Bosilovich, M. G., D. M. Mocko, J. O. Roads, and A. Ruane, 2009: A Multi-model Analysis for the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP). J. Hydrometeor., 10(4), 912–934, DOI: 10.1175/2009JHM1090.1, 2009. [Abstract]

Bell, T. L., J.-M. Yoo, and M.-I. Lee, 2009: Note on the weekly cycle of storm heights over the southeast United States. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D15201, doi:10.1029/2009JD012041. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Sud, Y. C., E. M. Wilcox, K.-M. Lau, G. K. Walker, X.-H. Liu, A. Nenes, D. Lee, K.-M. Kim, Y. Zhou, and P. S. Bhattacharjee, 2009: Sensitivity of Boreal-Summer Circulation and Precipitation to Atmospheric Aerosols in Selected Regions, Part I: Africa and India. Annales Geophysicae, 27, 3989-4007. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Wilcox, E. M., Y. C. Sud, and G. K. Walker, 2009: Sensitivity of Boreal-Summer Circulation and Precipitation to Atmospheric Aerosols in Selected Regions, Part II: The Americas. Annales Geophysicae, 27, 4009-4021. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Zhang, Y., R. Fu, H. Yu, Y. Qian, R. E. Dickinson, M. A. F. Silva Dias, P. L. da Silva Dias, and K. Fernandes, 2009: Impact of biomass burning aerosol on the monsoon circulation transition over Amazonia. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L10814, doi:10.1029/2009GL037180. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Bell, T. L., D. Rosenfeld, and K.-M. Kim, 2009: The Weekly Cycle of Lightning: Evidence of Storm Invigoration by Pollution. Geophys. Res. Lett. (In press) [Abstract]

Prabhakara, C., R. Iacovazzi, J.-M. Yoo, K.-M. Kim, and T. L. Bell, 2008: A method to estimate rain rate over tropical oceans with TRMM Microwave Imager radiometer. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 86(1), 203-212.

Bell, T. L., D. Rosenfeld, K.-M. Kim, J.-M. Yoo, M.-I. Lee, and M. Hahnenberger, 2008: Midweek increase in U.S. summer rain and storm heights suggests air pollution invigorates rainstorms. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D02209, doi:10.1029/2007JD008623. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Koster, R. D., T. L. Bell, R. Reichle, M. J. Suarez, and S. D. Schubert, 2008: Using observed spatial correlation structures to increase the skill of subseasonal forecasts. Mon. Weather Rev., 136(6), 1923-1939. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Bell, T. L., and D. Rosenfeld, 2008: Comment on “Weekly precipitation cycles? Lack of evidence from United States surface stations” by D. M. Schultz et al.. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L09803, doi:10.1029/2007GL033046. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

King, M. D., 2008: The Earth’s changing environment as seen from the vantage point of space. The Planetary Report, 28, 6-11. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Wilcox, E. M., and L. J. Donner, 2007: The Frequency of Extreme Rain Events in Satellite Rain Rate Estimates and an Atmospheric General Circulation Model. J. Climate, 20, 53-69. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Lee, M.-I., S. D. Schubert, M. J. Suarez, I. M. Held, A. Kumar, T. L. Bell, J.-K. E. Schemm, N.-C. Lau, J. J. Ploshay, H.-K. Kim, and S.-H. Yoo, 2007: Sensitivity to horizontal resolution in the AGCM simulations of warm season diurnal cycle of precipitation over the United States and northern Mexico. J. Climate, 20, No. 9, 1862-1881. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Zhou, Y. P., W.-K. Tao, A. Y. Hou, W. Olson, C.-L. Shie, K.-M. Lau, M.-D. Chou, X. Lin, and M. Grecu, 2007: Use of High-Resolution Satellite Observations to Evaluate Cloud and Precipitation Statistics from Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations. Part I: South China Sea Monsoon Experiment. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 4309-4329. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Lee, M.-I., S. D. Schubert, M. J. Suarez, T. L. Bell, and K.-M. Kim, 2007: Diurnal cycle of precipitation in the NASA Seasonal to Interannual Prediction Project atmospheric general circulation model. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D16111, doi:10.1029/2006JD008346. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Kundu, P. K., and R. K. Siddani, 2007: A New Class of Probability Distributions for Describing the Spatial Statistics of Area-averaged Rainfall. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D18113, doi:10.1029/2006JD008042. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

King, M. D., C. L. Parkinson, K. C. Partington, and R. G. Williams, 2007: Our Changing Planet: The View from Space. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN 978-0-521-82870-3, 390 pp.

