Publications for CATS

Publication Citation
Christian, K.E., J. Wang, C. Ge, D. Peterson, E.J. Hyer, J.E. Yorks, and M. McGill (2019), Radiative Forcing and Stratospheric Warming of Pyrocumulonimbus Smoke Aerosols: First Modeling Results With Multisensor (EPIC, CALIPSO, and CATS) Views from Space, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 10,061-10,071, doi:10.1029/2019GL082360.
Hughes, E.J., J.E. Yorks, N.A. Krotkov, A.M. da Silva, and M. McGill (2016), Using CATS near-real-time lidar observations to monitor and constrain volcanic sulfur dioxide (SO2) forecasts, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 11,089-11,097, doi:10.1002/2016GL070119.
Lee, L., J. Zhang, J.S. Reid, and J.E. Yorks (2019), Investigation of CATS aerosol products and application toward global diurnal variation of aerosols, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 12687-12707, doi:10.5194/acp-19-12687-2019.
McGill, M., and J.E. Yorks (2020), Observation and quantification of westerly outflow from southern Africa using spaceborne lidar, S Afr J Sci., 116, 6398-6404, doi:10.17159/sajs.2020/6398.
Noel, V., H. Chepfer, M. Chiriaco, and J.E. Yorks (2018), The diurnal cycle of cloud profiles over land and ocean between 51◦ S and 51◦ N, seen by the CATS spaceborne lidar from the International Space Station, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 9457-9473, doi:10.5194/acp-18-9457-2018.
Pauly, R., J.E. Yorks, D.L. Hlavka, M. McGill, V. Amiridis, S.P. Palm, S.D. Rodier, M. Vaughan, P.A. Selmer, A.W. Kupchock, H. Baars, and A. Gialitaki (2019), Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) 1064 nm calibration and validation, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 6241-6258, doi:10.5194/amt-12-6241-2019.
Proestakis, E., V. Amiridis, E. Marinou, I. Binietoglou, A. Ansmann, U. Wandinger, J. Hofer, J.E. Yorks, E.P. Nowottnick, A. Makhmudov, A. Papayannis, A. Pietruczuk, A. Gialitaki, A. Apituley, A. Szkop, C.M. Porcar, D. Bortoli, D. Dionisi, D. Althausen, D. Mamali, D. Balis, D. Nicolae, E. Tetoni, G.L. Liberti, H. Baars, I. Mattis, I.S. Stachlewska, K.A. Voudouri, L. Mona, M. Mylonaki, M.R. Perrone, M.J. Costa, M. Sicard, N. Papagiannopoulos, N. Siomos, P. Burlizzi, R. Pauly, R. Engelmann, S. Abdullaev, and G. Pappalardo (2019), EARLINET evaluation of the CATS Level 2 aerosol backscatter coefficient product, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 11743-11764, doi:10.5194/acp-19-11743-2019.
Rajapakshe, C., Z. Zhang, J.E. Yorks, H. Yu, Q. Tan, K.G. Meyer, S.E. Platnick, and D. Winker (2017), Seasonally transported aerosol layers over southeast Atlantic are closer to underlying clouds than previously reported, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 5818-5825, doi:10.1002/2017GL073559.
Yorks, J.E., M. McGill, V.S. Scott, S.W. Wake, A.W. Kupchock, D.L. Hlavka, W.D. Hart, and P.A. Selmer (2014), The Airborne Cloud–Aerosol Transport System: Overview and Description of the Instrument and Retrieval Algorithms, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 31, 2482-2497, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00044.1.
Yorks, J.E., M. McGill, S.P. Palm, D.L. Hlavka, P.A. Selmer, E.P. Nowottnick, M. Vaughan, S.D. Rodier, and W.D. Hart (2016), An overview of the CATS level 1 processing algorithms and data products, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 4632-4639, doi:10.1002/2016GL068006.

 

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