Ahmad, K.A., Jones, W.L. and others, 2005, Oceanic rain rate estimates from the QuikSCAT radiometer: A global precipitation mission pathfinder, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, doi:10.1029/2004JD005560.

Ali, M.M., Jagadeesh, P.S.V., Jain, S., 2007, Effects of eddies on Bay of Bengal cyclone intensity, Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 88 (8), 93-104.

Allan, R.P., Ringer, M.A., Slingo, A., 2003, Evaluation of moisture in the Hadley Centre Climate Model using simulations of HIRS water vapour channel radiances, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 129, 3371-3389.

Allan, R.P., Ringer, M.A., Pamment, J.A., Slingo, A., 2004, Simulation of the Earth's radiation budget by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts 40-year Reanalysis (ERA40), Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, doi:10.1029/2004JD004816.

Allan, R.P., 2006, Variability in clear-sky longwave radiative cooling of the atmosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, doi:10.1029/2006JD007304.

Allan, R.P., 2007, Improved simulation of water vapour and clear-sky radiation using 24 hour forecasts from ERA40, Tellus, 59A (3), 336-343.

Allan, R.P., Soden, B.J., 2007, Large discrepancy between observed and simulated precipitation trends in the ascending and descending branches of the tropical circulation, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL031460.

Allan, R.P., Slingo, A., Milton, S.F., Brooks, M.A., 2007, Evaluation of the Met Office global forecast model using Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) data, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 133, 1993-2010.

Allan, R.P., Soden, B., 2008, Atmospheric warming and the amplification of precipitation extremes, Science, 321 (12 September 2008), 1481-1484.

Anderson, S.P., 2001, On the atmospheric boundary layer over the equatorial front, Journal of Climate, 14, 1688-1695.

Arbelo, M., Hernández-Leal, P.A., Pérez-García, S., González-Calvo, A., 2005, SeaWiFS data to detect AVHRR-derived SST affected by aerosols, Advances in Space Research, 36 (5), 783-786.

Atlas, R.M., Hoffman, R.N. and others, 1996, A multiyear global surface wind velocity dataset using SSM/I wind observations, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77 (5), 869-882.

Atlas, R.M., Hoffman, R.N. and others, 2001, The Effects of Marine Winds from scatterometer data on weather analysis and forecasting, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82 (9), 1965-1990.

Back, L.E., Bretherton, C.S., 2005, The relationship between wind speed and precipitation in the Pacific ITCZ, Journal of Climate, 18 (20), 4317-4328.

Barton, I.J., 2007, Comparison of In Situ and Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Temperatures in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 24, 1773-1784.

Bennartz, R., 2007, Global assessment of marine boundary layer cloud droplet number concentration from satellite, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2006JD007547.

Bennhold, F., Sherwood, S., 2008, Erroneous relationships among humidity and cloud forcing variables in three global climate models, Journal of Climate, 21 (17), 4190-4206.

Berg, W., Kummerow, C.D., Morales, C.A., 2002, Differences between east and west Pacific rainfall systems, Journal of Climate, 15, 3659-3672.

Berg, W., L'Ecuyer, T.S., Kummerow, C.D., 2006, Rainfall climate regimes: The relationship of regional TRMM rainfall biases to the environment, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 45, 434-454.

Bessho, K., DeMaria, M., Knaff, J.A., 2006, Tropical Cyclone Wind Retrievals from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit: Application to Surface Wind Analysis, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 45, 399-415.

Bettenhausen, M.H., Smith, C.K. and others, 2006, A nonlinear optimization algorithm for WindSat wind vector retrievals, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44 (3), 597-608.

Borg, L.A., Bennartz, R., 2007, Vertical structure of stratiform marine boundary layer clouds and its impact on cloud albedo, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2006GL028713.

Bortz, S.E., Prather, M.J. and others, 2006, Ozone, water vapor, and temperature in the upper tropical troposphere: Variations over a decade of MOZAIC measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, doi:10.1029/2005JD006512.

Bourassa, M.A., Legler, D.M., O'Brien, J.J., Smith, S.R., 2003, SeaWinds validation with research vessels, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (C2), doi:10.1029/2001JC001028.

Bourassa, M.A., Romero, R., Smith, S.R., O'Brien, J.J., 2005, A new FSU winds climatology, Journal of Climate, 18, 3686-3698.

Boutin, J., Merlivat, L., Hénocq, C., Martin, N., 2008, Air-sea CO2 flux variability in frontal regions of the southern ocean from CARbon Interface OCean Atmosphere drifters, Limnology and Oceanography, 53 (5), 2062-2079.

Boyle, J.S., Klein, S. and others, 2008, Climate model forecast experiments for TOGA COARE, Monthly Weather Review, 136, 808-832.

Bretherton, C.S., Peters, M.E., Back, L.E., 2004, Relationships between water vapor path and precipitation over the tropical oceans, Journal of Climate, 17 (7), 1517-1528.

Bunge, L., Provost, C., Kartavtseff, A., 2007, Variability in horizontal current velocities in the central and eastern equatorial Atlantic in 2002, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2006JC003704.

Burls, N.J., Reason, C.J.C., 2006, Sea surface temperature fronts in the midlatitude South Atlantic revealed by using microwave satellite data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, doi:10.1029/2005JC003133.

Carr, M.-E., Tang, W., Liu, W.T., 2002, CO2 exchange coefficients from remotely sensed wind speed measurements: SSM/I versus QuikSCAT in 2000, Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (15), doi:10.1029/2002GL015068.

Castaneda, M.E., Compagnucci, R.H., 2005, Temporal variability of lower stratosphere temperature, Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica, 49 (4), 573-596.

Cavalieri, D.J., Gloersen, P. and others, 1997, Observed himispheric asymmetry in global sea ice changes, Science, 278 (5340), 1104-1106.

Cecil, D.J., 2007, Satellite-derived rain rates in vertically sheared tropical cyclones, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2006GL027942.

