Cotton WR and coauthors, 2003: RAMS 2001: Current status and future directions. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 82, 5-29. view as pdf
--Describes parameterizations used in RAMS and several applications

Walko RL, Cotton WR, Meyers MP, and Harrington JY, 1995: New RAMS cloud microphysics parameterization Part I: the single-moment scheme. Atmospheric Research, 38, 29-62. view as pdf
--This paper describes the one-moment microphysical parameterization used in RAMS

Meyers MP, Walko RL, Harrington JY, and Cotton WR, 1997: New RAMS cloud microphysics parameterization Part II: the two-moment scheme. Atmospheric Research, 45, 3-39. view as pdf
--This paper describes the two-moment microphysical parameterization used in RAMS

Khairoutdinov MF and Randall DA, 2003: Cloud Resolving Model of the ARM Summer 1997 IOP: Model Formulation, Results, Uncertainties, and Senstivities. J of the Atmospheric Sciences, 60, 607-625. view as pdf

Holz RE, Ackerman S, Antonelli P, Nagle F, and Knuteson RO, 2006: An Improvement to the High-Spectral-Resolution CO₂-Slicing Cloud-Top Altitude Retrieval. J. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 653-689. view as pdf
--This paper describes three methods of cloud-top retrieval and compares them to independent cloud-top data collected by aircraft.

Long CN, Sabburg JM, Calbo J, Pages D, 2006: Retrieving cloud characteristics from ground-based daytime color all-sky images. J. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 633-652. --This paper describes two different types of sky-imaging systems.

Vukicevic T, Sengupta M, Jones AS, Vonder Haar T, 2006: Cloud-Resolving Satellite Data Assimilation: Information Content of IR Window Observations and Uncertainties in Estimation. J. of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63, 901-919. view as pdf

Greenwald TJ, Vukicevic T, Grasso LD and Vonder Haar TH, 2004: Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis of an Observational Operator for Visible and Infrared Cloudy-Sky Radiance Assimilation. Q.J.R Meteorological Society, 130, 685-705.
--Examines the sensitivity of the observational operator to radiances measured in visible/infrared spectral windows.

Greenwald TJ and Christopher SA, 2000: THe GOES I-M Imagers: New Tools for Studying Microphysical Properties of Boundary Layer Stratiform CLouds. Bulletin of the A.M.S., 81, 2607-2619. view as pdf
--Reviews the capability of the advanced imagers on GOES to provide quantitative information about bulk microphysical properties of low-level stratiform clouds.