Selected Recent Publications
Manuscripts Submitted, Revised, and in Press
Parameterize Land Processes In Climate Models
Use Satellite Data for Climate Models
Climate Models and Surface Hydrology
Climate Variability and Processes
Anthropogenic Climate Change
Ph. D. Dissertations
Manuscripts Submitted, Revised and in Press
Dickinson, R. E., Y. Tian, Q. Liu and L. Zhou, 2008: Dynamics of
leaf area for climate and weather models, J. Geophys.
Res., in press.
He, Y. and R. E. Dickinson, 2008: A Simple Low
Cloud Cover Scheme Based on Lower-Tropospheric Stability
and Available Dry Inhibition Energy Transport in
Subtropical Marine Stratus and Stratocumulus Regions, J. Geophys. Res.,
in revision.
Huang, Y., W. L. Chameides, Q. Tan and R.
E. Dickinson, 2008: Characteristics of
anthropogenic sulfate and carbonaceous aerosols over
East Asia: regional modeling and observation, MAIRS
special issue in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences,
in press.
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Dickinson,
2008: Determination for climate models of the
multi-scattered solar radiation from a canopy with
leaves modeled as a 3D distribution of homogeneous
isotropic scatters, J.
of Computational Physics, 227,
3367-3677.
Niu, G.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, R. E. Dickinson, L. E.
Gulden, and H. Su, 2007: Development
of a simple groundwater model for use in climate models
and evaluation with Gravity Recovery and Climate
Experiment data,
J. Geophys. Res.,
112,
D07103, doi:10.1029/2006JD007522.
[pdf]
Tian, Y., R.E. Dickinson, L. Zhou, 2007:
Four-stream Isosector Approximation for Canopy Radiative
Transfer. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D04107,
doi: 10.1029/2006JD007. [pdf]
Dickinson, R.E., K.W. Oleson, G. Bonan, F.
Hoffman, P. Thornton, M. Vertenstein, Z-L. Yang, and X.
Zeng, 2006. The Community Land Model and Its Climate
Statistics as a Component of the Community Climate
System Model. J. Climate, CCSM special issue,
19 (11), 2302-2324. [pdf]
Pinty, B., T. Lavergne, R. E. Dickinson, J.-L. Widlowski, N.
Gobron, and M. M. Verstraete, 2006: Simplifying the interaction of land surfaces with
radiation for relating remote sensing products to
climate models, J. Geophys. Res., 111,
D02116, doi: 10.1029/2005JD005952.
[pdf]
Zeng, X. D., A. H. Wang, Q. C. Zeng, R.E. Dickinson,
X. Zeng, and S.S.P. Shen, 2006: Intermediately complex
models for the hydrological interactions in the
atmosphere-vegetation-soil system. Adv. Atmos. Sci.,
23, 23, 127-140.
Niu, G.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, R.E. Dickinson, and L.E.
Gulden, 2005: A simple TOPMODEL-based runoff
parameterization (SIMTOP) for use in global models,
J. Geophys. Res., 110, D21106, doi:
10.1029/2005JD006111. [pdf]
Zeng, X.B., R.E. Dickinson, M. Barlage, et al.,
2005: Treatment of undercanopy turbulence in land
models. J. Clim., 18 (23), 5086-5094. [pdf]
Dai, Y., R. E. Dickinson, and Y.-P. Wang, 2004: A
two-big-leaf model for canopy temperature,
photosynthesis and stomatal conductance. J. Clim.,
17, No. 12, 2281-2299. [pdf]
Yu, H., R.E. Dickinson, M. Chin, M. Zhou, Y.J.
Kaufman, L. Zhou, Y. Tian, O. Dubovik, and B.N. Holben,
2004: Direct radiative effect of aerosols as determined
from a combination of MODIS retrievals and GOCART
simulations. J. Geophys. Res., 109,
D03206, doi:10.1029/2003JD003914.
[pdf]
Dai, Y., X. Zeng, R.E. Dickinson, I. Baker, G.B.
Bonan, M.G. Bosilovich, A.S. Denning, P.A. Dirmeyer, P.R.
