CIRA Publications
2015
Adam V. Rydbeck and Eric D. Maloney, 2015: On the Convective Coupling and Moisture Organization of East Pacific Easterly Waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 3850-3870. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-15-0056.1
Curtis J. Seaman , Steven D. Miller, A dynamic scaling algorithm for the optimized digital display of VIIRS Day/Night Band imagery, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 36, Iss. 7, 2015, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2015.1029100
Scott Longmore, Steven Miller, Dan Bikos, Daniel Lindsey, Edward Szoke, Debra Molenar, Donald Hillger, Renate Brummer, and John Knaff, 2015: An Automated Mobile Phone Photo Relay and Display Concept Applicable to Operational Severe Weather Monitoring, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 32 (7), 1356-1363 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00230.1
Knaff, J.A., S.P. Longmore, R.T. DeMaria, and D.A. Molenar, 2015: Improved Tropical-Cyclone Flight-Level Wind Estimates Using Routine Infrared Satellite Reconnaissance. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 54, 463-478. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0112.1
SeungHyun Son, Menghua Wang, Diffuse attenuation coefficient of the photosynthetically available radiation Kd(PAR) for global open ocean and coastal waters, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 159, 15 March 2015, Pages 250-258, ISSN 0034-4257, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.12.011.
Straka, W.C., III; Seaman, C.J.; Baugh, K.; Cole, K.; Stevens, E.; Miller, S.D. Utilization of the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band for Arctic Ship Tracking and Fisheries Management. Remote Sens. 2015, 7(1), 971-989. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs70100971
Hsu C, Johnson LE, Zamora RJ, Schneider T, Cifelli R (2015) Downscaling Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) Soil Moisture Retrievals Using a Multiple Time-Scale Exponential Rainfall Adjustment Technique. J Geophys Remote Sensing 4:139. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2169-0049.1000139
Rainer Bleck, Jian-Wen Bao, Stanley G. Benjamin, John M. Brown, Michael Fiorino, Thomas B. Henderson, Jin-Luen Lee, Alexander E. MacDonald, Paul Madden, Jacques Middlecoff, James Rosinski, Tanya G. Smirnova, Shan Sun, and Ning Wang, 2015: A Vertically Flow-Following Icosahedral Grid Model for Medium-Range and Seasonal Prediction. Part I: Model Description. Mon. Wea. Rev., 143, 2386–2403. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-14-00300.1
Brandon O. Wolding and Eric D. Maloney, 2015: Objective Diagnostics and the Madden–Julian Oscillation. Part I: Methodology. J. Climate, 28, 4127–4140. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00688.1
Natalie Tourville, Graeme Stephens, Mark DeMaria, and Deborah Vane, 2015: Remote Sensing of Tropical Cyclones: Observations from CloudSat and A-Train Profilers. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96, 609–622. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00282.1
Hongli Jiang, Steve Albers, Yuanfu Xie, Zoltan Toth, Isidora Jankov, Michael Scotten, Joseph Picca, Greg Stumpf, Darrel Kingfield, Daniel Birkenheuer, and Brian Motta, 2015: Real-Time Applications of the Variational Version of the Local Analysis and Prediction System (vLAPS). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96, 2045-2057. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00185.1
Brandon O. Wolding and Eric D. Maloney, 2015: Objective Diagnostics and the Madden–Julian Oscillation. Part II: Application to Moist Static Energy and Moisture Budgets. J. Climate, 28, 7786–7808. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00689.1
John A. Knaff and Charles R. Sampson, 2015: After a Decade Are Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Gale Force Wind Radii Forecasts Now Skillful?. Wea. Forecasting, 30, 702-709. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-14-00149.1
2014
Apodaca, K., M. Zupanski, M. DeMaria, J. A. Knaff, and L. D. Grasso, (2014), Hybrid variational-ensemble assimilation of lightning observations in a mesoscale mode, Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc. - Submitted
Son, S., M. Wang & L. Harding, Satellite-measured net primary production in the Chesapeake Bay, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 144, 25 March 2014, Pages 109-119, ISSN 0034-4257, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.018.
