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Publications: 2015

  • Bankert RL, Solbrig JE, 2015: Cluster analysis of A-train data: Approximating the vertical cloud structure of oceanic cloud regimes, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 05, 54(5):996-1008.
  • Barker, H.W., J.N.S. Cole, C. Domenech, M.W. Shephard, C.E. Sioris, F. Tomow, and T. Wehr, 2015: Assessing the quality of active-passive satellite retrievals using broad-band radiances, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 141, Issue 689, pages 1294–1305.
  • Behrangi, Ali, Hai Nguyen, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Mathias Schreier, and Van Dang, 2015:Investigating the role of multi-spectral and near surface temperature and humidity data to improve precipitation detection at high latitudes, Atmospheric Research, 163, 2-12.
  • Bush, Stephanie J., Andrew G. Turner, Steven J. Woolnough, Gill M. Martin, and Nicholas P. Klingaman, 2015: The effect of increased convective entrainment on Asian monsoon biases in the MetUM general circulation model, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141(686), 311-326.
  • Cesana, G., D. E. Waliser, X. Jiang, and J.-L. F. Li (2015), Multimodel evaluation of cloud phase transition using satellite and reanalysis data, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, doi:10.1002/2014JD022932.
  • Cho, H.-M., et al., 2015: Frequency and causes of failed MODIS cloud property retrievals for liquid phase clouds over global oceans, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, doi:10.1002/2015JD023161.
  • Del Genio, A. D., and Y. Chen: 2015, Cloud-radiative driving of the Madden-Julian oscillation as seen by the A-Train, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, doi:10.1002/2015JD023278.
  • Di Giuseppe F, Tompkins AM, 2015: Generalizing cloud overlap treatment to include the effect of wind shear, J. Atmos. Sci., 08,72(8):2865-76.
  • Dolinar, Erica K., Xiquan Dong, Baike Xi, Jonathan H. Jiang, and Hui Su, 2015: Evaluation of CMIP5 simulated clouds and TOA radiation budgets using NASA satellite observations, Climate Dynamics:Observational, Theoretical and Computational Research on the Climate System. 44 (7-8): 2229-2247.
  • Gong J, Wu DL, Limpasuvan V., 2015: Meridionally tilted ice cloud structures in the tropical upper troposphere as seen by CloudSat, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15(11):6271.
  • Guo, Zhun, and Tianjun Zhou, 2015: Seasonal variation and physical properties of the cloud system over southeastern China derived from CloudSat products, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 32 (5): 659-670.
  • Iwasaki, S., Z. J. Luo, H. Kubota, T. Shibata, H. Okamoto, and H. Ishimoto, 2015: Characteristics of cirrus clouds in the tropical lower stratosphere, Atmospheric Research. 164-165, 358-368, 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.06.009
  • KAWAI, H., Y. Shoukichi, Y. HAGIHARA, T. KOSHIRO, H. OKAMOTO, 2015: Characteristics of the Cloud Top Heights of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds and the Frequency of Marine Fog over Mid-Latitudes, 2015: Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, Vol.93,No. 6, pp. 6l3−628, 2015, DOI:10.2151/jmsj.2015-045.
  • Kawamoto, K., and K. Suzuki, 2015: Distributional correspondence of 94-GHz radar reflectivity with the variation in water cloud properties over the northwestern Pacific and China, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 153: 38-48.
  • King JM, Kummerow CD, Van Den Heever S,C., Igel MR, 2015: Observed and modeled warm rainfall occurrence and its relationships with cloud macrophysical properties, J. Atmos. Sci., 11;72(11):4075-90.
  • L’Ecuyer, T., H. Beaudoing, M. Rodell, W. Olson, B. Lin, S. Kato, C. Clayson, E. Wood, J. Sheffield, R. Adler, G. Huffman, M. Bosilovich, G. Gu, F. Roberston, P. Houser, D. Chambers, J. Famiglietti, E. Fetzer, W. Liu, X. Gao, C. Schlosser, E. Clark, D. Lettenmaier and K. Hilburn, 2015: The Observed State of the Energy Budget in the Early 21st Century, J. Climate, 28, 8319-8346.
