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Publications

RAP Publications 2003
[Refereed] [Unrefereed]

Bold denotes University collaborators
* denotes non-NCAR or other collaborators  
  


Refereed:

Brandes, E., G. Zhang, and J. Vivekanandan, 2003: An evaluation of a drop distribution-based rainfall estimator, to appear in J. Appl. Meteor., 42, pp. 652-660.

Brandes, E., G. Zhang, and J. Vivekanandan, 2003: Comparison of polarimetric radar drop size distribution retrieval algorithm, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech.

Chen, S.-H, F. Vandenberghe, G. Petty and J. Bresch, 2003: Application of SSM/I Satellite Data to a Hurricane Simulation. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., (In press)

Coen, J. L., 2003: Wildfire Weather. Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, J. Holton, J. Pyle, and J. Curry, eds. Academic Press.

Coen, J. L., 2003: Book Review of "Burning Questions: America's fight with Nature's Fire, by David Carle", The Environment. 45:36.

Clark, T. L., J. L. Coen, and D. Latham*, 2004: Description of a Coupled Atmosphere-Fire Model. Intl. J. Wildland Fire. (In press)

Crook, N.A. and J. Sun, 2003: Analysis and Forecasting of the Low-Level Wind During the Sydney 2000 Forecast Demonstration Project, Weather and Forecasting . (In press)

Cucurull, L., F. Vandenberghe, D. Barker, E. Vilaclara* and A. Rius*, 2003: 3DVAR assimilation of ground based GPS ZTD and meteorological observations during the December 14th 2001 storm event over the Mediterranean Sea. Mon. Wea. Rev., September 2003. (In press)

Fox*, N., R. Webb*, J. Bally*, M. Sleigh*, C. Pierce*, D. Sills*, J. Wilson, and C. Collier, 2004: The impact of advanced nowcasting systems on severe weather warnings during the Sydney 2000 forecast demonstration project: 3 November 2000, Wea. Forecasting. (In press)

Gochis, D.J., J. C. Leal*, C.J. Watts*, W.J. Shuttleworth* and J. Garatuza-Payan*, 2003: Preliminary Diagnostics from an Event Based Precipitation Observation Network in Support of the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME). J. Hydrometeorology, 4(5), 974-981.

Gochis, D.J., W.J. Shuttleworth* and Z.-L. Yang*, 2003. The hydrometeorological response of the modeled North American Monsoon to convective parameterization. J. Hydrometeorology, 4, 235-250.

Geresdi, I., R. M. Rasmussen, W. W. Grabowski, and B.C. Bernstein, 2003: Sensitivity of freezing drizzle formation in stably stratified clouds to ice processes. Meteor. Atmos. Physics.

R.W. Katz, M.B. Parlange and C. Tebaldi, 2003: Stochastic Modeling of the Effects of Large-Scale Circulation on Daily Weather in the Southeastern U.S. Climatic Change, 60: pp. 189-216.

Keenan, T.*, P. Joe*, J. Wilson, C. Collier, B. Golding*, D. Burgess*, P. May*, C. Pierce*, J. Bally*, A. Crook, A. Seed*, D. Sills*, L. Berry, R. Potts*, I. Bell*, N. Fox*, E. Ebert*, M. Eilts*, K. O'Loughlin*, R. Webb*, R. Carbone, K. Browning*, R. Roberts and C. Mueller, 2003 :The Sydney 2000 world weather research programme forecast demonstration project: Overview and current status, Bull Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84, 1041-1054.

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Kingsmill, D.E. and N.A. Crook, 2003: An Observational Study of Atmospheric Bore Formation from Colliding Density Currents. Mon. Wea. Rev. (In press)

Koch*, S. E., B. Demoz*, F. Fabry, W. Feltz*, B. Geerts, B. Gentry*, D. Parsons, G. Schwemmer*, T. Weckwerth, J. W. Wilson, 2003: Multi-sensor study of dual bore event observed during IHOP, Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Portland OR, AMS.

Lane, T.P., M.J. Reeder*, and F.M. Guest*, 2003: Convectively-generated gravity waves observed from radiosonde data taken during MCTEX. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 129, 1731-1740.

Lane, T.P., R.D. Sharman, T.L. Clark, and H.-M. Hsu, 2003: An investigation of turbulence generation mechanisms above deep convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1297-1321.