Houser, G-Y. Niu, K.W. Oleson, C.A. Schlosser, and Z.-L.
Yang, 2003: The Common Land Model (CLM). Bull. Amer.
Meteor. Soc., 84 (8), 1013-1023.
[pdf]
Liu, Q., and R. E. Dickinson, 2003: Use of a
two-mode soil pore size distribution to estimate soil
water transport in a land surface model.
Geophys. Res. Lett,
30(6), 1331,
doi: 10.1029/2002GL016562. [pdf]
Bonan, G. B., K.W. Oleson, M.
Vertenstein, S. Levis, X. Zeng, Y. Dai, R. E.
Dickinson and Z-L. Yang, 2002: The Land
Surface Climatology of the Community Land Model Coupled
to the NCAR Community Climate Model. J. Climate,
15, 3123 - 3149. [Abstract]
Buermann, Wolfgang, Y. Wang, J. Dong, L. Zhou, Z. Zeng,
R. E. Dickinson, C. S. Potter and R. B. Myneni,
2002. Analysis of a multiyear global vegetation leaf
area index data set. J. Geophys. Res., 107(D22),
4646, doi: 10.1029/2001JD000975.
Wu, W., M. A. Geller and R. E. Dickinson, 2002: A
Case Study for Land Model Evaluation: Simulation of Soil
Moisture Amplitude Damping and Phase Shift. J.
Geophys. Res., 107 (D24), 4793, doi:
10.1029/2001JD001405. [pdf]
Zeng, X., M. Shaikh, Y. Dai and R. E. Dickinson,
2002: Coupling of the Common Land Model to the NCAR
Community Climate Model. J. Climate, 15,
1832-1854. [pdf]
Hahmann, A.N. and R.E. Dickinson, 2001: A
Fine-Mesh Land Approach for General Circulation Models
and Its Impact on Regional Climate. J. Clim.,
14, 1634-1646. [pdf]
Wei, X., A. N. Hahmann, R. E. Dickinson, Z.-L.
Yang, X. Zeng, K. J. Schaudt, C. B. Schaaf, N. Strugnell,
2001: Comparison of albedos computed by land surface
models and evaluation against remotely sensed data,
J. Geophys. Res., 106 (D18), 20,687-20702,
doi: 10.1029/2001JD900218. [pdf]
Dickinson, R. E., 2000: How coupling of the
atmosphere to ocean and land help determine the
timescales of interannual variability of climate. J.
Geophys Res-Atmos 105 (D15) 20115-20119. [pdf]
Fu, R., B. Zhu, and R. E. Dickinson, 1999: How do
the atmosphere and land surface influence seasonal
changes of convection in the tropical Amazon? J. Clim.,
12, 1306-1321. [pdf]
Morrill, J. C., Dickinson R. E., Hahmann A. N.,
1999: Sensitivity of a land surface model to the diurnal
distribution of downward longwave radiation. J.
Meteorol. Soc. JPN, 77 (1B), 265-279.
Yang, Z. L., Dai Y., Dickinson R. E., et al.
1999: Sensitivity of ground heat flux to vegetation
cover fraction and leaf area index. J. Geophys. Res-Atmo.
104(D16) 19505-19514.
[pdf]
Zeng, X. and R. E. Dickinson, 1998: Effect of
surface sublayer on surface skin temperature and fluxes.
J. Climate, 11, 537-550.
[pdf]
Zeng, X., Y. J. Dai, R.E. Dickinson and M. Shaikh,
1998: The role of root distribution for land climate
simulation over land. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25,
4533-4536.
Dickinson, R. E., M. Shaikh, L. Graumlich, and R.
Bryant, 1998: Interactive Canopies for a Climate Model,
J. Clim., 11, 2823-2836.
[pdf]
Sellers, P. J., R. E. Dickinson, D. A. Randall,
A. K. Betts, F. G. Hall, J. A. Berry, G. J. Collatz, A.
S. Denning, H. A. Mooney, C. A. Nobre, N. Sato, C. B.
Field, A. Henderson-Sellers, 1997: Modeling the
Exchanges of Energy, Water, and Carbon Between
Continents and the Atmosphere, Science, 275,
502-509. [pdf]
Yang, Z. L., R. E. Dickinson, A. Robock, and K.Y.
