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Publications Citing MERRA-2 Data
List of peer-reviewed publications that cite using MERRA-2 data.
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| Evaluation of reanalysis soil moisture products using cosmic ray neutron sensor observations across the globe | Zheng, Yanchen, Coxon, Gemma, Woods, Ross, Power, Daniel, Rico-Ramirez, Miguel Angel, McJannet, David, Rosolem, Rafael, Li, Jianzhu, Feng, Ping | Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff |
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| Evaluation of root zone soil moisture products over the Huai River basin | Liu, En, Zhu, Yonghua, Calvet, Jean-Christophe, Lu, Haishen, Bonan, Bertrand, Zheng, Jingyao, Gou, Qiqi, Wang, Xiaoyi, Ding, Zhenzhou, Xu, Haiting, Pan, Ying, Chen, Tingxing | Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Ground Water, Surface Soil Moisture |
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| Evaluation of isoprene emissions from the coupled model SURFEXMEGANv2. 1 | Oumami, Safae, Arteta, Joaquim, Guidard, Vincent, Tulet, Pierre, Hamer, Paul David | Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Altitude, Boundary Layer Winds | ||
| Evaluation of MERRA-2 and CAMS reanalysis for black carbon aerosol in China | Li, Weijie, Wang, Yaqiang, Yi, Ziwei, Guo, Bin, Chen, Wencong, Che, Huizheng, Zhang, Xiaoye | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Skin Temperature |
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| Evaluation of Summertime Passive Microwave and Reanalysis Sea-Ice | Song, Kexin, Minnett, Peter J. | Heat Flux, Heat Flux, Heat Flux, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Water Vapor Tendency, Water Vapor Flux, Cloud Dynamics, Cloud Microphysics, Snow/Ice, Precipitation, Specific Humidity, Ice Fraction, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Skin Temperature, Reflectance, Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Ice Motion, Snow Depth, Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Depth, Ice Extent, Ice Extent, Ice Temperature, Ice Temperature |
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| Impact of Asian Dust on Cirrus Formation Over the Central Pacific: CALIOPand CloudSatObservationBased Case Studies | Shen, Huijia, Yin, Zhenping, He, Yun, Ansmann, Albert, Zhan, Yifan, Wang, Longlong, Jing, Dongzhe | Dust/Ash/Smoke, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Dimethyl Sulfide, Aerosol Particle Properties, Particulate Matter, Aerosols, Surface Pressure, Pressure Thickness, Relative Humidity, Sea Salt, Black Carbon, Air Mass/Density, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10) |
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| Impact of boundary conditions on the modeled thermal regime of the Antarctic ice sheet | Park, In-Woo, Jin, Emilia Kyung, Morlighem, Mathieu, Lee, Kang-Kun | Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Altitude, Boundary Layer Winds, Ice Velocity, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Firn Air Content, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation | ||
| Impact of Canadian wildfires on aerosol and ice clouds in the early-autumn Arctic | Sato, Kazutoshi, Takahashi, Kazu, Inoue, Jun | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Sulfate Particles, Pressure Thickness, Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Altitude, Geopotential Height, Ozone Profiles, Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Organic Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), Cloud Fraction |
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| Observation and Reanalysis Derived Relationships Between Cloud and Land Surface Fluxes Across Cumulus and Stratiform Coupling Over the Southern Great Plains | Su, Tianning, Li, Zhanqing, Zhang, Yunyan, Zheng, Youtong, Zhang, Haipeng | Atmospheric Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Radiative Flux, Radiative Forcing, Surface Radiative Properties, Albedo, Emissivity, Cloud Properties, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Skin Temperature, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature | ||
| NH3 Emissions and Lifetime Estimated by Satellite Observations with Differential Evolution Algorithm | Xie, Yu, Wang, Wei, Chen, Ye, Qian, Zhengwei, Chen, Jie, Tong, Jiping, Li, Long, Yue, Yang, Chen, Keqiong, Chu, Zhong, Hu, Xueyou | Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Altitude, Boundary Layer Winds | ||
| Non-negligible clear-sky biases of satellite thermal infrared observations for analyzing surface urban heat island intensity: A case study in China | Ma, Jin, Zhou, Ji, Zhang, Tao, Tang, Wenbin, Liao, Yangsiyu, Yang, Miao | Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain, Albedo, Anisotropy, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Air Temperature, 24 Hour Maximum Temperature, 24 Hour Minimum Temperature, Land Use/Land Cover Classification |
