2021 STAR Publications

Andersen, O. B., Zhang, S., Sandwell, D. T., Dibarboure, G., Smith, W. H. F., & Abulaitijiang, A. (2021). The Unique Role of the Jason Geodetic Missions for High Resolution Gravity Field and Mean Sea Surface Modelling. Remote Sensing, 13(4), 646. [10.3390/rs13040646]

Antoine, D., Slivkoff, M., Klonowski, W., Kovach, C., & Ondrusek, M. (2021). Uncertainty Assessment of Unattended above-Water Radiometric Data Collection from Research Vessels with the Dynamic above-Water Radiance (L) and Irradiance (E) Collector (DALEC). Optics Express, 29(3), 4607-4631. [10.1364/oe.412022]

Bursik, M., Yang, Q. Y., Bear-Crozier, A., Pavolonis, M., & Tupper, A. (2021). The Development of Volcanic Ash Cloud Layers over Hours to Days Due to Atmospheric Turbulence Layering. Atmosphere, 12(2). [10.3390/atmos12020285]

Cao, C., Zhang, B., Shao, X., Wang, W., Uprety, S., Choi, T., Blonski, S., Gu, Y., Bai, Y., Lin, L., & Kalluri, S. (2021). Mission-Long Recalibrated Science Quality Suomi NPP VIIRS Radiometric Dataset Using Advanced Algorithms for Time Series Studies. Remote Sensing, 13(6), 1075. [10.3390/rs13061075]

Chauhan, A., Singh, R. P., Dash, P., & Kumar, R. (2021). Impact of Tropical Cyclone "Fani" on Land, Ocean, Atmospheric and Meteorological Parameters. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 162. [10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111844]

Chen, J. M., Chuvieco, E., & Wang, M. H. (2021). Preface, Special Issue of "50 Years of Environmental Remote Sensing Research: 1969-2019". Remote Sensing of Environment, 252. [10.1016/j.rse.2020.112113]

Choi, T., & Cao, C. (2021). S-NPP VIIRS Day Night Band on-Board Solar Diffuser Calibration Validation Using the Scheduled Lunar Collections. Remote Sensing, 13(6), 1093. [10.3390/rs13061093]

Gan, Y. J., Zhang, Y., Kongoli, C., Grassotti, C., Liu, Y. Q., Lee, Y. K., & Seo, D. J. (2021). Evaluation and Blending of ATMS and AMSR2 Snow Water Equivalent Retrievals over the Conterminous United States. Remote Sensing of Environment, 254. [10.1016/j.rse.2020.112280]

Glenn, E., Smith, T. M., Gálvez, J. M., Davison, M., Hibbert, K., & González, J. E. (2021). Tropical Convection in the Caribbean and Surrounding Region During a Regional, Warming Sea-Surface Temperature Period, 1982–2020. Hydrology, 8(2), 56. [10.3390/hydrology8020056]

Huang, F., Garrison, J. L., Leidner, S. M., Annane, B., Hoffman, R. N., Grieco, G., & Stoffelen, A. (2021). A Forward Model for Data Assimilation of GNSS Ocean Reflectometry Delay-Doppler Maps. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 59(3), 2643-2656. [10.1109/TGRS.2020.3002801]

Huff, A. K., Kondragunta, S., Zhang, H., Laszlo, I., Zhou, M., Caicedo, V., Delgado, R., & Levy, R. (2021). Tracking Smoke from a Prescribed Fire and Its Impacts on Local Air Quality Using Temporally Resolved GOES-16 ABI Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD). Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. [10.1175/jtech-d-20-0162.1]

Kalluri, S., Cao, C., Heidinger, A., Ignatov, A., Key, J., & Smith, T. (2021). The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer: Contributing to Earth Observations for over 40 Years. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(2), E351-E366. [10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0088.1]

Lee, J., Shi, Y. X. R., Cai, C. J., Ciren, P., Wang, J. W., Gangopadhyay, A., & Zhang, Z. B. (2021). Machine Learning Based Algorithms for Global Dust Aerosol Detection from Satellite Images: Inter-Comparisons and Evaluation. Remote Sensing, 13(3). [10.3390/rs13030456]