Chang, D.E., Weinman, J.A., Morales, C.A., Olson, W.S., 2001, The effect of spaceborne microwave and ground-based continuous lightning measurements on forecasts of the 1998 Groundhog Day storm, Monthly Weather Review, 129, 1809-1833.

Chelton, D.B., Wentz, F.J. and others, 2000, Satellite microwave SST observations of transequatorial tropical instability waves, Geophysical Research Letters, 27 (9), 1239-1242.

Chelton, D.B., Esbensen, S.K. and others, 2001, Observations of coupling between surface wind stress and sea surface temperature in the eastern tropical Pacific, Journal of Climate, 14 (7), 1479-1498.

Chelton, D.B., Schlax, M.G., Freilich, M.H., Milliff, R.F., 2004, Satellite measurements reveal persistent small-scale features in ocean winds, Science, 303 (5660), 978-983.

Chelton, D.B., 2005, The impact of SST specification on ECMWF surface wind stress fields in the eastern tropical Pacific, Journal of Climate, 18 (4), 530-550.

Chelton, D.B., Wentz, F.J., 2005, Global microwave satellite observations of sea surface temperature for numerical weather prediction and climate research, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86 (8), 1097-1115.

Chelton, D.B., Schlax, M.G., Samelson, R.M., 2007, Summertime coupling between sea surface temperature and wind stress in the California Current system, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37 (3), 495-517.

Chen, B., Lin, X., Bacmeister, J.T., 2008, Frequency distribution of daily ITCZ patterns over the western-central Pacific, Journal of Climate, 21 (17), 4207-4222.

Chen, F.W., 2007, Neural network characterization of geophysical processes with circular dependencies, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45 (10), 3037-3043.

Chen, R., Chang, F.-L. and others, 2007, Impact of the vertical variation of cloud droplet size on the estimation of cloud liquid water path and rain detection, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, 3843-3853.

Chen, S.-H., 2007, The impact of assimilating SSM/I and QuikSCAT satellite winds on hurricane Isidore simulations, Monthly Weather Review, 135, 549-566.

Chen, Y., Del Genio, A.D., Chen, J., 2007, The tropical atmspheric El Niño signal in satellite precipitation data and a global climate model, Journal of Climate, 20, 3580-3601.

Chiodi, A.M., Harrison, D.E., 2006, Summertime subtropical sea surface temperature variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, doi:10.1029/2005GL024524.

Chiodi, A.M., Harrison, D.E., 2008, Hurricane alley SST variability in 2005 and 2006, Journal of Climate, 21, 4710-4722.

Chou, M.-D., Chan, P.-K., Wang, M., 2002, Aerosol radiative forcing derived from SeaWiFS-retrieved aerosol optical properties, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 59, 748-757.

Chou, S.-H., Atlas, R.M., Shie, C.L., Ardizzone, J., 1995, Estimates of surface humidity and latent heat fluxes over oceans from SSM/I data, Monthly Weather Review, 123 (8), 2405-2425.

Chou, S.-H., Shie, C.L., Atlas, R.M., Ardizzone, J., 1997, Air-sea fluxes retrieved from special sensor microwave imager data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102 (C6), 12705-12726.

Chou, S.-H., Zhao, W., Chou, M.D., 2000, Surface Heat Budgets and Sea Surface Temperature in the Pacific Warm Pool during TOGA COARE, Journal of Climate, 13, 634-649.

Chou, S.-H., Nelkin, E., Atlas, R.M., Shie, C.L., 2003, Surface turbulent heat and momentum fluxes over global oceans based on the Goddard Satellite Retrievals, Version 2 (GSSTF2), Journal of Climate, 16, 3256-3273.

Chou, S.-H., Nelkin, E., Ardizzone, J., Atlas, R.M., 2004, A comparison of latent heat fluxes over global oceans for four flux products, Journal of Climate, 17, 3973-3989.

Chou, S.-H., Chou, M.-D. and others, 2004, Tropical warm pool surface heat budgets and temperature: Contrasts between 1997/98 El Ninõ and 1998/99 La Niña, Journal of Climate, 17, 1845-1858.

Clayson, C.A., Weitlich, D., 2007, Variability of tropical diurnal sea surface temperature, Journal of Climate, 20 (2), 334-352.

Cordero, E.C., de F.Forster, P.M., 2006, Stratospheric variability and trends in models used for the IPCC AR4, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 6, 5396-5380.

De Laat, A.T.J., Maurellis, A.N., 2006, Evidence for influence of anthropogenic surface processes on lower tropospheric and surface temperature trends, International Journal of Climatology, 26 (7), 897-913.

de Souza, R.B., Mata, M.M. and others, 2006, Multi-sensor satellite and in situ measurements of a warm core ocean eddy south of the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence region, Remote Sensing of Environment, 100, 52-66.

de Szoeke, S.P., Xie, S.-P., 2008, The tropical eastern Pacific seasonal cycle: Assessment of errors and mechanisms in IPCC AR4 coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models, Journal of Climate, 21, 2573-2590.

Deblonde, G., 1999, Variational asimilation of SSM/I total precipitable water retrievals in the CMC analysis system, Monthly Weather Review, 127 (7), 1458.

Deeter, M.N., 2007, A new satellite retrieval method for precipitable water vapor over land and ocean, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2006GL028019.

Dong, S., Gille, S.T., Sprintall, J., Gentemann, C.L., 2006, Validation of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) sea surface temperature in the Southern Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, doi:10.1029/2005JC002934.

Dong, S., Sprintall, J., Gille, S.T., 2006, Location of the Antarctic Polar Front from AMSR-E satellite sea surface temperature measurements, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 36, 2075-2089.

Dong, S., Gille, S.T., Sprintall, J., 2007, An assessment of the southern ocean mixed layer heat budget, Journal of Climate, 20, 4425-4442.

Donlon, C.J., Minnett, P.J. and others, 2002, Toward improved validation of satellite sea surface skin temperature measurements for climate research, Journal of Climate, 15 (4), 353-369.

Duvel, J.P., Roca, R., Vialard, J., 2004, Ocean mixed layer temperature variations induced by intraseasonal convective perturbations over the Indian ocean, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 61, 1004-1023.

