Publications - Stephens Research Group, Atmospheric Science Department, Colorado State University

Reviewed Publications
1.	Stephens, G. L., 1976: An Improved Estimate of IR Cooling in the Atmospheric Window Region. J. Atmos. Sci., 33, 806-809.	[PDF]
2.	Stephens, G. L., 1976: The transfer of radiation through vertically non-uniform stratocumulus water clouds. Contr. Atmos. Phys., 49, 237-253.
3.	Stephens, G. L., 1976: The transfer of radiation in cloudy atmosphere. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Melbourne, 1-396, .
4.	Stephens, G., 1978: Radiation Profiles in Extended Water Clouds. I: Theory. J. Atmos. Sci., 35, 2111-2122.	[PDF]
5.	Stephens, G., 1978: Radiation Profiles in Extended Water Clouds. II: Parameterization Schemes. J. Atmos. Sci. , 35, 2123-2132.	[PDF]
6.	Stephens, G., G. W. Paltridge and C. Platt, 1978: Radiation Profiles in Extended Water Clouds. III: Observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 35, 2133-2141.	[PDF]
7.	Stephens, G. L. and P. J. Webster, 1979: Sensitivity of Radiative Forcing to Variable Cloud and Moisture. J. Atmos. Sci., 36, 1542-1556.	[PDF]
8.	Stephens, G. L., 1979: Optical properties of eight water cloud types. Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Org., Australia. Division of Atmospheric Physics, Tech. Paper #36, 35 pp.
9.	Platt, C. and G. Stephens, 1980: The Interpretation of Remotely Sensed High Cloud Emittances. J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 2314-2322.	[PDF]
10.	Stephens, G. L., 1980: Radiative Transfer on a Linear Lattice: Application to Anisotropic Ice Crystal Clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 2095-2104.	[PDF]
11.	Stephens, G. L., 1980: Radiative Properties of Cirrus Clouds in the Infrared Region. J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 435-446.	[PDF]
12.	Stephens, G. L. and K. J. Wilson, 1980: The Response of a Deep Cumulus Convection Model to Changes in Radiative Heating. J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 421-434.	[PDF]
13.	Webster, P. J. and G. L. Stephens, 1980: Tropical Upper-Tropospheric Extended Clouds: Inferences from Winter MONEX. J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 1521-1541.	[PDF]
14.	Stephens, G. L. and P. J. Webster, 1981: Clouds and Climate: Sensitivity of Simple Systems. J. Atmos. Sci., 38, 235-247.	[PDF]
15.	Stephens, G. L., G. G. Campbell and T. H. V. Haar, 1981: Earth Radiation Budgets. J. Geophys. Res., 86, (C10), 9739-9760.	[PDF]
16.	Barton, I. J. and G. L. Stephens, 1982: High level clouds at Darwin. Weather, 37, 44-46.
17.	Platt, C. M. R. and G. L. Stephens, 1982: The interaction of clouds and radiation. Aust. Met. Mag., 30 (1), 97-105.
18.	Stephens, G. L., 1983: The Influence of Radiative Transfer on the Mass and Heat Budgets of Ice Crystals Falling in the Atmosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 1729-1739.	[PDF]
19.	Platt, C. M. R., A. C. Dilley, J. C. Scott, I. J. Barton, and G. L. Stephens, 1984: Remote Sounding of High Clouds V: Infrared Properties and Structures of Tropical Thunderstorm Anvils. J. Appl. Meteor., 23, 1296-1308.	[PDF]
20.	Preisendorfer, R. W. and G. L. Stephens, 1984: Multimode Radiative Transfer in Finite Optical Media. I: Fundamentals. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 709-724.	[PDF]
21.	Stephens, G. L., 1984: Review: The Parameterization of Radiation for Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models. Mon. Wea. Rev., 112, 826-867.	[PDF]
22.	Stephens, G. L., 1984: Scattering of plane waves by soft obstacles: Anomalous diffraction theory for circular cylinders. J. Appl. Optics., 23, 954-959.	[PDF]
23.	Stephens, G. L., S. Ackerman, and E. A. Smith, 1984: A Shortwave Parameterization Revised to Improve Cloud Absorption. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 687-690.	[PDF]
24.	Stephens, G. L. and R. W. Preisendorfer, 1984: Multimode Radiative Transfer in Finite Optical Media. II: Solutions. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 725-735.	[PDF]
25.	Stephens, G. L. and P. J. Webster, 1984: Cloud Decoupling of the Surface and Planetary Radiative Budgets. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 681-686.	[PDF]
26.	Scott, J. C. and G. L. Stephens, 1985: A visible-infrared spectroradiometer for cloud reflectance measurements. J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum., 18, 697-701.	[PDF]
27.	Stephens, G., 1985: Reply. Mon. Wea. Rev., 113, 1834-1835.	[PDF]
28.	Stephens, G. L. and J. C. Scott, 1985: A High Speed Spectrally Scanning Radiometer (SPERAD) for Airborne Measurements of Cloud Optical Properties. J. Atmos. and Oceanic Techn., 2, 148-156.	[PDF]
29.	Stephens, G. L., 1986: Radiative transfer in spatially heterogeneous two dimensional anisotropically scattering media. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 36, 51-67.	[PDF]
30.	Ackerman, S. A. and G. L. Stephens, 1987: The Absorption of Solar Radiation by Cloud Droplets: An Application of Anomalous Diffraction Theory. J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 1574-1588.	[PDF]
31.	Stephens, G. L., 1987: On the Effects of Ice Crystal Porosity on the Radiative Characteristics of Cirrus Clouds. J. Geophys. Res., 92, (D4), 3979-3984.	[PDF]
32.	Stephens, G. L., and T. J. Greenwald, 1987: On the visibility through uniform haze layers. Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, 261-275.
