Publications

2024

MacDonald, C. G., Zurita-Gotor, P., Held, I. M., Ming, Y. (2024) Convectively-coupled global Rossby modes in an idealized moist GCM. Submitted to Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

MacDonald, C. G. (2024) Absolute instability of moisture-coupled waves on the equatorial beta-plane. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society [Journal Link]

2023

Nassar, R., MacDonald C. G., Kuwuhara, B., Fogal A., Issa, J., Girmenia, A., Khan, S., Sioris, C. E. (2023) Intelligent Pointing increases the fraction of cloud-free CO2 and CH4 observations from space. Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 4 [Journal Link].

Zurita-Gotor, P., Held, I. M., Merlis, T. M., Chang, C.Y., Hill, S. A., & MacDonald, C. G. (2023) Non-uniqueness of ITCZ latitude due to radiation-circulation coupling in an idealized GCM. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2023MS003736. [Journal Link]

MacDonald, C. G., Laughner, J. L., Hedelius, J. K., Nassar, R., Mastrogiacomo, J. P., & Wunch, D. (2023) Estimating Enhancement Ratios of Nitrogen Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, and Carbon Dioxide using Satellite Observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23, 3493-3516. [Journal Link]

2022

MacDonald, C. G., & Ming, Y. (2022) Tropical Intraseasonal Variability Response to Zonally Asymmetric Forcing in an Idealized Moist GCM. Journal of Climate, 35 (24), 4479-4501. [Journal Link]

2021

Nassar, R., Mastrogiacomo, J. P., Bateman-Hemphill, W., McCracken, C., MacDonald, C. G., Hill, T., … & Crisp, D. (2021). Advances in quantifying power plant CO2 emissions with OCO-2. Remote Sensing of Environment, 264, 112579. [Journal Link]

2019

Nassar, R., McLinden, C., Sioris, C. E., McElroy, C. T., Mendonca, J., Tamminen, J., … & Wunch, D. (2019). The atmospheric imaging mission for northern regions: AIM-North. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 45(3-4), 423-442. [Journal Link]

Kiel, M., O’Dell, C. W., Fisher, B., Eldering, A., Nassar, R., MacDonald, C. G., & Wennberg, P. O. (2019). How bias correction goes wrong: measurement of X CO 2 affected by erroneous surface pressure estimates. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 12(4), 2241-2259.[Journal Link]