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Patrick Minnis
Researcher at Langley Research Center
Publications - 494
Citations - 25688
Patrick Minnis is an academic researcher from Langley Research Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cloud cover & Cloud top. The author has an hindex of 77, co-authored 490 publications receiving 23403 citations. Previous affiliations of Patrick Minnis include Meteorological Service of Canada & University of Utah.
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Cloud-radiative forcing and climate: results from the Earth radiation budget experiment.
Veerabhadran Ramanathan,R. D. Cess,Edwin F. Harrison,Patrick Minnis,Bruce R. Barkstrom,E. Ahmad,Dennis L. Hartmann +6 more
TL;DR: The size of the observed net cloud forcing is about four times as large as the expected value of radiative forcing from a doubling of CO2, and small changes in the cloud-radiative forcing fields can play a significant role as a climate feedback mechanism.
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Efficacy of climate forcings
James Hansen,James Hansen,Makiko Sato,Reto Ruedy,Larissa Nazarenko,Andrew A. Lacis,Andrew A. Lacis,Gavin A. Schmidt,Gavin A. Schmidt,Gary L. Russell,I. Aleinov,Mike Bauer,Susanne E. Bauer,N. Bell,Brian Cairns,Vittorio Canuto,Mark A. Chandler,Yu Cheng,A. D. Del Genio,A. D. Del Genio,G. Faluvegi,Eric L. Fleming,Andrew D. Friend,Timothy M. Hall,Timothy M. Hall,Charles H. Jackman,M. Kelley,Nancy Y. Kiang,D. Koch,D. Koch,Judith Lean,J. Lerner,Ken K. Lo,Surabi Menon,Ron L. Miller,Ron L. Miller,Patrick Minnis,T. Novakov,Valdar Oinas,Ja. Perlwitz,J. Perlwitz,David Rind,David Rind,Anastasia Romanou,Anastasia Romanou,Drew Shindell,Drew Shindell,Peter Stone,Shan Sun,Shan Sun,N. Tausnev,D. Thresher,Bruce A. Wielicki,Takmeng Wong,Mao-Sung Yao,S. Zhang +55 more
TL;DR: The authors used a global climate model to compare the effectiveness of many climate forcing agents for producing climate change and found that replacing traditional instantaneous and adjusted forcings with an easily computed alternative, Fs, yields a better predictor of climate change, i.e., its efficacies are closer to unity.
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Seasonal variation of cloud radiative forcing derived from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
Edwin F. Harrison,Patrick Minnis,Bruce R. Barkstrom,Veerabhadran Ramanathan,Robert D. Cess,Gary G. Gibson +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of clouds on the earth's radiation balance is assessed in terms of longwave, shortwave, and net cloud forcing by using monthly averaged clear-sky and cloudy-sky flux data derived from the NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE).
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Dust and Biological Aerosols from the Sahara and Asia Influence Precipitation in the Western U.S.
Jessie M. Creamean,Kaitlyn J. Suski,Daniel Rosenfeld,Alberto Cazorla,Paul J. DeMott,Ryan C. Sullivan,Allen B. White,F. Martin Ralph,F. Martin Ralph,Patrick Minnis,Jennifer M. Comstock,Jason Tomlinson,Kimberly A. Prather +12 more
TL;DR: This study presents the first direct cloud and precipitation measurements showing that Saharan and Asian dust and biological aerosols probably serve as IN and play an important role in orographic precipitation processes over the western United States.
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Assessment of Global Cloud Datasets from Satellites: Project and Database Initiated by the GEWEX Radiation Panel
Claudia J. Stubenrauch,William B. Rossow,Stefan Kinne,Steven A. Ackerman,G. Cesana,Hélène Chepfer,L. Di Girolamo,Brian Getzewich,A. Guignard,Andrew K. Heidinger,B. C. Maddux,W. P. Menzel,Patrick Minnis,C. Pearl,Steven Platnick,Caroline Poulsen,Jerome Riedi,S. Sun-Mack,Andi Walther,Dave Winker,S. Zeng,G. Zhao +21 more
TL;DR: The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud Assessment as discussed by the authors provides the first coordinated intercomparison of publicly available, standard global cloud products (gridded monthly statistics) retrieved from measurements of multispectral imagers (some with multiangle view and polarization capabilities).