33.	Stephens, G. L. and C. Platt, 1987: Aircraft Observations of the Radiative and Microphysical Properties of Stratocumulus and Cumulus Cloud Fields. J. Appl. Meteor., 9, 1243-1269.	[PDF]
34.	Flatau, P. J. and G. L. Stephens, 1988: On the Fundamental Solution of the Radiative Transfer Equation. J. Geophys. Res., 93, (D9), 11,037-11,050.	[PDF]
35.	Stephens, G. L., 1988: Radiative Transfer Through Arbitrarily Shaped Optical Media. Part I: A General Method of Solution. J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 1818-1836.	[PDF]
36.	Stephens, G. L., 1988: Radiative Transfer Through Arbitrarily Shaped Optical Media. Part II: Group Theory and Simple Closures. J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 1837-1849.	[PDF]
37.	Stephens, G. L., 1988: Foreword. Tribute to Rudolph W. Preisendorfer J. Geophys. Res., 93, (D9), 10, 813.	[PDF]
38.	Flatau, P. J., G. L. Stephens, B. T. Draine, 1990: Light scattering in the discrete dipole approximation: Exploiting the Block-Toeplitz structure. J. Opt. Soc. Am. (A), 7, 593-600.	[PDF]
39.	Stephens, G. L., 1990: On the Relationship Between Water Vapor Over the Oceans and Sea Surface Temperature. J. Climate, 3, 634-645.	[PDF]
40.	Stephens, G. L. and S. C. Tsay, 1990: On the cloud absorption anomaly. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 116, 671-704.	[PDF]
41.	Stephens, G. L., S. C. Tsay, P. W. Stackhouse, and P. J. Flatau, 1990: The Relevance of the Microphysical and Radiative Properties of Cirrus Clouds to Climate and Climate Feedback. J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 1742-1754.	[PDF]
42.	Stone, R. S., G. L. Stephens, C. Platt and S. Banks, 1990: The Remote Sensing of Cirrus Cloud Using Satellites, Lidar and Radiative Transfer Theory. J. Appl. Meteor., 29, 353-366.	[PDF]
43.	Vivekanandan, J., J. Turk, G. Stephens, and V. Bringi, 1990: Microwave Radiative Transfer Studies Using Combined Multiparameter Radar and Radiometer Measurements During COHMEX. J. Appl. Meteol., 29, 561-585.	[PDF]
44.	Duda, D. P., G. L. Stephens and S. Cox, 1991: Microphysical and Radiative Properties of Marine Stratocumulus from Tethered Balloon Measurements. J. Appl. Meteor., 30, 170-186.	[PDF]
45.	Evans, K. F. and G. L. Stephens, 1991: A new polarized atmospheric radiative transfer model. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 46, 413-423.	[PDF]
46.	Stackhouse, P. J. and G. L. Stephens, 1991: A Theoretical and Observational Study of the Radiative Properties of Cirrus: Results from FIRE 1986. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 2044-2059.	[PDF]
47.	Stephens, G. L., P. Gabriel and S. C. Tsay, 1991: Statistical radiative transport in one-dimensional media and its application to the terrestrial atmosphere. Trans. Theory and Stat. Phys., 20, 139-175.	[PDF]
48.	Stephens, G. L. and T. J. Greenwald, 1991: The Earth's Radiation Budget and Its Relation to Atmospheric Hydrology 1. Observations of the Clear Sky Greenhouse Effect. J. Geophys. Res., 96, (D8), 15,311-15,324.	[PDF]
49.	Stephens, G. L. and T. J. Greenwald, 1991: The Earth's Radiation Budget and Its Relation to Atmospheric Hydrology 2. Observations of Cloud effects. J. Geophys. Res., 96, (D8), 15,325-15,340.	[PDF]
50.	Tjemkes, S. A., G. L. Stephens, and D. L. Jackson, 1991: Spaceborne Observations of Columnar Water Vapor: SSM/I Observations and Algorithm. J. Geophys. Res., 96, (D6), 10,941-10,954.	[PDF]
51.	Tsay, S-C., G. L. Stephens, and T. J. Greenwald, 1991: An investigation of aerosol microstructure on visual air quality. J. Atmos. Environ., 25, 1039-1053.
