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2026 CISESS Articles

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Barragan, Katherine and Cristiana Stan, 2026: Stratosphere–troposphere coupling during cold air outbreaks in the eastern United States. Geophys. Res. Lett., 53, e2026GL125002, https://doi.org/10.1029/2026GL125002.

(Beierle, Peter J.), Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, Denis Tremblay,  Joseph P. Predina, Kun Zhang, and Yong Chen, 2026: Evaluation of redundancy methods and strategies for the on-board spectral reference of the NOAA CrIS instruments. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 64, 5502111, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2026.3654416.

Cahuich-López, Miguel, Christopher P.  Loughner, Fong Ngan, Anna Karion, Lei Hu, Israel Lopez-Coto, Kimberly Mueller, Julia K. Marrs, Arlyn Andrews, John Miller, Brian C. McDonald, Colin Harkins, Congmeng Lyu, Meng Li, Kevin R. Gurney, Mark Cohen, Howard Diamond, Ariel Stein, and James Whetstone, 2026: Development and evaluation of an urban atmospheric inverse modeling framework for the Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD metropolitan area: initial results from an inert tracer case study. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 131(16), e2025JD045557, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD045557.

Campbell, Patrick C., Daniel Q. Tong, Shinkuang Chang, Siqi Ma, Yunyao Li, Jiaxin Ding, Rick Saylor, Barry Baker, Youhua Tang, and John Walker, 2026: Increased contributions of climate-driven wildfires to nitrogen deposition in the United States. Commun. Earth Environ., 7, 254, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03279-4.

Chen, Yong, Xinjia Zhou, Xin Jing, Shu-Peng Ho, Xi Shao, and Tung-Chang Liu, 2026: Processing multiple GNSS RO data using FSI and ROPP: results from the ROMEX. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 19, 3781–3800, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-3781-2026.

Choi, Nakbin, Jakub Stanczak, and Cristiana Stan, 2026: The role of atmosphere-ocean coupling on the prediction of Madden-Julian Oscillation. J. Climate, 39(13), e250247, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-25-0247.1.

Das, Debanjana, Ricardo Sakai, Adrian Flores, Nakul N. Karle, Zhifeng Yang , Ujjawal Shah, Rocio D. Rossi, Ivan Sloan, Sen Chiao, and Belay B. Demoz, 2026: Atmospheric and meteorological responses during the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse: advancing workforce development through experiential learning. Front. Environ. Sci., 14, 1751718, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2026.1751718.

Dhavale, Shreyas, Anantha Aiyyer, and Cristiana Stan, 2026: Case studies of the monsoon onset vortex and early season monsoon features using the UFS coupled model. Wea. Forecasting, 41, 807–820, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-25-0132.1.

Eakin, C. Mark, Scott F. Heron, Sean R. Connolly, Denise A. Devotta, Gang Liu, (Erick F. Geiger), (Jacqueline L. De La Cour), and Coauthors, 2026: Severe and widespread coral reef damage during the 2014-2017 Global Coral Bleaching Event. Nature Commun., 17, 1318, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67506-w.

Farzad, Kiarash, Yang Zhang, Daniel Tong, Siqi Ma, Youhua Tang, Jianping Huang, Patrick C. Campbell, Havala O. T. Pye, Benjamin Murphy, Fanglin Yang, Barry Baker, Daiwen Kang, Bill Hutzell, and Golam Sarwar, 2026: Application and evaluation of a NOAA GFS‐driven air quality model using CMAQv5.4 and high‐resolution emissions: FIREX‐AQ 2019. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 131, e2025JD045668, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD045668.

