Email: schmittc@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8905
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Professional Interests

My research focuses on better understanding cirrus clouds and their role in the earth’s climate system. I work to achieve this through field projects, laboratory experiments, and theoretical studies of the radiative properties of cirrus.

Recent Publications

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Seifert, P., Ansmann, A., Muller, D., Wandinger, U., Althausen, D., Heymsfield, A. J., Massie, S. T., Schmitt, C., 2007: Cirrus optical properties observed with lidar, radiosonde, and satellite over the tropical Indian Ocean during the aerosol-polluted northeast and clean maritime southwest monsoon. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi: 10.1029/2006JD008352, D17205.

Heymsfield, A. J., Schmitt, C., Bansemer, A., vanZadelhoff, G., McGill, M. J., Twohy, C., Baumgardner, D., 2007: Responses to comments on "Effective radius of ice cloud particle populations derived from aircraft probes" by Heymsfield et al, 2006. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 24, doi: 10.1175/JTECH2077.1, 1511-1518.

Schmitt, C. G., Heymsfield, A. J., 2007: On the occurrence of hollow bullet rosette and column shaped ice crystals in mid-latitude cirrus. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. (In Press).

Massie, S. T., Heymsfield, A., Schmitt, C., Mueller, D., Seifert, P., 2007: Aerosol indirect effects as a function of cloud top pressure. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007383, D06202.

Heymsfield, A. J., Field, P. R., Bansemer, A., Schmitt, C., 2007: FSSP ice particle shattering: Relationship to total ice water content and extinction. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. (Submitted).

Mitchell, D. L., Baran, A. J., Arnott, W. P., Schmitt, C. G., 2006: Testing and comparing the modified anomalous diffraction approximation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63, doi: 10.1175/JAS3775.1, 2948-2962.

Schmitt, C. G., Iaquinta, J., Heymsfield, A. J., 2006: The asymmetry parameter of cirrus clouds composed of hollow bullet rosette shaped ice crystals from ray-tracing calculations. Journal of Applied Meteorology 1989-2005 (After 2005 - Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology), 45, 973-981.

Heymsfield, A. J., Schmitt, C., Bansemer, A., van Zadelhoff, G., McGill, M. J., Twohy, C., Baumgardner, D., 2006: Effective radius of ice cloud particle populations derived from aircraft probes. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 23(3), 361-380.

Heymsfield, A. J., Miloshevich, L., Schmitt, C., Bansemer, A., Twohy, C., Poellot, M., Fridlind, A., Gerber, H., 2005: Homogeneous ice nucleation in subtropical and tropical convection and its influence on cirrus anvil microphysics. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 62, 41-64.

Schmitt, C. G., Heymsfield, A. J., 2005: Total surface area estimates for individual ice particles and particle populations. Journal of Applied Meteorology 1989-2005 (After 2005 - Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology), 44, 467-474.