52.	Stephens, G. L. and T. Slingo, 1992: An air-conditioned greenhouse. Nature, 358, 369-370, doi:10.1038/358369a0.	[PDF]
53.	Gabriel, P., S. C. Tsay, and G. Stephens, 1993: A Fourier-Riccati Approach to Radiative Transfer Part I: Foundations. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 3125-3147.	[PDF]
54.	Greenwald, T. J., G. L. Stephens, T. H. V. Haar, and D. L. Jackson, 1993: A Physical Retrieval of Cloud Liquid Water Over the Global Oceans Using Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Observations. J. Geophys. Res., 98, (D10), 18,471-18,488.	[PDF]
55.	Intrieri, J. M., G. L. Stephens, W. L. Eberhard and T. Uttal, 1993: A Method for Determining Cirrus Cloud Particle Sizes Using a Lidar and Radar Backscatter Technique. J. Appl. Met., 32, 1074-1082.	[PDF]
56.	Stephens, G. L., S. K. Cox, P. W. Stackhouse, Jr., J. Davis and the AT622 Class, 1993: FIRE in the classroom. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74, 2375-2383.	[PDF]
57.	Stephens, G. L. and D. M. O'Brien, 1993: Entropy and climate. I: ERBE Observations of the Entropy production of Earth. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 119, 121-152, doi:10.1002/qj.49711950906.	[PDF]
58.	Stephens, G. L., D. A. Randall, I. L. Wittmeyer, D. A. Dazlich and S. A. Tjemkes, 1993: The Earth's Radiation Budget and Its Relation to Atmospheric Hydrology 3. Comparison of Observations Over the Oceans With a GCM. J. Geophys. Res., 98, (D3), 4931-4950.	[PDF]
59.	Stephens, G. L. and S. A. Tjemkes, 1993: Water vapour and its role in the earth's greenhouse. Aust. J. Phys., 46, 1(Jan. 1993), 149-166.
60.	Webb, M. J., A. Slingo, and G. L. Stephens, 1993: Seasonal variations of the clear-sky greenhouse effect: The role of changes in atmospheric temperatures and humidities. Clim. Dynamics, 9, 117-129.	[PDF]
61.	Wong, T., G. L. Stephens, P. W. Stackhouse, Jr., and F. P. J. Valero, 1993: The Radiative Budgets of Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems During EMEX--STEP--AMES Experiment 1. Observations. J. Geophys. Res., 98, (D5), 8683-8693.	[PDF]
62.	Wong, T., G. L. Stephens, P. W. Stackhouse, Jr., and F. P. J. Valero, 1993: The Radiative Budgets of Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems During EMEX--STEP--AMES Experiment 2. Model results. J. Geophys. Res., 98, (D5), 8695-8711.	[PDF]
63.	Evans, K. F., J. Turk, T. Wong, and G. L. Stephens, 1994: A Bayesian Approach to Microwave Precipitation Profile Retrieval. J. Appl. Meteorol., 34, 260-279.	[PDF]
64.	Maslowska, A., P. J. Flatau, and G. L. Stephens, 1994: On the validity of the anomalous diffraction theory to light scattering by cubes. Optics Communications, 107, 35-40.	[PDF]
65.	Stephens, G.L., D. L. Jackson, and J. J. Bates, 1994: A comparison of SSM/I and TOVS column water vapor data over the global oceans. Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 54, 183-201.	[PDF]
66.	Stephens, G. L., A. Slingo, M. J. Webb, P. J. Minnett, P. H. Daum, L. Kleinman, I. Wittmeyer, and D. A. Randall, 1994: Observations of the earth's radiation budget in relation to atmospheric hydrology 4: Atmospheric column radiative cooling over the world's oceans. J. Geophys. Res., 99, (D9) 18,585-18,604.	[PDF]
67.	Stephens, G. L., 1995: Review of atmospheric radiation: 1991-1994 Rev. of Geophys., Supplement, 785-794.
68.	Evans, K. F., and G. L. Stephens, 1995: Microwave Radiative Transfer Through Clouds Composed of Realistically Shaped Ice Crystals. Part I: Single Scattering Properties. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2041-2057.	[PDF]
69.	Evans, K. F., and G. L. Stephens, 1995: Microwave Radiative Transfer Through Clouds Composed of Realistically Shaped Ice Crystals. Part II: Remote Sensing of Ice Clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2058-2072.	[PDF]
70.	Greenwald, T. J., G. L. Stephens, S. A. Christopher, and T. H. Vonder Haar, 1995: Observations of the Global Characteristics and Regional Radiative Effects of Marine Cloud Liquid Water. J. Clim., 8, 2928-2946.	[PDF]
71.	Jackson, D. L., and G. L. Stephens, 1995: A Study of SSM/I Derived Columnar Water Vapor Over the Global Oceans. J. Clim., 8, 2025-2038.	[PDF]
72.	O'Brien, D.M., and G. L. Stephens, 1995: Entropy and climate II: Simple models. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 121, 1773-1796, doi:10.1002/qj.49712152712.	[PDF]
73.	Schneider, T. L., and G. L. Stephens, 1995: Theoretical Aspects of Modeling Backscattering by Cirrus Ice Particles at Millimeter Wavelengths. J. Atmos. Sci. FIRE Special Issue, 52, 4367-4385.	[PDF]
74.	Stephens, G.L., 1995: First ISCCP regional experiment intensive field observations II. J. Atmos. Sci. FIRE Special Issue, 52, 4041.
75.	Duda, D., G. Stephens, B. Stevens, and W. Cotton, 1996: Effects of Aerosol and Horizontal Inhomogeneity on the Broadband Albedo of Marine Stratus: Numerical Simulations. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3757-3769.	[PDF]
76.	Randel, D. L., T. J. Greenwald, T. H. Vonder Haar, G. L. Stephens, M. A. Ringerud, and C. L. Combs, 1996: A New Global Water Vapor Dataset. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 1233-1246.	[PDF]
77.	Stephens, G. L., R. D. Cess, M. H. Zhang, P. Pilewskie and F. P. J. Valero, 1996: How much solar radiation do clouds absorb? Science, 271, (23 Feb 96), 1131-1136.
