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Volume 35 Number 10 28 May 2008GPRLAJ(tO). ,(2008)' ISSN 0094-8276

Geophysical Research Letters

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Space Sciences

J. D. Huba, G.Joyce, and J. Krall

Three-dimensional equatorial spread F modeling(DOIl 0.1029/2008GL033509)

y. Nishimura, J. Wygant, T. ano, M lizima, A. Kumamoto, D. Brautigam, and R. Friedel

SAPS measurements around the magnetic equator by CRRES (DOIIO.I 029/2008GL033970)J. Huang, Z. W. Ma, and D. Li

Debye-Iength scaled structure of perpendicular electric field in coIlisionless magnetic reconnection(DOIIO.1029/2008GL033751) ,

T. L. Zhang, C. T. Russell, W. Baumjohann, L. K Jian, M A. Balikhin, J. B. Cao, C. Wang,X Blanco-Cano,K-H. Glassmeier, W.Zambelli, M Volwerk, M Delva, and Z. Varas

Characteristic size and shape of the mirror mode structures in the solar wind at 0.72 AU(DOIIO.I029/2008GL033793)

Hongpeng Qu, Zhihong Lin, and Liu Chen

Nonlinear saturation of mirror instability (DOI 10.1029/2008GL033907)

MichaelO. Chandler, Levon A. Avanov, Paul D. Craven, F. S. Mozer, and T. E. Moore

Observations of the ion signatures of double merging and the formation of newly cIosed field lines(DOII 0.1 029/2008GL03391 O)

Jiuhou Lei, Jeffrey P. Thayer, Jeffrey M Forbes, Eric K Sutton, and R. Steven Nerem

Rotating solar coronal holes and periodic modulation of the upper atmosphere(DOII 0.1 029/2008GL033875)

A. P. Rouillard, J. A. Davies, R. J. Forsyth, A. Rees, C. J. Davis, R. A. Harrison, M Lockwood, D. Bewsher,S. R. Crothers, C. J. Eyles, M Hapgood, and C. H. Perry

First imaging of corotating interaction regions using the STEREO spacecraft (DOIIO.1029/2008GL033767)

Commentaries

LlOIOl S. W.H. Cowley, S. V.Badman,S.M Imber,andS.E. Milan

Comment on "Jupiter: A fundamentally different magnetospheric interaction with the solar wind" byD. J. McComas and F. Bagenal (DOIIO.I029/2007GL032645)

LlOI03 D. J. McComas and F. Bagenal

Reply to comment by S. W. H. Cowley,et al. on "Jupiter: A fundamentally different magnetosphericinteraction with the solar wind" (DOI 10.1029/2008GL03435l )

Planets

LI0201 Gerhard Wurm,Jens Teiser, and Dennis Reiss

Greenhouse and thermophoretic effects in dust layers: The missing link for lifting of dust on Mars(DOIIO.I029/2008GL033799)

Ll0202 Matthew R. Smith, Alan R. Gillespie, and David R. Montgomery

Effect of obliteration on crater-count chronologies for Martian surfaces (DOI 10.1029/2008GL033538)

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Solid Earth

Przemyslaw Dera, Barbara Lavina, Lauren A. Borkowski, VitaliB. Prakapenka, Stephen R. Sutton,Mark L. Rivers, Robert T. Downs, Nabil Z. Boctor, and Charles T. Prewitt

High-pressure polymorphism ofFe2P and its implications for meteorites and Earth's core(001 10.1029/2008GL033867)Manuel A. Moreira, Laure Dosso, and Hélene Ondréas

Helium isotopes on the Pacific-Antarctic ridge (52.5°-41.5°S) (00110.1 02912008GL033286)

Justin Hustofi, Krystle Catalli, Sang-Heon Shim, Atsushi Kubo, VitaliB. Prakapenka, and Martin Kunz

Equation of state of NaMgF3 postperovskite: Implication for the seismic velocity changes in the D" region(00l10.1029/2008GL034042)

Stuart A. Gilder and Maxime Le Golf

Systematic pressure enhancement of titanomagnetite magnetization (001 10.1029/2008GL033325)

e. R. Sine, D. Wilson, W Gao, S. P. Grand, R. Aster, J. Ni, and W S. Baldridge

Mantle structure beneath the western edge of the Colorado Plateau (001 1O.1029/2008GL033391)Tobias Hoink and Adrian Lenardic

Three-dimensional mantle convection simulations with a low-viscosity asthenosphere and the relationshipbetween heat flow and the horizontallength scale of convection (001 1O.1029/2008GL033854)

Satoshi Ide, Kazutoshi Imanishi, Yasuhiro Yoshida, Gregory e. Beroza, and David R. Shelly

