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Publications

Presented here are a sample of the papers and presentations authored by the Atmospheric Radiation Group.

Papers

  1. Bergstrom, R. W., K. S. Schmidt, O. Coddington, P. Pilewskie, H. Guan, J. M. Livingston, J. Redemann, and P. B. Russell (2010), Aerosol spectral absorption in the Mexico City area: results from airborne measurements during MILAGRO/INTEX B, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 6333-6343.
  2. Coddington, O.: The application of airborne shortwave spectral irradiance measurements to atmosphere and surface remote sensing, PhD Thesis, University of Colorado, 2009.
  3. Coddington, O.; Pilewskie, P.; Schmidt, K.S.; McBride, P.J.; Vukicevic, T. Characterizing a New Surface-Based Shortwave Cloud Retrieval Technique, Based on Transmitted Radiance for Soil and Vegetated Surface Types. Atmosphere 2013, 4, 48-71.
  4. Coddington, O., Pilewskie, P., Redemann, J., Platnick, S., Russell, P. B., Schmidt, K. S., Gore, W. J., Livingston, J., Wind, G., and T., Vukicevic (2010), Examining the impact of overlying aerosols on the retrieval of cloud optical properties from passive remote sensing, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2009JD012829.
  5. Coddington, O., P. Pilewskie, and T. Vukicevic (2011), The Shannon information content of hyperspectral shortwave cloud albedo measurements: Quantification and Practical Applications, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D04205, doi:10.1029/2011JD016771.
  6. Coddington, O., K. S. Schmidt, P. Pilewskie, W. J. Gore, R. W. Bergstrom, M. Román, J. Redemann, P. B. Russell, J. Liu, and C. C. Schaaf (2008), Aircraft measurements of spectral surface albedo and its consistency with ground-based and space-borne observations, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D17209, doi:10.1029/2008JD010089.
  7. Feldman, D., C. A. Algieri, W. D. Collins, Y. Roberts, and P. Pilewskie (2011b), Simulation Studies for the Detection of Changes in Broadband Albedo and Shortwave Nadir Reflectance Spectra under a Climate Change Scenario, accepted to J. Geophys. Res.
  8. Kindel, B. C., P. Pilewskie, K. S. Schmidt, O. Coddington, and M. D. King (2011), Solar spectral absorption by marine stratus clouds: Measurements and modeling, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2010JD015071.
  9. Kindel, B. C., K. S. Schmidt, P. Pilewskie, B. A. Baum, P. Yang, and S. Platnick (2010), Observations and modeling of ice cloud shortwave spectral albedo during the Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment (TC4), J. Geophys. Res., 15, D00J18, doi:10.1029/2009JD013127.
  10. Kren, A., P. Pilewskie, O. Coddington, and S. Schmidt, (2012), Where does the atmosphere get its energy? An examination of energy sources for the Earth’s atmosphere, in preparation.
  11. Livingston, J. M., Redemann, J., Russell, P. B., Torres, O., Veihelmann, B., Veefkind, P., Braak, R., Smirnov, A., Remer, L., Bergstrom, R. W., Coddington, O., Schmidt, K. S., Pilewskie, P., Johnson, R., and Zhang, Q. (2009), Comparison of aerosol optical depths from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on Aura with results from airborne sunphotometry, other space and ground measurements during MILAGRO/INTEX-B, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 6743-6765.
  12. McBride, P. J., K. S. Schmidt, P. Pilewskie, A. S. Kittelman, and D. E. Wolfe (2011), A spectral method for retrieving cloud optical thickness and effective radius from surface-based transmittance measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11(14), 7235-7252, doi:10.5194/acp-11-7235-2011.
  13. Pilewskie, P., G. Rottman, and E. Richard (2005), An overview of the disposition of solar radiation in the lower atmosphere: Connections to the SORCE mission and climate change, Solar Physics, 230, 55-69, doi:10.1007/s11207-005-2379-5.
  14. Pilewskie, P. and S. Twomey (1987a), Cloud phase discrimination by reflectance measurements near 1.6 and 2.2 μm, J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 3419-3420.
  15. Pilewskie, P. and S. Twomey (1987b), Discrimination of ice from water in clouds by optical remote sensing, Atmos. Research, 21, 113-122.
  16. Roberts, Y. L., P. Pilewskie, and B. C. Kindel (2011), Evaluating the Observed Variability in Hyperspectral Earth-reflected Solar Radiance, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  17. Schmidt, K. S., and P. Pilewskie (2011), Airborne Measurements of Spectral Shortwave Radiation in Cloud and Aerosol Remote Sensing and Energy Budget Studies, in Light Scattering Reviews, 6, edited by A. Kokhanovsky, Springer.
  18. Schmidt, K.S., Pilewskie, P., Bergstrom, R., Coddington, O., Redemann, J., Livingston, J., Russell, P., Bierwirth, E., Wendisch, M., Gore, W., Dubey, M. K., and C., Mazzoleni (2010), A new method for deriving aerosol solar radiative forcing and its first application within MILAGRO/INTEX-B, Atmos. Chem. Phys, 10, 7829-7843.
  19. Schmidt, K. S., P. Pilewskie, B. Mayer, M. Wendisch, B. Kindel, S. Platnick, M. D. King, G. Wind, G. T. Arnold, L. Tian, G. Heymsfield, and H. Kalesse, 2010: Apparent Absorption of Solar Spectral Irradiance in Heterogeneous Ice Clouds, 115, D00J22, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2009JD013124.
  20. Schmidt, K. S., G. Feingold, P. Pilewskie, H. Jiang, O. Coddington and M. Wendisch, 2009: Irradiance in polluted cumulus fields: Measured and modeled cloud-aerosol effects. Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2008GL036848.
  21. Schmidt, K. S., P. Pilewskie, S. Platnick, G. Wind, P. Yang, and M. Wendisch, 2007: Comparing irradiance fields derived from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer airborne simulator cirrus cloud retrievals with solar spectral flux radiometer measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24206, doi:10.1029/2007JD008711.
  22. Schmidt, S., V. Venema, F. Di Giuseppe, R. Scheirer, M. Wendisch, and P. Pilewskie, 2007: Reproducing cloud microphysical and irradiance measurements using three 3D cloud generators. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc. (133) 624.
  23. Vukicevic, T., O. Coddington, and P. Pilewskie (2010), Characterizing the retrieval of cloud properties from optical remote sensing, J. Geophys. Res., 115, doi:10.1029/2009JD012830.

