JCSDA Publications

2009

Baker, N. L. and R. H. Langland, 2009: Diagnostics for Evaluating the Impact of Satellite Observations. Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Applications, editors Park, S.K., Xu, L., ISBN 978-3-540-71055-4.

Chang, Hsin-I, A. Kumar, D. Niyogi, U. C. Mohanty, F. Chen, and J. Dudhia, 2009: The role of land surface processes on the mesoscale simulation of the July 26, 2005 heavy rain event over Mumbai, India. Global Planetary Change, 67, 87-103.

Decker, M., and X. Zeng, 2009: Impact of modified Richards equation on global soil moisture simulation in the Community Land Model (CLM3.5). Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 1, Art. #5, 22 pp., doi:10.3894/JAMES.2009.1.5, Published Online 7 July 2009.

Ding, S., Y. Xie, F. Weng, Q. Liu, B. Baum, and Y. Hu, 2009: Estimates of radiation over clouds and dust aerosols: Optimized number of terms in phase function expansion. J. Quant. Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 110, 1190-1198, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.03.032.

Dong, P., F. Weng, Q. Liu, and J. Xue, 2009: Deriving infrared land surface emissivity from the special sensor microwave imager/sounder. Int. J. Remote Sensing, 30, 2021 - 2031.

Gilbert, R. C., T. T. Trafalis, M.B. Richman, and S. Lakshmivarahan, 2009: Real-time prediction using kernel methods and data assimilation. Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, (C.H. Dagli, A.L. Buczak, J. Ghosh, M.J. Embrechts, O. Ersoy, and S.W. Kercel, eds.), ASME Press, 19, in press.

Hong, G., P. Yang, B. A. Baum, A. J. Heymsfield, F. Weng, Q. Liu, G. Heygster, and S. A. Buehler, 2009: Scattering database in the millimeter and submillimeter wave range of 100-1000 GHz for non-spherical ice particles. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D06201, doi:10.1029/2008JD010451.

Langland, R. H., C. Velden, P.M. Pauley, and H. Berger, 2009: Impact of satellite-derived rapid-scan wind observations on numerical forecasts of Hurricane Katrina. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 1615-1622.

Langland, R. H., R. N. Maue, and C. H. Bishop, 2008: Uncertainty in atmospheric temperature analyses. Tellus, 60A, 598-603.

Liu, Q., and F. Weng, 2009: Radiative Cooling Effect of Hurricane Florence in 2006 and Precipitation of Typhoon Matsa in 2005. Atmos. Sci. Lett., 10, 122-126.

Liu, Q., M. Miao, J. Liu, and W. Yang, 2009: Solar and wind energy resources and prediction, J. Renewable and Sustainable Energy. 1, 043105, 1-12.

Liu, Q., G. Yu, and J. Liu, 2009: Solar Radiation as Large-Scale Resource for Energy-Short World. Energy & Environment, 20, No. 3, 319-329.

Liu, Q., and F. Weng, 2009: Recent stratospheric temperature observed from satellite measurements. SOLA, 5, 53-56, doi:10.2151/sola.2009-014.

Liu, Q., X. Liang, Y. Han, P. van Delst, Y. Chen, A. Ignatov, and F. Weng, 2009: Effect of out-of-band response in NOAA-16 AVHRR channel 3b on top-of-atmosphere radiances calculated with the community radiative transfer model. J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 26, 1968-1972.

Liu, Q., and F. Weng, 2009: Recent stratospheric temperature observed from satellite measurements. SOLA, 5, 53-56, doi:10.2151/sola.2009-014.

McCarty, W., G. Jedlovec, and T. L. Miller, 2009: Impact of the assimilation of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder radiance measurements on short-term weather forecasts. J. Geophys. Res., in press.

Niyogi, D., K. Alapaty, S. Raman, and F. Chen, 2009: Development and evaluation of a coupled photosynthesis-based Gas-exchange Evapotranspiration Model (GEM) for mesoscale weather forecasting applications. J. Appl. Meteorol. Clim., 48, 349-368.

Tao, W.-K., J.-D. Chern, R. Atlas, D. Randall, M. Khairoutdinov, J.-L. Li, D.E. Waliser, A. Hou, X. Lin, C. Peters-Lidard, W. Lau, J. Jiang, and J. Simpson, 2009: A multi-scale modeling system: Developments, applications, and critical issues. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 515- 534.

Wang, Z., and X. Zeng, 2009: Evaluation of snow albedo in land models for weather and climate studies. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., in press.

