PUBLICATIONS: 2006

There is a total of 58 publications in the database for 2006.

Refereed Publications

Aberson, S., and J. Halverson, 2006: Kelvin-Helmholtz billows in the eyewall of Hurricane Erin, Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 1036-1038.

Amitai, E., X. Lort, and D. Sempere-Torres, 2006: Opportunities and challenges for evluating precipitation estimates during GPM mission, Meteor.Zeitschrift, 15 (5)(DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0157), 551-557.

Amitai, E., D. Marks, D. Wolff, D. Silberstein, and B. Fisher, 2006: Evaluation of radar rainfall products: Lessons learned from NASA TRMM validation program in Florida, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 23, 1492-1505.

Anagnostou, E., and M. Grecu, 2006: X-band polarimetric radar rainfall measurements in Keys Area Microphysics Project, J. Atmos. Sci., 68, 187-203.

Braun, S., 2006: High-resolution simulation of Hurricane Bonnie (1998). Part II: Water Budget, J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 43-64.

Braun, S., M. Montgomery, and Z. Pu, 2006: High-resolution simulation of Hurricane Bonnie (1998). Part I: The Organization of Eyewall Vertical Motion, J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 19-42.

Curtis, S., R. F. Adler, G. J. Huffman, G. Gu, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin, 2006: Comments on "El Nino: Catastrophe or Opportunity", J. Clim., 19(24), 6439-6442.

Demoz, B., C. Flamant, T. Weckwerth, D. Whiteman, K. Evans, F. Fabry, P. Di Girolamo, D. Miller, B. Geerts, W. Brown, G. Schwemmer, B. Gentry, W. Feltz, and Z. Wang, 2006: The Dryline on 22 May 2002 during IHOP_2002: Convective-Scale Measurements at the Profiling site, Mon. Wea. Rev., 134(1), 294-310.

Dessler, A., S. Palm, W. Hart, and J. Spinhirne, 2006: Tropical cloud-top height distributions revealed by ICESat/GLAS, J. Geophys. Res., 111(D12215), DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006705.

Dessler, A. , S. Palm, W. Hart, and J. Spinhirne, 2006: Tropopause-level thin cirrus coverage revealed by ICESat/GLAS, J. Geophys. Res., 111(D08203), doi:10.1029/2005JD006586.

Fiorino, S.T., and E.A. Smith, 2006: Critical assessment of microphysical assumptions within TRMM-radiometer rain profile algorithm using satellite, aircraft and surface datasets from KWAJEX, J. Appl. Meteor., 45, 754-786.

Grabowski, W., P. Bechtold, A. Cheng, R. Forbes, G. Halliwell, M. Khairoutdinov, S. Lang, T. Nasuno, J. Petch, W.-K. Tao, R. Wong, X. Wu, and K. Xu, 2006: Daytime convective developments over land: An idealized model intercomparison case based on LBA observations, Q. J. Roy. Meteorl. Soc., 132, 317-344.

Grecu, M., and W. S. Olson, 2006: Bayesian estimation of precipitation from satellite passive microwave observations using combined radar-radiometer retrievals, J. Appl. Meteor., 45(3), 416-433.

Gu, G., and R. Adler, 2006: Interannual rainfall variability in the tropical Atlantic region, J. Geophys. Res., 111(D02106), DOI: 10.1029/2005JD005944.

Haddad, Z., J. Meagher, S. Durden, E. Smith, and E. Im, 2006: Drop Size Ambiguities in the Retrieval of Precipitation Profiles from Dual-Frequency Radar Measurements, J. Atmos. Sci., 63(1), 204-217.

Halverson, J., J. Simpson, G. Heymsfield, H. Pierce, T. Hock, and L. Ritchie, 2006: Warm core structure of Hurricane Erin diagnosed from high-altitude dropsondes during CAMEX-4, J. Atmos. Sci., 63(1), 127-150.

