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Publications: 2008

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2008

  • Austin, R., A. Heymsfield and G. Stephens, 2008: Retrievals of ice cloud microphysical parameters using the CloudSat millimeter-wave radar and temperature, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  • Austin, R. and G. Stephens, 2008: Improved retrieval of stratus cloud microphysical parameters using millimeter-wave radar and visible optical depth: I. Algorithm and synthetic analysis, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  • Austin, R., S. Miller, Q. Min, and G. Stephens and N. Wood, 2008: Improved retrieval of stratus cloud microphysical parameters using millimeter-wave radar and visible optical depth: II. Application and Evaluation, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  • Barker, H. W., 2008: Overlap of Fractional Cloud for Radiation Calculations in GCM's: A Global Analysis using CloudSat and CALIPSO Data, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., December 2007.
  • Barker, H. W., A. Korolev, D. Hudak, J. W. Strapp and K. Strawbridge, 2008: A comparison between CloudSat and aircraft data for a multi-layer, mixed-phase cloud system during C3VP, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., January 2008.
  • Barker, H. W., 2008: Representing Cloud Overlap with an Effective Decorrelation Length: An assessment using CloudSat and CALIPSO Data, submitted to Q. J. R. Met. Soc., May 2008.
  • Battaglia, A., M. O. Ajewole and C. Simmer, 2008: Evaluation of radar multiple scattering effects in Cloudsat configuration, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 1719-1730.
  • Battaglia, A., S. Kobayashi, S. Tanelli, E. Im, and C. Simmer, 2008: Multiple scattering effects in pulsed radar systems: an intercomparison study, J. Atm. Ocean. Tech., in publication.
  • Battaglia, A., and C. Simmer, 2008: 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, 46, 6, 1644-1651.
  • Battaglia, A., J. Haynes, T. L'Ecuyer, and C. Simmer, 2008: Identifying multiple-scattering in CloudSat observations over the Oceans, J. Geoph. Res., submitted.
  • Berg, W., T. L'Ecuyer, and S. van den Heever, 2008: Evidence for the impact of aerosols on the onset and microphysical properties of rainfall from a combination of satellite observations and cloud resolving model simulations, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JD009649.
  • Chung, E. S., B. J. Sohn, and J. Schmetz (2008), CloudSat shedding new light on high-reaching tropical deep convection observed with Meteosat, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L02814, doi:10.1029/2007GL032516.
  • Dodson, J. B., and T. H. Vonder Haar, 2008: Observations of Atmospheric Rivers with CloudSat CPR and Aqua AMSR-E. Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research.
  • Eriksson, P, M. Ekstrom, B. Rydberg, D. L. Wu, R. T. Austin, and D. P. Murtagh, 2008: Comparison between early Odin-SMR, Aura MLS and CloudSat retrievals of cloud ice mass in the upper tropical troposphere, Atmos. Chem. Phys., accepted.
  • Feldman, D. R., T. S. L'Ecuyer, K. N. Liou, and Y. L. Yung, 2008: Remote sensing of tropical tropopause layer radiation balance using A-Train measurements, J. Geophys. Res., accepted.
  • Haynes, J., T. L'Ecuyer, G. Stephens, S. Miller, C. Mitrescu and S. Tanelli, 2008: Rainfall retrieval over the ocean with spaceborne W-band radar, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  • Heymsfield, A. J., A. Protat, R. T. Austin, D. Bouniol, R. J. Hogan, J. Delanoe, H. Okamoto, K. Sato, G.-J. van Zadelhoff, D. P. Donovan, and Z. Wang, 2008: Testing IWC retrieval methods using radar and ancillary measurements with in-situ data. J. Appl. Met. Cli., 135-163.
  • Heymsfield A. J., A. Bansemer, S. Matrosov, and L. Tian, 2008: The 94-GHz radar dim band: Relevance to ice cloud properties and CloudSat. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L03802, doi:10.1029/2007GL03136.
