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Rising Trends in Heatwave Metrics Across Southern California by Hulley, Glynn C., Dousset, Benedicte, Kahn, Brian H.

“…Research on heatwaves has gained significant impetus over the past decade due to a warming planet and rapid 21st century urbanization. This study examines…”
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Thermodynamic Phase and Ice Cloud Properties in Northern Hemisphere Winter Extratropical Cyclones Observed by Aqua AIRS by Naud, Catherine M, Kahn, Brian H

“…Abstract Ice cloud properties in Northern Hemisphere winter extratropical cyclones are examined using the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), version 6, cloud…”
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Regional Intensification of the Tropical Hydrological Cycle During ENSO by Stephens, Graeme L., Hakuba, Maria Z., Webb, Mark J., Lebsock, Matthew, Yue, Qing, Kahn, Brian H., Hristova‐Veleva, Svetla, Rapp, Anita D., Stubenrauch, Claudia J., Elsaesser, Gregory S., Slingo, Julia

“…This study provides observational evidence for feedbacks that amplify the short‐term hydrological response associated with the warm phase of the El…”
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Mesoscale air motion and thermodynamics predict heavy hourly U.S. precipitation by Richardson, Mark T, Kahn, Brian H, Kalmus, Peter M

“…Predicting heavy precipitation remains scientifically challenging. Here we combine Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) temperature and moisture soundings and…”
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Adapting Satellite Soundings for Operational Forecasting within the Hazardous Weather Testbed by Esmaili, Rebekah B., Smith, Nadia, Berndt, Emily B., Dostalek, John F., Kahn, Brian H., White, Kristopher, Barnet, Christopher D., Sjoberg, William, Goldberg, Mitchell

“…In this paper, we describe how researchers and weather forecasters work together to make satellite sounding data sets more useful in severe weather forecasting…”
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Cloud-State-Dependent Sampling in AIRS Observations Based on CloudSat Cloud Classification by QING YUE, FETZER, Eric J, KAHN, Brian H, SUN WONG, MANIPON, Gerald, GUILLAUME, Alexandre, WILSON, Brian

“…Abstract The precision, accuracy, and potential sampling biases of temperature T and water vapor q vertical profiles obtained by satellite infrared sounding…”
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Ice cloud microphysical trends observed by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder by Kahn, Brian H, Takahashi, Hanii, Stephens, Graeme L, Yue, Qing, Delanoë, Julien, Manipon, Gerald, Manning, Evan M, Heymsfield, Andrew J

“…We use the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) version 6 ice cloud property and thermodynamic phase retrievals to quantify variability and 14-year trends in…”
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Cloud feedbacks in extratropical cyclones: insight from long-term satellite data and high-resolution global simulations by McCoy, Daniel T, Field, Paul R, Elsaesser, Gregory S, Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro, Kahn, Brian H, Zelinka, Mark D, Kodama, Chihiro, Mauritsen, Thorsten, Vanniere, Benoit, Roberts, Malcolm, Vidale, Pier L, Saint-Martin, David, Voldoire, Aurore, Haarsma, Rein, Hill, Adrian, Shipway, Ben, Wilkinson, Jonathan

“…A negative extratropical shortwave cloud feedback driven by changes in cloud optical depth is a feature of global climate models (GCMs). A robust positive…”
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Characterization of cloud liquid water content distributions from CloudSat by Lee, Seungwon, Kahn, Brian H., Teixeira, João

“…The development of realistic cloud parameterizations requires accurate characterizations of subgrid distributions of thermodynamic variables. To this end,…”
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Relationship between marine boundary layer clouds and lower tropospheric stability observed by AIRS, CloudSat, and CALIOP by Yue, Qing, Kahn, Brian H., Fetzer, Eric J., Teixeira, João

“…Thirteen months of matched temperature and water vapor profiles from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), collocated European Centre for Medium‐Range…”
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Evaluating CMIP5 models using AIRS tropospheric air temperature and specific humidity climatology by Tian, Baijun, Fetzer, Eric J., Kahn, Brian H., Teixeira, Joao, Manning, Evan, Hearty, Thomas

