Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications
2013
A Gridded Reconstruction of Warm Season Precipitation for Asia Spanning the Past Half Millennium, Song Feng, Q. Steven Hu, Qianru Wu, and Michael E. Mann
The climate of the Holocene and its landscape and biotic impacts, Sherilyn C. Fritz
Salinity and Climate Reconstructions from Continental Lakes, Sherilyn C. Fritz
The relative influences of climate and catchment processes on Holocene lake development in glaciated regions, Sherilyn C. Fritz and N. J. Anderson
Remote sensing of surface visibility from space: A look at the United States East Coast, Amy L. Kessner, Jun Wang, Robert Levy, and Peter Colarco
PRELUDE TO SEVEN SLOTS: FILLING AND SUBSEQUENT MODIFICATION OF SEVEN BROAD CANYONS IN THE NAVAJO SANDSTONE, SOUTH-CENTRAL UTAH, David B. Loope, Ronald J. Goble, and Joel P. L. Johnson
Jurassic earthquake sequence recorded by multiple generations of sand blows, Zion National Park, Utah, David Loope, James F. Elder, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, Richard M. Kettler, and Darryll T. Pederson
The Freshwater System West of the Antarctic Peninsula: Spatial and Temporal Changes, Michael P. Meredith, Hugh J. Venables, Andrew Clarke, Hugh W. Ducklow, Matthew Erickson, Melanie J. Leng, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, and Michiel R. van den Broeke
Effect of the strengthened western Pacific subtropical high on summer visibility decrease over eastern China since 1973, Wenjun Qu, Jun Wang, Shanhong Gao, and Tongwen Wu
Responses of microbial phototrophs to late-Holocene environmental forcing of lakes in south-west Greenland, Nina S. Reuss, N. J. Anderson, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and Gavin L. Simpson
Holocene variability in hydrology, vegetation, fire, and eolian activity in the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA, Jens Schmieder, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Eric C. Grimm, Kimberly C. Jacobs, Kendrick J. Brown, James Swinehart, and Stephen C. Porter
North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part I: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Continental and Regional Climatology, Justin Sheffield, Andrew P. Barrett, Brian Colle, D. Nelun Fernando, Rong Fu, Kerrie L. Geil, Q. Steven Hu, Jim Kinter, Sanjiv Kumar, Baird Langenbrunner, Kelly Lombardo, Lindsey N. Long, Eric Maloney, Annarita Mariotti, Joyce E. Meyerson, Kingtse C. Mo, J. David Neelin, Sumant Nigam, Zaitao Pan, Tong Ren, Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas, Yolande Serra, Anji Seth, Jeanne M. Thibeault, Julienne C. Stroeve, Ze Yang, and Lei Yin
North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part II: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Intraseasonal to Decadal Variability, Justin Sheffield, Suzana J. Camargo, Rong Fu, Q. Steven Hu, Xianan Jiang, Nathaniel Johnson, Kristopher Karnauskas, Seon Tae Kim, Jim Kinter, Sanjiv Kumar, Baird Langenbrunner, Eric Maloney, Annarita Mariotti, Joyce E. Meyerson, J. David Neelin, Sumant Nigam, Zaitao Pan, Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas, Richard Seager, Yolande L. Serra, De-Zheng Sun, Chunzai Wang, Shang-Ping Xie, Jin-Yi Yu, Tao Zhang, and Ming Zhao
Polarimetric Radar Observations of Biological Scatterers in Hurricanes Irene (2011) and Sandy (2012), Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
Optimal estimation for global ground-level fine particulate matter concentrations, Aaron van Donkelaar, Randall V. Martin, Robert J. D. Spurr, Easan Drury, Lorraine A. Remer, Robert C. Levy, and Jun Wang
Optimal estimation for global ground-level fine particulate matter concentrations, Aaron van Donkelaar, Randall V. Martin, Robert J. D. Spurr, Eason Drury, Lorraine A. Remer, Robert C. Levy, and Jun Wang
AMO-Forced Regional Processes Affecting Summertime Precipitation Variations in the Central United States, Michael C. Veres and Qi Hu
Constraints on aerosol sources using GEOS-Chem adjoint and MODIS radiances, and evaluation with multisensor (OMI, MISR) data, Xiaoguang Xu, Jun Wang, Daven Henze, Wenjun Qu, and Monika Kopacz
First observations of SO2 from the satellite Suomi NPP OMPS: Widespread air pollution events over China, Kay Yang, Russell Dickerson, Simon Carn, Cui Ge, and Jun Wang
