PUBLICATIONS: 2008

There is a total of 87 publications in the database for 2008.

Refereed Publications

Amitai E., and J. A. Nystuen, 2008: Underwater acoustic measurements of rainfall. , Precipitation: Advances in measurement, estimation and prediction,, S. Michaelides (Ed.), Springer Press , Eds., (in press).

Biwas, R., M.J. Aftosmis, C. Kiris, and B.-W. Shen, 2008: Impact on Future NASA Missions, Petascale Computing: Architectures and Algorithms, Book Chapter in Volume 1, Computational Science, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, (in press).

Campbell, J. , K. Sassen, and E. Welton, 2008: Elevated cloud and aerosol layer retrievals from micropulse lidar signal profiles, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., (submitted).

Chiu, J., A. Marshak, W. Wiscombe, S. Valencia, and and J. Welton, 2008: Cloud optical depth retrievals from solar background “signal” of micropulse lidars, IEEE Geo. Rem. Sens., (in press).

Chiu, L., R. Chokngam, Y. Xing, and C.-L. Shie, 2008: "Trends" and variations of global oceanic evaporation datasets from remote sensing, Acta Ocea. Sinica, (accepted).

Chiu, L., C.-L. Shie, R. Chokngamwong, and Y. Xing, 2008: Variations in global oceanic evaporation datasets, J. of Ocea. Univ. China, (submitted).

Crow, W., G. Huffman, R. Bindlish, and T. Jackson, 2008: Improving Satellite-based Rainfall Estimates over Land Using Spaceborne Surface Soil Moisture Retrievals, J. Hydrometeor., (in revision).

Eastman, J., S. E. Lang, S. Kumar, W.-K. Tao, X. Zeng, Y. Tian, and C. Peters-Lidard, 2008: A meteorological model's dependence on radiation update frequency, Geophys. Res. Lett., (submitted).

Fan, J., R. Zhang, W.-K. Tao, and K. Mohr, 2008: Aerosol radiative effects on deep convective clouds and associated radiative forcing, J. Geophys. Res., (in press).

Feidas, H., G. Kokolatos , A. Negri , M. Manyin , N. Chrysoulakis , and Y. Kamarianakis, 2008: Validation of an infrared-based satellite algorithm to estimate accumulated rainfall over the Mediterranean basin, Springer-Verlag 2008.

Grecu, M., and W. Olson, 2008: Precipitation Snow Retrievals from Combined Airborne Cloud Radar and Milimeter Wave Radiometer Observations, J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., (accepted).

Gu, G., and R. Adler , 2008: Interannual Variability of Boreal Summer Rainfall in the Equartorial Atlantic, Intl. J. Clim., (submitted).

Habib, E. , C. Malakpet, A. Tokay, and P. Kucera, 2008: Sensitivity of streamflow simulations to temporal variability and estimation of Z-R relationships, J. Hydrometeor. Eng., (accepted).

Han, M., S. A. Braun, P. O. G. Persson, and J.-W. Bao, 2008: Along-front variability of precipitation associated with a midlatitude frontal zone: TRMM observation and MM5 simulation, Mon. Wea. Rev., (submitted).

Herman, J., 2008: TES temperature validation using sondes, J. Geophys. Res., (submitted).

Hobbs, P., S. Yuter, W. Cotton, Z. Levin, M. Shepherd, and and J. Hallett, 2008: Chapter 4: Clouds and Precipitation, Assessment of the effects of pollution on precipitation, The World Meteorological Organization/IUGG, Intl. Aer. Precip. Sci. Assess. Grp., 466, (in revision).

Hobbs, P., U. Lohmann, M. Shepherd, and W. Cotton, 2008: Chapter 1: The Hydrological Cycle, Assessment of the effects of pollution on precipitation, The World Meteorological Organization/IUGG, Intl. Aer. Precip. Sci. Assess. Grp., 466, (in press).

Hong, Y., and R. Adler, 2008: Estimation of global SCS curve numbers using satellite remote sensing and geospatial data, Intl. J. Rem. Sens., 29:2(471-477), 10.1080/01431160701264292.

Hong, Y., R. Adler, and G. Huffman, 2008: Satellite Remote Sensing for Landslide Monitoring on a Global Basis, EOS, 88(37), 357-358.