Mapes*, B., T. T. Warner, and M. Xu, 2003: The Diurnal and Spatial Distribution of the Coastal Rainfall of Northwestern South America. Part I: A satellite-based climatology. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 799-812

Mapes*, B., T. T. Warner and M. Xu, 2003: The Diurnal and Spatial Distribution of the Coastal Rainfall of Northwestern South America. Part III: A model-based study of physical processes. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 830-844.

May*, Peter T., T. Keenan*, R. Potts*, J. W. Wilson, R. Webb*, A. Treloar*, E. Spark*, S. Lawrence*, E. Ebert*, J. Bally* and P. Joe*, 2004: The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Forecast Demonstration Project: Forecasting, observing network infrastructure and data processing issues, Wea. Forecasting. (In press)

Mueller, C., T. Saxen, R. Roberts, J. Wilson, T. Betancourt, S. Dettling, N. Oien, and J. Yee, 2003: NCAR Auto-Nowcast system, Wea. Forecasting, 18, 545- 561.

Nychka, D. and C. Tebaldi, 2002: Comment on "Calculation of Average, Uncertainty Range and Reliability of Regional Climate Changes from AOGCM Simulations via the ``Reliability Ensemble Averaging'' (REA) method" J. of Climate: 16, 5: 883-884.

Pierce*, C., E. Ebert*, A. Seed*, N. Fox*, M. Sleigh*, C. Collier, N. Donaldson*, J. Wilson, R. Roberts, C. Mueller, 2004: The nowcasting of precipitation during Sydney 2000: an appraisal of the QPF algorithms. Wea. Forecasting,. (In press)

Politovich, M.K., 2003: Predicting in-flight aircraft icing intensity. Journal of Aircraft, 40, 639 - 644.

Politovich, M.K., 2003: "Aircraft Icing", Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, J. Holton, J. Pyle and J. Curry, Eds., Academic Press.

Rasmussen, R.M., M. Dixon, S. Vasiloff*, F. Hage, S. Knight, J. Vivekanandan and M. Xu, 2003: Snow nowcasting using a real-time correlation of radar reflectivity with snow gauge accumulation. J. Appl. Meteor., 42, 20-36.

Reeder, M.J., T.P. Lane, F.M. Guest, and D. Wratt*, 2003: Two southerly changes observed during the New Zealand Southern Alps Experiment (SALPEX). Aust. Meteor. Mag. (In press)

Roberts, R. D., and S. Rutledge*, 2003: Nowcasting storm initiation and growth using GOES-8 and WSR-88D data. Weather and Forecasting, 18, 562-584.

Sharif, H. O., F. L. Ogden, W. F. Krajewski, and M. Xue, Statistical analysis of radar rainfall error propagation, J. Hydrometeorology. (In press)

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Sills*, D.M.L., J.W. Wilson, P.I. Joe*, D.W. Burgess*, R.M. Webb*, N.I. Fox*, 2004: The November 3rd tornadic event during Sydney 2000: storm evolution and the role of low-level boundaries, Wea. Forecasting. (In press)

Song, I.-S., H.-Y. Chun, and T.P. Lane, 2003: Generation mechanisms of convectively forced internal gravity waves and their propagation to the stratosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 60,1960-1980.

Sun, J. and J.W. Wilson, 2003: Assimilation of radar data for weather prediction. Radar and Atmospheric Science: A Collection of Essays in Honor of David Atlas, Meteor. Monogr., Amer. Meteor., 175-198.

C. Tebaldi, D. Nychka, B. G. Brown and B. Sharman, 2002: Flexible Discriminant techniques for Forecasting Clear-Air Turbulence. Environmetrics, 13 (8):pp. 859-878.

Thompson, G., R. M. Rasmussen, and K. Manning, 2003: Explicit forecasts of winter precipitation using an improved bulk microphysics scheme, Part I: Description and sensitivity analysis. Monthly Weather Review. (In press)

Trenberth, K., A. Dai, R.M. Rasmussen and D. Parsons, 2003: The changing character of precipitation. Bull. Amer. Meteor.Soc., 1205-1217.

Vivekanandan, J., G. Zhang, and S.M. Ellis, 2003: Radar reflectivity calibration using differential propagation phase measurement. Radio Science, 38, No. 3, 8050

Vivekanandan, J., G. Zhang, and E. Brandes, 2003: Polarimetric radar rain estimators based on constrained gamma drop size distribution model, J. Appl. Meteor. (In press)

Wade, C.G., 2003: A multisensor approach to detecting drizzle on ASOS. J. Atmos. Ocean. Research, 20, 820-832.

