Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System

The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) is a key component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) program. The CERES instruments provide radiometric measurements of the Earth's atmosphere from three broadband channels. The CERES missions are a follow-on to the successful Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) mission. The first CERES instrument (PFM) was launched on November 27, 1997 as part of the completed Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM).

There are now six operational CERES instruments. Two CERES instruments (FM1 and FM2) were launched into polar orbit on board the EOS flagship Terra on December 18, 1999. Two additional CERES instruments (FM3 and FM4) were launched on board EOS Aqua on May 4, 2002. CERES instrument (FM5) was launched on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite on October 28, 2011. The final CERES instrument (FM6) was launched on board the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration's (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System 1 (JPSS-1) satellite on November 18, 2017.

Disciplines:   Clouds Radiation Budget

CERES Mission Publications

Wang, Jingyu; Lin, Yun; Wang, Xianfeng; Gu, Yu; Yim, Steve Hung-Lam (2024). Significant changes in cloud radiative effects over Southwestern United States during the COVID-19 flight reduction period.


Sorenson, Blake T.; Reid, Jeffrey S.; Zhang, Jianglong; Holz, Robert E.; Smith Sr., William L.; Gumber, Amanda (2024). Thermal infrared observations of a western United States biomass burning aerosol plume.


Wang, Xiaocong; Miao, Hao; Feng, Juan; Liu, Yimin (2024). Comparison of Short‐Term Cloud Feedbacks at Top of the Atmosphere and the Surface in Observations and AMIP6 Models.


Le Noac’h, Philippe; Cremella, Bruno; Kim, Jihyeon; Soria-Píriz, Sara; Del Giorgio, Paul A; Pollard, Amina I; Huot, Yannick; Beisner, Beatrix E (2024). Nutrient availability is the main driver of nanophytoplankton phago-mixotrophy in North American lake surface waters.


Atlas, R. L.; Bretherton, C. S.; Sokol, A. B.; Blossey, P. N.; Khairoutdinov, M. F. (2024). Tropical Cirrus Are Highly Sensitive to Ice Microphysics Within a Nudged Global Storm‐Resolving Model.


Zhang, Yuying; Xie, Shaocheng; Qin, Yi; Lin, Wuyin; Golaz, Jean-Christophe; Zheng, Xue; Ma, Po-Lun; Qian, Yun; Tang, Qi; Terai, Christopher R.; Zhang, Meng (2024). Understanding changes in cloud simulations from E3SM version 1 to version 2.


Wang, Gaofeng; Wang, Tianxing; Yuan, Hongyin; Leng, Wanchun; Letu, Husi; Xian, Yuyang (2024). Surface Shortwave Net Radiation Estimation From Space: Emphasizing the Effects of Aerosol, Solar Zenith Angles, and DEM.


Jin, Yubin; Zeng, Zhenzhong; Chen, Yuntian; Xu, Rongrong; Ziegler, Alan D.; Chen, Wenchuang; Ye, Bin; Zhang, Dongxiao (2024). Geographically constrained resource potential of integrating floating photovoltaics in global existing offshore wind farms.


Raghuraman, Shiv Priyam; Paynter, David; Ramaswamy, V.; Menzel, Raymond; Huang, Xianglei (2023). Greenhouse Gas Forcing and Climate Feedback Signatures Identified in Hyperspectral Infrared Satellite Observations.


Hsu, Wei‐Ching; Kooperman, Gabriel J.; Hannah, Walter M.; Reed, Kevin A.; Akinsanola, Akintomide A.; Pendergrass, Angeline G. (2023). Evaluating Mesoscale Convective Systems Over the US in Conventional and Multiscale Modeling Framework Configurations of E3SMv1.


Hao, Dalei; Bisht, Gautam; Gu, Yu; Leung, L. Ruby (2023). Regional and Teleconnected Impacts of Solar Radiation‐Topography Interaction Over the Tibetan Plateau.


Kan, Fei; Lian, Xu; Cui, Jiangpeng; Chen, Anping; Mao, Jiafu; He, Mingzhu; Xu, Hao; Piao, Shilong (2023). Discrepant trends in global land-surface and air temperatures controlled by vegetation biophysical feedbacks.