Invited Conference Presentations

  1. Coddington, O., P. Pilewskie, and T. Vukicevic, Quantifying the Information Content of Hyperspectral Cloud Data, Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE): Toronto, Canada, July 10-14, 2011.
  2. Richard, E., D. Harber, J. Rutkowski, K. O’Malia, M. Triplett, G. Drake, J. Harder, P. Pilewskie, S. Brown, A. Smith, and K. Lykke (2011), Future Long-term Measurements of Solar Spectral Irradiance by the TSIS Spectral Irradiance Monitor: Improvements in Measurement Accuracy and Stability, paper presented at the 11th International Conference on New Developments and Applications in Optical Radiometry, Maui, Hawaii.
  3. Schmidt, K. S., Pilewskie, P., Coddington, O., Kindel, B.: Aircraft and Ground-based Measurements of Spectral Solar Radiation. September 19, 2012, SORCE Science Team Meeting, Annapolis, Maryland.
  4. Schmidt, K. S., Pilewskie, P., Kindel, B., McBride, P., Coddington, O.: Cloud-aerosol radiative effects: Navigating the spectral dimension. September 12, 2012, First Pan-Global Atmosphere System Studies Conference, Boulder, Colorado.
  5. Schmidt, K. S.: Shortwave Cloud-Aerosol Observations and Modeling: Navigating the Spectral Dimension. April 5, 2011, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
  6. Schmidt, K. S., Pilewskie, P., Kindel, B., Coddington, O., McBride, P., Song, S.: Spectral Shortwave Irradiance Measurements in Inhomogeneous Cloud-Aerosol Fields. July 5, IUGG-IAMAS, Melbourne, Australia.
  7. Schmidt, K. S., Pilewskie, P., Kindel, B., Coddington, O., McBride, P., LeBlanc, S., Song, S.: Measurements of Shortwave Radiation: The Value of Spectral Resolution for Cloud and Aerosol Remote Sensing. July 11, 2011, HISE, Toronto, Canada.
  8. Schmidt, K. S., Kindel, B., Pilewskie, P.: The spectral fingerprint of ice clouds. September 26, 2011, WaVaCS workshop, Paris, France.

