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      1990
Comrie, A.C., 1990: The climatology of surface ozone in rural areas: a conceptual model. Progress in Physical Geography 14, 295-316.

1992
Comrie, A.C., 1992: A procedure for removing the synoptic climate signal from environmental data. International Journal of Climatology 12, 177-183.
Comrie, A.C., 1992: An enhanced synoptic climatology of ozone using a sequencing technique. Physical Geography 13, 53-65.
Comrie, A.C. and Yarnal, B., 1992: Relationships between synoptic-scale atmospheric circulation and ozone concentrations in metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Atmospheric Environment 26B, 301-312.
Simini, M., Skelly, J.M., Davis, D.D., Savage, J.E. and Comrie, A.C., 1992: Sensitivity of four hardwood species to ambient ozone in northcentral Pennsylvania. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 22, 1789-1799.

1994
Comrie, A.C., 1994: A synoptic climatology of rural ozone pollution at three forest sites in Pennsylvania. Atmospheric Environment 28A, 1601-1614.
Comrie, A.C., 1994: Tracking ozone: air-mass trajectories and pollutant source regions influencing ozone in Pennsylvania forests. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 84 (4), 635-651.

1996
Comrie, A.C., 1996: An all-season synoptic climatology of air pollution in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Professional Geographer 48(3), 237-251.

1997
Comrie, A.C., 1997: Comparing neural networks and regression models for ozone forecasting. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 47, 653-663.
Adams, D.K. and Comrie, A.C., 1997: The North American Monsoon. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 78(10), 2197-2213.

1998
Comrie, A.C., 1998: Mapping the climatology of ozone potential for the U.S.-Mexico border region. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 31(1), 1-12.
Comrie, A.C. and Glenn, E.C. 1998: Principal components-based regionalization of precipitation regimes across the Southwest United States and Northern Mexico, with an application to monsoon precipitation variability. Climate Research 10, 201-215.

1999
Comrie, A.C. and Diem, J.E. 1999: Climatology and forecast modeling of ambient carbon monoxide in Phoenix, AZ. Atmospheric Environment 33, 5023-5036.

2000
Comrie, A.C. 2000: Mapping a wind-modified urban heat island in Tucson, Arizona (with comments on integrating research and undergraduate learning). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 81, 2417-2431.
Diem, J.E. and Comrie, A.C. 2000: Integrating remote sensing and local vegetation information for a high resolution biogenic emissions inventory: application to an urbanized, semi-arid region. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 50, 1968-1979.

2001
Kolivras, K.N., Johnson, P., Comrie, A.C. and Yool, S.R. 2001: Environmental Variability and Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever). Aerobiologia 17, 31-42.
E. Wright, A. Long, A. Comrie, S. Leavitt, T. Cavazos and C. Eastoe, 2001: North American monsoonal moisture sources revealed using temperature, precipitation, and precipitation stable isotope timeseries. Geophysical Research Letters 28, 787-790.
Diem, J.E. and Comrie, A.C. 2001: Air quality, climate, and policy: A case study of ozone pollution in Tucson, Arizona. The Professional Geographer 53, 469-491.
Yarnal, B., Comrie, A.C., Frakes, B. and Brown, D.P. 2001: Developments and prospects in synoptic climatology. International Journal of Climatology 21, 1887-1914.
Diem, J.E. and Comrie, A.C. 2001: Allocating anthropogenic pollutant emissions over space: application to ozone pollution management. Journal of Environmental Management 63, 425-447.

2002
Diem, J.E. and Comrie, A.C. 2002: Predictive mapping of air pollution involving sparse spatial observations. Environmental Pollution 119, 99–117.
Comrie, A.C. and Broyles, B., 2002: Variability and spatial modeling of fine-scale precipitation data for the Sonoran Desert of Southwest Arizona. Journal of Arid Environments 50, 573–592.
Sheppard, P.R., Comrie, A.C., Packin, G.D., Angersbach, K., and Hughes, M.K. 2002: The climate of the US Southwest. Climate Research 21, 219-238.
Cavazos, T., Comrie, A.C. and Liverman, D.M. Intraseasonal wave anomalies associated with wet monsoons in Southeast Arizona. Journal of Climate 15, 2477-2490.
Brown, D.P. and Comrie, A.C. 2002: Spatial modeling of winter temperature and precipitation in Arizona and New Mexico, U.S.A. Climate Research 22, 115-128.
Ni, F., Cavazos, T., Hughes, M.K., Comrie, A.C. and Funkhouser, G. 2002: Cool season precipitation in the Southwestern United States since AD 1000: Comparison of linear and nonlinear techniques for reconstruction. International Journal of Climatology 22, 1645-1662.
Brown, D.P. and Comrie, A.C., 2002: Sub-regional seasonal precipitation linkages to SOI and PDO in the Southwest United States. Atmospheric Science Letters 3, 94-102.

