JCSDA Publications

2008

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

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., in press.

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. BAMS, 89, 313-333.

Baker, N. L., and R. H. Langland, 2008: Diagnostics for evaluating the impact of observations. In Data Assimilation in Geosciences, Springer- Verlag.

Chang, Hsin-I, A. Kumar, D. Niyogi, U. C. Mohanty, F. Chen, and J. Dudhia, 2008: Impact of convection and land surface parameterizations on the simulation of the July 26, 2005 heavy rain event over Mumbai, India. Global Planetary Change, accepted.

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., (in press).

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, F. Chang, 2008, Studying the vertical variation of cloud droplet effective radius using ship and space-borne remote sensing data. J. Geophys. Res., in press.

Cucurull, L., and J.C. Derber, 2008: Operational implementation of COSMIC observations into the NCEP's Global Data Assimilation System. Mon. Wea. Rev. (in press).

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.

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

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. Accepted Wea. Forecasting.

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. In press.

Langland, R. H., R. N. Maue, and C. H. Bishop, 2008: Uncertainty in atmospheric temperature analyses. Tellus, in-press

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. Accepted Aust. Meteor. Mag.

LeMone M.A., M. Tewari, F. Chen, J.G. Alfieri and D. Niyogi, 2008: Adding horizontal heterogeneity as a criterion for evaluating a land- surface model, Mon. Wea. Rev., in press.

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

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

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., in press.

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

Ruston, B. F., Weng, 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.

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. Forecasting, 23, 80-100.

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

Zhang, J. and J. S. Reid, J. Turk, and S. Miller, 2008: Strategy for studying nocturnal aerosol optical depth using artificial lights, International Journal of Remote Sensing. (In Press)

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. July 2007.

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

O'Dell C.W., Bauer P., and Bennartz R., 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

Bell, W., S. English, and S.D. Swadley, 2006: The Assimilation of SSMI and SSMIS Radiances at the Met Office. 9th Specialists Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Han, Y., P. van Delst, Q. Liu, F. Weng, B. Yan, R. Treadon, and J. Derber (2006), Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) - Version 1. NOAA Technical Report 122.

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., Jung, Zapotocny, T., J., Derber, J., Treadon, R., Lord, S., Goldberg, M. and W. Wolf. 2006. The Application of Airs Radiances In Numerical Weather Prediction. Aust. Meteor. Mag. In press.

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, CHEM2D-OPP: A new linearized gas-phase ozone photochemistry parameterization for high-altitude NWP and climate model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 4943 - 4972, 2006.

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

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

Le Marshall, J., Jung, J., Derber, J., Treadon, R., Lord, S., Goldberg, M., Wolf, W., Liu, H.C., Joiner, J., Woollen, J. and R. Todling. 2005. Impact of Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder Observations on Weather Forecasts. EOS, 86, 109, 115, 116. 15 March 2005.

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

Le Marshall, J., Jung, J., Lord, S., Derber, J., Treadon, R., Joiner, J., Goldberg, M., Wolf, W., and H.C. Liu. 2005. AIRS associated accomplishments at the JCSDA - First use of full spatial resolution hyperspectral data show significant improvements in global forecasts. Proceedings of SPIE, Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization: Numerical Atmospheric Prediction and Environmental Monitoring, 5890, 5890001-7.

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

Weng, F., Y. Han, P. van Delst, Q., Liu, and B. Yan, 2005: JCSDA Community radiative transfer model (CRTM), Technical Proceedings of Fourteenth International ATOVS Study Conference, Beijing.

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, Volume 5654, 33-37.