Ghate, Virendra P.; Surleta, Thomas; Magaritz‐Ronen, Leehi; Raveh‐Rubin, Shira; Gallo, Francesca; Carlton, Annmarie G.; Azevedo, Eduardo B. (2023). Drivers of Cloud Condensation Nuclei in the Eastern North Atlantic as Observed at the ARM Site.


Horner, George; Gryspeerdt, Edward (2023). The evolution of deep convective systems and their associated cirrus outflows.


Wei, Jiangfeng; Lu, Boyan; Song, Yuanyuan; Chen, Haishan; Weng, Zhimei (2023). Anthropogenic Aerosols Weaken Land–Atmosphere Coupling Over North China.


Valkenborg, Bram; De Lannoy, Gabriëlle J. M.; Gruber, Alexander; Miralles, Diego G.; Köhler, Philipp; Frankenberg, Christian; Desai, Ankur R.; Humphreys, Elyn; Klatt, Janina; Lohila, Annalea; Nilsson, Mats B.; Tuittila, Eeva‐Stiina; Bechtold, Michel (2023). Drought and Waterlogging Stress Regimes in Northern Peatlands Detected Through Satellite Retrieved Solar‐Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence.


Andersen, Hendrik; Cermak, Jan; Douglas, Alyson; Myers, Timothy A.; Nowack, Peer; Stier, Philip; Wall, Casey J.; Wilson Kemsley, Sarah (2023). Sensitivities of cloud radiative effects to large-scale meteorology and aerosols from global observations.


Zhao, Hengheng; Gui, Ke; Yao, Wenrui; Shang, Nanxuan; Zhang, Xutao; Zhang, Xinglu; Li, Lei; Zheng, Yu; Wang, Zhili; Ren, Hong‐Li; Wang, Hong; Sun, Junying; Li, Jian; Che, Huizheng; Zhang, Xiaoye (2023). Seasonal and Diurnal Variations in XCO <sub>2</sub> Characteristics in China as Observed by OCO‐2/3 Satellites: Effects of Land Cover and Local Meteorology.


Cole, Jason Neil Steven; Von Salzen, Knut; Li, Jiangnan; Scinocca, John; Plummer, David; Arora, Vivek; McFarlane, Norman; Lazare, Michael; MacKay, Murray; Verseghy, Diana (2023). The Canadian Atmospheric Model version 5 (CanAM5.0.3).


Taylor, Patrick C.; Monroe, Emily (2023). Isolating the Surface Type Influence on Arctic Low‐Clouds.


Murray-Watson, Rebecca J.; Gryspeerdt, Edward; Goren, Tom (2023). Investigating the development of clouds within marine cold-air outbreaks.


Wong, Vox Kalai; Zhang, Chujun; Zhang, Zhuoqiong; Hao, Mingwei; Zhou, Yuanyuan; So, Shu Kong (2023). 0.01–0.5 sun is a realistic and alternative irradiance window to analyze urban outdoor photovoltaic cells.


Shaw, Jonah K.; Kay, Jennifer E. (2023). Processes Controlling the Seasonally Varying Emergence of Forced Arctic Longwave Radiation Changes.


Francis, Diana; Fonseca, Ricardo; Mattingly, Kyle S.; Lhermitte, Stef; Walker, Catherine (2023). Foehn winds at Pine Island Glacier and their role in ice changes.


Diamond, Michael S. (2023). Detection of large-scale cloud microphysical changes within a major shipping corridor after implementation of the International Maritime Organization 2020 fuel sulfur regulations.


Ghausi, Sarosh Alam; Tian, Yinglin; Zehe, Erwin; Kleidon, Axel (2023). Radiative controls by clouds and thermodynamics shape surface temperatures and turbulent fluxes over land.


Huang, Han; Huang, Yi (2023). Diagnosing the Radiation Biases in Global Climate Models Using Radiative Kernels.


