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Publications: 2007

Journal Articles

2007

  • Allan, R. P., A. Slingo, S. F. Milton and M. A. Brooks, 2007: Evaluation of the Met. Office global forecast model using Geostationary Earth Radition Budget (GERB) data, submitted to Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc.
  • Battaglia, A., Ajewole, M. O., et al., 2007: Evaluation of radar multiple scattering effects in CloudSat configuration, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7 (7), 1719-1730.
  • Battaglia, A., and C. Simmer, How does multiple scattering affect the spaceborne W-band radar measurements at ranges close to and crossing the surface-range?, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, in publication.
  • Battaglia, A., S. Kobayashi, S. Tanelli, E. Im, and C. Simmer, Multiple scattering effects in pulsed radar systems: an intercomparison study, J. Atm. Ocean. Tech., in publication.
  • Battaglia, A., J. Haynes, T. L'Ecuyer, and C. Simmer, Identifying multiple-scattering in CloudSat observations over the Oceans, J. Geoph. Res., submitted.
  • Benson, S. and Mace, G., 2007: A comparison of cloud radiative forcing as a function of climatological regime derived from A-Train data, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941), 88, Iss. 52.
  • Bouniol, D., A. Protat, A. Plana-Fattori, J.-P. Vinson, M. Giraud, and N. Grand, 2007: Comparison of airborne and spaceborne 95 GHz radar reflectivities and evidence of multiple scattering in CloudSat measurements. Submitted to J.Appl.Met. Climatol., early results from AMMA validation experiment.
  • Chen, R., F. L. Chen, Z. Li, R. Ferraro, F. Weng, The impact of vertical variation of cloud droplet size on estimation of cloud liquid water path and detection of warm raining cloud, J. Atmos. Sci., accepted.
  • Chen et al, Studying the Vertical Variation of Cloud Droplet Effective Radius Using Ship-borne and Space-borne Remote Sensing Data, submitted to JGR.
  • de Boer, G, Eloranta, E. W., Tripoli, G. J., 2007: Understanding Formation and Maintenance of Mixed-Phase Arctic Stratus Through Long-Term Observation at two Arctic Locations, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Eberhard, G., S. D'Amico and O. Montenbruck, 2007: Autonomous Formation Flying for the PRISMA mission, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 44, 3, 671-681.
  • Garay, M. J., Burl, M. C., Wang, Y., Ng. J., 2007: Adaptive Sky: Observing Clouds Using Multi-Instrument, Multi-Platform Sensor Webs, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Grenier, P., Blanchet, J., Girard, E., Jones, C., Bertram, A., Stephens, G. L., 2007: Detection of the Arctic Dehydration-Greenhouse Feedback Using Satellite Observations and a Regional Climate Model, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Haynes, J. M., Stephens, G. L., Mitrescu, C., Miller, S. D., L'Ecuyer, T. S., 2007: Precipitation estimation from CloudSat, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Haynes, J., R.T. Marchand, Z. Luo, A. Bodas-Salcedo and G. L. Stephens, 2007: A Multi-Purpose Radar Simulation Package: QuickBeam. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc, 88, 1723-1727. - Describes the simulator and shows a results of simulator in an NWP model compared to actual CloudSat data.
  • Haynes, J. and G. L. Stephens, 2007; Tropical cloudiness and the incidence of precipitation: Early results from CloudSat, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L09811, doi:10.1029/2007GL029335 and Nature, 447, 31, May 2007, p. 510. - Highlights structure of tropical vertical cloud structure and precipitation
  • Heymsfield, A. J., A. Bansemer, and C. Twohy, 2007: Refinements to ice particle mass dimensional and terminal velocity relationships for ice clouds: Part II: Evaluation and parameterizations of ensemble ice particle sedimentation velocities. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 1068-1088.
  • Heymsfield, A. J., P. R. Field, A. Bansemer, and C. Schmitt, 2007: FSSP ice particle shattering: Relationship to total ice water content and extinction. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., submitted.
  • Heymsfield, A. J., 2007: On Measurements of Small Ice Particles in Clouds. Geophy. Res. Ltrs., 34, L23812, doi:10.1029/2007GL030951.
  • Heymsfield, A. J., A. Bansemer and S. Y. Matrosov, 2007: The 94 GHz Radar Dim Band: Relevance to Ice Cloud Properties and CloudSat., Geophys. Res. Ltrs, in press.
  • Heymsfield, et al, 2007: Testing IWC Retrieval Methods using Radar and Ancillary Measurements with In-Situ Data. Submitted to J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., in press a CloudSat IWC validation paper.
