Robert Cahalan
Head, Climate & Radiation Branch (Code 613.2)
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~cahalan/
RESEARCH AREA EXPERIENCE   Empirical Orthogonal Functions, Fractal Clouds, Intercomparison of 3D Radiation Codes, von Karman vortices, Kuwait oil fires, Landsat, THOR Lidar, Sun&Earth Radiation, SORCE, Sun-Climate Center
 
EDUCATION  
1973   Ph.D. -Physics-University of Illinois-Urbana-
1969   M. S. -Physics-University of Illinois-Urbana-
1968   B. S. Physics, Thomas More College
 
OTHER CURRENT POSITIONS  
2008-   President, International Radiation Commission
2001-   Visiting Senior Research Scientist, ESSIC, UMCP
1999-   Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, UMBC
 
PREVIOUS POSITIONS  
2007   U.S. State Department Embassy Science Fellow, Costa Rica
2003-2006   Chair, Observations Interagency Working Group, Climate Change Science Program
1997-1998   Visiting Senior Scientist, ECMWF, Reading, UK
1978-1979   Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Nat'l Cntr for Atmos. Res.
1977-1978   Visiting Assistant Professor, U. of MO-St. Louis
1975   Nat'l Academy Sciences Visiting Scientist, Inst Theor Phys, Warsaw PL
1973-1976   Visiting Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
 
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS   American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society (Fellow); American Physical Society; European Geophysical Union
 
HONORS AND AWARDS  
2009   Elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)
2008   Elected President of the International Radiation Commission (IRC)
2006   Outstanding Leadership and Service, Climate Change Science Program
2006   NASA Exceptional Service Medal
2006   AIAA Space Systems Award - Earth Observing System Team
2004   NASA Achievement Award, SORCE Mission Team
2004   Goddard Achievement Award, Climate Change Science Program
2003   International Radiation Commission, elected member
2002   Excellence in Tech Communication, Laser Focus World
1998   NASA/Goddard Scientific Achievement Award
1996   NASA/Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award
 
SPECIAL EXPERIENCE   Project Scientist, SORCE (Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment)
Project Scientist, I3RC (Int’l Intercomparison of 3D Radiation Codes)
Science Teams: Landsat (1996-; 1982-85); FIRE&ASTEX (1986-92)
Principal Investigator, NASA climate studies, THORLidar; ARM-UAV; LWS
Graduate Advisor, Ph.D. students in USA, Canada, Netherlands, UK
Chair, CCSP Observations Working Group (2003-2006)
Chair, 3D Working Group, International Radiation Commission (2002- )
Chair, NASA/Goddard Sun-Climate Center
Acting Vice President, International Radiation Commission (2007-present)
 
Recent Invited Lectures
and Conference Presentations
 
Apr 2009   Measurements of Total Solar Irradiance, Observations Panel of WCRP/GCOS
Apr 2009   Global Energy Balance & Imbalance, EGU, VIenna, Austria
Jan 2009   Climate Change Keynote, National Park Service,
Dec 2008   Aerosol-Cloud 3D Interaction, AGU, San Francisco, CA
Dec 2008   Earth Science Education, US Dept Education, Int'l Videoconference
Oct 2008   Observing the Earth, Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea
Oct 2008   Future of Radiation Research, Gewex Radiation Panel, Jeju Isl, South Korea
Sep 2008   Climate Change and Variability, Environmental and Energy Conference, NASA-LARC
Aug 2008   Earth Observations of Climate Change, Greater Horn Africa Climate Outlook Forum, Nairobi, Kenya
Jul 2008   Earth Observations, Folklife Festival, DC Mall
Jun 2008   Climate Change, Adaptation, and Mitigation, Washington/N Virginia Geoscience Remote Sensing Society
May 2008   What's been happening to Earth Climate and what can be done? UMD Knight Center for Specialized Journalism
Apr 2008   Apparent Bluing of Aerosols, EGU, Vienna, Austria
