Precipitation Remote Sensing

Palerme, C., J. E. Kay, C. Genthon, T. L'Ecuyer, N. B. Wood, and C. Claud, 2014: How much snow falls on the Antarctic ice sheet?. The Cryosphere, 8, 1577-1587 [Download]
Iguchi, T., T. Matsui, W.-K. Tao, A. P. Khain, V. T. J. Phillips, C. Kidd, T. L'Ecuyer, S. A. Braun, and A. Hou, 2014: WRF-SBM Simulations of Melting-Layer Structure in Mixed-Phase Precipitation Events Observed during LPVEx. J. Appl. Meteor. and Climatol., 53, 2710-2731 [Download]
Wood, N. B., T. S. L'Ecuyer, F. L. Bliven, and G. L. Stephens, 2013: Characterization of video disdrometer uncertainties and impacts on estimates of snowfall rate and radar reflectivity. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 3635-3648 [Download]
Matsui, T., T. Iguchi, X. Li, M. Han, W.-K. Tao, W. Petersen, T. L'Ecuyer, R. Meneghini, W. Olson, C. D. Kummerow, A. Y. Hou, M. R. Schwaller, E. F. Stocker, and J. Kwiatkowski, 2013: GPM satellite simulator over ground validation sites. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, 1654-1660 [Download]
Rapp, A. D., M. D. Lebsock, and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2013: Low cloud precipitation climatology in the southeastern Pacific marine stratocumulus region using CloudSat. Environ. Res. Letters, 8, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014027 [Download]
Lebsock, M. D. and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2011: The Retrieval of Warm Rain from CloudSat. J. Geophys. Res., 116, doi:10.1029/2011JD016076 [Download]
Berg, W., T. L'Ecuyer, and J. M. Haynes, 2010: The Distribution of Rainfall over Oceans from Spaceborne Radars. J. Appl. Meteor. And Climatol., 49, 535-543 [Download]
Mitrescu, C., S. D. Miller, J. M. Haynes, T. L'Ecuyer, and F. J. Turk, 2010: Toward a CloudSat Precipitation Profiling Algorithm - Model Description. J. Appl. Meteor. And Climatol., 49, 991-1003 [Download]
Stephens, G. L., T. L'Ecuyer, R. Forbes, A. Gettleman, C. Golaz, K. Suzuki, P. Gabriel, and J. Haynes, 2010: The dreary state of precipitation in global models. J. Geophys. Res., 115, doi: 10.1029/2010JD014532 [Download]
Haynes, J. M., T. L'Ecuyer, G. L. Stephens, S. D. Miller, C. Mitrescu, N. B. Wood, and S. Tanelli, 2009: Rainfall retrievals over the ocean with spaceborne high-frequency cloud radar. J. Geophys. Res., 114, doi: 10.1029/2008JD009973 [Download]
Ellis, T., T. S. L'Ecuyer, J. M. Haynes, and G. L. Stephens, 2009: How often does it rain over the global oceans? The perspective from CloudSat. Geophys. Res. Letters, 36, doi: 10.1029/2008GL036728 [Download]
Mitrescu, C., S. D. Miller, T. L'Ecuyer, J. Hawkins, J. Turk, P. Partain, and G. L. Stephens, 2008: Operational Applications of CloudSat Data. J. Appl. Meteor. And Climatol., 47, 1982-1994 [Download]
Battaglia, A., J. M. Haynes, T. L'Ecuyer, and C. Simmer, 2008: Identifying multiple-scattering-affected profiles in CloudSat observations over the oceans. J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2008JD009960 [Download]
W. Berg, T. L'Ecuyer, and C. Kummerow, 2006: Rainfall Climate Regimes: The Relationship of TRMM Rainfall Biases to the Environment. J. Appl. Meteor., 45, 434-454 [Download]
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]
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]
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]

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