Vinnikov, 1997: Validation of the Snow SubModel of the
Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme with Russian Snow
Cover and Meteorological Observational Data, J. Clim.,
10, 353-373.
Dickinson, R. E., 1996: Land surface processes
and climate modeling. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Sci.,
76, 1445-1448.
Dickinson, R. E., 1995: Land atmosphere
interaction. U.S. National Report to International
Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994, Rev.
Geophys., Supplement, 917-922.
Henderson-Sellers, A., Z.-L. Yang, and R. E.
Dickinson, 1993:The Project for Intercomparison of
Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS), Bull.
Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74, 7, 1335-1349.
Dickinson, R. E, A. Henderson-Sellers, C.
Rosenzweig, and P. J. Sellers, 1991: Evapotranspiration
models with canopy resistance for use in climate models,
a review, Ag. & Forest Meteor., 54,
373-388.
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Use
Satellite Data for Climate Models
Fang,
H.L., A. L.Liang, J. R. Townsend, R. E. Dickinson, et
al., 2008: Spatially and temporally continuous LAI data
sets based on an integrated filtering method: Examples
from North America. Remote
Sens. Environ. 112,
(1) 75-95.
Gao,
H., R. Fu, R. E. Dickinson, R. Negrón Juárez, 2008.
A Practical Method for Retrieving Land Surface
Temperature from AMSR-E over the Amazon Forest, IEEE
Transactions on Geosciences
and Remote Sensing, 46,
No. 1,193-199.
Zhou, L. R. E. Dickinson, P. Dirmeyer, H. Chen, Y. Dai, and
Y. Tian, 2008: Asymmetric response of maximum and
minimum temperatures to soil emissivity change over the
Northern African Sahel in a GCM. Geophys.
Res. Lett., 35,
L05402, doi:10.1029/2007GL032953.
Myneni, R.B., W. Yang, R. R. Nemani, A.R. Huete, R. E.
Dickinson, et al., 2007: Large seasonal swings in leaf
area of Amazon rainforests. PNAS,
104, no. 12,
4820-4823.
Zhou, L., R. E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, R. Vose, and Y.-J.
Dai, 2007: Impact of Vegetation Removal and Soil
Aridation on Diurnal Temperature Range in a Semiarid
Region - Application to the Sahel, Proc. Natl. Acad.
Sci. U. S. A., 104, 17937-17942,
10.1073/pnas.0700290104. [pdf]
Huang, D., Y. Knyazikhina, R. E. Dickinson, et
al., 2007: Canopy spectral invariants for remote sensing
and model applications, Remote Sens. Environ.,
106, 106–122.
Tsvetsinskaya, E. A., C. B. Schaaf, F. Gao, A. H.
Strahler, and R. E. Dickinson, 2006: Spatial and
temporal ariability in Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer-derived surface albedo over global
arid regions, J. Geophys. Res., 111,
D20106, doi:10.1029/2005JD006772.
Gao, F., C. B. Schaaf, A. H. Strahler, A. Roesch, W.
Lucht and R. E. Dickinson, 2005: MODIS
bidirectional reflectance distribution function and
albedo Climate Modeling Grid products and the
variability of albedo for major global vegetation types.
J. Geophys. Res, 110, D01104, doi:
l0.1029/2004JD005190.
Hall, D. K., M. Kaminski, D. J. Cavalieri, R. E.
Dickinson, M. Marquis, G. A. Riggs, D. A. Robinson,
M. Van Woert, R. E. Wolfe (2005), Earth Observing System
Snow and Ice Products for Observation and Modeling,
Eos Trans. AGU, 86(7), 67,
10.1029/2005EO070004.
