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Publications Citing MERRA-2 Data
List of peer-reviewed publications that cite using MERRA-2 data.
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| Black carbon characterization and source apportionment over a semi-tourist site in the central Himalayan Region, India | Kuniyal, Jagdish Chandra, Bawari, Archana, Chaudhary, Sheetal, Sharma, Arushi, Pande, Bimal | 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 | ||
| Can discharge be used to inversely correct precipitation? | Manoj J, Ashish, Loritz, Ralf, Gupta, Hoshin, Zehe, Erwin | Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow/Ice, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI) | ||
| Building a comprehensive library of observed Lagrangian trajectories for testing modeled cloud evolution, aerosolcloud interactions, and marine cloud brightening | Erfani, Ehsan, Wood, Robert, Blossey, Peter, Doherty, Sarah J., Eastman, Ryan | 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 | ||
| Beyond the Mean: Cold and Warm Tail Temperature Trends Reveal Asymmetric | Peng, Xiao, Liu, Ziwei, Ziegler, Alan D., Zhang, Chao, Liu, Zhanwei, He, Xiaogang | Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow/Ice, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI) | ||
| Big Data Products for Supporting Sustainable Development | Li, Xin, Duan, Anmin, Shangguan, Donghui, Wang, Lei, Li, Chaolun, Che, Tao, Li, Xinwu, Jin, Rui, Ran, Youhua | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), 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) | ||
| BiLSTM and StyleBased Generative Adversarial Network for Stochastic Simulation of Photovoltaic Power Generation Based on Weather | Zhang, Chunyu, Fu, Xueqian, Li, Zhengshuo | 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 | ||
| Bimodal evolution of vertical motion in tropical precipitation extremes | Li, YiXian, Singh, Martin S., Masunaga, Hirohiko, Yu, JiaYuh | 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 | ||
| Migrating diurnal tide anomalies during QBO disruptions in 2016 and 2020: morphology and mechanism | Liu, Shuai, Jiang, Guoying, Luo, Bingxian, Liu, Xiao, Xu, Jiyao, Zhu, Yajun, Yi, Wen | Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Pressure Thickness, 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, Cloud Fraction, Altitude, Geopotential Height, Ozone Profiles, Atmospheric Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Radiative Flux, Radiative Forcing, Surface Radiative Properties, Albedo, Emissivity, Cloud Properties, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Skin Temperature, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Temperature Tendency, 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, Sea Salt, Black Carbon, Air Mass/Density |
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| Misrepresented optimum temperatures for global vegetation productivity in Earth system models | Wang, Yiheng, Xia, Jianyang, Huang, Yuanyuan, Bian, Chenyu, Niu, Shuli | 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 | ||
| Microlevel structural poverty estimates for southern and eastern Africa | Tennant, Elizabeth, Ru, Yating, Sheng, Peizan, Matteson, David S., Barrett, Christopher B. | 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 | ||
| Microphysical analysis on the impacts of reduced aerosol concentrations on tropical cyclone precipitation in South China Area | Mak, Ho Yi Lydia, Zhang, Yi, Shi, Xiaoming | 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 | ||
| Prescribing the aerosol effective radiative forcing in the Simple | Mahfouz, Naser, Beydoun, Hassan, Mulmenstadt, Johannes, Keen, Noel, Varble, Adam C., Bertagna, Luca, Bogenschutz, Peter, Bradley, Andrew, Christensen, Matthew W., Clevenger, T. Conrad, Donahue, Aaron, Fast, Jerome, Foucar, James, Golaz, Jean-Christophe, Guba, Oksana, Hannah, Walter, Hillman, Benjamin, Jacob, Robert, Lin, Wuyin, Ma, Po-Lun, Qian, Yun, Singh, Balwinder, Terai, Christopher, Wang, Hailong, Wu, Mingxuan, Zhang, Kai, Gettelman, Andrew, Taylor, Mark, Leung, L. Ruby, Caldwell, Peter, Burrows, Susannah | Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Pressure Thickness, 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, Cloud Fraction, Altitude, Geopotential Height, Ozone Profiles, Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| Preterm births attributable to criteria air pollutant exposure in | Partha, Debatosh B., Yasmin, Sumiya, Nath, Hrithik | Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Tropopause, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Surface Pressure, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, 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 10), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Population |
