Recent Publications

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Zhang, F., J. Wang, C. Ichoku, E. Hyer, Z. Yang, C. Ge, S. Su, X. Zhang, S. Kondragunta, J. Kaiser, C. Wiedinmyer, and A. da Silva (2014), Sensitivity of mesoscale modeling of smoke direct radiative effect to the emission inventory: A case study in northern sub-Saharan African region, Environmental Research Letter, 9, 075002, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075002. ASP, ACMAP, IDS, RSP, TCP
Painemal, D., P. Minnis, and S. Sun-Mack (2013), The impact of horizontal heterogeneities, cloud fraction, and liquid water path on warm cloud effective radii from CERES-like Aqua MODIS retrievals, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 9997-10003, doi:10.5194/acp-13-9997-2013. RSP
Minnis, P., S.T. Bedka, D.P. Duda, K.M. Bedka, T. Chee, J.K. Ayers, R. Palikonda, D.A. Spangenberg, K.V. Khlopenkov, and R. Boeke (2013), Linear contrail and contrail cirrus properties determined from satellite data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 3220-3226, doi:10.1002/grl.50569. RSP
Bedka, S.T., P. Minnis, D.P. Duda, T.L. Chee, and R. Palikonda (2013), Properties of linear contrails in the Northern Hemisphere derived from 2006 Aqua MODIS observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 1-6, doi:10.1029/2012GL054363. RSP
Xie, Y., P. Yang, K.-N. Liou, P. Minnis, and D.P. Duda (2012), Parameterization of contrail radiative properties for climate studies, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L00F02, doi:10.1029/2012GL054043. RSP
Iwabuchi, H., P. Yang, K.N. Liou, and P. Minnis (2012), Physical and optical properties of persistent contrails: Climatology and interpretation, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D06215, doi:10.1029/2011JD017020. RSP
Xie, Y., P. Yang, G.W. Kattawar, P. Minnis, Y. Hu, and D. Wu (2012), Determination of ice cloud models using MODIS and MISR data, Intl. J. Remote. Sens., 33, 4219-4253, doi:10.1080/01431161.2011.642323. RSP
Kato, S., S. Sun‐Mack, W.F. Miller, F.G. Rose, Y. Chen, P. Minnis, and B.A. Wielicki (2010), Relationships among cloud occurrence frequency, overlap, and effective thickness derived from CALIPSO and CloudSat merged cloud vertical profiles, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00H28, doi:10.1029/2009JD012277. RSP
Huang, X., X. Chen, G.L. Potter, L. Oreopoulos, J.N.S. Cole, D. Lee, and N.G. Loeb (2014), A Global Climatology of Outgoing Longwave Spectral Cloud Radiative Effect and Associated Effective Cloud Properties, J. Climate, 27, 7475-7492, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00663.1. MAP, RSP
Oreopoulos, L., N. Cho, D. Lee, S. Kato, and G.J. Huffman (2014), An examination of the nature of global MODIS cloud regimes, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 8362-8383, doi:10.1002/2013JD021409. EWCP, MAP, RSP
Yu, H., M. Chin, T. Yuan, H. Bian, L.A. Remer, J.M. Prospero, A. Omar, D. Winker, Y. Yang, Y. Zhang, Z. Zhang, and C. Zhao (2015), The fertilizing role of African dust in the Amazon rainforest: A first multiyear assessment based on data from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 1984-1991, doi:10.1002/2015GL063040. RSP
Liu, P.F., N. Abdelmalki, H.-M. Hung, Y. Wang, W.H. Brune, and S.T. Martin (2015), Ultraviolet and visible complex refractive indices of secondary organic material produced by photooxidation of the aromatic compounds toluene and m-xylene, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 1435-1446, doi:10.5194/acp-15-1435-2015. RSP
Liu, P., Y. Zhang, and S.T. Martin (2013), Complex Refractive Indices of Thin Films of Secondary Organic Materials by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry from 220 to 1200 nm, Environ. Sci. Technol., 47, 13594-13601, doi:10.1021/es403411e. RSP
Cho, H., Z. Zhang, K. Meyer, M. Lebsock, S. Platnick, A.S. Ackerman, L. Di Girolamo, L.C. Labonnote, C. Cornet, J. Riedi, and R.E. Holz (2015), Frequency and causes of failed MODIS cloud property retrievals for liquid phase clouds over global oceans, J. Geophys. Res., 120, doi:10.1002/2015JD023161. ACMAP, RSP
Oreopoulos, L., D. Lee, Y.C. Sud, and M.J. Suarez (2012), Radiative impacts of cloud heterogeneity and overlap in an atmospheric General Circulation Model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 9097-9111, doi:10.5194/acp-12-9097-2012. ACMAP, MAP, RSP
Wang, C., Z.J. Luo, X. Chen, X. Zeng, W.-K. Tao, and X. Huang (2014), A Physically Based Algorithm for Non-Blackbody Correction of Cloud-Top Temperature and Application to Convection Study, J. Appl. Meteor. Climat., 53, 1844-1857, doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0331.1. MAP, RSP
Vergados, P., Z.J. Luo, K. Emanuel, and A.J. Mannucci (2014), Observational tests of hurricane intensity estimations using GPS radio occultations, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 1936-1948, doi:10.1002/2013JD020934. RSP
Takahashi, H., and Z.J. Luo (2014), Characterizing tropical overshooting deep convection from joint analysis of CloudSat and geostationary satellite observations, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 112-121, doi:10.1002/2013JD020972. RSP
Takahashi, H., and Z. Luo (2012), Where is the level of neutral buoyancy for deep convection?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L15809, doi:10.1029/2012GL052638. RSP
Takahashi, H., H. Su, J.H. Jiang, Z.J. Luo, S.-P. Xie, and J. Hafner (2013), Tropical water vapor variations during the 2006–2007 and 2009–2010 El Niños: Satellite observation and GFDL AM2.1 simulation, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 1-11, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50684. MAP, RSP