Recent Publications

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Baum, B.A., and Q. Trepte (1999), A grouped threshold method for discrimination of smoke, fire, and snow from clouds in daytime AVHRR data, J. Atmos. Ocea. Tech., 16, 793-800. RSP
Matrosov, S.Y., A.J. Heymsfield, and Z. Wang (2005), Dual-frequency radar ratio of nonspherical atmospheric hydrometeors, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L13816, doi:10.1029/2005GL023210. RSP
Gautam, R., N.C. Hsu, K.-M. Lau, S.-C. Tsay, and M. Kafatos (2009), Enhanced pre-monsoon warming over the Himalayan-Gangetic region from 1979 to 2007, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L07704, doi:10.1029/2009GL037641. IDS, RSP
Xu, K.-M., T. Wong, B.A. Wielicki, and L. Parker (2008), Statistical Analyses of Satellite Cloud Object Data from CERES. Part IV: Boundary Layer Cloud Objects during 1998 El Niño, J. Climate, 21, 1500-1521, doi:10.1175/2007JCLI1710.1. IDS, MAP
Gautam, R., N.C. Hsu, K.-M. Lau, and M. Kafatos (2009), Aerosol and rainfall variability over the Indian monsoon region: distributions, trends and coupling, Ann. Geophys., 27, 3691-3703. IDS, RSP
Baum, B.A., and J.D. Spinhirne (2000), Remote sensing of cloud properties using MODIS Airborne Simulator imagery during SUCCESS. III. Cloud overlap, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 11,793-11,804.
Stephens, G.L., D.G. Vane, S. Tanelli, E. Im, S. Durden, M. Rokey, D. Reinke, P. Partain, G.G. Mace, R. Austin, T. L'Ecuyer, J. Haynes, M. Lebsock, K. Suzuki, D. Waliser, D. Wu, J. Kay, A. Gettelman, Z. Wang, and R. Marchand (2008), CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D00A18, doi:10.1029/2008JD009982. RSP
Varnai, T., and A. Marshak (2003), A method for analyzing how various parts of clouds influence each other’s brightness, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4706, doi:10.1029/2003JD003561. RSP
Gautam, R., N.C. Hsu, M. Kafatos, and S.-C. Tsay (2007), Influences of winter haze on fog/low cloud over the Indo-Gangetic plains, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D05207, doi:10.1029/2005JD007036. IDS, RSP
Baum, B.A., D.P. Kratz, P. Yang, S.C. Ou, Y. Hu, P.F. Soulen, and S.C. Tsay (2000), Remote sensing of cloud properties using MODIS Airborne Simulator imagery during SUCCESS. I. Data and models, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 11,767-11,780. RSP
Xu, K.-M., T. Wong, B.A. Wielicki, L. Parker, B. Lin, Z.A. Eitzen, and M. Branson (2007), Statistical Analyses of Satellite Cloud Object Data from CERES. Part II: Tropical Convective Cloud Objects during 1998 El Niño and Evidence for Supporting the Fixed Anvil Temperature Hypothesis, J. Climate, 20, 819-842, doi:10.1175/JCLI4069.1. IDS
Fu, J.S., N.C. Hsu, Y. Gao, K. Huang, C. Li, N.-H. Lin, and S.-C. Tsay (2012), Evaluating the influences of biomass burning during 2006 BASE-ASIA: a regional chemical transport modeling, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 3837-3855, doi:10.5194/acp-12-3837-2012. ACMAP, RSP
Giglio, L., J.T. Randerson, and G.R. van der Werf (2013), Analysis of daily, monthly, and annual burned area using the fourth-generation global fire emissions database (GFED4), J. Geophys. Res., 118, 1-12, doi:10.1002/jgrg.20042.
Varnai, T., and A. Marshak (2002), Observations of Three-Dimensional Radiative Effects that Influence MODIS Cloud Optical Thicknéss Rétrievals, J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1607-1618. RSP
Feng, Q., N.C. Hsu, P. Yang, and S.-C. Tsay (2011), Effect of Thin Cirrus Clouds on Dust Optical Depth Retrievals From MODIS Observations, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 49, 2819-2827, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2011.2118762. RSP
Feng, Q., P. Yang, G.W. Kattawar, N.C. Hsu, S.-C. Tsay, and I. Laszlo (2009), Effects of particle nonsphericity and radiation polarization on retrieving dust properties from MODIS observations, Aerosol Science, 40, 776-789, doi:10.1016/j.jaerosci.2009.05.001. RSP
Hong, G., P. Yang, A.K. Heidinger, M.J. Pavolonis, B.A. Baum, and S.E. Platnick (2010), Detecting opaque and nonopaque tropical upper tropospheric ice clouds: A trispectral technique based on the MODIS 8–12 micron window bands, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D20214, doi:10.1029/2010JD014004. RSP
Varnai, T., and A. Marshak (2001), Statistical Analysis of the Uncertainties in Cloud Optical Depth Retrievals Caused by Three-Dimensionál Radíative Effects, J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 1540-1548. RSP
Ding, S., Y. Xie, P. Yang, F. Weng, Q. Liu, B. Baum, and Y. Hu (2009), Estimates of radiation over clouds and dust aerosols: Optimized number of terms in phase function expansion, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 110, 1190-1198, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.03.032. RSP
Xu, K.-M., T. Wong, B.A. Wielicki, L. Parker, and Z.A. Eitzen (2005), Statistical Analyses of Satellite Cloud Object Data from CERES. Part I: Methodology and Preliminary Results of the 1998 El Niño/2000 La Niña, J. Climate, 18, 2497-2514. IDS