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Submissions from 2016

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New insights into North America’s Midcontinent Rift, Seth Stein, Carol A. Stein, Jonas Kley, Randy Keller, Miguel Merino, Emily Wolin, Douglas Wiens, Michael E. Wysession, Ghassan Al-Equabi, Weisen Shen, Andrew Frederiksen, Fiona Darbyshire, Donna Jurdy, Greg Waite, William I. Rose, Erika Vye, Tyrone Rooney, Robert Moucha, and Eric Brown

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Prediction Model of Longwall Powered Support Capacity Using Field Monitored Data of a Longwall Panel and Uncertainty-Based Neural Network, Abhiram Kumar Verma, Kaushal Kishore, and Snehamoy Chatterjee

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Global atmospheric transport and source-receptor relationship for arsenic, Ka-ming Wai, Shiliang Wu, Xueling Li, Daniel A. Jaffe, and Kevin D. Perry

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Nonlinear inversion of tilt-affected very long period records of explosive eruptions at Fuego volcano, Gregory P. Waite and Federica Lanza

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Impacts of changes in climate, land use and land cover on atmospheric mercury, H. Zhang, C. D. Holmes, and Shiliang Wu

Works from 2015

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Spatial analysis of Mount St. Helens tephra leachate compositions: implications for future sampling strategies, P. M. Ayris, P. Delmelle, B. Pereira, E. C. Maters, D. E. Damby, A. J. Durant, and D. B. Dingwell

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Michigan mineral alliance, Theodore J. Bornhorst and Christopher J. Poulsen

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Disaster risk reduction and resettlement efforts at San Vicente (Chichontepec) Volcano, El Salvador: Toward understanding social and geophysical vulnerability, Luke J. Bowman and Kari Henquinet

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Extending the long-term record of volcanic SO < inf> 2 emissions with the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite nadir mapper, S. A. Carn, K. Yang, A. J. Prata, and N. A. Krotkov

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Automatic cluster selection using gap statistics for pattern-based multi-point geostatistical simulation, Snehamoy Chatterjee and Manasi Manjari Mohanty

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Fast wavelet-based stochastic simulation using training images, Snehamoy Chatterjee, Hussein Mustapha, and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

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The impact of mpowir a decade of investing in mentoring women in physical oceanography, Sarah Clem, Sonya Legg, Susan Lozier, and Colleen B. Mouw

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Natural variations in calcite dissolution rates in streams: Controls, implications, and open questions, M. D. Covington, J. D. Gulley, and F. Gabrovšek

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Capturing optically important constituents and properties in a marine biogeochemical and ecosystem model, S. Dutkiewicz, A. E. Hickman, O. Jahn, W. W. Gregg, C. B. Mouw, M. J. Follows, and C. Mouw

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Sustainable Geotechnical Asset Management Along the Transportation Infrastructure Environment Using Remote Sensing: Final Report, Rudiger Escobar-Wolf, El Hachemi Y. Bouali, Thomas Oommen, Richard Dobson, Stanley Vitton, Colin Brooks, and Pasi Lautala

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Characterising volcanic cycles at Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat: Time series analysis of multi-parameter satellite data, Verity Flower and Simon Carn

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Heterogeneous distributions of CO2 may be more important for dissolution and karstification in coastal eogenetic limestone than mixing dissolution, Jason Gulley, Jonathon B. Martin, Paul J. Moore, Amy Brown, Patricia Spellman, and John Ezell

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Sensitivity of global wildfire occurrences to various factors in the context of global change, Yaoxian Huang, Shiliang Wu, and Jed Kaplan

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Seasonal variability of atmospheric nitrogen oxides and non-methane hydrocarbons at the GEOSummit station, Greenland, L. J. Kramer, D. Helmig, J. F. Burkhart, A. Stohl, S. Oltmans, and R. E. Honrath

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Stratospheric volcanic ash emissions from the 13 February 2014 Kelut eruption, N. I. Kristiansen, A. J. Prata, A. Stohl, and S. A. Carn

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Source mechanism of small long-period events at Mount St. Helens in July 2005 using template matching, phase-weighted stacking, and full-waveform inversion, Robin S. Matoza, Bernard A. Chouet, Phillip B. Dawson, Peter M. Shearer, Matthew M. Haney, G. P. Waite, Seth C. Moran, and T. Dylan Mikesell

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A sinuous tumulus over an active lava tube at Kīlauea Volcano: Evolution, analogs, and hazard forecasts, Tim R. Orr, Jacob E. Bleacher, Matthew R. Patrick, and Kelly M. Wooten

