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• Xu, W., E.J.Zipser, C.Liu and H.Jiang, 2010: On the relationships between lightning frequency and thundercloud parameters of regional precipitation systems. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D12203, doi:10.1029/2009JD013385. Published, 11/2010.
• Kelley, O.A., J.Stout, M.Summers, and E.J.Zipser, 2010: Do the tallest convective cells over the tropical ocean have slow updrafts? Mon Wea. Rev., 138, 1651-1672. Published, 06/2010.
• Jiang, H., and E.J.Zipser, 2010: Contributions of tropical cyclones to the global precipitation from 8 seasons of TRMM data: Regional, seasonal, and interannual variations. J. Climate, 23, 1526- 1543. DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3303.1. Published, 05/2010.
• Liu, C., E.Williams, E.J.Zipser, and G.Burns, 2010: On the diurnal variations of global thunderstorms and the global electrical circuit. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 309-323. DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3248.1. Published, 02/2010.
• Zawislak, J., and E.J.Zipser, 2010: Observations of 7 African easterly waves in the east Atlantic during 2006. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, .26-43. DOI:10.1175/2009MWR2982.1. Published, 2010.
• Cifelli, R., T.Lang, S.A.Rutledge, N.Guy, E.J.Zipser, J.Zawislak, and R.Holtzworth, 2010: Characteristics of an African easterly wave observed during NAMMA. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 3-25 DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3141.1 . Published, 2010.
• Jiang, H., and E.J.Zipser, 2010: Contributions of tropical cyclones to the global precipitation from 8 seasons of TRMM data: Regional, seasonal, and interannual variations. J. Climate, 23, early online release, posted October 2009 DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3303.1. In press, 2009.
• Kelley, O.A., J.Stout, M.Summers, and E.J.Zipser, 2010: Do the tallest convective cells over the tropical ocean have slow updrafts? Mon Wea. Rev., 138, in press. In press, 2009.
• Levin, N.E., E.J.Zipser, and T.E.Cerling, 2009: Isotopic composition of waters from Ethiopia and Kenya: Insights into water sources for eastern Africa. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D23306, doi:10.1029/2009JD012166. Published, 2009.
• Pu, Z., X.Li, and E.J.Zipser, 2009: Diagnoosis of the initial and forecast errors in the numerical simulation of the rapid intensification of Hurricane Emily (2005). Wea. Forecasting, 5, 1236-1251. Published, 2009.
• Xu, W., E.J.Zipser, and C.Liu, 2009: Rainfall characteristics and convective properties of Mei-Yu precipitation systems over South China, Taiwan, and the South China Sea. Part I: TRMM observations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 4261-4275. DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2982.1 DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2982.1 . Published, 2009.
• Liu, C., E.Williams, E.J.Zipser, and G.Burns, 2009: On the diurnal variations of global thunderstorms and the global electrical circuit. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, early online release, posted September 2009 DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3248.1 . In press, 2009.
• Kerns, B, and E.J.Zipser, 2009: Four years of tropical ERA-40 vorticity maxima tracks, Part II: Differences between developing and non-developing disturbances. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 2576- 2591. DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2545.1. Published, 2009.
• Liu, C., and E. J. Zipser, 2009: “Warm rain” in the tropics: Seasonal and regional distribution based on 9 years of TRMM data, J. Climate, 22, 767–779 DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2641.1. Published, 2009.
• Liu, C. and E.J.Zipser, 2009: Implications of the day vs. night differences of water vapor, carbon monoxide, and thin cloud observations near the tropical tropopause. J. Geophys. Res., 114, DOI:10.1029/2008JD011524. Published, 2009.
• Zipser, E.J., and 22 coauthors, 2009: The Saharan air layer and the fate of African easterly waves: NASA’s AMMA 2006 field program to study tropical cyclogenesis: NAMMA. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 1137-1156. DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2728.1 . Published, 2009.