Feb 2008   Sun, Moon, & Central America, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Feb 2008   Earth Changing Climate: What's been happening, & what might be done? Chevy Chase Women's Club
Feb 2008   Wavelength Dependent Solar Forcing, SORCE Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
Dec 2007   Wavelength Dependent Solar Forcing, AGU, San Francisco
Nov 2007   Lunar Borehole Experiment, Lunar Exploration Science Working Group
Oct 2007   SORCE 5 Year Anniversary, Gewex Radiation Panel, Buzios, Brazil
Oct 2007   I3RC and SORCE, Gewex Radiation Panel, Buzios, Brazil
Oct 2007   Modeling the Wavelength and Time Dependence of Solar Forcing of Earth’s Atmosphere, AGU, San Francisco CA
Sep 2007   Global Warming - Why is it not the Sun? Astronomical Society of Greenbelt
Jul 2007   3D Radiative Transfer in Complex Geophysical Media Including Clouds, Vegetation, Ice and Snow, convener, IUGG2007, Perugia, Italy
Jun 2007   Clouds and Climate, 32nd Int'l Symp on Remote Sensing of Environment, Costa Rica
May 2007   The Sun, The Moon, and Central America, Goddard Lab for Atmospheres
Mar 2007   3D Cloud Properties and Climate, Johns Hopkins University
Feb 2007   NASA Earth Observations, Omar Dengo Foundation, Costa Rica
Dec 2006   Aerosols and Climate, session co-organizer, AGU, San Francisco
Nov 2006   3D Cloud Radiation & Aerosol Retrieval, 5th Intl Remote Sensing Symp, Goa India
Oct 2006   3D Radiative Transfer and Solar Radiation, GEWEX Radiation Panel, Frascati Italy
Sep 2006   3D Clouds and Radiation, SORCE Science Team, co-organizer, Orcas Island, WA
May 2006   Achieving Satellite Instrument Calibration, Landsdowne VA
Apr 2006   NASA-NOAA Research to Operations Workshop, Adelphi MD
Apr 2006   European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria (invited, session chair)
Mar 2006   NASA/Goddard Scientific Colloquium
 
FUNDED PROPOSALS  
2008-2010   Continuation of I3RC with applications to THOR data analysis, NASA Radiation Sciences
2008-2010   Aerosol-cloud interactions: How 3D science can help to correctly interpret satellite data, NASA Earth Observing System
2006-2008   Wavelength and Time Dependence of Solar Forcing of Earth'
 
Show Refereed Publications
Refereed Publications
1.Cahalan, R. F., 1972: Cluster expansion in a renormalizable theory: The elastic form factor. Phys. Rev., D5, 2999-3021.
2.Cahalan, R. F., 1974: Zo photoproduction at high energy. Phys. Rev., D9, 257-272.
3.Cahalan, R. F., and K. O. Mikaelian, 1974: Zo effect in lepton-pair photoproduction. Phys. Rev., D10, 3769-3779.
4.Cahalan, R. F., and P. H. Frampton, 1974: Spontaneous symmetry breakdown and Regge intercepts. Phys. Letters, 50B, 475-478.
5.Cahalan, R. F., K. A. Geer, J. Kogut, and L. Susskind, 1975: Asymptotic freedom and the 'absence' of vector gluon exchange in wide-angle hadronic collisions. Phys. Rev., D11, 1199-1212.
6.Cahalan, R. F., and D. Knight, 1976: Construction of planar diagrams. Phys. Rev., D14, 2126-2136.
7.Balachandran, A. P., R. F. Cahalan, et al., 1978: Rotationally invariant approximation to charge-monopole scattering. Phys. Rev., D17, 1136-1149.
8.Balachandran, A. P., R. F. Cahalan, et al., 1978: Analyticity of the charge-monopole scattering amplitude. Phys. Rev., D17, 1150-1154.
9.Cahalan, R. F., and G. R. North, 1979: A stability theorem for energy-balance climate models. J. Atmos. Sci., 36, 1178-1188.
10.Salmun, H., R. F. Cahalan, and G. R. North, 1980: Latitude-dependent sensitivity to stationary perturbations in simple climate models. J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 1874-1879.
11.North, G. R., and R. F. Cahalan, 1981: Predictability in a solvable stochastic climate model. J. Atmos. Sci., 38, 504-510.
12.North, G. R., R. F. Cahalan, and J. A. Coakley, 1981: Energy-balance climate models. Rev. Geophys. Space Phys., 19, 91-121.
13.Cahalan, R. F., D. A. Short, and G. R. North, 1982: Cloud fluctuation statistics. Mon. Wea. Rev., 110, 26-43.
