51. Foster, M. J.; Ackerman, S. A.; Heidinger, A. K. and Maddux, B. C. State of the climate in 2011: Cloudiness. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 93, Issue 7, 2012, S27-S28. Reprint # 6848.
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| 52. Heidinger, Andrew K.; Foster, M. J.; Molling, C.; Straka, W. and Walther, A. Advances in long-term high spatial and temporal resolution cloud climate records from PATMOS-x using NOAA's LEO and GEO imagers. Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography and Climatology, 18th, and Joint AMS-Asia Satellite Meteorology Conference, 1st, New Orleans, LA, 22-26 January 2012. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2012, Abstract 6.6. |
53. Nielsen, J. K.; Heidinger, A. K. and Foster, M. J. Tropical stratospheric cloud climatology from PATMOS-x dataset - an assessment of convective contributions to stratospheric water. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April 2012. Abstracts. European Geophysical Union, Munich, Germany, 2012, Abstract 9954.
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54. Foster, Michael J.; Bennartz, Ralf and Heidinger, Andrew. Estimation of liquid cloud properties that conserve total-scene reflectance using satellite measurements. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Volume 50, Issue 1, 2011, pp.96-109. Reprint # 6403.
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| 55. Nielsen, J. K.; Foster, M. and Heidinger, A. Tropical stratospheric cloud climatology from the PATMOS-x dataset: An assessment of convective contributions to stratospheric water. Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 38, Issue 18, 2011, doi:10.1029/2011GL049329. Reprint # 6584. |
| 56. Heidinger, Andrew; Walther, Andi; Foster, Mike and Ackerman, Steve. State of the NOAA AWG cloud algorithms. 2011 EUMETSAT Cloud Retrieval Evaluation Workshop, 3rd, (CREW-3), Madison, WI, 15-18 November 2011. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), Madison, WI, 2011, abstract. |
57. Foster, M.; Ackerman, S. A.; Heidinger, A. K. and Maddux, B. State of the Climate in 2010: Global cloudiness. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 92, Issue 6, 2011, S45-S46. Reprint # 6485.
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| 58. Foster, M. J. and Heidinger, A. K. North American satellite climatology of 3D solar cloud effects and its applicability for renewable energy sources. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 5-9 December 2011. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2011, Abstract GC41D-0851. |
| 59. Heidinger, A. K.; Foster, M. J.; Walther, A. and Molling, C. C. Uncertainties in PATMOS-x cloud climate data record time-series. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 5-9 December 2011. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2011, Abstract A13B-0271. |
| 60. Nielsen, J. K.; Foster, M. J. and Heidinger, A. K. Tropical stratospheric cloud climatology from the PATMOS-x dataset - an assessment of convective contributions to stratospheric water. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 5-9 December 2011. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2011, Abstract A31D-0125. |
| 61. Heidinger, A. K.; Walther, A. and Foster, M. J. A 30 year high-spatial resolution cloud climatology from NOAA’s PATMOS-x project. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December 2010. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2010, Abstract A13G-0300. |
| 62. Foster, M. J.; Nielsen, J. and Heidinger, A. K. Large-scale circulation trends coupled to tropical deep convection and the consequences for climate change. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December 2010. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2010, Abstract A33A-0150. |
63. Foster, M. J.; Ackerman, S. A.; Heidinger, A. K. and Maddux, B. C. State of the climate in 2009: Global cloudiness. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 91, Issue 7, 2010, S34-S35. Reprint # 6296.
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64. Foster, Michael J. and Veron, Dana E. Employing cluster analysis to detect significant cloud 3D RT effect indicators. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 67, Issue 7, 2010, pp.2226-2239. Reprint # 7320.
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65. Foster, M. J.; Ackerman, S. A.; Bennartz, R.; Heidinger, A. K.; Maddux, B. C. and Rossow, W. B. State of the climate in 2008. Global cloudiness. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 90, Issue 8, 2009, S29-S30. Reprint # 6114.
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| 66. Foster, M. J.; Heidinger, A. K. and Bennartz, R. Global changes in warm cloud morphological properties and feedback mechanisms as measured by the AVHRR satellite sensor. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December 2009. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2009, Abstract A41B-0088. |
| 67. Morrison, Hugh; McCoy, Renata B.; Klein, Stephen A.; Xie, Shaocheng; Lao, Yali; Avramov, Alexander; Chen, Mingxuan; Cole, Jason N. S.; Falk, Michael; Foster, Michael J.; Del Genio, Anthony D.; Harrington, Jerry Y.; Hoose, Corinna; Khairoutdinov, Marat F.; Larson, Vincent E.; Liu, Xiaohong; McFarquhar, Greg M.; Poellot, Michael R.; von Salzen, Knut; Shipway, Ben J.; Shupe, Matthew D.; Sud, Yogesh C.; Turner, David D.; Veron, Dana E.; Walker, Gregory K.; Wang, Zhien; Wolf, Audrey B.; Xu, Kuan-Man; Yang, Fanglin and Zhang, Gong. Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment, II: Multilayer cloud. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 135, Issue 641, 2009, pp.1003-1019. Reprint # 6083. |
| 68. Klein, Stephen A.; McCoy, Renata B.; Morrison, Hugh; Ackerman, Andrew S.; Avramov, Alexander; de Boer, Gijs; Chen, Mingxuan; Cole, Jason N. S.; Del Genio, Anthony D.; Falk, Anthony; Foster, Michael J.; Fridlin, Ann; Golaz, Jean-Christopher; Hashino, Tempei; Harrington, Jerry Y.; Hoose, Corinna; Khairoutdinov, Marat F.; Larson, Vincent E.; Liu, Xiaohong; Luo, Yali; McFarquhar, Greg M.; Menon, Surabi; Neggers, Roel A. J.; Park, Sungsu; Poellot, Michael R.; Schmidt, Jerome M.; Sednev, Igor; Shipway, Ben J.; Shupe, Matthew D.; Spangenberg, Douglas A.; Sud, Yogesh C.; Turner, David D.; Veron, Dana E.; von Salzen, Knut; Walker, Gregory K.; Wolf, Audrey B.; Xie, Shaocheng; Xu, Kuan-Man; Yang, Fanglin and Zhang, Gong. Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment, I: Single-layer cloud. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 135, Issue 641, 2009, pp.979-1002. Reprint # 6082. |
| 69. Veron, Dana E.; Weaver, Christopher P.; Vernon, Fabrice and Foster, Michael J. Stochastic radiative transfer on modeled cloud fields. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2009, pp.184-188. Reprint # 6851. |
| 70. Foster, M. J.; Heidinger, A. and Bennartz, R. Inter-comparison of microphysical cloud properties for MODIS and PATMOS-x climatologies. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 December 2008. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2008, Abstract A11D-0162. |
| 71. Foster, Michael J. and Veron, Dana E. Evaluating the stochastic approach to shortwave radiative transfer in the tropical western Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, Volume 113, 2008, doi:10/1029/2007GD009581. Reprint # 6850. |
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