Dr. Zhengzhao Johnny Luo

Professor and Chair

Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

City University of New York (CUNY), City College

New York NY 10031

Office: 212-650-8936

Email: zluo at ccny.cuny.edu

Education:

• 2003 Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Columbia University

• 1997 B.S., Atmospheric Science, Peking University

Primary Professional Positions:

• 2022 - present: Department Chair, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, CUNY, City College

• 2018 - present: Professor, City University of New York (CUNY), City College

• 2013 - 2018: Associate Professor (Early Tenure*), City University of New York (CUNY), City College

• 2007 - 2013: Assistant Professor, City University of New York (CUNY), City College

• 2003 - 2007: NOAA Postdoc Fellow then Research Scientist, Colorado State University

• 1997 - 2003: Research Assistant, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)

Sabbatical & Visiting Positions:

• Sep 2021- Nov 2021: Visiting Professor, LMD/Sorbonne Université

• Feb 2021 - May 2021: Visiting Professor, National Taiwan University

• Jun 2014 - Jul 2014: Visiting Associate Professor, Academia Sinica

• Mar 2014 - Jun 2014: Visiting Associate Professor, GFDL/Princeton University

• Dec 2013 - Jan 2014: Visiting Associate Professor, JPL/Caltech 

• Jun 2013 - Aug 2013: Visiting Associate Professor, University of Tokyo

Research Interests:

• Satellite remote sensing

• Cloud & convective dynamics

• Transport of trace gases

Teaching:

(Note: some classes may not be offered every year)

• EAS488: Climate & Climate Change

• EAS417: Satellite Meteorology

• EAS42000: Statistical Methods in Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

• EAS472: Environmental Projects

Professional Services/Synergistic Activities:

• 2021-present: Co-I, NASA Earth-Venture Mission INCUS (Investigation of Convective updrafts)

• 2020: Panelist, NASA ROSES Panel Review

• 2019-present: Science Team Member, NSF Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical and Climate Impact Project (ACCLIP) field campaign (Jul-Aug 2022, South Korea)

• 2019: Panelist, Department of Energy (DOE) ASR Panel Review

• 2018-2021: Member, NASA Decadal Survey, Aerosol, Cloud, Convection and Precipitation (A-CCP) Science Community Committee (SCC)

• 2018: Co-convener, AGU Fall Meeting Session A11 "Convective Clouds: Processes, Dynamics, and Links to Weather and Climate"

• 2017: Co-convener, AGU Fall Meeting Session A108 "Upper Tropospheric Clouds and Convection: Processes, Dynamics, and Feedbacks in Weather and Climate"

• 2016: Convener, AGU Fall Meeting Session A32 "Atmospheric convection: physics, dynamics, chemistry and roles in weather and climate"

• 2016: Panelist, NASA ROSES Panel Review

• 2016: Panelist, Department of Energy (DOE) ASR Panel Review

• 2015: Convener, AGU Fall Meeting Session A94 "Convective storm systems and their roles in weather and climate"

• 2014 - Present: Editor, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ)

• 2014 - 2016: Guest Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR)-Atmosphere

• 2014: Convener, AGU Fall Meeting Session A34 "Convective storm systems and their roles in weather, climate and atmospheric composition"

• 2014: Convener, AOGS 2014 Session AS14 "Convective influences on the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: challenges, opportunities, and pathways forward"

• 2013: Convener, AGU Fall Meeting Session A11K & A12D "Tropical and midlatitude convective storm systems and their roles in weather & climate"

• 2013 - 2014: Science Team of NSF CONTRAST (CONvective TRansport of Active Species in the Tropics) field campaign (Jan-Feb 2014 Guam)

• 2013: Panelist, NASA Earth Science Senior Review

• 2013: Co-convener, AGU Meeting of the Americas Session A43 "Aerosols, clouds, radiation, precipitation, and their feedbacks"

• 2012: Convener, AGU Fall Meeting Session A33S "Tropical and midlatitude convective storm systems and their roles in weather & climate"

• 2011: Convener, AGU Fall Meeting Session A23D "Tropical and midlatitude convective storm systems and their roles in weather & climate"

• 2011 - 2015: Science Leadership Team for NASA SEAC4RS (Study of Emission and Atmospheric Composition, Cloud, Climate Coupling Regional Study) field campaign (Aug-Sep 2013, Houston); received NASA Group Achievement Award.