14.North, G. R., F. J. Moeng, T. L. Bell, and R. F. Cahalan, 1982: The latitude dependence of the variance of zonally averaged quantities. Mon. Wea. Rev., 110, 319-326.
15.North, G. R., T. L. Bell, R. F. Cahalan, and F. J. Moeng, 1982: Sampling errors in the estimation of Empirical Orthogonal Functions. Mon. Wea. Rev., 110, 699-706.
16.Short, D. A., and R. F. Cahalan, 1983: Interannual variability and climatic noise in satellite-observed Outgoing Longwave Radiation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 111, 572-577.
17.Cahalan, R. F., and L. S. Chiu, 1986: Large-scale short-period sea ice-atmosphere interaction. J. Geophys. Res., 91, 10709-10717.
18.Cahalan, R. F., 1986: Nearest neighbor spacing distributions of cumulus clouds. Proc. Int. Conf. Stat. Clim., 212-217.
19.Cahalan, R. F., 1989: Overview of fractal clouds. Advances in Remote Sensing, A. Deepak Publ., 371-388.
20.Cahalan, R. F., and J. B. Snider, 1989: Marine stratocumulus structure. Remote Sens. Environ., 28, 95-107.
21.Cahalan, R. F., and J. H. Joseph, 1989: Fractal statistics of cloud fields. Mon. Wea. Rev., 117, 261-272.
22.Cahalan, R. F., M. Nestler, W. Ridgway, W. J. Wiscombe, and T. Bell, 1989: Marine stratocumulus spatial structure. Proc. Fourth Int. Conf. Stat. Clim., IMSC, 19-25.
23.Cahalan, R. F., H. Leidecker, and G. Cahalan, 1990: Chaotic rhythms of a dripping faucet. Computers In Physics, 4, 368-383.
24.Joseph, J. H., and R. F. Cahalan, 1990: Nearest-neighbor spacing in fair weather cumulus. J. Appl. Meteor., 29, 793-805.
25.Cioffi, D., R. Cahalan, and D. Leisawitz, 1990: Turbulence in an IRAS Cirrus Cloud. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 22, 1246.
26.Cahalan, R. F., 1991: Landsat observations of fractal cloud structure. Nonlinear Variability in Geophysics, D. Schertzer and S. Lovejoy, Eds, Kluwer, Inc., 281-295.
27.Cahalan, R. F., 1992: Kuwait oil fires as seen by Landsat. J. Geophys. Res., 97, 14565-14571.
28.Cahalan, R. F., and W. J. Wiscombe, 1993: Impact of cloud structure on climate. Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation. A. Deepak Publishing, 120-124.
29.Marshak, A., A. Davis, R. Cahalan, and W. Wiscombe, 1993: Multi-singular and multi-affine properties of Bounded Cascade Models. Fractals, 3, 702-710.
30.Cahalan, R. F., 1994: Bounded cascade clouds albedo and effective thickness. Nonlinear Proc. Geophys., 1, 156-167.
31.Cahalan, R. F., W. Ridgway, W. J. Wiscombe, Harshvardhan, and S. Gollmer, 1994: Independent pixel and Monte Carlo estimates of stratocumulus albedo. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 3776-3790.
32.Cahalan, R. F., W. Ridgway, W. J. Wiscombe, T. L. Bell, and J. B. Snider, 1994: The albedo of fractal stratocumulus clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 2434-2455.
33.Davis, A., A. Marshak, W. J. Wiscombe, and R. F. Cahalan, 1994: Multifractal characterizations of non-stationarity and intermittency in geophysical fields: Observed, retrieved, or simulated. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 8055-8072.
34.Marshak, A., A. Davis, R. F. Cahalan, and W. J. Wiscombe, 1994: Bounded Cascade Models as non-stationary multifractals. Phys. Rev., E49, 55-69.
35.Cahalan, R. F., D. Silberstein, and J. B. Snider, 1995: Liquid water path and plane-parallel albedo bias during ASTEX. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 3002-3012.
36.Gollmer, S., Harshvardhan, R. F. Cahalan, and J. B. Snider, 1995: Windowed and wavelet analysis of marine stratocumulus cloud inhomogeneity. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 3013-3030.
37.Marshak, A., A. Davis, W. Wiscombe, and R. F. Cahalan, 1995: Radiative smoothing in fractal clouds. J. Geophys. Res. (Atmos.), 100, 26247-26261.
