Cooperative Research Program

Most Recent Publications

2006

Advanced Satellite Products Branch, in Madison, Wisconsin

Schmit, T.J., G.S. Wade, M.M. Gunshor, J.P. Nelson III, A.J. Schreiner, J. Li, J. Daniels, and D.W. Hillger, 2006:  The GOES-N Sounder data and products.   Preprints: 14th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 29 Jan - 02 Feb 2006, Atlanta (GA), Amer. Meteor. Soc., P6.2.

Daniels, J.M., G.E. Gray, T.J. Schmit, G.S. Wade, J.P. Nelson III, A.J. Schreiner, and C. Holland, 2006.  GOES Sounder single field of view products.   Preprints: 14th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 29 Jan - 02 Feb 2006, Atlanta (GA), Amer. Meteor. Soc., P4.11.

Satellite Climate Studies Branch, in College Park, Maryland

Corliss, B.H., X. Sun, C.W. Brown, and W.J. Showers. In press. Influence of seasonal primary productivity on 13C of North Atlantic deep-sea benthic foraminifera. Deep-Sea Research.

Hood, R.R., E.A. Laws, R.A. Armstrong, N.R. Bates, C.W. Brown, C.A. Carlson, F. Chai, S.C. Doney, H. Ducklow, P. G. Falkowski, R.A. Feely, A.M. Friedrichs, M.R. Landry, J.K. Moore, D.M. Nelson, T.L. Richardson, B. Salihoglu, M. Schartau, D.A. Toole, and J.D. Wiggert. In press. Pelagic functional group modeling: Progress, challenges and prospects. Deep-Sea Research.

Sun, X., B.H. Corliss, C.W. Brown, and W.J. Showers, 2006,. The effect of primary productivity and seasonality on the distribution of deep-sea benthic foraminifera in the North Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research I 53: 28-47.

Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch, in Fort Collins, Colorado

Lindsey, D.T., D. W. Hillger, L. Grasso, J. A. Knaff, and J. F. Dostalek, 2006, GOES Climatology and Analysis of Thunderstorms with Enhanced 3.9 µm Reflectivity. Mon. Wea. Rev., in press.

Bikos, D.E., J.F. Weaver, and J. Braun, 2006: The Role of GOES Satellite Imagery in Tracking Low-Level Moisture. Wea. Forecasting, 21, 234-243

DeMaria, M., J.A. Knaff, and J. Kaplan, 2006: On the decay of tropical cyclone winds crossing narrow landmasses, J. Appl. Meteor., 45, 491-499

2005

Advanced Satellite Products Branch, in Madison, Wisconsin

Aoki, T. T.Y. Tanaka, A. Uchiyama, M. Chiba, M. Mikami, S. Yabuki, and J. Key, 2005, Sensitivity experiments of direct radiative forcing by mineral dust simulated with a chemical transport model, J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 83A, 315-331.

Chapin, F.S., M. Sturm, M.C. Serreze, J.P. McFadden, J.R. Key, A.H. Lloyd, A.D. McGuire, T.S. Rupp, A.H. Lynch, J.P. Schimel, J. Beringer, H.E. Epstein, L.D. Hinzman, G. Jia, C.-L. Ping, K. Tape, W.L. Chapman, E. Euskirchen, C.D.C. Thompson, J.M. Welker, and D.A. Walker, 2005, Role of land surface changes in Arctic summer warming, Science, vol. 310, doi: 10.1126/science.1117368, October 28.

Francis, J.A., E. Hunter, J. Key, and X. Wang, 2005, Clues to variability in Arctic minimum sea ice extent, Geophys. Res. Letters, vol. 32, L21501, doi: 10.1029/2005GL024376, November 15.

Heidinger, A.K. and M.J. Pavolonis, 2005: Global daytime distribution of overlapping cirrus cloud from NOAA's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. J. Climate, 18 (22), 4772-4784.

Hutchinson, K.J., J. Roskovensky, J. Jackson, M.J. Pavolonis, and R. Frey, 2005: Automated cloud detection and classification of data collected by the Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Inter. J. Rem. Sens., 26 (21), 4681-4706.

Li, J., C.-Y. Liu, H.-L. Huang, T. J. Schmit, X. Wu, W. P. Menzel, and J. J. Gurka, 2005, Optimal Cloud-Clearing for AIRS Radiances Using MODIS, IEEE Trans. on Geos. and Remote Sensing., Vol 43, pp. 1266-1278.