• 2011: Panelist, NASA ROSES Panel review

• 2010: Co-convener, AGU Fall Meeting Session A16 "Innovative Applications of Satellite and Ground Observations in Evaluating Large-Scale Models: Beyond the Resemblance Test"

• 2010 - Present: Team member of NASA CloudSat/CALIPSO Science Team

• 2010 - Present: Team member of NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) Program

• 2010: Panelist, NASA ROSES Panel review

• 2008: Co-convener, AGU Fall Meeting Session A08 "Innovative Applications of Satellite and Ground Observations in Evaluating GCMs"

• 2007: Panelist, NASA ROSES Panel review

• 2005 - 2012: Team member of the MOZAIC (Measurement of Ozone and Water Vapour by Airbus In-Service Aircraft) project, European Union

• 2005 - 2008: Science Team Member of the NASA Energy and Water cycle Studies (NEWS)

• 2004 - Present: Reviewer for NASA, NOAA, NSF and DOE proposals

• 2002 - Present: Reviewer for J. Climate, J. Atmos. Sci., Mon. Wea. Rev., J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., J. Geophys. Res., Geophys. Res. Lett., Atmos. Chem. Phys., Atmos. Res., Climate Dynamics, J. Meteo. Soc. Japan, IEEE GRSS journal and Applied Optics

Field Program Experiences:

• 2013-2014: NSF CONvective TRansport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) Science Team, deployed to Guam Jan - Feb 2014

• 2011-2013: NASA Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS) Science Leadership Team, deployed to Houston Aug - Sep 2013

Collaborators (last 5 years):

Sue van den Heever (CSU), Laura Pan (NCAR), Hiro Masunaga (Nagoya Univ., Japan), W.-K. Tao (NASA GSFC Emeritus), Toshi Matsui (NASA GSFC), Greg Elsaesser (NASA GISS), Scott Giangrande (DOE BNL), Mike Jensen (DOE BNL), Dié Wang (DOE BNL), Hanii Takahashi (JPL), Claudia Stubenrauch (LMD, France), William Rossow (CCNY & NASA GISS Emeritus), and Graeme Stephens (JPL)

Supervised postdoctoral scholar & students

• Postdoc: Dr. G. Y. Liu (2007-2010), Dr. Amel Derras-Chouk (2022-present)

• Graduate students: Cheila Cullen (MS 2010; now Assistant Professor at CUNY BCC), Mya M. Teiktin (MS 2010), Hanii Takahashi (Ph.D., 2013; now at JPL), Ricardo Anderson (MS, 2015; now data analyst at CINCS), Nazia Shah (M.S., 2016), Jeyavinoth Jeyaratnam (Ph.D., started Fall 2016), Sofia Chelpon (M.S., 2018), Chad Small (M.S., 2022), Yuliya Selevich (M.S., started in Fall 2022), and Albana Hoxha (M.S., started in Spring 2024)

• Serve as committee member: Joy Romanski (Ph.D. Columbia Univ. 2009), Nick Steiner (Ph.D., CUNY 2012), Chunpeng Wang (Ph.D., Univ. Michigan, 2014), Patrick Alexander (Ph.D. CUNY 2014), James Polly (Ph.D. CUNY 2016), Rajashree (Tri) Datta (Ph.D. CUNY 2018), Katherine Jensen (Ph.D. CUNY 2020), Veeshan Narinesigh (Ph.D., CUNY 2022), Tong Lin (Ph.D., CUNY 2023), and Patrick Orenstein (Ph.D., Columbia Univ. 2024)

Current Funded Projects:

• "Developing a satellite-based convective mass flux dataset for evaluating and improving GCM cumulus parameterization", awarded by CloudSat and CALIPSO Science Team Recompete in 2022, duration: 2022 - 2025, role: PI