2003
Komatsu, K., Vaz, V., McRill, C., Colman, T., Comrie, A., Sigel, K., Clark, T., Phelan, M., Hajjeh, R. and Park, B., 2003: Increase in coccidioidomycosis – Arizona, 1998-2001. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 52, 109-112.
Kolivras, K.N. and Comrie, A.C., 2003: Modeling valley fever incidence based on climate conditions in Pima County, Arizona. International Journal of Biometeorology 47, 87-101.


2004
Brown, D.B. and Comrie, A.C., 2004: A winter precipitation ‘dipole’ in the Western United States associated with multidecadal ENSO variability. Geophysical Research Letters 31, doi:10.1029/2003GL018726.
Abraham, J.S. and Comrie, A.C., 2004: Real-time ozone mapping using a regression-interpolation hybrid approach, applied to Tucson, Arizona. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 54, 914–925.
Kolivras, K.N. and Comrie, A.C., 2004: Climate and infectious disease in the southwestern United States. Progress in Physical Geography 28, 387-398.
Kliman, S.S. and Comrie, A.C., 2004: Effects of vegetation on residential energy consumption. Home Energy, July/August, 38-42.
Crimmins, M. A. and Comrie, A.C., 2004: Interactions between antecedent climate and wildfire variability across southeast Arizona. International Journal of Wildland Fire 13, 455-466.

2005
Wise, E.K. and Comrie, A.C., 2005: Meteorologically-adjusted urban air quality trends in the southwestern United States. Atmospheric Environment 39, 2969-2980.
Park, B.J., Sigel, K., Vaz, V., Komatsu, K., McRill, C., Phelan, M., Colman, T., Comrie, A.C., Warnock, D.W., Galgiani, J.N. and Hajjeh, R.A., 2005: An epidemic of coccidioidomycosis in Arizona associated with climate changes, 1998-2001. Journal of Infectious Diseases 191, 1981-1987.

Wise, E.K. and Comrie A.C., 2005: Extending the KZ filter: application to ozone, particulate matter and meteorological trends. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 55, 1208-1216.
Comrie, A.C., 2005: Climate factors influencing coccidioidomycosis seasonality and outbreaks. Environmental Health Perspectives 113, 688-692.

2007
Ray, A.J., Garfin, G.M., Wilder, M., Vásquez-León, M., Lenart, M. & Comrie, A.C., 2007: Applications of monsoon research: Opportunities to inform decisionmaking and reduce regional vulnerability. Journal of Climate 20, 1608–1627.
Comrie, A.C. 2007: Climate Change and Human Health. Geography Compass 1, 325–339.
Tamerius, J., Wise, E.K., Uejio, C.K., McCoy, A., and Comrie, A.C. 2007: Climate and human health: synthesizing environmental complexity and uncertainty. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA) 21, 601-613.
Kolivras, K.N. and Comrie, A.C., 2007: Regionalization and variability of precipitation in Hawaii. Physical Geography 21, 76-96.
Comrie, A.C. and Glueck, M.F. 2007: Model Sensitivity for Assessing Climatologic Effects on the Risk of Acquiring Coccidioidomycosis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1111, 83–95.

2009
Comrie, A.C. 2009: Nietzsche's challenge to physical geography. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 8 (2), 1-14.
Bieda III, S.W., Castro, C.L., Mullen, S.L., Comrie, A.C. and Pytlak, E. 2009: The relationship of transient upper-level troughs to variability of the North American monsoon system. Journal of Climate 22, 4213-4227.