Liang, X. M., & Liu, Q. H. (2021). Applying Deep Learning to Clear-Sky Radiance Simulation for VIIRS with Community Radiative Transfer Model-Part 1: Develop AI-Based Clear-Sky Mask. Remote Sensing, 13(2). [10.3390/rs13020222]

Liang, X. M., & Liu, Q. H. (2021). Applying Deep Learning to Clear-Sky Radiance Simulation for VIIRS with Community Radiative Transfer Model-Part 2: Model Architecture and Assessment (Vol 12, 3825, 2020). Remote Sensing, 13(3). [10.3390/rs13030467]

Liu, Q., Cao, C., Grassotti, C., & Lee, Y.-K. (2021). How Can Microwave Observations at 23.8 Ghz Help in Acquiring Water Vapor in the Atmosphere over Land? Remote Sensing, 13(3), 489. [10.3390/rs13030489]

Liu, X. M., & Wang, M. H. (2021). Super-Resolution of VIIRS-Measured Ocean Color Products Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 59(1), 114-127. [10.1109/tgrs.2020.2992912]

Lu, X. M., Zhang, X. Y., Li, F. J., Cochrane, M. A., & Ciren, P. (2021). Detection of Fire Smoke Plumes Based on Aerosol Scattering Using VIIRS Data over Global Fire-Prone Regions. Remote Sensing, 13(2). [10.3390/rs13020196]

Luo, B., Minnett, P. J., & Nalli, N. R. (2021). Infrared Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Skin Temperature Sensitivity to Aerosol Vertical Distribution- Field Data Analysis and Model Simulations. Remote Sensing of Environment, 252. [10.1016/j.rse.2020.112151]

Milani, L., Kulie, M. S., Casella, D., Kirstetter, P. E., Panegrossi, G., Petkovic, V., Ringerud, S. E., Rysman, J.-F., Sanò, P., Wang, N.-Y., You, Y., & Skofronick-Jackson, G. (2021). Extreme Lake-Effect Snow from a GPM Microwave Imager Perspective: Observational Analysis and Precipitation Retrieval Evaluation. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 38(2), 293-311. [10.1109/tgrs.2020.2992429]

Rishmawi, K., Huang, C. Q., & Zhan, X. W. (2021). Monitoring Key Forest Structure Attributes across the Conterminous United States by Integrating Gedi Lidar Measurements and VIIRS Data. Remote Sensing, 13(3). [10.3390/rs13030442]

Shao, X., Wu, X., Yu, F., & Cao, C. (2021). Characterization and Monitoring of GOES-16 ABI Stray Light and Comparison with Himawari-8 AHI and GOES-17 ABI. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 15(1), 017503. [10.1117/1.JRS.15.017503]

Shi, W., & Wang, M. H. (2021). A Biological Indian Ocean Dipole Event in 2019. Scientific Reports, 11(1). [10.1038/s41598-021-81410-5]

Skirving, W., Pomeroy, A., McCall, R., Marra, J., & Storlazzi, C. (2021). Editorial: Flooding on Coral Reef-Lined Coasts: Current State of Knowledge and Future Challenges. [Editorial]. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. [10.3389/fmars.2020.635240]

Straka, W., Kondragunta, S., Wei, Z., Zhang, H., Miller, S. D., & Watts, A. (2021). Examining the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Covid-19 Using Earth Observation Data. Remote Sensing, 13(1), 5. [10.3390/rs13010005]

Sun, B. M., Calbet, X., Reale, A., Schroeder, S., Bali, M., Smith, R., & Pettey, M. (2021). Accuracy of Vaisala Rs41 and Rs92 Upper Tropospheric Humidity Compared to Satellite Hyperspectral Infrared Measurements. Remote Sensing, 13(2). [10.3390/rs13020173]

Wang, W. H., & Cao, C. Y. (2021). NOAA-20 and S-NPP VIIRS Thermal Emissive Bands on-Orbit Calibration Algorithm Update and Long-Term Performance Inter-Comparison. Remote Sensing, 13(3). [10.3390/rs13030448]

