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Climate and Radiation

Nayeong Cho

(RESEARCH SCIENTIST)

Nayeong Cho's Contact Card & Information.
Email: nayeong.cho@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.614.6231
Org Code: 613
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 613
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO

Publications


Refereed

2025. "The role of Earth’s major cloud systems in the hemispheric albedo symmetry." Journal of Climate [10.1175/jcli-d-25-0242.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2025. "Describing seasonal mixtures of cloud regimes via “regimes of regimes”." Journal of Climate [10.1175/jcli-d-24-0275.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Regimes of Cloud Vertical Structure From Active Observations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 130 (1): [10.1029/2024jd041716] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Substantial cooling effect from aerosol-induced increase in tropical marine cloud cover." Nature Geoscience [10.1038/s41561-024-01427-z] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Revisiting cloud overlap with a merged dataset of liquid and ice cloud extinction from CloudSat and CALIPSO." Frontiers in Remote Sensing 3 [10.3389/frsen.2022.1076471] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Machine learning reveals climate forcing from aerosols is dominated by increased cloud cover." Nature Geoscience [10.1038/s41561-022-00991-6] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Assessment of Two Stochastic Cloud Subcolumn Generators Using Observed Fields of Vertically Resolved Cloud Extinction." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology [10.1175/jtech-d-21-0166.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Evaluation of GPROF V05 Precipitation Retrievals under Different Cloud Regimes." Journal of Hydrometeorology [10.1175/jhm-d-21-0154.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Cloud-Precipitation Hybrid Regimes and their Projection onto IMERG Precipitation Data." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 60 (6): 733-748 [10.1175/jamc-d-20-0253.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Classifying planetary cloudiness with an updated set of MODIS Cloud Regimes." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology [10.1175/jamc-d-20-0247.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "An evaluation of clouds and radiation in a large-scale atmospheric model using a cloud vertical structure classification." Geoscientific Model Development 13 (2): 673-684 [10.5194/gmd-13-673-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "A Global Survey of Apparent Aerosol‐Cloud Interaction Signals." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 125 (1): [10.1029/2019jd031287] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "The Role of Thermodynamic Phase Shifts in Cloud Optical Depth Variations With Temperature." Geophysical Research Letters 46 (8): 4502-4511 [10.1029/2018gl081590] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Contrasting the Co-variability of Daytime Cloud and Precipitation over Tropical Land and Ocean." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 1-31 [https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3065-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "New insights about cloud vertical structure from CloudSat and CALIPSO observations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122 (17): 9280-9300 [10.1002/2017jd026629] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Strong constraints on aerosol–cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions." Nature 546 (7659): 485-491 [10.1038/nature22974] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Using MODIS cloud regimes to sort diagnostic signals of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122 (10): 5416-5440 [10.1002/2016jd026120] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Interregional differences in MODIS-derived cloud regimes." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 121 [10.1002/2016jd025193] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Radiative effects of global MODIS cloud regimes." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 121 (5): 2299–2317 [10.1002/2015jd024502] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "An examination of the nature of global MODIS cloud regimes." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119 (13): 8362-8383 [10.1002/2013JD021409] [Journal Article/Letter]

Awards


Outstanding Performance Science Award by 610 AT (Earth Science Division: Atmospheres), NASA/GSFC, November 2016

Best First-Authored paper by Climate and Radiation Laboratory(613), NASA/GSFC, February 2022