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Kı ̄lauea’s 5–9 march 2011 kamoamoa fissure eruption and its relation to 30+ years of activity from pu‘u ‘o̅ ‘ō, Tim R. Orr, Michael P. Poland, Matthew R. Patrick, Weston A. Thelen, A. Jeff Sutton, Tamar Elias, Carl R. Thornber, Carolyn Parcheta, and Kelly M. Wooten

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Volcanic ash hazards to aviation, Alfredo Prata and William I. Rose

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Changes in magma storage conditions following caldera collapse at Okataina Volcanic Center, New Zealand, Allison Rubin, Kari M. Cooper, Marissa Leever, Josh Wimpenny, Chad Deering, Tyrone Rooney, Darren Gravley, and Qing zhu Yin

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Geomagnetic paleointensity at ~2.41 Ga as recorded by the Widgiemooltha Dike Swarm, Western Australia, Aleksey Smirnov and David A.D. Evans

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Hazard assessment of rainfall-induced landslides: a case study of San Vicente volcano in central El Salvador, Daniel M. Smith, Thomas Oommen, Luke Bowman, John S. Gierke, and Stanley Vitton

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A multi-sensor satellite assessment of SO2 emissions from the 2012-13 eruption of Plosky Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, J. Telling, V. J. B. Flower, and Simon Carn

Works from 2014

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Building zoned ignimbrites by recycling silicic cumulates: Insight from the 1,000 km < sup> 3 Carpenter Ridge Tuff, CO, Olivier Bachmann, Chad Deering, Peter W. Lipman, and Charles Plummer

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Phase-equilibrium geobarometers for silicic rocks based on rhyolite-MELTS. Part 2: application to Taupo Volcanic Zone rhyolites, Florence Bégué, Guilherme A.R. Gualda, Mark S. Ghiorso, Ayla S. Pamukcu, Ben M. Kennedy, Darren M. Gravley, Chad Deering, and Isabelle Chambefort

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Bank Storage in Karst Aquifers: The Impact of Temporary Intrusion of River Water on Carbonate Dissolution and Trace Metal Mobility, Amy L. Brown, Jonathan B. Martin, Elizabeth J. Screaton, John E. Ezell, Patricia Spellman, and Jason Gulley

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Attenuation and scattering tomography of the deep plumbing system of Mount St. Helens, L. De Siena, C. Thomas, G. P. Waite, S. C. Moran, and S. Klemme

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Absorption and fluorescence properties of chromophoric dissolved organic matter of the eastern Bering Sea in the summer with special reference to the influence of a cold pool, E. J. D'sa, J. I. Goes, H. Gomes, and C. Mouw

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Identifying the crystal graveyards remaining after large silicic eruptions, Sarah E. Gelman, Chad Deering, Olivier Bachmann, Christian Huber, and Francisco J. Gutiérrez

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Vadose CO < inf> 2 gas drives dissolution at water tables in eogenetic karst aquifers more than mixing dissolution, Jason Gulley, Jonathan Martin, and Paul Moore

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Large values of hydraulic roughness in subglacial conduits during conduit enlargement: Implications for modeling conduit evolution, J. D. Gulley, P. Spellman, M. D. Covington, J. B. Martin, D. I. Benn, and G. Catania

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and multispectral scanner (MSS) studies examine coastal environments influenced by mining, Charlie Kerfoot, Martin M. Hobmeier, Foad Yousef, Sarah A. Green, Robert Regis, Colin Brooks, Robert Shuchman, Jamey Anderson, and Molly Reif

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Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and multispectral scanner (MSS) studies examine coastal environments influenced by mining, W. Charles Kerfoot, Martin M. Hobmeier, Foad Yousef, Sarah A. Green, Robert Regis, Colin N. Brooks, Robert Shuchman, Jamey Anderson, and Molly Reif

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Paleomagnetism of the ∼1.1 Ga Coldwell Complex (Ontario, Canada): Implications for Proterozoic geomagnetic field morphology and plate velocities, Evgeniy V. Kulakov, Aleksey Smirnov, and Jimmy F. Diehl

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NanoSIMS results from olivine-hosted melt embayments: Magma ascent rate during explosive basaltic eruptions, Alexander S. Lloyd, Philipp Ruprecht, Erik H. Hauri, William I. Rose, Helge M. Gonnermann, and Terry Plank