Zeng, X., and M. Decker, 2009: Improving the numerical solution of soil moisture-based Richards equation for land models with a deep or shallow water table. J. Hydrometeor., 10, 308-319. doi: 10.1175/2008JHM1011.1.

2008

Alapaty K., D. Niyogi, F. Chen, P. Pyle, A. Chandrasekar, and N. Seaman, 2008: Development of the flux-adjusting surface data assimilation system for mesoscale models. J. Appl. Meteorol. Clim., 47, 2331-2350.

Alfieri J. G., D. Niyogi, P.D. Blanken, F. Chen, M.A. LeMone, K. Mitchell, M.B. Ek, and A. Kumar, 2008: Estimation of the minimum canopy resistance for croplands and grasslands using data from the 2002 International H₂O Project. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 4452-4469.

Anthes, R. A., P.A. Bernhardt, Y. Chen, L. Cucurull, K. F. Dymond, D. Ector, S. B. Healy, S.-P. Ho, D. C. Hunt, Y.-H. Kuo, H. Liu, K. Manning, C. McCormick, T. K. Meehan, W. J. Randel, C. Rocken, W. S. Schreiner, S. V. Sokolovskiy, S. Syndergaard, D. C. Thompson, K. E. Trenberth, T.-K. Wee, N. L. Yen, and Z. Zeng, 2008: The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 mission: Early results. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, 313-333.

Atlas, R., and G.D. Emmitt, 2008: Review of observing system simulation experiments to evaluate the potential impact of lidar winds on numerical weather prediction. ILRC24, Vol. 2 (ISBN 978-0-615-21489-4), 726-729.

Baker, N.L. and R.H. Langland, 2008: Diagnostics for Evaluating the Impact of Satellite Observations. Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Applications, editors Park, S.K., Xu, L., ISBN 978-3-540-71055-4.

Bell, W., S. English, B. Candy, N. Atkinson, F. Hilton, N. Baker, S.D. Swadley, W.F. Campbell, N. Bormann, G. Kelly, and M. Kazumori, 2008: The assimilation of SSMIS radiances in NWP models. IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 46, 884-900.

Chen Y, F. Weng, Y. Han, and Q. Liu, 2008: Validation of the community radiative transfer model (CRTM) by using CloudSat Data. J. Geophys.Res., 113, D00A03, doi:10.1029/2007JD009561.

Chen, R., F. Chang, Z. Li, R. Ferraro and F. Weng, 2008: Impact of the vertical variation of cloud droplet size on the estimation of cloud liquid water path and rain detection. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3843-3853.

Chen, R., R. Wood, Z. Li, R. Ferraro, and F.-L. Chang, 2008: Studying the vertical variation of cloud droplets effective radius using ship and space-borne remote sensing data. J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2007/JD009596.

Cucurull, L., and J.C. Derber, 2008: Operational implementation of COSMIC observations into the NCEP's Global Data Assimilation System. Weather and Forecasting, 23, 4, 702-711.

Cucurull, L., J. C. Derber, R. Treadon, and R. J. Purser, 2008: Preliminary impact studies using Global Positioning System radio occultation profiles at NCEP. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 6, 1865-1877.

Gentry, B., M. McGill, G. Schwemmer, M. Hardesty, A. Brewer, T. Wilkerson, R. Atlas, M. Sirota, S. Lindemann, and F. Hovis, 2008: New technologies for direct detection of Doppler lidar: Status of the TWiLiTE airborne molecular Doppler lidar project. ILRC24, Vol. 1 (ISBN 978-0-615-21489-4), 239-243.

Grody, N., and F. Weng, 2008: Microwave emission and scattering from deserts. IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 46, 361-375.

Hong, G., P. Yang, F. Weng, and Q. Liu, 2008: Microwave scattering properties of sand particles: Application to the simulation of microwave radiances over sandstorms. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 109, 684-702.

Hoppel, K.W.,N. L. Baker, L. Coy, S. D. Eckermann, J. P. McCormack, G. E. Nedoluha, and D. E. Siskind, 2008: Assimilation of stratospheric and mesospheric temperatures from MLS and SABER into a global NWP model. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 6103-6116.

Jung, J. A., T. H. Zapotocny, J. F. Le Marshall and R. E. Treadon, 2008: A two season impact study of NOAA polar orbiting satellites in the NCEP Global Data Assimilation System. Wea. and Forecasting, 23, 854-877.

