2013 Publications

• Henderson, D. S., T. L'Ecuyer, G. Stephens, P. Partain, and M. Sekiguchi, 2013: A multi-sensor perspective on the radiative impacts of clouds and aerosols J. Appl. Meteor. and Climatol., In Press
• Yi, B., P. Yang, B. A. Baum, T. L'Ecuyer, L. Oreopoulos, E. J. Mlawyer, A. J. Heymsfield, and K. N. Liou, 2013: Influence of ice particle surface roughening on global radiation budget J. Atmos. Sci., Submitted
• Kay, J. and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2013: Observational constraints on Arctic Ocean clouds and radiative fluxes during the early 21st century J. Geophys. Res., Submitted
• Haynes, J. M., T. H. Vonder Haar, T. L'Ecuyer, and D. Henderson, 2013: Radiative heating characteristics of Earth's cloudy atmosphere from vertically resolved active sensors Geophys. Res. Letters, Accepted
• Li, J.-L., D. E. Waliser, G. Stephens, S. Lee, T. L'Ecuyer, S. Kato, and N. Loeb, 2013: Characterizing and Understanding Radiation Budget and Cloud Water Biases in CMIP3/CMIP5 GCMs, Contemporary GCMs and Reanalyses J. Geophys. Res., Accepted
• Su, H., J. H. Jiang, C. Zhai, V. S. Perun, J. T. Shen, A. del Genio, L. S. Nazarenko, L. J. Donner, L. Horowitz, C. Seman, C. Morcrette, J. Patch, M. Ringer, J. Cole, A. Gettelman, M. Watanabe, J.-L. Dufresne, L. Rotstayn, S. Jeffrey, T. Wu, H. Kawai, T. Koshiro, E. M. Volodin, M. Mesquita, T. Iverson, T. L'Ecuyer, J. Teixeira, and G. Stephens, 2013: Diagnosis of CMIP5 Cloud Simulations in Relation to Large-scale Parameters Using NASA A-Train Satellite Observations and Other Datasets J. Geophys. Res., In Press
• 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, Accepted
• 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., In Press
• Wood, N. B., T. S. L'Ecuyer, F. L. Bliven, and G. L. Stephens, 2013: Characterization of disdrometer uncertainties and their effects on snowfall rate from radar reflectivity Atmos. Meas. Tech., Submitted
• Wood, N. B., T. S. L'Ecuyer, A. Heymsfield, G. L. Stephens, D. Hudak, and P. Rodriguez, 2013: Estimating snow microphysical properties using collocated multisensor observations. Observing system performance J. Geophys. Res., Submitted
• Sorooshian, A. Z. Wang, G. Feingold, and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2013: A satellite perspective on warm cloud collision-coalescence and the influence of aerosol types and atmospheric stability J. Geophys. Res., Submitted
• Protat, A., S. A. Young, S. A. McFarlane, T. L'Ecuyer, G. G. Mace, J. M. Comstock, C. N. Long, E. Berry, and J. Delanoe, 2013: Reconciling Ground-based and Space-based Estimates of the Frequency of Occurrence and Radiative Effect of Clouds Around Darwin, Australia J. Appl. Meteor. and Climatol., Submitted
• Wong, S., T. S. L'Ecuyer, W. S. Olson, and E. J. Fetzer, 2013: Local Balance and Variability of Atmospheric Heat Budget over Oceans: A Synergy of AIRS Temperature, MERRA Reanalysis, TRAIN Heating Rate, GEWEX SRB, and GPCP Precipitation J. Climate, Submitted