Duvel, J.P., Vialard, J., 2007, Indo-Pacific sea surface temperature perturbations associated with intraseasonal oscillations of tropical convection, Journal of Climate, 20, 3056-3082.

Dwivedi, R.M., Raman, M. and others, 2006, Influence of northeasterly trade winds on intensity of winter bloom in the northern Arabian Sea, Current Science, 90 (10), 1397-1406.

Dwivedi, R.M., Raman, M. and others, 2008, Formation of algal bloom in the northern Arabian Sea deep waters during January-March: a study using pooled in situ and satellite data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29 (15), 4537-4551.

Ebuchi, N., Graber, H.C., Caruso, M.J., 2002, Evaluation of wind vectors observed by QuikSCAT/SeaWinds using ocean buoy data, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 19 (12), 2049-2062.

Edwards, K.A., Rogerson, A.M., Winant, C.D., Rogers, D.P., 2001, Adjustment of the marine atmospheric boundary layer to a coastal cape, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 58 (12), 1511-1528.

Edwards, K.A., Rogers, D.P., Dorman, C.E., 2002, Adjustment of the marine atmospheric boundary layer to the large-scale bend in the California coast, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (C12), doi:10.1029/2001JC000807.

Elsaesser, G.S., Kummerow, C.D., 2008, Toward a fully parametric retrieval of the nonraining parameters over the global oceans, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47 (6), 1599-1618.

Emery, W.J., Brandt, P., Funk, A., Böning, C., 2006, A comparison of sea surface temperatures from microwave remote sensing of the Labrador Sea with in situ measurements and model simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, doi:10.1029/2006JC003578.

Falvey, M., Garreaud, R.D., 2007, Wintertime precipitation episodes in Central Chile: Associated meteorological conditions and orographic influences, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8, 171-193.

Ferraro, R.R., Weng, F., Grody, N.C., Basist, A.N., 1996, An eight-year (1987-1994) time series of rainfall, clouds, water vapor, snow cover, and sea ice derived from SSM/I measurements, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77 (5), 891-905.

Fetzer, E.J., Lambrigtsen, B.H. and others, 2006, Biases in total precipitable water vapor climatologies from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, doi:10.1029/2005JD006598.

Ffield, A., 2007, Amazon and Orinoco river plumes and NBC Rings: Bystanders or participants in hurricane events?, Journal of Climate, 20, 316-333.

Field, P.R., Wood, R., 2007, Precipitation and cloud structure in midlatitude cyclones, Journal of Climate, 20, 233-254.

Filiberti, M.A., Eymard, L., Urban, B., 1994, Assmilation of satellite precipitable water in a meteorological forecast model, Monthly Weather Review, 122 (3), 486-506.

Fitch, D.T., Moore, J.K., 2007, Wind speed influence on phytoplankton bloom dynamics in the Southern Ocean Marginal Ice Zone, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2006JC004061.

Freilich, M.H., Vanhoff, B.A., 2006, The accuracy of preliminary WindSat vector wind measurements: Conparisons with NDBC buoys and QuikSCAT, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44 (3), 622-637.

Fu, Q., Johanson, C.M., 2005, Satellite-derived vertical dependence of tropospheric temperature trends, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, doi:10.1029/2004GL022266.

Ganachaud, A., Gourdeau, L., Kessler, W., 2008, Bifurcation of the subtropical south equatorial current against New Caledonia in December 2004 from a hydrographic inverse box model, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 2072-2084.

Garreaud, R.D., Munoz, R.C., 2005, The low-level jet off the west coast of subtropical South America: Structure and variability, Monthly Weather Review, 133, 2247-2261.

Gassó, S., 2008, Satellite observations of the impact of weak volcanic activity on marine clouds, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, doi:10.1029/2007JD009106.

Gautam, R., Singh, R.P., Kafatos, M., 2005, Changes in ocean properties associeated with Hurricane Isabel, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26 (3), 643-649.

Gautier, C., Peterson, P., Jones, C., 1996, Global estimation of freshwater fluxes and freshwater oceanic transport from satellite data, World Water Resources, 8 (4), 505-514.

Gierach, M.M., Bourassa, M.A. and others, 2007, Vorticity-based detection of tropical cyclogenesis, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 46, 1214-1229.

Gille, S.T., Smith, S.G.L., Lee, S.M., 2003, Measuring the sea breeze from QuikSCAT scatterometry, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (3), doi:10.1029/2002GL016230.

Goni, G.J., Trinanes, J.A., 2003, Ocean thermal structure monitoring could aid in the intensity forecast of tropical cyclones, Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 84 (51), doi:1029/2003EO510001.

Grassotti, C., Leidner, S.M., Louis, J.-F., Hoffman, R.N., 1999, Development and application of a visible-infrared rain flag for scatterometer data, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 38 (6), 665-676.

Greenwald, T.J., L'Ecuyer, T.S., Christopher, S.A., 2007, Evaluating specific error characteristics of microwave-derived cloud liquid water products, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL031180.

Grodsky, S.A., Carton, J.A., 2003, The intertropical convergence zone in the south Atlantic and the equatorial cold tongue, Journal of Climate, 16 (4), 723-733.

Grodsky, S.A., Carton, J.A. and others, 2005, Tropical instability waves at 0°N, 23°W in the Atlantic: A case study using Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) mooring data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, doi:10.1029/2005JC002941.

Grodsky, S.A., Carton, J.A., McClain, C.R., 2008, Variability of upwelling and chlorophyll in the equatorial Atlantic, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, doi:10.1029/2007GL032466.

Guan, L., Kawamura, H., 2003, SST availabilities of satellite infrared and microwave measurements, Journal of Oceanography, 59 (2), 201-209.

Halliwell, G.R., Jr., Shay, L.K., 2008, Improving ocean model initialization for coupled tropical cyclone forecast models using GODAE nowcasts, Monthly Weather Review, 136, 2576-2591.