Fernández-Soler, Alejandro; González-Bárcena, David; Torralbo-Gimeno, Ignacio; Pérez-Grande, Isabel (2023). Ascent phase convective heat transfer of a stratospheric-balloon-borne payload.


Reed, K. A.; Stansfield, A. M.; Hsu, W.‐C.; Kooperman, G. J.; Akinsanola, A. A.; Hannah, W. M.; Pendergrass, A. G.; Medeiros, B. (2023). Evaluating the Simulation of CONUS Precipitation by Storm Type in E3SM.


Wang, Tianxing; Wang, Gaofeng; Shi, Chuanye; Du, Yihan; Letu, Husi; Zhang, Wanchun; Xue, Huazhu (2023). Improved Algorithm to Derive All-Sky Longwave Downward Radiation From Space: Application to Fengyun-4A Measurements.


Gautam, Ritesh; Patel, Piyushkumar N.; Singh, Manoj K.; Liu, Tianjia; Mickley, Loretta J.; Jethva, Hiren; DeFries, Ruth S. (2023). Extreme Smog Challenge of India Intensified by Increasing Lower Tropospheric Stability.


Seifert, Axel; Bachmann, Vanessa; Filipitsch, Florian; Förstner, Jochen; Grams, Christian M.; Hoshyaripour, Gholam Ali; Quinting, Julian; Rohde, Anika; Vogel, Heike; Wagner, Annette; Vogel, Bernhard (2023). Aerosol–cloud–radiation interaction during Saharan dust episodes: the dusty cirrus puzzle.


Cordero, Raúl R.; Feron, Sarah; Damiani, Alessandro; Sepúlveda, Edgardo; Jorquera, Jose; Redondas, Alberto; Seckmeyer, Gunther; Carrasco, Jorge; Rowe, Penny; Ouyang, Zutao (2023). Surface Solar Extremes in the Most Irradiated Region on Earth, Altiplano.


Duffey, Alistair; Irvine, Peter; Tsamados, Michel; Stroeve, Julienne (2023). Solar Geoengineering in the Polar Regions: A Review.


Tomassini, Lorenzo; Willett, Martin; Sellar, Alistair; Lock, Adrian; Walters, David; Whitall, Michael; Sanchez, Claudio; Heming, Julian; Earnshaw, Paul; Rodriguez, José M.; Ackerley, Duncan; Xavier, Prince; Franklin, Charmaine; Senior, Catherine A. (2023). Confronting the Convective Gray Zone in the Global Configuration of the Met Office Unified Model.


Masunaga, Hirohiko (2023). The Edge Intensification of Eastern Pacific ITCZ Convection.


Liang, Kaixin; Wang, Jinfei; Luo, Hao; Yang, Qinghua (2023). The Role of Atmospheric Rivers in Antarctic Sea Ice Variations.


Li, Donghao; Folini, Doris; Wild, Martin (2023). Assessment of Top of Atmosphere, Atmospheric and Surface Energy Budgets in CMIP6 Models on Regional Scales.


Atlas, Rachel; Bretherton, Christopher S. (2023). Aircraft observations of gravity wave activity and turbulence in the tropical tropopause layer: prevalence, influence on cirrus clouds, and comparison with global storm-resolving models.


Jönsson, Aiden R.; Bender, Frida A.-M. (2023). The implications of maintaining Earth's hemispheric albedo symmetry for shortwave radiative feedbacks.


Heim, Christoph; Leutwyler, David; Schär, Christoph (2023). Application of the Pseudo‐Global Warming Approach in a Kilometer‐Resolution Climate Simulation of the Tropics.


Jin, Yubin; Hu, Shijie; Ziegler, Alan D.; Gibson, Luke; Campbell, J. Elliott; Xu, Rongrong; Chen, Deliang; Zhu, Kai; Zheng, Yan; Ye, Bin; Ye, Fan; Zeng, Zhenzhong (2023). Energy production and water savings from floating solar photovoltaics on global reservoirs.


Wang, Zhenquan; Yuan, Jian; Wood, Robert; Chen, Yifan; Tong, Tiancheng (2023). Profile-based estimated inversion strength.