Friedlingstein, Pierre, Michael O’Sullivan, Matthew W. Jones, Robbie M. Andrew, Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Judith Hauck, Peter Landschützer, Corinne Le Quéré, Hongmei Li, Ingrid T. Luijkx, Glen P. Peters, Wouter Peters, Julia Pongratz, Clemens Schwingshackl, Stephen Sitch, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Kjetil Aas, Simone R. Alin, Peter Anthoni, Leticia Barbero, Nicholas R. Bates, Nicolas Bellouin, Alice Benoit-Cattin, Carla F. Berghoff, Raffaele Bernardello, Laurent Bopp, Ida Bagus Mandhara Brasika, Matthew A. Chamberlain, Naveen Chandra, Frédéric Chevallier, Louise P. Chini, Nathan O. Collier, Thomas H. Colligan, Margot Cronin, Laique M. Djeutchouang, Xinyu Dou, Matt P. Enright, Kazutaka Enyo, Michael Erb, Wiley Evans, Richard A. Feely, Liang Feng,  Daniel J. Ford, Adrianna Foster, Filippa Fransner, Thomas Gasser, Marion Gehlen, Thanos Gkritzalis, Jefferson Goncalves De Souza, Giacomo Grassi, Luke Gregor, Nicolas Gruber, Bertrand Guenet, Özgür Gürses, Kirsty Harrington, Ian Harris, Jens Heinke, George C. Hurtt, Yosuke Iida, Tatiana Ilyina, Akihiko Ito, Andrew R. Jacobson, Atul K. Jain, Tereza Jarníková, Annika Jersild, Fei Jiang, Steve D. Jones, Etsushi Kato, Ralph F. Keeling, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Jürgen Knauer, Yawen Kong, Jan Ivar Korsbakken, Charles Koven, Taro Kunimitsu, Xin Lan, Junjie Liu, Zhiqiang Liu, Zhu Liu, Claire Lo Monaco, Lei Ma, Gregg Marland, Patrick C. McGuire, Galen A. McKinley, Joe R. Melton, Natalie Monacci, Erwan Monier, Eric J. Morgan, David R. Munro, Jens D. Müller, Shin-Ichiro Nakaoka, Lorna R. Nayagam, Yosuke Niwa, Tobias Nutzel, Are Olsen, Abdirahman M. Omar, Naiqing Pan, Sudhanshu Pandey, Denis Pierrot, Zhangcai Qin, Pierre Regnier, Gregor Rehder, Laure Resplandy, Alizée Roobaert, Thais M. Rosan, Christian Rödenbeck, Jörg Schwinger, Ingunn Skjelvan, T. Luke Smallman, Victoria Spada, Mohanan G. Sreeush, Qing Sun, Adrienne J. Sutton, Colm Sweeney, Didier Swingedouw, Roland Séférian, Shintaro Takao, Hiroaki Tatebe, Hanqin Tian, Xiangjun Tian, Bronte Tilbrook, Hiroyuki Tsujino, Francesco Tubiello, Erik van Ooijen, Guido R. van der Werf, Sebastiaan J. van de Velde, Anthony P. Walker, Rik Wanninkhof, Xiaojuan Yang, Wenping Yuan, Xu Yue, and Jiye Zeng, 2026: Global Carbon Budget 2025. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3211–3288, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3211-2026.

Garcia, Hernan, Timothy Boyer, Sydney Levitus, James Reagan, Alexey Mishonov, Li-Qing Jiang, Zhankun Wang, Christopher Paver, Ebenezer Nyadjro, Scott Cross, Courtney Bouchard, Patrick Hogan, Olga Baranova, Ricardo Locarnini, 2026: World Ocean Database 2023: a foundational data resource for and by the global ocean and coastal communities. Sci.Data, 13, 613, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-06957-2.

Gerace, Skylar D., Tia Chung-Swanson, Adam J. Fagan, Melissa L. Brock, Lee W. Cooper, Seth Danielson, Carin Ashjian, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, and Adam C. Martiny, 2026: Organic matter respiration stoichiometry in the Arctic Ocean is linked to shifts in plankton community composition.Limnol. Oceanogr., 71, e70404, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70404.

He, Jian, Li Zhang, Rebecca H. Schwantes, Barry D. Baker, Larry Wayne Horowitz, Vaishali Naik, Congmeng Lyu, Zachary Moon, Georg A. A. Grell, Ravan Ahmadov, Jordan Schnell, Kai Yang, Zigang Wei, Siyuan Wang, Kai-Lan Chang, Alan M. Gorchov Negron, Aihua Zhu, Shobha Kondragunta, Eric C Apel, Ilann Bourgeois, Roisin Commane, Samuel R Hall, Alan J. Hills, Rebecca S. Hornbrook, Jeff Peischl, Kirk Ullmann, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Zolal Ayazpour, Caroline R. Nowlan, and Brian McDonald, 2025: Incorporating gas-phase chemistry into the Unified Forecast System (UFS) for global air quality applications. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 18(3), e2025MS005299, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025MS005299.