Halpern, D., 1993, Validation of Special Sensor Microwave Imager monthly-mean wind speed from July 1987 to December 1989, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 31 (3), 692-699.

Halpern, D., Wentz, F.J., 1994, On the problem of measuring interannual wind speed variations using SSMI data, Geophysical Research Letters, 21 (3), 193-196.

Halpern, D., Hollingsworth, A., Wentz, F.J., 1994, ECMWF and SSM/I global surface wind speeds, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 11 (3), 779-788.

Halpern, D., Woiceshyn, P.M., 2001, Somali jet in the Arabian Sea, El Nino, and India Rainfall, Journal of Climate, 14 (3), 434-441.

Hashizume, H., Xie, S.P., Liu, W.T., Takeuchi, K., 2001, Local and remote atmospheric response to tropical instability waves: A global view from space, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106 (D10), 10173-10186.

Hashizume, H., Xie, S.-P. and others, 2002, Direct observations of atmospheric boundary layer response to SST variations associated with tropical instability waves over the eastern equatorial Pacific, Journal of Climate, 15 (23), 3379-3393.

Henson, S.A., Thomas, A.C., 2007, Interannual variability in timing of bloom initiation in the California Current System, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2006JC003960.

Hilburn, K.A., Bourassa, M.A., O'Brien, J.J., 2003, Development of scatterometer-derived surface pressures for the Southern Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (C7), doi:10.1029/2003JC001772.

Hilburn, K.A., Wentz, F.J., Smith, D.K., Ashcroft, P.D., 2006, Correcting active scatterometer data for the effects of rain using passive microwave data, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 45, 382-398.

Hilburn, K.A., Wentz, F.J., 2008, Intercalibrated passive microwave rain products from the unified microwave ocean retrieval algorithm (UMORA), Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47, 778-794.

Hoffman, R.N., Liu, Z., Louis, J.-F., Grassotti, C., 1995, Distortion representation of forecast errors, Monthly Weather Review, 123, 2758-2770.

Hoffman, R.N., Grassotti, C., 1996, A technique for assimilating SSM/I observations of marine atmospheric storms: Tests with ECMWF analyses, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 35 (8), 1177-1188.

Holliday, N.P., Yelland, M.J. and others, 2006, Were extreme waves in the Rockall Trough the largest ever recorded, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, doi:10.1029/2005GL025238.

Hormann, V., Brandt, P., 2007, Atlantic Equatorial Undercurrent and associated cold tongue variability, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2006JC003931.

Horváth, Á., Davies, R., 2007, Comparison of microwave and optical cloud water path estimates from TMI, MODIS, and MISR, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2006JD007101.

Horváth, Á., Gentemann, C.L., 2007, Cloud-fraction-dependent bias in satellite liquid water path retrievals of shallow, non-precipitating marine clouds, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL030625.

Horváth, Á., Soden, B.J., 2008, Lagrangian diagnostics of tropical deep convection and its effect upon upper-tropospheric humidity, Journal of Climate, 21, 1013-1028.

Hou, A.Y., Ledvina, D.V. and others, 2000, Assimilation of SSM/I-derived surface rainfall and total precipitable water for improving the GEOS analysis for climate studies, Monthly Weather Review, 128 (3), 509-537.

Hou, A.Y., Zhang, S.Q., da Silva, A.M., Olson, W.S., 2000, Improving assimilated global datasets using TMI rainfall and columnar moisture observations, Journal of Climate, 13 (23), 4180-4195.

Hsu, H., Oey, L.-Y. and others, 2007, Model wind over the central and Southern California coastal ocean, Monthly Weather Review, 135, 1931-1944.

Imaoka, K., Spencer, R.W., 2000, Diurnal variation of precipitation over the tropical oceans observed by TRMM/TMI combined with SSM/I, Journal of Climate, 13 (23), 4149-4158.

Isern-Fontanet, J., Chapron, B., Lapeyre, G., Klein, P., 2006, Potential use of microwave sea surface temperatures for the estimation of ocean currents, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL027801.

Ivanov, A.Y., Alpers, W. and others, 2004, Atmospheric front over the East China Sea studied by multisensor satellite and in situ data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, doi:10.1029/2004JC002432.

Iwasaki, S., Kubota, M., Tomita, H., 2008, Inter-comparison and evaluation of global sea surface temperature products, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29 (21), 6263-6280.

Jena, B., Rao, M.V., Sahu, B.K., 2006, TRMM derived sea surface temperature in the wake of a cyclonic storm over the central Bay of Bengal, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27 (14), 3065-3072.

Jiang, C., Cronin, M.F., Kelly, K.A., Thompson, L., 2005, Evaluation of a hybrid satellite- and NWP-based turbulent heat flux product using Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean (TAO) buoys, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, doi:10.1029/2004JC002824.

Jiang, H., Halverson, J.B., Simpson, J.J., Zipser, E.J., 2008, On the differences in storm rainfall from hurricanes Isidore and Lili. Part II: Water Budget, Weather and Forecasting, 23, 44-61.

Jochum, M., Cronin, M.F., Kessler, W.S., Shea, D., 2007, Observed horizontal temperature advection by tropical instability waves, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL029416.

Johanson, C.M., Fu, Q., 2007, Antarctic atmospheric temperature trend patterns from satellite observations, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2006GL029108.

Jones, C., Peterson, P., Gautier, C., 1999, A new method for deriving ocean surface specific humidity and air temperature: An artificial neural network approach, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 38 (8), 1229-1245.

Kafatos, M., Sun, D. and others, 2006, Role of anonmalous warm gulf waters in the intensification of Hurricane Katrina, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL026623.

Karnauskas, K.B., Busalacchi, A.J., Murtugudde, R., 2008, Low-frequency variability and remote forcing of gap winds over the East Pacific warm pool, Journal of Climate, 21, 4901-4918.

Kawai, Y., Wada, A., 2007, Diurnal sea surface temperature variation and its impact on the atmosphere and ocean: a review, Journal of Oceanography, 63 (5), 721-877.

