Dave's Refereed Journal Articles

D. P. Kratz and R. D. Cess, "Solar Absorption by Atmospheric Water Vapor: a Comparison of Radiation Models," Tellus, 37B, 53--63, 1985.

R. D. Cess, D. P. Kratz, S. J. Kim and J. Caldwell, "Infrared Radiation Models for Atmospheric Methane," J. Geophys. Res., 91(D9), 9857--9864, 1986.

D. P. Kratz and R. D. Cess, "Infrared Radiation Models for Atmospheric Ozone," J. Geophys. Res., 93(D6), 7047--7054, 1988.

M.-D. Chou, D. P. Kratz and W. Ridgway, "IR Radiation Parameterizations in Numerical Climate Models," J. Climate, 4, 424--437, 1991.

D. P. Kratz, B.-C. Gao and J. T. Kiehl, "A Study of the Radiative effects of the 9.4 and 10.4 Micron Bands of Carbon Dioxide," J. Geophys. Res., 96(D5), 9021--9026, 1991.

R. N. Halthore and D. P. Kratz, "Simulation of the Spectral Content of the 7.8 Micron Emission from Jupiter at High Resolution," Icarus, 93, 174--178, 1991.

D. P. Kratz and P. Varanasi, "A Reexamination of the Greenhouse Effect Due to CFC-11 and CFC-12," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 48, 245--254, 1992.

J. Otterman, J. Susskind, G. Dalu, D. Kratz and I. L. Goldberg, "Effects of Water-Emission Anisotropy on Multispectral Remote Sensing at Thermal Wavelengths of Ocean Temperature and of Cirrus Clouds," Applied Optics, 31, 7633--7646, 1992.

C. Prabhakara, D. P. Kratz, J.-M. Yoo, G. Dalu and A. Vernekar, "Optically Thin Cirrus Clouds: Radiative Impact on the Warmpool," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 49, 467--483, 1993.

C. Prabhakara, J.-M. Yoo, D. P. Kratz and G. Dalu, "Boundary Layer Stratus Clouds: Inferred from Satellite Infrared Spectral Measurements over Oceans," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 49, 599--607, 1993.

D. P. Kratz, M.-D. Chou and M. M.-H. Yan, "Infrared Radiation Parameterizations for the Minor CO₂ Bands and for Several CFC Bands in the Window Region," J. Climate, 6, 1269--1281, 1993.

D. P. Kratz, "The Correlated k-Distribution Technique as Applied to the AVHRR Channels," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 53, 501--517, 1995.

B. A. Wielicki, B. R. Barkstrom, B. A. Baum, T. P. Charlock, R. N. Green, D. P. Kratz, R. B. Lee, III, P. Minnis, G. L. Smith, T. Wong, D. F. Young, R. D. Cess, J. A. Coakley, Jr., D. A. H. Crommelynck, L. Donner, R. Kandel, M. D. King, A. J. Miller, V. Ramanathan, D. A. Randall, L. L. Stowe and R. W. Welch, "Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES): Algorithm Overview," IEEE Trans. Geosci. & Remote Sensing, 36, 1127--1141, 1998.

D. P. Kratz, M.-D. Chou, M. M.-H. Yan and C.-H. Ho, "Minor Trace Gas Radiative Forcing Calculations Using the k Distribution Method with One-Parameter Scaling," J. Geophys. Res., 103(D24), 31647--31656, 1998.

D. P. Kratz and F. G. Rose, "Accounting for Molecular Absorption within the Spectral Range of the CERES Window Channel," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 61, 83--95, 1999.

B. A. Baum, D. P. Kratz, P. Yang, S. C. Ou, Y. Hu, P. F. Soulen and S.-C. Tsay, "Remote Sensing of Cloud Properties Using MODIS Airborne Simulator Imagery During SUCCESS. I. Data and Models," J. Geophys. Res., 105(D9), 11767--11780, 2000.