Jin, M, R. E. Dickinson, D-L. Zhang, 2005: the
Footprint of Urban Areas on Global Climate as
Characterized by MODIS. J. Clim. 18,
1551-1565. [pdf]
Wang, Z., M. Barlage, X. Zeng, R. E., Dickinson,
and C. Schaaf, 2005: The solar zenith angle dependence
of desert albedo. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32,
L05403, DOI: 10.129/2004GL021835.
Zhou, L., R. E. Dickinson and Y. Tian, 2005:
Derivation of a soil albedo dataset from MODIS using
principal component analysis: Northern Africa and the
Arabian Peninsula. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32,
L21407, doi: 10.1029/2005GL024448.
[pdf]
Tian, Y., R.E. Dickinson, L. Zhou, X. Zeng, Y.
Dai, R.B. Myneni, Y. Knyazikhin, X., Zhang, M. Friedl,
H. Yu, W. Wu, and M. Shaikh, 2004: Comparison of
seasonal and spatial variations of leaf area index and
fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation
from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) and Common Land Model. J. Geophys. Res.,
109, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003777. [pdf]
Tian, Y., R.E. Dickinson, L. Zhou, R.B. Myneni,
M. Friedl, C.B. Schaaf, M. Carroll, and F. Gao, 2004:
Land boundary conditions from MODIS data and
consequences for the albedo of a climate model,
Geophy. Res. Lett., 31, L05504,
doi:10.1029/2003GL019104. [pdf]
Tian, Y., R. E. Dickinson, L. Zhou, and M. Shaikh, 2004:
Impact of new land boundary conditions from modis data
on the climatology of land surface variables. J.
Geophys. Res., 109, D20115, doi:
10.1029/2003JD004499. [pdf]
Wang, Z., X. Zeng,
M. Barlage, R.E. Dickinson, F. Gao, and C.B.
Schaaf, 2004: Using MODIS BRDF and albedo data to
evaluate global model land surface albedo. J.
Hydrometeorol, 5, 3-14.
Zhou, L., R. E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, J. Fang, Q. Li, R.
K. Kaufmann, C. J. Tucker, and R. B. Myneni, 2004:
Evidence for a
significant urbanization effect on climate in China,
Proc. Natl. Acad.
Sci. U. S. A, 101, 9540-9544, doi:
10.1073/pnas.0400357101. [pdf]
Yu, Hongbin, R. E. Dickinsonn, M. Chin, Y. J.
Kaufman, B. N. Holben, I. V. Geogdzhayev, and M. I.
Mishchenko, 2003: Annual cycle of global distributions
of aerosol optical depth from integration of MODIS
retrievals and GOCART model simulations. J. Geophys.
Res., 108, D3, 4128, doi:
10.1029/2002JD002717. [pdf]
Zhou, L., R.E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, M. Jin, K.
Ogawa, H. Yu and T. Schmugge, 2003. A sensitivity study
of climate and energy balance simulations with use of
satellite-derived emissivity data over Northern Africa
and the Arabian Peninsula. J. Geophys. Res,
108(D24), 4795, doi: 10.1029/2003JD004083. [pdf]
Zhou, L., R.E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, X. Zeng, Y.
Dai, Z.-L. Yang, C.B. Schaaf, F. Gao, Y. Jin, A.
Strahler, R.B. Myneni, H. Yu, W. Wu, and M. Shaikh,
2003: Comparison of
seasonal and spatial variations of albedos from
Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
and Common Land Model. J. Geophys. Res, 108(D15),
4488, doi: 10.1029/2002JD003326.
[pdf]
Zhou, L., R.E. Dickinson, K. Ogawa, Y. Tian, M.
Jin, T. Schmugge, and E. Tsvetsinskaya, 2003: Relations
between albedos and emmivities from MODIS and ASTER data
over North African Desert. Geophys. Res. Lett.,
30(20), 2026, doi: 10.1029/2003GL018069. [pdf]
Jin, M. and R. E. Dickinson, 2002: New
Observational Evidence for Global Warming from Satellite
Data Set. Geophys. Res. Lett. 29 (10),
doi: 10.1029/2001GLO013833. [pdf]
Jin, Y., C. Schaaf, F. Gao, X. Li, A. Strahler, X. Zeng,
R. Dickinson, 2002: How does snow impact the
albedo of vegetated land surfaces as analyzed with MODIS
data? Geophys. Res. Lett, 29, doi:
10.1029/2001GLO14132.