  • Jiang, J. H., Su, H., Massie, S. T., Schoeberl, M. R., Livesey, N. J., 2007: A global climatology of clean and polluted clouds, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Kahn, B. H., Liang, C. K., Eldering, A., Gettelman, A., Fu, Q., 2007: Joint distributions of ice clouds and relative humidity: What can we learn from A-train measurements?, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Kahn, B. H., Chahine, M. T., Stephens, G. L., Mace, G. G., Marchand, R. T., Wang, Z., Barnet, C. D., Eldering, A., Holz, R. E., Kuehn, R. E., and Vane, D. G.: Cloud type comparisons of AIRS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO cloud height and amount, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 7, 13915-13958, 2007.
  • Kankiewicz, A., S. Kidder, T. H. Vonder Haar, S. Seaman, L. Carey, D. Hudak, W. Strapp, K. Strawbridge and M. Wolde, 2007: Mixed Phase Clouds Observed during the Canadian Cloud Sat/Calipso Validation Project, 2007 EUMETSAT Meteorological Conference and the 15th AMS Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography Conference, September 24-28, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Kempler, S., Smith, P., Savtchenko, A., Leptoukh, Stephens, G. L., Winker, D., 2007: Cloudsat, CALIOP, MODIS, AIRS, OMI, and POLDER Data Search and Visualization Available to Facilitate Multi Instrument Cloud Studies Along the A-Train Path, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Kobayashi, S., T. Oguchi, S. Tanelli, E. Im, 2007: Backscattering enhancement on spheroid-shaped hydrometeors: Considerations in water and ice particles of uniform size, and Marshall-Palmer distributed rains. Radio Science, 42, RS2001, doi:10.1029/2006RS003503.
  • Kobayashi, S, S. Ito, T. Oguchi, S. Tanelli, E. Im, 2007: A time dependent multiple scattering theory for a pulsed radar with a finite beamwidth. Radio Science, 42, RS4001, doi:10.1029/2006RS003555.
  • Kollias, P., E. E. Clothiaux, M. A. Miller, B. A. Albrecht, G. L. Stephens, and T. P. Ackerman, 2007: Millimeter-wavelength radars - New frontier in atmospheric cloud precipitation research. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 88, pp. 1608-1624.
  • Kollias, P, W. Szyrmer, I. Zawadzki, and P. Joe, 2007: Considerations for spaceborne 94GHz radar observations of precipitation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L21803, doi: 10.1029/2207GL031536.
  • Leptoukh, G. and J. Mao, 2007: Studying role of dust in atmosphere-ocean interactions using Giovanni, American Geophysical Union, 88, 25.
  • Li, F., Waliser, D., Bacmeister, J., Chern, J., Genio, T., Jiang, J., Kharitondov, M., Liou, K., Meng, H., Minnis, P., Rossow, B., Stephens, G., Tao, W., Vane, D., Woods, C., Tompkins, A., Wu, D., 2007: Cloud Ice: A Climate Model Challenge With Signs and Expectations of Progress, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Liu, C., Zipser, E., Mace, G., 2007: Comparisons of CloudSat cloud features and TRMM precipitation features, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Luo, Y., Zhang, S., Yongjun, Z., Hu, Y., 2007: Comparison of Cloud Amount between CALIPSO and General Circulation Models, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Luo, Z., G. L. Stephens, K. A. Emanuel, D. G. Vane, N. Tourville and J. Haynes, 2007: On the Use of CloudSat and MODIS data for estimating Hurricane Intensity, in press, Geophys. Res. Lett.
  • Mace, G. G., R. Marchand and G. L. Stephens, 2007: Global Hydrometeor Occurrence as Observed by CloudSat; Initial Observations from Summer 2006, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L09808, doi:10.1029/2006GL029017.
  • Mace G.G., Q. Zhang, M. Vaughn, R. Marchand, G. Stephens, C. Trepte and D. Winker., 2007; A description of Hydrometeor layer occurrence statistics derived from the first year of merged CloudSat and Calypso data, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  • Marchand, R. T., Mace, G. Ackerman, T. and Stephens, G., 2007; Hydrometeor Detection using CloudSat - an Earth Orbiting 94 GHz Cloud Radar, submitted to J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., - the cloud mask algorithm (2B-GEOPROF)
  • Marchand, R. T., Mace, G. Ackerman, T. and Stephens, G., 2007; A Comparison of CloudSat Cloud Radar Observations with Simulated Cloud Radar Output from the Multiscale Modeling Framework Global Climate Model, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., early example of model CloudSat intercomparison
  • Matrosov, S. 2007; Potential for attenuation-based estimates of rainfall rate from CloudSat, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L05817, doi: 10.1029/2006GL029161, early example of precipitation information from CloudSat.
  • Matrosov, S. Y., Modeling backscatter properties of snowfall at millimeter wavelengths, J. Atmos. Sci., 64 (5): 1727-1736, May 2007.
  • Mitrescu, C., S. D. Miller, T. L. Ecyuer, J. Hawkins, J. Turk, P. Partain, G. L. Stephens, 2007; Near real time applications of Cloudsat data, accepted to J. Appl. Met.