Warner, T. T, 2003: Desert Meteorology. Cambridge University Press, 610 pp.

Warner T. T., B. Mapes*, and M. Xu, 2003: The Diurnal and Spatial Distribution of the Coastal Rainfall of Northwestern South America. Part II: Model simulation, and comparison with climatology. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 813-829.

Ware, R., F. Solheim*, R. Carpenter, J. Gueldner, J. Liljegren, T. Nehrkorn, and F. Vandenberghe, 2003: Radiometric profiling of tropospheric temperature, humidity and cloud liquid. Radio Science, 28, No 4.

Wilson, J.W., E. Ebert*, T. Saxen, R. Roberts, C. Mueller, M. Sleigh*, C. Pierce*, A. Seed*, 2004: Sydney 2000 Forecast Demonstration Project: Convective Storm Nowcasting, Wea. Forecasting. (In press)

Yang, Z-L*, D.J. Gochis, W.J. Shuttleworth*, and *G.-Y. Niu*, 2003. The impact of sea surface temperatures on the North American Monsoon. Geophys. Res. Lett. 30(2).

Zhang, G., R. Doviak, and J. Vivekanandan, 2003: Cross-correlation ratio method to estimate cross beam wind and comparison with the full correlation analysis, Radio Science, 38, No. 3, 8052.

Zhang, G., J. Vivekanandan, and E.A. Brandes, 2003: The shape-slope relation in Gamma raindrop size distribution: statistical error or useful Information?, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 20, pp. 1106-1119, 2003

Zhang, G., R. Doviak, J. Vivekanandan, and T. Yu, 2003: Single antenna interferometry to measure wind, Radio Science. (In press)

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Unrefereed:

+ available on CD "Combined Preprints from the 83rd AMS Annual Meeting", AMS, Boston.

K. E. Bashford*, H. O. Sharif, W. T. Crow*, N. L. Miller, E. F. Wood, 2003: "An investigation of scale and spatial variability using fully- and semi-distributed TOPLATS at the Whitewater Watershed, Kansas", preprints, 17th Conf. Hydrology, Long Beach, CA.+

Caya, A, N. A. Crook and J. Sun, 2003; The use of an evaporation scheme in a boundary layer model for real-time 4D-Var radar data assimilation and forecasting of convergence lines. 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA. 110-113.

Cornman, L., J. Williams, G. Meymaris, and B. Chorbajian, 2003: Verification of an airborne Doppler radar turbulence detection algorithm. 6th International Conference on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technologies, 9-12.

Cornman, L.B., G. Meymaris, B. Chorbajian, and J.K. Williams, 2003: Verification of an airborne radar turbulence detection algorithm, Prepresented at 31st Int'l Conf. on Radar Met., Seattle, WA.

Crook, N.A. and D. Dowell, 2003; Assimilating radar observations of a supercell storm into a cloudscale model: 4DVar snd ensemble Kalman filter methods. 31st Conf. on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA. 154-157.

Ellis, S., C. Kessinger, T.D. O'Bannon*, and J. Van Andel, 2003: Mitigating ground clutter contamination in the WSR-88D. Submitted to the 19th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA.+

Flamant*, C., S. Koch*, T. Weckwerth, J. Wilson, D. Parsons, B. Demoz*, B. Gentry*, D. Whiteman*, G. Schwemmer*, F. Fabry, W. Feltz*, M. Pagowski*, P. Di Girolamo*, 2003: The life cycle of a bore event over the US southern great plains during IHOP_2002. 10th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, AMS, Portland, OR. CD-ROM.

Fowler, T. L., E. I. Tollerud* and B. G. Brown, 2003: You've Changed! Inhomogeneity detection for COOP network precipitation measurements, 7th Symposium on IOS, Long Beach, CA.+

Hubbert, J. C., G. Meymaris, and R. J. Keeler, 2003: Range-Velocity Mitigation via SZ Phase Coding with Experimental S-band Radar Data, Preprints, 9B.1. 31st Int'l Conf. on Radar Meteorology. AMS, Seattle, WA, 727-731.

Kessinger, C., S. Ellis, and J. Van Andel, 2003: The radar echo classifier: A fuzzy logic algorithm for the WSR-88D. 3rd Conf. on Artificial Applications to the Environmental Science, American Meteorological Society, Long Beach, CA+

Kessinger, C., R. Roberts and R. Bankert*, 2003: Using the NCAR Autonowcast System to nowcast oceanic convection. Submitted to 12th Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography Conference. Long Beach, CA +

Kessinger, C., S. Ellis, J. Van Andel, and J. Yee, 2003: The AP clutter mitigation scheme for the WSR-88D. Preprints, 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology, AMS, Seattle, WA, 526-529.