Mesoscale modeling and satellite observation of transport and mixing of smoke and dust particles over northern sub-Saharan African region, Zhifeng Yang, Jun Wang, Charles Ichoku, Edward Hyer, and Jing Zeng
2012
Synchronous climatic change inferred from diatom records in four western Montana lakes in the U.S. Rocky Mountains, Brandi Bracht-Flyr and Sherilyn C. Fritz
Draft Genome Sequence of the Anaerobic, Nitrate-Dependent, Fe(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium Pseudogulbenkiania ferrooxidans Strain 2002, Kathryne G. Byrne-Bailey, Karrie A. Weber, and John D. Coates
Spatial Filter Approach to Evaluating the Role of Convection on the Evolution of a Mesoscale Vortex, Glenn A. Creighton, Robert E. Hart, and Philip Cunningham
Tracking Holocene Climatic Change with Aquatic Biota from Lake Sediments: Case Studies of Commonly Used Numerical Techniques, Brian F. Cumming, Kathleen R. Laird, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and Dirk Verschuren
Improving Student Attitudes about Learning Science and Student Scientific Reasoning Skills, Douglas K. Duncan and Leilani Arthurs
Reservoir potential of sands formed in glaciomarine environments: An analog study based on Cenozoic examples from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Christopher R. Fielding, Brian A. Blackstone, Tracy D. Frank, and Zi Gui
THE UNITED STATES’ NEXT GENERATION OF ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND COASTAL ECOSYSTEM MEASUREMENTS, J. Fishman, L. T. Iraci, J. Al-Saadi, K. Chance, F. Chavez, M. Chin, P. Coble, C. Davis, P. M. DiGiacomo, D. Edwards, A. Eldering, J. Goes, J. Herman, C. Hu, D. J. Jacob, C. Jordan, S. R. Kawa, R. Key, X. Liu, S. Lohrenz, A. Mannino, V. Natraj, D. Neil, J. Neu, M. Newchurch, K. Pickering, J. Salisbury, H. Sosik, A. Subramaniam, M. Tzortziou, J. Wang, and M. Wang
Evolution of the Lake Titicaca basin and its diatom flora over the last ~ 370,000 years, Sherilyn C. Fritz, P. A. Baker, Pedro M. Tapia, Trisha L. Spanbauer, and Karlyn S. Westover
Berino Paleosol, Late Pleistocene Argillic Soil Development on the Mescalero Sand Sheet in New Mexico, Stephen A. Hall and Ronald J. Goble
Trends in Wind Speed at Wind Turbine Height of 80 m over the Contiguous United States Using the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR), Eric Holt and Jun Wang
Progressive abandonment and planform changes of the central Platte River in Nebraska, central USA, over historical timeframes, John D. Horn, R. Matthew Joeckel, and Christopher R. Fielding
The Impact of Airmass Boundaries on the Propagation of Deep Convection: A Modeling-Based Study in a High-CAPE, Low-Shear Environment, Adam L. Houston and Robert Wilhelmson
Rinded iron-oxide concretions: Hallmarks of altered siderite masses of both early and late diagenetic origin, David Loope, Richard Kettler, Karrie A. Weber, Nathan L. Hinrichs, and Derek T. Burgess
Drought drove forest decline and dune building in eastern upper Michigan, USA, as the upper Great Lakes became closed basins, Walter L. Loope, Henry M. Loope, Ronald J. Goble, Timothy G. Fisher, David E. Lytle, Robert J. Legg, Douglas A. Wysocki, Paul R. Hanson, and Aaron R. Young
Hydraulic conductivity of the High Plains Aquifer re-evaluated using surface drainage patterns, Wei Luo and Darryll T. Pederson
The influence of temperature, moisture, and eolian activity on Holocene lake development in West Greenland, Bianca B. Perren, N. J. Anderson, Marianne S. V. Douglas, and Sherilyn C. Fritz
Ecological Regime Shifts in Lake Kälksjön, Sweden, in Response to Abrupt Climate Change Around the 8.2 ka Cooling Event, Linda Randsalu-Wendrup, Daniel J. Conley, Jacob Carstensen, Ian Snowball, Catherine Jessen, and Sherilyn C. Fritz
Trends in record-breaking temperatures for the conterminous United States, Clinton M. Rowe and Logan E. Derry
Climate-induced changes in lake ecosystem structure inferred from coupled neo- and paleoecological approaches, Jasmine E. Saros, Jeffery R. Stone, Gregory T. Pederson, Krista E.H. Slemmons, Trisha Spanbauer, Anna Schliep, Douglas Cahl, Craig E. Williamson, and Daniel R. Engstrom