  • Lee, Huikyo, Jinwon Kim, Duane E. Waliser, Paul C. Loikith, Chris A. Mattmann, and Seth McGinnis, 2015: Using joint probability distribution functions to evaluate simulations of precipitation, cloud fraction and insolation in the North America Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP), Climate Dynamics : Observational, Theoretical and Computational Research on the Climate System. 45 (1-2): 309-323.
  • Li, J.-L. F., D. E. Waliser, G. Stephens, S. W. Lee, 2015, Characterizing and understanding cloud ice and radiation budgets in global climate models and reanalysis, AMS monograph Attribute to Late Professor Michio Yanai, in press.
  • Liu D, Liu Qi, Zhou Lingli, 2015: Journal of Meteorological Research: Underestimation of oceanic warm cloud occurrences by the Cloud Profiling Radar aboard CloudSat. 2015;29:576.
  • Luo T., Z. Wang, R. A. Ferrare, C. A. Hostetler, R. Yuan, and D. Zhang, 2015: Vertically resolved separation of dust and other aerosol types by a new lidar depolarization method. Optics Express, 23(11): 14095-14107.
  • Luo T., Z. Wang, D. Zhang, X. Liu, Y. Wang, and R. Yuan, 2015: Global dust distribution from improved thin dust layer detection using A-train satellite lidar observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 620–628. 
  • Luo T., R. Yuan, Z. Wang, and D. Zhang, 2015: Quantifying the Hygroscopic Growth of Marine Boundary Layer Aerosols by Satellite-Based and Buoy Observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 1063–1074.
  • Ma, Shuo, Wei Yan, Yun-Xian Huang, Wei-Hua Ai, and Xianbin Zhao, 2015: Vicarious calibration of S-NPP/VIIRS day-night band using deep convective clouds, Remote Sensing of Environment. 158: 42-55.
  • Masunga, H., 2015: Assessment of a Satellite-Based Atmospheric Budget Analysis Method Using CINDY2011/DYNAMO/AMIE and TOGA COARE Sounding Array Data, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 93A, 21-40, http://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2015-032
  • Mioche G, Jourdan O, Ceccaldi M, Delanoë J., 2015: Variability of mixed-phase clouds in the arctic with a focus on the svalbard region: A study based on spaceborne active remote sensing, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15(5):2445.
  • Norin, L., A. Devasthale, T. S. Lecuyer, N. B. Wood, M. Smalley, 2015: Intercomparison of snowfall estimates derived from the CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar and the ground based weather radar network over Sweden. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 5009-5021
  • Proud, Simon R., 2015: Analysis of overshooting top detections by Meteosat Second Generation: a 5-year dataset". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 141 (688): 909-915.
  • Qu, Xin, Alex Hall, Stephen A. Klein, and Peter M. Caldwell, 2015: The strength of the tropical inversion and its response to climate change in 18 CMIP5 models, Climate Dynamics : Observational, Theoretical and Computational Research on the Climate System. 45 (1-2): 375-396.
  • Saleeby, S. M., S. R. Herbener, S. C. van den Heever, and T. L’Ecuyer, 2015: Impacts of cloud droplet-nucleating aerosols on shallow tropical convection, J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 1369-1385.
  • Smalley, M., and T. S. L’Ecuyer, 2015. A Global Assessment of the Spatial Distribution of Precipitation Occurrence, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 54, 2179-2197.
  • Sourdeval, Odran, Laurent C.-Labonnote, Anthony J. Baran, and Gérard Brogniez, 2015: A methodology for simultaneous retrieval of ice and liquid water cloud properties. Part I: Information content and case study, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 141 (688): 870-882.
  • Stengel, M. et al, 2015: The Clouds Climate Change Initiative: Assessment of state-of-the-art cloud property retrieval schemes applied to AVHRR heritage measurements, Remote Sensing of Environment. 162: 363-379.
  • Stephens, G. L., D. O'Brien, P. J. Webster, P. Pilewski, S. Kato, and J. Li (2015), The albedo of Earth, Rev. Geophys., 53, 141–163.