Kazumori, M., Q. Liu, R. Treadon, and J. C. Derber, 2008: Impact study of AMSR-E radiances in the NCEP global data assimilation system. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 541-559.

Kumar, S.V. R.H. Reichle, C.D. Peters-Lidard, R.D. Koster, X. Zhan, W.T. Crow, J.B. Eylander, and P.R. Houser, 2008: A land surface data assimilation framework using the Land Information System: Description and applications. Advances in Water Resources, 31, 1419-1432.

Le Marshall, J. J. Jung, M. Goldberg, C. Barnett, W. Wolf, J. Derber, R. Treadon and S. Lord. 2008: Using cloudy AIRS fields of view in numerical weather prediction. Aust. Meteor. Mag. 57, 249-254.

LeMone M.A., M. Tewari, F. Chen, J.G. Alfieri and D. Niyogi, 2008: Evaluation of the Noah Land Surface Model using data from a fair-weather IHOP_2002 day with heterogeneous surface fluxes, Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 4915-4941.

Leslie, L.M. and B.W. Buckley, 2008: The operational impact of QuikSCAT winds in Perth, Australia: Examples and limitations. Wea. and Forecasting, 23, 183-193.

Liu, Q., and F. Weng, 2008: Conversion issue from microwave radiances to brightness temperature. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 109, 1943-1950.

Liu, Q., F. Weng, Y. Han, and Y. Chen, 2008: Microwave and infrared radiances assimilation for weather forecasting. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2, 355-358, 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779001.

Liu, Q., F. Weng, Y. Han, and Y. Chen, 2008: Community Radiative transfer model for scattering transfer and applications. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 4, 1193-1196, 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779942.

Mansouri, H., M. B. Richman, T. B. Trafalis and L.M. Leslie, 2008: A pipeline support vector regression method to thin large ocean surface wind data on-line. Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, (C.H. Dagli, A.L. Buczak, J. Ghosh, M.J. Embrechts, O. Ersoy, and S.W. Kercel, eds.), ASME Press, 18, 203-210.

Mo, T., and Q. Liu, 2008: A Study of AMSU-A measurement of brightness temperatures over ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D17120, doi:10.1029/2008JD009784.

Moncet, J.-L, G. Uymin, A. E. Lipton, and H. E. Snell: 2008: Radiance modeling by optimal spectral sampling. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 3917-3934.

O'Dell, C., F. Wentz, and R. Bennartz, 2008: Cloud liquid water path from satellite-based passive microwave observations: A new climatology over the global oceans. Journal of Climate, 21, 8, 1721-1739.

Payne, V. H., J. S. Delamere, K. E. Cady-Pereira, R. R. Gamache, J-L. Moncet, E. J. Mlawer and S. A. Clough, 2008: Air-broadened half-widths of the 22 GHz and 183 GHz water vapor lines. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 46, 3601-3617.

Rabier, F., P. Gauthier, C. Cardinali, R. Langland, M. Tsyrulnikov, A. Lorenc, P. Steinle, R Gelaro, and K. Koizumi, 2008: An update on THORPEX-related research in data assimilation and observing strategies. Nonlin. Proc. Geophys., 15, 81-94.

Ruston, B. F., Weng, and B. Yan, 2008: Uses of 1D var retrieval to diagnose estimates of infrared and microwave surface emissivity over land for the ATOVS sounding instruments. IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 46, 393-402.

Stajner, I., et al., 2008: Assimilated ozone from EOS-Aura: Evaluation of the tropopause region and tropospheric columns. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D16S32, doi:10.1029/2007JD008863.

Sun, N., and F. Weng, 2008: Evaluation of Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder (SSMIS) Environmental Data Record, IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 46, 1006-1016.

Wang, Z., and X. Zeng, 2008: Snow albedo's dependence on solar zenith angle from in situ and MODIS data. Atmos. Oceanic Sci. Lett., 1, 45-50.

Yan, B., and F. Weng, 2008: Intercalibration between Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder (SSMIS) and Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I). IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 46, 984-995.

Zapotocny, T. H., J. A. Jung, J. F. Le Marshall, and R. E. Treadon, 2008: A two season impact study of four satellite data types and rawinsonde data in the NCEP Global Data Assimilation System. Wea. and Forecasting, 23, 80-100.

Zhan, X., W.T. Crow, T.J. Jackson, and Peggy O'Neill, 2008: Improving space-borne radiometer soil moisture retrievals with alternative aggregation rules for ancillary parameters. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 5, No. 2, p.261-265.