78.	Stephens, G. L., D. L. Jackson, and I. Wittmeyer, 1996: Global Observations of Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor Derived from TOVS Radiance Data. J. Clim., 9, 305-326.	[PDF]
79.	Tsay, S. C., P.M. Gabriel, M.D. King, and G.L. Stephens, 1996: Spectral Reflectance and Atmospheric Energetics in Cirrus-Like Clouds. Part II: Applications of a Fourier-Riccati Approach to Radiative Transfer. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3450-3467.	[PDF]
80.	Engelen, R. J. and G. L. Stephens, 1997: Infrared radiative transfer in the 9.6 ?m band: Application to TIROS operational vertical-sounder ozone retrieval. J. Geophys. Res., 102, (D6), 6,929-6,939.	[PDF]
81.	Boucher, O., S. E. Schwartz, T. P. Ackerman, T. L. Anderson, B. Bergstrom, B. Bonnel, P. Chylek, A. Dahlback, Y. Fouquart, Q. Fu, R. N. Halthore, J. M. Haywood, T. Iversen, S. Kato, S. Kinne, A. Kirkevag, K. R. Knapp, A. Lacis, I. Laszlo, M. I. Mishchenko, S. Memesure, V. Ramaswamy, D. L. Roberts, P. Russell, M. E. Schlesinger, G. L. Stephens, R. Wagener, M. Wang, J. Wong, and F. Yang, 1998: Intercomparison of models representing direct shortwave radiative forcing by sulfate aerosols. J. Geophys. Res., 103, (D14), 16,979-16,998.	[PDF]
82.	Engelen, R. J., G. L. Stephens, 1998: Comparison between TOVS/HIRS and SSM/T-2-derived upper-tropospheric humidity. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 79, 2748-2751.
83.	Gabriel, P. M., J. Y. Harrington, G. L. Stephens, and T. L. Schneider, 1998: Adjoint perturbation method applied to two-stream radiative transfer. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 59, 1-24.	[PDF]
84.	Barker, H., G. L Stephens, and Q. Fu, 1999: The sensitivity of domain-averaged solar fluxes to assumptions about cloud geometry. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 125, 2127-2152, doi:10.1002/qj.49712555810.	[PDF]
85.	Engelen, R. J., and G.L. Stephens, 1999: Characterization of water-vapour retrievals from TOVS/HIRS and SSM/T-2 measurements. Q.J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 125, 331-351.
86.	Garratt, J. R., D. M. O'Brien, M. R. Dix, J. M. Murphy, G. L. Stephens and M. Wild, 1999: Surface radiation fluxes in transient climate simulations. Global Planet. Chg., 20, 33-55, doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(98)00059-9.	[PDF]
87.	Kelly, M. A., D. A. Randall, and G. L. Stephens, 1999: A simple radiative-convective model with a hydrological cycle and interactive clouds. Q.J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 125, 837-869.	[PDF]
88.	Li, Z., A. P. Trishchenko, H.W. Barker, G. L. Stephens, and P.T. Partain, 1999: Analyses of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program’s Enhanced Shortwave Experiment (ARESE) multiple data sets for studying cloud absorption. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 19,127-19,134.	[PDF]
89.	Miller, S. D., G. L. Stephens, and A.C.M. Beljaars, 1999: A Validation Survey of the ECMWF Prognostic Cloud Scheme Using LITE. Geophys. Res. Let., 26,(10) 1417-1420.	[PDF]
90.	Miller, S. D., and G. L. Stephens, 1999: Multiple scattering effects in the lidar pulse-stretching problem. J. Geophys. Res., 104, (D18) 22205-22219.	[PDF]
91.	Engelen, R. J., and G. L. Stephens, 2000: Reply to Comments by J. R. Eyre on ‘Characterization of water-vapour retrievals from TOVS/HIRS and SSM/T-2 measurements’ (January A, 1999, 125, 331-351). Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 126, 1975-1976.
92.	Gabriel, P. M., G. L. Stephens, and I. Wittmeyer, 2000: Adjoint perturbation and selection rule methods for solar broadband two-stream fluxes in multi-layer media. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Rad. Transf., 65, 693-728.	[PDF]
93.	Heidinger, A. K. and G. L. Stephens, 2000: Molecular Line Absorption in a Scattering Atmosphere. Part II: Application to Remote Sensing in the O2 A-Band. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 1615-1634.	[PDF]
94.	Miller, S. D., G. L. Stephens, C. K. Drummond, A. K. Heidinger, and P. T. Partain, 2000: A Multisensor diagnostic cloud property retrieval scheme. J. Geophys. Res., 105, (D15), 19,955-19,971.	[PDF]
95.	Partain, P. T., A. K. Heidinger, and G. L. Stephens, 2000: High spectral resolution atmospheric radiative transfer: Application of the equivalence theorem. J. Geophys. Res., 105, (D2), 2163-2177.	[PDF]
96.	Stephens, G. L., R. G. Ellingson, J. Vitko, W. Bolton, T. P. Tooman, F.P.J. Valero, P. Minnis, P. Pilewskie, G. S. Phipps, S. Sekelsky, J. R. Carswell, S. D. Miller, A. Benedetti, R. B. McCoy, R. F. McCoy, A. Lederbuhr, R. Bambha, 2000: The Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV) Program. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 81, 2915-2938.	[PDF]
97.	Stephens, G. L. and A. K. Heidinger, 2000: Molecular line absorption in a scattering atmosphere. Part I: Theory. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 1599-1614.	[PDF]