Horvath, Sean; Boisvert, Linette; Parker, Chelsea; Webster, Melinda; Taylor, Patrick; Boeke, Robyn; Fons, Steven; Stewart, J. Scott (2023). Database of daily Lagrangian Arctic sea ice parcel drift tracks with coincident ice and atmospheric conditions.


Mace, Gerald G.; Benson, Sally; Humphries, Ruhi; Gombert, Peter M.; Sterner, Elizabeth (2023). Natural marine cloud brightening in the Southern Ocean.


Zhou, Lu; Heuzé, Céline; Mohrmann, Martin (2023). Sea Ice Production in the 2016 and 2017 Maud Rise Polynyas.


Hohenegger, Cathy; Korn, Peter; Linardakis, Leonidas; Redler, René; Schnur, Reiner; Adamidis, Panagiotis; Bao, Jiawei; Bastin, Swantje; Behravesh, Milad; Bergemann, Martin; Biercamp, Joachim; Bockelmann, Hendryk; Brokopf, Renate; Brüggemann, Nils; Casaroli, Lucas; Chegini, Fatemeh; Datseris, George; Esch, Monika; George, Geet; Giorgetta, Marco; Gutjahr, Oliver; Haak, Helmuth; Hanke, Moritz; Ilyina, Tatiana; Jahns, Thomas; Jungclaus, Johann; Kern, Marcel; Klocke, Daniel; Kluft, Lukas; Kölling, Tobias; Kornblueh, Luis; Kosukhin, Sergey; Kroll, Clarissa; Lee, Junhong; Mauritsen, Thorsten; Mehlmann, Carolin; Mieslinger, Theresa; Naumann, Ann Kristin; Paccini, Laura; Peinado, Angel; Praturi, Divya Sri; Putrasahan, Dian; Rast, Sebastian; Riddick, Thomas; Roeber, Niklas; Schmidt, Hauke; Schulzweida, Uwe; Schütte, Florian; Segura, Hans; Shevchenko, Radomyra; Singh, Vikram; Specht, Mia; Stephan, Claudia Christine; Von Storch, Jin-Song; Vogel, Raphaela; Wengel, Christian; Winkler, Marius; Ziemen, Florian; Marotzke, Jochem; Stevens, Bjorn (2023). ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth system and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales.


Thandlam, Venugopal; Rutgersson, Anna; Rahaman, Hasibur; Yabaku, Mounika; Kaagita, Venkatramana; Sakirevupalli, Venkatramana Reddy (2023). Quantifying Uncertainties in CERES/MODIS Downwelling Radiation Fluxes in the Global Tropical Oceans.


McCoy, Isabel L.; McCoy, Daniel T.; Wood, Robert; Zuidema, Paquita; Bender, Frida A.‐M. (2023). The Role of Mesoscale Cloud Morphology in the Shortwave Cloud Feedback.


Feng, Jin; Zhang, Ke; Zhan, Huijie; Chao, Lijun (2023). Improved soil evaporation remote sensing retrieval algorithms and associated uncertainty analysis on the Tibetan Plateau.


Wang, Huanhuan; Yue, Chao; Luyssaert, Sebastiaan (2023). Reconciling different approaches to quantifying land surface temperature impacts of afforestation using satellite observations.


Schulz, Hauke; Stevens, Bjorn (2023). Evaluating Large‐Domain, Hecto‐Meter, Large‐Eddy Simulations of Trade‐Wind Clouds Using EUREC <sup>4</sup> A Data.


Schuddeboom, A. J.; McDonald, A. J. (2022). Understanding Internal Cluster Variability Through Subcluster Metric Analysis in a Geophysical Context.


Barrientos-Velasco, Carola; Deneke, Hartwig; Hünerbein, Anja; Griesche, Hannes J.; Seifert, Patric; Macke, Andreas (2022). Radiative closure and cloud effects on the radiation budget based on satellite and shipborne observations during the Arctic summer research cruise, PS106.


Zhang, Bohai; Li, Furong; Sang, Huiyan; Cressie, Noel (2022). Inferring Changes in Arctic Sea Ice through a Spatio-Temporal Logistic Autoregression Fitted to Remote-Sensing Data.


