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Air Quality
Peer reviewed (2011)
104) Haywood, B.T. Johnson, S.R. Osborne, A.J. Baran, M. Brooks, S.F. Milton, J. Mulcahy, D. Walters, R.P. Allan, M.J. Woodage, A. Klaver, P. Formenti, H.E. Brindley, S. Christopher, P. Gupta, Motivation, rationale, and key results from the GERBILS Saharan dust measurement campaign, to be submitted to Q. J. Royal. Met. Soc., (pdf file), November, 2010 - in press.

103) Naeger, A. R., S. A. Christopher, R. Ferrare, and Z. Liu, A new technique using infrared measurements to improve the accuracy of the CALIPSO cloud-aerosol discrimination method, IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, submitted, April 2011.
102) Christopher, S.A., P. Gupta, B. Johnson, and J. Haywood, Multi-sensor satellite remote sensing of dust aerosols over North Africa during GERBILS, Quarterly J. of Royal Met. Soc., (pdf file) - submitted, Sep 2010, conditonally accepted. 
101) Johnson, B.T., M.E. Brooks, D. Walters, S. A. Christopher, K. Schepanski, Assessment of the Met Office dust forecast model using observations from the GERBILS campaign, Quarterly J. of Royal Met. Soc., (pdf file) - submitted, Aug 2010, revised, October 2010 - in press.
100) Patadia, F., and S. A. Christopher, Top of Atmosphere Smoke Aerosol Radiative forcing over the Amazon from MODIS and CERES using Empirical Angular Models, Part 2. Results (pdf file) - submitted - Sep 2010, under revision.
99) Patadia, F.,S. A. Christopher, J. Zhang, Development of Empirical Angular Distribution Models from CERES, Part 1 : Methods. (pdf file) - in press- Sep 2011.
98) Fairman, J.G., U. Nair, S. A. Christopher, T. Molg, Land use change impacts on regional climate over Kilimanjaro (pdf file) in press- 2010.
97) Fairman, J. G., Jr., U. S. Nair, S. A. Christopher, and T. Mölg (2011), Land use change impacts on regional climate over Kilimanjaro, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D03110, doi:10.1029/2010JD014712, (pdf file).
96) T.A. Jones andS. A. Christopher, A reassessment of MODIS fine mode fraction using OMI and daily GOCART simulations, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics - (pdf file), submitted - July 2010.
95) Christopher, S.A, A closer look at the 'Clear Sky' Top of Atmosphere Shortwave radiative fluxes used for Aerosol Radiative Forcing Applications over the Global Oceans, Remote Sensing of Environment,- submitted, April 2011.
94) Yang, E., S. A. Christopher, S. Kondragunta, and X. Zhang (2011), Use of hourly Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) fire emissions in a Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model for improving surface particulate matter predictions, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D04303, doi:10.1029/2010JD014482. (pdf file).
93) T.A. Jones and S. A. Christopher, A Multi-sensor approach for Assessing the Impacts of Ultraviolet - Absorbing Aerosols on Top of Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes, Int. J. Rem. Sensing, - (pdf file) - in press.

Peer reviewed (appeared in print, 2010)
92) Nair, U. S., R. McNider, F. Patadia, S. A. Christopher, and K. Fuller (2011), Sensitivity of nocturnal boundary layer temperature to tropospheric aerosol surface radiative forcing under clear-sky conditions, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D02205, doi:10.1029/2010JD014068. - (pdf file).
91) Christopher, S.A., & Jones, T.A., Satellite and surface-based remote sensing of Saharan dust aerosols, Remote Sensing of Environment (2010), doi:10.1016/j.rse.2009.12.007 - (pdf file), 2010.
90) S.A. Christopher and P. Gupta, Satellite Remote Sensing of Particulate Matter Air Quality: The Cloud Cover Problem, J. Air and Waste Management, 60, 596-602. (pdf file), 2010.
89) Jones, T.A., and S.A. Christopher, Satellite and Radar Remote Sensing of of Southern Plains grassfires : A case study, J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology - (pdf file), 49, 2133-2146, 2010.

88) Jones, T.A., and S. A. Christopher, Statistical properties of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in South America, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 2287-2305, (pdf file), 2010.
87) Anantharaj, V.G., U.S. Nair, P. Lawrence, T.N. Chase, S. A. Christopher, and T.A. Jones, Comparisons of Satellite-derived TOA Shortwave Fluxes to Estimates from GCM Simulations Constrained by Satellite Observations of Land Characteristics, International J. Climate (pdf file), DOI:10.1002/joc.2107, 2010.
86) T.A. Jones and S. A. Christopher, Assessment of temperature and humidity changes associated with the September 2009 dust storm in Australia, Geoscience Research Letters (pdf file), 99, 268-272.
85) Jones, T.A., and S. A. Christopher, Satellite and Radar Observations of the 9 April 2009 Texas and Oklahoma Grassfires, Bulletin of Amer. Meteor. Soc, DOI:10.1175/2009BAMS2919.1,(pdf file), 2010.