Books

Data assimilation for the Earth system. Proceedings of the NATA Advanced Study Institute on Data Assimilation for the Earth System, Acquafredda, Maratea, Italy, 19 May-1 June 2002. NATO Science Series, IV. Earth and Environmental Sciences v.26. Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. xii, 377p. QE/48/8/N32/2002.

Global scale climate and environmental study through polar deep ice cores: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Dome Fiji Ice Core and Related Topics, Tokyo, 27-29 February 2001. Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research, Special Issue No.57. Tokyo, National Institute of Polar Research, 2003. iv, 192p. QC/884/I582001.

Hecht, Eugene. Optics. San Francisco, CA, Addison Wesley, 2002. 4th edition. vi, 698p. QC/355.3/H43/2002.

Kubica, Chris. The book of Filemaker 6: Your one-stop guide to Filemaker Pro, Pro Unlimited, Developer, Server, and Mobile. San Francisco, CA, No Starch Press, 2003. xxxvii, 797p, CD-ROM. QA/76.9/D3/K82/2003.

CD-ROMs

CEOS/WMO database ver 2.5, February 2003. Geneva, European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), 2003. SSEC CD-ROM #187.

In-House Publications: SSEC, AOS, NESDIS, CCR

Cardoso, Manoel F.; Hurtt, George C.; Moore, Berrien III; Nobre, Carlos A., and Prins, Elaine M. Projecting future fire activity in Amazonia. Global Change Biology v.9, no.5, 2003, pp656-669. Reprint #3591.

Hane, Carl E.; Watts, Jill D.; Andra, David L. Jr.; Hayens, John A.; Berry, Edward; Rabin, Robert M., and Carr, Frederick H. The evolution of morning convective systems over the U.S. Great Plains during the warm season. Part 1: The forecast problem. Weather and Forecasting v.18, no.6, 2003, pp1286-1294. Reprint #3590.

Heymsfield, Andrew J.; Matrosov, Sergey, and Baum, Bryan. Ice water path-optical depth relationship for cirrus and deep stratiform ice cloud layers. Journal of Applied Meteorology v.42 , no.10, 2003, pp1369-1390. Reprint #3588.

Lewis, J.; Kosacin, D.; Rabin, R., and Businger, J. Sea fog off the California coast: Viewed in the context of transient weather systems. Journal of Geophysical Research v.108, no.D15, 2003, pp(CL 6-1)-(ACL 6-17). Reprint #3589.

International Reports: WMO

The Global Climate System review: June 1996-December 2001. Geneva, World Meteorological Organization (WMO). World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme (WCDMP), 2003. 144p. WMO No.950.

International Reports: ECMWF

Betts, A. K. and Beljaars, A. C. M. ECMWF ISLSCP-II near-surface dataset from ERA-40. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), ECMWF Re-Analysis Project (ERA), 2003. 28p. ERA-40 Project Report Series, 8.

Beljaars, Anton; Brown, Andrew, and Wood, Nigel. A new parametrization of turbulent orographic form drag. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2003. 23p . ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.427.

Jung, Thomas and Tompkins, Adrian. Systematic errors in the ECMWF forecasting system. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2003. 72p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.422.

Matricardi, Marco. RTIASI-4, a new version of the ECMWF fast radiative transfer model for the infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2003. 63p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.425.

Seneviratne, Sonia I.; Viterbo, Pedro; Luthi, Daniel, and Schar, Christoph. Inferring changes in terrestrial water storage using ERA-40 reanalysis data: The Mississippi River basin. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), ECMWF Re-Analysis Project (ERA), 2003. 28p. ERA-40 Project Report Series, 9.

Vitart, Frederic. Monthly forecasting system. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2003. 68p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.424.