  • Suzuki, K., G. Stephens, A. Bodas-Salcedo, M. Wang, J.-C. Golaz, T. Yokohata, and T. Koshiro, 2015: Evaluation of the warm rain formation processs in global models with satellite observantions. J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
  • Viale, M., and R. Garreaud (2015), Orographic effects of the subtropical and extratropical Andes on upwind precipitating clouds, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, doi: 10.1002/2014JD023014.
  • Wang, Fu, Jianping Guo, Jiahua Zhang, Jingfeng Huang, Min Min, Tianmeng Chen, Huan Liu, Minjun Deng, and Xiaowen Li. 2015. "Multi-sensor quantification of aerosol-induced variability in warm clouds over eastern China". Atmospheric Environment. 113: 1-9.
  • Wang Z, Siems ST, Belusic D, Manton MJ, Huang Y, 2015: A climatology of the precipitation over the southern ocean as observed at macquarie island. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 2015 12;54(12):2321-37.
  • Wang, W., Sheng Lifang, Jin Hongchun and Han Yongqing, 2015: Journal of meteorological research: Dust aerosol effects on cirrus and altocumulus clouds in northwest china doi:10.1007/s13351-015-4116-9.
  • Weidong Yang, W., A. Marshak, T. Várnai, and R. Wood, 2014: CALIPSO observations of near-cloud aerosol properties as a function of cloud fraction. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 9150–9157, doi:10.1002/2014GL061896.
  • Wood, R., M. Wyant, C. S. Bretherton, J. Rémillard, P. Kollias, J. Fletcher, J. Stemmler, S. deSzoeke, S. E. Yuter, M. Miller, D. Mechem, G. Tselioudis, C. Chiu, J. Mann, E. O’Connor, R. Hogan, X. Dong,  M. Miller, V. Ghate, A. Jefferson, Q. Min, P. Minnis, R. Palinkonda, B. Albrecht, E. Luke, C. Hannay, Y. Lin, 2014: Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer: An ARM Mobile Facility Deployment. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 96, 419–440, 2015.
  • Wood, N. B., T. S. L'Ecuyer, A. J. Heymsfield, and G. L. Stephens, 2015: Microphysical constraints on millimeter-wavelength scattering properties of snow particles., J. Appl. Meteorol. Clim., in press.
  • Wyant, M.C., C. S. Bretherton, R. Wood, G. R. Carmichael, A. Clarke, J. Fast, R. C. George, W. I. Gustafson Jr., C. Hannay, A. Lauer, Y. Lin J.-J. Morcrette, J. Mulcahy, P. E. Saide, S. N. Spak, and Q. Yang, 2015: Global and regional modeling of clouds and aerosols in the marine boundary layer during VOCALS: the VOCA Intercomparison. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 153-172, 2015.
  • Xu, Dongmei, Thomas Auligné, and Xiang-Yu Huang. 2015. "A validation of the multivariate and minimum residual method for cloud retrieval using radiance from multiple satellites". Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 32 (3): 349-362.
  • Yang, Lei, Yan Du, Dongxiao Wang, Chunzai Wang, and Xin Wang. 2015. "Impact of intraseasonal oscillation on the tropical cyclone track in the South China Sea". Climate Dynamics : Observational, Theoretical and Computational Research on the Climate System. 44 (5-6): 1505-1519.
  • Yi, Mingjian, Yunfei Fu, Peng Liu, and Zhixia Zheng. 2015. "Deep convective clouds over the northern Pacific and their relationship with oceanic cyclones". Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 32 (6): 821-830.
  • Yin J, Wang Donghai, Zhai Guoqing, 2015: Journal of Meteorological Research: An attempt to improve Kessler-type parameterization of warm cloud microphysical conversion processes using CloudSat observations, 29:82.
  • Zhang, D., D. Liu, T. Luo, Z. Wang, and Y. Yin (2015), Aerosol impacts on cloud thermodynamic phase change over East Asia observed with CALIPSO and CloudSat measurements, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, doi:10.1002/2014JD022630.