Atmospheric Radiation

A. S. Daloz, E. L. Nelson, T. S. L’Ecuyer, A. Rapp, and L. Sun, 2018: Assessing the Coupled Influences of Clouds on the Atmospheric Energy and Water Cycles in Reanalyses with A-Train Observations. J. Climate, 31, 8241–8264 doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0862.1 [Download]
Kim, J., D. E. Waliser, G. V. Cesana, X. Jiang, T. L'Ecuyer, and J. M. Neena, 2018: Cloud and radiative heating profiles associated with the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation. Clim. Dyn., 50, 1485-1494 doi: 10.1007/s00382-017-3700-3 [Download]
Matus, A. and T. L'Ecuyer, 2017: The role of cloud phase in Earth's radiation budget. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, 2559-2578, doi:10:1002/2016JD025951 [Download]
Lenaerts, J. T. M., K. van Tricht, S. Lhermitte, and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2017: Polar clouds and radiation in satellite observations, reanalyses, and climate models. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2016GL072242 [Download]
Johansson, E., A. Devasthale, M. Tjernstrom, A. M. L. Ekman, and T. L'Ecuyer, 2017: Response of the lower troposphere to moisture intrusions into the Arctic. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 2527-2536, doi:10.1002/2017GL072687 [Download]
Johansson, E., A. Devasthale, T. L’Ecuyer, A. M. L. Ekman, and M. Tjernstrom, 2015: The vertical structure of cloud radiative heating over the Indian subcontinent during summer monsoon. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 11557-11570 [Download]
Protat, A., S. A. Young, S. A. McFarlane, T. L'Ecuyer, G. G. Mace, J. M. Comstock, C. N. Long, E. Berry, and J. Delanoe, 2014: Reconciling Ground-based and Space-based Estimates of the Frequency of Occurrence and Radiative Effect of Clouds Around Darwin, Australia. J. Appl. Meteor. and Climatol., Accepted, [Download]
Li, J.-L., D. E. Waliser, G. Stephens, S. Lee, T. L'Ecuyer, S. Kato, and N. Loeb, 2013: Characterizing and Understanding Radiation Budget and Cloud Water Biases in CMIP3/CMIP5 GCMs, Contemporary GCMs and Reanalyses. J. Geophys. Res., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50378 [Download]
Haynes, J. M., T. H. Vonder Haar, T. L'Ecuyer, and D. Henderson, 2013: Radiative heating characteristics of Earth's cloudy atmosphere from vertically resolved active sensors. Geophys. Res. Letters, 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50145 [Download]
Kay, J. and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2013: Observational constraints on Arctic Ocean clouds and radiative fluxes during the early 21st century. J. Geophys. Res., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd50489 [Download]
Yi, B., P. Yang, B. A. Baum, T. L'Ecuyer, L. Oreopoulos, E. J. Mlawyer, A. J. Heymsfield, and K. N. Liou, 2013: Influence of ice particle surface roughening on global radiation budget. J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 2794-2807 [Download]
Henderson, D. S., T. L'Ecuyer, G. Stephens, P. Partain, and M. Sekiguchi, 2013: A multi-sensor perspective on the radiative impacts of clouds and aerosols. J. Appl. Meteor. and Climatol., 52, 852-870 [Download]
Stephens, G. L., M. Wild, P. W. Stackhouse, Jr, T. L'Ecuyer, S. Kato, and D. S. Henderson, 2012: The Global Character of the Flux of Downward Longwave Radiation. J. Climate, 25, 2329-2340 [Download]
Waliser, D. E., J.-L. F. Li, T. S. L'Ecuyer, and W.-T. Chen, 2011: The impact of precipitating ice and snow on the radiation balance in global climate models. Geophys. Res. Letters, 38, doi: 10.1029/2010GL046478 [Download]
L'Ecuyer, T. S. and G. McGarragh, 2010: A ten year climatology of atmospheric radiative heating and its vertical structure from TRMM observations. J. Climate, 23, 519-541 [Download]
L'Ecuyer, T. S., N. Wood, T. Haladay, and G. L. Stephens, 2008: The impact of clouds on atmospheric heating based on the R04 CloudSat fluxes and heating rate data set. J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2008JD009951 [Download]
Feldman, D. R., T. S. L'Ecuyer, K. N. Liou, and Y. L. Yung, 2008: Remote sensing of tropical tropopause layer radiation balance using A-Train measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2007JD009041 [Download]
Kay, J., T. S. L'Ecuyer, G. L. Stephens, A. Gettelman, and C. O'Dell, 2008: The contribution of cloud and radiation anomalies to the 2007 Arctic sea ice extent minimum. Geophys. Res. Letters, 35, doi: 10.1029/2008GL033451 [Download]
L'Ecuyer, T. S., H. Masunaga, and C. D. Kummerow, 2006: Variability in the Characteristics of Tropical Rainfall Systems. Part II: Radiative Properties. J. Climate, 19, 1388-1406 [Download]
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]