• "Exploring A-Train observations of land-ocean contrast in convective cloud characteristics and their ambient environment toward improving GCM cumulus parameterizations", awarded by CloudSat and CALIPSO Science Team Recompete in 2022, duration 2022 - 2025, role: co-I (PI: Hanii Takahashi)

• "The INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) Mission", awarded by NASA Earth Venture-Mission 3 in 2021, duration: 2022-2029, role: co-I (PI: Susan van den Heever)

• "A tropospheric transport diagnostic for chemistry-climate models", awarded by NASA FINESST program in 2019, duration: 2019 -2024, role: PI (student investigator: Yuliya Selevich)

• "A unified cloud-defined weather state dataset for process-resolving data analysis and model evaluation", awarded by NASA MEaSUREs (Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments) program, duration 2018 - 2024, role: co-I (PI: George Tselioudis)

Past Funded Projects:

• "Assessing Satellite-Based Estimates of Convective Mass Fluxes and Evaluating GCM Simulations of Tropical Convection", awarded by NASA Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction (MAP) program in 2017, duration: 2017-2021, role: PI

• "Using A-Train Observations to Explore Properties of Entraining Convection and Its Representation in Models", awarded by NASA CloudSat and CALIPSO Science Team Recompete, duration, 2019 - 2022, role: co-I (PI: Hanii Takahashi)

• "Estimating Convective Entrainment Rates Using Aura CO to Guide GEOS-5 Convective Parameterization Improvements", awarded by NASA Aura Science Team and Atmospheric Composition Modeling and Analysis Program (ACMAP) in 2017, duration: 2017 - 2020, role: co-I (PI: Hui Su)

• "Precipitation and Convection Vertical Velocity Studies", awarded by NASA JPL in 2014, duration 2014 - 2018, role: PI

• "Metrics for general circulation model biases in extratropical cyclone clouds and precipitation: evaluating their skill and identifying processes to be improved", awarded by NOAA MAPP program in 2015: duration: 2015-2018, role: co-I (PI: J. F. Booth)

• "Diagnostic analysis and cloud-system modeling of organized tropical convection in the YOTC-ECMWF database to develop climate model parameterizations", awarded by NASA MAP program in 2013, duration: 2013-2017, role Co-I (PI: W. B. Rossow)

• "Creating UTH-related FCDRs from IR and microwave sensors cross-calibrated by in situ measurements from commercial aircraft", awarded by NOAA in June 2010 and renewed in July 2014 (NOAA Climate Data Record Program), duration: 2010-2017, role: PI

• "SEAC4RS Campaign Leadership: Using MOZAIC, A-Train and ISCCP data to help flight planning and implementation of the Science Plan", awarded by NASA in Dec 2011 (selected through NASA SEAC4RS field campaign leadership team competition), duration: 2011 - 2015, role: PI

• "Tropical convective processes: new insights from A-Train/model perspective and framework for evaluating GCM cumulus parameterization", awarded by NASA in June 2010 (selected through CloudSat/CALIPSO Science Team Recompete), duration: 2010-2014, role: PI

• "Optimal blending of EOS observations, Goddard cumulus ensemble model, and MERRA reanalysis: towards a better database for testing cloud parameterization", awarded by NASA in March 2009 (NASA MAP), duration: 2009-2013, role: Co-I (PI: Xianglei Huang)

• "Road Weather Information System (RWIS) Statewise Implementation Plan", awarded by NYSDOT in July 2012, duration: 2012-2013, role: Co-I (PI: Steven Chien)

• "On the maintenance and use of A-Train simulators to evaluate the cloudiness and precipitation parameterization of global models", awarded by NASA in March 2009 (NASA MAP), duration: 2009-2012, role: Co-I (PI: Graeme Stephens)

• "New satellite energy balance and water cycle products for the study of interaction between atmospheric hydrology and the earth's radiation budget", awarded by NASA NEWS, duration: 2005-2008, role: Co-I (PI: Dr. Tristan L'Ecuyer)