38.Cahalan, R. F., and L. Green, 1996: Review of Introduction to Circulating Atmospheres by I. James. Amer. Sci., 84, 602-603.
39.Cahalan, R. F., L. Wharton, and M.-L. Wu, 1996: Empirical Orthogonal Functions of monthly temperature and precipitation over the United States and homogeneous stochastic models. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 26309-26318.
40.Davis, A., A. Marshak, W. Wiscombe, and R. F. Cahalan, 1996: Multifractal characterizations of intermittency in nonstionary geophysical signals and fields. Nonstationary Random Processes and Their Applications, G. Trevino, Ed., World Scientific, 97-158.
41.Davis, A., A. Marshak, W. Wiscombe, and R. F. Cahalan, 1996: Scale-invariance of liquid water distributions in marine stratocumulus. I. Spectral properties and stationarity issues. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 1538-1558.
42.Cahalan, R. F., A. Davis, A. Marshak, D. Silberstein, and W. Wiscombe, 1997: Cloud macrostructure and radiation. Remote Sensing A Scientific Vision for Sustainable Development: LC 97-70575, ISBN 0-7803-3839-1 F01, 41-44.
43.Davis, A., A. Marshak, R. F. Cahalan, and W. Wiscombe, 1997: Interactions, solar and Laser beams in stratus clouds, fractals and multifractals in climate and remote sensing studies. Fractals, 5, 129-166.
44.Davis, A., A. Marshak, W. Wiscombe, and R. F. Cahalan, 1997: Evidence for net horizontal radiative fluxes in marine stratocumulus.. IRS'96 Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation, W. L. Smith and K. Stamnes, Eds., Deepak Publ., 809-812.
45.Davis, A., D. Winker, A. Marshak, J. Spinhurne, R. Cahalan, S. Love, S. Melfi, and W. Wiscombe, 1997: Retrieval of physical and optical cloud thicknesses from space-borne and wide-angle Lidar. Adv. Atmos. Remote Sensing with Lidar, A. Ansmann, R. Neuber, Rairoux and U. Wadinger, Eds. Springer-Verlag, 193-196.
46.Davis, A., A. Marshak, R. F. Cahalan, and W. Wiscombe, 1997: The Landsat scale break in stratocumulus as a three-dimensional radiative transfer effect: Implications for cloud remote sensing. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 241-260.
47.Marshak, A., A. Davis, R. Cahalan, and W. Wiscombe, 1997: Physical simulation of high-resolution satellite images for fractal cloud model. Fractals in Geophys. M. M. Novak and T. G. Dewey, Eds., World Scientific, 301-310.
48.Marshak, A., A. Davis, R. Cahalan, and W. Wiscombe, 1997: The effect of horizontal fluxes on cloud absorption estimates based on simulated two-aircraft measurements of fractal clouds. IRS'96: Current problems in atmospheric radiation. W. L. Smith and K. Stamnes, Eds., Deepak Publ., 415-418.
49.Marshak, A., A. Davis, R. F. Cahalan, and W. Wiscombe, 1997: Nonlocal Independent Pixel Approximation for computing radiation fields of inhomogeneous clouds. IRS'96: Current problems in atmospheric radiation. W. L. Smith and K. Stamnes, Eds., Deepak Publ., 139-142.
50.Marshak, A., A. Davis, W. Wiscombe, and R. Cahalan, 1997: Inhomogeneity effects on cloud shortwave absorption measurements: Two-aircraft simulations. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 16619-16637.
51.Marshak, A., A. Davis, W. Wiscombe, and R. F. Cahalan, 1997: Scale-invariance of liquid water distributions in marine stratocumulus. II. Multifractal properties and intermittency issues. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 1423-1444.
52.Davis, A., A. Marshak, R. Cahalan, and W. Wiscombe, 1998: Insight into three-dimensional radiation transport from diffusion theory, application to the cloudy atmosphere. Radiative Transfer, Ed. M. Mengue, Begell House, Inc., NY, 111-139.
53.Marshak, A., A. Davis, R. Cahalan, and W. Wiscombe, 1998: Nonlocal Independent Pixel Approximation, direct and inverse problems. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 36, 192-205.
54.Marshak, A., A. Davis, W. Wiscombe, and R. Cahalan, 1998: Radiative effects of sub-mean-free-path liquid water variability observed in stratiform clouds. J. Geophys. Res. (Atmos.), 103, 19557-19567.
