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Atlas, D., Z. Wang, and D. P. Duda, 2006: " Contrails to Cirrus - Morphology, Microphysics, and Radiative Properties ". J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 45, No.1, pp. 5-19
Duda, D. and P. Minnis, 2008: Basic diagnosis and prediction of persistent contrail occurrence using high-resolution numerical weather analyses/forecasts and logistic regression. Part I: Effects of random error. J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol., submitted.
Duda, D. and P. Minnis, 2008: Basic diagnosis and prediction of persistent contrail occurrence using high-resolution numerical weather analyses/forecasts and logistic regression. Part II: Evaluation of sample models. J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol., submitted.
Duda, D. P., P. Minnis and L. Nguyen, 2001: " Estimates of cloud radiative forcing in contrail clusters using GOES imagery ". J. Geophys. Res.,106, 4927-4937.
Duda, D. P. and P. Minnis, 2001: " " Observations of Aircraft Dissipation Trails from GOES ". Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 398-406. (size 4.8MB)
Duda, D. P., P. Minnis, L. Nguyen, and R. Palikonda, 2004: "A Case Study of the Development of Contrail Clusters over The Great Lakes ". JAS, Vol. 61, No. 10, pages 1132-1146
Duda, D. P., P. Minnis, D. P. Garber, and R. Palikonda, 2005: CONUS contrail frequency and coverage estimated from RUC and flight track data ". Meteorol. Z., 14, 537-548. (For a reprint, please contact p.minnis@nasa.gov)
Fahey, D. W., U. Schumann, S. Ackerman, P. Artaxo, O. Boucher, M. Y. Danilin, B.Kärcher, P. Minnis, T. Nakajima and O. B. Toon, 1999: Aviation-Produced Aerosols and Cloudiness . Chapter 3 of IPCC Special Report : Aviation and the Global Atmosphere. Cambridge University Press, pp. 65-120.
Garber, D. P., P. Minnis, and P. K. Costulis, 2005: A commercial flight track database for upper tropospheric aircraft emission studies over the USA and southern Canada ". Meteorol. Z., 14, 445-452. (For a reprint, please contact p.minnis@nasa.gov)
Hong, G., Q. Feng, P. Yang, G. Kattawar, P. Minnis, and Y. Hu, 2008: Optical properties of ice particles in young contrails.Submitted to J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer
Jensen, E. J., A. S. Ackerman, D. E. Stevens, O. B. Toon and P. Minnis, 1998: " Spreading and Growth of Contrails in a Sheared Environment ". J. Geophys. Res., 103, 1998, p. 31,557-31,568.
Meerkötter, R., U. Schumann, D. R. Doelling, P. Minnis, T. Nakajima and Y.Tsushima, 1999: " Radiative Forcing by Contrails ". Annales Geophysicae, 17, 1070-1084.
Minnis, P., D. P. Kratz, J. A. Coakley, Jr., M. D. King, R. Arduini, D. P. Garber, P. W. Heck, S. Mayor, E. Schmidt, W. L. Smith,Jr., D. F. Young, 1995: " Cloud Optical Property Retrieval (Subsystem 4.3). Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document, Volume III - Cloud Analyses and Determination of Improved Top of Atmosphere Fluxes (Subsystem 4) ". NASA RP-1376, Volume III, edited by CERES Science Team, December 1995, pp. 135-176.
Minnis, P.;and W. L. Smith Jr., 1996: " Cloud and Radiative Fields Derived from GOES-8 During SUCCESS and the ARM-UAV Spring 1996 Flight Series ".Geophys. Res. Ltrs., 25, April 15, 1998, pp.1113-1116..
Minnis, P., J. K. Ayers and S. P. Weaver, 1997: " Contrail Occurrence Frequency Over the U.S., April 1993 - April 1994 ". NASA Reference Publication 1404, June 1997.
Minnis, P., D. F. Young, L. Nguyen, D. P. Garber, W. L. Smith Jr and R. Palikonda, 1998: " Transformation of Contrails into Cirrus during SUCCESS ".Geophys. Res. Ltrs., 25, April 15, 1998, pp. 1157-1160.
Minnis, P., D. P. Garber, D. F. Young, R. F. Arduini and Y. Takano, 1998: " Parameterization of Reflectance and Effective Emittance for Satellite Remote Sensing of Cloud Properties ".J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 1998, pp. 3313-3339.
Minnis, P., U. Schumann, D. R. Doelling, K. M. Gierens, and D. W. Fahey, 1999: " Global Distribution of Contrail Radiative Forcing ". Geophys. Res. Ltrs., 26, July 1, 1999, 1853-1856.
