Publications

The following list contains my peer-reviewed journal articles. This includes research based on a variety of topics such as the cloud impacts on the Earth's energy balance, validating precipitiation estimates from satellite data, understanding the drivers of variability in clouds and precipitation, and numerical weather prediciton model validation using satellite observations.

Scholar Publication list and Metrics from Google Scholar

2023

Pierce, R. B, M. Harkey, A. Lenzen, L. Cronce, J. A. Otkin, J. L. Case, D.S. Henderson, Z. Adelman, T. Nergui, and C. Hain, 2023: High-resolution air quality simulations of ozone exceedance events during the Lake Michigan Ozone Study. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 9613- 9635

Otkin, J. A., L. Cronce, J. Case, R. Pierce, M. Harkey, A. Lenzen, D.S. Henderson, Z. Adelman, T. Nergui, and C. R. Hain, 2023: Evaluation of high-resolution model simulations in the Lake Michigan region. Atmos. Chem. Phys, 23, 7935–7954

Cesana, G., A.S. Ackerman, T. Vaillant de Guélis, and D.S. Henderson, 2023: Cloud-radiation interactions and cloud-climate feedbacks from an active-sensor satellite perspective. In Climate Impacts of Clouds: Radiation, Circulation, and Precipitation. In Climate Impacts of Clouds: Radiation, Circulation, and Precipitation. S. Sullivan and C. Hoose, Eds. American Geophysical Union

2022

D.S. Henderson, J.A. Otkin, J.R. Mecikalski, 2022: Examining the Role of the Land Surface On Convection Using High-Resolution Model Forecasts Over the Southeastern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD036563.

X. Li, J.R. Mecikalski, J.A. Otkin, D.S. Henderson, J. Srikishen, 2022: A Polarimetric Radar Operator and Application for Convective Storm Simulation. Atmosphere 13 (5), 6451

2021

L’Ecuyer, T. S., Drouin, B. J., Anheuser, J., Grames, M., Henderson, D. S., Huang, X., Kahn, B. H., Kay, J. E., Lim, B. H., Mateling, M., Merrelli, A., Miller, N. B., Padmanabhan, S., Peterson, C., Schlegel, N., White, M. L., & Xie, Y, 2021: The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far Infrared Experiment: A New Perspective on Polar Longwave Energy Exchanges. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 102 (7), E1431-E1449

D.S. Henderson, J.A. Otkin, J.R. Mecikalski, 2021: Evaluating Convective Initiation in High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Models Using GOES-16 Infrared Brightness Temperatures. Monthly Weather Review 149 (4), 1153-1172

2019

Y. Hang, T.S. L’Ecuyer, D.S. Henderson, A.V. Matus, Z. Wang, 2019: Reassessing the effect of cloud type on Earth’s energy balance in the age of active spaceborne observations. Part II: Atmospheric heating. Journal of Climate 32 (19), 6219-6236

A.V. Matus, T.S. L'Ecuyer, D.S. Henderson, 2019: New estimates of aerosol direct radiative effects and forcing from A‐Train satellite observations. Geophysical Research Letters

G. Cesana, D.E. Waliser, D.S. Henderson, T.S. L’Ecuyer, X. Jiang, J.L.F Li, 2019: The vertical structure of radiative heating rates: A multimodel evaluation using A-Train satellite observations. Journal of Climate 32 (5), 1573-1590

2018

Mülmenstädt, J., Sourdeval, O., Henderson, D. S., L'Ecuyer, T. S., Unglaub, C., Jungandreas, L., Böhm, C., Russell, L. M., and Quaas, J.: Using CALIOP to estimate cloud-field base height and its uncertainty, 2018: the Cloud Base Altitude Spatial Extrapolator (CBASE) algorithm and dataset, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 2279–2293

F. Mao, Z. Pan, Henderson, D. S., W. Wang, W. Gong, 2018: Vertically resolved physical and radiative response of ice clouds to aerosols during the Indian summer monsoon season.Remote Sensing of Environment 216, 171-182

D.S. Henderson, C.D. Kummerow, W. Berg, 2018: ENSO influence on TRMM tropical oceanic precipitation characteristics and rain rates. Journal of Climate 31 (10), 3979-3998

2017

D.S. Henderson, C.D. Kummerow, W. Berg, D. Marks, 2017: Regime-based evaluation of TRMM oceanic precipitation biases. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

D.S. Henderson, C.D. Kummerow, D. Marks, 2017: Sensitivity of Rain-Rate Estimates Related to Convective Organization: Observations from the Kwajalein, RMI, Radar. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

2013 and earlier

D.S. Henderson, T. L’Ecuyer, G. Stephens, P. Partain, M. Sekiguchi, 2013: A multisensor perspective on the radiative impacts of clouds and aerosols. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 52 (4), 853-871

J.M. Haynes, T.H.V Haar, T. L'Ecuyer, D.S. Henderson, 2013: Radiative heating characteristics of Earth's cloudy atmosphere from vertically resolved active sensors. Geophysical Research Letters 40 (3), 624-630

D. PaiMazumder, D.S. Henderson, N. Molders , 2012: Evaluation of WRF-forecasts over Siberia: Air mass formation, clouds and precipitation. The Open Atmospheric Science Journal 6 (1)

G.L. Stephens, M. Wild, P.W. Stackhouse, T. L’Ecuyer, S. Kato, D.S. Henderson, 2012: The global character of the flux of downward longwave radiation. Journal of Climate 25 (7), 2329-2340

T. L’Ecuyer, G. McGarragh, P. Gabriel, D.S. Henderson, 2011: Improving Estimates of the Earth’s Radiation Budget with Multispectral and Hyperspectral Satellite Observations. Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment, HWB1

D.S. Henderson, TS L’Ecuyer, D Vane, G Stephens, D Reinke, 2011: Level 2B fluxes and heating rates and 2B fluxes and heating rates w/lidar process description and interface control document. JPL Tech. Doc., NASA 28

D.T. Lindsey et al: Brian McNoldy, Zachary Finch, David Henderson, David Lerach, Robert Seigel, Jesse SteinwegWoods, Elizabeth Stuckmeyer, Darren Van Cleave, Gabriel Williams, and Molly Woloszyn, 2011: A High Wind Statistical Prediction Model for the Northern Front Range of Colorado. Electr. J. Oper. Meteor. 3 (2011-EJ)