Bridging the gap between seismically and geodetically detected slow earthquakes(00110.1029/2008GL034014)

V.K. Gahalaut,J. K. Catherine, Sridevi Jade, R. Gireesh, D. e. Gupta, M Narsaiah, A. Ambikapathy, A. Bansal,and R. K. Chadha

No evidence of unusually large postseismic deformation in Andaman region immediately after 2004Sumatra-Andaman earthquake (001 1O.l029/2008GL033704)

Domenico Di Giacomo, Helmut Grosser, Stefano Parolai, Peter Bormann, and Rongjiang Wang

Rapid determination of Me for strong to great shallow earthquakes (00110.1 029/2008GL033505)

Hydrology and Land Surface Studies

Kaicun Wang,Robert E. Dickinson, and Shunlin Liang

Observational evidence on the effects of cIouds and aerosols on net ecosystem exchange andevapotranspiration (001 10.1029/2008GL034I67)Arijit Guin and Robert W Ritzi Jr.

Studying the effect of correlation and finite-domain size on spatial continuity of permeable sediments(001 10.1029/2007GL0327I7)

Bradford P. Wilcox,Phillip l. Taucer, Clyde L. Munster, M Keith Owens, Binayak P. Mohanty,Joshua R. Sorenson, and Roberto Bazan

Subsurface stormflow is important in semiarid karst shrublands (001 1O.1029/2008GL033696)

Florian Pappenberger,Jens Bartholmes, Jutta Thielen, Hannah L. Cloke, Roberto Buizza, and Ad de Roo

New dimensions in early flood warning across the globe using grand-ensemble weather predictions(00110.1029/2008GL033837)

e. Gruhier, P. de Rosnay, Y. Kerr, E. Mougin, E. Ceschia, J.-e. Calvet, and P. Richaume

Evaluation of AMSR-E soil moisture product based on ground measurements over temperate andsemi-arid regions (00l10.102912008GL033330)

The Cryosphere

Ll0501 H. J. Horgan, S. Anandakrishnan, R. B. Alley, L. E. Peters, G. P. Tsoflias, D. E. Voigt,and J. P. Winberry

Complex fabric development revealed by englacial seismic reflectivity: Jakobshavn Isbrre, Greenland(001 10.1029/2008GL033712)

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LI0S02 Antoine Rabatel, Philip Deline, Stéphane Jaillet, and Ludovic Ravanel

Rock falls in high-alpine rock walls quantified by terrestriallidar measurements: A case study in the MontBlanc area (DOIIO.1029/2008GL033424)

LI0S03 A. J. Schweiger, J. Zhang, R. W.Lindsay, and M Steele

Did unusually sunny skies help drive the record sea ice minimum of2007? (DOIIO.1029/2008GL033463)

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Oceans

J. Bouffard, S. Vignudelli,P. Cipollini, and Y.Menard

Exploiting the potential of an improved multimission altimetric data set over the coastal ocean(DOIIO.1029/2008GL033488)

Shaoling Shang, Li Li, Fengqin Sun, Jingyu Wu,Chuanmin Hu, Dewen Chen, Xiuren Ning, Yun Qiu,Caiyun Zhang, and Shaoping Shang

Changes of temperature and bio-optical properties in the South China Sea in response to TyphoonLingling, 2001 (DOII 0.1029/2008GL033502)Joshua D. Wilson and Nicholas e Makris

Quantifying hurricane destructive power, wind speed, and air-sea material exchange with natural underseasound (DOII 0.1029/2008GL033200)

Hermann M Fritz, Nikos Kalligeris, Jose e Borrero, Pablo Broncano, and Erick Ortega

The 15 August 2007Peru tsunami runup observations and modeling (DOI 1O.1029/2008GL033494)

Bronwyn Cahill, Oscar Schofield, Robert Chant, John Wilkin, Eli Hunter, Scott Glenn, and Paul Bissett

Dynamics ofturbid buoyant plumes and the feedbacks on near-shore biogeochemistry and physics(DOI 10.1029/2008GL033595)

Yongsheng Wu, Trevor Platt, Charles eL. Tang, Shubha Sathyendranath, Emmanuel Devred, and Shue Gu

A summer phytoplankton bloom triggered by high wind events in the Labrador Sea, July 2006(DOIIO.1029/2008GL033561)

Friedrich A. Schott, Lothar Stramma, Weiqiang Wang, Benjamin S. Giese, and Rainer Zantopp

Pacific Subtropical Cell variability in the SODA 2.0.2/3 assimilation (DOIIO.1029/2008GL033757)