Hsu, Chia‐Hua, Daven K. Henze, Arthur P. Mizzi, Colin Harkins, Congmeng Lyu, Owen R. Cooper, Rebecca H. Schwantes, Jian He, Meng Li, Siyuan Wang, Chelsea E. Stockwell, Carsten Warneke, Andrew W. Rollins, Eleanor M. Waxman, Kristen Zuraski, Jeff Peischl, Shobha Kondragunta, Fangjun Li, Chuanyu Xu, R. Bradley Pierce, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Caroline R. Nowlan, Xiong Liu, and Brian C. McDonald, 2026: Top‐down estimates of U.S. NOx emissions using TEMPO and TROPOMI NO2 remote sensing observations with WRF‐Chem/Chem‐DART. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos., 131, e2025JD044223, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD044223.

Ji, Lei, Veljko Petković, and Marko Orescanin, 2026: Estimating uncertainty of PMW‐based convective fraction product. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos.,131, e2026JD046377, https://doi.org/10.1029/2026JD046377.

Jiang, Li-Qing, Amanda Fay, Jens Daniel Müller, Luke Gregor, Alizée Roobaert, Lydia Keppler, Dustin Carroll, Siv K. Lauvset, Tim DeVries, Judith Hauck, Christian Rödenbeck, Nicolas Metzl, Andrea J. Fassbender, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Peter Landschützer, Rik Wanninkhof, Christopher Sabine, Simone R. Alin, Mario Hoppema, Are Olsen, Matthew P. Humphreys, Kunal Chakraborty, Ana C. Franco, Kumiko Azetsu-Scott, Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Leticia Barbero, Nicholas R. Bates, Nicole Besemer, Henry C. Bittig, Albert E. Boyd, Daniel Broullón, Wei-Jun Cai, Brendan R. Carter, Thi-Tuyet-Trang Chau, Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Frédéric Cyr, John E. Dore, Ian Enochs, Richard A. Feely, Hernan E. Garcia, Marion Gehlen, Prasanna Kanti Ghoshal, Lucas Gloege, Melchor González-Dávila, Nicolas Gruber, Debby Ianson, Yosuke Iida, Masao Ishii, Apurva Padamnabh Joshi, Esther Kennedy, Alex Kozyr, Nico Lange, Claire Lo Monaco, Derek P. Manzello, Galen A. McKinley, Natalie M. Monacci, Xose A. Padin, Ana M. Palacio-Castro, Fiz F. Pérez, J. Magdalena Santana-Casiano, Jonathan Sharp, Adrienne Sutton, Jim Swift, Toste Tanhua, Maciej Telszewski, Jens Terhaar, Ruben van Hooidonk, Anton Velo, Andrew J. Watson, Angelicque E. White, Zelun Wu, Liang Xue, Hyelim Yoo, Jiye Zeng, and Guorong Zhong, 2026: Synthesis of data products for ocean carbonate chemistry. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1405–1462, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-255.

Li, Fangjun, Xiaoyang Zhang, Mark Cochrane, Shobha Kondragunta, and Shuai An, 2026: Fire spread, intensity, and emissions observations by multiple satellites: the Southern California wildfires of January 2025. AGU Adv., 7(1), e2025AV002064, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025AV002064.

Liang, Xingming, Quanhua Liu, and (Christopher Grassotti), 2026: Refining clear-sky AI radiative transfer model forward predictions and Jacobian accuracy for ATMS using a ResNet and physical constraints. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 64, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2026.3665759.

Liu, Qian and Banghua Yan, 2026: Cloud detection of OMPS nadir mapper radiance data using deep learning techniques. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 64, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2026.3719137.

Ma, Zaizhong, Niels Bormann, Katie Lean, David Duncan, Ernesto Hugo Berbery, and Satya Kalluri, 2026: Ensemble of Data Assimilations (EDA) impact studies in support of NOAA’s Next-Generation Microwave Sounding Missions. Mon. Wea. Rev., 154, 687–702, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-25-0255.1.

Major, Dylan, Oliver P. Prat, Brian R. Nelson, Douglas K. Miller, Veljko Petkovic, Malarvizhi Arulraj, and Ralph Ferraro, 2026: Event-based verification of IMERG precipitation estimates over complex terrain in the southern Appalachian Mountains. J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 43, 309–325, https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-24-0110.1.