  • Hudak, D., P. Rodriguez, and N. Donaldson, 2008: Validation of the CloudSat Precipitation Occurrence Algorithm Using the Canadian C-band Radar Network. J. Geophys. Res., accepted.
  • Josset, D. B., J. Pelon, A. Protat, and C. Flamant, 2008: New approach to determine aerosol optical depth from combined CALIPSO and CloudSat ocean surface echoes, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2008GL033442.
  • Josset, D., J. Pelon, and A. Protat, 2008: Aerosol optical properties retrieval based over the ocean from the CALIPSO and CLOUDSAT spaceborne observations : theoretical basis and case studies. GRL, in revision.
  • Kay, J. E., T. L'Ecuyer, G. L. Stephens, A. Gettelman, and C. O'Dell, 2008; The contribution of cloud and radiation anomalies to the 2007 Arctic sea ice extent. minimum, Geophys. Res. Lett, 35, L08503, doi:10.1029/2008GL033451.
  • Kahn, B. T., M. T. Chahine, G. L. Stephens, G. G. Mace, R. T. Marchand, Z. Wang, C. D. Barnet, A. Eldering, R. E. Holz, R. E. Kuehn, and D. G. Vane, 2008: Cloud type comparisons of AIRS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO cloud height and amount, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 1231-1248.
  • 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.
  • Kubar, T. L., and D. L. Hartmann, 2008: Vertical structure of tropical oceanic convective clouds and its relation to precipitation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L03804, doi:10.1029/2007GL032811.
  • Lebsock M., G. L. Stephens, and C. Kummerow, 2007; Multi-Sensor Observations of Aerosol Effects on Warm Clouds, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  • L'Ecuyer, T., N. Wood, T. Haladay, G. Stephens and E. Eloranta, 2008: Assessing the impact of clouds on the atmospheric radiation budget assessed with the CloudSat Fluxes and Heating rate product, submitted to J. Geophysical Research
  • Leon, D. C., Z. Wang, and D. Liu, 2008: Global assessment of the frequency and characteristics of drizzle from marine stratocumulus and other low clouds over the ocean using one year of data from CloudSat and CALIPSO, accepted J. Geophys. Res.
  • Leon, D, Z. Wang, and D. Liu, 2008: Climatology of drizzle in marine boundary layer clouds based on one year of data from CloudSat and CALIPSO, accepted J. Geophys. Res.
  • Liu, D., Z. Wang, Z. Liu, D. Winker and C. Trepte, 2008: A Height Resolved Global View of Dust Aerosols from the First Year CALIPSO Lidar Measurements, J. Geophys. Res., (in press).
  • Liu, G., 2008: Deriving snow cloud characteristics from CloudSat observations, Submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  • Luo, Z., G. L. Stephens, K. A. Emanuel, D. G. Vane, N. Tourville and J. Haynes, 2008: On the Use of CloudSat and data for estimating Hurricane Intensity, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 5, 1, 13-16.
  • Mace. G., Q. Zhang, M. Vaughan, R. Marchand, G. Stephens, C. Trepte, D. Winker, 2008: A Description of Hydrometeor Layer Occurrence Statistics Derived from the First Year of Merged Cloudsat and CALIPSO Data, to appear J. Geophys. Res.
  • Marchand, R. T., Mace, G. Ackerman, T. and Stephens, G., 2008: Hydrometeor Detection using CloudSat - an Earth Orbiting 94 GHz Cloud Radar, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 25, 4, 519-533.
  • Marchand, R. T., J. Haynes, G. G. Mace, T. P. Ackerman and G. Stephens, 2008: A Comparison of CloudSat Cloud Radar Observations with Simulated Cloud Radar Output from the Multiscale Modeling Framework Global Climate Model, submitted to JGR (special CloudSat issue).
  • Matrosov, S. Y., M. D. Shupe, and I.V. Djalalova, 2008: Snowfall retrievals using millimeter-wavelength cloud radars, 47, J. Appl. Meteor. and Climatol., 769-777.
  • Matrosov, S. Y., 2008: Assessment of radar signal attenuation caused by the melting hydrometeor layer. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 46, 1039-1047.