98.	Stephens, G. L., R. F. McCoy, R. B. McCoy, P. Gabriel, P. T. Partain, S. D. Miller and S. P. Love, 2000: A Multipurpose Scanning Spectral Polarimeter (SSP): Instrument Description and Sample Results. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 17(5), 616-627.	[PDF]
99.	Austin, R. T., and G. L. Stephens, 2001: Retrieval of stratus cloud microphysical parameters using millimeter-wave radar and visible optical depth in preparation for CloudSat 1. Algorithm formulation. J. Geophys. Res., 106, (D22), 28,233-28,242.	[PDF]
100.	Benedetti, A., and G. L. Stephens, 2001: Characterization of errors in cirrus simulations from a Cloud Resolving Model for application in Ice Water Content retrievals. Atmos. Res., 13th ICCP Special Issue, 59-60, 393-417.	[PDF]
101.	Engelen, R. J., A. S. Denning, K. R. Guerney, and G. L. Stephens, 2001: Global observations of the carbon budget 1. Expected satellite capabilities for emission spectroscopy in the EOS and NPOESS eras. J. Geophys. Res., 106, (D17), 20,055-20,068.	[PDF]
102.	Engelen, R. J., G. L. Stephens, and A. S. Denning, 2001: The Effect of CO2 Variability on the Retrieval of Atmospheric Temperatures. Geophys. Res. Let., 28, (D17), 3259-3262.	[PDF]
103.	Gabriel, P. M., P. T. Partain, and G. L. Stephens, 2001: Parameterization of atmospheric radiative transfer II: Selection rules. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 3411-3423.	[PDF]
104.	Li, Lihua, S. M. Sekelsky, S. C. Reising, C. T. Swift, S. L. Durden, G. A. Sadowy, S. J. Dinardo, F. K. Li, A. Huffman, G. L. Stephens, D. M. Babb, and H. W. Rosenberger, 2001: Retrieval of Atmospheric Attenuation Using Combined Ground-Based and Airborne 95 GHz Cloud Radar Measurements. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 18, 1345-1353.	[PDF]
105.	Miller, S. D., G. L. Stephens, and R. T. Austin, 2001: GOES 10 cloud optical property retrievals in the context of vertically varying microphysics. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 17,981-17,995.	[PDF]
106.	Miller, S. D., and G. L. Stephens, 2001: CloudSat instrument requirements as determined from ECMWF forecasts of global cloudiness. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 17,713-17,733.	[PDF]
107.	Stephens, G. L., R. J. Engelen, M. Vaughan, and T. L. Anderson, 2001: Toward retrieving properties of the tenuous atmosphere using space-based lidar measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 28,143-28,157.	[PDF]
108.	Stephens, G. L., P. M. Gabriel, and P. T. Partain, 2001: Parameterization of Atmospheric Radiative Transfer I: Validity of Simple Models. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 3391-3409.	[PDF]
109.	Benedetti, A., P. Gabriel, and G. L. Stephens, 2001: Properties of reflected sunlight derived from a Green’s function method. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Rad. Transf, 72, 201-225.	[PDF]
110.	Goody, R., J. Anderson, T. Karl, R. Miller, G. North, J. Simpson, G. Stephens, and W. Washington, 2002: Why We Should Monitor the Climate? Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 83, 873-878.	[PDF]
111.	Heidinger, A. K., and G. L. Stephens, 2002: Molecular line absorption in a scattering atmosphere III: Path length characteristics and effects of spatially heterogeneous clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1641-1654.	[PDF]
112.	L’Ecuyer, T. S., and G. L. Stephens, 2002: An Estimation-Based Precipitation Retrieval Algorithm for Attenuating Radars. J. Appl. Met., 41, 272-285.	[PDF]
113.	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. Roy. Met. Soc., 128, 1713-1737.	[PDF]
114.	Mitrescu, C., and G. L. Stephens, 2002: A New Method for Determining Cloud Transmittance and Optical Depth Using the ARM Micro-Pulsed Lidar. J. Appl. Met., 19, 1073-1081.	[PDF]
115.	Sassen, K., Z. Wang, V. I. Khvorostyanov, G. L. Stephens, A. Benedetti, 2002: Cirrus cloud ice water content radar algorithm evaluation using an explicit cloud microphysical model. J. Appl. Met., 41, 620-628.	[PDF]
116.	Stephens, G. L., D. G. Vane, R. J. Boain, G. G. Mace, K. Sassen, Z. Wang, A. J. Illingworth, E. J. O’Connor, W. B. Rossow, S. L. Durden, S. D. Miller, R. T. Austin, A. Benedetti, C. Mitrescu, and the CloudSat Science Team, 2002: The CloudSat Mission and the A-TRAIN: A new dimension to space-based observations of clouds and precipitation. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 83, 1771-1790.	[PDF]
117.	Barker, H. W., G. L. Stephens, P. T. Partain, J. W. Bergman, B. Bonnel, K. Campana, E. E. Clothiaux, S. Clough, S. Cusack, J. Delamere, J. Edwards, K. F. Evans, Y. Fouquart, S. Freidenreich, V. Galin, Y. Hou, S. Kato, J. Li, E. Mlawer, J.-J. Morcrette, W. O’Hirok, P. Raisanen, V. Ramaswamy, B. Ritter, E. Rozanov, M. Schlesinger, K. Shibata, P. Sporyshev, 2003: Assessing 1D Atmospheric Solar Radiative Transfer Models: Interpretation and Handling of Unresolved Clouds. J. Climate, 16, 2676-2699.	[PDF]
