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.

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