• "Upper tropospheric water vapor over the Tropical Atlantic Oan: climatology, variability, and response to deep convection", awarded by NSF, duration: 2005 - 2008, role: Co-I (PI: Dr. Dieter Kley)

Publications:

i) Journal articles and book chapters:

Underline: Supervised graduate student

• Trent, T., Schröder, M., Ho, S.-P., Beirle, S., Bennartz, R., Borbas, E., Borger, C., Brogniez, H., Calbet, X., Castelli, E., Compo, G. P., Ebisuzaki, W., Falk, U., Fell, F., Forsythe, J., Hersbach, H., Kachi, M., Kobayashi, S., Kursinski, R. E., Loyola, D., Luo, Z., Nielsen, J. K., Papandrea, E., Picon, L., Preusker, R., Reale, A., Shi, L., Slivinski, L., Teixeira, J., Vonder Haar, T., and Wagner, T.: Evaluation of total column water vapour products from satellite observations and reanalyses within the GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 9667–9695, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9667-2024, 2024.

• Derras-Chouk, A., Luo, Z. J. (corresponding author), & Matsui, T. (2024). Assessing a satellite-based estimate of convective mass flux using large eddy simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmosphere, under review

• Derras-Chouk, A. and Z. J. Luo (corresponding author), 2024: A Geostationary Satellite-Based Approach to Estimate Convective Mass Flux and Revisit the Hot Tower Hypothesis, Surveys in Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-024-09856-6

• Takahashi, H., Z. J. Luo, H. Masunaga, R. Storer, and A. Noda, 2024: Investigating Convective Processes Underlying ENSO: New Insights into the Fixed Anvil Temperature Hypothesis, Geophys. Res. Letts., doi: 10.1029/2023GL107113

• Takahashi, H., Z. J. Luo, G. L. Stephens, and J. Mulholland, 2023: Revisiting the Land-Ocean Contrasts in Deep Convective Cloud Intensity Using Global Satellite Observations, Geophys. Res. Letts., DOI: 10.1029/2022GL102089

• Wu, R., G. Chen, and Z. J. Luo, 2023: Strong coupling in diurnal variations of clouds, radiation, winds, and precipitation during the East Asian summer monsoon, J. Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0330.1

• Luo, Z. J., G. Tselioudis, and W. B. Rossow (Eds.), 2022: Studies of Cloud, Convection and Precipitation Processes Using Satellite Observations, Lectures in Climate Change: Volume 3. World Scientific, https://doi.org/10.1142/12862

• Luo, Z. J., 2022: A Satellite-based Estimate of Convective Mass Flux: Methodology, Validation and Applications, Lecture 2 in Studies of Cloud, Convection and Precipitation Processes Using Satellite Observations, Lectures in Climate Change, pp 21-33 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811256912_0002

• Chelpon S. M., L. L. Pan, Z. J. Luo, E. Atlas, S. Honomichl, W. P. Smith, S. Wang, K. Ullmann, S. R. Hall, E. C. Apel, R. S. Hornbrook, 2021: Deriving tropospheric transit time distribution using airborne trace gas measurements: uncertainty and information content, J. Geophys. Res., Atmos. doi:10.1029/2020JD034358

• Takahashi, H., M. Lebsock, Z. J. Luo, H. Masunaga, and C. Wang, 2021: Detection and tracking of tropical convective storms based on globally gridded precipitation measurements: Algorithm and survey over the tropics, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-20-0171.1

• Takahashi, H., Z. J. Luo, and G. L. Stephens, 2021: Revisiting the entrainment relationship of convective plumes: A perspective from global observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi: 10.1029/2020GL092349

• Jeyaratnam, J., Z. J. Luo (corresponding author), S. E. Giangrande, D. Wang, and H. Masuanga, 2020: A satellite-based estimate of convective vertical velocity and convective mass flux: Global survey and comparison with radar wind profiler observations, Geophys. Res. Lett. doi: 10.1029/2020GL090675

