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7161
World Ranking
8010
National Ranking
359

Overview

Howard W. Barker is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Canada. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering, with significant contributions to several specialized subfields.

The scientist's work covers atmospheric science, global and planetary change, aerospace engineering, astronomy and astrophysics, and environmental engineering. Their research topics focus extensively on atmospheric aerosols and clouds, planetary science and exploration, meteorological phenomena and simulations, spacecraft design and technology, wind and air flow studies, spacecraft and cryogenic technologies, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Frequent co-authors in Barker's work include Zhipeng Qu, Jason N. S. Cole, Mark W. Shephard, David P. Donovan, and Vincent Huijnen.

Howard W. Barker has published a notable number of papers in various scientific venues. These include:

  • "EarthCARE level-2 demonstration products from simulated scenes," 2022, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "Broadband radiative quantities for the EarthCARE mission: the ACM-COM and ACM-RT products," 2023, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • "Numerical model generation of test frames for pre-launch studies of EarthCARE's retrieval algorithms and data management system," 2023, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • "EarthCARE level-2 demonstration products from simulated scenes," 2023, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "Across-track extension of retrieved cloud and aerosol properties for the EarthCARE mission: the ACMB-3D product," 2023, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Barker's research is frequently published in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Best Publications

  • The EarthCARE Satellite: The Next Step Forward in Global Measurements of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Radiation

    A. J. Illingworth;H. W. Barker;A. Beljaars;Marie Ceccaldi

  • A fast, flexible, approximate technique for computing radiative transfer in inhomogeneous cloud fields

    Robert Pincus;Howard W. Barker;Jean-Jacques Morcrette

  • Impact of a New Radiation Package, McRad, in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System

    J. J. Morcrette;H. W. Barker;J. N. S. Cole;M. J. Iacono

  • Cloud feedback in atmospheric general circulation models: An update

    R. D. Cess;M. H. Zhang;W. J. Ingram;G. L. Potter

  • A radiation algorithm with correlated-k distribution. Part I: Local thermal equilibrium

    J. Li;H. W. Barker

  • A Parameterization for Computing Grid-Averaged Solar Fluxes for Inhomogeneous Marine Boundary Layer Clouds. Part II: Validation Using Satellite Data.

    Howard W. Barker;Bruce A. Wiellicki;Lindsay Parker

  • The I3RC - Bringing Together the Most Advanced Radiative Transfer Tools for Cloudy Atmospheres

    Robert F. Cahalan;Lazaros Oreopoulos;Lazaros Oreopoulos;Alexander Marshak;Alexander Marshak;K. Franklin Evans

  • The variable effect of clouds on atmospheric absorption of solar radiation

    Zhanqing Li;Howard W. Barker;Louis Moreau

  • Stochastic generation of subgrid-scale cloudy columns for large-scale models

    Petri Räisänen;Howard W. Barker;Marat F. Khairoutdinov;Jiangnan Li

  • A Parameterization for Computing Grid-Averaged Solar Fluxes for Inhomogeneous Marine Boundary Layer Clouds. Part I: Methodology and Homogeneous Biases

    Howard W. Barker

  • Assessing 1D atmospheric solar radiative transfer models: Interpretation and handling of unresolved clouds

    Howard W. Barker;G. L. Stephens;P. T. Partain;J. W. Bergman

  • The sensitivity of domain‐averaged solar fluxes to assumptions about cloud geometry

    Howard W. Barker;Graeme L. Stephens;Qiang Fu

  • Accounting for subgrid‐scale cloud variability in a multi‐layer 1d solar radiative transfer algorithm

    Lazaros Oreopoulos;Howard W. Barker

  • A 3D Cloud-Construction Algorithm for the EarthCARE Satellite Mission

    H. W Barker;M. P. Jerg;T. Wehr;S. Kato

  • Uncertainties in carbon dioxide radiative forcing in atmospheric general circulation models.

    R. D. Cess;M.-H. Zhang;G. L. Potter;H. W. Barker

  • The Monte Carlo Independent Column Approximation: An assessment using several global atmospheric models

    H. W. Barker;J. N. S. Cole;J.-J. Morcrette;R. Pincus

  • Cloud geometry effects on atmospheric solar absorption

    Qiang Fu;M. C. Cribb;H. W. Barker;S. K. Krueger

  • Solar Radiative Fluxes for Stochastic, Scale-invariant Broken Cloud Fields

    Howard W. Barker;John A. Davies

  • Overlap of fractional cloud for radiation calculations in GCMs: A global analysis using CloudSat and CALIPSO data

    Howard W. Barker

  • Solar Radiative Transfer Through Clouds Possessing Isotropic Variable Extinction Coefficient

    Howard W. Barker

  • In situ measurements of liquid water content profiles in midlatitude stratiform clouds

    A. V. Korolev;G. A. Isaac;J. W. Strapp;S. G. Cober

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason N. S. Cole
Jason N. S. Cole Environment and Climate Change Canada
Zhanqing Li
Zhanqing Li University of Maryland, College Park
Lazaros Oreopoulos
Lazaros Oreopoulos Goddard Space Flight Center
Jean-Jacques Morcrette
Jean-Jacques Morcrette European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Alexander Marshak
Alexander Marshak Goddard Space Flight Center
Marat Khairoutdinov
Marat Khairoutdinov Stony Brook University
Robert Pincus
Robert Pincus University of Colorado Boulder
David A. Randall
David A. Randall Colorado State University
Alexei Korolev
Alexei Korolev Environment and Climate Change Canada
Seiji Kato
Seiji Kato Langley Research Center

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