2012 Publications

• Stephens, G. L., M. Wild, P. W. Stackhouse, Jr, T. L'Ecuyer, S. Kato, and D. S. Henderson, 2012: The Global Character of the Flux of Downward Longwave Radiation J. Climate, 25, 2329-2340    [ Download ]
• Wang, M., S. Ghan, X. Liu, T. L'Ecuyer, K. Zhang, H. Morrison, M. Ovchinnikov, R. Easter, R. Marchand, D. Chand, Y. Qian, and J. E. Penner, 2012: Constraining cloud lifetime effects of aerosols using A-Train satellite observations Geophys. Res. Letters, 39, doi:10.1029/2012GL052204    [ Download ]
• Jiang, J. H., H. Su, C. Zhai, V. S. Perun, A. del Genio, L. S. Nazarenko, L. J. Donner, L. Horowitz, C. Seman, J. Cole, A. gettelman, T. Wu, T. L'Ecuyer, M. Ringer, J.-L. Dufresne, W. G. Read, J. W. Waters, G. Stephens, J. Teixeira, and B. Tian, 2012: Evaluation of cloud and water vapor simulations in the IPCC AR5 models using NASA A-Train satellite observations J. Geophys. Res., 117, doi: 10.1029/2011JD017237    [ Download ]
• Stephens, G. L., J.-L. Li, M. Wild, C. A. Clayson, N. Loeb, S. Kato, T. L'Ecuyer, P. W. Stackhouse, Jr., M. Lebsock, and T. Andrews, 2012: An Update on the Earth’s energy balance in light of new surface energy flux estimates Nature Geosciences, 5, 691-696    [ Download ]

2011 Publications

• Masunaga, H. and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2011: Equatorial Asymmetry of the East Pacific ITCZ: Observational Constraints on the Underlying Processes J. Climate, 24, 1784-1800    [ Download ]
• Dong, X., B. Xi, A. Kennedy, Z. Feng, J. Entin, P. Houser, B. Schiffer, W. Rossow, T. L'Ecuyer, W. Olson, K.-L. Hsu, T. Liu, and B. Lin, 2011: Investigation the 2006 Drought and 2007 Flood Extreme Events at the SGP using an Integrative Analysis of Observations J. Geophys. Res., 116, doi: 10.1029/2010JD014776    [ Download ]
• Waliser, D. E., J.-L. F. Li, T. S. L'Ecuyer, and W.-T. Chen, 2011: The impact of precipitating ice and snow on the radiation balance in global climate models Geophys. Res. Letters, 38, doi: 10.1029/2010GL046478    [ Download ]
• Lebsock, M. D., T. S. L'Ecuyer, and G. L. Stephens, 2011: Detecting the Ratio of Rain and Cloud Water in Low-Latitude Shallow Marine Clouds J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 50, 419-432    [ 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 ]
• Jiang, X., D. E. Waliser, W. S. Olson, W.-K. Tao, T. S. L'Ecuyer, K.-F. Li, Y. L. Yung, S. Shige, S. Lang, Y. N. Takayabu, 2011: Vertical Diabatic Heating Structure of the MJO: Intercomparison between Recent Reanalyses and TRMM Estimates Mon. Wea. Rev., 139, 3208-3223    [ Download ]

2010 Publications

• Saleeby, S. M., W. Berg, S. van den Heever, and T. L'Ecuyer, 2010: Impact of Cloud-nucleating Aerosols in Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations of Warm-Rain Precipitation in the East China Sea J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 3916-3930    [ Download ]
• Protat, A., J. Delanoe, E. J. O'Connor, and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2010: The evaluation of CloudSat and CALIPSO ice microphysical products using ground-based cloud radar and lidar observations J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 27, 793-810    [ 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 ]
• 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 ]
• 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 ]
• Zhang, C., J. Ling, S. Hagos, W.-K. Tao, S. Lang, Y. N. Takayabu, S. Shige, M. Katsumata, W. S. Olson, T. L'Ecuyer, 2010: MJO Signals in Latent Heating: Results from TRMM Retrievals J. Climate, 67, 3488-3508    [ Download ]
• L'Ecuyer, T. S. and J. Jiang, 2010: Touring the Atmosphere Aboard the A-Train Physics Today, 63, 36-41    [ Download ]
• Greenwald, T. J., Y.-K. Lee, T. L'Ecuyer, and J. A. Otkin, 2010: Evaluation of Midlatitude Clouds in a Large-Scale High-Resolution Simulation Using CloudSat Observations J. Geophys. Res., 115, doi: 10.1029/2009JD013552    [ Download ]
• Elsaesser, G., C. Kummerow, T. S. L'Ecuyer, and S. Shige, 2010: Observed Self-Similarity of Precipitation Regimes Over the Tropical Oceans J. Climate, 23, 2686-2698    [ Download ]
• L'Ecuyer, T. S. and G. McGarragh, 2010: A ten year climatology of atmospheric radiative heating and its vertical structure from TRMM observations J. Climate, 23, 519-541    [ Download ]
• Johnson, R. H., P. E. Ciesielski, T. S. L'Ecuyer, and A. J. Newman, 2010: Diurnal Cycle of Deep Convection during the 2004 North American Monsoon Experiment J. Climate, 23, 1060-1078    [ Download ]
• Masunaga, H. and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2010: The southeast Pacific warm band and double ITCZ J. Climate, 23, 1189-1208    [ Download ]
• Hagos, S., C. Zhang, W.-K. Tao, S. Lang, Y. N. Takayabu, S. Shige, M. Katsumata, W. Olson, and T. L'Ecuyer, 2010: Estimates of tropical diabatic heating profiles: Commonalities and uncertainties J. Climate, 23, 542-558    [ Download ]