55.Marshak, A., A. Davis, W. Wiscombe, W. Ridgway, and R. Cahalan, 1998: Biases in shortwave column absorption in the presence of fractal clouds. J. Climate, 11, 431-446.
56.Davis, A., R. Cahalan, J. Spinhirne, M. McGill, and S. Love, 1999: Offbeam Lidar: An emerging technique in cloud remote sensing based on radiative Green function theory in the diffusion domain. Phys. Chem. Earth, B24, 177-185.
57.Marshak, A., L. Oreopoulos, A. Davis, W. Wiscombe, and R. Cahalan, 1999: Horizontal radiative fluxes in clouds and accuracy of the Independent Pixel Approximation at absorbing wavelengths. Geophys. Res. Lett., 11, 1585-1588.
58.Marshak, A., W. Wiscombe, A. Davis, L. Oreopoulos, and R. Cahalan, 1999: On the removal of the effect of horizontal fluxes in two-aircraft measurements of cloud absorption. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 125, 2153-2170.
59.Wen, G., S. C. Tsay, R. Cahalan, and L. Oreopoulos, 1999: Path radiance technique for retrieving aerosol optical thickness over land. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 104, 31321-31332.
60.Oreopoulos, L., A. Marshak, R. Cahalan, and G. Wen, 2000: Cloud three-dimensional effects evidenced in Landsat spatial power spectra and autocorrelation function. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 14777-14788.
61.Oreopoulos, L., R. Cahalan, A. Marshak, and G. Wen, 2000: A new normalized difference cloud retrieval technique applied to Landsat radiances over the Oklahoma ARM Site. J. Appl. Meteor., 39, 2305-2320.
62.DeFelice, T. P., J. D. Meyer, G. Xian, J. Christopherson, and R. F. Cahalan, 2000: Landsat 7 reveals more than just surface features in remote areas of the globe. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 81, 1047-1049.
63.Cahalan, R. F., L. Oreopoulos, G. Wen, A. Marshak, S. C. Tsay, and T. P. DeFelice, 2001: Cloud characterization and clear sky correction from Landsat 7. Remote Sens. Environ., 78, 83-98.
64.DeFelice, T. P., and R. F. Cahalan, 2001: Comment and Reply on "Landsat 7 reveals more than just surface features in remote areas of the globe". Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, 313-314..
65.Wen, G., R. F. Cahalan, T.-S. Tsay, and L. Oreopoulos, 2001: Impact of cumulus cloud spacing on Landsat atmospheric correction and aerosol retrieval. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 106, 12129-12138.
66.Davis, A., A. Marshak, and R. Cahalan, 2001: Green functions for multiple scattering as mathematical tools for dense cloud remote sensing: theory, with passive and active applications. Laser Radar Technology and Applications VI, 4377, ed. Gary W. Kamerman, 294-306.
67.Davis, A. B., S. P. Love, R. F. Cahalan, and M. J. Mc Gill, 2002: Off-beam Lidar senses cloud thickness and density. Laser Focus World, October Issue, 38, 101-103.
68.Rozwadowska, A., and R. F. Cahalan, 2002: Plane-parallel biases computed from inhomogeneous clouds and sea ice. J. Geophys. Res. (Atmos.), 107, 4384-4401.
69.Oreopoulos, L., A. Marshak, and R. F. Cahalan, 2003: Consistency of ARESE II cloud absorption estimates and sampling issues. J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D1), 4029, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002243.
70.Wen, G., R. F. Cahalan, and B. N. Holben, 2003: Limitations of ground-based solar irradiance estimates due to atmospheric variations. J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D14), 4400, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003431.
71.Oreopoulos, L., M.-D. Chou, M. Khairoutdinov, H. W. Barker, and R. F. Cahalan, 2004: Performance of Goddard Earth Observing System GCM column radiation models under heterogeneous cloud conditions. Atmospheric Research, 72, 365-382.
72.Cahalan, R. F., M. McGill, J. Kolasinski, T. Varnai, and K. Yetzer, 2005: THOR — Cloud Thickness from Offbeam Lidar Returns. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 22, No. 6, 605-627.
73.Oreopoulos, L., and R. F. Cahalan, 2005: Cloud inhomogeneity from MODIS. J. Climate, 18, No. 23, 5110–5124, doi: 10.1175/JCLI3591.1.