Islam, T., S-A. Boukabara, C. Grassotti, K. Garrett, X. Zhan, Retrieval and validation of atmospheric moisture from SAPHIR onboard Megha-Tropiques: Testing a physical algorithm, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on - Submitted
Bouali M and Ignatov A., 2014: Adaptive reduction of striping for improved sea surface temperature imagery from Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)., J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 31, 150-163. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00035.1
Kim, D, P. Xavier, E. Maloney, M. Wheeler, D. Waliser, K. Sperber, H. Hendon, C. Zhang, R. Neale, Y.-T. Hwang, and H. Liu, 2014: Process-oriented MJO simulation diagnostic: Moisture sensitivity of simulated convection, J. Climate, 27, 5379-5395. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00497.1
Hillger, D., C. Seaman, C. Liang, S. D. Miller, D. Lindsey, and T. Kopp, (2014), Suomi NPP VIIRS imager calibration and validation, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 6440-6455, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013JD021170
Liang, C. K., B. I. Hauss, S. Mills, and S. D. Miller,, Improved VIIRS day/night band imagery with near constant contrast, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on, vol.52, no.11, pp.6964,6971, Nov. 2014 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2014.2306132
Liu, Q., A. Ignatov, F. Weng, and X. Liang, 2014: Removing solar radiative effect from the VIIRS M12 band at 3.7 um for daytime SST retrievals, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 31, 2522-2529. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00051.1
Knaff J., Longmore S. P. and Molenar D. A., 2014: An Objective Satellite-Based Tropical Cyclone Size Climatology, J. Climate, 27, 455-476. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00096.1
Miller, S. D., J. Forsythe, P. T. Partain, J. Haynes, R. Bankert, M. Sengupta, C. Mitrescu, J. D. Hawkins, and T. H. Vonder Haar, 2014: Estimating three-dimensional cloud structure from statistically blended active and passive sensor observations, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 53, 437-455. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-070.1
Benedict, J. J. E. D. Maloney, A. H. Sobel, and D. M. Frierson, 2014: Gross moist stability and MJO simulation skill in three full-physics GCMs, J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 3327-3349. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-13-0240.1
McCluskey, C. S., P. J. DeMott, A. J. Prenni, E. J. T. Levin, G. R. McMeeking, A. P. Sullivan, T. C. J. Hill, S. Nakao, C. M. Carrico, and S. M. Kreidenweis, (2014), Characteristics of atmospheric ice nucleating particles associated with biomass burning in the US: prescribed burns and wildfires, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119,10,458-10,470, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014JD021980
Petrenko, B., A. Ignatov, Y. Kihai, J. Stroup and P. Dash, (2014), Evaluation and selection of SST regression algorithms for JPSS VIIRS., J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 4580-4599, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013JD020637
Shi, W. and M. Wang, Ocean reflectance spectra at the red, near-infrared, and shortwave infrared from highly turbid waters: A study in the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea, Limnol. Oceanogr., 59(2), 2014, 427-444 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.2014.59.2.0427
Li, G., and S.-P. Xie, 2014: Tropical Biases in CMIP5 Multimodel Ensemble: The Excessive Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue and Double ITCZ Problems, J. Climate, 27, 1765-1780. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00337.1
Hannah, W. M., and E. D. Maloney, (2014), DYNAMO hindcast experiments in SP-CAM, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. - Submitted
Grasso, L.D., D. T. Lindsey, K.-S. Lim, Adam Clark, and Dan Bikos, 2014: Evaluation of and Suggested Improvements to the WSM6 Microphysics in WRF-ARW Using Synthetic and Observed GOES-13 Imagery, Mon. Wea. Rev., 142, 3635-3650, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-14-00005.1
Quiring, S.M., A.B. Schumacher, S.D. Guikema, 2014: Incorporating hurricane forecast uncertainty into a decision-support application for power outage modeling, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95, 47-58. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00012.1
Hannah, W. M., and E. D. Maloney, (2014), The moist static energy budget in NCAR CAM5 hindcasts during DYNAMO, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 6, 420-440, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013MS000272
Bouali, M. and A. Ignatov, (2014), Mitigation of stripe noise in MODIS SST products, Geophys. Res. Lett. - Submitted
Pagowski, M., Z. Liu, G. A. Grell, M. Hu, H.-C. Lin, C. S. Schwartz, Implementation of aerosol assimilation in Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation and WRF-Chem, Geosci. Model Dev., 7, 1621-1627, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-1621-2014, 2014.