Kessinger, C., J. McCarthy*, and T. McNellis*, 2003: Using the SPY-1/TEP to nowcast oceanic thunderstorms for naval operations. Preprints, Conference on Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations (BACIMO). Monterery, CA. Papers

Kingsmill, D.E. and N.A. Crook, 2003; An observational study on Atmospheric bore formation from colliding density currents. 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA. 933-936.

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Lane, T.P., R.D., Sharman, and T.L. Clark, 2003: A modeling investigation of cloud-induced turbulence. Proc. 41st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV USA, AIAA paper 2003-0193.

Lane, T.P., J.D. Doyle*, R.D. Sharman, M.A Shapiro*, 2003: Numerical modeling of turbulence above the jet stream during SCATCAT. Proc. 10th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Portland OR. CD-ROM.

Lima*, M. A. and J. W. Wilson, 2003: Convective storm initiation in the Amazon. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Seattle, WA, 456-458.

Lindholm, Tenny, 2003: Air traffic management decision support using integrated methods of diagnosing and forecasting aviation weather. ATM2003, Budapest, Hungary.

Lindholm, Tenny, 2003: Satisfying the need-real-time weather updates to the flight deck. Flight Deck International, June 2003.

Lindholm, Tenny, 2003: Oceanic weather information and air traffic management in oceanic/remote regions. 48th Annual Air Traffic Control Association Conference Proceedings, Washington DC.

Lindholm, Tenny, 2003: A program for research and systems integration to help mitigate the volcanic ash hazard to aviation. Third International Workshop on Volcanic Ash, Toulouse, France.

Mecikalski*, J.R., R.D. Roberts, C.J. Kessinger, K.M. Bedka*, S.M Thomas* and B.L. DeWolf*, 2003: Processing realtime satellite information to nowcast convective initiation and its characteristics. Preprints 12th Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography Conference, American Meteorological Society, Long Beach, CA+

Meymaris, G., J.C. Hubbert, S.M. Ellis, 2003: Quantitative Analysis of the SZ(8/64) Phase Code for the Mitigation of Range and Velocity Ambiguities in the WSR-88D, Preprints, 2.4, 19th Int'l IIPS Conf., AMS, Long Beach, CA+

Pettet, C. R.*, T. M. Weckwerth, F. Fabry* and J. W. Wilson, 2003: An evaluation of the radar refractivity retrieval during IHOP_2002. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle WA., Amer. Meteor. Soc., 753-756.

Politovich, M.K., G. Zhang, J. Vivekanandan and J.K. Williams, 2003: Characteristics of clouds containing SLD relevant to remote icing detection. AIAA Paper 2003-0562, AIAA 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, 12 pp.

H. O. Sharif and E. A. Brandes, 2003: "Radar-Rain Gauge Adjustment and its Sensitivity to the Method of Comparison", Preprints of the 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology), AMS, Seattle, WA, 670-673.

H. O. Sharif, N. L. Miller*, W. T. Crow*, K. E. Bashford*, E. F. Wood, 2003: "An Evaluation of a 30-year Land Surface Model Simulation using Observational Forcing", Preprints, 17th Conf on Hydrology, Long Beach, CA+

H. O. Sharif, E. A. Brandes, and W. F. Krajewski, "Comparison of Reflectivity and Precipitation Fields Estimated by Two Radar Systems", Preprints, Symposium on Observing and Understanding the variability of water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA+

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Thompson, G., K. Ikeda, and R. M. Rasmussen, 2003: Evaluating MM5's updated bulk microphysical parameterization using case studies from the IMPROVE field campaigns. 10th Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, AMS, Portland, OR, CD-ROM.

Williams, J. K., J. Vivekanandan and G. Zhang, 2003: Enhanced dual-wavelength technique for remote detection of cloud liquid water content. 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, 130-133.

Wilson, J. W. and R. D. Roberts, 2003: Predictability of convective storm initiation. Preprints, 31st Conf. on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, 917-920.

Wilson, J. W., 2003: Thunderstorm nowcasting: past, present and future. Preprints, 31st Conf.on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, J13-J19.

Xu M., N.A. Crook, Y. Liu and R. Rasmussen, 2003; Radar data assimilation For realtime short term forecasting of snowbands. 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA. 1024-1027.


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