Liu, J., J.A. Curry, W.B. Rossow, J.R. Key, and X. Wang, 2005, Comparison of surrface radiative flux data sets over the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., Vol.110, C02015, doi:10.1029/2004JC002381.

Overpeck, J.T., M. Sturm, J.A. Francis, D.K. Perovich, M.C. Serreze, R. Benner, E.C. Carmack, F.S. Chapin III, S.C. Gerlach, L.C. Hamilton, L.D. Hinzman, M. Holland, H.P. Huntington, J.R. Key, A.H. Lloyd, G.M. MacDonald, J. McFadden, D. Noone, T.D. Prowse, P. Schlosser, and C. Vörösmarty, 2005, Arctic system on trajectory to new, Seasonally ice-free state, EOS, 86(34), 309-314.

Pavolonis, Michael J.; Heidinger, Andrew K. and Uttal, Taneil. Daytime global cloud typing from AVHRR and VIIRS: Algorithm description, validation, and comparisons. Journal of Applied Meteorology, Volume 44, Issue 6, 2005, pp. 804-826.

Schmit, T. J., M. M. Gunshor, W. Paul Menzel, Jun Li, Scott Bachmeier, James J. Gurka, 2005, Introducing the Next-generation Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on GOES-R, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Vol 8, pp. 1079-1096.

Velden, C., J. Daniels, D. Stettner, D. Santek, J. Key, J. Dunion, K. Holmlund, G. Dengel, W. Bresky, and P. Menzel, 2005, Recent innovations in deriving tropospheric winds from meteorological satellites, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 86(2), 205-223.

Wang, X. and J. Key, 2005, Arctic surface, cloud, and radiation properties based on the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder data set. Part I: Spatial and temporal characteristics, J. Climate, 18(14), 2558- 2574.

Wang, X. and J. Key, 2005, Arctic surface, cloud, and radiation properties based on the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder data set. Part II: Recent trends, J. Climate, 18(14), 2575-2593.

Zuidema, P., B. Baker, Y. Han, J. Intrieri, J. Key, P. Lawson, S. Matrosov, M. Shupe, R. Stone, T. Uttal, 2005, An Arctic springtime mixed-phase cloudy boundary layer observed during SHEBA, J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 160-176.

Satellite Climate Studies Branch, in College Park, Maryland

Ferraro, R.R., F. Weng, N. Grody, L. Zhao, H. Meng, C. Kongoli, P. Pellegrino, S. Qiu, and C. Dean, 2005, NOAA operational hydrological products derived from the AMSU. IEEE Trans. Geo. Rem. Sens., 43, 1036 – 1049.

Ferraro, R., P. Pellegrino. M. Turk, W. Chen, S. Qiu, R. Kuligowski, S. Kusselson, A. Irving, S. Kidder, and J. Knaff, 2005, The Tropical Rainfall Potential. Part 2: Validation. Weather and Forecasting, 20, 465 – 475.

Kidder, S., J. Knaff, S. Kusselson, R. Ferraro, R. Kuligowski, and M. Turk, 2005, The Tropical Rainfall Potential. Part 1: Description and Examples. Weather and Forecasting,20, 456 – 464.

McCollum, J.R., and R.R. Ferraro, 2005, Microwave Rainfall Estimation along coasts. J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 22, 497-512.

Qiu, S., P. Pellegrino, and R. Ferraro, 2005, An evaluation of an improved AMSU rain rate algorithm and its application to winter season rainfall in the western United States. Weather and Forecasting, 20, 761 -774.

Sudradjat, A., R. Ferraro, and M. Fiorino, 2005, A comparison of total precipitable water from different data sets. J. Climate., 18, 1790-1807.

Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch, in Fort Collins, Colorado

DeMaria, M., M. Mainelli, L.K. Shay, J.A. Knaff, J. Kaplan, 2005, Further Improvement to the Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (SHIPS). Wea. and Forecasting, 20: 4, 531–543.

Knaff, J.A., C.R. Sampson, M. DeMaria, 2005, An operational statisical typhoon intensity prediction scheme for the Western North Pacific. Weather and Forecasting, 20: 4, 688–699.

Lindsey, D.T., and M.J. Bunkers, 2005, Observations of a severe left-moving supercell on 4 May 2003. Wea. and Forecasting, 20, 15-22.