González-Bárcena, David; Bermejo-Ballesteros, Juan; Pérez-Grande, Isabel; Sanz-Andrés, Ángel (2022). Selection of time-dependent worst-case thermal environmental conditions for Low Earth Orbit spacecrafts.


Efremenko, Dmitry; Kokhanovsky, Alexander (2022). Physical Properties of the Terrestrial Atmosphere.


Miyamoto, Ayumu; Nakamura, Hisashi; Miyasaka, Takafumi; Kosaka, Yu (2022). Wintertime Weakening of Low-Cloud Impacts on the Subtropical High in the South Indian Ocean.


Cutler, Lauren; Brunke, Michael A.; Zeng, Xubin (2022). Re‐Evaluation of Low Cloud Amount Relationships With Lower‐Tropospheric Stability and Estimated Inversion Strength.


Gupta, Ashok Kumar; Rajeev, K.; Davis, Edwin V.; Mishra, Manoj Kumar; Nair, Anish Kumar M. (2022). Direct observations of the multi-year seasonal mean diurnal variations of TOA cloud radiative forcing over tropics using Megha-Tropiques-ScaRaB/3.


Ahlgrimm, Maike; Forbes, Richard M.; Hogan, Robin J.; Sandu, Irina (2022). Understanding Global Model Systematic Shortwave Radiation Errors in Subtropical Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Regimes.


Gryspeerdt, Edward; Quaas, Johannes; Goren, Tom; Klocke, Daniel; Brueck, Matthias (2022). An automated cirrus classification.


Dai, Z.; Weisenstein, D. K.; Keith, D. W. (2022). Tailoring Meridional and Seasonal Radiative Forcing by Sulfate Aerosol Solar Geoengineering.


Bosilovich, Michael G.; Robertson, Franklin R.; Stackhouse, Paul W. (2022). El Niño–Related Tropical Land Surface Water and Energy Response in MERRA-2.


Zhang, Yuan; Bi, Shengshan; Wu, Jiangtao (2022). Effect of Temporal Sampling Interval on the Irradiance for Moon-Based Wide Field-of-View Radiometer.


Glotfelty, Timothy; Ramírez-Mejía, Diana; Bowden, Jared; Ghilardi, Adrian; West, J. Jason (2022). Limitations of WRF land surface models for simulating land use and land cover change in Sub-Saharan Africa and development of an improved model (CLM-AF v. 1.0).


Wang, Tianxing; Shi, Jiancheng; Yu, Yuechi; Husi, Letu; Gao, Bo; Zhou, Wang; Ji, Dabin; Zhao, Tianjie; Xiong, Chuan; Chen, Ling (2022). Cloudy-sky land surface longwave downward radiation (LWDR) estimation by integrating MODIS and AIRS/AMSU measurements.


Gettelman, A.; Bardeen, C. G.; McCluskey, C. S.; Järvinen, E.; Stith, J.; Bretherton, C.; McFarquhar, G.; Twohy, C.; D'Alessandro, J.; Wu, W. (2022). Simulating Observations of Southern Ocean Clouds and Implications for Climate.


Burnett, Michael W.; Quetin, Gregory R.; Konings, Alexandra G. (2022). Data-driven estimates of evapotranspiration and its controls in the Congo Basin.


Reeves Eyre, J. E. Jack; Zeng, Xubin; Zhang, Kai (2021). Ocean Surface Flux Algorithm Effects on Earth System Model Energy and Water Cycles.


Turbeville, S. M.; Nugent, J. M.; Ackerman, T. P.; Bretherton, C. S.; Blossey, P. N. (2021). Tropical Cirrus in Global Storm‐Resolving Models: 2. Cirrus Life Cycle and Top‐of‐Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes.


Kniffka, Anke; Knippertz, Peter; Fink, Andreas H. (2021). The role of low-level clouds in the West African monsoon system.


