Fiscal Year 2021 STAR Publications

Cao, C., Wang, W., Lynch, E., Bai, Y., Ho, S.-P., & Zhang, B. (2020). Simultaneous Radio Occultation for Intersatellite Comparison of Bending Angles toward More Accurate Atmospheric Sounding. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 37(12), 2307-2320. [10.1175/jtech-d-20-0036.1]

Carr, J. L., Wu, D. L., Daniels, J., Friberg, M. D., Bresky, W., & Madani, H. (2020). Geo-Geo Stereo-Tracking of Atmospheric Motion Vectors (Amvs) from the Geostationary Ring. Remote Sensing, 12(22). [10.3390/rs12223779]

Choi, T., Cao, C. Y., Blonski, S., Wang, W. H., Uprety, S., & Shao, X. (2020). NOAA-20 VIIRS Reflective Solar Band Postlaunch Calibration Updates Two Years in-Orbit. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58(11), 7633-7642. [10.1109/tgrs.2020.2982764]

Combot, C., Mouche, A., Knaff, J., Zhao, Y., Zhao, Y., Vinour, L., Quilfen, Y., & Chapron, B. (2020). Extensive High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data Analysis of Tropical Cyclones: Comparisons with Sfmr Flights and Best Track. Monthly Weather Review, 148(11), 4545-4563. [10.1175/MWR-D-20-0005.1]

Frost, G. J., Kopacz, M., Kondragunta, S., Ahmadov, R., Al-Saadi, J., Andrews, A., Barnet, C., Breeze, V., Christopoulos, J., Cooper, O., Crawford, A., Flynn, L., Gaudel, A., Martin, C., McDonald, B., McQueen, J., Paulot, F., Pavolonis, M., Petropavlovskikh, I., Pierce, R. B., Rosenlof, K. H., Saylor, R., Schmit, T., Stajner, I., Stanitski, D., & Szykman, J. (2020). A Value Assessment of an Atmospheric Composition Capability on the NOAA Next-Generation Geostationary and Extended Orbits (Geo-Xo) Missions. [Technical Report]. . [10.25923/1s4s-t405]

Gavahi, K., Abbaszadeh, P., Moradkhani, H., Zhan, X. W., & Hain, C. (2020). Multivariate Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration for Drought Monitoring. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(10), 2293-2308. [10.1175/jhm-d-20-0057.1]

Gerth J. J., Garcia, R. K., Hoese, D. J., Lindstrom, S. S., & Schmit, T. J. (2020). SIFTing through Satellite Imagery with the Satellite Information Familiarization Tool. J. Operational Meteor., 8(10), 121-132. [10.15191/nwajom.2020.0810]

Greene, A., Donahue, M. J., Caldwell, J. M., Heron, S. F., Geiger, E., & Raymundo, L. J. (2020). Coral Disease Time Series Highlight Size-Dependent Risk and Other Drivers of White Syndrome in a Multi-Species Model. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. [10.3389/fmars.2020.601469]

Heron, S. F., Raymundo, L., Sweet, W. V., Papa, A., Moreland-Ochoa, C., & Burdick, D. R. (2020). Predicting Extreme Tide Events to Inform Shallow Reef Community Restoration and Management in Guam. [Technical Memorandum]. , 48. [10.25923/bb8f-gf73]

Ho, S. P., Zhou, X. J., Shao, X., Zhang, B., Adhikari, L., Kireev, S., He, Y. X., Yoe, J. G., Xia-Serafino, W., & Lynch, E. (2020). Initial Assessment of the COSMIC-2/Formosat-7 Neutral Atmosphere Data Quality in NESDIS/Star Using in Situ and Satellite Data. Remote Sensing, 12(24). [10.3390/rs12244099]

Hyman, D. M., & Pavolonis, M. J. (2020). Probabilistic Retrieval of Volcanic So2 Layer Height and Partial Column Density Using the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS). Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 13(11), 5891-5921. [10.5194/amt-13-5891-2020]

Kondragunta, S., Crisp, D., & Zehner, C. (2020). Disseminating Scientific Results in the Age of Rapid Communication. Eos, 101. [10.1029/2020EO150710]

Kongoli, C., Meng, H., Dong, J., & Ferraro, R. (2020). Ground-Based Assessment of Snowfall Detection over Land Using Polarimetric High Frequency Microwave Measurements. Remote Sensing, 12(20). [10.3390/rs12203441]

Laviola, S., Monte, G., Levizzani, V., Ferraro, R. R., & Beauchamp, J. (2020). A New Method for Hail Detection from the GPM Constellation: A Prospect for a Global Hailstorm Climatology. Remote Sensing, 12(21). [10.3390/rs12213553]