118.	Benedetti, A., G. L. Stephens, and T. Vukicevic, 2003: Variational assimilation of radar reflectivities in a cirrus model. Part I: Model description and adjoint sensitivity studies. Q. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 129, 277-300.	[PDF]
119.	Benedetti, A., G. L. Stephens, and T. Vukicevic, 2003: Variational assimilation of radar reflectivities in a cirrus model. Part II: Optimal initialization and model bias estimation. Q. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 129, 301-319.	[PDF]
120.	Benedetti, A., G. L. Stephens, J. M. Haynes, 2003: Ice cloud microphysics retrievals from millimeter radar and visible optical depth using an estimation theory approach. J. Geophys. Res., 108, D11, 4335, doi:10.1029/2002JD002693.	[PDF]
121.	Cooper, S., 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, D3, 4107.	[PDF]
122.	L'Ecuyer, T. S., and G. L. Stephens, 2003: The Tropical Ocean Energy Budget from the TRMM Perspective, Part I: Algorithm and Uncertainties. J. Clim., 16, 1967-1985.	[PDF]
123.	Stephens, G. L., 2003: The useful pursuit of shadows: The study of clouds and its influence on science and the human culture. American Scientist, 91, 5, 442-449.	[PDF]
124.	Christi, M. J., and G. L. Stephens, 2004: Retrieving profiles of atmospheric CO2 in clear sky and in the presence of thin cloud using spectroscopy from the near and thermal infrared: A preliminary case study. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D04316, doi:10.1029/2003JD004058.	[PDF]
125.	Crisp, D., R. M. Atlas, F. M. Breon, L. R. Brown, J. P. Burrows, P. Ciais, B. J. Connor, S. C. Conney, I. Y. Fung, D. J. Jacob, C. E. Miller, D. O'Brien, S. Pawson, J. T. Randerson, P. Rayner, R. J. Salawitch, S. P. Sander, B. Sen, G. L. Stephens, et al., 2004: The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) Mission. Advan. Space Res., 34 (4), 700-709.	[PDF]
126.	Diner, D. J., T. P. Ackerman, T. L. Anderson, J. Bosenberg, A. J. Braverman, R.J. Charlson, W. D. Collins, R. Davies, B. N. Holben, C. A. Hostetler, R. A. Kahn, J. V. Martonchik, R. T. Menzies, M. A. Miller, J. A. Ogren, J. E. Penner, P. J. Rasch, S. E. Schwartz, J. H. Seinfeld, G. L. Stephens, O. Torres, L. D. Travis, B. A. Wielicki, and B. Yu, 2004: PARAGON: An integrated approach for characterizing aerosol climate impacts and environmental interactions. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 85, 1491-1501.	[PDF]
127.	Diner, D. J., R. T. Menzies, R. A. Kahn, T. L. Anderson, J. Bosenberg, R. J. Charlson, B. N. Holben, C. A. Hostetler, M. A. Miller, J. A. Ogren, G. L. Stephens, O. Torres, B. A. Wielicki, P. J. Rasch, L. D. Travis, and W. D. Collins, 2004: Using the PARAGON Framework to Establish an Accurate, Consistent, and Cohesive Long-Term Aerosol Record. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 85, 1535-1548.	[PDF]
128.	Engelen, R.J. and G. L. Stephens, 2004: Information content of infrared satellite sounding measurements with respect to CO2. J. Appl. Met., 43, 2, 373-378.	[PDF]
129.	Valero, F. P. J., R. D. Cess, S. K. Pope, Z. Li, W. Wiscombe, G. L. Stephens and T. P. Ackerman, 2004: Disagreements over Cloud Absorption. Science, 305, doi:10.101126/science.305.5688.1239.	[PDF]
130.	Mitrescu, C., and G. L. Stephens, 2004: On similarity and scaling of the radiative transfer equation. J. of Quant. Spect. Rad. Trans., 86, 387-394.	[PDF]
131.	Stephens, G. L., N. B. Wood, and P. M. Gabriel, 2004: An Assessment of the Parameterization of Sub-Gridscale Cloud Effects on Radiative Transfer. Part I: Vertical Overlap. J. Atmos. Sci., 6, 715-732.	[PDF]
132.	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.	[PDF]
133.	Stephens, G. L. N. B. Wood, and L. A. Pakula, 2004: On the radiative effects of dust on tropical convection. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L23112, doi:10.1029/2004GL021342.	[PDF]
134.	Cahalan, R. F., L. Oreopoulos, A. Marshak, K. F. Evans, A. Davis, R. Pincus, K. Yetzer, B. Mayer, R. Davies, and 13RC participants, 2005: The I3RC: Bringing together the most advanced radiative transfer tools for cloudy atmospheres. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 86, (9) 1275-1293.	[PDF]
135.	Goering, C. D., T. S. L'Ecuyer, G. L. Stephens, J. R. Slusser, G. Scott, J. Davis, J. C. Bernard, and S. Madronich, 2005: Simultaneous retrievals of column ozone and aerosol optical properties from direct and diffuse solar irradiance measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D05204, doi:10.1029/2004JD005330.	[PDF]
136.	Mitrescu, C., J. M. Haynes, G. L. Stephens, G. M. Heymsfield, and M. J. McGill, 2005: Cirrus cloud optical, microphysical, and radiative properties observed during the CRYSTAL-FACE experiment: A lidar-radar retrieval system. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D9208.	[PDF]