  • Matrosov, S. Y., and A. J. Heymsfield, 2008: Estimating ice content and extinction in precipitating cloud systems from CloudSat radar measurements. Accepted for publication in JGR special CloudSat issue.
  • Matrosov, S. Y., A. Battaglia, and P. Rodriguez, 2008: Effects of multiple scattering on attenuation-based retrievals of stratiform rainfall from CloudSat. Accepted for publication in J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol.
  • Mitrescu, C., S. Miller, J. Hawkins, T. L'Ecuyer, J. Turk, P. Partain and G. Stephens, 2008: Near real time applications of Cloudsat data, accepted for J. App. Met.
  • Posselt, D., G. Stephens, and M. Miller, 2008: CloudSat: Adding A New Dimension to a Classical View of Extratropical Cyclones, Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 89, #5, 599-609
  • Sassen, K., Z. Wang, and D. Liu, 2008: The global distribution of cirrus clouds from CloudSat/CALIPSO measurements, J. Geophys. Res., (submitted).
  • Sassen, K., and Z. Wang, 2008: Classifying Clouds Around the Globe with the CloudSat Radar: 1-Year of Results, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L04805, doi:10.1029/2007GL032591.
  • Schwartz, A., and T. H. Vonder Haar, 2008: A Preliminary Arctic Cloud Climatology and Radiation Budget from CloudSat and CALIPSO, Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research.
  • Stephens, G. L. et al., 2008: The CloudSat Mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation, to appear in J Geophys. Res.
  • Suzuki, K. and G. L. Stephens, 2008: Global Identification of warm cloud microphysical processes with combined use of A-Train obervations, accepted in Geophys. Res. Lett.
  • Tanelli, S., S. L. Durden, E. Im, K. S. Pak, D. Reinke, P. Partain, R. Marchand and J. Haynes, 2008: CloudSat's Cloud Profiling Radar after 2 years in orbit: performance, external calibration, and processing, accepted IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
  • Vasilkov, A., J. Joiner, R. Spurr, P. K. Bhartia, P. Levelt, and G. Stephens, 2008: Evaluation of the OMI cloud pressures derived from rotational Raman scattering by comparisons with other satellite data and radiative transfer simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15S19,doi:10.1029/2007JD008689.
  • Waliser D. E., J. F. Li, C. Woods, R. Austin, J. Bacmeister, J. Chern, A. D. Genio, J. Jiang, Z. Kuang, H. Meng, P. Minnis, S. Platnick, W. B. Rossow, G. Stephens, S. Sun-Mack, W. K. Tao, A. Tompkins, C. Walker, and D. Vane, 2008: Cloud Ice: A Climate Model challenge with signs and expectations of progress, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  • Wang, Z., G. Stephens, T. Deshler, C. R. Trepte, T. Parish, D. Vane, D. M. Winker, D. Liu, and L. Adhikari, 2008: The Association of Antarctic Polar Stratospheric Cloud Formation on Tropospheric Cloud Systems, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2008GL034209.
  • Woods, C., D. Waliser, J.-L. Li, R. Austin, G. Stephens, and D. Vane, 2008: Evaluating Cloudsat Ice Water Retrievals Using a Cloud Resolving Model: Sensitivities to Frozen Particle Properties, J. Geoph. Res., Submitted.
  • Woods, C. P., J.-L. Li, D. E. Waliser, and A. Tompkins, 2008: Partitioning Cloudsat Ice Water Content for Comparison with Upper-Tropospheric Cloud Ice in Global Atmospheric Models, submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett..
  • Wu, D. L., et al., 2008: Comparison of global ice from MLS, CloudSat and correlative data sets, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  • Wu, D. L., J. H. Jiang, W. G. Read, R. T. Austin, C. P. Davis, A. Lambert, G. L. Stephens, D. G. Vane and J. W. Waters, 2008: Validation of the Aura MLS Cloud Ice Water (IWC) Measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi:10.1029/2007JD008931, in press.

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