Evolution of the Earliest Horses Driven by Climate Change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Ross Secord, Jonathan I. Bloch, Stephen G. B. Chester, Doug M. Boyer, Aaron R. Wood, Scott L. Wing, Mary J. Kraus, Francesca A. McInerney, and John Krigbaum
Calcareous nannofossil assemblage changes across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum: Evidence from a shelf setting, Jean M. Self-Trail, David S. Powars, David K. Watkins, and Gregory A. Wandless
Mapping mean annual groundwater recharge in the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA, Jozsef Szilagyi, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, John B. Gates, and Janos Jozsa
Top-down estimate of dust emissions through integration of MODIS and MISR aerosol retrievals with the GEOS-Chem adjoint model, Jun Wang, Xiaoguang Xu, Daven K. Henze, Jing Zeng, Qiang Ji, Si-Chee Tsay, and Jianping Huang
Holocene seasonal variability inferred from multiple proxy records from Crevice Lake, Yellowstone National Park, USA, Cathy Whitlock, Walter E. Dean, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Lora R. Stevens, Jeffery R. Stone, Mitchell J. Power, Joseph R. Rosenbaum, Kenneth L. Pierce, and Brandi B. Bracht-Flyr
Nitrogen loss from soil through anaerobic ammonium oxidation coupled to iron reduction, Wendy H. Yang, Karrie A. Weber, and Whendee L. Silver
Quantification of salt dust pathways from a groundwater-fed lake: Implications for solute budgets and dust emission rates, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, John B. Ong, John D. Lenters, Jens Schmieder, and Sherilyn C. Fritz
2011
Late Cretaceous to Recent Deformation Related to Inherited Structures and Subsequent Compression within the Persian Gulf: A 2D Seismic Case Study, Caroline M. Burberry, C. A.-L. Jackson, and J. W. Cosgrove
Abrupt Holocene climate change as an important factor for human migration in West Greenland, William J. D'Andrea, Yongsong Huang, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and N. John Anderson
Aragonite loss in a cold-water coral mound: Mechanisms and implications, Tracy D. Frank, Jürgen Titschack, and Mieke Thierens
Environmental history of a closed-basin lake in the US Great Plains: Diatom response to variations in groundwater flow regimes over the last 8500 cal. yr BP, William O. Hobbs, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Jeffery R. Stone, Joseph J. Donovan, Eric C. Grimm, and James E. Almendinger
Does Gender Bias Influence Awards Given by Societies?, Mary Anne Holmes, Pranoti Asher, John Farrington, Rana Fine, Margaret S. Leinen, and Phoebe LeBoy
THE COLLABORATIVE COLORADO– NEBRASKA UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM EXPERIMENT, Adam L. Houston, Brian Argrow, Jack Elston, Jamie Lahowetz, Eric W. Frew, and Patrick C. Kennedy
The Dependence of Storm Longevity on the Pattern of Deep Convection Initiation in a Low-Shear Environment, Adam L. Houston and Robert B. Wilhelmson
EVOLUTION OF LARGE CARNIVORES DURING THE MID-CENOZOIC OF NORTH AMERICA: THE TEMNOCYONINE RADIATION (MAMMALIA, AMPHICYONIDAE) ROBERT M., Robert M. Hunt Jr.
Biomass Burning Observations, Modeling, and Data Assimilation, Edward Hyer, Jun Wang, and Avelino Arellano
The Pennsylvanian–Permian transition in the low-latitude carbonate record and the onset of major Gondwanan glaciation, Jesse Koch and Tracy D. Frank
Phylogenetic diversity of Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms in rice paddy soil: Enrichment cultures with different short-chain fatty acids as electron donors, Huijuan Li, Jingjing Peng, Karrie A. Weber, and Yongguan Zhu
The effect of aerosol vertical profiles on satellite-estimated surface particle sulfate concentrations, Yang Liu, Zifeng Wang, Jun Wang, Richard Ferrare, Robert Newman, and Ellsworth Welton
Morphologic Clues to the Origins of Iron Oxide–Cemented Spheroids, Boxworks, and Pipelike Concretions, Navajo Sandstone of South-Central Utah, U.S.A., David B. Loope, Richard M. Kettler, and Karrie A. Weber
Estimating hydraulic conductivity for the Martian subsurface based on drainage patterns — A case study in the Mare Tyrrhenum Quadrangle, Wei Luo, Bartosz Grudzinski, and Darryll T. Pederson