Liang, X. M., & Liu, Q. H. (2020). Applying Deep Learning to Clear-Sky Radiance Simulation for VIIRS with Community Radiative Transfer Model-Part 2: Model Architecture and Assessment. Remote Sensing, 12(22). [10.3390/rs12223825]

Moradi, I., Evans, K. F., McCarty, W., Cordero-Fuentes, M., Gelaro, R., & Black, R. A. (2020). Assimilation of Satellite Microwave Observations over the Rainbands of Tropical Cyclones. Monthly Weather Review, 148(12), 4729-4745. [10.1175/mwr-d-19-0341.1]

Nalli, N. R., Tan, C. Y., Warner, J., Divakarla, M., Gambacorta, A., Wilson, M., Zhu, T., Wang, T. Y., Wei, Z. G., Pryor, K., Kalluri, S., Zhou, L. H., Sweeney, C., Baier, B. C., McKain, K., Wunch, D., Deutscher, N. M., Hase, F., Iraci, L. T., Kivi, R., Morino, I., Notholt, J., Ohyama, H., Pollard, D. E., Te, Y., Velazco, V. A., Warneke, T., Sussmann, R., & Rettinger, M. (2020). Validation of Carbon Trace Gas Profile Retrievals from the NOAA-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System for the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder. Remote Sensing, 12(19). [10.3390/rs12193245]

Shin, D. B., Haddad, Z., & Ferraro, R. (2020). Advances in Precipitation Measurements and Sciences. Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 56(4), 613-613. [10.1007/s13143-020-00206-1]

Skirving, W., Marsh, B., De La Cour, J., Liu, G., Harris, A., Maturi, E., Geiger, E., & Eakin, C. M. (2020). Coraltemp and the Coral Reef Watch Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Product Suite Version 3.1. Remote Sensing, 12(23), 3856. [10.3390/rs12233856]

Steiner, A. K., Ladstadter, F., Randel, W. J., Maycock, A. C., Fu, Q., Claud, C., Gleisner, H., Haimberger, L., Ho, S. P., Keckhut, P., Leblanc, T., Mears, C., Polvani, L. M., Santer, B. D., Schmidt, T., Sofieva, V., Wing, R., & Zou, C. Z. (2020). Observed Temperature Changes in the Troposphere and Stratosphere from 1979 to 2018. Journal of Climate, 33(19), 8165-8194. [10.1175/jcli-d-19-0998.1]

Su, T. N., Laszlo, I., Li, Z. Q., Wei, J., & Kalluri, S. (2020). Refining Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals over Land by Constructing the Relationship of Spectral Surface Reflectances through Deep Learning: Application to Himawari-8. Remote Sensing of Environment, 251. [10.1016/j.rse.2020.112093]

Wei, J. W., Wang, M. H., Lee, Z. P., Briceno, H. O., Yu, X. L., Jiang, L. D., Garcia, R., Wang, J. W., & Luis, K. (2020). Shallow Water Bathymetry with Multi-Spectral Satellite Ocean Color Sensors: Leveraging Temporal Variation in Image Data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 250. [10.1016/j.rse.2020.112035]

Wei, J. W., Yu, X. L., Lee, Z. P., Wang, M. H., & Jiang, L. D. (2020). Improving Low-Quality Satellite Remote Sensing Reflectance at Blue Bands over Coastal and Inland Waters. Remote Sensing of Environment, 250. [10.1016/j.rse.2020.112029]

Yan, B. H., Liang, D., Porter, W., Huang, J. F., Sun, N. H., Zhou, L. H., Zhu, T., Goldberg, M., Zhang, D. L., & Liu, Q. H. (2020). Gap Filling of Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder Data as Applied to Hurricane Warm Core Animations. Earth and Space Science, 7(12). [10.1029/2019ea000961]

Yang, W. Z., Kogan, F., & Guo, W. (2020). An Ongoing Blended Long-Term Vegetation Health Product for Monitoring Global Food Security. Agronomy-Basel, 10(12). [10.3390/agronomy10121936]

Yin, J. F., Zhan, X. W., Liu, J. C., Moradkhani, H., Fang, L., & Walker, J. P. (2020). Near-Real-Time One-Kilometre Soil Moisture Active Passive Soil Moisture Data Product. Hydrological Processes, 34(21), 4083-4096. [10.1002/hyp.13857]

Zhang, H., Kondragunta, S., Laszlo, I., & Zhou, M. (2020). Improving GOES Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) Retrievals Using an Empirical Bias Correction Algorithm. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 13(11), 5955-5975. [10.5194/amt-13-5955-2020]

Zhang, Y., Liang, S. L., He, T., Wang, D. D., & Yu, Y. Y. (2020). Estimation of Land Surface Incident and Net Shortwave Radiation from Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Using an Optimization Method. Remote Sensing, 12(24). [10.3390/rs12244153]

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]