Hooshialsadat, P., S. Burian, M. Shepherd, and and F. Edwards, 2008: Influence of urbanization on secular trends of annual and warm season rainfall amounts in Houston, Clim. Change, (in revision).

Hossain, F., and G. Huffman, 2008: Investigating error Metrics for Satellite Rainfall Data at Hydrologically Relevant Scales, J. Hydrometeor., (accepted).

Hu, Y., Z. Liu, D. Winker, M. Vaughan, V. Noel, L. Bissonnette, G. Roy, and M. McGill, 2008: A simple relation between lidar multiple scattering and depolarization for water clouds, Optics Letters, (in press).

Jiang, H., J. Halverson, J. Simpson, and E. Zipser, 2008: On the difference of storm rainfall of hurricanes Isidore and Lili. Part II: Water Budget, Weather and Forecasting, (submitted).

Jiang, H., J. B. Halverson, and J. Simpson, 2008: On the difference of storm rainfall of hurricanes Isidore and Lili. Part I: Satellite observations and rain potential, Weather and Forecasting, (submitted).

Jiang, Z., J. He, S. Yang, J. Li, and J. Liang, 2008: Interdecadal Variations of East Asia summer monsoon northward propagation and influences on summer precipitation over East China, Meteorol Atmos Phys, (accepted).

Kaufman, Y., P. Artaxo, Z. Levin, S. Yuter, U. Baltensperger, L. Radke, M. Shepherd, and , 2008: Chapter 7: In situ and remote sensing techniques for measuring aerosols, clouds, and precipitation, Assessment of the effects of pollution on precipitation, The World Meteorological Organization/IUGG, Intl. Aer. Precip. Sci. Assess. Grp., (in press).

Kim, M.J., J. A. Weinman, W. S. Olson, D.-E. Chang, G. S. Jackson, and and J. R. Wang, 2008: A physical model to estimate snowfall over land using AMSU-B observations, J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres , (accepted).

Kuo, K.S., E. Smith, R. Meneghini, and A. Mugnai , 2008: Fundamental error source in radar remote sensing of precipitation: Pulse averaging requirements assuming fractal distribution of rain drops, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., (submitted).

Kwon, E.H., B.J. Sohn, D.E. Chang, M.H. Ahn, and and S. Yang, 2008: Use of numerical forecasts for improving TMI rain retrievals over the mountainous area, J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., (accepted).

Levin, Z., J. Brenguier, W. Cotton, G. Feingold, Y. Kaufman, and M. Shepherd, 2008: Chapter 5: Observational studies of the effects of aerosols on clouds and precipitation, Assessment of the effects of pollution on precipitation,, Intl. Aer. Precip. Sci. Assess. Grp., (in press).

Li, X., W.-K. Tao, A. Khain, J. Simpson, and D. Johnson, 2008: Sensitivity of (bulk vs explicit-bin) microphysics in cloud-resolving model simulated mid-latitiude squall line: Part I: Model validation, J. Atmos. Sci., (in revision).

Li, X., W.-K. Tao, A. Khain, J. Simpson, and D. Johnson, 2008: Sensitivity of a cloud-resolving model to bulk and explicit-bin microphysics schemes:: Part II: Cloud microphysics and storm dynamics interactions, J. Atmos. Sci., (in revision).

Li, Y.-D., Y. Wang, S. Yang, L. Hu, S. Gao, and R. Fu, 2008: Characteristics of Summer Convective Systems Initiated from Tibet Plateau, Part I: Origin, Track, Development and Surface Precipitation, J. Appl. Meteor., (accepted).

Liao, L., R. Menenghini, L. Tian, and G. Heymsfield, 2008: Simulations of radar bright band for X and W-band radars, J. Appl. Meteor., (submitted).

Liao, L., R. Meneghini, L.Tian, and G. Heymsfield, 2008: Retrieval of snow and rain from combined X- and W-band airborne radar measurements , IEEE Trans. Geo. Rem. Sens., 6(5), 1514-1524.

Liu, Z., W.Hunt, C.Hostetler, M.Vaughan, M.McGill, D.Winker, and Y. Hu, 2008: Estimating random errors in backscatter lidar observations, Applied Optics, (submitted).