Minnis, P., 2002: " Contrails ". Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, Academic Press, London, J. Holton, J. Pyle, and J. Curry, Editors, pp. 509-520.
Minnis, P., J. K. Ayers, M. L. Nordeen and S. P. Weaver, 2003: " Contrail frequency over the USA from surface observations ". Journal of Climate, 1 November 2003, pp. 3447-3462
Minnis, P., J. K. Ayers, R. Palikonda and D. Phan, 2004: " Contrails, Cirrus Trends, and Climate ". Journal of Climate, 15 April 2004, pp. 1671-1685.
Minnis, P., R. Palikonda, B. J. Walter, J. K. Ayers, and H. Mannstein, 2005: Contrail properties over the eastern North Pacific from AVHRR data ". Meteorol. Z., 14, 515-523. (For a reprint, please contact p.minnis@nasa.gov)
Minnis, P., 2005: "Response to comment on "Contrails, Cirrus Trends, and Climate." J. Climate, 18, 2783-2784.
Palikonda, R., P. Minnis, D. P. Duda, and H. Mannstein, 2005: Contrail coverage derived from 2001 AVHRR data over the continental United States of America and surrounding areas ". Meteorol. Z., 14, 525-536. (For a reprint, please contact p.minnis@nasa.gov)
Wuebbles, D., A. Douglass, B. Kärcher, W.-C. Wang, S. Baughcum, R. d'Entremont, A. Dessler, P. Ginoux, R. Herman, A. Heymsfied, I. Isaken, D. Jacob, S. Lele, J. Logan, J. McConnell, R. Miake-Lye, P. Minnis, D. Mitchell, D. Murphy, L. Pan, J. Penner, M. Prather, J. Rodriguez, K. Rosenlof, K. Sassen, R. Sausen, K. Shine, A. Tabazadeh, I. Waltz, P. Yang, and F. Yu, 2006: "A Report of Findings and Recommendations". Workshop on the Impacts of Aviation on Climate Change, Boston, MA, June 7-9, 2006, 63 pp.Return to top
Avey, L. A., R. Palikonda, P. Minnis, and D. P. Duda, 2008: Linear contrail detection over the eastern United States from AVHRR and MODIS data. AMS 13th Conf. Aviation, Range, & Aerosp. Meteor., New Orleans, LA, January 21-25, CD-ROM, P1.4. (poster pdf)
Duda, D. P., P. Minnis and R. Palikonda, 2002: " A study of contrail spreading over the Great Lakes ". Proc. 10th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, Portland, OR, May13-16, 2002.
Duda, D. P., P. Minnis, P. K. Costulis and R. Palikonda, 2002: " An estimatation of CONUS contrail frequency from RUC and flight track data". Proc. 10th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, Portland, OR, May13-16, 2002.
Duda, D. P., P. Minnis, P. K. Costulis, and R. Palikonda, 2003: "CONUS Contrail Frequency Estimated from RUC and Flight Track Data ". Proc. European Conference on Aviation, Atmosphere, and Climate, Friedrichschafen at Lake Constance, Germany, June 30 - July3.
Duda, D. P., R. Palikonda, and P. Minnis, 2004: " Relating satellite-based contrail detection to NWA output." Proc. AMS 11th Conf Aviation, Range, and Aerospace. Hyannis, MA, October 4-8, CD-ROM, P8.9.
Duda, D. P., R. Palikonda, L. Avey, P. Minnis, 2008: Towards improved contrail parameterizations fro climate-scale models. Proc. AMS 13th Conf. Aviation, Range, & Aerosp. Meteor., New Orleans, LA, January 21-25, CD-ROM, P2.19. (poster pdf)
Garber, D. P., P. Minnis, and P. K. Costulis, 2003: "A USA commercial flight track database for upper tropospheric aircraft emission studies ". Proc. European Conference on Aviation, Atmosphere, and Climate, Friedrichschafen at Lake Constance, Germany, June 30 - July3.
Mannstein, H., C. Lieter, R. Meyer, P. Wendling, P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, 2000: " Regional Contrail Coverage Estimated from AVHRR Data ". Proc. EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Users Conference, Bologna, Italy, May 29 - June 2, 2000.
Minnis, P., 1994: " An Overview of Satellite Observations of Contrails and Their Radiative Impact on Climate ". Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Project Annual Mtg., Virginia Beach, VA, June 26-July 1.
Minnis,P., 2003: "Contrails and Climate Studies ". presented at the 2003 UEET Conference, Cleveland, OH, October 30.
