Dave's Conference Papers

• R. N. Halthore, D. Kratz, and G. Bjoraker, "The Spectral Content of the 7.8 Micron Emission from Jupiter at High Resolution." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 22, No. 3, p. 1066, 1990.

• D. Kratz and R. N. Halthore, "A Determination of the Stratospheric Hydrocarbon Abundances for Neptune." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 22, No. 3, p. 1105, 1990.

• D. P. Kratz, S. J. Kim and R. N. Halthore, "3.3 Micron Methane Emission from the Jovian Auroral Zone: Non-LTE aspect." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 23, No. 3, p. 1132, 1991.

• S. Kim, D. Kratz, and R. N. Halthore, "Methane Emission at 3.5 and 7.8 Micron from the Jovian Auroral Zone." EOS Transactions, Vol. 72, No. 17, p.236, 1991.

• C. Prabhakara, J.-M. Yoo, G. Dalu, and D. P. Kratz, "Optically Thin Cirrus Clouds: Remote Sensing, and Geophysical Significance." 6th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Atlanta, Georgia, January, 1992.

• E. O. Schmidt, D. P. Kratz, and B. A. Wielicki, "The Effects of Cirrus Clouds and the Atmosphere over Land and Ocean Surfaces." Proc. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Invited Presentation), Tokyo, Japan, August, 1993.

• D. P. Kratz, "The Use of Correlated k-Distributions to Account for the Radiative Effect of Molecular Absorption upon Satellite Measured Radiances." 9th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Long Beach, California, February, 1997.

• D. P. Kratz, K. J. Priestley and R. N. Green, "Determining the Relationship Between the Total and Window Channel Nighttime Radiances for the CERES Instrument." 10th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, Wisconsin, June, 1999.

• S. K. Gupta, A. C. Wilber and D. P. Kratz, "Surface Emissivity Maps for Satellite Retrievals of Tempreature and Radiation Budget." 10th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, Wisconsin, June, 1999.

• C. H. Whitlock, R. C. DiPasquale, D. E. Brown, W. S. Chandler, X. Xiang, N. A. Ritchey, A. B. Carlson and D. P. Kratz, "NASA Surface Insolation and Meteorlogy Data for Renewable Energy Use." 8th International Biannual Conference on Solar Energy in High Latitudes, Edmonton, Alberta, August, 1999.

• B. R. Barkstrom, B. A. Wielicki, G. L. Smith, R. B. Lee, K. J. Priestley T. P. Charlock and D. P. Kratz, "Validation of CERES/TERRA data." EOS/SPIE Symposium on Remote Sensing, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2000.

• C. H. Whitlock, D. E. Brown, W. S. Chandler, R. C. DiPasquale, N. Meloche, G. J. Leng, S. K. Gupta, A. C. Wilber, N. A. Ritchey, A. B. Carlson, D. P. Kratz and P. W. Stackhouse, "Release 3 NASA Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy Data Set for Renewable Energy Use." 26th Annual Conference of the Solar Energy Society of Canada, Inc. and Solar Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October, 2000.

• M. Mlynczak, D. Kratz, C. Mertens, and G. L. Smith, "Far-Infrared Radiative Transfer Studies with GERB Data." Proceedings of the 1st MSG RAO Workshop, Bologna, Italy, October, 2000.

• S. K. Gupta, D. P. Kratz, A. C. Wilber, and C. Nguyen, "Validation of Surface Radiative Fluxes Derived From CERES Measurements on TRMM and EOS Terra." AGU 2000 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December, 2000.

• L. Oreopoulos, R. F. Cahalan, G. Wen, A. Marshak, and D. Kratz, "Cloud retrievals from Landsat-7 during ARESE II." 11th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 2001.

• M. G. Mlynczak, J. E. Harries, R. Rizzi, P. W. Stackhouse, D. P. Kratz, D. G. Johnson, C. J. Mertens, R. R. Garcia, and B. J. Soden, "Far-infrared: A Frontier in Remote Sensing of Earth's Climate and Energy Balance." Proc. SPIE, 4485-32, 2001.

• D. P. Kratz, "High Resolution Modeling of the Far-infrared." Proc. SPIE, 4485-34, 2001.