“…This paper documents the climatological mean features of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) monthly mean tropospheric air temperature (ta, K) and specific…”
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Comparison of AIRS, MODIS, CloudSat and CALIPSO cloud top height retrievals by Weisz, Elisabeth, Li, Jun, Menzel, W. Paul, Heidinger, Andrew K., Kahn, Brian H., Liu, Chian-Yi

“…Knowledge of cloud properties like cloud top height (CTH) is essential to understand their impact on the earth's radiation budget and on climate change. High…”
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An A-train and MERRA view of cloud, thermodynamic, and dynamic variability within the subtropical marine boundary layer by Kahn, Brian H, Matheou, Georgios, Yue, Qing, Fauchez, Thomas, Fetzer, Eric J, Lebsock, Matthew, Martins, João, Schreier, Mathias M, Suzuki, Kentaroh, Teixeira, João

“…The global-scale patterns and covariances of subtropical marine boundary layer (MBL) cloud fraction and spatial variability with atmospheric thermodynamic and…”
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Limitations of Bispectral Infrared Cloud Phase Determination and Potential for Improvement by Nasiri, Shaima L., Kahn, Brian H.

“…Determining cloud thermodynamic phase using infrared satellite observations typically requires a priori assumptions about relationships between cloud phase and…”
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An Assessment of the Impacts of Cloud Vertical Heterogeneity on Global Ice Cloud Data Records From Passive Satellite Retrievals by Wang, Chenxi, Platnick, Steven, Fauchez, Thomas, Meyer, Kerry, Zhang, Zhibo, Iwabuchi, Hironobu, Kahn, Brian H.

“…Spaceborne passive instruments are widely used to infer long‐term ice cloud properties due to their large temporal and spatial coverage. Although observations…”
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Comparison of upper tropospheric water vapor observations from the Microwave Limb Sounder and Atmospheric Infrared Sounder by Fetzer, Eric J., Read, William G., Waliser, Duane, Kahn, Brian H., Tian, Baijun, Vömel, Holger, Irion, Fredrick W., Su, Hui, Eldering, Annmarie, de la Torre Juarez, Manuel, Jiang, Jonathan, Dang, Van

“…We compare matched retrievals of upper tropospheric water vapor (UTWV) mixing ratios from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) instrument on the Aura satellite,…”
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Impacts of subpixel cloud heterogeneity on infrared thermodynamic phase assessment by Kahn, Brian H., Nasiri, Shaima L., Schreier, Mathias M., Baum, Bryan A.

“…A combination of spatially collocated Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) radiances and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) cloud products…”
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Validation of MODIS cloud mask and multilayer flag using CloudSat‐CALIPSO cloud profiles and a cross‐reference of their cloud classifications by Wang, Tao, Fetzer, Eric J., Wong, Sun, Kahn, Brian H., Yue, Qing

“…Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Collection 6 cloud observations (MYD06) at 1 km are collocated with daytime CloudSat‐Cloud‐Aerosol…”
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Detectability of planetary characteristics in disk-averaged spectra II: synthetic spectra and light-curves of earth by Tinetti, Giovanna, Meadows, Victoria S, Crisp, David, Kiang, Nancy Y, Kahn, Brian H, Bosc, Emmanuel, Fishbein, Evan, Velusamy, Thangasamy, Turnbull, Margaret

“…Spatially and spectrally resolved models were used to explore the observational sensitivity to changes in atmospheric and surface properties and the…”
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Comparison of airborne in situ measurements and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) retrievals of cirrus cloud optical and microphysical properties during the Midlatitude Cirrus Experiment (MidCiX) by Davis, Sean M., Avallone, Linnea M., Kahn, Brian H., Meyer, Kerry G., Baumgardner, Darrel

“…During the Midlatitude Cirrus Experiment (MidCiX), in situ measurements of cirrus cloud microphysical properties were made from aboard the NASA WB‐57F aircraft…”
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