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Gerald G. Mace is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research predominantly focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional work in Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, and Ecology.

The scientific topics explored in their work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate variability and models, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Mace has published frequently in several key scientific venues, including:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Some recent publications by Gerald G. Mace include:

  • Southern Ocean Cloud Properties Derived From CAPRICORN and MARCUS Data, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Mixed-Phase Clouds Over the Southern Ocean as Observed From Satellite and Surface Based Lidar and Radar, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Other notable papers listed among their frequent coauthors' works include:

  • Optimal Estimation Retrievals and Their Uncertainties: What Every Atmospheric Scientist Should Know, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The Coupling Between Tropical Meteorology, Aerosol Lifecycle, Convection, and Radiation during the Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex), 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Southern Ocean latitudinal gradients of cloud condensation nuclei, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Gerald G. Mace collaborates regularly with a group of researchers in the atmospheric sciences field, including Alain Protat, Ruhi S. Humphries, Simon P. Alexander, Greg M. McFarquhar, and Sally Benson. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary approaches to studying atmospheric aerosols, clouds, and climate systems.

Best Publications

  • The CloudSat mission and the A-train: a new dimension of space-based observations of clouds and precipitation

    Graeme L. Stephens;Deborah G. Vane;Ronald J. Boain;Gerald G. Mace

  • CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation

    Graeme L. Stephens;Deborah G. Vane;Simone Tanelli;Eastwood Im

  • Hydrometeor Detection Using Cloudsat—An Earth-Orbiting 94-GHz Cloud Radar

    Roger Marchand;Gerald G. Mace;Thomas Ackerman;Graeme Stephens

  • Objective Determination of Cloud Heights and Radar Reflectivities Using a Combination of Active Remote Sensors at the ARM CART Sites

    Eugene E. Clothiaux;Thomas P. Ackerman;Gerald G. Mace;Kenneth P. Moran

  • A description of hydrometeor layer occurrence statistics derived from the first year of merged Cloudsat and CALIPSO data

    Gerald G. Mace;Qiuqing Zhang;Mark Vaughan;Roger Marchand

  • Ground‐based lidar and radar remote sensing of tropical cirrus clouds at Nauru Island: Cloud statistics and radiative impacts

    Jennifer M. Comstock;Thomas P. Ackerman;Gerald G. Mace

  • Toward understanding of differences in current cloud retrievals of ARM ground-based measurements

    Chuanfeng Zhao;Shaocheng Xie;Stephen A. Klein;Alain Protat

  • Global hydrometeor occurrence as observed by CloudSat: Initial observations from summer 2006

    Gerald G. Mace;Roger T. Marchand;Qiuqing Zhang;Graeme L. Stephens

  • Importance of small ice crystals to cirrus properties: Observations from the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP‐ICE)

    Greg M. McFarquhar;Junshik Um;Matt Freer;Darrel Baumgardner

  • The CloudSat radar-lidar geometrical profile product (RL-GeoProf): Updates, improvements, and selected results

    Gerald G. Mace;Qiuqing Zhang

  • The Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment

    Peter T. May;James H. Mather;Geraint Vaughan;Christian Jakob

  • Uncertainties in modeled and measured clear‐sky surface shortwave irradiances

    Seiji Kato;Thomas P. Ackerman;Eugene E. Clothiaux;James H. Mather

  • Tropical composition, cloud and climate coupling experiment validation for cirrus cloud profiling retrieval using cloudsat radar and CALIPSO lidar

    Min Deng;Gerald G. Mace;Zhien Wang;Hajime Okamoto

  • Planning, implementation, and scientific goals of the studies of emissions and atmospheric composition, clouds and climate coupling by regional surveys (SEAC4RS) field mission

    Owen B. Toon;Hal Maring;Jack E. Dibb;Richard Ferrare

  • A new retrieval for cloud liquid water path using a ground‐based microwave radiometer and measurements of cloud temperature

    James C. Liljegren;Eugene E. Clothiaux;Gerald G. Mace;Seiji Kato;Seiji Kato

  • The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX)

    Robert A. Houze;Lynn A. McMurdie;Walter A. Petersen;Mathew R. Schwaller

  • Cirrus layer microphysical properties derived from surface-based millimeter radar and infrared interferometer data

    Gerald G. Mace;Thomas P. Ackerman;Patrick Minnis;David F. Young

  • Effects of varying aerosol regimes on low-level Arctic stratus

    T. J. Garrett;C. Zhao;X. Dong;X. Dong;G. G. Mace

  • Cloud-Layer Overlap Characteristics Derived from Long-Term Cloud Radar Data

    Gerald G. Mace;Sally Benson-Troth

  • Evaluation of Several A-Train Ice Cloud Retrieval Products with In Situ Measurements Collected during the SPARTICUS Campaign

    Min Deng;Gerald G. Mace;Zhien Wang;R. Paul Lawson

  • Comparison of Stratus Cloud Properties Deduced from Surface, GOES, and Aircraft Data during the March 2000 ARM Cloud IOP

    Xiquan Dong;Patrick Minnis;Gerald G. Mace;William L. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Minnis
Patrick Minnis Langley Research Center
Zhien Wang
Zhien Wang University of Colorado Boulder
Xiquan Dong
Xiquan Dong University of Arizona
Jennifer M. Comstock
Jennifer M. Comstock Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Michael R. Poellot
Michael R. Poellot University of North Dakota
Kenneth Sassen
Kenneth Sassen University of Alaska Fairbanks
Greg M. McFarquhar
Greg M. McFarquhar University of Oklahoma
Thomas P. Ackerman
Thomas P. Ackerman University of Washington
Alain Protat
Alain Protat Bureau of Meteorology
Graeme L. Stephens
Graeme L. Stephens Jet Propulsion Lab

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