Zhang, J., J. S. Reid, S. D. Miller, and J. F. Turk, 2008: Strategy for studying nocturnal aerosol optical depth using artificial lights, Int. J. of Remote Sens., 29, 4599-461.

Zhang, J., J. S. Reid, D. L. Westphal, N. L Baker, and E. J. Hyer, 2008: A system for operational aerosol optical depth data assimilation over global oceans. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D10208, doi:10.1029/2007JD009065.

2007

Bennartz, R, 2007: Passive microwave remote sensing of precipitation at high latitudes. Pages 165-178. In: Measuring Precipitation from Space - EURAINSAT and the future. Eds.: V. Levizziani, J. Turk, P. Bauer. 745 p., ISBN: 978-1-4020-5834-9.

Boukabara, S., and F. Weng, 2007: Microwave emissivity over ocean in all-weather conditions: validation using WINDSAT and Airborne GPS- Dropsondes. IEEE Trans Geos. Remote Sens., 46, 376-384.

Crow, W. and X. Zhan. 2007: Continental-scale evaluation of remotely sensed soil moisture products. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.451-455.

Cucurull, L., J. C. Derber, R. Treadon, and R. J. Purser, 2007: Assimilation of global positioning system radio occultation observations into NCEP's Global Data Assimilation System, Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3174- 3193.

Errico, M., G. Ohring, P. Bauer, B. Ferrier, J. Mahfouf, J. Turk, and F. Weng, 2007: Assimilation of satellite cloud and precipitation observations in numerical weather prediction models. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3737 - 3741.

Han, Y, F. Weng, Q. Liu, and P. van Delst, 2007: A fast radiative transfer model for SSMIS upper atmosphere sounding channels. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D11121, doi:10.1029/2006JD008208.

Kim, M.-J., M. S. Kulie, C. W. O'Dell, and R. Bennartz, 2007: Scattering of ice particles at microwave frequencies: a physically based parameterization. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, DOI: 10.1175/JAM2483.1

Langland, R.H., and N.L. Baker, 2007: Reply to Interpretations of an adjoint-derived observational impact measure. Tellus, 59, 277.

Le Marshall, J., L. Bi, J. Jung, T. Zapotocny, and M. Morgan, 2007: WindSat polarimetric microwave observations improve southern hemisphere numerical weather prediction. Aust. Meteor. Mag., 56, 35-40.

Le Marshall, J., L. Uccellini, F. Einaudi, M.Colton, M. Chang, M. Uhart, F. Weng, S. Lord, L.-P. Riishojgaard, P., Phoebus, and J. Yoe., 2007: The Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 329-240.

O'Dell, C.W., P. Bauer and R. Bennartz, 2007: A fast cloud overlap parameterization for microwave radiance assimilation. J. Atmos Sci., 64 (11): 3896-3909.

Reynolds C., M. Peng; S. Majumdar, S. Aberson, C. Bishop; R. Buizza (2007): Interpretation of adaptive observing guidance for Atlantic tropical cyclones. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 12, 4006-4029.

Stajner, I. C. Benson, H.-C. Liu, S. Pawson, N. Brubaker, L.-P. Chang, L. P. Riishojgaard, and R. Todling, 2007: Ice polar stratospheric clouds detected from assimilation of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16802, doi:10.1029/2007GL029415.

Wang, Z., X. Zeng, and M. Barlage, 2007: MODIS BRDF-based land surface albedo parameterization for weather and climate models. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres, 112, D02103, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006736.

Weng, F., 2007: Advances in radiative transfer modeling in support of satellite data assimilation. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3803-3811.

Weng, F., T. Zhu, and B. Yang, 2007: Satellite data assimilation in numerical weather prediction models, 2. Uses of rain affected microwave radiances for hurricane vortex analysis, J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3914- 3929.

Xu, L., T. Rosmond, J. Goerss, and B. Chua, 2007: Toward a weak constraint operational 4D-Var system: Application to the Burgers' Equation. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 16 (6), 741-753.

Zapotocny, T. H., J. A. Jung, J. F. Le Marshall, and R. E. Treadon, 2007: A two season impact study of satellite and in-situ data in the NCEP Global Data Assimilation System. Wea. Forecasting, 22, 887-909.

Zeng, X., and A. Wang, 2007: Consistent parameterization of roughness length and displacement height for sparse and dense canopies in land models. J. Hydrometeor., 8, 730-737.