2009 Publications

• L'Ecuyer, T. S., W. Berg, J. Haynes, M. Lebsock, and T. Takemura, 2009: Global Observations of Aerosol Impacts on Precipitation Occurrence in Warm Maritime Clouds J. Geophys. Res., 114, doi: 10.1029/2008JD011273    [ 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 ]
• 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 ]
• Grecu, M., W. S. Olson, C.-L. Shie, T. S. L'Ecuyer, and W.-K. Tao, 2009: Combining Satellite Microwave Radiometer and Radar Observations to Estimate Atmospheric Latent Heating Profiles J. Climate, 22, 6356-6376    [ Download ]
• Shige, S., Y. N. Takayabu, S. Kida, W.-K. Tao, X. Zeng, C. Yokoyama, and T. L'Ecuyer, 2009: Spectral retrieval of latent heating profiles from TRMM PR data. Part IV: Comparisons of lookup tables from two- and three-dimensional cloud-resolving model simulations J. Climate, 22, 5578-5594    [ Download ]
• Jiang, X., D. E. Waliser, W. S. Olson, W.-K. Tao, T. S. L'Ecuyer, J.-L. Li, B. Tian, Y. L. Yung, A. M. Tompkins, S. E. Lang, and M. Grecu, 2009: Vertical Heating Structures Associated with the MJO as Characterized by TRMM Estimates, ECMWF Reanalyses, and Forecasts: A Case Study during 1998/99 Winter J. Climate, 22, 6001-6020    [ Download ]

2008 Publications

• Berg, W., T. L'Ecuyer, and S. van den Heever, 2008: Evidence for the impact of aerosols on the onset and microphysical properties of rainfall from a combination of active and passive microwave satellite sensors J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2007JD009649    [ Download ]
• Taylor, T. E., T. S. L'Ecuyer, J. R. Slusser, G. L. Stephens, and C. D. Goering, 2008: An operational retrieval algorithm for determining column Ozone and UV aerosol optical properties J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008661    [ Download ]
• Posselt, D., T. L'Ecuyer, and G. L. Stephens, 2008: Exploring the Error Characteristics of Thin Ice Cloud Property Retrievals Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm J. Geophys. Res., 114, doi: 10.1029/2008JD010832    [ Download ]
• Stephens, G. L., D. G. Vane, S. Tanelli, E. Im, S. Durden, M. Rokey, D. Reinke, P. Partain, G. G. Mace, R. Austin, T. L'Ecuyer, J. Haynes, M. Lebsock, K. Suzuki, D. Waliser, D. Wu, J. Kay, A. Gettelman, Z. Wang, 2008: The CloudSat Mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2008JD009982    [ Download ]
• Battaglia, A., J. M. Haynes, T. L'Ecuyer, and C. Simmer, 2008, 2008: Identifying multiple-scattering-affected profiles in CloudSat observations over the oceans J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2008JD009960    [ 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 ]
• Kay, J., T. S. L'Ecuyer, G. L. Stephens, A. Gettelman, and C. O'Dell, 2008: The contribution of cloud and radiation anomalies to the 2007 Arctic sea ice extent minimum Geophys. Res. Letters, 35, doi: 10.1029/2008GL033451    [ Download ]
• Feldman, D. R., T. S. L'Ecuyer, K. N. Liou, and Y. L. Yung, 2008: Remote sensing of tropical tropopause layer radiation balance using A-Train measurements J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2007JD009041    [ Download ]
• L'Ecuyer, T. S., N. Wood, T. Haladay, and G. L. Stephens, 2008: The impact of clouds on atmospheric heating based on the R04 CloudSat fluxes and heating rate detest J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2008JD009951    [ Download ]