137.	Stephens, G. L., 2005: Cloud feedbacks in the climate system: A critical review. J. Clim., 18, 237-273.	[PDF]
138.	Wood, N. B., P. M. Gabriel, and G. L. Stephens, 2005: An assessment of the parameterization of subgrid-scale cloud effects on radiative transfer. Part II: Horizontal inhomogeneity. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 2895-2909.	[PDF]
139.	Cooper, S. J., T. S. L'Ecuyer, P. M. Gabriel, A. J. Baran, 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 II: Ice Clouds. J. Appl. Met., 45, 42-62.	[PDF]
140.	Gabriel, P. M., M. Christi, and G. L. Stephens, 2006: Calculation of Jacobians for inverse radiative transfer: An efficient hybrid method. J. Quant. Spect. Rad. Transf., 97 (2) 209-227.	[PDF]
141.	Goering, C. D., T. S. L’Ecuyer, G. L. Stephens, J. R. Slusser, G. Scott, J. Davis, J. C. Barnard, and S. Madronich, 2006: Simultaneous retrievals of column ozone and aerosol optical properties from direct and diffuse solar irradiance measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 110, doi: 10.1029.	[PDF]
142.	L'Ecuyer, T. S. P. M. Gabriel, K. Leesman, S. J. Cooper, and G. L. Stephens, 2006: Objective Assessment of the Information Content of Visible and nfrared Radiance Measurements for Cloud Microphysical Property Retrievals Over the Global Oceans. Part I: Liquid Clouds. J. Appl. Met., 45, 20-41.	[PDF]
143.	Luo, Z., and G. L. Stephens, 2006: An enhanced-convection-wind-evaporation feedback in a superparameterization GCM (SP-GCM) depiction of the Asian summer monsoon. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L06707, doi: 10.1029/2005GL025060.	[PDF]
144.	Mitrescu, C., J. M. Haynes, G. L. Stephens, G. M. Heymsfield and M. J. McGill, 2006: Cirrus Clouds Optical, Microphysical and Radiative Properties Observed During Crystal-Face Experiment: I. A Radar-Lidar Retrieval System. J. Geophys. Res., 110 doi: 10.1029.	[PDF]
145.	Cooper, S. J., T. L'Ecuyer, P. M. Gabriel, A. J. Baran, 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, 10.1029/2006JD007122.	[PDF]
146.	Haynes, J. M., and G. L. Stephens, 2007: Tropical ocean cloudiness and the incidence of precipitation: Early results from CloudSat. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, doi: 10.1029/2007GL029335.	[PDF]
147.	Lebsock, M. D., 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.	[PDF]
148.	Mace, G. G., R. Marchand, Q. Zhang, and G. L. Stephens, 2007: 2001 Global hydrometeor occurrence as observed by CloudSat: Initial observations from summer 2006. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L09808, doi: 10.1029/2006GL029017.	[PDF]
149.	Stephens, G. L., and N. B. Wood, 2007: Properties of Tropical Convection Observed by Millimeter-Radar Systems. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 821-842.	[PDF]
150.	Kollias, P., E. E. Clothiaux, M. A. Miller, B. A. Albrecht, G. L. Stephens, and T. P. Ackerman, 2007: Millimeter-wavelength radars: New frontier in atmospheric cloud precipitation research. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 88, pp. 1608-1624.	[PDF]
151.	L'Ecuyer, T. S., and G. L. Stephens, 2007: The tropical ocean energy budget from the TRMM perspective, Part II: Climate applications. J. Climate, 20, pp. 4548-4571 .	[PDF]
152.	Posselt, D., G. L. Stephens, and M. Miller, 2007: CloudSat: Adding a new dimension to a classical view of extratropical cyclones. To Appear: Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., .
153.	Stephens, G. L. and J. M. Haynes, 2007: Near Global Observations of the Warm Rain Auto-conversion Process. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L20805, doi:10.1029/2007GL030259.	[PDF]
154.	Stephens, G. L. and C. Kummerow, 2007: The remote sensing of clouds and precipitation from space: A review. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3742-3765.	[PDF]
155.	Haynes, J., R. T. Marchand, Z. Luo, A. Bodas-Salcedo, and G. L. Stephens, 2007: A Multipurpose Radar Simulation Package: QuickBeam. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 88 pp. 1723-1727.	[PDF]
156.	Stephens, G. L., and D. Vane, 2007: Cloud remote sensing from space in the era of the A-Train. J. Appl. Remote Sens., 1, 013507, doi:10.1117/1.0709703.
157.	Pakula, L. A., G. L. Stephens, 2007: On the forced response of the Beta Plane, Part I: Basic theory. J. Atmos. Sci., .
158.	Pakula, L. A., G. L. Stephens, 2007: On the forced response of the Beta Plane, Part II: The Kelvin Wave Response. J. Atmos. Sci., .
159.	Stephens, G. L. et al., 2007: The CloudSat Mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation. submitted to J Geophys. Res., .
160.	Mitrescu, C., S. Miller, G. Hawkins, T. L'Ecuyer, J. Turk, P. Partain and G. Stephens, 2007: Near real time applications of Cloudsat data. accepted for J. App. Met., .
161.	Lebsock M., G. L. Stephens, and C. Kummerow, 2007: Multi-Sensor Observations of Aerosol Effects on Warm Clouds. Submitted to J. Geophys. Res., .