Climate

Thomas Laepple, Stephen Jewson, and Katie Coughlin

Interannual temperature predictions using the CMIP3 multi-model ensemble mean(DOII 0.1029/2008GL033576)

David B. Knight, Robert E. Davis, Scott e Sheridan, David M Hondula, Luke J. Sitka, Michael Deaton,Temple R. Lee, Stephen D. Gawtry, Philip J. Stenger, Francesco Mazzei, and Barrett P. Kenny

Increasing frequencies ofwarm and humid air masses over the conterminous United States from 1948 to2005 (DOI 10.1029/2008GL033697)

D. V. Khvorostyanov, P. Ciais, G. Krinner, and S. A. Zimov

Vulnerability of east Siberia's frozen carbon stores to future warming (DOI 10.1029/2008GL033639)

R. Seiffert and J.-S. von Storch

Impact of atmospheric small-scale fluctuations on climate sensitivity (DOII 0.1029/2008GL033483)

S. Kleppek, V.Muccione, e e Raible, D. N. Bresch, P. Koellner-Heck, and T. F. Stocker

Tropical cyclones in ERA-40: A detection and tracking method (DOIIO.1029/2008GL033880)

Courtenay Strong and Gudrun Magnusdottir

How Rossby wave breaking over the Pacific forces the North Atlantic Oscillation(DOI 10.1029/2008GL033578)

Atmospheric Science

LI0812 Gufran Beig

Impact of geo-engineering on the ion composition of the stratosphere (DOI 10.l 029/2008GL033186)

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T. Stavrakou, J.-F. Müller, K. F. Boersma, I. De Smedt, and R. J. van der A

Assessing the distribution and growth rates of NOx emission sources by inverting a IO-year record of N02satellite columns (001 \0.\ 029/2008GL03352\ )

S. Yoshida, T. Morimoto, T. Ushio, 20-/.Kawasaki, T. Torii, D. Wang, N. Takagi, and T. Watanabe

High energy photon and electron bursts associated with upward lightning strokes(001 \0.\ 029/2007GL032438)

Jennifer E. Kay and Robert Wood

Timescale analysis of aerosol sensitivity during homogeneous freezing and implications for uppertropospheric water vapor budgets (001 \0.\ 029/2007GL032628)D. Josset, J. Pelon, A. Protat, and C. Flamant

New approach to determine aerosol optical depth from combined CALIPSO and CloudSat ocean surfaceechoes (001 \ 0.\ 029/2008GL033442)

VijayakumarS. Nair, S. Suresh Babu, and K. Krishna Moorthy

Spatial distribution and spectral characteristics of aerosol single scattering albedo over the Bay of Bengalinferred from shipborne measurements (001 \0.\ 029/2008GL033687)

G. Baumgarten and J. Fiedler

Vertical structure of particle properties and water content in noctilucent clouds(001 1O.1029/2007GL033084)

Jean-Charles Dupont, Martial Haeffelin, and Charles N. Long

Evaluation of cloudless-sky periods detected by shortwave and longwave algorithms using lidarmeasurements (001 10.1029/2008GL033658)

T. Corti, B. P. Luo, M de Reus, D. Brunner, F. Cairo, M 1. Mahoney, G. Martucci, R. Matthey, V. Mitev,F. H. dos Santos, C. Schiller, G. Shur, N. M Sitnikov, N. Spelten, H. 1. Vossing,S. Borrmann, and T. Peter

Unprecedented evidence for deep convection hydrating the tropical stratosphere(001 10.1029/2008GL03364I)R. Deckert and M Dameris

Higher tropical SSTs strengthen the tropical upwelling via deep convection (001 10.1029/2008GL033719)

A. Gambacorta, C. Barnet, B. Soden, and L. Strow

An assessment of the tropical humidity-temperature covariance using AIRS (001\ 0.\ 029/2008GL033805)

Lei Wang,Kai-Hon Lau, Qing-Hong Zhang, and Chi-Hung Fung

Observation of non-developing and developing tropical disturbances over the South China Sea using SSM/Isatellite (001 \0.\ 029/2008GL033446)

Olivier Bousquet, Thibaut Montmerle, and Pierre Tabary

Using operationally synthesized multiple-Doppler winds for high resolution horizontal wind forecastverification (00l\0.1029/2008GL033975)

G. K. Garipov, B. A. Khrenov, and M /. Panasyuk

Correlation of atmospheric UV transient events with lunar phase (001 \0.\ 029/2007GL032679)

S. P. Alexander, T. Tsuda, and Y. Kawatani

COSMIC GPS Observations ofNorthern Hemisphere winter stratospheric gravity waves and comparisonswith an atmospheric general circulation model (001\ 0.\ 029/2008GL033\74)

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