Contributed Conference Presentations

  1. Coddington, O., and P. Pilewskie, Comparison of airborne sunphotometer and satellite retrievals of aerosol optical depth during MILAGRO/INTEX-B, in Eos Trans., no. A12A-01 in Fall Meet. Suppl. 88(52), AGU, 2007b.
  2. Coddington, O., P. Pilewskie, S. Platnick, G. Wind, J. M. Livingston, J. Redemann, and P. B. Russell, Retrieval of cloud optical depth and effective radius from SSFR irradiance measurements made in the presence of overlying aerosol layers during NEAQS-ITCT and comparison to MODIS cloud product, in Eos Trans., no. A41E-0163 in Fall Meet. Suppl. 89(53), AGU, 2008.
  3. Coddington, O., Pilewskie, P., Vukicevic, T., Livingston, J., Platnick, S., Wind. G., Redemann, J., and Russell, P. B., Airborne radiometer measurements of above cloud reflectance in the presence and absence of aerosols, Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE): PHTuC6, Vancouver, Canada, April 27-29, 2009.
  4. Coddington, O., K. S. Schmidt, and P. Pilewskie, Measurement and error analysis of spectral surface albedo during MILAGRO, ARM Science Team Meeting, Monterey, CA, 2007.
  5. Coddington, O., K. S. Schmidt, P. Pilewskie, W. J. Gore, R. W. Bergstrom, M. Roman, J. Redemann, P. B. Russell, J. Liu and C. Schaff, Measurements of area resolved surface spectral albedo and validation of MODIS land albedo product during MILAGRO, GoMACCS, and TC4, in Eos Trans., no. A43C-1415 in Fall Meet. Suppl. 88(52), AGU, 2007.
  6. Hofmann, O., P. Pilewskie, B. Kindel, W. Gore, P. Russell, J. Livingston, J. Redemann, R. Bergstrom, S. Platnick, J. Daniel, and T. Garrett, Cloud properties derived from visible and near-infrared reflectance in the presence of aerosols, ARM Science Team Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2006.
  7. Kopp, G., G. Drake, J. Espejo, D. Harber, K. Heuerman, A. Lieber, P. Pilewskie, and P. Smith (2010), Hyperspectral Imagery Radiometry Improvements for Visible and Near-Infrared Climate Studies, paper presented at 2010 Earth Science Technology Forum, Arlington, VA, USA.
  8. Livingston, J. M., O. Torres, P. B. Russell, J. Redemann, R. R. Johnson, R. W. Bergstrom, B. Veheilmann, A. Smirnov, B. N. Holben, L. Remer, K. S. Schmidt, O. Coddington, and P. Pilewskie, Comparison of airborne sunphotometer and satellite retrievals of aerosol optical depth during MILAGRO/INTEX-B, in Eos Trans., no. A12A-01 in Fall Meet. Suppl. 88(52), AGU, 2007b.
  9. McBride, P., P. Pilewskie, K. S. Schmidt, and O. Coddington, New insights into the column radiative budget using ground based hyperspectral zenith radiance measurements, in Eos Trans., no. A41A-0021 in Fall Meet. Suppl. 88(52), AGU, 2007.
  10. McBride, P., P. Pilewskie, K. S. Schmidt, O. Coddington, and S. Kittelman, Cloud and aerosol retrieval methods with scattered surface-based radiance measurements, in Eos Trans., no. A11E-0194 in Fall Meet. Suppl. 89(53), AGU, 2008.
  11. Pilewskie, P., O. Hofmann, B. Kindel, W. Gore, P. Russell, J. Livingston, J. Redemann, R. Bergstrom, S. Platnick, J. Daniel, and T. Garrett, Cloud properties derived from visible and near-infrared reflectance in the presence of aerosols, in Eos Trans., no. A14B-07 in Fall Meet. Suppl. 86(52), AGU, 2005.
  12. Pilewskie, P., P. McBride, W. Gore, J. Pommier, and O. Coddington, The SWS at SGP, ARM Science Team Meeting, Monterey, CA, 2007.
  13. Pilewskie, P., Y. Roberts, B. Kindel, and G. Kopp (2010), Variability in SCIAMACHY Earth-Reflected Solar Spectral Radiance: Guidance for Climate Benchmarking, paper presented at the 38th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), Bremen, Germany.
  14. Pilewskie, P., K. S. Schmidt, O. Coddington, R. Bergstrom, and J. Redemann, Advances in quantifying the radiative effects of aerosol particles on climate from airborne field studies, in Eos Trans., no. A34A-01 in Fall Meet. Suppl. 88(52), AGU, 2007.