Austin, R. T., 2007: Level 2B radar-only cloud water content (2B-CWC-RO) process description document. CloudSat project report, 24 pp. [Available online at http://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/ICD/2B-CWC-RO/2B-CWC-RO_PD_5.1.pdf]
Austin, R. T., and G. L. Stephens, 2001: Retrieval of stratus cloud microphysical parameters using millimeter-wave radar and visible optical depth in preparation for CloudSat: 1. Algorithm formulation. J. Geophysi. Res., 106(D22),28233-28242.
Austin, R. T.,A. J. Heymsfield, and G. L. Stephens, 2009: Retrieval of ice cloud microphysical parameters using the CloudSat millimeter-wave radar and temperature. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D00A23, doi: 10.1029/2008jd010049.
Barker, H. W.,A. V. Korolev,D. R. Hudak,J. W. Strapp,K. B. Strawbridge, and M. Wolde, 2008: A comparison between CloudSat and aircraft data for a multilayer, mixed phase cloud system during the Canadian CloudSat-CALIPSO Validation Project. J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2008JD009971.
Brunke, M. A.,S. P. de Szoeke,P. Zuidema, and X. Zeng, 2010: A comparisons of ship and satellite measurements of cloud properties with global climate model simulations in the southeast Pacific stratus deck. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 6527-6536.
Cober, S. G.,G. A. Isaac, and J. W. Strapp, 2001: Characterizations of aircraft icing environments that include supercooled large drops. J. Appl. Meteor., 40, 1984-2002.
Comstock, K. K.,R. Wood,S. E. Yuter, and C. S. Bretherton, 2004: Reflectivity and rain rate in and below drizzling stratocumulus. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 130, 2891-2918.
de La Torre Juárez, M.,B. Kahn, and E. Fetzer, 2009: Cloud-type dependencies of MODIS and AMSR-E liquid water path differences. Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics Discussions, 9, 3367-3399.
Dong, X. Q.,P. Minnis,B. Xi,S. Sun-Mack, and Y. Chen, 2008: Comparison of CERES-MODIS stratus cloud properties with ground-based measurements at the DOE ARM Southern Great Plains site. J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008438.
Feng, W. W.,Z. G. Yao,Z. G. Han, and Z. L. Zhao, 2009: Simulation analysis on microphysical parameters retrieval of liquid water clouds with satellite-based millimeter-wave radar. Journal of PLA University of Science and Technology: Natural Science Edition, 10, 95-102. (in Chinese)
Guo, X. L.,D. H. Fu, and Z. X. Hu, 2013: Progress in cloud physics, precipitation, and weather modification during 2008-2012. Chinese J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 351-363. (in Chinese)
Kahn, B. H., and Coauthors, 2008: Cloud type comparisons of AIRS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO cloud height and amount. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8, 1231-1248.
Knollenberg, R. G., 1976: Three new instruments for cloud physics measurements: The 2-D spectrometer, the forward scattering spectrometer probe, and the active scattering aerosol spectrometer. Intel. Conf. on Cloud Physics, American Meteorological Society,July 1976, 554-561.
Li, J. L. F., and Coauthors, 2008: Comparisons of satellites liquid water estimates to ECMWF and GMAO analyses, 20th century IPCC AR4 climate simulations, and GCM simulations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, doi: 10.1029/2008GL035427.
Matrosov, S. Y.,T. Uttal, and D. A. Hazen, 2004: Evaluation of radar reflectivity-based estimates of water content in stratiform marine clouds. J. Appl. Meteor., 43, 405-419.
Miles, N. L.,J. Verlinde, and E. E. Clothiaux, 2000: Cloud droplet size distributions in low-level stratiform clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 295-311.
Morrison, H., and A. Gettelman, 2008: A new two-moment bulk stratiform cloud microphysics scheme in the Community Atmosphere Model, version 3 (CAM3). Part I: Description and numerical tests. J. Climate, 21, 3642-3659.
Noh, Y. J.,C. J. Seaman,T. H. Vonder Haar,D. R. Hudak, and P. Rodriguez, 2011: Comparisons and analyses of aircraft and satellite observations for wintertime mixed-phase clouds. J. Geophys. Res., 116, doi: 10.1029/2010JD015420.
Partain, P., 2007: Cloudsat MODIS-AUX auxiliary data process description and interface control document. Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University,23 pp.
Peng, J.,H. Zhang, and X. Y. Shen, 2013: Analysis of vertical structure of clouds in East Asia with cloudSat data. Chinese J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 91-100. (in Chinese)
Platnick, S.,M. D. King,S. A. Ackerman,W. P. Menzel,B. A. Baum,J. C. Riedi, and R. A. Frey, 2003: The MODIS cloud products: algorithms and examples from terra. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 41, 459-473.
Ramanathan, V.,R. D. Cess,E. F. Harrison,P. Minnis,B. R. Barkstrom,E. Ahmad, and D. Hartmann, 1989: Cloud-radiative forcing and climate: Results from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment. Science, 243, 57-63.
Rodgers, C. D., 1976: Retrieval of atmospheric temperature and composition from remote measurements of thermal radiation. Rev. Geophys., 14, 609-624.
Seethala, C., and À. Horváth, 2010: Global assessment of AMSR-E and MODIS cloud liquid water path retrievals in warm oceanic clouds. J. Geophys. Res., 115, doi: 10.1029/2009JD 012662.
Stephens, G. L., and Coauthors, 2002: The CloudSat mission and the A-Train: A new dimension of space-based observations of clouds and precipitation. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 1771-1790.
Vidaurre, G., and J. Hallett, 2009: Ice and water content of stratiform mixed-phase cloud. Quar. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 135, 1292-1306.
Wang, L.,C. C. Li,Z. L. Zhao,Z. G. Yao,Z. G. Han, and Q. Wei, 2014: The Application of the 2D habit classification in cloud microphysics analysis. Chinese J. Atmos. Sci., 38(2),201-202. (in Chinese)
Wang, S. H.,Z. G. Han,Z. G. Yao,Z. L. Zhao, and X. Jie, 2011: Analysis on Cloud vertical structure over China and its neighborhood based on cloudSat data. Plateau Meteorology, 30, 38-52. (in Chinese)
Wang, Y. F.,H. C. Lei,Y. X. Wu,W. A. Xiao, and X. Q. Zhang, 2005: Size distributions of the water drops in the warm layer of stratiform clouds in Yanan. Journal of Nanjing Insitute of Meteorology, 28, 787-793. (in Chinese)
Yan, C. F., and W. K. Chen, 1990: The stratus cloud droplet number/size distributions and spectral parameters calculation. J. Appl. Meteor., 1, 352-359. (in Chinese)
Yang, D. S., and P. C. Wang, 2012: Tempo-spatial distribution characteristics of cloud particle size over China during Summer. Climatic and Environmental Research, 17, 433-443. (in Chinese)
Zhao, Z. L.,J. T. Mao,Q. Wei,Y. J. Ying,L. Wang,Z. G. Han, and C. C. Li, 2010: A study of vertical structure of spring stratiform clouds in Northwest China. Meteorological Monthly, 36, 71-77. (in Chinese)