N. G. Loeb, K. J. Priestley, D. P. Kratz, E. B. Geier, R. N. Green, B. A. Wielicki, P. O'Rawe-Hinton, S. K. Nolan, "Determination of Unfiltered Radiances from the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System Instrument," J. Appl. Meteor., 40, 822--835, 2001.

C. H. Whitlock, D. E. Brown, W. S. Chandler, R. C. DiPasquale, N. A. Ritchey, S. K. Gupta, A. C. Wilber, D. P. Kratz and P. W. Stackhouse, "Global Surface Solar Energy Anomalies Including El Nino and La Nina Years." J. Sol. Energy Eng., 123, 211--215, 2001.

S. L. Nasiri, B. A. Baum, A. J. Heymsfield, P. Yang, M. R. Poellet, D. P. Kratz and Y. Hu, "The Development of Midlatitude Cirrus Models for MODIS Using FIRE-I, FIRE-II, and ARM In-Situ Data," J. Appl. Meteor., 41, 197--217, 2002.

D. P. Kratz, K. J. Priestley and R. N. Green, "Establishing the Relationship between the CERES Window and Total Channel Measured Radiances for Conditions Involving Deep Convective Clouds at Night," J. Geophys. Res., 107(D15), 4245, doi: 10.1029/2001JD001170, 2002.

P. Minnis, L. Nguyen, D. R. Doelling, D. F. Young, W. F. Miller and D. P. Kratz, "Rapid Calibration of Operational and Research Meteorological Satellite Imagers, Part I: Evaluation of Research Sateliite Visible Channels as a Reference," J. Atmos. Ocean Tech., 19, 1233--1249, 2002.

P. Minnis, L. Nguyen, D. R. Doelling, D. F. Young, W. F. Miller and D. P. Kratz, "Rapid Calibration of Operational and Research Meteorological Satellite Imagers, Part II: Comparison of Infrared Channels," J. Atmos. Ocean Tech., 19, 1250--1266, 2002.

P. Yang, M. G. Mlynczak, H. Wei, D. P. Kratz, B. A. Baum, Y. X. Hu, W. J. Wiscombe, A. Heidinger and M. I. Mishchanko, "Spectral Signature of Cirrus Clouds in the Far-Infrared Region: Single-Scattering Calculations and Radiative Transfer Sensitivity Study," J. Geophys. Res., 108(D18), 4569, doi: 10.1029/2002JD003291, 2003.

G. L. Smith, B. A. Wielicki, B. R. Barkstrom, R. B. Lee, K. J. Priestley, T. P. Charlock, P. Minnis, D. P. Kratz and N. Loeb, "Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES): An Overview," Advances in Space Research, 33, 1125-1131, 2004.

S. K. Gupta, D. P. Kratz, A. C. Wilber and L. C. Nguyen, "Validation of the Langley Parameterized Algorithms Used to Derive the CERES/TRMM Surface Radiative Fluxes," J. Atmos. Ocean Tech, 21, 742--752, 2004.

M. G. Mlynczak, F. J. Martin-Torres, D. G. Johnson, D. P. Kratz, W. A. Traub and K. Jucks, "Observations of the O(³)P fine structure line at 63 microns in the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere," J. Geophys. Res., 109(A12), A12306, doi: 10.1029/2004JA010595, 2004.

D. P. Kratz, M. G. Mlynczak, C. J. Mertens, H. Brindley, L. L. Gordley, F. Martin-Torres, F. M. Miskolczi and D. D. Turner, "An Inter-comparison of Far-infrared Line-by-line Radiative Transfer Models," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 90, 323--341, 2005.

M. G. Mlynczak, F. J. Martin-Torrez, G. Crowley, D. P. Kratz, B. Funke, G. Lu, M. Lopez-Puertas, J. M. Russell III, J. Kozyra, C. Mertens, R. Sharma, L. Gordley, R. Picard, J. Winick, L. Paxton, "Energy Transport in the Thermosphere during the Solar Storms of April 2002," J. Geophys. Res., 110(A12), A12S25, doi: 10.1029/2005JA011141, 2005.