162.	Marchand, R. T., Mace, G. Ackerman, T. and Stephens, G., 2008: Hydrometeor Detection using CloudSat - an Earth Orbiting 94 GHz Cloud Radar. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech, 25, 4, 519-533, doi: 10.1175/2007JTECHA1006.1.	[PDF]
163.	Stephens, G. L., S. van den Heever and L. A. Pakula, 2008: Radiative Convective Feedback in Idealized States of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium J. Atmos. Science, 65, 3899-3916.	[PDF]
164.	Taylor, T. E., T. S. L'Ecuyer, J. R. Slusser, G. L. Stephens, and C. D. Goering, 2008: An operational retrieval algorithm for determining aerosol optical properties in the ultraviolet. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D03201, doi:10.1029/2007JD008661.
165.	Stephens, G. L. and T. D. Ellis, 2008: Global-scale controls of precipitation efficiency in global warming GCM experiments. To appear: Journal of Climate, 52 pp.	[PDF]
166.	Posselt, D. J., S. C. Van den Heever and G. L. Stephens , 2008: Trimodal cloudiness and tropical stable layers in simulations of radiative convective equilibrium. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08802, doi:10.1029/2007GL033029.
167.	Suzuki, K. and G. L. Stephens, 2008: Global Identification of warm cloud microphysical processes with combined ues of A-Train observations Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08805, doi:10.1029/2008GL033590.
168.	Suzuki, K. and G. L. Stephens, 2008: Global Identification of warm cloud microphysical processes with combined ues of A-Train observations Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08805, doi:10.1029/2008GL033590.
169.	Luo, Zhengzhao, Graeme L. Stephens, Kerry A. Emanuel, Deborah G. Vane, Natalie D. Tourville, and John M. Haynes, 2008: On the Use of CloudSat and MODIS Data for Estimating Hurricane Intensity. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 5, 13-16.	[PDF]
170.	Luo, Zhengzhao, Guangyuan Y. Liu and Graeme L. Stephens, 2008: CloudSat adding new insight into tropical penetrating convection Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 35, L19819, doi:10.1029/2008GL035330.	[PDF]
171.	Suzuki, K., T. Nakajima, M. Satoh, H. Tomita, T. Takemura, T. Y. Nakajima and G. L. Stephens, 2008: Global cloud-system-resolving simulation of aerosol effect on warm clouds Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L19817, doi:10.1029/2008GL035449..
172.	Vasilkov, A., J. Joiner, R. Spurr, P. K. Bhartia, P. Levelt, and G. Stephens, 2008: Evaluation of the OMI cloud pressures derived from rotational Raman scattering by comparisons with other satellite data and radiative transfer simulations J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15S19, doi:10.1029/2007JD008689.
173.	Kay, J. E., T. L. L'Ecuyer, A. Gettelman, G. L. Stephens and C. O'Dell, 2008: The contribution of cloud and radiation anomalies to the 2007 Arctic sea ice extent minimum Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08503, doi:10.1029/2008GL033451.
174.	L'Ecuyer, T. S., N. B. Wood, T. Haladay G. L. Stephens and P. W. Stackhouse Jr., 2008: Impact of clouds on atmospheric heating based on the R04 CloudSat fluxes and heating rates data set J. Geophys. Res., 113, D00A15, doi:10.1029/2008JD009951.
175.	Posselt, D. J., T. S. L'Ecuyer, and G. L. Stephens, 2008: Exploring the error characteristcs of thin ice cloud property retrievals using a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm J. Geophys. Res., 113, D24206, doi:10.1029/2008JD0010832.
176.	Wang, Z. et al., 2008: Association of Antarctic polar stratospheric cloud formation on tropospheric cloud systems Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L13806, doi:10.1029/2008GL034209.
177.	Su, H. J. H. Jiang, D. Vane and G. L. Stephens, 2008: Observed vertical structure of tropical oceanic clouds sorted in large-scale regimes. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L24704, doi:10.1029/2008GL035888.
178.	Ellis, T. D., T. 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. Lett., 36, L03815, doi:10.1029/2008GL036728.
179.	Waliser, D. E. and al., 2009: Cloud Ice: A climate model challenge with signs and expectations of progress J. Geophys. Res., 114, D00A21, doi:10.1029/2008JD010015.
180.	Pakula, L. and G. L. Stephens, 2009: The Role of Radiation in Influencing Tropical Cloud Distributions in a Radaitve Convective Equilibrium Cloud-Resolving Model. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 62-76.
181.	Luo, Z., G. Y. Liu, G. L. Stephens, and R. H. Johnson, 2009: Terminal versus transient cumulus congestus: A CloudSat perspective Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L05808, doi:10.1029/2008GL036927.	[PDF]
182.	Austin, R. T., A. J. Heymsfield, and G. L. Stephens , 2009: Retrieval of ice cloud microphysical parameters using the CloudSat millimeter-wave radar and temperature J. Geophys. Res., 114, D00A23, doi:10.1029/2008JD010049.	[PDF]
183.	Waliser, D. E. and al., 2009: Cloud Ice: A climate model challenge with signs and expectations of progress J. Geophys. Res., 114, D00A21, doi:10.1029/2008JD010015.
184.	Ellis, T. D., T. 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. Lett., 36, L03815, doi:10.1029/2008GL036927.
185.	Marchand, R J., J. Haynes, G. G. Mace, T. Ackerman, and G. Stephens, 2009: A comparison of simulated cloud radar output from the multiscale modeling framework global climate model with CloudSat cloud radar observations J. Geophys. Res., 114, D00A20, doi:10.1029/2008JD009790.

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