Kawai, Y., Kawamura, H., 2002, Evaluation of the diurnal warming of sea surface temperatures using satellite-derived marine meteorological data, Journal of Oceanography, 58 (6), 805-814.

Kawai, Y., Kawamura, H., 2005, Spatial and temporal variations of model-derived diurnal amplitude of sea surface temperature in the western Pacific Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, doi:10.1029/2004JC002652.

Kelly, K.A., Dickinson, S., Johnson, G.C., 2005, Comparisons of scatterometer and TAO winds reveal time-varying surface currents for the tropical Pacific Ocean, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 22, 735-745.

Kelly, K.A., Thompson, L., Cheng, W., Metzger, E.J., 2007, Evaluation of HYCOM in the Kuroshio Extension region using new metrics, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2006JC003614.

Klepp, C.-P., Bakan, S., Graßl, H., 2003, Improvements of satellite-derived cyclonic rainfall over the North Atlantic, Journal of Climate, 16 (4), 657-669.

Klingaman, N.P., Weller, H., Slingo, J.M., Inness, P.M., 2008, The intraseasonal variability of the Indian summer monsoon using TMI sea surface temperatures and ECMWF reanalysis, Journal of Climate, 21, 2519-2539.

Koracin, D., Dorman, C.E., Dever, E.P., 2004, Coastal perturbations of marine-layer winds, wind stress, and wind stress curl along California and Baja California in June 1999, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 34, 1152-1173.

Krishna, K.M., Rao, S.R., 2009, Study of the intensity of super cyclonic storm GONU using satellite observations, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 11, 108-113.

Kubar, T.L., Hartmann, D.L., Wood, R., 2007, Radiative and convective driving of tropical high clouds, Journal of Climate, 20, 5510-5526.

Kubar, T.L., Hartmann, D.L., 2008, Vertical structure of tropical convective clouds and its relation to precipitation, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, doi:10.1029/2007GL032811.

Kumar, M.R.R., Sankar, S. and others, 2005, Air-sea interaction over the Indian Ocean during the contrasting monsoon years 2002 and 2003, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL022587.

Kummerow, C.D., Berg, W., Thomas-Stahle, J., Masunaga, H., 2006, Quantifying global uncertainties in a simple microwave rainfall algorithm, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 23, 23-37.

L'Ecuyer, T.S., Stephens, G.L., 2003, The tropical oceanic energy budget from the TRMM perspective. Part I: Algorithm and uncertainties, Journal of Climate, 16, 1967-1985.

Ledvina, D.V., Pfaendtner, J., 1995, Inclusion of Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) total precipitable water estimates into the GEOS-1 data assimilation system, Monthly Weather Review, 123 (10), 3003-3015.

Lin, I.-I., Liu, W.T. and others, 2003, Satellite observations of modulation of surface winds by typhoon-induced upper ocean cooling, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (3), doi:10.1029/2002GL015674.

Lin, I.-I., Liu, W.T. and others, 2003, New evidence for enhanced ocean primary production triggered by tropical cyclone, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (13), 1718.

Liu, W.T., Tang, W., Atlas, R.M., 1996, Responses of the tropical Pacific to wind forcing as observed by spaceborne sensors and simulated by an ocean general circulation model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101 (C7), 16345-16359.

Liu, W.T., Xie, X., Niiler, P.P., 2007, Ocean-atmosphere interaction over Agulhas extension meanders, Journal of Climate, 20 (23), 5784-5797.

Long, D.G., Daum, D.L., 1998, Spatial resolution enhancement of SSM/I data, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 36 (2), 407-417.

Luis, A.J., Kawamura, H., 2002, Dynamics and mechanism for sea surface cooling near the Indian tip during winter monsoon, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (C11), doi:10.1029/2000JC000455.

Maloney, E.D., Esbensen, S.K., 2007, Satellite and buoy observations of Boreal summer intraseasonal variability in the tropical northeast Pacific, Monthly Weather Review, 135 (1), 3-19.

Mapes, B., Milliff, R.F., Morzel, J., 2009, Composite life cycle of maritime tropical mesoscale convective systems in scatterometer and microwave satellite observations, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66 (1), 199-208.

Marsh, R., Josey, S.A. and others, 2008, Mechanisms for recent warming of the North Atlantic: Insights gained with an eddy-permitting model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, doi:10.1029/2007JC004096.

Massom, R.A., Pook, M.J. and others, 2004, Precipitation over the intereior East Antarctic ice sheet related to midlatitude blocking-high activity, Journal of Climate, 17, 1914-1928.

Masunaga, H., Kummerow, C.D., 2006, Observations of tropical precipitating clouds ranging from shallow to deep convective systems, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL026547.

McPhaden, M.J., Cronin, M.F., McClurg, D.C., 2008, Meridional structure of the seasonally varying mixed layer temperature balance in the eastern tropical Pacific, Journal of Climate, 21, 3240-3260.

Messié, M., Radenac, M.-H., 2006, Seasonal variability of the surface chlorophyll in the western tropical Pacific from SeaWiFS data, Deep-Sea Research I, 53, 1581-1600.

Messié, M., Radenac, M.-H., Lefèvre, J.M., Marchesiello, P., 2006, Chlorophyll bloom in the western Pacific at the end of the 1997-1998 El Niño: The role of the Kiribati Islands, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL026033.

Minobe, S., Kuwano-Yoshida, A. and others, 2008, Influence of the Gulf Stream on the troposphere, Nature, 452 (7184), 206-209.

Miura, H., Satoh, M. and others, 2007, A short-duration global cloud-resolving simulation with a realistic land and sea distribution, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2006GL027448.

Molod, A., Helfand, H.M., Takacs, L.L., 1996, The climatology of parameterized physical processes in the GEOS-1 GCM and their impact on the GEOS-1 data assimilation system, Journal of Climate, 9 (4), 764-785.

Moore, G.W.K., Renfrew, I.A., 2005, Tip jets and barrier winds: A QuikSCAT climatology of high wind speed events around Greenland, Journal of Climate, 18 (18), 3713-3725.

