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Kenneth Sinclair
Researcher at Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Publications - 24
Citations - 418
Kenneth Sinclair is an academic researcher from Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aerosol & Spectrometer. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 23 publications receiving 262 citations. Previous affiliations of Kenneth Sinclair include Columbia University & Universities Space Research Association.
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Remote Sensing of Droplet Number Concentration in Warm Clouds: A Review of the Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives
Daniel P. Grosvenor,Odran Sourdeval,Paquita Zuidema,Andrew S. Ackerman,Mikhail D. Alexandrov,Mikhail D. Alexandrov,Ralf Bennartz,Ralf Bennartz,R. Boers,Brian Cairns,J. Christine Chiu,Matthew Christensen,Matthew Christensen,Hartwig Deneke,Michael S. Diamond,Graham Feingold,Ann M. Fridlind,Anja Hünerbein,Christine Knist,Pavlos Kollias,Alexander Marshak,Daniel T. McCoy,Daniel Merk,David Painemal,John Rausch,Daniel Rosenfeld,Herman Russchenberg,Patric Seifert,Kenneth Sinclair,Kenneth Sinclair,Philip Stier,Bastiaan van Diedenhoven,Bastiaan van Diedenhoven,Manfred Wendisch,Frank Werner,Robert Wood,Zhibo Zhang,Johannes Quaas +37 more
TL;DR: Issues with current standard satellite retrievals are summarized, new ideas to use additional information from existing and upcoming spaceborne instruments are discussed, and approaches using high‐quality ground‐based observations are examined.
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Constraining the Twomey effect from satellite observations: issues and perspectives
Johannes Quaas,Antti Arola,Brian Cairns,Matthew Christensen,Hartwig Deneke,Annica M. L. Ekman,Graham Feingold,Ann M. Fridlind,Edward Gryspeerdt,Otto Hasekamp,Zhanqing Li,Antti Lipponen,Po-Lun Ma,Johannes Mülmenstädt,Athanasios Nenes,Athanasios Nenes,Joyce E. Penner,Daniel Rosenfeld,Roland Schrödner,Kenneth Sinclair,Kenneth Sinclair,Odran Sourdeval,Philip Stier,Matthias Tesche,Bastiaan van Diedenhoven,Manfred Wendisch +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of existing approaches to quantify and constrain the effect of anthropogenic aerosol emissions on the Twomey effect is presented, which is the key driver in the effective radiative forcing due to aerosol-cloud interactions which also comprises rapid adjustments.
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Intercomparison of airborne multi-angle polarimeter observations from the Polarimeter Definition Experiment.
Kirk Knobelspiesse,Qian Tan,Carol J. Bruegge,Brian Cairns,Jacek Chowdhary,Bastiaan van Diedenhoven,David J. Diner,Richard Ferrare,Gerard van Harten,Veljko M. Jovanovic,M. Ottaviani,Jens Redemann,Felix C. Seidel,Kenneth Sinclair +13 more
TL;DR: This work compares georegistered observations of a variety of scene types by these instruments to test whether Level 1 products agreed within stated uncertainties, and finds that observations of dark (ocean) scenes, where polarimetric uncertainty is expected to be largest, do not agree within stated polarIMetric uncertainties.
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Retrievals of cloud droplet size from the research scanning polarimeter data: Validation using in situ measurements
Mikhail D. Alexandrov,Mikhail D. Alexandrov,Brian Cairns,Kenneth Sinclair,Kenneth Sinclair,A. P. Wasilewski,Luke D. Ziemba,Ewan Crosbie,Richard H. Moore,John Hair,Amy Jo Scarino,Yongxiang Hu,Snorre Stamnes,Michael Shook,Gao Chen +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the cloud droplet size distributions retrieved from the research scanning polarimeter (RSP) data with correlative in situ measurements made during the North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES).
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Remote sensing of multiple cloud layer heights using multi-angular measurements
Kenneth Sinclair,Kenneth Sinclair,Bastiaan van Diedenhoven,Bastiaan van Diedenhoven,Brian Cairns,John E. Yorks,A. P. Wasilewski,Matthew J. McGill +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-angular contrast approach is used to measure cloud top height using a set of consecutive nadir reflectances and the cross correlations between this set and collocated sets at other viewing angles are calculated for a range of assumed cloud top heights, yielding a correlation profile.