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Monitoring large oil slick dynamics with moderate resolution multispectral satellite data, Pieralberto Maianti, Marco Rusmini, Riccardo Tortini, Giorgio Dalla Via, Federico Frassy, Andrea Marchesi, Francesco Rota Nodari, and Marco Gianinetto

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A comparison of satellite- and ground-based measurements of SO < inf> 2 emissions from tungurahua volcano, Ecuador, Brendan T. McCormick, Michael Herzog, Jian Yang, Marie Edmonds, Tamsin A. Mather, Simon Carn, Silvana Hidalgo, and Baerbel Langmann

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Evaluation of Structure from Motion Software to Create 3D Models of Late Nineteenth Century Great Lakes Shipwrecks Using Archived Diver-Acquired Video Surveys, J. Mertes, T. Thomsen, and J. Gulley

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Separation of ash and sulfur dioxide during the 2011 Grímsvötn eruption, E. D. Moxnes, N. I. Kristiansen, A. Stohl, L. Clarisse, A. J. Durant, K. Weber, and A. Vogel

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Using SO2 camera imagery and seismicity to examine degassing and gas accumulation at Kīlauea Volcano, May 2010, Patricia Nadeau, Cynthia A. Werner, Gregory P. Waite, Simon Carn, Ian D. Brewer, Tamar Elias, A. Jeff Sutton, and Christoph Kern

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Computer vision-based limestone rock-type classification using probabilistic neural network, Ashok Kumar Patel and Snehamoy Chatterjee

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Varying seismic-acoustic properties of the fluctuating lava lake at Villarrica volcano, Chile, Joshua P. Richardson, Gregory P. Waite, and José Luis Palma

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Recent Springtime regional CO variability in Southern China and the adjacent Ocean: Anthropogenic and Biomass burning contribution, Ka Ming Wai and Peter A. Tanner

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Seasonal variability and long-term evolution of tropospheric composition in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere, K. M. Wai, S. Wu, A. Kumar, and H. Liao

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Advancing measurements of tropospheric NO < inf> 2 from space: New algorithm and first global results from OMPS, Kai Yang, Simon Carn, Cui Ge, Jun Wang, and Russell R. Dickerson

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Effects of stratospheric ozone recovery on photochemistry and ozone air quality in the troposphere, H. Zhang, Shiliang Wu, Y. Huang, and Y. Wang

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A Study of the Impacts of Freeze-Thaw on Cliff Recession at the Calvert Cliffs in Calvert County, Maryland, Bonnie Zwissler, Thomas Oommen, and Stanley Vitton

Submissions from 2013

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59th Annual Meeting Institute on Lake Superior Geology, Houghton, Michigan: Proceedings, Program and Abstracts, Allan R. Blaske and Theodore J. Bornhorst

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59th Annual Meeting Institute on Lake Superior Geology, Houghton, Michigan: Proceedings, Part 2: Field Trip Guidebook, Theodore J. Bornhorst and Robert J. Barron

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Geologic Overview of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst and Robert J. Barron

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Caledonia Mine, Keweenaw Peninsula Native Copper District, Ontonagon County, Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst, Robert J. Barron, and Richard C. Whiteman

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Geology and Environmental Site Conditions of the Copperwood Deposit, Gogebic County, Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst, Allan R. Blaske, D T. Anderson, and Thomas D. Repaal

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The Mesoproterozoic Copperwood sedimentary rock-hosted stratiform copper deposit, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst and William C. Williams

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Crater lake evolution at Santa Ana Volcano (El Salvador) following the 2005 eruption, Anna S. Colvin, William I. Rose, J. C. Varekamp, José Luis Palma, D. Escobar, E. Gutierrez, F. Montalvo, and Ann Maclean

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Toms and Avhrr observations of drifting volcanic clouds from the August 1991 eruptions of Cerro Hudson, Emily K. Constantine, Gregg J. Bluth, and William I. Rose

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The size range of bubbles that produce ash during explosive volcanic eruptions, Kimberly Genareau, Gopal K. Mulukutla, Alexander A. Proussevitch, Adam J. Durant, William I. Rose, and Dork L. Sahagian

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Dissolution in a variably confined carbonate platform: Effects of allogenic runoff, hydraulic damming of groundwater inputs, and surface-groundwater exchange at the basin scale, J. D. Gulley, J. Martin, P. Spellman, P. Spellman, P. Moore, and E. Screaton

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Dispersant adsorption and effects on settling behavior of iron ore, Howard J. Haselhuhn

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Large-volume Barriles and Caisán debris avalanche deposits from Volcán Barú, Panama, Julie A. Herrick, Lee Siebert, and William I. Rose