• Wang, D., M. P. Jensen, J. A. D'lorio, G. Jozef, S. E. Giangrande, K. L. Johnson, Z. J. Luo, M. Starzec, and G. L. Mullendore (2020). An observational comparison of level of neutral buoyancy and level of detrainment in tropical deep convective clouds, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. doi:10.1029/2020JD032637

• Jeyaratnam, J., Booth, J. F., Naud, C. M., Luo, Z. J., & Homeyer, C. R. (2020). Upright convection in extratropical cyclones: A survey using ground-based radar data over the United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL086620. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086620

• Stanfield, R. E., H. Su, J. H. Jiang, S. R. Freitas, A. M. Molod, Z. J. Luo, L. Huang, and M. Luo, 2019: Convective entrainment rates estimated from Aura CO and CloudSat/CALIPSO observations and comparison with GEOS-5, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., doi:10.1029/2019JD030846

• Luo, Z. J., L. L. Pan, E. L. Atlas, S. M. Chelpon, S., S. B. Honomichl, E. C. Apel, R. S. Hornbrook, and S. R. Hall, 2018: Use of Airborne In Situ VOC Measurements to Estimate Transit Time Spectrum: An Observation-Based Diagnostic of Convective Transport, Geophys. Res. Letts., 45. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080424

• Luo, Z. J., , R. Anderson, W. B. Rossow, and H. Takahashi, 2017: Tropical Cloud and Precipitation Regimes As Seen from Near-Simultaneous TRMM, CloudSat, and CALIPSO Observations and Comparison with ISCCP, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, doi:10.1002/2017JD026569 (See highlight by EOS Research Spotlight )

• Takahashi, H., Z. J. Luo (co-corresponding author) and G. L. Stephens, 2017: Level of Neutral Buoyancy, Deep Convective Outflow and Convective Core: New Perspectives Based on 5-Years of CloudSat Data, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, doi:10.1002/ 2016JD025969.

• Pan, L. L., E. L. Atlas, R. J. Salawitch, S. B. Honomichl, J. F. Bresch, W. J. Randel, E. C. Apel, R. S. Hornbrook, D. C. Anderson, S. J. Andrews, S. P. Beaton, T. L. Campos, L. J. Carpenter, D. Chen, B. Dix, V. Donets, S. R. Hall, T. F. Hanisco, C. R. Homeyer, L. G. Huey, J. B. Jensen, L. Kaser, D. E. Kinnison, T. K. Koening, J.-F. Lamarque, C. Liu, J. Luo, Z. J. Luo, D. D. Montzka, J. M. Nicely, R. B. Pierce, D. D.Riemer, T. Robinson, P. Romashkin, A. Saiz-Lopez, S. Schauffler, O. Shieh, G. Vaughan, K. Ullmann, R. Volkamer, A. J. Weinheimer, and G. Wolf, 2017: The Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) Experiment, Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 98, 106-112, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00272.1

• Masunaga, H., and Z. J. Luo, 2016: Convective and large-scale mass flux profiles over tropical oceans determined from synergistic analysis of a suite of satellite observations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JD024753

• Fried, A., M.C. Barth, M. Bela, P. Weibring, D. Richter, J. Walega, Y. Li, K.Pickering, E. Apel, R. Hornbrook, A. Hills, D. D. Riemer, N. Blake, D.R. Blake, J. Schroeder, Z. J. Luo, J.H. Crawford, J. Olson, S. Rutledge, D. Betten, M.I. Biggerstaff, G.S. Diskin, G. Sachse, T. Campos, F. Flocke, A. Weinheimer, C. Cantrell, I. Pollack, J. Peischl, K. Froyd, A. Wisthaler, T. Mikoviny, and S. Woods, 2016: Convective Transport and Scavenging of Formaldehyde to the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere in Thunderstorms over the Central United States During the 2012 DC3 Study, J. Geophys. Res., 121, doi:10.1002/2015JD024477

• Toon, O. B., H. Maring, J. Dibb, R. Ferrare, D. J. Jacob, E. J. Jensen, Z. J. Luo, G. G. Mace, L. L. Pan, L. Pfister, K. H. Rosenlof, J.s Redemann, J. S. Reid, H. B. Singh, R. Yokelson, G. Chen, K. W. Jucks, and A. Pszenny, 2016: Planning, implementation and scientific goals of the Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS) field mission, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, doi:10.1002/2015JD024297

• Zhao, L., Chien, S., Meegoda, J., Luo, Z., and Liu, X., 2015: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Microclimate-Based Optimization of a RWIS Network. J. Infrastruct. Syst., 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000278, 04015021.

