Publications
Presented here are a sample of the papers and presentations authored by the Atmospheric Radiation Group.
Papers
- 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.
- Coddington, O.: The application of airborne shortwave spectral irradiance measurements to atmosphere and surface remote sensing, PhD Thesis, University of Colorado, 2009.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pilewskie, P. and S. Twomey (1987b), Discrimination of ice from water in clouds by optical remote sensing, Atmos. Research, 21, 113-122.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Schmidt, K. S.: Shortwave Cloud-Aerosol Observations and Modeling: Navigating the Spectral Dimension. April 5, 2011, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
- 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.
- 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.
- Schmidt, K. S., Kindel, B., Pilewskie, P.: The spectral fingerprint of ice clouds. September 26, 2011, WaVaCS workshop, Paris, France.
Contributed Conference Presentations
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pilewskie, P., P. McBride, W. Gore, J. Pommier, and O. Coddington, The SWS at SGP, ARM Science Team Meeting, Monterey, CA, 2007.
- 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.
- 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.