2007 Publications

• Lebsock, M., T. S. L'Ecuyer, and G. L. Stephens, 2007: Information Content of Spaceborne Multi-Angular Polarization Measurements for Aerosol Retrievals J. Geophys. Res., 112, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008535    [ Download ]
• Greenwald, T. J., T. S. L'Ecuyer, and S. A. Christopher, 2007: Evaluating specific error characteristics of microwave-derived cloud liquid water products Geophys. Res. Letters, 34, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031180    [ Download ]
• Cooper, S. J., T. S. L'Ecuyer, P. Gabriel, A. J. Baran, and G. L. Stephens, 2007: Performance assessment of a five-channel estimation-based ice cloud retrieval scheme for use over the global oceans J. Geophys. Res., 112, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007122    [ Download ]
• L'Ecuyer, T. S. and G. L. Stephens, 2007: The Tropical Atmospheric Energy Budget from the TRMM Perspective. Part II: Evaluating GCM Representations of the Sensitivity of Regional Energy and Water Cycles to the 1998-99 ENSO Cycle J. Climate, 20, 4548-4571    [ Download ]

2006 Publications

• L'Ecuyer, T. S., P. Gabriel, K. Leesman, S. J. Cooper, and G. L. Stephens, 2006: Objective Assessment of the Information Content of Visible and Infrared Radiance Measurements for Cloud Microphysical Property Retrievals over the Global Oceans. Part I: Liquid Clouds J. Appl. Meteor., 45, 20-41    [ Download ]
• Cooper, S. J., T. S. L'Ecuyer, P. Gabriel, G. L. Stephens, A. J. Baran, and P. Yang, 2006: Objective Assessment of the Information Content of Visible and Infrared Radiance Measurements for Cloud Microphysical Property Retrievals over the Global Oceans. Part II: Ice Clouds J. Appl. Meteor., 45, 42-62    [ 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 ]
• Masunaga, H., T. S. L'Ecuyer, and C. Kummerow, 2006: The Madden-Julian Oscillation in early observations from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 2777-2794    [ Download ]
• L'Ecuyer, T. S., H. Masunaga, and C. D. Kummerow, 2006: Variability in the Characteristics of Tropical Rainfall Systems. Part II: Radiative Properties J. Climate, 19, 1388-1406    [ Download ]

2005 Publications

• Goering, C. D., T. S. L'Ecuyer, G. L. Stephens, J. R. Slusser, G. Scott, J. Davis, J. C. Barnard, and S. Madronich, 2005: Retrievals of column Ozone and aerosol properties from UV-MFRSR solar irradiance measurements during MCMA-2003 J. Geophys. Res., 110, doi: 10.1029/2004JD005330    [ Download ]
• Masunaga, H., T. S. L'Ecuyer, and C. D. Kummerow, 2005: Variability in the Characteristics of Tropical Rainfall Systems. Part I: Spatial Structure J. Climate, 18, 823-840    [ Download ]

2004 Publications

• 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    [ Download ]
• Stephens G. L., P. J. Webster, R. H. Johnson, R. Engelen, and T. S. L'Ecuyer, 2004: Observational evidence for the mutual regulation of the Tropical Hydrological Cycle and Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures J. Climate, 17, 2213-2224    [ Download ]

2003 Publications

• Cooper, S. J., T. S. L'Ecuyer and G. L. Stephens, 2003: The Impact of Explicit Cloud Boundary Information on Ice Cloud Microphysical Property Retrievals from Infrared Radiances J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002611    [ Download ]
• L'Ecuyer, T. S. and G. L. Stephens, 2003: The Tropical Oceanic Energy Budget from the TRMM Perspective. Part I: Algorithm and Uncertainities J. Climate, 16, 1967-1985    [ Download ]

2002 Publications

• 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 ]
• 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 ]