NASA Langley Calipso/Cloudsat: Related References

Calipso-Cloudsat Related References

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  1. Journal or Book Articles
  2. Conference Proceedings

Journal or Book Articles

Cho, H.-M., P. Yang, G. W. Kattawar, S. L. Nasiri, Y. Hu, P. Minnis, C. Trepte, and D. Winker, 2008: Depolarization ration and attenuated backscatter for nine cloud types: analyses based on collocated CALIPSO lidar and MODIS measurements. Opt. Express., 16, 3931-3948.
Huang, J., P. Minnis, Y. Yi, Y. Hu, Q. Tang, X. Wang, Z. Lin, K. Ayers, C. Trepte, and D. Winker, 2007: Summer dust aerosols detected from the CALIPSO satellite over the Tibetan Plateau. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L18805, doi:10.1029/2007GL029938.
Hu, Y., M. Vaughn, C. McClain, M. Behrenfeld, H. Maring, D. Anderson, S. Sun-Mack, D. Flittner, J. Huang, B. Wielicki, P. Minnis, C. Weimer, C. Trepte, and R. Kuehn, 2007: "Global Statistics of liquid water content and effective number concentration of water clouds over ocean derived from combined CALIPSO and MODIS measurements" Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 3353-3359.
Minnis, P., C. R. Yost, S. Sun-Mack, and Y. Chen, 2008: Estimating the top altitude of optically thick ice clouds from thermal infrared satellite observations using CALIPSO data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L12801, doi:10.1029/2008GL033947.
Waliser, D., F. Li, C. Woods, R. Austin, J. Bacmeister, J. Chern, A. DelGenio, J. Jiang, Z. Kuang, H. Meng, P. Minnis, S. Platnick, W. B. Rossow, G. Stephens, S. Sun-Mack, W. K. Tao, A. Tompkins, D. Vane, C. Walker, and D. Wu, 2008: Cloud ice: A climate model challenge with signs and expectations of progress. Submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
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Conferences and Meetings:

Chang, F.-L., P. Minnis, B. Lin, R. Palikonda, M. Khaiyer, and S. Sun-Mack, 2008: Retrieving cloud properties for multilayered clouds using simulated GOES-R data. AMS 5th GOES Users' Conference, New Orleans. LA, January 23-24, CD-ROM, P1.69. (poster pdf)
Huang, J., P. Minnis, Q. Fu, Q. Zhao, J. Su, Q. Tang, W. Wang, and W. Zhang, 2007: Dusty cloud properties determined from surface and satellite observations over Asia during PACDEX. 2007 AGU Fall Mtg., San Francisco, CA, December 10-14. (poster pdf)
Minnis, P., S. Sun-Mack, F.-L. Chang, Y. Yi, Y. Chen, S. Gibson, B. Wielicki, and C. Trepte, 2007: Evaluation of CERES-MODIS cloud properties using CALIPSO and CloudSat data. A-Train-Lille 07 - Symposium, Lille France, October 22-25.
Minnis, P., B. Wielicki, C. A. Trepte, S. Sun-Mack, Y. Chen, S. Gibson, S. Kato, and G. Stephens, 2007: "Characterizing radiation fields in the atmosphere using a cloud-aerosol-radiation product from integrated CERES, MODIS, CALIPSO, and CloudSat data." Proc. 2007 IEEE Intl. Geosci. and Remote Sens. Symp., Barcelona, Spain, 23 - 27 July, CD-ROM. (Invited)
Nguyen, L., P. Minnis, D. A. Spangenberg, R. Palikonda, D. N. Phan, and M. L. Nordeen, 2008: Validation of real-time GOES products using GLAS and CALIPSO data. AMS 5th GOES Users' Conference, New Orleans, LA, January 23-24, CD-ROM, P1.63. (poster pdf)
Nguyen, L., P. Minnis, F. Chang, D. Winker, S. Sun-Mack, D. Spangenberg, and R. Austin, 2007: Comparison of cloud properties from CALIPSO-CloudSat and geostationary satellite data. A-Train-Lille 07 - Symposium, Lille France, October 22-25. (poster pdf)
Smith, W., Minnis, P., L. Nguyen, D. Spangenberg, R. Austin, and G. Mace, 2007: Preliminary comparison of CloudSat liquid water path to passive satellite estimates. A-Train-Lille 07 - Symposium, Lille France, October 22-25. (poster pdf)
Sun-Mack, S., P. Minnis, Y. Yi, Y. Chen, S. Gibson, S. Kato, C. A. Trepte, and B. Wielicki, 2008: Boundary layer lapse rate in cloudy areas derived using CALIPSO data. CALIPSO Science Team Mtg., Paris, France, March 11-13.
Sun-Mack, S., P. Minnis, Y. Chen, S. Gibson, Y. Yi, Q. Trepte, B. Wielicki, S. Kato, and D. Winker, 2007: "Integrated cloud-aerosol-radiation product using CERES, MODIS, CALIPSO, and CloudSat data." Proc. 2007 SPIE Conf. Remote Sens. Clouds & the Atmos., Vol. 6745, 6745-29, CD-ROM.
Sun-Mack, S., Y. Yi, Y. Chen, S. Gibson, P. Minnis, S. Kato, D. Winker, and B. Wielicki, 2008: CALIPSO optical depth distributions and comparison with GLAS. CALIPSO Science Team Mtg., Paris, France, March 11-13
Yi, Y., P. Minnis, S. Sun-Mack, and Y. Chen, 2007: Diurnal variations in cloud structure determined from CALISPO and ICESat lidar data. A-Train-Lille 07 - Symposium, Lille France, October 22-25.
Yost, C. R., P. Minnis, S. Sun-Mack, Y. Chen, and M. McGill, 2008:Use of active remote sensors to improve the accuracy of cloud top heights derived from thermal satellite observations." Proc. AMS Symp. Recent Developments in Atmos. Appl. Radar & Lidar, New Orleans. LA, January 21-25, CD-ROM, P1.24.
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