Late Pleistocene dune activity in the central Great Plains, USA, Joseph A. Mason, James B. Swinehart, Paul R. Hanson, David Loope, Ronald J. Goble, Xiaodong Miao, and Rebecca L Schmeisser
Dissolved organic matter composition and photoreactivity in prairie lakes of the U.S. Great Plains, Christopher L. Osburn, Courtney R. Wigdahl, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and Jasmine E. Saros
A regional-scale climate reconstruction of the last 4000 years from lakes in the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA, Jens Schmieder, Sherilyn C. Fritz, James B. Swinehart, Avery L. C. Shinneman, Alexander P. Wolfe, Gifford Miller, N. Daniels, K. C. Jacobs, and Eric C. Grimm
Late Pleistocene paleohydrography and diatom paleoecology of the central basin of Lake Malawi, Africa, Jeffery R. Stone, Karlyn S. Westover, and Andrew S. Cohen
Humic Acid-Oxidizing, Nitrate-Reducing Bacteria in Agricultural Soils, J. Ian Van Trump, Kelly C. Wrighton, J. Cameron Thrash, Karrie A. Weber, Gary L. Andersen, and John D. Coates
Mass wasting as a geologic hazard in the Province of Salta, Argentina, William J. Wayne
Environmental and Taxonomic Bacterial Diversity of Anaerobic Uranium(IV) Bio-Oxidation, Karrie A. Weber, J. Cameron Thrash, J. Ian Van Trump, Laurie A. Achenbach, and John D. Coates
Taxonomic Composition, Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy of Late Cretaceous Diatoms from Devon Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic, Jakub Witkowski, David M. Harwood, and Karen Chin
2010
Coupled carbon isotopic and sedimentological records from the Permian system of eastern Australia reveal the response of atmospheric carbon dioxide to glacial growth and decay during the late Paleozoic Ice Age, Lauren P. Birgenheier, Tracy D. Frank, Christopher R. Fielding, and Michael C. Rygel
Development of an arcuate fold-thrust belt as a result of basement configuration: An example from the Rocky Mountain Front Range, Montana, Caroline M. Burberry, D. L. Cannon, T. Engelder, and J. W. Cosgrove
A study of fold characteristics and deformation style using the evolution of the land surface: Zagros Simply Folded Belt, Iran, Caroline M. Burberry, John W. Cosgrove, and Jian-Guo Liu
Integrated Remote Sensing, Structural and Petroleum Systems Modeling of the Iraqi‐Kurdish Fold Belt, Caroline M. Burberry; Matthias D. Greb; Matthew Laughland; Beth Dudley-Murphy; Gregory Nash; and Ministry of Natural Resources, Iraqi Kurdistan Region
A New Small-Bodied Species of Palaeonictis (Creodonta, Oxyaenidae) from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Stephen G. B. Chester, Jonathan I. Bloch, Ross Secord, and Doug M. Boyer
Synthesis of satellite (MODIS), aircraft (ICARTT), and surface (IMPROVE, EPA‐AQS, AERONET) aerosol observations over eastern North America to improve MODIS aerosol retrievals and constrain surface aerosol concentrations and sources, Easan Drury, Daniel J. Jacob, Robert J.D. Spurr, Jun Wang, Yohei Shinozuka, Bruce E. Anderson, Antony D. Clarke, Jack Dibb, Cameron McNaughton, and Rodney Weber
Response of river‐dominated delta channel networks to permanent changes in river discharge, Doug Edmonds, Rudy Slingerland, Jim Best, Dan Parsons, and Norm Smith
Response of river‐dominated delta channel networks to permanent changes in river discharge, Doug Edmonds, Rudy Slingerland, Jim Best, Dan Parsons, and Norman D. Smith
Synthesis of Stratigraphies from Shallow-Water Sequences at Sites 871 through 879 in the Western Pacific Ocean, Elisabetta Erba, Isabella Premoli Silva, Paul A. Wilson, Malcolm S. Pringle, William V. Sliter, David K. Watkins, Annie Arnaud Vanneau, Timothy J. Bralower, Ann F. Budd, Gilbert F. Camoin, Jean-Pierre Masse, Jörg Mutterlose, and William W. Sager
Stratigraphic signature of the late Palaeozoic Ice Age in the Parmeener Supergroup of Tasmania, SE Australia, and inter-regional comparisons, Christopher R. Fielding, Tracy D. Frank, John L. Isbell, Lindsey C. Henry, and Eugene W. Domack
Millennial-Scale Climate Variability during the Last Glacial Period in the Tropical Andes, Sherilyn C. Fritz, P. A. Baker, E. Ekdahl, G. O. Seltzer, and L. R. Stevens
Influence of the Arctic oscillation on central United States summer rainfall, Qi Hu and Song Feng