Lund Myhre, C., C. Toledano, G. Myhre, K. Stebel, K. Yttri, V. Aaltonen, M. Johnsrud, M. Frioud, V. Cachorro, A. de Frutos, H. Lihavainen, J. Campell, A. Chaikovsky, M. Shiobara, E. Welton, and K. Torseth , 2008: Regional aerosol optical properties and radiative impact of the extreme smoke event in the European Arctic in spring 2006, J. Polar Meteor. and Glaciology, (submitted).

Lyon, S. , F. Dominguez, D. Gochis, N. Brunsell, C. Castro, F. Chow, D. Fuka, Y. Hong, P. Kucera, S. Nesbitt, Y. Fan, N. Salzmann, J. Schmidli, P. Snyder, A. Teuling, T. Twine, G. Lee, S. Levis, J. Lundquist, G. Salvucci, A. Sealy, and T. Walter, 2008: Coupling Terrestial and Atmospheric Water Dynamics to Improve Prediction in a Changing Environment, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., (submitted).

Medaglia, C.M., S. Pinori, C. Adamo, S. Dietrich, F. Fierli, A. Mugnai, E.A. Smith, and G.J. Tripoli, 2008: Model and satellite analysis of the November 9-10, 2001 Algeria flood, Measuring Precipitation from Space: EURAINSAT and the Future, V. Levizzani, P. Bauer, and F.J. Turk, Eds., Kluwer Publishers, (in press).

Munchak, S., and A. Tokay, 2008: Retrieval of raindrop size distribution from simulated dual frequency radar measurements, J. Appl. Meteor. Clim.(47), 223-239.

Nardi, and D. Whiteman, 2008: Initial Validation od Ozone Measurements Dynamics Limb Sounder, J. Geophys. Res., (accepted).

Nassar,, and D. Whiteman, 2008: Validation of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Nadir Ozone Profiles Using Ozonesonde Measurements, (accepted).

Noel, V., M.Winker, M.Haeffelin, and M.McGil, 2008: Comparison of depolarization ratio observed in convective ice clouds during CRYSTAL-FACE with a midlatitude synoptic cirrus clouds climatology from the SIRTA observatory, J. Geophys. Res., (submitted).

Norris, P.M., L. Oreopooulos, A. Hou, W.-K. Tao, and X. Zeng, 2008: Clouds andcopulas: Part I: Theory for water clouds, Q. J. Roy. Meteorl. Soc, (submitted).

Nystuen, J., E. Amitai, E. Anagnostou, and M. Anagnostou, 2008: Spatial averaging of oceanic rainfall variability using underwater sound: Ionian Sea Rainfall Experiment, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., (accepted).

Persson, P. O. G., J.-W. Bao, S. A. Braun, D. Jorgensen, E. Sukovich, and D. Kingsmill, 2008: Observed and simulated kinematic, thermodynamic, and microphysical structure of a wide cold-frontal rainband over the eastern north Pacific ocean., Mon. Wea. Rev.,, (submitted).

Posselt, D., T. L'Ecuyer, W.-K. Tao, A. Hou, and G. Stephens, 2008: Evaluation of a Cloud Resolving Model Using TRMM Observations for Multiscale Modeling Applications, J. Climate, (submitted).

Prins, E. M., C. Velden, J. Hawkins, F. J. Turk, J. Daniels, G. J. Dittberner, K. Holmlund, R. Hood, A. Laing, S. Nasiri, J. Puschell, J. M. Shepherd, and J. Zapotocny, 2008: A summary of the 13th AMS conference on satellite meteorology and oceanography conference, BAMS, (submitted).

Reynolds, S., S. Burian, M. Shepherd, and M. Manyin, 2008: Urban induced rainfall modifications on urban hydrologic response, In: Reliable modeling of urban water systems, Computational Hydraulics International, Guelph, Ontario, CA, 99-122.

Rickenbach, T., P. Kucera, M. Gentry, L. Carey, A Lare, R.-F. Lin, B. Demoz, and D. Starr, 2008: The Relationship Between Anvil Clouds and Convective Cells: A Case Study in South Florida during CRYSTALY-FACE, Mon. Wea. Rev., (accepted).

Russo, F., and D. Whiteman, 2008: Raman Lidar Measurements of Aerosol Indirect Effect, Part I: Calibration and Lidar Retrievals, J. Tech., (submitted).

