Publications: 2001-2006

Pre-2006

• Boain, Ronald J., The Cloudsat Mission: A Virtual Platform Advances in the Astronautical Sciences (0065-3438), 2003. Vol.114,Iss.SUPPL.;.2121-2138

• Miller, S. D., and G. L. Stephens, 2001: CloudSat instrument requirements as determined from ECMWF forecasts of global cloudiness. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 17,713-17,733.

• Li, Lihua, S. M. Sekelski, S. C. Reising, C. T. Swift, S. L. Durden, G. A. Sadowy, S. J. Dinardo, F. K. Li, A. Huffman, G. L. Stephens, D. M. Babb, and H. W. Rosenberger, 2001: Retrieval of atmospheric attenuation using combined ground-based and airborne 95 GHz cloud radar measurements. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 18, 1345-1353.

• L'Ecuyer, T. S., and G. L. Stephens, 2002: An estimation-based precipitation retrieval algorithm for attenuating radars. J. Appl. Met., 41, 272-285.

• Sassen, K., Z. Wang, V. I. Khvorostyanov, G. L. Stephens, A. Benedetti, 2002: Cirrus cloud ice water content radar algorithm evaluation using an explicit cloud microphysical model. J. Appl. Met, 41, 620-628.

• Stephens, G. L., D. G. Vane, R. J. Boain, G. G. Mace, K. Sassen, Z. Wang, A. J. Illingworth, E. J. O'Connor, W. B. Rossow, S. L. Durden, S. D. Miller, R. T. Austin, A. Benedetti, C. Mitrescu, and the CloudSat Science Team, 2002: The CloudSat mission and the A-TRAIN: A new dimension to space-based observations of clouds and precipitation. In Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 83, 1771-1790.

• Benedetti, A., G. L. Stephens, J. M. Haynes, 2003:  Ice cloud microphysics retrievals from millimeter radar and visible optical depth using an estimation theory approach. J. Geophys. Res., 108, D11, 4335.

• Heymsfield, A. J., Z. Wang and S. Matrosov, 2005: Improved radar ice water content retrieval algorithms using coincident microphysical and radar measurements. J. Appl. Meteor., 44, 1391-1412.

• Iwasaki, S., R. Shirooka, Y. Tsushima, I. Matsui, A. Shimizu,N. Sugimoto,A. Kamei, H. Kumagai, H. Kuroiwa, M. Katsumata, K. Yoneyama, H.Okamoto, 2004: Subvisual cirrus clouds observation with the 1064-nm lidar, the 95-GHz cloud radar, and radiosondes on the warm pool, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L09103, doi: 10.1029/2003GL019377 

• Iwasaki S., H. Okamoto, H. Hanado, H. Horie, H. Kuroiwa, and H. Kumagai, 2005: Retrieval of raindrop and cloud particle size distributions with a 14 GHz precipitation and a 95 GHz cloud radar, J. Meteor. Soc. J.,83,(2005),771-782

• Okamoto, H., 2002: Information content of the 95GHz cloud radar signals: Theoretical assessment of non-sphericity and error evaluation of the discrete dipole approximation, JGR, 107 (D22, 4628) doi: 10.1029/2001JD001386

• Okamoto, H., S. Iwasaki, M. Yasui, H. Horie, H. Kuroiwa and H. Kumagai, 2003: An algorithm for retrieval of cloud microphysics using 95- GHz cloud radar and lidar, JGR, 108(D7, 4226), doi: 10.1029/2001JD0001225

• Rossow, W.B., Y-C. Zhang and J-H. Wang, 2005: A statistical model of cloud vertical structure based on reconciling cloud layer amounts inferred from satellites and radiosonde humidity profiles. J. Climate, 18, 3587-3605.

• Rossow, W.B., G. Tselioudis, A. Polak and C. Jakob, 2005: Tropical climate described as a distribution of weather states indicated by distinct mesoscale cloud property mixtures. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, doi 10.1029/2005GL024584, (1-4).

• Wang, Z. and K. Sassen, 2002: Cirrus cloud microphysical property retrieval using lidar and radar measurements: I algorithm description and comparison with in situ data. J. Appl. Meteor., 41, 218-229.

• Wang, Z., G. M. Heymsfield, L. Li, and, A. J. Heymsfield, 2005: Retrieve optically thick ice cloud microphysical properties by using airborne dual-wavelength radar measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D19201, doi:10.1029/2005JD005969.

• Zhang, Y-C., W.B. Rossow, A.A. Lacis, M.I. Mishchenko and V. Oinas, 2004: Calculation of radiative fluxes from the surface to top-of-atmosphere based on ISCCP and other global datasets: Refinements of the radiative transfer model and the input data. J. Geophys. Res., 109, doi 10.1029/2003JD004457 (1-27 + 1-25).

2006

• Atlas, D., Z. Wang, and D. Duda, 2006: Contrails to Cirrus - Morphology, Microphysics, and Radiative Properties. J. Appl. Meteor., 45, 5-19.

• Hogan, R. J., D. P. Donovan, C. Tinel, M. A. Brooks, A. J. Illingworth and J. P. V. Poiares Baptista, 2006: Independent evaluation of the ability of spaceborne radar and lidar to retrieve the microphysical and radiative properties of ice clouds. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 23, 211-227.

• Hogan, R. J., M. P. Mittermaier and A. J. Illingworth, 2006: The retrieval of ice water content from radar reflectivity factor and temperature and its use in the evaluation of a mesoscale model. J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatology, 45, 301-317.

• Hogan, R., David P. Donovan, Claire Tinel, Malcolm E. Brooks, Dominique Bouniol, Anthony J. Illingworth, and J. Pedro V. Poiares Baptista, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Volume 23, Issue 2 (February 2006) pp. 211-227.

• Sato, K., and H. Okamoto, 2006: Characterization of Ze and LDR of nonspherical and inhomogeneous ice particles for 95-GHz cloud radar: Its implication to microphysical retrievals, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D22213, doi:10.1029/2005JD006959.
• Tselioudis, G., and W.B. Rossow, 2006: Climate feedback implied by observed radiation and precipitation changes with midlatitude storm strength and frequency. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, doi 10.1029/2005GL024513, (1-5).

• Zhang, Y, G. Mace,, et al. Retrieval of cirrus microphysical properties with a suite of algorithms for airborne and spaceborne lidar, radar, and radiometer data, J APPL METEOROL CLIM 45 (12): 1665-1689 DEC 2006