• Ferraro, R., H. Meng, and Z. J. Luo, 2011: Using satellite microwave sensors to develop climate data records, Eos Trans. AGU, 92(32), doi:10.1029/2011EO320005.
• Luo, Z. J. , D. Kley, R. H. Johnson, G. Y. Liu, S. Nawrath, and H. G. J. Smit, 2011: Influence of sea surface temperature on humidity and temperature in the outflow of tropical deep convection, J. Climate, in press (pdf)
• Wang, C., Z. J. Luo, X. L. Huang, 2011: Parallax Correction in Collocating CloudSat and MODIS Observations: Method and Application to Convection Study, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D17201, doi:10.1029/2011JD016097 (pdf)
• Luo, Y., R. Zhang, W. Qian, Z. Luo, X. Hu, 2011: Inter-comparison of deep convection over the Tibetan Plateau-Asian Monsoon Region and subtropical North America in boreal summer using CloudSat/CALIPSO data, J. Climate, 24, 2164-2177 (pdf)
• Luo, Z. J. , G. Y. Liu, and G. L. Stephens, 2010: Use of A-Train data to estimate convective buoyancy and entrainment rate, Geophys. Res. Letts. 37, L09804, doi:10.1029/2010GL042904 (pdf)
• Luo, Z., G. Y. Liu, G. L. Stephens, and R. H. Johnson, 2009: Terminal Vs transient cumulus congestus: A CloudSat perspective, Geophys. Res. Letts., 36, L05808, doi:10.1029/2008GL036927 (pdf)
• Luo, Z., G. Y. Liu, and G. L. Stephens, 2008: CloudSat adding new insight into tropical penetrating convection. Geophys. Res. Letts. 35, L19819, doi:10.1029/2008GL035330 (pdf)
• Luo, Z., D. Kley, R. H. Johnson, and Herman Smit, 2008: Ten years of measurements of tropical upper-tropospheric water vapor by MOZA IC, Part II: Assessing the ECMWF humidity analysis. J. Climate, 21, 1449-1466 (pdf)
• Luo, Z., G. L. Stephens, K. A. Emanuel, D. G. Vane, N. Tourville, and J. M. Haynes 2008: On the use of CloudSat and MODIS data for estimating hurricane intensity. IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Lett., Vol. 5, No. 1, 13-16 (pdf)
• Haynes, J. M., R. Marchand, Z. Luo, A. Bodas-Salcedo, G. L. Stephens 2007: A multi-purpose radar simulation package, Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 88, 1723-1727 (pdf)
• Kley, D., H. G. J. Smit, S. Nawrath, Z. Luo, P. Nedelec, and R. H. Johnson (2007), Tropical Atlantic convection as revealed by ozone and relative humidity measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D23109, doi:10.1029/2007JD008599 (pdf)
• Luo, Z., D. Kley, R. H. Johnson, and Herman Smit, 2007: Ten years of measurements of tropical upper-tropospheric water vapor by MOZA IC, Part I: climatology, variability, transport and relation to deep convection. J. Climate, 20, 418 - 435 (pdf)
• Luo, Z., and G. L. Stephens 2006: An enhanced convection-wind-evaporation feedback in a superparameterization GCM (SP-GCM) depiction of the Asian summer monsoon, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L06707, doi:10.1029/2005GL025060 (pdf)
• Luo, Z. and W. B. Rossow 2004: Characterizing Tropical Cirrus Lifecycle, Evolution and Interaction with Upper Tropospheric Water Vap or Using Lagrangian Trajectory Analysis of Satellite Observations. J. Climate, 17, 4541-4563 (pdf)
• Luo, Z., W. B. Rossow, T. Inoue, and C. Stubenrauch, 2002: Did the Eruption of the Mt. Pinatubo Volcano Affect Cirrus Properties? J. Climate, 15, 2806-2820 (pdf)

Luo, Z. 2003: Investigation of Tropical Cirrus, Their Variability, Evolution and Relation to the Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 148p.

