Recent Publications

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Lebsock, M.D., T.S. L’Ecuyer, and G.L. Stephens (2011), Detecting the Ratio of Rain and Cloud Water in Low-Latitude Shallow Marine Clouds, J. Appl. Meteor. Climat., 50, 419-432, doi:10.1175/2010JAMC2494.1.
Lebsock, M.D., and T.S. L’Ecuyer (2011), The retrieval of warm rain from CloudSat, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D20209, doi:10.1029/2011JD016076.
Lee, J., J. Worden, D. Noone, K. Bowman, A. Eldering, A. LeGrande, J.-L.F. Li, G. Schmidt, and H. Sodemann (2011), Relating tropical ocean clouds to moist processes using water vapor isotope measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 741-752, doi:10.5194/acp-11-741-2011.
Leinonen, J., D. Moisseev, V. Chandrasekar, and J. Koskinen (2011), Mapping Radar Reflectivity Values of Snowfall Between Frequency Bands, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 49, 3047-3058, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2011.2117432.
Schumacher, C. (2011), Thick Anvils as Viewed by the TRMM Precipitation Radar WEI LI Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, J. Climate, 24, 1718-1735, doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3793.1.
Li, J.L.F., D.E. Waliser, and J.H. Jiang (2011), 0094-8276/11/2011GL049956, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L24807, doi:10.1029/2011GL049956.
Li, Z., F. Niu, J. Fan, Y. Liu, D. Rosenfeld, and Y. Ding (2011), Long-term impacts of aerosols on the vertical development of clouds and precipitation, Nature Geoscience, 4, 888-894, doi:10.1038/NGEO1313.
Liang, C.K. (2016), A Multi-Sensor Perspective on the Interannual Variability of Tropical Humidity and Clouds , PhD Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California.
Ma, D., and Z. Kuang (2011), Modulation of radiative heating by the Madden‐Julian Oscillation and convectively coupled Kelvin waves as observed by CloudSat, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L21813, doi:10.1029/2011GL049734.
Mecikalski, J.R., P.D. Watts, and M. Koenig (2011), Use of Meteosat Second Generation optimal cloud analysis fields for understanding physical attributes of growing cumulus clouds, Atmos. Res., 102, 175-190, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.06.023.
Minnis, P., S. Sun-Mack, Y. Chen, M.M. Khaiyer, Y. Yi, J.K. Ayers, R.R. Brown, X. Dong, S.C. Gibson, P.W. Heck, B. Lin, M.L. Nordeen, L. Nguyen, R. Palikonda, W.L. Smith, D.A. Spangenberg, Q.Z. Trepte, and B. Xi (2011), CERES Edition-2 Cloud Property Retrievals Using TRMM VIRS and Terra and Aqua MODIS Data—Part II: Examples of Average Results and Comparisons With Other Data, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 49, 4401-4430, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2011.2144602.
Molthan, A.L., and W.A. Petersen (2011), Incorporating Ice Crystal Scattering Databases in the Simulation of Millimeter-Wavelength Radar Reflectivity, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 28, 337-351, doi:10.1175/2010JTECHA1511.1.
Nair, A.K.M., K. Rajeev, S. Sijikumar, and S. Meenu (2011), Characteristics of a persistent “pool of inhibited cloudiness” and its genesis over the Bay of Bengal associated with the Asian summer monsoon, Ann. Geophys., 29, 1247-1252, doi:10.5194/angeo-29-1247-2011.
Nam, C. (2016), Using CALIPSO and CloudSat satellite retrievals to evaluate low-level cloud parameterizations in ECHAM5 for cloud-climate feedback implications Christine Cheung-Wai Nam 88 Berichte zur Erdsystemforschung 2011 Reports on Earth System Science, PhD Thesis, University of Hamburg, Hamburg.
Noh, Y., C.J. Seaman, T.H.V. Haar, D.R. Hudak, and P. Rodriguez (2011), Comparisons and analyses of aircraft and satellite observations for wintertime mixed‐phase clouds, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D18207, doi:10.1029/2010JD015420.
Notarnicola, C., D. Di Rosa, and F. Posa (2011), Cross-Comparison of MODIS and CloudSat Data as a Tool to Validate Local Cloud Cover Masks, Atmosphere, 2, 242-255, doi:10.3390/atmos2030242.
Oreopoulos, L., and W.B. Rossow (2011), The cloud radiative effects of International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project weather states, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D12202, doi:10.1029/2010JD015472.
Oreopoulos, L., and P.M. Norris (2011), An analysis of cloud overlap at a midlatitude atmospheric observation facility, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 5557-5567, doi:10.5194/acp-11-5557-2011.
Pérez, J.C., A. González, and M. Armas-Padilla (2011), Remote sensing of water cloud properties from MSG/SEVIRI nighttime imagery, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 738-746, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.10.015.
Platt, C.M.R., M.A. Vaughan, and R.T. Austin (2011), Characteristics of CALIPSO and CloudSat Backscatter at the Top Center Layers of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Relation to Cloud Microphysics, J. Appl. Meteor. Climat., 50, 368-378, doi:10.1175/2010JAMC2537.1.