Martiny, Adam C., 2026: Long‐term reorganization of ocean nutrient distribution. AGU Advances, 7, e2025AV002080, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025AV002080.

Martiny, Adam C., Lucas J. Ustick, Toby K. Westberry, and Michael J. Behrenfeld, 2026: Genomic-to-space measurements reveal large-scale ocean nutrient stress. Sci. Adv., 12, eaed8089, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aed8089.

Miller, William J., Yong Chen, Shu-Peng Ho, and Xi Shao, 2026: How does assimilating a large commercial GNSS RO dataset impact HAFS hurricane forecasts? An evaluation in support of the ROMEX experiment. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 19, 4833–4851, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-4833-2026.

Moon, Jeonghyeok, Wonbae Jeon, Sujong Jeong, Yunsoo Choi, Hyun Cheol Kim, Soon-Young Park, Juseon Bak, Jung-Woo Yoo, Jaehyeong Park, Dongjin Kim, Hyeonsik Choe, Chae-Yeong Yang, and Min Heo, 2026: Spatiotemporal optimization of NOx and VOC emissions using a hybrid inversion framework and its implication for ozone sensitivity diagnosis. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 26, 10,379–10,398, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-10379-2026.

Moradi, Isaac, Satya Kalluri, and Yanqiu Zhu, 2026: Forward modeling of spaceborne radar observations. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 19, 549–563, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-549-2026.

Moradi, Isaac, Satya Kalluri, Vijay Tallapragada, and Yanqiu Zhu, 2026: Sensitivity of tropical cyclone forecasts to the loss of low Earth orbit satellite observations. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 131, e2026JD046562, https://doi.org/10.1029/2026JD046562.

Nguyen, Phu, Vu Dao, Tu Ung, Claudia Jimenez Arellano, Kuolin Hsu, Soroosh Sorooshian, Amir AghaKouchak,  George J. Huffman, and F. Martin Ralph, 2026: PERSIANN-U-Net: a global deep learning framework for near-real-time precipitation estimation using infrared data. J. Hydrometeor., 27, 597–615, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-25-0162.1.

Pan, Yuying, Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, James Reagan, Juan Du, Zhankun Wang, Andrea Storto, Karina Von Schuckmann, Yujing Zhu, Michael E. Mann, Jiang Zhu, Fan Wang, Fujiang Yu, Ricardo Locarnini, John Fasullo, Boyin Huang, Garrett Graham, Xungang Yin, Viktor Gouretski, Fei Zheng, Yuanlong Li, Bin Zhang, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Dakui Wang, Licheng Feng, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, Franco Reseghetti, Simona Simoncelli, Gengxin Chen, Rongwang Zhang, Alexey Mishonov, Wangxu Wei, Zhetao Tan, Guancheng Li, Lijuan Cao, Lifan Chen, Huifeng Yuan, Kewei Lyu, Albertus Sulaiman, Michael Mayer, Huizan Wang, Zhanhong Ma, Senliang Bao, Hengqian Yan, Zenghong Liu, Chunxue Yang, Xu Liu, Zeke Hausfather, Flora Gues, Xinyi Song, Miao Zhang, and Lin Chen, 2026: Ocean heat content sets another record in 2025. Adv. Atmos. Sci., https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-026-5876-0.

Petropavlovskikh, Irina, Martine De Mazière, Anne M. Thompson, (Jeannette D. Wild), James W. Hannigan, Henry B. Selkirk, Reem A. Hannun, Wolfgang Steinbrecht, Jean-Christopher Lambert, Roeland Van Malderen, Elizabeth Asher, Raul R. Cordero, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Daan Hubert, Sergey Khaykin, Karin Kreher, Thierry Leblanc, Emmanuel Mahieu, Eliane Maillard Barras, Glen McConville, Gerald Nedoluha, Ivan Ortega, Alberto Redondas Marrero, Gunther Seckmeyer, Ryan M. Stauffer, Sarah A. Strode, Kim Strong, Takafumi Sugita, Michel Van Roozendael, Voltaire Velazco, Corinne Vigouroux, and Baerbel Vogel, 2026: Overview: The Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change at 35 years: achievements and future strategy. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 26, 8637–8675, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-8637-2026.