• Iwasaki, S., Z. J. Luo, H. Kubota, T. Shibata, H. Okamoto, and H. Ishimoto, 2015: Characteristics of cirrus clouds in the tropical lower stratosphere, Atmospheric Research. 164-165, 358-368, 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.06.009

• Luo, Z. J., J. Jeyaratnam, S. Iwasaki, H. Takahashi and R. Anderson, 2014: Convective vertical velocity and cloud internal vertical structure: An A-Train perspective, Geophys. Res. Letts., 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL058922

• Wang, C., Z. J. Luo , X. Chen, X. Zeng, W.-K. Tao, X. Huang, 2014: A Physically Based Algorithm for Non-Blackbody Correction of Cloud-Top Temperature and Application to Convection Study. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 53, 1844-1857. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0331.1

• Vergados, P., Z. J. Luo, K. Emanuel, and A. J. Mannucci, 2014: Observational tests of hurricane intensity estimations using GPS radio occultations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 1938-1948, doi:10.10002/2013JD020934

• Hagihara, Y., H. Okamoto, and Z. J. Luo, 2014: Joint analysis of cloud-top heights from CloudSat and CALIPSO: New insights into cloud top microphysics, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, doi:10.1002/2013JD020919

• Takahashi, H. and Z. J. Luo (corresponding author), 2014: Characterizing Tropical Overshooting Convection from Joint Analysis of CloudSat and Geostationary Satellite Observations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 112-121, doi:10.1002/2013JD020972

• Takahashi, H., Hui Su, J. H. Jiang, Z. J. Luo, S.-P. Xie, and J. Hafner, 2013: Tropical Water Vapor Variations During the 2006-07 and 2009-10 El Ninos: Satellite Observation and GCM Simulation, J. Geophys. Res., Atmos., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50684

• Luo, Y., H. Wang, R. Zhang, W. Qian, Z. Luo, 2013: Comparison of Rainfall Characteristics and Convective Properties of Monsoon Precipitation Systems over South China and the Yangtze and Huai River Basin. J. Climate, 26, 110-132

• Takahashi, H. and Z. Luo (corresponding author), 2012: Where is the level of neutral buoyancy for deep convection? Geophys. Res. Letts., 39, L15809, doi:10.1029/2012GL052638.

• Luo, Z. J. , D. Kley, R. H. Johnson, G. Y. Liu, S. Nawrath, and H. G. J. Smit, 2012: Influence of sea surface temperature on humidity and temperature in the outflow of tropical deep convection, J. Climate, 25,1340-1348

• 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.

• Wang, C., Z. J. Luo, and 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

• 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, 2165-2177

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Luo, Z., D. Kley, R.H. Johnson, and H. Smit, 2008: Ten Years of Measurements of Tropical Upper-Tropospheric Water Vapor by MOZAIC. Part II: Assessing the ECMWF Humidity Analysis. J. Climate, 21, 1449-1466

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Luo, Z., D. Kley, R. H. Johnson, and Herman Smit, 2007: Ten years of measurements of tropical upper-tropospheric water vapor by MOZAIC, Part I: climatology, variability, transport and relation to deep convection. J. Climate, 20, 418 - 435

• 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

• Luo, Z. and W. B. Rossow 2004: Characterizing Tropical Cirrus Lifecycle, Evolution and Interaction with Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor Using Lagrangian Trajectory Analysis of Satellite Observations. J. Climate, 17, 4541-4563

• 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

(ii) Ph. D. dissertation:

• Luo, Z. 2003: Investigation of Tropical Cirrus, Their Variability, Evolution and Relation to the Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 148p. (Advisor: Dr. W. B. Rossow)