Malavelle, Florent F.; Haywood, Jim M.; Mercado, Lina M.; Folberth, Gerd A.; Bellouin, Nicolas; Sitch, Stephen; Artaxo, Paulo (2021). Studying the impact of biomass burning aerosol radiative and climate effects on the Amazon rainforest productivity with an Earth system model.


Fiddes, Sonya L.; Woodhouse, Matthew T.; Nicholls, Zebedee; Lane, Todd P.; Schofield, Robyn (2021). Cloud, precipitation and radiation responses to large perturbations in global dimethyl sulfide.


Bair, Edward H.; Abreu Calfa, Andre; Rittger, Karl; Dozier, Jeff (2021). Using machine learning for real-time estimates of snow water equivalent in the watersheds of Afghanistan.


Marti, Florence; Blazquez, Alejandro; Meyssignac, Benoit; Ablain, Michaël; Barnoud, Anne; Fraudeau, Robin; Jugier, Rémi; Chenal, Jonathan; Larnicol, Gilles; Pfeffer, Julia; Restano, Marco; Benveniste, Jérôme (2021). Monitoring the ocean heat content change and the Earth energy imbalance from space altimetry and space gravimetry.


Wang, Wenshan; Zender, Charles S.; van As, Dirk; Smeets, Paul C. J. P.; van den Broeke, Michiel R. (2021). A Retrospective, Iterative, Geometry-Based (RIGB) tilt-correction method for radiation observed by automatic weather stations on snow-covered surfaces: application to Greenland.


Holmes, Thomas R. H.; Hain, Christopher R.; Crow, Wade T.; Anderson, Martha C.; Kustas, William P. (2021). Microwave implementation of two-source energy balance approach for estimating evapotranspiration.


Huang, Yiyi; Taylor, Patrick C.; Rose, Fred G.; Rutan, David A.; Shupe, Matthew D.; Webster, Melinda A.; Smith, Madison M. (2021). Toward a more realistic representation of surface albedo in NASA CERES-derived surface radiative fluxes.


Itterly, Kyle; Taylor, Patrick; Roberts, J. Brent (2021). Satellite Perspectives of Sea Surface Temperature Diurnal Warming on Atmospheric Moistening and Radiative Heating during MJO.


Williams, Keith D.; Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro (2021). A multi-diagnostic approach to cloud evaluation.


Vargas Zeppetello, Lucas R.; Battisti, David S.; Baker, Marcia B. (2021). The Origin of Soil Moisture Evaporation “Regimes”.


Rifai, Sami W; Girardin, Cécile A. J.; Berenguer, Erika; del Aguila-Pasquel, Jhon; Dahlsjö, Cecilia A. L.; Doughty, Christopher E.; Jeffery, Kathryn J.; Moore, Sam; Oliveras, Imma; Riutta, Terhi; Rowland, Lucy M.; Murakami, Alejandro Araujo; Addo-Danso, Shalom D.; Brando, Paulo; Burton, Chad; Ondo, Fidèle Evouna; Duah-Gyamfi, Akwasi; Amézquita, Filio Farfán; Freitag, Renata; Pacha, Fernando Hancco; Huasco, Walter Huaraca; Ibrahim, Forzia; Mbou, Armel T.; Mihindou, Vianet Mihindou; Peixoto, Karine S.; Rocha, Wanderley; Rossi, Liana C.; Seixas, Marina; Silva-Espejo, Javier E.; Abernethy, Katharine A.; Adu-Bredu, Stephen; Barlow, Jos; da Costa, Antonio C. L.; Marimon, Beatriz S; Marimon-Junior, Ben H.; Meir, Patrick; Metcalfe, Daniel B.; Phillips, Oliver L.; White, Lee J. T.; Malhi, Yadvinder (2021). ENSO Drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics.


Hobeichi, Sanaa; Abramowitz, Gab; Evans, Jason (2021). Conserving Land–Atmosphere SynThesis Suite (CLASS).


Schwitalla, Thomas; Warrach-Sagi, Kirsten; Wulfmeyer, Volker; Resch, Michael (2021). Near-global-scale high-resolution seasonal simulations with WRF-Noah-MP v.3.8.1.