Zhang, J., and J. Reid, 2007: MODIS aerosol product analysis for data assimilation: Assessment of level 2 aerosol optical thickness retrievals. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D22207, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006898.

Zhang, X., T. Li, F. Weng, C-C Wu and L. Xu, 2007: Reanalysis of western Pacific typhoons in 2004 with multi-satellite observations. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., DOI 10.1007/s00703-006-0240-5/.

2006

Cucurull, L., Y.-H Kuo, D. Barker and S. Rizvi, 2006: Assessing the impact of COSMIC GPS radio occultation data on weather analysis over the Antarctic: A case study. Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 134, 11, 3283- 3296.

Heidinger, A., C. O'Dell, T. Greenwald, and R. Bennartz, 2006: The successive order of interaction radiative transfer model, Part I: Model development. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 45, 1388-1402.

Le Marshall, J., J.Jung, T. Zapotocny, J. Derber, R.Treadon, S. Lord, M. Goldberg, and W. Wolf: 2006. The application of AIRS radiances in numerical weather prediction. Aust. Meteor. Mag., 55, 213-217.

Liu, Q, and F. Weng, 2006: Detecting warm core of hurricanes from Special Microwave Imager and Sounder. Geophysical Res. Letters, 33, L06817.

Liu, Q, and F. Weng, 2006: Advanced doubling-adding method for radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 3459- 3465.

Liu, Q. and F. Weng, 2006: A combined Henyey-Greenstein and Rayleigh (HG-Rayleigh) phase function. Applied Optics, 45, 7475-7479.

McCormack, J. P., S. D. Eckermann, D. E. Siskind, T. McGee, 2006: CHEM2D-OPP: A new linearized gas-phase ozone photochemistry parameterization for high-altitude NWP and climate model. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 4943 - 4972.

O'Dell, C., A. Heidinger, T. Greenwald, and R. Bennartz, 2006: The successive order of interaction radiative transfer model, Part II: Model performance and applications. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 45, 1403- 1413.

2005

Faccani, C., R. Ferretti, R. Pacione, T. Paolucci, E. Vespe, and L. Cucurull, 2005: Impact of a high density GPS network on the operational forecast., Advances in Geosciences, Vol. 2, 73-79.

Ferretti, R., C. Faccani, D. Cimini, F.S. Marzano, A. Memmo, L. Cucurull, and R. Pacione, 2005: Simulations of deep convection in the Mediterranean area using 3DVAR of conventional and non-conventional data. Advances in Geosciences, Vol. 2, 65-71.

Greenwald, T., R. Bennartz, C. O'Dell and A. Heidinger, 2005: Fast computation of microwave radiances for data assimilation using the "Successive Order of Scattering" method. Journal of Applied Meteorology, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 960-966.

Langland, R.H., 2005: Issues in targeted observing, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., (invited paper in special issue), 131, 3409-3425.

Le Marshall, J., J. Jung, J. Derber, R. Treadon, S. Lord, M. Goldberg, W. Wolf, H.C. Liu, J.Joiner, J. Woollen, and R. Todling, 2005: AIRS hyperspectral data improves southern hemisphere forecasts. Aust. Meteor. Mag., 54, 57-60.

Le Marshall, J. Jung, J. Derber, R. Treadon, S. Lord, M. Goldberg, W. Wolf, H. C.Liu, J. Joiner, J. Woollen, and R. Todling, 2005: Impact of Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder Observations on Weather Forecasts. EOS, 86, 109, 115, 116.

Le Marshall, J., J. Jung, J. Derber, M.Chahine, R.Treadon, S. Lord, M. Goldberg, W. Wolf, H.C. Liu, J. Joiner, J. Woollen, R. Todling, P. van Delst, and Y. Tahara. 2005: Improving Global Analysis and Forecasting with AIRS. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 747-750.

Liu, Q, and F. Weng, 2005: Vicarious calibration of the third and fourth Stokes parameters of Windsat measurements. Appl. Opt., 44, 7403- 7406.

2004

Bennartz, R., C. O'Dell, T. J. Greenwald, and A. K. Heidinger, 2004: Fast passive microwave radiative transfer in precipitating clouds: Towards direct radiance assimilation. Proceedings of SPIE, 5654, 33- 37.

Cucurull, L., F. Vandenberghe, D. Barker, E. Vilaclara, and A. Rius, 2004: 3DVAR assimilation of ground-based GPS ZTD and meteorological observations during the December 14th 2001 storm event over the western Mediterranean Sea, Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 132, 3, 749-763.