Publications

2005

Masunaga, H., T. S. L'Ecuyer, and C. D. Kummerow, 2005: Variability in the Characteristics of Tropical Rainfall Systems. Part I: Spatial Structure. J. Climate, 18, 823-840 doi: 10.1175/JCLI-3304.1 [Download]

Goering, C. D., T. S. L'Ecuyer, G. L. Stephens, J. R. Slusser, G. Scott, J. Davis, J. C. Barnard, and S. Madronich, 2005: Retrievals of column Ozone and aerosol properties from UV-MFRSR solar irradiance measurements during MCMA-2003. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D05204 doi: 10.1029/2004JD005330 [Download]

2004

L'Ecuyer, T. S., C. D. Kummerow, and W. Berg, 2004: Toward a Global Map of Raindrop Size Distributions. Part I: Rain-type Classification and its Implications for Validating Global Rainfall Products. J. Hydrometeor., 5, 831-849 doi: 10.1175/1525-7541(2004)005<0831:TAGMOR>2.0.CO;2 [Download]

Stephens G. L., P. J. Webster, R. H. Johnson, R. Engelen, and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2004: Observational evidence for the mutual regulation of the Tropical Hydrological Cycle and Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures. J. Climate, 17, 2213-2224 doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<2213%3AOEFTMR>2.0.CO%3B2 [Download]

2003

L'Ecuyer, T. S. and G. L. Stephens, 2003: The Tropical Oceanic Energy Budget from the TRMM Perspective. Part I: Algorithm and Uncertainities. J. Climate, 16, 1967-1985 doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<1967:TTOEBF>2.0.CO;2 [Download]

Cooper, S. J., T. S. L'Ecuyer and G. L. Stephens, 2003: The Impact of Explicit Cloud Boundary Information on Ice Cloud Microphysical Property Retrievals from Infrared Radiances. J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002611 [Download]

2002

L'Ecuyer, T. S. and G. L. Stephens, 2002: An Estimation-based Rainfall Retrieval Algorithm for Attenuating Spaceborne Radars. J. Appl. Meteor., 41, 272-285 [Download]

L'Ecuyer, T. S. and G. L. Stephens, 2002: An Uncertainty Model for Bayesian Monte Carlo Retrieval Algorithms: Application to the TRMM Observing System. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 128, 1713-1737 [Download]