• T. P. Charlock, F. G. Rose, D. A. Rutan, D. P. Kratz, Z. Jin, L. H. Coleman, and Q. Fu, "Relationship of Tropical Circulation and Energetics using Retrieved Surface and Atmospheric Radiation Budget for January-August 1998." 11th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Ogden, Utah, June, 2002.

• P. Minnis, D. F. Young, B. A. Wielicki, D. P. Kratz, S. Sun-Mack, P. W. Heck, Q. Z. Trepta, Y. Chen, S. L. Gibson, and R. R. Brown, "Seasonal and Diurnal Variations of Cloud Properties Derived for CERES from VIRS and MODIS Date." 11th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Ogden, Utah, June, 2002.

• M. G. Mlynczak, D. G. Johnson, D. P. Kratz, C. J. Mertens, W. Collins, and J. I. Applin, "Far Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere -- FIRST." 11th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Ogden, Utah, June, 2002.

• S. Thomas, B. A. Baum, S. L. Nasiri, A. Heymsfield, P. Yang, E. Clothiaux, and D. P. Kratz, "Comparison of MODIS and MISR Tropical Cirrus Retrievals." 11th Conference on Cloud Physics, Ogden, Utah, June, 2002.

• G. L. Smith, B. A. Wielicki, B. R. Barkstrom, R. B. Lee, K. J. Priestley, T. P. Charlock, P. Minnis, N. Loeb, and D. P. Kratz, "Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES): An Overview." 34th Cospar Scientific Assembly, Houston, Texas, October, 2002.

• A. K. Inamdar and D. P. Kratz, "Monitoring Surface Long-wave Radiation Budget from Satellite: Validation." AGU 2002 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December, 2002.

• D. P. Garber, G. L. Smith, T. Wong, D. P. Kratz, T. P. Charlock and A. C. Wilber, "Seasonal radiation budget of Africa." 14th Conference on Global Change and Climate Variations, Long Beach, California, February, 2003.

• S. K. Gupta, D. P. Kratz, A. C. Wilber and C. Nguyen, "Validation of the Langley Parameterized Algorithms for Deriving CERES/TRMM Surface Radiative Fluxes." 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Long Beach, California, February, 2003.

• R. B. Lee III, G. L. Smith, D. P. Kratz, K. J. Priestley, Z. P. Szewczyk, S. Thomas, K. A. Bush, J. Paden, D. K. Pandey, R. S. Wilson and A. Al-Hajjah, "Measurements of filtered lunar radiances using the NASA Terra spacecraft, CERES thermistor boloneter sensors during 2000 and 2001." Proc. SPIE, 5151-37, 2003.

• A. K. Inamdar and D. P. Kratz, "Retrieval and validation of the surface longwave radiation budget from CERES." AGU for the Fall 2003 Meeting, San Francisco, California, December, 2003.

M. Mlynczak, D. Johnson, D. Kratz,, K. Jucks, W. Traub, G. Bingham, C. Hyde, S. Wellard, P. Yang and L. Gordley, "Far-infrared spectrocopy of the troposphere (FIRST) for SOFIA." First Sofia Upper Deck Science Opportunities Workshop, Moffett Field, California, June, 2004.

• B. A. Wielicki, P. Minnis, N. G. Loeb, T. Charlock, D. Young, D. P. Kratz, and K. J. Priestley, "CERES new generation of radiation budget data: an overview." 13th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Norfolk, Virginia, September, 2004.

• D. P. Kratz, M. G. Mlynczak, D. G. Johnson, G. P. Bingham, W. A. Traub, K. Jucks, C. R. Hyde and S. Wellard, "FIRST - The Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposhpere Project." AGU 2004 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December, 2004.

• D. P. Kratz and F. J. Martin-Torres, "Modeling the Far-infrared Spectra of the Terrestrial Atmospheres." EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2006.

• M. G. Mlynczak, F. J. Martin-Torres, R. E. Thompson, B. T. Marshall, D. P. Kratz, L. L. Gordley and J. M. Russell III, "Evidence for solar cycle influence on the radiative cooling of the thermosphere." AGU Joint Assembly, Baltimore, Maryland, May 2006.

• M. G. Mlynczak, D. G. Johnson and D. P. Kratz, "In-situ net flux within the atmosphere of the Earth (INFLAME)." ESTC 2006 Workshop, College Park, Maryland, June, 2006.