Heymsfield, A.J., C. Scmitt, A. Bansemer, G.-J. van Zadelhoff, M. J. McGill, and C. Twohy, 2006: Effective radius of ice cloud particle populations derived from aircraft probes, J. Atmos. Sci., 23(3), 361-380.

Heymsfield, G., J. Halverson, E. Ritchie, J. Simpson, J. Molinari, and L. Tian, 2006: Structure of the highly sheared Tropical Storm Chantal during CAMEX-4, J. Atmos. Sci., 63(1), 268-287.

Holz, R.E., S. Ackerman, P. Antonelli, F. Nagle, M. McGill, D.L. Hlavka, and W. D. Hart, 2006: An improvement to the high spectral resolution CO2 slicing cloud top altitude retrieval, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 23(5), 653-670.

Hong, Y., Y. Chiang, Y. Liu, K. Hsu, and S. Sorooshian, 2006: Satellite-based Precipitation Estimation using Watershed Segmentation and growing hierachical self-organizing feature mapping techniques, Intl. J. Rem. Sens., 27(23), 5165-5184 DOI: 10.1080/1431160600763428.

Hong, Y., R. Adler, and G. Huffman , 2006: Evaluation of the Potential of NASA Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis in Global Landslide Hazard Assessment, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(L22402), doi:10.1029/2006GL028010.

Hong, Y., R. Adler, G. Huffman, and A. Negri, 2006: Use of Satellite Remote Sensing Data in mapping of global shallow landslides Susceptibility, , J. Hazard, DOI: 10.1007/s11069-006-9104-z.

Hong, Yang, K. Hsu, H. Moradkhani, and and S. Sorooshian, 2006: Uncertainty quantification of satellite precipitation estimation and Monte Carlo assessment of the error propagation into hydrologic response, Water Resou. Res., 42(W08421), doi: 10.1029/2005WR004398.

Hood, R., D. Cecil, F. LaFontatine, R. Blakeslee, D. Mach, G. Heymsfield, F. Marks, and E. Zipser, 2006: Classification of Tropical Oceanic Precipitation using High Altitude Aircraft Microwave and Electric Field Measurements, J. Atmos. Sci., 63(1), 218-233.

Hu, Y., Z. Liu, D. Winker, M. Vaughan, V. Noel, L. Bissonnette, G. Roy, and M. McGill, 2006: A simple relation between lidar multiple scattering and depolarization for water clouds, Optics Lett, 31(12), 1809-1811.

Jiang, H., and E. Zipser, 2006: Retrieval of hydrometeor profiles in tropical cyclones and convection from combined radar and radiometer observations, J. Appl. Meteor., 45(8), 1096-1115.

Jin, M., and S. Liang, 2006: Improving Land Surface Emissivity Parameter of Land Surface Model in GCM, J. Climate, 19(2867-2881).

Jin, M., 2006: MODIS observed seasonal and interannual variations of atmospheric conditions associated with hydrological cycle over Tibetan Plateau, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(L19707), 10.1029/2006GL026713.

Koster, R., B. Fekete, G. Huffman, and P. Stackhouse, 2006: Revisiting a Hydrological Analysis Framework with ISLSCP-2 Rainfall, Net Radiation, and Runoff Fields, J. Geophys. Res., 111(D22S05), doi:10.1029/2006JD007182.

Liu, Z., W.Hunt, C.Hostetler, M.Vaughan, M.McGill, D.Winker, and Y. Hu, 2006: Estimating random errors in backscatter lidar observations, Appl. Opt., 45(18), DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004437, 4437-4447.

Manizade, K., R. Lancaster, and J. Spinhirne, 2006: Stereo Cloud Height Retrieval from ISIR Thermal Imagery via Region-of-Interest Segmentation Methods, IEEE Trans. Geo. Rem. Sens., 44, 2481-2491.

