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Kato S, Sun-Mack S, Miller WF, Rose FG, Chen Y, Minnis P, Wielicki BA. Relationships among cloud occurrence frequency, overlap, and effective thickness derived from CALIPSO and CloudSat merged cloud vertical profiles. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd012277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Chang FL, Minnis P, Ayers JK, McGill MJ, Palikonda R, Spangenberg DA, Smith WL, Yost CR. Evaluation of satellite-based upper troposphere cloud top height retrievals in multilayer cloud conditions during TC4. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd013305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Toon OB, Starr DO, Jensen EJ, Newman PA, Platnick S, Schoeberl MR, Wennberg PO, Wofsy SC, Kurylo MJ, Maring H, Jucks KW, Craig MS, Vasques MF, Pfister L, Rosenlof KH, Selkirk HB, Colarco PR, Kawa SR, Mace GG, Minnis P, Pickering KE. Planning, implementation, and first results of the Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment (TC4). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd013073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Minnis P, Harrison EF, Stowe LL, Gibson GG, Denn FM, Doelling DR, Smith WL. Radiative climate forcing by the mount pinatubo eruption. Science 2010; 259:1411-5. [PMID: 17801273 DOI: 10.1126/science.259.5100.1411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 267] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Radiative flux anomalies derived from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spaceborne Earth Radiation Budget Experiment were used to determine the volcanic radiative forcing that followed the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991. They are the first unambiguous, direct measurements of large-scale volcanic forcing. The volcanic aerosols caused a strong cooling effect immediately; the amount of cooling increased through September 1991 as shortwave forcing increased relative to the longwave forcing. The primary effects of the aerosols were a direct increase in albedo over mostly clear areas and both direct and indirect increases in the albedo of cloudy areas.
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Xi B, Dong X, Minnis P, Khaiyer MM. A 10 year climatology of cloud fraction and vertical distribution derived from both surface and GOES observations over the DOE ARM SPG site. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd012800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Chang FL, Minnis P, Lin B, Khaiyer MM, Palikonda R, Spangenberg DA. A modified method for inferring upper troposphere cloud top height using the GOES 12 imager 10.7 and 13.3μm data. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd012304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Chepfer H, Bony S, Winker D, Cesana G, Dufresne JL, Minnis P, Stubenrauch CJ, Zeng S. The GCM-Oriented CALIPSO Cloud Product (CALIPSO-GOCCP). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd012251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 227] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Waliser DE, Li JLF, Woods CP, Austin RT, Bacmeister J, Chern J, Del Genio A, Jiang JH, Kuang Z, Meng H, Minnis P, Platnick S, Rossow WB, Stephens GL, Sun-Mack S, Tao WK, Tompkins AM, Vane DG, Walker C, Wu D. Cloud ice: A climate model challenge with signs and expectations of progress. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1029/2008jd010015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Huang J, Minnis P, Chen B, Huang Z, Liu Z, Zhao Q, Yi Y, Ayers JK. Long-range transport and vertical structure of Asian dust from CALIPSO and surface measurements during PACDEX. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1029/2008jd010620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 274] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Lin B, Stackhouse PW, Minnis P, Wielicki BA, Hu Y, Sun W, Fan TF, Hinkelman LM. Assessment of global annual atmospheric energy balance from satellite observations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1029/2008jd009869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Dong X, Wielicki BA, Xi B, Hu Y, Mace GG, Benson S, Rose F, Kato S, Charlock T, Minnis P. Using observations of deep convective systems to constrain atmospheric column absorption of solar radiation in the optically thick limit. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1029/2007jd009769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Cho HM, Yang P, Kattawar GW, Nasiri SL, Hu Y, Minnis P, Trepte C, Winker D. Depolarization ratio and attenuated backscatter for nine cloud types: analyses based on collocated CALIPSO lidar and MODIS measurements. OPTICS EXPRESS 2008; 16:3931-3948. [PMID: 18542490 DOI: 10.1364/oe.16.003931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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This paper reports on the relationship between lidar backscatter and the corresponding depolarization ratio for nine types of cloud systems. The data used in this study are the lidar returns measured by the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) aboard the Cloud- Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite and the collocated cloud products derived from the observations made by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard Aqua satellite. Specifically, the operational MODIS cloud optical thickness and cloud-top pressure products are used to classify cloud types on the basis of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) cloud classification scheme. While the CALIPSO observations provide information for up to 10 cloud layers, in the present study only the uppermost clouds are considered. The layer-averaged attenuated backscatter (gamma') and layer-averaged depolarization ratio (delta) from the CALIPSO measurements show both water- and ice-phase features for global cirrus, cirrostratus, and deep convective cloud classes. Furthermore, we screen both the MODIS and CALIPSO data to eliminate cases in which CALIPSO detected two- or multi-layered clouds. It is shown that low gamma' values corresponding to uppermost thin clouds are largely eliminated in the CALIPSO delta-gamma' relationship for single-layered clouds. For mid-latitude and polar regions corresponding, respectively, to latitude belts 30 degrees -60 degrees and 60 degrees -90 degrees in both the hemispheres, a mixture of water and ice is also observed in the case of the altostratus class. MODIS cloud phase flags are also used to screen ice clouds. The resultant water clouds flagged by the MODIS algorithm show only water phase feature in the delta-gamma' relation observed by CALIOP; however, in the case of the ice clouds flagged by the MODIS algorithm, the co-existence of ice- and water-phase clouds is still observed in the CALIPSO delta-gamma' relationship.