74.Cahalan, R. F., L. Oreopoulos, A. Marshak, K. F. Evans, A. Davis, R. Pincus, K. Yetzer, B. Mayer, R. Davies, T. Ackerman, H. Barker, E. Clothiaux, R. Ellingson, M. Garay, E. Kassianov, S. Kinne, A. Macke, W. OHirok, P. Partain, S. Prigarin, A. Rublev, G. Stephens, F. Szczap, E. Takara, T. Varnai, G. Wen, and T. Zhuravleva, 2005: The International Intercomparison of 3D Radiation Codes (I3RC): Bringing together the most advanced radiative transfer tools for cloudy atmospheres. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86 (9), 1275-1293.
75.Anderson, D. E., and R. F. Cahalan, 2005: The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Mission for the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS). Solar Phys., 203, Issue 1, 3-6.
76.Cahalan, R. F., 2005: Effective Cloud Properties for Large-Scale Models. Three-dimensional Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres, ed. A. Marshak and A. Davis, Springer, 2005, 686 pages.
77.Wen, G., A. Marshak, and R. F. Cahalan, 2006: Impact of 3D Clouds on Clear Sky Reflectance and Aerosol Retrieval in a Biomass Burning Region of Brazil. IEEE Geo. Rem. Sens. Lett., 3, 169-172.
78.Marshak, A., S. Platnick, T. Varnai, G. Wen, and R. F. Cahalan, 2006: Impact of 3D radiative effects on satellite retrievals of cloud droplet sizes. J. Geophys. Res., 111, DO9207, doi:10.1029/2005JD006686.
79.Oreopoulos, L., A. Marshak, R. F. Cahalan, T. Varnai, A. B. Davis, and A. Macke, 2006: New Directions in the Radiative Transfer of Cloudy Atmospheres. EOS, 87, No. 5, 31 January 2006.
80.Oreopoulos, L., R. Cahalan, and S. Platnick, 2007: The plane-parallel albedo bias of liquid clouds from MODIS observations. J. Climate, 20, 5114-5125.
81.Wen, G., A. Marshak, R. F. Cahalan, L. A. Remer, and R. G. Kleidman, 2007: 3D aerosol-cloud radiative interaction observed in collocated MODIS and ASTER images of cumulus cloud fields. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D13204, doi 10.1029/2006JD008267.
82.Varnai, T., and R. F. Cahalan, 2007: Potential for airborne offbeam lidar measurements of snow and sea ice thickness. J. Geophys. Res., 112, C12S90, doi:10.1029/2007JC004091.
83.Miyahara, H., G. Wen, R. F. Cahalan, and A. Ohmura, 2008: Deriving Historical Total Solar Irradiance from Lunar Borehole Temperatures. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L02716, doi 10.1029/2007GL032171.
84.Marshak, A., G. Wen, J. Coakley, L. Remer, N. G. Loeb, and R. F. Cahalan, 2008: A simple model for the cloud adjacency effect and the apparent bluing of aerosols near clouds. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D14S17, doi:10.1029/2007JD009196.
85.Sud, Y. C., G. K. Walker, Y. P. Zhou, G. A. Schmidt, W. K.-M. Lau, and R. F. Cahalan, 2008: Effects of doubled CO2 on tropical Sea-Surface Temperatures (SSTs) for onset of deep convection and maximum SST – GCM simulations based inferences. Geophy. Res. Lett. 35, L12707, doi:10.1029/2008GL033872Click.
86.Wen, G., A. Marshak, and R. F. Cahalan, 2008: Importance of Molecular Rayleigh Scattering in the Enhancement of Clear Sky Radiance in the Vicinity of Boundary Layer Cumulus Clouds. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D24207, doi:10.1029/2008JD010592.
87.Oreopoulos, L., S. Platnick, G. Hong, P. Yang, and R. F. Cahalan, 2009: The shortwave radiative forcing bias of liquid and ice clouds from MODIS observations. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 9, 5865-5875.
88.Oreopoulos, L., S. E. Platnick, G. Hong, P. Yang, and R. F. Cahalan, 2009: The Shortwave Radiative Forcing Bias of Homogeneous Liquid and Ice Clouds Observed by MODIS. Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation (IRS 2008 Proceedings), 9, 5865-5875.