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Impact of aging mechanism on model simulated carbonaceous aerosols, Y. Huang, S. Wu, M. K. Dubey, and N. H.F. French

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Projected effect of 2000-2050 changes in climate and emissions on aerosol levels in China and associated transboundary transport, H. Jiang, H. Liao, H. O.T. Pye, S. Wu, L. J. Mickley, J. H. Seinfeld, and X. Y. Zhang

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La Yeguada volcanic vomplex in the Republic of Panama: An assessment of the geologic hazards using 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, Karinne L. Knutsen, William I. Rose, and Brian Jicha

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Absolute geomagnetic paleointensity as recorded by ~1.09 Ga Lake Shore Traps (Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan), Evgeniy V. Kulakov, Aleksey Smirnov, and Jimmy F. Diehl

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Free-troposphere ozone and carbon monoxide over the North Atlantic for 2001-2011, Aditya Kumar, S. Wu, M. F. Weise, R. Honrath, R. C. Owen, D. Helmig, L. Kramer, M. Val Martin, and Q. Li

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A pilot GPS study of Santa Ana Volcano (Ilamatepec) and Coatepeque caldera, El Salvador, Hans N. Lechner, Charles DeMets, Douglas Hernandez, and William I. Rose

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Evaluation of Redoubt Volcano's sulfur dioxide emissions by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument, Taryn Lopez, Simon Carn, Cynthia Werner, David Fee, Peter Kelly, Michael Doukas, Melissa Pfeffer, Peter Webley, Catherine Cahill, and David Schneider

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Evaluation and optimization of bio-optical inversion algorithms for remote sensing of Lake Superior's optical properties, Colleen B. Mouw, Haidi Chen, Galen A. McKinley, Steven Effler, David O'Donnell, Mary Gail Perkins, and Chris Strait

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Validation of the FALL3D model for the 2008 chaitén eruption using field and satellite data, María Soledad Osores, Arnau Folch, Estela Collini, Gustavo Villarosa, Adam J. Durant, Gloria Pujol, and José G. Viramonte

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Quantifying the impact of BOReal forest fires on Tropospheric oxidants over the Atlantic using Aircraft and Satellites (BORTAS) experiment: Design, execution and science overview, P. I. Palmer, M. Parrington, J. D. Lee, A. C. Lewis, A. R. Rickard, P. F. Bernath, T. J. Duck, D. L. Waugh, D. W. Tarasick, R. C. Owen, and et. al.

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Global, long-term sulphur dioxide measurements from TOVS data: A new tool for studying explosive volcanism and climate, A. J. Prata, William I. Rose, S. Self, and D. M. O'Brien

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Waveform inversion of shallow repetitive long period events at Villarrica Volcano, Chile, Joshua P. Richardson and Gregory P. Waite

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The february–march 2000 eruption of Hekla, Iceland from a satellite perspective, William I. Rose, Y. Gu, M. I. Watson, T. Yu, Gregg J. Bluth, A. J. Prata, A. J. Krueger, N. Krotkov, S. Carn, M. D. Fromm, D. E. Hunton, G. G. J. Ernst, A. A. Viggiano, T. M. Miller, J. O. Ballenthin, J. M. Reeves, J. C. Wilson, B. E. Anderson, and D. E. Flittner

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Open-vent volcanism and related hazards: Overview, William I. Rose, José Luis Palma, Hugo Delgado Granados, and Nick Varley

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A 50 yr eruption of a basaltic composite cone: Pacaya, Guatemala, William I. Rose, José Luis Palma, Rüdiger Escobar Wolf, and Rubén Otoniel Matías Gomez

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An integrated field-numerical approach to assess slope stability hazards at volcanoes: the example of Pacaya, Guatemala, Lauren N. Schaefer, Thomas Oommen, Claudia Corazzato, Alessandro Tibaldi, Rüdiger Escobar Wolf, and William I. Rose

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Quantifying Available Water Supply in Rural Mali based on Data Collected by and from Women, Cara Shonsey and John S. Gierke

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The sulfur budget of the 2011 Grímsvötn eruption, Iceland, Olgeir Sigmarsson, Baptiste Haddadi, Simon Carn, Séverine Moune, Jõnas Gudnason, Kai Yang, and Lieven Clarisse

