THOR publications 

Pounder, N. L., R. J. Hogan, T. Várnai, A. Battaglia, and R. F. Cahalan, 2011: A variational method to retrieve the extinction profile in liquid clouds using multiple field-of-view lidar. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., (In press)

Várnai, T., and R. F. Cahalan, 2007: Potential for airborne offbeam lidar measurements of snow and sea ice thickness. J. Geophys. Res. 112, C12S90, doi:10.1029/2007JC004091. 

Cahalan, R. F., M. McGill, J. Kolasinski, T. Várnai, and K. Yetzer, 2005: THOR – Cloud Thickness from Offbeam Lidar Returns. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 22, 605-627. 

Related publications

Evans, K. F., D. O'Connor, P. Zmarzly, and R. P. Lawson, 2006: In situ cloud sensing with multiple scattering lidar: Design and validation of an airborne sensor. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 23, 1068-1081.

Polonsky, I. N., S. P. Love and A. B. Davis, 2005: Wide-Angle Imaging Lidar Deployment at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site: Intercomparison of Cloud Property Retrievals. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 22, 628–648.

Evans, K. F., R. P. Lawson, P. Zmarzly, and D. O’Connor, 2003: In situ cloud sensing with multiple scattering cloud lidar: Simulations and demonstration. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 20,1505-1522.

Davis, A., and A. Marshak, 2002: Space-time characteristics of light transmitted through dense clouds: A Green’s function analysis. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 2713-2727.

Davis, A. B., S. P. Love, R. F. Cahalan, and M. J. Mc Gill, 2002: Off-beam Lidar senses cloud thickness and density. Laser Focus World, October Issue, 38, 101-103.

Rozwadowska, A., and R. F. Cahalan, 2002: Plane-parallel biases computed from inhomogeneous clouds and sea ice. J. Geophys. Res. (Atmos.), 107, 4384-4401.

Love, S. P., A. B. Davis, C. Ho, and C. A. Rohde, 2001: Remote sensing of cloud thickness and liquid water content with Wide-Angle Imaging Lidar. Atmos. Res., 59-60, 295-312.

Davis, A. B., R. F. Cahalan, J. D. Spinhirne, M. J. McGill, and S. P. Love, 1999: Off-beam lidar: An emerging technique in cloud remote sensing based on radiative Green-function theory in the diffusion domain. Phys. Chem. Earth (B), 24, 757-765.

Miller, S. D., and G. L. Stephens, 1999: Multiple scattering effects in the lidar pulse stretching problem. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 22,205-22,219. 

Maffione, R. A., J. M. Voss, and C. D. Mobley, 1998: Theory and measurements of the complete beam spread function of sea ice. Limnol. Oceanogr., 43, 34-43. 

Davis, A., A. Marshak, R. Cahalan, and W. Wiscombe, 1997: The Landsat scale break in stratocumulus as a three-dimensional radiative transfer effect: Implications for cloud remote sensing. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 241-260.

Davis, A., D. M. Winker, A. Marshak, J. D. Spinhirne, R. F. Cahalan, S. Love, S. H. Melfi, and W. J. Wiscombe, 1997: Retrieval of Physical and Optical Cloud Thicknesses from Space-Borne and Wide-Angle Lidar, in Advances in Atmospheric Remote Sensing with Lidar, Eds. A. Ansmann, R. Neuber, P. Rairoux, and U. Wadinger, Springer-Verlag, pp. 193-196. 

Haines, E. M., R. G. Buckley, and H. J. Trodahl, 1997: Determination of the depth dependent scattering coefficient in sea ice. J. Geophys. Res. 102, 1141-1151. 

Roy, G., L. R. Bissonnette, C. Bastille, and G. Vallée, 1997: Estimation of cloud droplet size density distributions from multiple-field-of-view lidar returns. Opt. Eng., 36, 3404-3415. 

Marshak, A., A. Davis, W. Wiscombe, and R. F. Cahalan, 1995: Radiative smoothing in fractal clouds. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 26247-26261.