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| Geostationary Satellites Total Ozone Observations: First Results on | Zhao, Xiaoyi, Griffin, Debora, Fioletov, Vitali, McLinden, Chris, Liu, Xiong, Park, Junsung, Petropavlovskikh, Irina, Hanisco, Thomas F., Szykman, James, Valin, Lukas, Baumann, Eric, Cede, Alexander, Tiefengraber, Martin, Gebetsberger, Manuel, Uesato, Itaru, Zheng, Xiangdong, Ahn, Soi, Chang, Limseok, Lee, WonJin, Kim, Jae Hwan, Lee, Hyunjin, Baek, Kanghyun, Redondas, Alberto, Fujiwara, Masatomo, Wang, Ting, Grutter, Michel, Houck, John C., Haffner, David, Lee, Sum Chi | 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, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Atmospheric Ozone, Reflectance | ||
| Harmonizing Aerosol Model Parameters With Retrieval Property Assumptions: Brown Carbon as a Case Study | DeLessio, Maegan A., Bauer, Susanne E., Tsigaridis, Kostas, Schuster, Gregory L. | 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 | ||
| Gross primary production variations dominate the response of Indian terrestrial carbon fluxes to global climatic phenomena | Singha Roy, Emili, Philip, Sajeev, Johnson, Matthew S., Baker, David F., Liu, Junjie, Basu, Sourish, Chevallier, Frederic, Jiang, Fei, Li, Xing, Liu, Zhiqiang, Miller, Scot M., Xiao, Jingfeng, Zeng, Ning | Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow/Ice, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI) | ||
| Incorporating nonseismicity precursors into earthquake probabilistic forecasting model | Zhang, Yiqun, Han, Peng, Chen, Hongyan, Zhan, Chengxiang, Niu, Yuanyuan, Zhuang, Jiancang, Zhu, Kaiguang | Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Monoxide, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Impact of preceding winter ENSO on the following spring Hadley circulation edge | Liu, Xuan, Feng, Juan, Li, Jiaxin | 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 | ||
| Land Cover Changes Redistribute China's Water Resources Through | An, Qiang, Liu, Liu, Staal, Arie, Yang, Kun, Cheng, Yongming, Liu, Jing, Huang, Guanhua | Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow/Ice, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Large-scale evaluation of WRF-chem model and dry deposition schemes | Silva, Rui, Carvalho, Ana Cristina, Carvalho, David, Rocha, Alfredo | 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), Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Radiance, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Nitrate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance | ||
| Large-scale impacts of the 2023 Canadian wildfires on the Northern Hemisphere atmosphere | Rosu, Iulian-Alin, Mourgela, Rafaila-Nikola, Kasoar, Matthew, Boleti, Eirini, Parrington, Mark, Voulgarakis, Apostolos | 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 | ||
| Probabilistic operating rules for Thika Dam in Kenya | Macharia, Racheal, Ndiritu, John, Gathenya, John M. | 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 | ||
| Sea ice, aerosols and clouds | Raut, JeanChristophe, Thomas, Jennie L., Marelle, Louis, Lapere, Remy | 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 10), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0) | ||
| Satellite observations indicate a declining trend of methane emissions from heavy oil production in Canada | Xing, Zhenyu, Hugenholtz, Chris, Barchyn, Thomas E., Vollrath, Coleman | 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 | ||
| Seasonal Precipitation Changes in Response to Long-Term Aerosol Anomalies: A Case from West Africa | Onyejuruwa, Anselem, Hu, Zhenghua, Towfiqul Islam, Abu Reza Md, Nyasulu, Matthews, Oo, Kyaw Than | 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, Atmospheric Ozone |