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Dr. Brian Cairns

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
E-mail: brian.cairns@nasa.gov

Recent Publications

Fridlind, A.M., G.S. Elsaesser, M. van Lier-Walqui, G.V. Cesana, E. Weatherhead, G. Tselioudis, G. Schmidt, D. Barahona, B. Cairns, W.D. Collins, D. Considine, L. Cucurull, L. DiGirolamo, A. Emory, O. Hasekamp, S. He, R. Kramer, M. Lebsock, T. Lee, S. Leroy, W. Lin, S. Lugauer, D. Miller, J. Mülmenstädt, L. Oreopoulos, D.J. Posselt, and M.D. Zelinka, 2026: Towards a climate OSSE framework for satellite mission design. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 107, no. 4, E431-E445, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0242.1.

Sayer, A.M., B. Cairns, K.D. Knobelspiesse, L. Lelli, C. Rajapakshe, S.E. Giangrande, G.E. Thomas, and Zhang Damao, 2025 : Evaluation of cloud height, optical thickness, and phase retrievals from the CHROMA algorithm applied to Sentinel-3 OLCI data. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, no. 22, 6681-6703, doi:10.5194/amt-18-6681-2025.

Fu, G., J. Rietjens, R. Laasner, L. van der Schaaf, R. van Hees, Z. Yuan, B. van Diedenhoven, N. Hannadige, J. Landgraf, M. Smit, K. Knobelspiesse, B. Cairns, M. Gao, B. Franz, J. Werdell, and O. Hasekamp, 2025: Aerosol retrievals from SPEXone on the NASA PACE mission: First results and validation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 52, no. 4, e2024GL113525, doi:10.1029/2024GL113525.

Painemal, D., W.L. Smith, Jr., S. Gupta, R. Moore, B. Cairns, G.M. McFarquhar, and J. O'Brien, 2025: Can we rely on satellite visible/infrared microphysical retrievals of boundary layer clouds in partially cloudy scenes? Implications for climate research. Geophys. Res. Lett., 52, no. 8, e2024GL113825, doi:10.1029/2024GL113825.

Sorooshian, A., L.W. Siu, K. Butler, M.A. Brunke, B. Cairns, S. Chellappan, J. Chen, Y. Choi, E.C. Crosbie, L. Cutler, J.P. DiGangi, G.S. Diskin, R.A. Ferrare, J.W. Hair, C.A. Hostetler, S. Kirschler, M.M. Kleb, X.-Y. Li, H. Liu, A. McComiskey, S. Namdari, D. Painemal, J.S. Schlosser, T. Shingler, M.A. Shook, S. Silva, K. Sinclair, W.L. Smith, C. Soloff, S. Stamnes, S. Tang, K.L. Thornhill, F. Tornow, G. Tselioudis, B. Van Diedenhoven, C. Voigt, H. Vömel, H. Wang, E.L. Winstead, Y. Xu, X. Zeng, B. Zhang, L. Ziemba, and P. Zuidema, 2025: The NASA ACTIVATE mission. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 106, no. 8, E1517-E1538, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0136.1.

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