Wang, Y. C., Lee, Z. P., Wei, J. W., Shang, S. L., Wang, M. H., & Lai, W. D. (2021). Extending Satellite Ocean Color Remote Sensing to the near-Blue Ultraviolet Bands. Remote Sensing of Environment, 253. [10.1016/j.rse.2020.112228]

Wei, J. W., Wang, M. H., Lee, Z. P., Ondrusek, M., Zhang, S., & Ladner, S. (2021). Experimental Analysis of the Measurement Precision of Spectral Water-Leaving Radiance in Different Water Types. Optics Express, 29(2), 2780-2797. [10.1364/oe.413784]

Xiao, F., Zhu, B., & Zhu, T. (2021). Inconsistent Urbanization Effects on Summer Precipitation over the Typical Climate Regions in Central and Eastern China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 143(1-2), 73-85. [10.1007/s00704-020-03404-z]

Yan, B., & Ahmad, K. (2021). Derivation and Validation of Sensor Brightness Temperatures for Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-a Instruments. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 59(1), 404-414. [10.1109/tgrs.2020.2992270]

Yan, S. Q., Zhu, B., Zhu, T., Shi, C. E., Liu, D. Y., Kang, H. Q., Lu, W., & Lu, C. S. (2021). The Effect of Aerosols on Fog Lifetime: Observational Evidence and Model Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(2). [10.1029/2020gl091156]

Zhang, H., & Kondragunta, S. (2021). Daily and Hourly Surface Pm2.5 Estimation from Satellite AOD. Earth and Space Science, 8(3), e2020EA001599. [10.1029/2020EA001599]

Zhou, Y., Shahroudi, N., Zhu, T., Iturbide-Sanchez, F., Maddy, E. S., Boukabara, S. A., Ide, K., & Hoffman, R. N. (2021). A Preliminary Assessment of the Value and Impact of Multiple Configurations of Constellations of Eon-Mw, a Proposed 12u Microwave Sounder Cubesat for Global NWP. Tellus Series a-Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 73(1), 1-26. [10.1080/16000870.2020.1857143]

Donlon, C. J., Cullen, R., Giulicchi, L., Vuilleumier, P., Francis, C. R., Kuschnerus, M., Simpson, W., Bouridah, A., Caleno, M., Bertoni, R., Rancaño, J., Pourier, E., Hyslop, A., Mulcahy, J., Knockaert, R., Hunter, C., Webb, A., Fornari, M., Vaze, P., Brown, S., Willis, J., Desai, S., Desjonqueres, J.-D., Scharroo, R., Martin-Puig, C., Leuliette, E., Egido, A., Smith, W. H. F., Bonnefond, P., Le Gac, S., Picot, N., & Tavenrier, G. (2021). The Copernicus Sentinel-6 Mission: Enhanced Continuity of Satellite Sea Level Measurements from Space. Remote Sensing of Environment, 258, 112395. [10.1016/j.rse.2021.112395]

Huang, B., Liu, C., Banzon, V., Freeman, E., Graham, G., Hankins, B., Smith, T., & Zhang, H.-M. (2021). Improvements of the Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (Doisst) Version 2.1. Journal of Climate, 34(8), 2923-2939. [10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0166.1]

Marra, J. F., Barber, R. T., Barber, E., Bidigare, R. R., Chamberlin, W. S., Goericke, R., Hargreaves, B. R., Hiscock, M., Iturriaga, R., Johnson, Z. I., Kiefer, D. A., Kinkade, C., Knudson, C., Lance, V., Langdon, C., Lee, Z. P., Perry, M. J., Smith, W. O., Vaillancourt, R., & Zoffoli, L. (2021). A Database of Ocean Primary Productivity from the C-14 Method. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 6(2), 107-111. [10.1002/lol2.10175]

Mikelsons, K., Wang, M., Wang, X.-L., & Jiang, L. (2021). Global Land Mask for Satellite Ocean Color Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment, 257, 112356. [10.1016/j.rse.2021.112356]

Wang, M. H., Jiang, L. D., Mikelsons, K., & Liu, X. M. (2021). Satellite-Derived Global Chlorophyll-a Anomaly Products. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 97. [10.1016/j.jag.2020.102288]