Matsui, T., H. Masunaga, S. Kreidenweis, R. Pielke Sr., W.-K. Tao, M. Chin, and Y. Kaufman, 2006: Correction to "Satellite-based assessment of marine low cloud variability associated with aerosol, atmospheric stability, and the diurnal cycle", J. Geophys. Res., 111(D20202), doi: 10.1029/2006JD008056.

Matsui, T., H. Masunaga, S. Kreidenweis, R. Pielke Sr., W.-K. Tao, M. Chin, and Y. Kaufman, 2006: Satellite-based assessment of marine low cloud variability associated with aerosol, atmospheric stability, and the diurnal cycle, J. Geophys. Res., 111(D17204), doi: 10.1029/2005JD006097.

McFarquhar, G., H. Zhang, J. Dudhia, J. Halverson, G. Heymsfield, R. Hood, and F. Marks, 2006: Factors affecting the evolution of Hurricane Erin and distributions of hydrometeors: role of microphysical processes., J. Atmos. Sci., 63(1), 127-150.

Miloshevich, L.M., H. Voemel, D. Whiteman, B. Lesht, F.J. Schmidlin, and and F. Russo, 2006: Absolute accuracy of water vapor measurements from six operational radiosonde types launched during AWEX-G and inplications for AIRS validation, J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006083.

Moradkhani, Hamid, K. Hsu, Y.Hong, and and S. Sorooshian, 2006: Investigating the impact of remotely sensed precipitation and hydrological model uncertainties on the ensemble streamflow forecasting, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(12, L12107), 10.1029/2006GL026855.

Olson, W.S., C. D. Kummerow, S. Yang, G. W. Petty, W.-K. Tao, T. L. Bell, S. A. Braun, Y. Wang, S. E. Lang, D. E. Johnson, and C. Chiu, 2006: Precipitation and latent heating distributions from satellite passive microwave radiometry. Part I: Improved method and uncertainties, J. Appl. Meteor. and Clim., 5(45), 702-720.

Rasch, P., M. Stevens, L. Ricciardulli, A. Dai, A. Negri, R. Wood, B. Boville, B. Eaton, and J. Hack, 2006: A Characterization of Tropical Transient Activity in the CAM3 Atmospheric Hydrologic Cycle, J. Climate., 19, 2222-2242.

Russo, F., D. Whiteman, B. Demoz, and R. Hoff , 2006: Improvements in Raman Lidar Algorithm for quantifying aerosol extinction, Appl. Opt., 45(27), 7073-7088.

Schwemmer, G., R. Rallison, T. Wilkerson, and D. Guerra, 2006: Holographic optical elements as scanning lidar telescopes, Lasers and Optics in Engineering, 44(9), 881-902.

Shen, B.-W., R. Atlas, J.-D. Chern, O. Reale, S.-J. Lin, T. Lee, and J. Change, 2006: The 0.125 degree Finite Volume General Circulation Model: Preliminary simulations of mesoscale vortices., Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(L05801), doi:10.1029/2005GL024594.

Shen, B.-W., R. Atlas, O. Reale, S.-J. Lin, J.-D. Chern, J. Chang, C. Henze, and J.-L. Li, 2006: Hurricane Forecasts with a Global Mesoscale-Resolving Model: Preliminary Results with Hurricane Katrina (2005), Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(L13813, doi: 10.1029/2005GL026143).

Shepherd, J.M., 2006: Evidence of urban-induced precipitation variability in arid climate regimes., J. Arid Environ., 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2006.03.022.

Shepherd, J.M., 2006: A review of current investigations of urban-induced rainfall and recommendations for the future, Earth Interactions, 9(12), 1-27.

Shie, C.-L., W.-K. Tao, and J. Simpson, 2006: A note on the relationship of temperature and water vapor over oceans, including sea surface temperature effects, A Special Issue of Advances in Atmos. Sci., 3(1), 141-148.

Smith, T., P. Arkin, J. Bates, and G. Huffman, 2006: Estimating Bias of Satellite-Based Precipitation Estimates, J. Hydrometeor., 7(5), 841-856.