Tsvetsinskaya, E.A., C. B. Schaaf, F. Gao, A. H.
Strahler, R. E. Dickinson, X. Zeng and W. Lucht,
2002: Relating MODIS-derived surface albedo to soils and
rock types over Northern Africa and the Arabia
Peninsula. Geophys. Res. Lett,, 29(9),
10.1029/2001GLO14096.
Buermann, Wolfgang, J. Dong, X. Zeng, R. B. Myneni and
R. E. Dickinson, 2001: Evaluation of the Utility
of Satellite-based Vegetation Leaf Area Index Data for
Climate Simulations. J. Climate, 14,
3536-3550.
Jin, M. and R. E. Dickinson, 2000: A generalized
algorithm for retrieving cloudy sky skin temperature
from satellite thermal infrared radiances. J. Geophys
Res-Atmos 105(D22), 27037-27047.
[pdf]
Schaudt, K. J., Dickinson, R. E., 2000: An
approach to deriving roughness length and zero-plane
Displacement height from satellite data prototyped with
BOREAS data. Agr Forest Meterol 104(2)143-155
Zeng, X. B., Dickinson, R. E., Walker, A, et al.,
2000: Derivation and evaluation of globas 1-km
fractional vegetation cover data for land modeling. J
Appl Meteorol 39(6) 826-839
Jin, M., and R. E. Dickinson, 1999: Interpolation
of surface radiation temperature measured from polar
orbiting satellites to a diurnal cycle. Part 1: Without
clouds. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 2105-2116.
[pdf]
Jin, M., R. E. Dickinson, and A. M. Vogelmann,
1997: A comparison of CCM2/BATS skin temperature and
surface-air temperature with satellite and surface
observations. J. Clim., 10, 1505-1524
Dickinson, R.E., 1995: Land processes in climate
models, International Satellite Land Surface Climatology
Project special issue of Remote Sensing of
Environment, 51, 27-38
Schluessel, G., R. E. Dickinson, J. Privette, W.
J. Emery and R. Kokaly, 1994: Modeling the bidirectional
reflectance distribution function of mixed finite plant
canopies and soil, J. Geophys. Res.,99,
D5, 10,577-10,600
Dickinson, R. E., B. Pinty, and M. M. Verstraete,
1990: Relating surface albedos in GCMs to remotely
sensed data, Ag. and Forest Meteor. Journal,
52, 109-131.
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Climate
Models and Surface Hydrology
Oleson, K.W., G.-Y. Niu, Z.-L. Yang, D.M. Lawrence, P.E.
Thornton, P.J. Lawrence, R. Stockli, R. E. Dickinson, et
al., 2008: Improvements to the Community Land Model and
their impact on the hydrological cycle. J.
Geophys. Res. 113,
G01021, doi:10.1029/2007JG000563.
Sellers,
P.J., M. J. Fennessy and R. E. Dickinson, 2007: A
numerical approach to calculating soil wetness and
evapotranspiration over large grid areas. J.
Geophys Res., 112, d18106, DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008781.
Shabanov, N.V., D. Huang, Y. Knjazikhin, R.E. Dickinson, et
al., 2007: Stochastic radiative transfer model for mixture
of discontinuous vegetation canopies. J.
Quan. Spectroscopy & Rad. Tfr. 107,
(2) 236-262.
Wang, A. H., X. Zeng, S.S.P. Shen, Q-C. Zeng, R. E.
Dickinson, 2006. Timescales of Land Surface
Hydrology. J. Hydrometeorol. In presss.
Wu, W., R.E. Dickinson, H. Wang, Y. Liu and M.
Shaikh, 2007: Covariabilities of spring soil moisture
and summertime United States precipitation in a climate
simulation. Int. J. Climatol., 27,
429-438, published online 25 September 2006 in Wiley
InterScience, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1419.