Rho, Ju-Hwan, Sang-Hyun Lee, Hyun Cheol Kim, Chang-Keun Song, Minjoong J. Kim, and Jae-Jin Kim, 2026: A multi-sectoral high-resolution emission refinement system for CFD-GIS based air quality modeling. Urban Clim., 68, 103030, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2026.103030.

Seidov, Dan, Alexey Mishonov, and James Reagan, 2026: Resilience of the North Atlantic circulation on decadal timescales. Climate, 14(5), 99, https://doi.org/10.3390/cli14050099.

Sivan, Malavika, Jiayang Sun, Patricia Martinerie, Maria Elena Popa, (James Farquhar), Maarten Krol, Carina van der Veen, Bibhasvata Dasgupta, Mojhgan A. Haghnegahdar, Camilla Marie Jensen, Ji-Woong Yang, Johannes Freitag, Kévin Fourteau, Thomas Blunier, and Thomas Röckmann, 2026: Anthropogenic perturbations to atmospheric methane reflected in Greenland firn air clumped isotope measurements. Sci. Adv.,12, eaeb2203, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb2203.

Sofieva, Viktoria F., Monika E. Szelag, Natalya Kramarova, Robert Damadeo, Wolfgang Steinbrecht, Irina Petropavlovskikh, Corinne Vigouroux, Eliane Maillard Barras, Daniel Zawada, Kleareti Tourpali, Stacey M. Frith, Jeannette D. Wild, Sean M. Davis, Carlo Arosio, Mark Weber, Alexei Rozanov, Brian Auffarth, Lucien Froidevaux, Ryan Fuller, Doug Degenstein, Kimberlee Dube, Peter Effertz, Thierry Leblanc, Gérard Ancellet, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Glen McConville, Richard Querel, Dan Smale, Marie-Renee DeBacker, Emmanuel Mahieu, and Ralf Sussmann, 2025: Updated global and regional trends of stratospheric ozone profiles. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 26, 7387–7405, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-7387-2026.

Vahedifard, Farshid, Mohammed Azhar, Julian Kelly, Saeed Rokooei, Reza Khanbilvardi, and Kaveh Madani, 2026: Service equity matrix for inclusive risk communication of extreme weather events. npj Nat. Hazards, 3, 64, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44304-026-00222-7.

Wang, Xuanji, Jeffrey R. Key, Szuchia Moeller, Richard J. Dworak, Xi Shao, and Kenneth R. Knapp, 2026: Extending AVHRR climate data records into the VIIRS era for polar climate research. Remote Sens., 17(20), 3495, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17203495.

Wang, Wenhui, Taeyoung Choi, Slawomir Blonski, and Xi Shao, 2026: Evaluation and intercomparison of S-NPP, NOAA-20, and NOAA-21 VIIRS thermal emissive band long-term on-orbit saturation radiances. J. Appl. Remote Sens., 20(2), https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.20.027501.

Yan, Banghua, Ding Liang, Xin Jin, Ninghai Sun, Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, Xiangqian Wu, and Likun Wang, 2026: Long-term assessment of inter-sensor radiometric biases among SNPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 OMPS Nadir, and CrIS instruments using the NOAA ICVS-iSensor-RCBA portal. Remote Sens., 18(2), 254, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18020254.

Yin, Jifu, Xiwu Zhan, Jicheng Liu, Jong Kim, Chan-Hoo Jeon, and Gillian Petro, 2026: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Soil Moisture Operational Product System: an overview and data assimilation applications. Vadose Zone J., 25, e70122, https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.70122.

Yu, Jun, J. Keith Moore, Francois W. Primeau, Anthony F. Michaels, Amy G. Nuno, Kristen M. Krumhardt, Michael N. Levy, Keith Lindsay, Hui Wang, James T. Randerson, and Adam C. Martiny, 2026: Climate benefit and ecological cost trade-offs for ocean iron fertilization. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10795-y.

Zadeh, Mohammad Bolboli, Phu Nguyen, Kuo-Lin Hsu, Amir AghaKouchak, Tu Thanh Ung, and Soroosh Sorooshian, 2026: A global high-resolution precipitation climate record: PERSIANN-CCS-CDR Version 2.0. Sci. Data, 13, 314, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-06625-5.

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