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| North Atlantic and the Barents Sea variability contribute to the 2023 extreme fire season in Canada | Liu, Guanyu, Li, Jing, Li, Xichen, Ying, Tong | Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Skin Temperature, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Monoxide, Sea Ice Concentration | ||
| Novel renewable seawater desalination system using hydrogen as energy carrier for self-sustaining community | Wen, Du, Kuo, Po-Chih, Aziz, Muhammad | Atmospheric Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Radiative Flux, Radiative Forcing, Surface Radiative Properties, Albedo, Emissivity, Cloud Properties, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Skin Temperature, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Specific Humidity, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, Geopotential Height | ||
| No severe ozone depletion in the tropical stratosphere in recent decades | Kuttippurath, Jayanarayanan, Gopikrishnan, Gopalakrishna Pillai, Muller, Rolf, Godin-Beekmann, Sophie, Brioude, Jerome | Atmospheric Ozone, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Monoxide |
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| Ozone Anomalies in Dry Intrusions Associated With Atmospheric Rivers | Hall, Kirsten R., Wang, Huiqun, Souri, Amir H., Liu, Xiong, Chance, Kelly | Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Altitude, Geopotential Height, Ozone Profiles | ||
| Partial-convolution-implemented generative adversarial network for global oceanic data assimilation | Ham, Yoo-Geun, Joo, Yong-Sik, Kim, Jeong-Hwan, Lee, Jeong-Gil | Heat Flux, Heat Flux, Heat Flux, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Water Vapor Tendency, Water Vapor Flux, Cloud Dynamics, Cloud Microphysics, Snow/Ice, Precipitation, Specific Humidity, Ice Fraction, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Foundation Temperature | ||
| Partitioning the drivers of Antarctic glacier mass balance (20032020) using satellite observations and a regional climate model | Kim, Byeong-Hoon, Seo, Ki-Weon, Lee, Choon-Ki, Kim, Jae-Seung, Lee, Won Sang, Jin, Emilia Kyung, van den Broeke, Michiel | Heat Flux, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves, Gravity | ||
| Past and Future Trends in Clear-Air Turbulence Over the Northern Hemisphere | Foudad, Mohamed, SanchezGomez, Emilia, Jaravel, Thomas, Rochoux, Melanie C., Terray, Laurent | Geopotential Height, Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Upper Air Temperature, Vertical Profiles, Air Temperature, Specific Humidity, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Ozone Profiles | ||
| Perspectives of the Blue Economy Development in the Russian Sector of the Black Sea | Kostianaia, Evgeniia, Kostianoy, Andrey | Heat Flux, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction | ||
| Patterns of (micro) nutrient limitation across the South Pacific Ocean | Liu, Haoran, Yuan, Zhongwei, Gosnell, Kathleen J., Liu, Te, Tammen, Juliane K., Wen, Zuozhu, Engel, Anja, Liu, Xin, Huang, Bangqin, Kao, ShuhJi, Achterberg, Eric P., Browning, Thomas J. | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10) | ||
| Optimizing machine learning for agricultural productivity: A novel | Asadollah, Seyed Babak Haji Seyed, Jodar-Abellan, Antonio, Pardo, Miguel Angel | Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Geopotential Height, Altitude, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Skin Temperature, Total Surface Precipitation Rate |
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| Opposite Trends in the Northern Hemisphere Stratosphere Between MidWinter and Early Spring Linked to Surface Temperature Anomalies | Riviere, Gwendal, DAndrea, Fabio, Domeisen, Daniela I. V., Portal, Alice | Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Altitude, Geopotential Height, Ozone Profiles | ||
| Occurrence of Mesospheric Frontal Structures Over the High Latitude | Chauhan, Nilesh, Shiokawa, Kazuo, Gurubaran, S., Nozawa, Satonori, Oyama, Shinichiro, Nakamura, Takuji | Geopotential Height, Atmospheric Ozone, Pressure Thickness, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Fraction, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Ozone Profiles | ||
| Occurrence Frequency of Global Atmospheric River (AR) Events: A Data | Wang, HongRu, Li, FangFang, Grigorev, Georgii V., Yao, ZhanYu, Ge, Dong, Wang, GuangQian, Qiu, Jun | Atmospheric Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Radiative Flux, Radiative Forcing, Surface Radiative Properties, Albedo, Emissivity, Cloud Properties, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Skin Temperature, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature | ||
| Multi-objective station-network synergy planning for regional integrated | Zhou, Guowen, Bai, Mingliang, Li, Honglin, Li, Jiajia, Li, Qiang, Liu, Jinfu, Yu, Daren | Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Altitude, Boundary Layer Winds |