• M. G. Mlynczak, D. G. Johnson, D. P. Kratz, X. Liu, "Far-infrared spectroscopy of the troposphere - FIRST." 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, Wisconsin, July, 2006.

• P. W. Stackhouse, D. P. Kratz, G. R. McGarragh, S. K. Gupta and E. B. Geier, "Fast longwave and shortwave (FLASH) flux models." 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, Wisconsin, July, 2006.

• X. Liu, M. Mlynczak, D. Johnson, D. Kratz, H. Latvakosk and G. Bingham, "Data analysis of the far-infrared spectroscopy of the tropsophere instrument." 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, Wisconsin, July, 2006.

• D. G. Johnson, M. G. Mlynczak, X. Liu and D. P. Kratz, "Calibration and performance assessment of the Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere Sensor." 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, Wisconsin, July, 2006.

• Y. Zhou, D. P. Kratz, A. C. Wilber, S. K. Gupta and R. D. Cess, "Retrieving surface downwelling longwave radiation from satellite measurements: improvement of the Zhou-Cess algorithm." 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, Wisconsin, July, 2006.

• G. Hong, P. Yang, M. G. Mlynczak, D. P. Kratz and Y. X. Hu, "The sensitivity of spectral resolution far-infrared radiances to the microphysical and optical properties of ice clouds." 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, Wisconsin, July, 2006.

• B. A. Wielicki, T. P. Charlock, D. R. Doelling, D. P. Kratz, N. G. Loeb, P. Minnis, K. J. Priestley, and D. F. Young, "CERES radiation budget accuracy overview." 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, Wisconsin, July, 2006.

• D. P. Kratz, M. G. Mlynczak, D. G. Johnson and X. Liu, "High resolution modeling of the Far-infrared Spectra of the Earth's Atmosphere." 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, Wisconsin, July, 2006.

• K. Garrett, P. Yang. S. Nasiri, B. Baum and D. Kratz, "An investigation of the sensitivity to infrared retrievals of cloud properties with MODIS and AIRS." AGU for the Fall 2006 Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2006.

• M. G. Mlynczak, D. G. Johnson and D. P. Kratz, "The far-infrared spectrum: Exploring a new frontier in the remote sensing of the Earth's climate." Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment (HISE) Topical Meeting of the Optical Society of America (OSA), Santa Fe, New Mexico, February, 2007.

• M. Mlynczak, F. Martin-Torres, B. Marshall, R. Thompson, J. Williams, T. Turpin, D. Kratz, J. Russell, T. Woods and L. Gordley, "Solar cycle influence on the infrared energy budget of the thermosphere." EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2007.

• M. Mlynczak, D. Johnson, C. Boyer, T. Shekoski, D. Robinson, E. Kist, D. Kratz and C. Antill, "INFLAME: In-situ net flux within the atmosphere of the Earth." NASA Science and Technology Conference, College Park, Maryland, June 2007.

• M. G. Mlynczak, F. J. Martin-Torres, R. E. Thompson, D. P. Kratz, R. R. Garcia, S. Soloman, R. G. Roble, B. T. Marshall, J. M. Russell III and L. L. Gordley, "SABER observations of solar cycle influence in the mesosphere and lower themospshere." IUGG General Assembly, Perugia, Italy, July 2007.

• M. G. Mlynczak, D. Johnson, N. Abedin, X. Liu, D. Kratz, D. Jordan, J. Wang, G. Bingham, H. Latvakoski, K. Bowman and S. Kaplan, "CORSAIR - Calibrated observations of radiance spectra from the atmosphere in the far-infrared." AGU for the Fall 2006 Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2008.

• S. Kato, D. P. Kratz and F. G. Rose, "Sensitivity of TOA longwave spectrum using CALIPSO-CloudSat derived cloud field." AGU for the Fall 2008 Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2008.

• P. W. Stackhouse, S. Kato, D. P. Kratz, S. K. Gupta, A. C. Edwards and A. C. Wilber,"New results from FLASHFlux: A case study of the observed radiative anomalies in the Arctic for 2007 and 2008 summer." 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Phoenix, Arizona, January, 2009.

D. P. Kratz, S. Kato, F. G. Rose and X. Liu, "Simulation of a retrieval process of atmospheric changes from spatially and temporally averaged nadir view spectral changes." AGU for the Fall 2009 Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2009.

