Publications: 2007

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 Radiation Budget (GERB) data, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 133, Issue 629, Date: October 2007 Part B, Pages: 1993-2010.

• Battaglia, A, M.O. Ajewole, MO, et al. Evaluation of radar multiple scattering effects in Cloudsat configuration, Atmos Chem Phys 7 (7): 1719-1730 2007.

• Benson, S; Mace, G., A comparison of cloud radiative forcing as a function of climatological regime derived from A- Train data, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941) 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.52.

• 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., Nov 2007, Vol.64, Iss.11; .3843-3853.

• de Boer, G; Eloranta, E W; Tripoli, G J., Understanding Formation and Maintenance of Mixed-Phase Arctic Stratus Through Long- Term Observation at two Arctic Locations , EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941), 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.52

• Eberhard, G., S. D’Amico and O. Montenbruck, Autonomous Formation Flying for the PRISMA mission, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 44, no. 3, pp 671-681, May-June 2007.

• Garay, M J; Burl, M C; Wang, Y; Ng, J., Adaptive Sky: Observing Clouds Using Multi-Instrument, Multi-Platform Sensor Webs, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941) 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88,Iss.52;

• Grenier, P; Blanchet, J; Girard, E; Jones, C; Bertram, A; Stephens, G L., Detection of the Arctic Dehydration-Greenhouse Feedback Using Satellite Observations and a Regional Climate Model EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941) 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.52.

• Haynes, J M; Stephens, G L; Mitrescu, C; Miller, S D; Ecuyer, T S., Precipitation estimation from CloudSat, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941), 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.52

• Haynes, J. and G.L. Stephens, 2007; Tropical oceanic cloudiness and the incidence of precipitation: Early results from CloudSat, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L09811, doi:10.1029/2007GL029335. Also highlighted in Nature, Vol 447|31 May 2007, p510. Highlights structue of tropical clouds and precipitation – a landmark early paper 

• Haynes, J., R.T Marchand, Z. Luo, A. Bodas-Salcedo and G. L Stephens, 2007; A Multi-Purpose Radar Simulation Package: QuickBeam Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society  Volume 88, Issue 11 (November 2007) pp. 1723–1727, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-88-11-1723.

• Heymsfield, A. J., 2007: On Measurements of Small Ice Particles in Clouds.  Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L23812, doi:10.1029/2007GL030951.

• 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.

• Jiang, J H; Su, H; Massie, S T; Schoeberl, M R; Livesey, N J.,  A global climatology of clean and polluted cloudsEOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941), 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.52.

• Kahn, B H; Liang, C K; Eldering, A; Gettelman, A; Fu, Q., Joint distributions of ice clouds and relative humidity: What can we learn from A-train measurements? EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941) 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.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, G; Stephens, G; Winker, D., Cloudsat, CALIOP, MODIS, AIRS, OMI, and POLDER Data Search and Visualization Available to Facilitate Multi Instrument Cloud Studies Along the A-Train Path, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941) 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88,Iss.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, W. Szyrmer, I. Zawadzki, and P. Joe, Considerations for spaceborne 94GHz radar observations of precipitation, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L21803, doi: 10.1029/2207GL031536.

• Leptoukh, G and J. Mao, Studying role of dust in atmosphere-ocean interactions using Giovanni, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 88, no. 25, 19 June 2007.

• Li,, J.-L., J. H. Jiang, D. E. Waliser, A. Tompkins, 2007: Assessing Consistency between EOS MLS and ECMWF Analyzed and Forecast Estimates of Cloud Ice, Geoph. Res. Lett., 34, L08701, doi:10.1029/2006GL029022.

• Liu, C; Zipser, E; Mace, G., Comparisons of CloudSat cloud features and TRMM precipitation features, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941) 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.52.