Tao W.-K., E. Smith, R. Adler, Z. Haddad, A. Hou, T. Iguchi, R. Kakar, T. Krishnamurti, C. Kummerow, S. Lang, R. Meneghini, K. Nakamura, T. Nakazawa, K. Okamoto, W. Olson, S. Satoh, S. Shige, J. Simpson, Y. Takayabu, G. Tripoli, and S. Yang, 2006: Retrieval of latent heating from TRMM measurements, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.(87), 1555-1572.

Tao, W.-K., E.A. Smith, R.F. Adler, Z.S. Haddad, A.Y. Hou, T. Iguchi, R. Kakar, T.N. Krishnamurti, C.D. Kummerow, S. Lang, R. Meneghini, K. Nakamura, T. Nakazawa, K. Okamoto, W.S. Olson, S. Satoh, S. Shige, J. Simpson, Y. Takayabu, G.J. Tripoli, and S. Yang, 2006: Retrieval of Latent Heating from TRMM Measurements, BAMS, 87(11), 1555-1572.

Veselovskii, I., M. Korenskii, V. Griaznov, D. Whiteman, M. McGill, G. Roy, and L. Bissonette, 2006: Information content of data measured with a multiple-field-of-view lidar, Appl. Opt., 45(26), 6839-6848.

Wang, J.-J., X.F. Li, and L. Carey, 2006: Evolution, structure, cloud micrphysical and surface rainfall processes of monsoon convection during the South China Sea Monsoon Experiment, J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 360-380.

Whiteman, D., B. Demoz, P. Di Girolamo, J. Comer, I. Veselovskii, K. Evans, Z. Wang, D. Sabatino, G. Schwemmer, B. Gentry, R.-F. Lin, A. Behrendt, V. Wulfmeyer, E. Browell, R. Ferrare, S. Ismail, and J. Wang, 2006: Raman Lidar Measurements during the International H20 Project. Part II: Case Studies, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 23(2), 170-183.

Whiteman, D., B. Demoz, P. Di Girolamo, J. Comer, I. Veselovskii, K. Evans, Z. Wang, M. Cardirola, K. Rush, G. Schwemmer, B. Gentry, S.H. Melfi, B. Mielke, D. Venable, and and T. Van Hove, 2006: Raman Lidar Measurements during the International H20 Project. Part I: Instrumentation and Analysis Techniques, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 23(2), 157-169.

Whiteman, D., F. Russo, B. Demoz, L. Miloshevich, I. Veselovskii, S. Hannon, Z. Wang, H. Vomel, F. Schmidlin, B. Lest, P. Moore, and A. Beeb, 2006: Analysis of Raman Lidar and radiosonde measurements from the AWEX-G field campaign and its relation to Aqua validation, J. Geophys. Res., 111(D09S09), doi: 10.1029/2005JD006429.

Wu, L., S. A. Braun, J. J. Qu, and X. Hao, 2006: Simulating the formation of Hurricane Isabel (2003) with AIRS data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33((L04804)), doi:10.1029/2005GL024665..

Wu, Liguang, and Q. Zhang and Z. Jiang , 2006: Three Gorges Dam Affects Regional Precipitation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(L13806), doi:10.1029/2006GL026780.

Wu, Liguang, S. Braun, J. Halverson, and G. Heymsfield, 2006: A numerical study of Hurricane Erin (2001). Part I: Model Verification and Storm Evolution, J. Atmos. Sci., 63(1), 65-86.

Yang, S., and E. A. Smith, 2006: Mechanisms for diurnal variability of global tropical rainfall observed from TRMM, J. Clim., 19, 5190-5226.

Yang,S., W. S. Olson, J. J. Wang, T. L. Bell, E.A. Smith, and C. D. Kummerow, 2006: Precipitation and latent heating distributions from satellite passive microwave radiometry. Part II: Evaluation of estimates using independent data, J. Appl. Meteor. and Climatol., 45(5), 721-739.

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