[pdf]
Steiner, A.L., J. S. Pal, F. Giorgi, R. E. Dickinson,
W.L. Chameides, 2005: The coupling of the Common Land
Model (CLM0) to a regional climate model (RegCM).
Theoretical and App. Clim. 82, (3-3),
225-243.
Wu, W.R., and R. E. Dickinson, Warm-season
rainfall variability over the U.S. Great Plains and its
correlation with evapotranspiration in a climate
simulation, Geophys. Res. Lett. 32(17),
L17402, doi: 10.1029/2005GL023422. [pdf]
Wu W., and R. E. Dickinson, 2004: Time scales of
layered soil moisture memory in the context of
land-atmosphere interaction. J. Clim.,
17(14),
2752-2764. [pdf]
Dickinson, R.
E.., Guiling Wang, Xubin Zeng, and
Zeng Qingcun, 2003: How Does the Partitioning of
Evapotranspiration and Runoff between Different
Processes Affect the Variaility and Predictability of
Soil Moisture and Precipitation?, Advances in
Atmospheric Sciences, 20(3), 475-478.
[pdf]
Dickinson, R. E., J. A. Berry, G. B. Bonan, G. J.
Collatz, C. B. Field, I. Y. Fung, M. Goulden, W. A.
Hoffman, R. B. Jackson, R. Myneni, P. J. Sellers, and M.
Shaikh, 2002: Nitrogen controls on climate model
evapotranspiration, J. Climate, 15(3), 278-295. [pdf]
Dickinson, R. E., S. E. Zebiak, J. L. Anderson,
M. L. Blackmon, C. DeLuca, T. F. Hogan, M. Iredell, M.
Ji, R. B. Rood, M. J. Suarez and K. E. Taylor, 2002: How
Can We Advance Our Weather and Climate Models as a
Community? Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 83,
431-434. [pdf]
Dickinson, R.E., J. Kiehl and P. Gent, 2002:
Widely Awaited Community Climate System Model to be
Released Soon. EOS, Transactions, American
Geophysical Union, 83, No 11, 12 March 2002,
119.
Wu, W., M. A. Geller and R. E. Dickinson, 2002:
Soil moisture profile variability in response to
long-term precipitation. J. Hydrometeorol., 3(5),
604-613. [pdf]
Jin, J., Gao X, Yang Z. L., S. Sorooshian, R.
E. Dickinson, S. F. Sun and G. X. Wu, 1999:
Comparative analyses of physically based snowmelt models
for climate simulations. J Climate, 12(8)
2643-2657 part 2
Martin M., Dickinson R. E, Yang Z. L., 1999: Use
of a coupled land surface general circulation model to
examine the impacts of doubled stomatal resistance on
the water resources of the American southwest. J Clim.
12(12), 3359-3375.[pdf]
Seth A., Bales R. C., Dickinson R. E., 1999: A framework for the study of seasonal snow
hydrology and its interannual variability in the alpine
regions of the Southwest, J. Geophys. Res-Atmos,
104(D18),
22117-22135
Yang Z. L., Dickinson R. E., Hahmann AN, et al.
1999: Simulation of snow mass and extent in general
circulation models. Hydro Process 13(12-13)
2097-2113.
Chen, M., R. E. Dickinson, X. Zeng and A. Hahmann,
1996: Comparison of precipitation observed over the
continental United States with that simulated by a
climate model. J. Clim., 9, 2233-2249.
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Climate
Variability and Processes
Li, W., R.E. Dickinson, R. Fu, G.-Y. Niu, Z.-L.
Yang, J.G. Canadell, 2007: Future precipitation changes
and their implications for tropical peatlands.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L01403, doi:
10.1029/2006GL028364. [pdf]
Fu, R, Y. L. Hu, J. S.