An Object-Oriented Multiscale Verification Scheme, Steven A. Lack, George L. Limpert, and Neil I. Fox
Zebulon Pike: Great American Explorer or Climate Spy?, Merlin P. Lawson, Randall Cerveny, and Cary Mock
“An overview of the Amazonian Aerosol Characterization Experiment 2008 (AMAZE-08)” published in Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 11415-11438, 2010, S. T. Martin, M. O. Andreae, D. Althausen, P. Artaxo, H. Baars, S. Borrmann, Q. Chen, D. K. Farmer, A. Guenther, S. S. Gunthe, J. L. Jimenez, T. Karl, K. Longo, A. Manzi, T. Muller, T. Pauliquevis, M. D. Petters, A. J. Prenni, U. Poschl, L. V. Rizzo, J. Schneider, J. N. Smith, E. Swietlicki, J. Tota, A. Wiedensohler, and S. R. Zorn
Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement, David B. McWethy, Cathy Whitlock, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Matt S. McGlone, Mairie Fromont, Xun Li, Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall, William O. Hobbs, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and Edward R. Cook
Subsurface Images Shed Light on Past Tsunamis in India, Rajesh R. Nair, Ilya Buynevich, Ronald J. Goble, P. Srinivasan, S. G. N. Murthy, S. C. Kandpal, C. S. Vijaya Lakshmi, and D. Trivedi
Collapse of the Maya: Could deforestation have contributed?, Robert J. Oglesby, Thomas L. Sever, William Saturno, David J. Erickson III, and Jayanthi Srikishen
Collapse of the Maya: Could deforestation have contributed?, Robert Oglesby, Thomas L. Sever, William Saturno, David J. Erickson III, and Jayanthi Srikishen
Combined use of frequency-domain electromagnetic and electrical resistivity surveys to delineate near-lake groundwater flow in the semi-arid Nebraska Sand Hills, USA, John T. Ong, John W. Lane Jr., Vitaly A. Zlotnik, Todd Halihan, and Eric A. White
The Waterfalls of Kauai, Hawaii, Darryll T. Pederson
Effects of Lightning and other Meteorological Factors on Fire Activity in the North American Boreal Forest: Implications for Fire Weather Forecasting, David Peterson, Jun Wang, Charles Ichoku, and Lorraine Remer
Melting Alpine Glaciers Enrich High-Elevation Lakes with Reactive Nitrogen, Jasmine E. Saros, Kevin C. Rose, David W. Clow, Verlin C. Stevens, Andrea B. Nurse, Heather A. Arnett, Jeffery R. Stone, Craig E. Williamson, and Alexander P. Wolfe
Effects of irrigated agroecosystems: 2. Quality of soil water and groundwater in the southern High Plains, Texas, B. R. Scanlon, J. B. Gates, R. C. Reedy, W. A. Jackson, and J. P. Bordovsky
Groundwater Recharge in Natural Dune Systems and Agricultural Ecosystems in the Thar Desert Region, Rajasthan, India, Bridget Scanlon, Abhijit Mukherjee, John B. Gates, Robert C. Reedy, and Amarendra K. Sinha
Effects of irrigated agroecosystems: 1. Quantity of soil water and groundwater in the southern High Plains, Texas, B. R. Scanlon, R. C. Reedy, and J. B. Gates
Modern and Late Holocene Wind Regimes over the Great Plains (Central U.S.A.), Rebecca L. Schmeisser, David B. Loope, and Joseph A. Mason
Centennial eolian cyclicity in the Great Plains, USA: a dominant climate pattern of wind transport over the past 4000 years?, Antje Schwalb, Walter E. Dean, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Christoph E. Geiss, and Bernd Kromer
Continental warming preceding the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum, Ross Secord, Philip D. Gingerich, Kyger C. Lohmann, and Kenneth G. MacLeod
Inferring lake depth using diatom assemblages in the shallow, seasonally variable lakes of the Nebraska Sand Hills (USA): Calibration, validation, and application of a 69-lake training set, Avery L. C. Shinneman, Danuta M. Bennett, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Jens Schmieder, Daniel R. Engstrom, Aris Efting, and John Holz
Tetrapod Fauna of the Lowermost Usili Formation (Songea Group, Ruhuhu Basin) of Southern Tanzania, with a New Burnetiid Record, Christian A. Sidor, Kenneth D. Angielczyk, D. Marie Weide, Roger M. H. Smith, Sterling J. Nesbitt, and Linda A. Tsuji
Climatic and Environmental Controls on the Occurrence and Distributions of Long Chain Alkenones in Lakes of the Interior United States, Jaime L. Toney, Yongsong Huang, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Paul A. Baker, Eric Grimm, and Paul Nyren