Minnis, P., K. Ayers and D. R. Doelling, 1996: " Contrails Over the U. S. and Their Potential Impact on the Radiation Budget ". Proceeding of Impact of Aircraft Emissions upon the Atmosphere International Colloquium Volume II, Paris, France, October 15-18, 1996, 355-360.
Minnis, P., R. Palikonda, J. K. Ayers, D. P. Duda, and K. P. Costulis, 2000: " Cirrus, Contrails, and Radiative Forcing over the USA: Their Relationships to Air Traffic and Upper Tropospheric Conditions ". Proc. European Workshop on Aviation, Aerosols, Contrails, and Cirrus Clouds, Seeheim,Germany, July 10-12, 2000, Air Pollution Research Report 74, EUR 19428, European Commission, Brussels, 193-196.
Minnis, P., J. K. Ayers, R. Palikonda, D. R. Doelling, U. Schumann and K. Gierens, 2001: " Changes in Cirrus Cloudiness and Their Relationship to Contrails ".Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Global Change Studies and Climate Variations, pp 239-242.
Minnis, P., L. Nguyen, D. P. Duda and R. Palikonda, 2002: " Spreading of isolated contrails during the 2001 air traffic shutdown ". Proc. 10th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, Portland, OR, May13-16, 2002.
Minnis, P., L. Nguyen, D. P. Garber, Duda, D. P., P and R. Palikonda, 2003: "Simulation of contrails over the USA missed during the air traffic shutdown ". Proc. European Conference on Aviation, Atmosphere, and Climate, Friedrichschafen at Lake Constance, Germany, June 30 - July3, 2003.
Minnis, P., R. Palikonda and J. K. Ayers 2003: "Contrail coverage over the North pacific from AVHRR and MODIS data ". Proc. European Conference on Aviation, Atmosphere, and Climate, Friedrichschafen at Lake Constance, Germany, June 30 - July3, 2003.
Palikonda, R., P. Minnis, L. Nguyen, D. P. Garber, W. L. Smith Jr and D. F. Young, 1996: " Remote Sensing of Contrails and Aircraft Altered Cirrus Clouds ". Proceeding of Impact of Aircraft Emissions upon the Atmosphere International Colloquium Volume II, Paris, France, October 15-18, 1996, 439-444.
Palikonda, R., P. Minnis, D. R. Doelling, P. W. Heck, D. P. Duda, H. Mannstein, and U. Schumann: "Potential Radiative Impact of Contrail Coverage over Continental USA Estimated from AVHRR data". AMS 10th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation , Madison, WI, 28 June - 2 July, 1999, pp.181-184.
Palikonda, R., P. Minnis, P. W. Heck, Q. Z. Trepte, S. Sun-Mack, H. Mannstein, 2001: "Contrail Cover and Radiative Properties from High-Resolution Satellite Data ". Proc. AMS 11th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Madison, WI, Oct 15-18 2001, 508-511.
Palikonda, R., P. Minnis, P. K. Costulis, and D. P. Duda, 2002: " Contrail climatology over the USA from MODIS and AVHRR data ". Proc. 10th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, Portland, OR, May13-16, 2002.
Palikonda, R., P. Minnis, D. N. Phan, V. Chakrapani, 2003: "Contrail coverage over the USA derived from MODIS and AVHRR data ". Proc. European Conference on Aviation, Atmosphere, and Climate, Friedrichschafen at Lake Constance, Germany, June 30 - July3.
Palikonda, R., P. Minnis, and D. P. Duda,2004: "Contrail coverage over the USA derived from NOAA and EOS satellite data." Proc. AMS 11th Conf Aviation, Range, and Aerospace. Hyannis, MA, October4-8, CD-ROM, 8.1.
Ström, J., U. Schumann, J. F. Gayer, J. Ovarlez, F. Flatoy, M. Kulmala, O. Schrems, P. Minnis, S. B. Diaz, B. Milicic, V. Valderama, E. Amthauer, J. Pettersson, F. Arnold, 2000: " Aerosol and Cirrus Measurements at Midlatitudes on the Southern Hemisphere. An Overview based on the First INCA Experiment ". Proc. European Workshop on Aviation, Aerosols, Contrails, and Cirrus Clouds, Seeheim, Germany, July 10-12, 2000, 211-214.
Young, D. F., P. Minnis, W. L. Smith Jr, R. Palikonda and L. Nguyen, 1997: " Cirrus and Contrail Microphysical Properties Derived From Satellite Data During SUCCESS ". Proceeding of the AMS 9th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Long Beach, California, February 2-7, 1997, 409-413.