Wright, J. H. Jiang, R. E. Dickinson, M. X. Chen,
M. Filipiak, W. G. Read, J. W. Waters, D. L. Wu, 2006:
Short circuit of water vapor and polluted air to the
global stratosphere by convective transport over the
Tibetan Plateau,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 103,
5664-5669, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601584103. [pdf]
Li, W., R. Fu, and R.E. Dickinson, 2006:
Rainfall and its seasonality over the Amazon in the 21st
century as assessed by the coupled models for the IPCC
AR4, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D02111, doi:
10.1029/2005JD006355. [pdf]
Wei, J., R. E. Dickinson, and N. Zeng., 2006:
Climate variability in a simple model of warm climate
land-atmosphere interaction,
J. Geophys.
Res.-
Biogeosciences, 111,
G03009, doi:10.1029/2005JG000096.
[pdf]]
Potter, T. D., B. Colman, R. E.
Dickinson, et al., 2002. Handbook of Weather,
Climate and Water: Dynamics, Climate, Physical Weather
Systems, and Measurements. Part 2, Chapter 9, Overview:
The Climate System. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New
York. ISBN 0-471-21489-2.
Fu, Rong, R. E. Dickinson, M. Chen and H. Wang,
2001: How Do Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures Influence
the Seasonal Distribution of Precipitation in the
Equatorial Amazon? J. Climate. 14,
4003-4026. [pdf]
Zeng, X., M. Zhao, and Dickinson, R. E., 1999: A
multi-year hourly sea surface skin temperature dataset
derived from the TOGA TAO bulk temperature and wind
speed over the tropical Pacific. J. Geophys. Res.,
104
Zeng, X., and R. E. Dickinson, 1998: Impact of
skin temperature on diurnal and monthly surface fluxes
over the tropical Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett.,
25, 1411-1414
Dickinson, R. E. and K. J. Schaudt, 1998:
Analysis of timescales of response of a simple climate
model. J. Clim., 11, 97-106.
[pdf]
Fu, R., R. E. Dickinson, and B. Newkirk, 1997:
Response of the upper tropospheric humidity and moisture
transport to changes of tropical convection. A
comparison between observations and a GCM over an ENSO
cycle. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2371-2374
Zeng, N., R. E. Dickinson, and X. Zeng, 1996:
Climatic impact of Amazon deforestation: A mechanistic
model study. J. Clim., 9, 859-883
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Anthropogenic Climate Change
Yu, H., R. Fu, R.E. Dickinson, Y. Zhang, M. Chen and H.
Wang, 2007: Interannual variability of smoke and warm
cloud relationships in the Amazon as inferred from MODIS
retrievals. Remote
Sens. Environ, 111,
435-449.
Huang Y., W.L. Chameides, and R.E. Dickinson,
2007: The assessment of direct and indirect effect of
anthropogenic aerosols on regional precipitation over
East Asia, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D03212,
doi:10.1029/2006JD007114. [pdf]
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Ph.D. Dissertations
Wei, Jiangfeng, 2007: Land-atmosphere interaction and
climate variability.
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He, Yaping, 2007: Representations of Boundary Layer
Cloudiness and Surface Wind Probability Distributions in
Subtropical Marine Stratus and Stratocumulus Regions.
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Zhou, Mi, 2006: Advancing Assessments on Aerosol
Radiative Effect by Measurement-based Direct Effect
Estimation and through Developing an Explicit
Climatological Convective Boundary Layer Model, pp. 170,
UMI AAT 3248811.
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Shem, Willis Otieno, 2006:
Biosphere-Atmosphere Interaction over the Congo Basin
and its Influence on the Regional Hydrological Cycle,
pp. 155.
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Mooring, Raymond Derrell, 2005:
On using empirical techniques to optimize the shortwave
parameterization scheme of the Community Atmospheric
Model Version Two global climate model, pp.
218, UMI AAT 3170081. [pdf]
Liu, Qing, 2004:
Land surface modeling with enhanced considerations of
soil hydraulic properties and terrestrial ecosystems,
pp. 198, UMI AAT 3126715.
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Steiner, A., 2003: The influence of atmospheric
chemistry and climate on atmosphere-biosphere
interactions,
pp. 133, UMI AAT 3095758. [pdf]
(Joint with
William L. Chameides)
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