M. G. Mlynczak, D. G. Johnson, H. Latvalowski, K. Jucks, M. Watson, D. P. Kratz, G. Bingham, W. A. Traub, S. J. Wellard, C. R. Hyde and X. Liu, "First Light from the Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere (FIRST) Instrument," Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L07704, doi: 10.1029/2005GL025114, 2006.

W. D. Collins, V. Ramaswamy, M. D. Schwarzkopf, Y. Sun, R. W. Portmann, Q. Fu, S. E. B. Casanova, J.-L. Dufresne, D. W. Fillmore, P. M. D. Forster, V. Y. Galin, L. K. Gohar, W. J. Ingram, D. P. Kratz, M.-P. Lefebre, J. Li, P. Marquet, V. Oinas, Y. Tsushiama, T. Uchiyama and W. Y. Zhong, "Radiative Forcing by Well-mixed Greenhouse Gases: Estimates from Climate Models in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)," J. Geophys. Res., 111(D14), D14317, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006713, 2006.

Y. Zhou, D. P. Kratz, A. C. Wilber, S. K. Gupta and R. D. Cess, "An Improved Algorithm for Retrieving Surface Downwelling Longwave Radiation from Satellite Measurements," J. Geophys. Res., 112(D15), D15102, doi: 10.1029/2006JD008159, 2007.

M. G. Mlynczak, F. J. Martin-Torrez, B. T. Marshall, R. E. Thompson, J. Williams, T. Turpin, D. P. Kratz, J. M. Russell and L. L. Gordley, "Evidence for Solar Cycle Influence on the Infrared Energy Budget of the Thermosphere," J. Geophys. Res., 112 (A12), A12302, doi:10.1029/2006JA012194, 2007.

D. P. Kratz "The Sensitivity of Radiative Transfer Calculations to the Changes in the HITRAN Database from 1982 to 2004." J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer., 109, 1060--1080, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.10.010, 2008.

T. Wong, P. W. Stackhouse, D. P. Kratz and A. C. Wilber, "Earth Radiation Budget at Top-of-atmosphere [in "State of the Climate in 2008"]." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90 (8), S1--S196, 2009.

D. P. Kratz, S. K. Gupta, A. C. Wilber and V. E. Sothcott, "Validation of the CERES Edition 2B Surface-Only Flux Algorithms." J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 49(1), 164--180, doi:10.1175/2009JAMC2246.1, 2010.

S. K. Gupta, D. P. Kratz, P. W. Stackhouse, A. C. Wilber, T. Zhang and V. E. Sothcott, "Improvement of Surface Longwave Flux Algorithms Used in CERES Processing." J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 49(7), 1579--1589, doi:10.1175/2009JAMC2463.1, 2010.

P. W. Stackhouse, T. Wong, N. G. Loeb, D. P. Kratz, A. C. Wilber, D. R. Doelling and L. C. Nguyen, "Earth Radiation Budget at Top-of-atmosphere [in "State of the Climate in 2009"]." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91 (7), S1--S218, 2010.

D. P. Kratz, P. W. Stackhouse, T. Wong, P. Sawaengphokhai, A. C. Wilber and N. G. Loeb, "Earth Radiation Budget at Top-of-atmosphere [in "State of the Climate in 2010"]." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 92 (6), S1--S270, 2011.

S. Kato, B. A. Wielicki, F. G. Rose, X. Liu, P. C. Taylor, D. P. Kratz, M. G. Mlynczak, D. F. Young, N. Phojanamongkolkij, S. Sun-Mack, W. F. Miller and Y. Chen, "Detection of atmospheric changes in spatially and temporally averaged infrared spectra observed from space," J. Climate., 24(24), doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-10-05005.1, 2011.

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