Musgrave, K.D., Davis, C.A., Montgomery, M.T., 2008, Numerical simulations of the formation of Hurricane Gabrielle (2001), Monthly Weather Review, 136 (8), 3151-3167.

Nalli, N.R., Reynolds, R.W., 2006, Sea surface temperature daytime climate analyses derived from aerosol bias-corrected satellite data, Journal of Climate, 19 (3), 410-428.

Nesbitt, S.W., Zipser, E.J., Kummerow, C.D., 2004, An examination of version-5 rainfall estimates from the TRMM microwave imager, precipitation radar, and rain gauges on global, regional, and storm scales, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 43, 1016-1036.

Nonaka, M., Nakamura, H. and others, 2006, Decadal variability in the Kuroshio-Oyashio extension simulated in and eddy-resolving OGCM, Journal of Climate, 19 (10), 1970-1980.

O'Carroll, A.G., Saunders, R.W., Watts, J.G., 2006, The measurement of the sea surface temperature by satellites from 1991 to 2005, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 23 (11), 1573-1582.

O'Carroll, A.G., Eyre, J.R., Saunders, R.W., 2008, Three-way error analysis between AATSR, AMSR-E, and in situ sea surface temperature observations, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 25, 1197-1207.

O'Neill, L.W., Chelton, D.B., Esbensen, S.K., Wentz, F.J., 2005, High-resolution satellite measurements of the atmospheric boundary layer response to SST variations along the Agulhas return current, Journal of Climate, 18 (14), 2706-2723.

Otterman, J., Starr, D. and others, 1998, Space observations of ocean surface winds aid monitoring of Northeast Pacific climate shifts, Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 79 (47), 575.

Palter, J.B., Lozier, M.S., 2008, On the source of Gulf Stream nutrients, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, doi:10.1029/2007JC004611.

Parekh, A., Sharma, R., Sarkar, A., 2007, A comparative assessment of surface wind speed and sea surface temperature over the Indian Ocean by TMI, MSMR, and ERA-40, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 24, 1131-1142.

Peters, O., Neelin, J.D., 2006, Critical phenomena in atmospheric precipitation, Nature Physics, 2, 393-396.

Pezzi, L.P., Caltabiano, A., Challenor, P., 2006, Satellite observations of the Pacific tropical instability wave characteristics and their interannual variability, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27 (8), 1581-1599.

Portabella, M., Stoffelen, A., 2001, Rain detection and quality control of SeaWinds, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 18, 1171-1183.

Pulvirenti, L., Pierdicca, N., 2006, Retrieval of atmospheric and surface parameters from satellite microwave radiometers over the Mediterranean Sea, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44 (1), 90-101.

Quartly, G.D., Buck, J.J.H., Srokosz, M.A., Coward, A.C., 2006, Eddies around Madagascar - The retroflection re-considered, Journal of Marine Systems, 63 (3-4), 115-129.

Rahman, S.H., Simon, B., 2006, Intraseasonal oscillation over the eastern Arabian sea during the Indian summer monsoon season as revealed by TRMM microwave imager products, Journal of Earth System Science, 115 (5), 575-586.

Rahman, S.H., Simon, B., Joshi, P.C., 2007, Evolution of geophysical parameters over the Indian Ocean region during contrasting monsoon years of 2002 and 2003 using TRMM/TMI data, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 89 (3-4), 211-227.

Rajaveen, M., 2001, Asymmetric thermodynamic structure of monsoon depression revealed in microwave satellite data, Current Science, 81 (5), 448-450.

Ramaswamy, V., Schwarzkopf, M.D. and others, 2006, Anthropogenic and natural influences in the evolution of lower stratospheric cooling, Science, 311 (5764), 1138-1141.

Randel, W.J., Wu, F., 2006, Biases in stratospheric and tropospheric temperature trends derived from historical radiosonde data, Journal of Climate, 19 (10), 2094-2104.

Reynolds, R.W., Smith, T.M. and others, 2007, Daily high-resolution blended analyses for sea surface temperature, Journal of Climate, 20 (22), 5473-5496.

Risien, C.M., Chelton, D.B., 2006, A satellite-derived climatology of global ocean winds, Remote Sensing of Environment, 105 (3), 221-236.

Risien, C.M., Chelton, D.B., 2008, A global climatology of surface wind and wind stress fields from eight years of QuikSCAT scatterometer data, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 2379-2413.

Ritchie, A.A., Jr., Smith, M.R. and others, 1998, Critical analyses of data differences between FNMOC and AFGWC spawned SSM/I datasets, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 55, 1601-1612.

Romero-Centeno, R., Zavala-Hidalgo, J., Raga, G.B., 2007, Midsummer gap winds and low-level circulation over the eastern tropical Pacific, Journal of Climate, 20, 3768-3784.

Rouault, M., Lutjeharms, J.R.E., 2003, Estimation of sea-surface temperature around southern Africa from satellite-derived microwave observations, South African Journal of Science, 99, 489-494.

Saji, N.H., Xie, S.P., Tam, C.Y., 2006, Satellite observations of intense intraseasonal cooling events in the tropical south Indian Ocean, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL026525.

Sampe, T., Xie, S.-P., 2007, Mapping high sea winds from space, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88 (12), 1965-1978.

Sapiano, M.R.P., Smith, T.M., Arkin, P.A., 2008, A new merged analysis of precipitation utilizing satellite and reanalysis data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, doi:10.1029/2008JD010310.

Sasamal, S.K., 2007, Pre-monsoon Indian ocean SST in contrasting years of Indian summer monsson rainfall, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28 (19), 4403-4407.

Sasamal, S.K., 2007, Island wake circulation off Maldives during boreal winter, as visualised with MODIS derived chlorophyll-a data and other satellite measurements, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28 (5), 891-903.

Satheesan, K., Sarkar, A. and others, 2007, Comparison of wind data from QuikSCAT and buoys in the Indian Ocean 12, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28 (10), 2375-2382.

Sato, N., Yoneyama, K. and others, 2007, An ITCZ-like convergence zone over the Indian Ocean in boreal late autumn, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2006GL028341.