Russo, F., D. Whiteman, B. Demoz, and R. Hoff , 2008: Improvements in Raman Lidar Algorithm for quantifying aerosol extinction, 2005 Optical Society of America, (submitted).

Sayres, D. S., J. B. Smith, J. V. Pittman, E. M. Weinstock, J. G. Anderson, G. M. Heymsfield, L. Li, A. M. Fridlind, and A. S. Ackerman, 2008: Validation and determination of ice water content - radar reflectivity relationships during CRYSTAL-FACE: Flight requirements for future comparisons, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JD008847, (in press).

Shen, B.-W., W.-K. Tao , J.-D. Chern , and R. Atlas, 2008: Improvements in the Scalability of the NASA Goddard Mutiscale Modeling Framework for Hurricane Climate Studies, International J. of High Performance Computing Application, (submitted).

Shen, B.-W., W.-K. Tao, R. Atlas, Y.-L. Lin, O. Reale, J.-D. Chern, C. Peters-Lidard, and K.-S. Kuo, 2008: Forecasts of Tropical Cyclogenesis with a Global Mesoscale Model: Preliiminary Results with Six Tropical Cyclones, Geophys. Res. Lett., (submitted).

Shepherd, M., and D. Whiteman, 2008: Comparison of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Water Vapor Retrievals with In Situ Measurements, J. Geophys. Res., (accepted).

Shepherd, M., W.M. Carter, M. Manyin, D. Messen, and and S. Burian, 2008: The impact of urbanization on current and future coastal convection: A case study for Houston, Environment And Planning B, (submitted).

Shie, C.-L., L.S. Chiu, R. Adler, P. Xie, I.-I. Lin, F.-C. Wang, E. Nelkin, R. Chokngamwong, and W. Olson, 2008: Reviving the production of Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes (GSSTF) dataset, J. of Ocea. Univ. China, (submitted).

Shie, C.-L., L. S. Chiu, R. Adler, P. Xie, I.-I. Lin, F.-C. Wang, E. Nelkin, R. Chokngamwong, W. Olson, and A. Chu, 2008: The Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes (GSSTF) dataset review and prospects, Acta Ocea. Sinica, (submitted).

Silberstein, D., D. Wolff, D. Marks, D. Atlas, and J. Pippitt, 2008: Ground Clutter as a Monitor of Radar Stability at Kwajalein, RMI, J. Appl. Meteor. Ocean. Tech., (accepted).

Su, F.-G., Y. Hong, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2008: Evaluation of TRMM Mutli-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) and its Utility in Hydrologic Prediction in La Plata Basin, J. Hydrometeor., (accepted).

Sui, C.-H., X. Li, K.-M. Lau, W.-K. Tao, M.-D. Chou, and M.-J. Yang, 2008: Convective-radiative-mixing processes in the Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere., Recent Progress in Atmospheric Sciences with Applications to the Asia-Pacific Region, World Scientific Publication, (in press).

Tao, W.-K., R. Atlas, J.-D. Chern, D. Randall, X. Lin, M. Khaioutdinov, C. Peters-Lidard, J. Li, D. Waliser, J. Simpson, A. Hou, and W. Lau, 2008: A Multi-scale modeling System: Developments, Applications and Critical Issues, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., (submitted).

Tao, W.-K., D. Anderson, R. Atlas, J. Chern, P. Houser, A. Hou, S. Lang, W. Lau, C. Peters-Lidard, R. Kakar, S. Kumar, W. Lapenta, X. Li, T. Matsui, M. Rienecker, B.-W. Shen, J. J. Shi, J. Simpson, and X. Zeng, 2008: A Goddard Multi-Scale Modeling System with Unified Physics, GEWEX NEWS Letter, (submitted).

Tao, W.-K., R. Houze, and E. Smith, 2008: Retrieved Latent Heating from TRMM, GEWEX NEWS Letter, (submitted).

Tao, W.-K., J. Shi, S. Chen, S. Lang, S.-Y. Hong, C. Peters-Lidard, S. Braun, G. Thompson, and J. Simpson, 2008: New, improved bulk-microphysical schemes for studying precipitation processes in WRF: Part I: Comparison with different microphysical schemes, Mon. Wea. Rev., (accepted).