• (INVITED) Luo, Z. J. 2011: Hot towers from an A-Train perspective, EOS Trans. American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meet., Suppl, A14D, 2011
• Takahashi, H. and Z. J. Luo, 2011: Tropical overshooting convection: Cloud properties and convective system evolution, EOS Trans. American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meet., Suppl., A23D, 2011
• Wang, C., Z. J. Luo, X. Huang, 2011: Parallax correction for satellite-based study of convections: methods, statistics and a case study with MJO, EOS Trans. American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meet., Suppl., A23D, 2011
• McGee, C. J., S. C. van den Heever, and Z. J. Luo, 2011: Diagnosing vertical velocity from CloudSat in deep tropical convection, EOS Trans. American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meet., Suppl., A24B, 2011
• Takahashi, H. and Z. Luo, 2010: Tropical overshooting convection from CloudSat and ISCCP, EOS Trans. American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meet., Suppl, A21, 2010
• Luo, Z., D. Kley, R. H. Johnson and G. Y. Liu, 2010: Influence of SST on humidity and temperature in the outflow of tropical deep convection: Observational basis for evaluating model simulations, American Geophyscial Union (AGU), Fall Meet., Suppl, A16, 2010
• Luo, Y., R. Zhang, W. Qian, and Z. Luo, 2010: Inter-comparison of deep convection over the Tibetan Plateau-Asian Monsoon Region and subtropical North America in boreal summer using CloudSat/CALIPSO data, American Geophyscial Union (AGU), Fall Meet., Suppl, A21, 2010
• G. L. Stephens, M. A. Rogers, and J. Luo, 2010: The heat balance of the equatorial trough zone, revisted: Part II, American Geophyscial Union (AGU), Fall Meet., Suppl, A21, 2010
• Luo, Z. J. , 2010: Tropical convective processes as seen from A-Train: new insights, Eos Trans. AGU, 91(26), West. Pac. Geophys. Meet. Suppl., Abstract A21A-115
• Luo, Z. J., 2010: Convective Buoyancy and Entrainment Rate Estimated from A-Train Data: an Observational Basis for Evaluating GCM Cumulus Parameterization, In Proceedings of the 1st DOE Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Science Team Meeting, March 15-19, Bethesda, MD
• Williams, E. R., M. F. Donovan, Z. J. Luo, C. Kessinger, H. Cai, N. Rehak, D. Megenhardt, M. Steiner, R. Bankert, and D. Bou Karam, 2010: Diameters of cumulonimbi over land and ocean and their dependence on cloud base height, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Jan 18 - Jan 21, 2010, Atlanta, GA
• Luo, Z., G. Y. Liu and G. L. Stephens, 2009: Use of A-Train data to estimate convective buoyancy and entrainment rate, EOS Trans. American Geophyscial Union (AGU), Fall Meet., Suppl, A51F-0165, 2009
• Luo, Z., G. Y. Liu, G. L. Stephens, and R. H. Johnson, 2009: Use of A-Train data for studying topical convective buoyancy, In Proceedings of the 19th Annual ARM Science Team Meeting, March 30 - April 3, 2009, Louisville KY
• Luo, Z., G. Liu, and G. L. Stephens, 2008: Tropical penetrative deep convection as depicted by CloudSat and MODIS, EOS Trans. American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meet. Suppl. A10, 2008
• Kley, D., H. G. J. Smit, R. H. Johnson, Z. Luo , 2008: Relative humidity in the outflow of deep convection: Influence of sea surface temperature, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on Atmospheric Water Vapor and Its Role in Climate, Oct. 20-24, 2008, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
• Luo, Z., D. Kley, R. H. Johnson, and H. Smit, 2008: Ten years of measurements of tropical upper-tropospheric water vapor by MOZAIC: What do we learn from them? American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on Atmospheric Water Vapor and Its Role in Climate, Oct. 20-24, 2008, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
• (INVITED) Luo, Z., G. L. Stephens, K. A. Emanuel, D. G. Vane, N. Tourville, and J. M. Haynes 2008: On the use of CloudSat and MODIS data for estimating hurric ane intensity. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Recent Developments in Atmospheric Applications of Radar and Lidar, Amer. Meteor. Soc. 20-24 January 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana
• (INVITED) Luo, Z., J.-D. Chern, J. M. Haynes, G. L. Stephens, W.-K. Tao and N. B. Wood 2007: Evaluating the Colorado State University and NASA Goddard multi-s cale modeling framework (MMF) representation of tropical cloud and precipitation structures using CloudSat data. EOS Trans. American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meet. S uppl. A22, 2007
• Luo, Z., D. Kley, R. H. Johnson, and Herman Smit, 2007: Comparing tens years of measurements of tropical upper-tropospheric water vapor by MOZAIC with the ECMWF produ ct. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, Amer. Meteor. Soc. 14 - 18 January 2007, San Antonio TX.
• Luo, Z., J. M. Haynes, G. L. Stephens and N. B. Wood 2006: Evaluation of a prototype multi-scale modeling framework (p-MMF) representation of tropical cloud and precipitation systems using CloudSat data: Preliminary results. EOS Trans. American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meet. Suppl. A51E-0138, 2006
• Luo, Z., D. Kley, R. H. Johnson, and H. G. J. Smit 2006: Ten years of measurements of tropical upper-tropospheric water vapor by MOZAIC: climatology, variability, tra nsport and relation to deep convection, In Proceeding of the Stratospheric Processes And Their Role in Climate (SPARC)-Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Invitational workshop, sponsored by the United Nation (UN) World Meteorological Organization (WMO)'s World Climate Research Program (WCRP), 12-15 June 2006, Victoria BC, Ca nada
• Luo, Z. and G. L. Stephens, 2006: Convection feedbacks in a super-parameterization GCM. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual ARM Science Team Meeting, March 27-31, 2006 , Albuquerque NM.
• Luo, Z., D. Kley, and R. H. Johnson 2006: Ten years of measurements of tropical upper-tropospheric water vapor by MOZAIC: climatology, variability, transport and rela tion to deep convection, In Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, Amer. Meteor. Soc. 28 January - 2 February 2006, Atlanta, GA.
• Luo, Z. and G. L. Stephens 2005: Characterizing upper tropospheric temperature, moisture and cloud biases in NCAR CAM2 in comparison with HIRS and ISCCP satellite observations, In Proceeding of the 5th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, June 2005
• Vonder Haar, T. H., J. Forsythe, Z. Luo , D. Randel, B. Ruston and S. Woo, 2005: Water Vapor Trends and Variability from the Global NVAP Dataset. In Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Global Changes and Climate Variations, Amer. Meteor. Soc. January 9-13, 2005, San Diego CA
• Luo, Z. and W. B. Rossow, 2004: Satellite Investigation of Tropical Cirrus Lifecycle and Relation to Water Vapor and Deep Convection. In Proceedings of the 13th Satel lite Meteorology and Oceanography Conference, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 20-24 September 2004, Norfolk VA.
• Luo, Z. and W. B. Rossow 2003: Tropical Cirrus Lifecycle and Relation to the Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor. EOS Trans. American Geophysical Union (AGU), 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl. A11H-05, 2003.
• Rossow, W. B., Z. Luo , T. Inoue, and C. Stubenrauch, 2001: Did the Eruption of the Mt. Pinatubo Volcano Affect Cirrus Properties? EOS Trans. American Geophysical Unio n (AGU), 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl.U32A-0010, 2001.

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