Schwarzkopf, M.D., Ramaswamy, V., 2008, Evolution of stratospheric temperature in the 20th century, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, doi:10.1029/2007GL032489.

Seo, H., Jochum, M. and others, 2007, Feedback of tropical instability-wave-induced atmospheric variability onto the ocean, Journal of Climate, 20 (23), 5842-5855.

Seo, H., Jochum, M. and others, 2008, Precipitation from African Easterly Waves in a coupled model of the Tropical Atlantic, Journal of Climate, 21, 1417-1431.

Shi, W., Wang, M., 2007, Observations of a Hurricane Katrina-induced phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of Mexico, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL029724.

Shige, S., Watanabe, T. and others, 2008, Validation of western and eastern Pacific rainfall estimates from the TRMM PR using a radiative transfer model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, doi:10.1029/2007JD009002.

Simon, B., Rahman, S.H., Joshi, P.C., 2006, Conditions leading to the onset of the Indian monsoon: A satellite perspective, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 93 (3-4), 201-210.

Simon, B., Rahman, S.H., Joshi, P.C., Desai, P.S., 2007, Shifting of the convective heat source over the Indian Ocean region in relation to performance of the monsoon: A satellite perspective, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29 (2), 387-397.

Singh, R., Joshi, P.C., Kishtawal, C.M., 2005, A new technique for estimation of surface latent heat fluxes using satellite-based observations, Monthly Weather Review, 133, 2692-2710.

Singh, R., Pal, P.K., Kishtawal, C.M., Joshi, P.C., 2008, The impact of variational assimilation of SSM/I and QuikSCAT satellite observations on the numerical simulation of Indian ocean tropical cyclones, Weather and Forecasting, 23, 460-476.

Small, R.J., Xie, S.P., Wang, Y., 2003, Numerical simulation of atmospheric response to Pacific tropical instability waves, Journal of Climate, 16 (22), 3722-3741.

Small, R.J., Szoeke, S.P., Xie, S.P., 2007, The Central American midsummer drought: Regional aspects and large-scale forcing, Journal of Climate, 20, 4853-4873.

Smitha, A., Rao, K.H., Sengupta, D., 2006, Effect of May 2003 tropical cyclone on physical and biological processes in the Bay of Bengal, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27 (23), 5301-5314.

Soden, B.J., 2000, The sensitivity of the tropical hydrological cycle to ENSO, Journal of Climate, 13, 538-549.

Soden, B.J., Schroeder, S.R., 2000, Decadal variations in tropical water vapor: A comparison of observations and a model simulation, Journal of Climate, 13 (19), 3337-3341.

Soden, B.J., Jackson, D.L. and others, 2005, The radiative signature of upper tropospheric moistening, Science, 310 (5749), 841-844.

Sohn, B.-J., Smith, E.A., 2003, Explaining sources of discrepancy in SSM/I water vapor algorithms, Journal of Climate, 16 (20), 3229-3255.

Spencer, R.W., LaFontaine, F.J., DeFelice, T., Wentz, F.J., 1998, Tropical oceanic precipitation changes after the 1991 Pinatubo eruption, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 55, 1707-1713.

Spencer, R.W., Braswell, W.D., Christy, J.R., Hnilo, J.J., 2007, Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intraseasonal oscillations, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL029698.

Stammer, D., Wentz, F.J., Gentemann, C.L., 2003, Validation of microwave sea surface temperature measurements for climate purposes, Journal of Climate, 16 (1), 73-87.

Stevens, B., Beljaars, A. and others, 2007, On the structure of the lower troposphere in the summertime stratocumulus regine of the northest Pacific, Monthly Weather Review, 135 (3), 985-1005.

Stiles, B.W., Yueh, S.H., 2002, Impact of rain on spaceborne Ku-band wind scatterometer data, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 40 (9), 1973-1983.

Su, H., Jiang, J.H. and others, 2008, Variations of tropical upper tropospheric clouds with sea surface temperature and implications for radiative effects, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, doi:10.1029/2007JD009624.

Subrahmanyam, B., Murty, V.S.N., Sharp, R.J., O'Brien, J.J., 2005, Air-sea coupling during the tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean: A case study using satellite observations, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 162 (8-9), 1643-1672.

Suryan, R.M., Sato, F. and others, 2006, Foraging destinations and marine habitat use of short-tailed albatrosses: A multi-scale approach using first-passage time analysis, Deep-Sea Research II, 53, 370-386.

Tang, D.L., Kawamura, H., Doan-Nhu, H., Takahashi, W., 2004, Remote sensing oceanography of a harmful algal bloom off the coast of southeastern Vietnam, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, doi:10.1029/2003JC002045.

Tapiador, F.J., Gaertner, M.A., Romera, R., Castro, M., 2007, A multisource analysis of hurricane Vance, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88 (7), 1027-1032.

Thadathil, P., Sugimori, Y., Akiyama, M., 1995, Surface heat fluxes using satellite observations: A case study in the Northwest Pacific, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 12 (5), 1071-1086.

Thadathil, P., Thoppil, P. and others, 2008, Seasonal variability of the observed barrier layer in the Arabian Sea, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 624-638.

Thompson, D.W.J., Solomon, S.D., 2005, Recent stratospheric climate trends as evidenced in radiosonde data: Global structure and tropospheric linkages, Journal of Climate, 18 (22), 4785-4795.

Tiedtke, M., 1993, Representation of clouds in large-scale models, Monthly Weather Review, 121, 3040-3061.

Tokinaga, H., Tanimoto, Y., Xie, S.P., 2005, SST-induced surface wind variations over the Brazil-Malvinas confluence: Satellite and in situ observations, Journal of Climate, 18 (17), 3470-3482.

Trenberth, K.E., Fasullo, J., Smith, L., 2005, Trends and variability in column-integrated atmospheric water vapor, Climate Dynamics, 24, 741-758.

Uppala, S., Kållberg, P.W. and others, 2005, The ERA-40 re-analysis, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 131 (612), 2961-3013.