X. Liu, D. F. Young, B. A. Wielicki, M. G. Mlynczak, D. G. Johnson, S. Kato, D. P. Kratz and F. G. Rose, "Information content analysis of CLARREO far-ir and mid-ir spectral ranges." AGU for the Fall 2009 Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2009.

F. G. Rose, S. Kato, X. Liu and D. P. Kratz, "Applicability of spectral longwave radiative kernels at monthly=daily temporal and global-zonal spatial scales." AGU for the Fall 2009 Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2009.

P. W. Stackhouse, D. P. Kratz, T. Wong, S. K. Gupta, A. C. Edwards, A. C. Wilber, J. C. Mikovitz, J. Howell and P. Sawaengphokhai, "Assessing the monthly averaged variability of TOA fluxes from CERES using EBAF, ERBE-like and FLASHFlux Data from 2001 to present." EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2010.

D. P. Kratz, P. W. Stackhouse, S. K. Gupta, A. C. Wilber, V. E. Sothcott and A. C. Edwards, "Single scanner footprint fluxes from CERES and FLASHFlux." 13th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Portland, Oregon, June 2010.

F. G. Rose, S. Kato, X.liu, D. P. Kratz and X. Huang, "Spectral longwave radiance simulation using PCRTM and five years of CERES data" 13th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Portland, Oregon, June 2010.

P. W. Stackhouse, D. P. Kratz, S. K. Gupta, A. C. Wilber, A. C. Edwards, P. K. Sawaengphokhai, J. M. Hoell and W. S. Chandler, "The assessment and use of 1-degree gridded TOA and surface radiative flux products from CERES FLASHFlux for science and application." 13th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Portland, Oregon, June 2010.

B. A. Wielicki, D. F. Young, J. G. Anderson, F. Best, K. Bowman, B. Cairns, W. Collins, J. Corliss, J. A. Dykema, D. R. Doelling, D. R. Feldman, R. Holz, Y. Huang, Z. Jin, K. Jucks, S. Kato, D. B. Kirk-Davidoff, R. Knuteson, G. Kopp, D. P. Kratz, A. Lacis, S. Leroy, X. Liu, C. Lukashin, A. J. Mannucci, M. I. Mishchenko, M. G. Mlynczak, T. S. Pagano, N. Phojanamongkolkij, P. Pilewskie, S. Platnick, V. Ramaswamy, H. Revercomb, C. M. Roithmayr, S. Sandford, P. W. Speth, K. J. Thome, D. Tobin, J. Xiong, "CLARREO: decadal change accuracy for space based emitted infrared spectra, reflected solar spectra and radio occultation." 13th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Portland, Oregon, June 2010.

A. C. Wilber, D. P. Kratz, P. W. Stackhouse, S. K. Gupta, D. R. Doelling and L. C. Nguyen, "Comparison of TOA fluxes from FLASHFlux and CERES-Lite." 13th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Portland, Oregon, June 2010.

R. P. Cageao, J. A. Alford, D. G. Johnson, D. P. Kratz, M. G. Mlynczak, "Far-IR measurements at Cerro Toco, Chile: FIRST, REFIR and AERI" SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference, San Diego, California, August, 2010.

H. Li, X. Liu, P. Yang and D. P. Kratz, "A principal component-based radiative transfer forward model (PCRTM) for vertically inhomogeneous cloud." SPIE Remote Sensing 2010, Toulouse, France, September 2010.

P. Sawaengphokhai, S. K. Gupta, A. C. Wilber, A. C. Edwards, J. Hoell, W. Chandler, P. W. Stackhouse, D. P. Kratz and T. Wong, "The assessment and use of 1 degree gridded TOA and surface radiative flux products from CERES FLASHFlux." International Symposium on the A-Train Satellite Constellation, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2010.

T. Zhang, P. W. Stackhouse, W. S. Chandler, J. M. Hoell, D. P. Kratz, S. K. Gupta, A. C. Wilber, A. C. Edwards, D. Westberg, E. Zell and G. Leng, "Near real time surface solar radiation and meteorological parameters from the CERES FLASHFlux project: Examples of usage for energy-related applications." AGU for the Fall 2010 Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2010.