Trautmann, Tina; Koirala, Sujan; Carvalhais, Nuno; Güntner, Andreas; Jung, Martin (2021). The importance of vegetation in understanding terrestrial water storage variations.


Zhang, Jianhao; Zhou, Xiaoli; Goren, Tom; Feingold, Graham (2021). Albedo susceptibility of northeastern Pacific stratocumulus: the role of covarying meteorological conditions.


Smoliak, Brian V; Gelobter, Michel; Haley, Jeff T (2021). Mapping potential surface contributions to reflected solar radiation.


Hinkelman, Laura M. (2021). The Global Radiative Energy Budget in MERRA and MERRA-2: Evaluation with Respect to CERES EBAF Data.


Joos, Hanna (2021). Warm Conveyor Belts and Their Role for Cloud Radiative Forcing in the Extratropical Storm Tracks.


Possner, Anna; Eastman, Ryan; Bender, Frida; Glassmeier, Franziska (2021). Deconvolution of boundary layer depth and aerosol constraints on cloud water path in subtropical stratocumulus decks.


Bony, Sandrine; Schulz, Hauke; Vial, Jessica; Stevens, Bjorn (2021). Sugar, Gravel, Fish, and Flowers: Dependence of Mesoscale Patterns of Trade‐Wind Clouds on Environmental Conditions.


Zhang, Yuanchong; Jin, Zhonghai; Sikand, Monika (2021). The Top‐of‐Atmosphere, Surface and Atmospheric Cloud Radiative Kernels Based on ISCCP‐H Datasets: Method and Evaluation.


Ito, Masato; Masunaga, Hirohiko (2020). Process‐Level Assessment of the Iris Effect Over Tropical Oceans.


Trishchenko, Alexander P.; Wang, Shusen (2020). Variations of Climate, Surface Energy Budget, and Minimum Snow/Ice Extent over Canadian Arctic Landmass for 2000–16.


Cui, Jiecan; Shi, Tenglong; Zhou, Yue; Wu, Dongyou; Wang, Xin; Pu, Wei (2020). Satellite-based radiative forcing by light-absorbing particles in snow across the Northern Hemisphere.


Furtado, Kalli; Field, Paul; Luo, Yali; Zhou, Tianjun; Hill, Adrian (2020). The effects of cloud–aerosol interaction complexity on simulations of presummer rainfall over southern China.


Ghiz, Madison L.; Scott, Ryan C.; Vogelmann, Andrew M.; Lenaerts, Jan T. M.; Lazzara, Matthew; Lubin, Dan (2020). Energetics of surface melt in West Antarctica.


Rybka, Harald; Tost, Holger (2020). Superparameterised cloud effects in the EMAC general circulation model (v2.50) – influences of model configuration.


Zhang, Jianhao; Zuidema, Paquita (2020). The diurnal cycle of the smoky marine boundary layer observed during August in the remote southeast Atlantic. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19 (23), 14493. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14493-2019


Zhang, Rudong; Wang, Hailong; Fu, Qiang; Pendergrass, Angeline G.; Wang, Minghuai; Yang, Yang; Ma, Po‐Lun; Rasch, Philip J. (2020). Local Radiative Feedbacks Over the Arctic Based on Observed Short‐Term Climate Variations.


Nugent, J. M.; Turbeville, S. M.; Bretherton, C. S.; Blossey, P. N.; Ackerman, T. P. (2020). Tropical Cirrus in Global Storm‐Resolving Models: 1. Role of Deep Convection.


Ma, Po-Lun; Rasch, Philip J.; Chepfer, Hélène; Winker, David M.; Ghan, Steven J. (2020). Observational constraint on cloud susceptibility weakened by aerosol retrieval limitations.


Shell, Karen M.; de Szoeke, Simon P.; Makiyama, Michael; Feng, Zhe (2020). Vertical Structure of Radiative Heating Rates of the MJO during DYNAMO.


Andersen, Hendrik; Cermak, Jan; Zipfel, Lukas; Myers, Timothy A. (2020). Attribution of Observed Recent Decrease in Low Clouds Over the Northeastern Pacific to Cloud‐Controlling Factors.


