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GISS BEST PUBLICATION AWARD

Each spring, GISS scientists vote on the "best publication" of the previous year by a member of the institute. We consider this peer "award" to be the highest scientific honor that we bestow. Past winners have been:

2003

Koch, D., J. Park, and A. Del Genio 2003. Clouds and sulfate are anticorrelated: A new diagnostic for global sulfur models. J. Geophys. Res. 108, no. D24, 4781, doi:10.1029/2003JD003621.

2002

Chen, J., B.E. Carlson, and A.D. Del Genio 2002. Evidence for strengthening of the tropical general circulation in the 1990s. Science 295, 838-841.

2001

Allison, M., and D.H. Atkinson 2001. Galileo Probe Doppler residuals as the wave-dynamical signature of weakly stable, downward-increasing stratification in Jupiter's deep wind layer. Geophys. Res. Lett. 28, 2747-2750.

2000

Del Genio, A.D., and A.B. Wolf 2000. The temperature dependence of the liquid water path of low clouds in the southern Great Plains. J. Climate 13, 3465-3486, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<3465:TTDOTL>2.0.CO;2.

Hansen, J., Mki. Sato, R. Ruedy, A. Lacis, and V. Oinas 2000. Global warming in the twenty-first century: An alternative scenario. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97, 9875-9880, doi:10.1073/pnas.170278997.

1999

Shindell, D.T., R.L. Miller, G.A. Schmidt, and L. Pandolfo 1999. Simulation of recent northern winter climate trends by greenhouse-gas forcing. Nature 399, 452-455.

1998

Shindell, D.T., D. Rind, and P. Lonergan 1998. Increased polar stratospheric ozone losses and delayed eventual recovery owing to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations. Nature 392, 589-592.

1997

Miller, R.L. 1997. Tropical thermostats and low cloud cover. J. Climate 10, 409-440.

1996

Tegen, I., A.A. Lacis, and I. Fung 1996. The influence of mineral aerosols from disturbed soils on the global radiation budget. Nature 380, 419-422.

1995

Russell, G.L., J.R. Miller, and D. Rind 1995. A coupled atmosphere-ocean model for transient climate change studies. Atmos.-Ocean 33, 683-730.

1994

Del Genio, A.D., W. Kovari, Jr., and M.-S. Yao 1994. Climatic implications of the seasonal variation of upper troposphere water vapor. Geophys. Res. Lett. 21, 2701-2704.

1993

Tselioudis, G., A.A. Lacis, D. Rind, and W.B. Rossow 1993. Potential effects of cloud optical thickness on climate warming. Nature 366, 670-672.

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