Tao, W.-K., and M. Moncrieff, 2008: Cloud-System Resolving Models: Status and Prospects, Reviews of Geophysics - An Invited Paper, (submitted).

Tao, W.-K., J. Chern, R. Atlas, D. Randall, X. Lin, M. Khairoutdinov, J. Li, D. Waliser, A. Hou, C. Peters-Lidard, W. Lau, and J. Simpson, 2008: Multi-scale modeling system: Development, applications and critical issues, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., (in revision).

Tian, L., G. Heymsfield, L. Li, and R.C Srivastava, 2008: Retrieval of raindrop size distribution, vertical air velocity and water vapor attenuation using dual-wavelength Doppler radar observations, J. Geophys. Res., (accepted).

Tokay, A., P. Bashor, E. Habib, and T. Kasparis, 2008: Raindrop size distribution measurements in tropical cyclones, Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 1669-1685.

Tokay, A., P. Hartman, A. Battaglia, K. Gage, W. Clark, and C. Williams, 2008: A field study of reflectivity and Z-R relations using vertically pointing radars and disdrometers, J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, (submitted).

Veselovskii, I, M. Korenskii, V. Griaznov, D. Whiteman, M. McGill, G. Roy, and L. Bissonette, 2008: Information content of data measured with multiple field of view lidar, Applied Optics, (submitted).

Veselovskii, I., and D. Whiteman, 2008: Hygroscopic Aerosol Growth Measurements using Raman Lidar, Applied Optics, (submitted).

Wang, D., X. Li, W.-K. Tao, Y. Liu, and H. Zhou, 2008: Torrential rainfall processes associated with a landfall of severe tropical storm Bills (2006): A cloud-resolving modeling study, J. Atmos. Res., (submitted).

Wang, D., X. Li, W.-K. Tao, Y. Liu, and H. Zhou, 2008: On the sensitivity of Atmospheric ensemble to cloud microphysics in long-term cloud-resolving model simulations, J. Atmos. Res., (submitted).

Wang, J., and B. Fisher and D. Wolff, 2008: Estimating Rain Rates from Tipping-Bucket Rain Gauge Measurements, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 25, 43-65.

Wang. J.-J., R. Adler, and G. Gu, 2008: Tropical Rainfall-Surface Temperature Relations Using TRMM Precipitation Data, J. Geophys. Res., (submitted).

Whiteman, D., J. Potter, R. Tola, I. Veselovskii, M. Cadirola, K. Rush, and J. Comer, 2008: Improvements in Raman Lidar Measurements Using New Interference Filter Technology, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, (submitted).

Winker, D., B. Hunt , and M. McGill, 2008: Initial Performance Assessment of CALIOP, J. Geophys. Res. Lett., (submitted).

Wolff, D., and B. Fisher, 2008: Comparisons of Instantaneous TRMM Ground Validation and Satellite Rain Rate Estimates at Different Spatial Scales, J. Appl. Meteor. and Clim., (accepted).

Wu, L., B. Wang, and S. Braun, 2008: Implications of Tropical Cyclone Power Dissipation, Intl. J. Clim., (in press).

Yang, B., Wang, B., and L. Wu, 2008: A mechanism for tropical cyclone rapid intensification, J. Atmos. Sci., (submitted).

Yang, S., and E. Smith , 2008: Convective-Stratiform Precipitation Variability at Seasonal Scale from Eight Years of TRMM Observations: Implications for Multiple Modes of Diurnal, J. Climate, (in press).

Yang, S., K.-S. Kuo, and E. Smith, 2008: Persistent Nature of Secondary Diurnal Modes in both Land and Ocean Precipitation, J. Clim., (in press).

Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, S. Lang, A. Hou, M. Zhang, and J. Simpson, 2008: On the sensitivity of Atmospheric ensemble to cloud microphysics in long-term cloud-resolving model simulations, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, (accepted).

Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, and J. Simpson, 2008: Microphysical Timescales in Clouds and their Application in Cloud-Resolving Modeling, J. Meteor. Soc. of Japan, (in revision).

van Zadelhoff, G., A. Heymsfield, D. Donovan, and M. McGill, 2008: Validating lidar-radar microphysics retrieval using in-situ measurements, J. Geophys. Res., (submitted).

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