Brian Cairns

Atmospheric Science · 2001–2011

A researcher in the Science corpus: 7 papers; trusts 7 researchers and is trusted by 5 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Atmospheric Science — 72 citations into it; #1,694 of 4,804 by trust here, #920 by citations
• Global and Planetary Change — 70 citations into it; #3,430 of 10,225 by trust here, #2,394 by citations
• Astronomy and Astrophysics — 14 citations into it

Whom Brian Cairns trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. M. I. Mishchenko
2. J. Lean
3. Fabienne Maignan
4. C. Fröhlich
5. Larry Travis
6. J. Hansen
7. Oleg Dubovik
8. Ralph A. Kahn

Who trusts Brian Cairns overall

1. Otto Hasekamp
2. P. Litvinov
3. Oleg Dubovik
4. Anthony J. Baran
5. Robert J. D. Spurr
6. Li Liu
7. André Butz
8. Zhengqiang Li
9. M. I. Mishchenko

Papers from Brian Cairns's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Brian Cairns trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Soot climate forcing via snow and ice albedos. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
2. Evolution of the Sun's Spectral Irradiance Since the Maunder Minimum
3. A flexible inversion algorithm for retrieval of aerosol optical properties from Sun and sky radiance measurements
4. Monitoring of aerosol forcing of climate from space: analysis of measurement requirements (Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer)
5. Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols (Nature)
6. Inverse Methods for Atmospheric Sounding: Theory and Practice
7. Secular total solar irradiance trend during solar cycles 21–23
8. The effect of smoke, dust, and pollution aerosol on shallow cloud development over the Atlantic Ocean. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
9. Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) global aerosol optical depth validation based on 2 years of coincident Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) observations
10. Aerosol properties over bright-reflecting source regions (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing)

Their papers

• Models for surface reflection of radiance and polarized radiance: Comparison with airborne multi-angle photopolarimetric measurements and implications for modeling top-of-atmosphere measurements (2011) — 142 citations
• Polarimetric remote sensing of aerosols over land (2009) — 177 citations
• Accurate monitoring of terrestrial aerosols and total solar irradiance: Introducing the Glory mission (2007) — 308 citations
• Dangerous human-made interference with climate: a GISS modelE study (2006) — 307 citations
• Efficacy of climate forcings (2005)
• Monitoring of aerosol forcing of climate from space: analysis of measurement requirements (2004) — 247 citations
• Retrieval of aerosol properties over the ocean using multispectral and multiangle Photopolarimetric measurements from the Research Scanning Polarimeter (2001) — 150 citations