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Detailed multidisciplinary monitoring reveals pre- and co-eruptive signals at Nyamulagira volcano (North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo), Benoît Smets, Nicolas d'Oreye, François Kervyn, Matthieu Kervyn, Fabien Albino, Santiago R. Arellano, Montfort Bagalwa, Charles Balagizi, Simon A. Carn, Thomas H. Darrah, José Fernández, Bo Galle, Pablo J. González, Elisabet Head, Katcho Karume, Deogratias Kavotha, François Lukaya, Niche Mashagiro, Georges Mavonga, Patrik Norman, Etoy Osodundu, José L.G. Pallero, Juan F. Prieto, Sergey Samsonov, Muhindo Syauswa, Dario Tedesco, Kristy Tiampo, Christelle Wauthier, and Mathieu M. Yalire

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Surfactant addition to alkali solutions for increased carbon dioxide absorption rates, Brett P. Spigarelli

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Effect of CO2 inhibition on biogenic isoprene emission: Implications for air quality under 2000 to 2050 changes in climate, vegetation, and land use, Amos P.K. Tai, Loretta J. Mickley, Colette L. Heald, and Shiliang Wu

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Modeling acute respiratory illness during the 2007 San Diego wildland fires using a coupled emissions-transport system and general additive modeling, Brian Thelen, Nancy H. F. French, Benjamin W. Koziol, Michael Billmire, Robert Chris Owen, Jeffrey Johnson, Michele Ginsberg, Tatiana Loboda, and Shiliang Wu

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Variability in eruption style and associated very long period events at Fuego volcano, Guatemala, Greg Waite, Patricia A. Nadeau, and John J. Lyons

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Modeling of 2008 Kasatochi volcanic sulfate direct radiative forcing: Assimilation of OMI SO2 plume height data and comparison with MODIS and CALIOP observations, J. Wang, S. Park, J. Zeng, C. Ge, K. Yang, S. Carn, N. Krotkov, and A. H. Omar

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Sensitivity of surface ozone over China to 2000-2050 global changes of climate and emissions, Yuxuan Wang, Lulu Shen, Shiliang Wu, Loretta Mickley, Jingwei He, and Jiming Hao

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Secondary organic aerosol formation from semi- and intermediate-volatility organic compounds and glyoxal: Relevance of O/C as a tracer for aqueous multiphase chemistry, Eleanor M. Waxman, Katja Dzepina, Barbara Ervens, Julia Lee-Taylor, Bernard Aumont, Jose L. Jimenez, Sasha Madronich, and Rainer Volkamer

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First observations of SO < inf> 2 from the satellite Suomi NPP OMPS: Widespread air pollution events over China, Kai Yang, Russell R. Dickerson, S. Carn, Cui Ge, and Jun Wang

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Using LiDAR to reconstruct the history of a coastal environment influenced by legacy mining, Foad Yousef, W. Charles Kerfoot, Colin Brooks, Robert Shuchman, Bruce Sabol, and Mark Graves

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Retrieval of sulfate and silicate ash masses in young (1 to 4 days old) eruption clouds using multiband infrared HIRS/2 data, Tianxu Yu and William I. Rose

Works from 2012

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First estimate of volcanic SO2 budget for Vanuatu island arc, Philipson Bani, Clive Oppenheimer, Patrick Allard, Hiroshi Shinohara, Vitchko Tsanev, Simon Carn, Michel Lardy, and Esline Garaebiti

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Michigan’s earliest geology: The Precambrian, Theodore J. Bornhorst and D. Brandt

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Copper mining: A billion years of geologic and human history, Theodore J. Bornhorst and L D. Lankton

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A Review of Volcanic Ash Aggregation, R. J. Brown, C. Bonadonna, and A. J. Durant

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Estimation and propagation of volcanic source parameter uncertainty in an ash transport and dispersal model: Application to the Eyjafjallajokull plume of 14-16 April 2010, Marcus Bursik, Matthew Jones, Simon A. Carn, Ken Dean, Abani Patra, Michael Pavolonis, E. Bruce Pitman, Tarunraj Singh, Puneet Singla, Peter Webley, Halldor Bjornsson, and Maurizio Ripepe

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Multiple effects of changes in arctic snow cover, Terry V. Callaghan, Margareta Johansson, Ross D. Brown, Pavel Ya Groisman, Niklas Labba, Vladimir Radionov, Richard E. Honrath, and et al.

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Space- and ground-based measurements of sulphur dioxide emissions from Turrialba Volcano (Costa Rica), Robin Campion, Maria Martinez-Cruz, Thomas Lecocq, Corentin Caudron, Javier Pacheco, Gaia Pinardi, Christian Hermans, Simon A. Carn, and Alain Bernard