Shea, Yolanda L.; Wielicki, Bruce A.; Sun-Mack, Sunny; Minnis, Patrick (2020). Quantifying the Dependence of Satellite Cloud Retrievals on Instrument Uncertainty.


Tang, Hao; Dubayah, Ralph (2020). Light-driven growth in Amazon evergreen forests explained by seasonal variations of vertical canopy structure.


Kleidon, Axel (2020). What limits photosynThesis? Identifying the thermodynamic constraints of the terrestrial biosphere within the Earth system.


Hartmann, Dennis L.; Dygert, Brittany D. (2020). Global Radiative Convective Equilibrium With a Slab Ocean: SST Contrast, Sensitivity and Circulation.


Hill, Peter G.; Allan, Richard P.; Chiu, J. Christine; Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro; Knippertz, Peter (2019). Quantifying the Contribution of Different Cloud Types to the Radiation Budget in Southern West Africa.


Myers, Timothy A.; Scott, Ryan C.; Zelinka, Mark D.; Klein, Stephen A.; Norris, Joel R.; Caldwell, Peter M. (2019). Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity.


Atlas, R. L.; Bretherton, C. S.; Khairoutdinov, M. F.; Blossey, P. N. (2019). Hallett‐Mossop Rime Splintering Dims Cumulus Clouds Over the Southern Ocean: New Insight From Nudged Global Storm‐Resolving Simulations.


Steffen, John; Bourassa, Mark (2019). Upper-Ocean Response to Precipitation Forcing in an Ocean Model Hindcast of Hurricane Gonzalo.


Kraft, Basil; Jung, Martin; Körner, Marco; Koirala, Sujan; Reichstein, Markus (2019). Towards hybrid modeling of the global hydrological cycle.


Liu, Qiaozhen; Zhang, Zhaoyang; Fan, Meng; Wang, Quan (2019). The Divergent Estimates of Diffuse Radiation Effects on Gross Primary Production of Forest Ecosystems Using Light‐Use Efficiency Models.


González-Bárcena, David; Fernández-Soler, Alejandro; Pérez-Grande, Isabel; Sanz-Andrés, Ángel (2019). Real data-based thermal environment definition for the ascent phase of Polar-Summer Long Duration Balloon missions from Esrange (Sweden).


Restrepo‐Coupe, Natalia; Albert, Loren P.; Longo, Marcos; Baker, Ian; Levine, Naomi M.; Mercado, Lina M.; Araujo, Alessandro C.; Christoffersen, Bradley O'Donnell; Costa, Marcos H.; Fitzjarrald, David R.; Galbraith, David; Imbuzeiro, Hewlley; Malhi, Yadvinder; Randow, Celso; Zeng, Xubin; Moorcroft, Paul; Saleska, Scott R. (2019). Understanding water and energy fluxes in the Amazonia: Lessons from an observation‐model intercomparison.


Bright, Ryan M.; O'Halloran, Thomas L. (2018). Developing a monthly radiative kernel for surface albedo change from satellite climatologies of Earth's shortwave radiation budget: CACK v1.0.


Denning, Scott (2018). Multiscale Land-Atmosphere Interaction in Tropical Ecosystems.


Tornow, F.; Domenech, C.; Cole, J. N. S.; Madenach, N.; Fischer, J. (2018). Changes in TOA SW Fluxes over Marine Clouds When Estimated via Semiphysical Angular Distribution Models.


Kato, Seiji; Rutan, David A.; Rose, Fred G.; Caldwell, Thomas E.; Ham, Seung-Hee; Radkevich, Alexander; Thorsen, Tyler J.; Viudez-Mora, Antonio; Fillmore, David; Huang, Xianglei (2018). Uncertainty in Satellite-Derived Surface Irradiances and Challenges in Producing Surface Radiation Budget Climate Data Record.


Li, Jiawei; Han, Zhiwei; Chen, Liang; Wu, Yunfei; Luo, Li (2018). Modeling study of aerosol-meteorology feedback during winter haze events over the north China plain.


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