  • Posselt, D., G. L. Stephens, and M. Miller, 2007; CloudSat: Adding a new dimension to a classical view of extratropical cyclones, submitted to B. Amer. Met. Soc.
  • Protat A., J. Delanoe, D. Bouniol, A. J. Heymsfield, A. Bansemer and P. Brown, 2007: Evaluation of ice water content retrievals from cloud radar reflectivity and temperature using a large airborne in-situ microphysical database. J. Appl. Meteor., 46, 557-572.
  • Rogers, M., Stephens, G. L., 2007: Latent Heating Properties of Cloud Regimes Determined by Cluster Analysis of Satellite and Model Data, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Rossow, W.B., and C. Pearl, 2007: 22-yr survey of tropical convection penetrating into the lower stratosphere. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L04803, doi: 10.1029/2006GL028635, (1-4).
  • Sassen, K., S. Matrosov, and J. Campbell, 2007: CloudSat Spaceborne 94 GHz Radar Bright Bands in the Melting Layer: An Attenuation-Driven Upside-Down Lidar Analog, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L16818, doi:10.1029/2007GL030291.
  • Sassen, K., et al. Classifying Clouds Around the Globe with the CloudSat Radar: 1-Year of Results, Geophys. Res. Lett., accepted.
  • Smith, P., Kempler, S., Leptoukh, G., Savtchenko, A., Winker, D., Stephens, G., Multi-Sensor Data From A-Train Instruments Brought Together for Atmospheric Research, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Stephens, G. L. et al., 2007, The CloudSat Mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  • Stephens, G.L and J. Haynes, 2007; Near Global Observations of the Warm Rain Auto-conversion Process, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L20805, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030259, describes a new application of MODIS and CloudSat
  • Stephens , G.L and C. Kummerow, 2007; The remote sensing of clouds and precipitation from space: A review, to appear in J. Atmos. Sci. - describes the multi-sensor philosophy of CloudSat
  • Stephens, G. L. and D. G. Vane, 2007: Cloud remote sensing from space in the era of the A-Train. SPIE spcial issue on JARS
  • Stephens, G L., 2007: Model Evaluations Using CloudSat and the A-Train Data, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Tanelli,S., S. L. Durden, E. Im, K. Pak, 2007: Performance of CloudSats Cloud Profiling Radar in the first 9 months in orbit. submitted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Rem. Sens.
  • Tian, L., Heymsfield, G., Li, L., 2007: Convective generated cirrus observed by CRS and EDOP during TC4, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.
  • Tokay, A., V.N., Bringi, G. Huang, M. Schoenhuber, P.G. Bashor, D. Hudak, G.S. Jackson, and W.A. Peterson, Snowflake size distribution measurements in south central Ontario, Canada, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 88, no. 25, 19 June 2007.
  • 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).
  • Wang, D., Y. Liu, H. Zhou, Y. Li, and Z. Wang, 2007: Cloud-Precipitation Microphysical characteristics of tropical storm Billis (2006). Part 1: observations, American Geophysical Union, 88, 25.
  • Weinman, J. A., M. J. Kim, et al., 2007: A simple model of the millimeter-wave scattering parameters of randomly oriented aggregates of finite cylindrical ice hydrometeors, J. Atmos. Sci., 64 (2): 634-644.
  • Wong, V. and Emanuel, Kerry, 2007, Use of cloud radars and radiometers for tropical cyclone intensity estimation, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L12811, doi: 10.1029/2007GL029960.
  • Wu, D. L. , J. H. Jiang, W. G. Read, R. T. Austin, C. P. Davis, A. Lambert, B. H. Kahn, C. J. Nankervis, M. Sneep, J. P. Veefkind, H. C. Pumphrey, G. L. Stephens, D. G. Vane, and J. W. Waters, 2007: Aura MLS Cloud Ice measurements and comparisons with CloudSat and other correlative data, J. Geophys. Res..
  • Wang, Z. and K Sassen, 2007; Initial Results from CloudSat: Applying the Radar Cloud Type Algorithm around the Globe, submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett., early cloud classification results.
  • Weisz, E., J. Li, P. Menzel, A. Heidinger, B. Kahn, and C.-Y. Liu, 2007: Comparison of AIRS, MODIS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO cloud top height retrievals, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L 17811, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030676.
  • Zhang, Y., S. Klein, G. G. Mace, and J. Boyle, 2007: Cluster analysis of tropical clouds using CloudSat data, Geophys Res. Lett., 34, L12813, doi:10.1029/2007GL029336.
  • Zhang, Y., Klein, S., Mace, G., Boyle, J., Xie, S., 2007: Preparation for Evaluating Cloud Simulations from GCMs Using the A-Train Data, American Geophysical Union, 88, 52.

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