Våge, K., Pickart, R.S., Moore, G.W.K., Ribergaard, M.H., 2008, Winter mixed layer development in the central Irminger Sea: The effect of strong, intermittent wind events, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 541-565.

Vecchi, G.A., Harrison, D.E., 2002, Monsoon breaks and subseasonal sea surface temperature variability in the Bay of Bengal, Journal of Climate, 15 (12), 1485-1493.

Vecchi, G.A., Xie, S.P., Fischer, A.S., 2004, Ocean–atmosphere covariability in the western Arabian sea, Journal of Climate, 17 (6), 1213-1224.

Vialard, J., Menkes, C.E.R., Anderson, D.L.T., Balmaseda, M.A., 2003, Sensitivity of Pacific ocean tropical instability waves to initial conditions, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 33 (1), 105-121.

Wang, B., Webster, P.J. and others, 2006, Boreal summer quasi-monthly oscillation in the global tropics, Climate Dynamics, 27 (7-8), 661-675.

Wang, L., Lau, K.-H., Fung, C.-H., Gan, J.-P., 2007, The relative vorticity of ocean surface winds from the QuikSCAT satellite and its effects on the geneses of tropical cyclones in the South China Sea, Tellus, 59A, 562-569.

Weissman, D.E., 2002, Effects of rain rate and wind magnitude on SeaWinds scatterometer wind speed errors, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 19, 738-746.

Weller, E., Nunez, M., Meyers, G., Masiri, I., 2008, A climatology of ocean - atmosphere heat flux estimates over the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea: Implications for recent mass coral bleaching events, Journal of Climate, 21 (15), 3853-3871.

Wentz, F.J., Ricciardulli, L., Hilburn, K.A., Mears, C.A., 2007, How much more rain will global warming bring?, Science, 317, 233-235.

Wijesekera, H.W., Rudnick, D.L. and others, 2005, Upper ocean heat and freshwater budgets in the eastern Pacific warm pool, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, doi:10.1029/2004JC002511.

Wood, R., Bretherton, C.S., Hartmann, D.L., 2002, Diurnal cycle of liquid water path over the subtropical and tropical oceans, Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (23), doi:10.1029/2002GL015371.

Wu, Q., Bowman, K.P., 2007, Multiyear satellite observations of the atmospheric response to Atlantic tropical instability waves, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2007JD008627.

Wu, Q., Bowman, K.P., 2007, Interannual variations of tropical instability waves observed by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL029719.

Xie, S.-P., Liu, W.T., Liu, Q., Nonaka, M., 2001, Far-reaching effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the Pacific ocean-atmosphere system, Science, 292 (5524), 2057-2060.

Xie, S.-P., Hafner, J. and others, 2002, Bathymetric effect on the winter sea surface temperature and climate of the Yellow and East China Seas, Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (24), doi:10.1029/2002GL015884.

Xie, S.-P., 2004, Satellite observations of cool ocean-atmosphere interaction, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 85 (2), 195-208.

Xie, S.-P., Xu, H. and others, 2006, Role of narrow mountains in large-scale organization of Asian monsoon convection, Journal of Climate, 19, 3420-3429.

Xie, S.-P., Chang, C.-H., Xie, Q., Wang, D., 2007, Intraseasonal variability in the summer South China Sea: Wind jet, cold filament, and recirculations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2007JC004238.

Xie, X., Liu, W.T., Tang, B., 2008, Spacebased estimation of moisture transport in marine atmosphere using support vector regression, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 1846-1855.

Xu, H., Xie, S.P., Wang, Y., 2005, Subseasonal variability of the southeast Pacific stratus cloud deck, Journal of Climate, 18 (1), 131-142.

Xu, H., Xie, S.P., Wang, Y., Small, R.J., 2005, Effects of central American mountains on the eastern Pacific winter ITCZ and moisture transport, Journal of Climate, 18, 3856-3873.

Yang, B., Fu, X., Wang, B., 2008, Atmosphere-ocean conditions jointly guide convection of the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation: Satellite observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, doi:10.1029/2007JD009276.

Yu, L., Weller, R.A., Sun, B., 2004, Improving latent and sensible heat flux estimates for the Atlantic Ocean (1988–99) by a synthesis approach, Journal of Climate, 17 (2), 373-393.

Yu, L., Weller, R.A., Sun, B., 2004, Mean and variability of the WHOI daily latent and sensible heat fluxes at in situ flux measurement sites in the Atlantic Ocean, Journal of Climate, 17, 2096-2118.

Yu, L., Jin, X., Weller, R.A., 2007, Annual, seasonal, and interannual variability of air-sea heat fluxes in the Indian Ocean, Journal of Climate, 20, 3190-3209.

Yu, L., 2007, Global variations in oceanic evaporation (1958 - 2005): The role of the changing wind speed, Journal of Climate, 20 (21), 5376-5390.

Yuan, X., 2004, High-wind-speed evaluation in the southern ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, doi:10.1029/2003JD004179.

Yueh, S.H., Stiles, B.W., Liu, W.T., 2003, QuikSCAT wind retrievals for tropical cyclones, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 41 (11), 2616-2628.

Zhang, H.-M., Bates, J.J., Reynolds, R.W., 2006, Assessment of composite global sampling: Sea surface wind speed, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL027086.

Zlotnicki, V., Wahr, J., Fukumori, I., Song, Y.T., 2007, Antarctic circumpolar current transport variability during 2003-2005 from GRACE, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37 (2), 230-244.

Zuidema, P., Mapes, B. and others, 2006, The interaction of clouds and dry air in the eastern tropical Pacific, Journal of Climate, 19, 4531-4544.

Zuidema, P., Joyce, R., 2008, Water vapor, cloud liquid water paths, and rain rates over northern high latitude open seas, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, doi:10.1029/2007JD009040.

Zveryaev, I.I., Allan, R.P., 2005, Water vapor variability in the tropics and its links to dynamics and precipitation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, doi:1029/2005JD006033.