Kundu, P. K., and T. L. Bell, 2006: Space-time scaling behavior of rain statistics in a stochastic fractional diffusion model. J. Hydrology, 322, 49-58, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.02.031. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Olson, W. S., C. D. Kummerow, S. Yang, G. W. Petty, W.-K. Tao, T. L. Bell, S. A. Braun, Y. Wang, S. E. Lang, D. E. Johnson, and C. Chiu, 2006: Precipitation and latent heating distributions from satellite passive microwave radiometry. Part I: Improved method and uncertainties. J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol., 45 (5), 702-720. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Yang, S., W. S. Olson, J.-J. Wang, T. L. Bell, E. A. Smith, and C. D. Kummerow, 2006: Precipitation and latent heating distributions from satellite passive microwave radiometry. Part II: Evaluation of estimates using independent data. J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol., 45 (5), 721-739. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Sud, Y. C., D. M. Mocko, and S.-J. Lin, 2006: Performance of two cloud-radiation parameterization schemes in the fvGCM for anomalously wet May and June 2003 over the continental United States and Amazonia. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 111(D6), 6201, doi:10.1029/2005JD006246. [Abstract]

Gasso, S., and N. ONeill, 2006: Comparisons of Remote Sensing Retrievals and In-Situ Measurements of Aerosol Fine Mode Fraction during ACE-Asia. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L05807, doi: 1029/2005GL024926. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Vallina, S., R. Simo, and S. Gasso, 2006: What controls CCN seasonality in the Southern Ocean?: A statistical analysis based on satellite-derived chlorophyll and CCN model-estimated OH radical and rainfall. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 20, GB1014, doi: 10.1029/2005GB002597. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Seneviratne, S. I., R. D. Koster, Z.-C. Guo, P. A. Dirmeyer, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, D. M. Mocko, K. W. Oleson, and D. Verseghy, 2006: Soil moisture memory in AGCM simulations: Analysis of Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE) data. J. Hydrometeor., 7(5), 1090-1112. [Abstract]

Koster, R. D., Z.-C. Guo, P. A. Dirmeyer, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, H. Davies, C. T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, K. Mitchell, D. M. Mocko, T. Oki, K. W. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. C. Sud, et al., 2006: GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part I: Overview. J. Hydrometeor., 7(4), 590-610. [Abstract]

Guo, Z.-C., P. A. Dirmeyer, R. D. Koster, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, C. T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, J. L. McGregor, K. Mitchell, D. M. Mocko, T. Oki, K. W. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. C. Sud, et al., 2006: GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part II: Analysis. J. Hydrometeor., 7(4), 611-625. [Abstract]

Jin, M., J. M. Shepherd, and M. D. King, 2005: Urban aerosols and their interaction with clouds and rainfall: A case study for New York and Houston. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D10S20, doi:10.1029/2004JD005081. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Kumar, A., F. Yang, L. Goddard, and S. Schubert, 2004: Differing trends in the tropical surface temperatures and precipitation over land and oceans. J. Climate, 17 (3), 653-664. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Yang, F., A. Kumar, and W. K.-M. Lau, 2004: Potential predictability of US summer climate with "perfect" soil moisture. J. Hydrometeorol., 5, 883-895. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Koster, R. D., P. A. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, C. T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, K. Mitchell, D. Mocko, T. Oki, K. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. C. Sud, et al., 2004: Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation. Science, 305(5687), 1138-1140. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Wilcox, E. M., and V. Ramanathan, 2004: The Impact of Observed Precipitation upon the Transport of Aerosols from South Asia.. Tellus 56B, 435-450. [Abstract]

Bell, T. L., and P. K. Kundu, 2003: Comparing satellite rainfall estimates with rain gauge data: Optimal strategies suggested by a spectral model. J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D3), 4121, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002641. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Kundu, P. K., and T. L. Bell, 2003: A stochastic model of space-time variability of mesoscale rainfall: Statistics of spatial averages. Water Resources Res., 39 (12), 1328, doi: 10.1029/2002WR001802. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Steiner, M., T. L. Bell, Y. Zhang, and E. F. Wood, 2003: Comparison of two methods for estimating the sampling-related uncertainty of satellite rainfall averages based on a large radar dataset. J. Climate, 16, 3759-3778. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Sud, Y. C., and G. K. Walker, 2003: New upgrades to the microphysics and thermodynamics of clouds in McRAS: SCM and GCM evaluation of simulation biases in GEOS GCM. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, Part-A, Physical Sciences, 69(5), 543-565.

