly article

Evaluation of regional isoprene emission factors and modeled fluxes in California

scholarly article

Exchange processes of volatile organic compounds above a tropical rain forest: Implications for modeling tropospheric chemistry above dense vegetation

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First direct measurements of formaldehyde flux via eddy covariance: implications for missing in-canopy formaldehyde sources

scholarly article

Global variations in droughts and wet spells: 1900-1995

scholarly article

Gross Primary Productivity of Four European Ecosystems Constrained by Joint CO2 and COS Flux Measurements

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Identification of the biogenic compounds responsible for size-dependent nanoparticle growth

article

Impact of land-use change on climate

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

In situ secondary organic aerosol formation from ambient pine forest air using an oxidation flow reactor

scholarly article

Isoprene Emission Response to Drought and the Impact on Global Atmospheric Chemistry

scholarly article by Xiaoyan Jiang et al published June 2018 in Atmospheric Environment

Large drought-induced variations in oak leaf volatile organic compound emissions during PINOT NOIR 2012.

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Lessons Learned from IPCC AR4: Scientific Developments Needed to Understand, Predict, and Respond to Climate Change

scholarly article by Sarah J. Doherty et al published April 2009 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Limited influence of dry deposition of semivolatile organic vapors on secondary organic aerosol formation in the urban plume

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Long-term climate monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)

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Missing peroxy radical sources within a summertime ponderosa pine forest

scholarly article

Modern global climate change

scientific article

Monitoring and Prediction of the Earth’s Climate: A Future Perspective

Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Extremes: Extratropical Storms, Winds, and Waves

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Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat Waves, Cold Waves, Floods, and Droughts in the United States: State of Knowledge

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Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

article by Kenneth E. Kunkel et al published April 2013 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

New Particle Formation and Growth in an Isoprene-Dominated Ozark Forest: From Sub-5 nm to CCN-Active Sizes

article by Huan Yu et al published 11 November 2014 in Aerosol Science and Technology

Newsmaker interview. NOAA's Tom Karl takes on task of serving up climate to the public. Interview by Richard A. Kerr

scientific article published in April 2010

Observations of gas- and aerosol-phase organic nitrates at BEACHON-RoMBAS 2011

scholarly article

Observations of glyoxal and formaldehyde as metrics for the anthropogenic impact on rural photochemistry

scholarly article

Observed and modeled ecosystem isoprene fluxes from an oak-dominated temperate forest and the influence of drought stress

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On Quantitative Determination of Volatile Organic Compound Concentrations Using Proton Transfer Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

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Organosulfates as tracers for secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol (MBO) in the atmosphere

scientific article published on 17 August 2012

Percentile indices for assessing changes in heavy precipitation events

scholarly article by Christoph Schär et al published 5 April 2016 in Climatic Change

Photosynthesis-dependent isoprene emission from leaf to planet in a global carbon-chemistry-climate model

scholarly article

Potential forest fire danger over Northern Eurasia: Changes during the 20th century

article by Pavel Groisman et al published April 2007 in Global and Planetary Change

Predicting and managing extreme weather events

Probable maximum precipitation and climate change

article

Quantification of VOC emission rates from the biosphere

Rapid cycling of reactive nitrogen in the marine boundary layer

scientific article published on 11 April 2016

Recent Trends in Cloudiness over the United States: A Tale of Monitoring Inadequacies

scholarly article by Aiguo Dai et al published May 2006 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Regulated large-scale annual shutdown of Amazonian isoprene emissions?

scholarly article

Reply to “Comments on ‘Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge’”

article by James P. Kossin et al published July 2015 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Resolving nanoparticle growth mechanisms from size- and time-dependent growth rate analysis

scholarly article

Resolving nanoparticle growth mechanisms from size- and time-dependent growth rate analysis

Seasonal variation of biogenic VOC emissions above a mixed hardwood forest in northern Michigan

scholarly article

Seasonality of isoprenoid emissions from a primary rainforest in central Amazonia

scholarly article

Secondary organic aerosol formation from in situ OH, O<sub>3</sub>, and NO<sub>3</sub> oxidation of ambient forest air in an oxidation flow reactor

scholarly article

Secondary organic aerosol formation from in situ OH, O<sub>3</sub>, and NO<sub>3</sub> oxidation of ambient forest air in an oxidation flow reactor

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Selective measurements of isoprene and 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol based on NO<sup>+</sup> ionization mass spectrometry

scholarly article

Senescing grass crops as regional sources of reactive volatile organic compounds

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Source identification of volatile organic compounds in Houston, Texas

scientific article published in March 2004

Speciated measurements of semivolatile and intermediate volatility organic compounds (S/IVOCs) in a pine forest during BEACHON-RoMBAS 2011

scholarly article

Springtime ecosystem-scale monoterpene fluxes from Mediterranean pine forests across a precipitation gradient

scholarly article by Roger Seco et al published May 2017 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

State of the Ground: Climatology and Changes during the Past 69 Years over Northern Eurasia for a Rarely Used Measure of Snow Cover and Frozen Land

article published in 2006

Studying Urban Climate and Air Quality in the Alps: The Innsbruck Atmospheric Observatory

scientific article published in 2020

The Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study

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The role of boundary layer dynamics on the diurnal evolution of isoprene and the hydroxyl radical over tropical forests

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The tropical forest and fire emissions experiment: Emission, chemistry, and transport of biogenic volatile organic compounds in the lower atmosphere over Amazonia

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Total OH reactivity measurements in ambient air in a southern Rocky mountain ponderosa pine forest during BEACHON-SRM08 summer campaign

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Trends and Variability in Severe Snowstorms East of the Rocky Mountains*

Trends in Intense Precipitation in the Climate Record

scientific article

Trends in high-frequency climate variability in the twentieth century

scientific article published in Nature

Tropospheric HONO distribution and chemistry in the southeastern US

scholarly article

U.S. Climate Reference Network after One Decade of Operations: Status and Assessment

article by Howard J. Diamond et al published April 2013 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

U.S. Climate Reference Network after One Decade of Operations: Status and Assessment

article by Howard J. Diamond et al published 12 November 2012 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Undisturbed and disturbed above canopy ponderosa pine emissions: PTR-TOF-MS measurements and MEGAN 2.1 model results

scholarly article

Urban case studies: general discussion

scientific article published on 5 July 2016

Urban eddy covariance measurements reveal significant missing NOx emissions in Central Europe

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Urban flux measurements reveal a large pool of oxygenated volatile organic compound emissions

scientific article

Use of proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry to characterize volatile organic compound sources at the La Porte super site during the Texas Air Quality Study 2000

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Within-plant isoprene oxidation confirmed by direct emissions of oxidation products methyl vinyl ketone and methacrolein

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