Recent Publications

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Sato, K., and H. Okamoto (2006), Characterization of Ze and LDR of nonspherical and inhomogeneous ice particles for 95-GHz cloud radar: Its implication to microphysical retrievals, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D22213, doi:10.1029/2005JD006959.
Sun-Mack, S., P. Minnisb, Y. Chena, S. Gibsona, Y. Yia, Q. Treptea, B. Wielickib, S. Katoa, D. Winkerb, G. Stephensc, and P. Partaind (2007), Integrated Cloud-Aerosol-Radiation Product using CERES, MODIS, CALIPSO and CloudSat Data, Terms of Use, 6745, 674513-1, doi:10.1117/12.737903.
van de Poll, H.M., H. Grubb, and I. Astin (2006), Sampling uncertainty properties of cloud fraction estimates from random transect observations, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D22218, doi:10.1029/2006JD007189.
Zhang, Y., and G.G. Mace (2006), Retrieval of Cirrus Microphysical Properties with a Suite of Algorithms for Airborne and Spaceborne Lidar, Radar, and Radiometer Data, J. Appl. Meteor. Climat., 45, 1665-1689.
Allan, R.P., A. Slingo, A.S.F. Miltonb, and M.E. Brooksb (2007), Evaluation of the Met Office global forecast model using Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) data, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 133, 1993-2010, doi:10.1002/qj.166.
Chen, R., F.-L. Chang, Z. Li, R. Ferraro, and F. Weng (2007), Impact of the Vertical Variation of Cloud Droplet Size on the Estimation of Cloud Liquid Water Path and Rain Detection, J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3843-3853, doi:10.1175/2007JAS2126.1.
Eberhard, G., S. D’Amico, and O. Montenbruck (2007), Autonomous Formation Flying for the PRISMA mission, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 44, 671-681, doi:10.2514/1.23015.
Haynes, J.M., 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.
Haynes, J.M., R.T. Marchand, Z. Luo, A. Bodas-Salcedo, and G.L. Stephens (2007), A Multipurpose Radar Simulation Package: QuickBeam, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 1723-1727, doi:10.1175/BAMS-88-11-1723.
Heymsfield, A.J., G.-J. Van Zadelhoff, D.P. Donovan, F. Fabry, R.J. Hogan, and A.J. Illingworth (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, doi:10.1175/JAS3900.1.
Kollias, P., E.E. Clothiaux, M.A. Miller, B.A. Albrecht, G.L. Stephens, and T.P. Ackerman (2007), Millimeter-Wavelength: RADARS New Frontier in Atmospheric Cloud and Precipitation Research, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 1608-1624.
Li, J.-L., J.H. Jiang, D.E. Waliser, and A.M. Tompkins (2007), Assessing consistency between EOS MLS and ECMWF analyzed and forecast estimates of cloud ice, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L08701, doi:10.1029/2006GL029022.
Lopez, P. (2007), Cloud and Precipitation Parameterizations in Modeling and Variational Data Assimilation: A Review, J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3766-3784, doi:10.1175/2006JAS2030.1.
Mace, G.G., R. Marchand, Q. Zhang, and G. Stephens (2007), Global hydrometeor occurrence as observed by CloudSat: Initial observations from summer 2006, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L09808, doi:10.1029/2006GL029017.
Okamoto, H., T. Nishizawa, T. Takemura, H. Kumagai, H. Kuroiwa, N. Sugimoto, I. Matsui, A. Shimizu, S. Emori, A. Kamei, and T. Nakajima (2007), Vertical cloud structure observed from shipborne radar and lidar: Midlatitude case study during the MR01/K02 cruise of the research vessel Mirai, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D08216, doi:10.1029/2006JD007628.
Protat, A., J. Delanoë, D. Bouniol, A.J. Heymsfield, A. Bansemer, and P. Brown (2007), Evaluation of Ice Water Content Retrievals from Cloud Radar Reflectivity and Temperature Using a Large Airborne In Situ Microphysical Database, J. Appl. Meteor. Climat., 46, 557-572, doi:10.1175/JAM2488.1.
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.
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., 34, L16818, doi:10.1029/2007GL030291.
(2007), Multi-Sensor Data From A-Train Instruments Brought Together for Atmospheric Research, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (, 88, 0096-3941.
Stephens, G.L., and J.M. Haynes (2007), Near global observations of the warm rain coalescence process, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L20805, doi:10.1029/2007GL030259.