CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation

By Graeme L. Stephens, D. Vane, S. Tanelli, E. Im, S. Durden, M. Rokey, D. Reinke, Philip Partain, Gerald Mace, Richard T. Austin and 10 more. 2008

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Mark A. Vaughan
2. Seiji Kato
3. D. Winker
4. Ali H. Omar
5. Zhaoyan Liu
6. Kathleen Powell
7. Chris A. Hostetler
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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Mark A. Vaughan
2. D. Winker
3. Seiji Kato
4. Gerald Mace
5. Kathleen Powell
6. Zhaoyan Liu
7. Ali H. Omar
8. Qiuqing Zhang

Citations in the corpus

• Surface Irradiances Consistent With CERES-Derived Top-of-Atmosphere Shortwave and Longwave Irradiances (2013, background): “Although clouds affect the meridional gradient of net atmospheric irradiance significantly (Stuhlmann and Smith 1988; Zhang and Rossow 1997; Kato et al. 2008), the atmospheric cloud radiative effect appears to be well within the uncertainty of the estimate.”
• The CALIPSO Lidar Cloud and Aerosol Discrimination: Version 2 Algorithm and Initial Assessment of Performance (2009, background): “Polluted aerosol is another aerosol type that can dominate some industrial areas in the Northern Hemisphere (Herman et al. 1997; Torres et al. 1998).”
• Relationships among cloud occurrence frequency, overlap, and effective thickness derived from CALIPSO and CloudSat merged cloud vertical profiles (2010, positive): “…a complete picture of cloud vertical structure; the CPR tends to miss thin clouds composed of small cloud particles (the minimum detection is − 30 dBZ [ Stephens et al. , 2008]) and the CALIOP signal is completely attenuated by optically thick clouds (optical thickness greater than about 3).”
• Major Characteristics of Southern Ocean Cloud Regimes and Their Effects on the Energy Budget (2011, methodology): “The CloudSat CPR (Stephens et al. 2008) is a near-nadirpointing millimeter-wavelength (94 GHz) radar system launched in 2006 that has collected data nearly continuously since June of that year.”
• A global view of midlevel liquid‐layer topped stratiform cloud distribution and phase partition from CALIPSO and CloudSat measurements (2010, positive): “…with CALIOP lidar, MODIS measurements, and other ancillary data, CloudSat provides global cloud distributions and vertical profiles, cloud types, liquid and ice water content profiles, particle effective radius measurements, and precipitation data [ Sassen and Wang , 2008; Stephens et al. , 2008].”
• The CloudSat radar‐lidar geometrical profile product (RL‐GeoProf): Updates, improvements, and selected results (2014, background): “D statistical structure of clouds from space [Mace et al., 2009; Stephens et al., 2008].”
• CORRIGENDUM of the MJO Transition from Shallow to Deep Convection in Cloudsat-Calipso Data and GISS GCM Simulations (2012, methodology): “In this paper, we take advantage of the unique active remote sensing capabilities of the CloudSat (Stephens et al. 2008) and the Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) (Winker et al. 2009) satellites, together with the precipitation and water vapor products…”