• Luo, Y; Zhang, S; Yongjun, Z; Hu, Y., Comparison of Cloud Amount between CALIPSO and General Circulation Models,  EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941) 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88,Iss.52;

• Lopez, P., Cloud and Precipitation Parameterizations in Modeling and Variational Data Assimilation: A Review, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences \, Volume 64, Issue 11 (November 2007) pp. 3766–3784, DOI: 10.1175/2006JAS2030.1

• 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 – first science from 2B-GEOPROF

• 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, SY, Modeling backscatter properties of snowfall at millimeter wavelengths, J Atmos Sci 64 (5): 1727-1736 May 2007

• Minnis, P., B. Wielicki, C. A. Trepte, S. Sun-Mack, Y. Chen, S. Gibson, S. Kato, and G. Stephens, 2007: Characterizing radiation fields in the atmosphere using a cloud-aerosol-radiation product from integrated CERES, MODIS, CALIPSO, and CloudSat data. Proc. 2007 IEEE Intl. Geosci. and Remote Sens. Symp., Barcelona, Spain, 23 - 27 July, CD-ROM.

• Okamoto, H., T. Nishizawa, T. Takemura, H. Kumagai, H. Kuroiwa, N. Sugimoto, I. Matsui, A. Shimizu, A. Kamei, S. Emori, and T. Nakajima, 2007: Vertical cloud structure observed from shipborne radar and lidar, Part (I) : mid-latitude case study during the MR01/K02 cruise of the R/V Mirai, J. Geophys. Res, 112, D08216, doi:10.1029/2006JD007628 

• Protat A., J. Delanoë, D. Bouniol, A.J. Heymsfield, A. Bansemer, and P. Brown: 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., Latent Heating Properties of Cloud Regimes Determined by Cluster Analysis of Satellite and Model Data, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941), 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.52. 

• Rossow, W.B., and C. Pearl, 2007: 22-year 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. examination of downward-looking CloudSat returns in precipitation often indicate an obvious signal peak in the melting region.

• Smith, P; Kempler, S; Leptoukh, G; Savtchenko, A; Winker, D; Stephens, G., Multi-Sensor Data From A-Train Instruments Brought Together for Atmospheric Research, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941), 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.52

• Stephens, G.L and J. Haynes, 2007; Near Global Observations of the Warm Rain Coalescence Process, Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 34, L20805, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030259. shows the power of the combining of atrain measurements to extract first time information about formation of rain water.

• Stephens, G L., Model Evaluations Using CloudSat and the A-Train Data,  EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941), 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.52.

• Stephens, G.L. and Norman B. Wood, Properties of Tropical Convection Observed by Millimeter-Wave Radar Systems, Monthly Weather Review , Volume 135, Issue 3 (March 2007) pp. 821–842, DOI: 10.1175/MWR3321.1

• Stephens, G.L., and Christian D. Kummerow, The Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation from Space: A Review, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 64, Issue 11 (November 2007) pp. 3742–3765, DOI: 10.1175/2006JAS2375.1

• Sun-Mack, S., B. A. Wielicki, P. Minnis, S. Gibson, and Y. Chen, 2007: Integrated cloud-aerosol-radiation product using CERES, MODIS, CALISPO, and CloudSat data. Proc. SPIE Europe 2007 Conf. Remote Sens. Clouds and the Atmos., Florence, Italy, 17-19 September, 6745, no. 29.

• Tian, L; Heymsfield, G; Li, L, Convective generated cirrus observed by CRS and EDOP during TC4, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941) 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.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.

• Wang, D., Y. Liu, H. Zhou, Y. Li, and Z. Wang, Cloud-Precipitation Microphysical characteristics of tropical storm Billis (2006). Part 1: observations, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 88, no. 25, 19 June 2007, 

• Weinman, JA, MJ Kim, et al. 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 FEB 2007

• Weisz, E., J. Li, W. P. Menzel, A.K. Heidinger, B.H. Kahn, C-Y Liu, Comparisons of AIRS, MODIS, CloudSat and CALIPSO cloud top height retrievals, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L 17811, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030676.

• 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

• Zhang, Y; Klein, S; Mace, G G; Boyle, J; Xie, S., Preparation for Evaluating Cloud Simulations from GCMs Using the A-Train Data, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (0096-3941), 25 Dec. 2007. Vol.88, Iss.52

• Zhang, Y, S. Klein, G. G. Mace, and J. Boyle, 2007; Cluster analysis of tropical clouds using CloudSat data, Geophys.Res.Lett., Vol 34, L12813, doi:10.1029/2007GL029336. Demonstrates links between clouds and the atmospheric circulation