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Dong X, Minnis P, Xi B, Sun-Mack S, Chen Y. Comparison of CERES-MODIS stratus cloud properties with ground-based measurements at the DOE ARM Southern Great Plains site. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1029/2007jd008438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Minnis P, Huang J, Lin B, Yi Y, Arduini RF, Fan TF, Ayers JK, Mace GG. Ice cloud properties in ice-over-water cloud systems using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) visible and infrared scanner and TRMM Microwave Imager data. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1029/2006jd007626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Chepfer H, Minnis P, Dubuisson P, Chiriaco M, Sun-Mack S, Rivière ED. Nitric acid particles in cold thick ice clouds observed at global scale: Link with lightning, temperature, and upper tropospheric water vapor. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1029/2005jd006602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Mace GG, Benson S, Sonntag KL, Kato S, Min Q, Minnis P, Twohy CH, Poellot M, Dong X, Long C, Zhang Q, Doelling DR. Cloud radiative forcing at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Climate Research Facility: 1. Technique, validation, and comparison to satellite-derived diagnostic quantities. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1029/2005jd005921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Wielicki BA, Wong T, Loeb N, Minnis P, Priestley K, Kandel R. Changes in Earth's Albedo Measured by Satellite. Science 2005; 308:825. [PMID: 15879211 DOI: 10.1126/science.1106484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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NASA global satellite data provide observations of Earth's albedo, i.e., the fraction of incident solar radiation that is reflected back to space. The satellite data show that the last four years are within natural variability and fail to confirm the 6% relative increase in albedo inferred from observations of earthshine from the moon. Longer global satellite records will be required to discern climate trends in Earth's albedo.
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Zhao TXP, Laszlo I, Minnis P, Remer L. Comparison and analysis of two aerosol retrievals over the ocean in the Terra/Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System–Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer single scanner footprint data: 1. Global evaluation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1029/2005jd005851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Minnis P, Yi Y, Huang J, Ayers K. Relationships between radiosonde and RUC-2 meteorological conditions and cloud occurrence determined from ARM data. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1029/2005jd006005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Minnis P. Azimuthal anisotropy of longwave and infrared window radiances from the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and Terra satellites. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1029/2003jd004471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Loeb NG, Manalo-Smith N, Kato S, Miller WF, Gupta SK, Minnis P, Wielicki BA. Angular Distribution Models for Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Flux Estimation from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System Instrument on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Satellite. Part I: Methodology. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2003)042<0240:admfto>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Pope SK, Valero FPJ, Collins WD, Minnis P. Comparison of ScaRaB, GOES 8, aircraft, and surface observations of the absorption of solar radiation by clouds. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1029/2001jd001139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Dong X, Mace GG, Minnis P, Young DF. Arctic stratus cloud properties and their effect on the surface radiation budget: Selected cases from FIRE ACE. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1029/2000jd900404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Doelling DR, Minnis P, Spangenberg DA, Chakrapani V, Mahesh A, Pope SK, Valero FPJ. Cloud radiative forcing at the top of the atmosphere during FIRE ACE derived from AVHRR data. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1029/2000jd900455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Minnis P, Chakrapani V, Doelling DR, Nguyen L, Palikonda R, Spangenberg DA, Uttal T, Arduini RF, Shupe M. Cloud coverage and height during FIRE ACE derived from AVHRR data. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1029/2000jd900437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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