Publications

2019

Douglas, A. and L'Ecuyer, T.S., 2019: Quantifying variations in shortwave aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions using local meteorology and cloud state constraints. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19, 6251-6268 doi: 10.5194/acp-19-6251-2019, 2019. [Download]
L'Ecuyer, T. S., Y. Hang, A. V. Matus, Z. Wang, 2019: Reassessing the effect of cloud type on Earth’s energy balance in the age of active spaceborne observations. Part I: Top-of-atmosphere and surface. Journal of Climate, 32, 6197-6217 doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0753.1 [Download]
Hang, Y., T. S. L'Ecuyer, D. S. Henderson, A. V. Matus, Z. Wang, 2019: Reassessing the effect of cloud type on Earth's energy balance in the age of active spaceborne observations. Part II: Atmospheric heating. Journal of Climate, 32, 6219-6236 doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0754.1 [Download]
Sledd, A., & L’Ecuyer, T., 2019: How Much Do Clouds Mask the Impacts of Arctic Sea Ice and Snow Cover Variations? Different Perspectives from Observations and Reanalyses. Atmosphere, 10, 12 doi: 10.3390/atmos10010012 [Download]
Matus, A. V., T. S. L'Ecuyer, and D. S. Henderson, 2019: New estimates of aerosol direct radiative effects and forcing from A-Train satellite observations. Geophys. Res. Letters, Accepted, doi: 10.1029/2019GL083656
Chang, K.-W., and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2019: Role of latent heating vertical distribution in the formation of the tropical cold trap. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, , doi: 10.1029/2018JD030194
Lemonnier, f., J. B. Madeleine, C. Claud, C. Genthon, C. Duran-Alarcon, C. Palerme, A. Berne, N. Souverijns, N. van Lipzig, I. V. Gorodetskaya, T. L'Ecuyer and N. Wood, 2019: Evaluation of CloudSat snowfall rate profiles by comparison with in-situ micro rain radar observations in East Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 13, 943-954 doi: 10.5194/tc-13-943-2019 [Download]
Palerme, C., C. Claud, N. B. Wood, T. L'Ecuyer, and C. Genthon, 2019: How does ground clutter affect CloudSat snowfall retrievals over ice sheets?. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., 16, 342-346 doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2018.2875007 [Download]
Schirle, C. E., S. J. Cooper, M. A. Wolff, C.Pettersen, N. B. Wood, T. S. L'Ecuyer, T. Ilmo and K. Nygard, 2019: Estimation of snowfall properties at a mountainous site in Norway using combined radar and in situ microphysical observations. J. Appl. Meteorol. Clim., 58, 1137-1352 doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0281.1 [Download]
Skofronick-Jackson, G., M. Kulie, L. Milani, S. J. Munchak, N. B. Wood, and V. Levizzani, 2019: Satellite estimation of falling snow: A Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory perspective. J. Appl. Meteorol. Clim., 58, 1429-1448 doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0124.1 [Download]

2018

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]
Milani, L., M. S. Kulie, D. Casella, S. Dietrich, T. S. L'Ecuyer, G. Panegrossi, F. Porcu, P. Sano, and N. B. Wood, 2018: CloudSat snowfall estimates over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: An assessment of independent retrieval methodologies and multi-year snowfall analysis. Atmospheric Research, 213, 121-135 doi: j.atmosres.2018.05.015 [Download]
Kay, J. E., T. L'Ecuyer, A. Pendergrass, H. Chepfer, R. Guzman, and V. Yettella, 2018: Scale-Aware and Definition-Aware Evaluation of Modeled Near-Surface Precipitation Frequency Using CloudSat Observations. J. Geophys. Res., 123, 4294-4309 doi: 10.1002/2017JD028213 [Download]
Nelson, E. and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2018: Global Character of Latent Heat Release in OceanicWarm Rain Systems. J. Geophys. Res., 123, 4797-4817 doi: 10.1002/2017JD027844 [Download]
Palerme, C., C. Claud, N. B. Wood, T. L'Ecuyer, and C. Genthon, 2018: How does ground clutter affect CloudSat snowfall retrievals over ice sheets?. IEEE Geosci. and Rem. Sens. Letters, Accepted,
Stephens, G., D. Winker, J. Pelon, C. Trepte, D. Vane, C. Yuhas, T. L'Ecuyer, and M. Lebsock, 2018: CloudSat and CALIPSO within the A-Train: Ten Years of Actively Observing the Earth System. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99, 569-581 doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0324.1 [Download]
Bai, H., C. Gong, M. Wang, Z. Zhang, and T. L'Ecuyer, 2018: Estimating precipitation susceptibility in warm marine clouds using multi-sensor aerosol and cloud products from A-Train satellites. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 1763-1783 doi: 10.5194/acp-18-1763-2018 [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]
Mülmenstädt, J, O. Sourdeval, D. S. Henderson, T. S. L'Ecuyer, C. Unglaub, L. Jungandreas, C. Böhm, L. M. Russell, J. Quaas, 2018: Using CALIOP to estimate cloud-field base height and its uncertainty: the Cloud Base Altitude Spatial Extrapolator (CBASE) algorithm and dataset. Earth System Science Data, 10, 2279-2293 doi: 10.5194/essd-2018-43

2017

Palerme, C., C. Genthon, C. Claud, J. E. Kay, N. B. Wood, and T. L'Ecuyer, 2017: Evaluation of current and projected Antarctic precipitation in CMIP5 models. Climate Dynamics, 48, 225-239 [Download]

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