Bosilovich, M. G., Y. C. Sud, S. D. Schubert, and G. K. Walker, 2003: Numerical simulation of the large-scale North American monsoon water sources. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D16), 8614, doi: 10.1029/2002JD003095. [Abstract]

Sud, Y. C., D. M. Mocko, K.-M. Lau, and R. Atlas, 2003: Simulating the midwestern U.S. drought of 1988 with a GCM. J. Climate, 16(23), 3946-3965. [Abstract]

Tao, W.-K., D. Starr, A. Hou, P. Newman, and Y. C. Sud, 2003: A cumulus parameterization workshop. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84(8), 1055-1082, doi: 10.1175/BAMS 84-8-1055. [Abstract]

Yang, F., A. Kumar, M. E. Schlesinger, and W. Wang, 2003: Intensity of hydrological cycles in warmer climate. J. Climate, 16, 2419-2423. [Abstract]

Wilcox, E. M., 2003: Spatial and Temporal Scales of Precipitating Tropical Cloud Systems in Satellite Imagery and the NCAR CCM3. J. Climate, 16, 3545-3559. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Negri, A. J., T. L. Bell, and L. Xu, 2002: Sampling of the diurnal cycle of precipitation using TRMM. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 19, 1333-1344. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Sud, Y. C., G. K. Walker, V. Mehta, and K.-M. Lau, 2002: Relative importance of the annual cycles of sea surface temperature and solar irradiance for tropical circulation and precipitation: a climate model simulation study. Earth Interactions, 6(6-002), 32 pages, doi: 10.1175/1087-3562. [Abstract]

Xie, S., K.-M. Xu, R. T. Cederwall, P. Bechtold, A. D. DelGenio, S. A. Klein, D. G. Cripe, S. J. Ghan, D. Gregory, S. F. Iacobellis, S. K. Krueger, U. Lohmann, J. C. Petch, D. A. Randall, L. D. Rotstayn, R. C. J. Somerville, Y. C. Sud, K. Von Salzen, G. K. Walker, A. Wolf, J. J. Yio, G. J. Zhang, and M. Zhang, 2002: Intercomparison and evaluation of cumulus parameterizations under summertime midlatitude continental conditions. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 128(582), 1095-1136. [Abstract]

Bell, T. L., P. K. Kundu, and C. Kummerow, 2001: Sampling errors of SSM/I and TRMM rainfall averages: Comparison with error estimates from surface data and a simple model. J. Appl. Meteor., 40, 938-954. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Sud, Y. C., D. M. Mocko, G. K. Walker, and R. D. Koster, 2001: Influence of land surface fluxes on precipitation: Inferences from simulations forced with four ARM-CART SCM datasets. J. Climate, 14(17), 3666-3691. [Abstract]

Wilcox, E. M., and V. Ramanathan, 2001: Scale Dependence of the Thermodynamic Forcing of Tropical Monsoon Clouds: Results from TRMM Observations. J. Climate, 14, 1511-1524. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Bell, T. L., and P. K. Kundu, 2000: Dependence of satellite sampling error on monthly averaged rain rates: Comparison of simple models and recent studies. J. Climate, 13, 449-462. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Ghan, S., D. Randall, K. M. Xu, R. Cederwall, D. Cripe, J. Hack, S. Iacobellis, S. Klein, S. Krueger, U. Lohmann, J. Pedretti, A. Robock, L. Rotstayn, R. Somerville, G. Stenchikov, Y. C. Sud, G. K. Walker, S. Zie, J. Yio, and M. Zhang, 2000: A comparison of single column model simulations of summertime midlatitude continental convection. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 105(D2), 2091-2124. [Abstract]

Mocko, D. M., G. K. Walker, and Y. C. Sud, 1999: New snow-physics to complement SSiB. Part II: Effects on soil moisture initialization and simulated surface fluxes, precipitation and hydrology of GEOS II GCM. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 77(1B), 349-366. [Abstract]

Sud, Y. C., and G. K. Walker, 1999: Microphysics of clouds with the relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Cumulus Scheme (McRAS). Part I: Design and evaluation with GATE Phase III data. J. Atmos. Sci., 56(18), 3196-3220. [Abstract]

Sud, Y. C., and G. K. Walker, 1999: Microphysics of clouds with the relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Cumulus Scheme (McRAS). Part II: Implementation and performance in GEOS II GCM. J. Atmos. Sci., 56(18), 3221-3240. [Abstract]

Sud, Y. C., G. K. Walker, and K.-M. Lau, 1999: Mechanisms regulating deep moist convection and sea-surface temperatures in the tropics. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26(8), 1019-1022. [Abstract]

Sud, Y. C., G. K. Walker, J.-H. Kim, G. E. Liston, P. J. Sellers, and K.-M. Lau, 1997: A simulation study of the importance of surface roughness in tropical deforestation. Transactions of TROPMET--94, pages unknown.