Maloney, E. D., X. Jiang, S.-P. Xie, and J. J. Benedict, 2014: Process-oriented diagnosis of east Pacific warm pool intraseasonal variability, J. Climate, 27, 6305-6324. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00053.1
DeMaria, M., C.R. Sampson, J.A. Knaff, and K.D. Musgrave, 2014: Is tropical cyclone intensity guidance improving?, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95, 387-398. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00240.1
Maloney, E.D., S. J. Camargo, E. Chang, B. Colle, R. Fu, K. L. Geil, Q. Hu, X. Jiang, N. Johnson, K. B. Karnauskas, J. Kinter, B. Kirtman, S. Kumar, B. Langenbrunner, K. Lombardo, L. N. Long, A. Mariotti, J. E. Meyerson, K. C. Mo, J. D. Neelin, Z. Pan, R., 2014: North American climate in CMIP5 experiments: Part III: Assessment of 21st Century projections, J. Climate, 27, 2230-2270. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00273.1
Sun, J., M. Wang, L. Tan, and L. Jiang, An efficient approach for VIIRS RDR to SDR data processing, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE, vol.11, no.12, pp.2037,2041, Dec. 2014 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2014.2317553
Slocum, C. J., G. J. Williams, R. K. Taft, and W. H. Schubert, (2014), Tropical cyclone boundary layer shocks, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. - Accepted
Lang, T.J., S.A. Rutledge, B. Dolan, P. Krehbiel, W. Rison, D.T. Lindsey, 2014: Lightning in wildfire smoke plumes observed in Colorado during summer 2012, Mon. Wea. Rev., 142, 489-507, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-13-00184.1
Boukabara, S., K. Garrett and T. Islam, Lower tropospheric moisture profiling using a microwave imager: case of GCOM-W AMSR2., Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on - Submitted
2013
Hillger, D.W., T. Kopp, T. Lee, D.T. Lindsey, C. Seaman, S.D. Miller, J. Solbrig, S.Q. Kidder, S. Bachmeier, T. Jasmin, and T. Rink, 2013: First-Light Imagery from Suomi NPP VIIRS, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, 1019-1029. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00097.1
Cao, C., X. Xiong, S. Blonski, Q. Liu, S. Uprety, X. Shao, Y. Bai, F. Weng,, (2013), Suomi NPP VIIRS sensor data record verification, validation, and long-term performance monitoring, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 11,664-11,678, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50885
Smith, R.A., C.D. Kummerow, 2013: A Comparison of in situ, reanalysis, and satellite water budgets over the Upper Colorado River Basin, J. Hydrometeor, 14, 888-905. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-12-0119.1
Matrosov S. Y., Cifelli R. C. and Gochis D., 2013: Measurements of Heavy Convective Rainfall in the Presence of Hail in Flood-Prone Areas Using an X-Band Polarimetric Radar, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 52, 395-407. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-12-052.1
Liang, X., and A. Ignatov, (2013), AVHRR, MODIS, and VIIRS radiometric stability and consistency in SST bands, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 118, 3161-3171, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgrc.20205
Slade, S. A., and E. D. Maloney, 2013: A Statistical Prediction Model for East Pacific and Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Genesis, Mon. Wea. Rev., 141, 1925-1942. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-12-00268.1
Kuciauskas, A. J. Solbrig, T. Lee, J. Hawkins, S. D. Miller, M. Surratt, K. Richardson, R. Bankert, and J. Kent, 2013: New satellite meteorology technology unveiled, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, 1824-1825. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00007.1
Sapiano, M. R. P., Berg, W. K., McKague, D. S., and Kummerow, C. D.,, Towards an intercalibrated fundamental climate data record of the SSM/I sensors, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on, vol.51, no.3, pp.1492,1503, March 2013 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2012.2206601
Knaff, J.A., M. DeMaria, C.R. Sampson, J.E. Peak, J. Cummings, W.H. Schubert, 2013: Upper oceanic energy response to tropical cyclone passage, J. Climate, 26, 2631-2650. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00038.1