Bell, T. L., and P. K. Kundu, 1996: A study of the sampling error in satellite rainfall estimates using optimal averaging of data and a stochastic model. J. Climate, 9, 1251-1268. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

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. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Sud, Y. C., and K.-M. Lau, 1996: Comments on "Variability of summer rainfall over tropical North Africa (1906-1992): Observations and modelling" by Rowell, Folland, Maskell & Ward (1995). Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 122(532), 1001-1006.

Sud, Y. C., R. Yang, and G. K. Walker, 1996: Impact of in situ deforestation in Amazonia on the regional climate: A GCM simulation study. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 101(D3), 7095-7110, 95JDO2754.

Sud, Y. C., K.-M. Lau, G. K. Walker, and J.-H. Kim, 1995: Understanding biosphere-precipitation relationship: Theory, model simulations and logical inferences. MAUSAM, 46, 1-14.

Walker, G. K., Y. C. Sud, and R. Atlas, 1995: Impact of ongoing Amazonian deforestation on local precipitation: A GCM simulation study. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76(3), 346-361.

Farrar, T. J., S. E. Nicholson, and A. R. Lare, 1995: The influence of soil type on the relationships between NDVI, rainfall, and soil moisture in semi-arid Botswana. Part II. Response to soil moisture. Rem. Sens. Environ., 50, 121-133. [Abstract]

Bell, T. L., and R. Suhasini, 1994: Principal Modes of Variation of rain-rate probability distributions. J. Appl. Meteor., 33, 1067-1078. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Lin, S.-J., W. C. Chao, Y. C. Sud, and G. K. Walker, 1994: A class of the van Leer-type transport schemes and its application to the moisture transport in a general circulation model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 122(7), 1575-1593.

Lare, A. R., and S. E. Nicholson, 1994: Contrasting conditions of surface water balance in wet years and dry years as a possible land surface-atmosphere feedback mechanism in the West African Sahel. J. Climate, 7, 653-668. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Bell, T. L., and N. Reid, 1993: Detection of the diurnal cycle of tropical rainfall from satellite observations. J. Appl. Meteor., 32, 311-322. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Sud, Y. C., and G. K. Walker, 1993: A rain evaporation and downdraft parameterization to complement a cumulus updraft scheme and its evaluation using GATE data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 121(11), 3019-3039.

Sud, Y. C., W. C. Chao, and G. K. Walker, 1993: Dependence of rainfall on vegetation: Theoretical considerations, simulation experiments, observations and inferences from simulated atmospheric soundings. J. Arid Environ., 25(1), 5-18, doi: 10.1006/jare.1993.1038.

Atlas, D., and T. L. Bell, 1992: The relation of radar to cloud Area-Time Integrals and implications for rain measurements from space. Mon. Wea. Rev., 120, 1997-2008. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Sud, Y. C., W. C. Chao, and G. K. Walker, 1992: Role of a cumulus parameterization scheme in simulating atmospheric circulation and rainfall: A GCM simulation study. Mon. Wea. Rev., 120(4), 594-611.

Bell, T. L., A. Abdullah, R. L. Martin, and G. R. North, 1990: Sampling errors for satellite-derived tropical rainfall: Monte Carlo study using a space-time stochastic model. J. Geophys. Res., 95, 2195-2205. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Semazzi, F. H. M., V. Mehta, and Y. C. Sud, 1989: Reply to Comments on "An investigation of the relationship between sub-Saharan rainfall and global sea-surface temperatures". Atmos.-Oceans, 27(3), 601-605.

Semazzi, F. H. M., V. Mehta, and Y. C. Sud, 1988: An investigation of the relationship between sub-Saharan rainfall and global sea surface termperatures. Atmos.-Oceans, 26(1), 118-138.

Sud, Y. C., J. Shukla, and Y. Mintz, 1988: Influence of land surface roughness on atmospheric circulation and rainfall: A sensitivity study with a general circulation model. J. Appl. Meteor., 27(9), 1036-1054.

Bell, T. L., 1987: A space-time stochastic model of rainfall for satellite remote-sensing studies. J. Geophys. Res., 92, 9631-9643. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]

Sud, Y. C., and W. E. Smith, 1985: Influence of local land surface processes on the Indian monsoon - A numerical study. J. Climate Appl. Meteor., 24(10), 1015-1036.