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Fiscal Year 2003 Non-refereed Publications (top)

Ahijevych, D. A., C. A. Davis, and R. E. Carbone, 2003: Initiation of precipitation episodes relative to elevated terrain. Preprints, 10th Conference On Mesoscale Processes, Portland, OR, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Ahijevych, D. A., R. E. Carbone, and C. A. Davis, 2003: Regional-scale aspects of the diurnal precipitation cycle. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 345-348.

Andrejczuk, M., W. W. Grabowski, S. P. Malinowski, and P. K. Smolarkiewicz, 2003: Small-scale turbulent mixing in clouds. Proceedings, European Geophysics Society (EGS)-American Geophysical Union (AGU)-European Union of Geosciences (EUG) Joint Assembly, Nice, France.

Andrejczuk, M., W. W. Grabowski, S. P. Malinowski, and P. K. Smolarkiewicz, 2003: Small-scale turbulent mixing in clouds. CD-ROM, XXIII General Assembly of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Sapporo, Japan.

Ayala, O., W. W. Grabowski, L. P. Wang, and Y. Xue, 2003: Effects of turbulence on the coagulation rate of cloud droplets. CD-ROM, XXIII General Assembly of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Sapporo, Japan.

Barker, D. M., and Q. H. Zhang, 2003: Calibration of the MM5 regional nature run trajectory. Preprints, Space-based lidar project workshop, Silver Springs, MD, USA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Barker, D. M., W. Huang, and M. Duda, 2003: Three-dimensional variational data assimilation in AMPS. Preprints, Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) Workshop, Madison, WI, USA, University of Wisconsin/Madison.

Barker, D. M., W. Huang, Y.-R. Guo, Q. Xiao, and S. R. Rizvi, 2003: The MM5 implementation of WRF 3DVAR. Preprints, 13 PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model User's Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Bateman, M. G.*, D. M. Mach*, S. A. Lewis, J. E. Dye, E. Defer*, C. A. Grainger, P. T. Willis*, H. J. Christian*, and F. Merceret*, 2003: Comparison of in-situ electric field and radar derived parameters for stratiform clouds in central Florida. Proceedings, International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE), Versailles, France.

Bromwich, D. H., A. J. Monaghan, J. G. Powers, K. W. Manning, Y.-H. Kuo, and A. Cayette*, 2003: Comparison of AMPS forecast performance before and after the implementation of the 3.3-km domain. Preprints, Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System Users' (AMPS) Workshop, Madison, WI, USA, Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Bruintjes, R. T., and M. M. Rosengaus*, 2002: Current state of cloud seeding to enhance rainfall and the potential to augment water resources along the U.S. -Mexico border. Proceedings, 1st International Symposium on Transboundary Water Management, Monterrey, Mexico.

Bruintjes, R. T., B. G. Brown, J. L. Coen, G. Thompson, and T. L. Kane, 2003: Final report on development of icing potential product. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Research Applications Program (RAP) Report to Phillips Laboratory, 190pp.

Bruyere, C., and W. Wang, 2003: MM5 pre- and post-processing programs' update. Preprints, 13th PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model Users' Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Carbone, R. E., A. Barros, C. A. Davis, and M. W. Moncrieff, 2003: Observing, understanding and predicting warm season continental rainfall. Preprints, Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Carbone, R. E., C. A. Davis, and D. A. Ahijevych, 2003: Predictability of warm season rainfall: The paradox, report from working group II: Prediction of water variability on monthly, seasonal, and annual time scales. Proceedings, U.S. Workshop on the Water Cycle in Climate, Irvine, CA, USA, University of California Irvine, 6pp.

Carbone, R. E., J. D. Tuttle, and D. A. Ahijevych, 2003: Inter-annual and semi-diurnal variations associated with summertime precipitation. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Caya, A., N. A. Crook, and J. Sun, 2003: The use of an evaporation scheme in a boundary-layer model for real-time 4DVar radar data assimilation and forecasting of convergence lines. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 110-113.

Chen, F., M. A. LeMone, D. Yates, R. L. Grossman, R. H. Cuenca, T. Horst, D. Niyogi, and P. Blanken, 2003: Utilizing the IHOP 2002 data to study the variability in surface evaporation and water vapor in the boundary layer. Preprints, Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Coen, J. L., 2003: July 31, 2001 Summer Case Study. Report to United Arab Emirate (UAE) Project Sponsors, 8pp.

Crook, N. A., and D. Dowell, 2003: Assimilating radar observations of a supercell storm into a cloudscale model: 4DVar and ensemble Kalman filter methods. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 154-157.

Cucurull, L., Y. -H. Kuo, and T. K. Wee, 2003: 3DVAR assimilation of COSMIC GPS radio occultation into the WRF model. Proceedings, International Workshop on GPS Meteorology, Tsukuba, Japan, 1-5.

Das, S.*, L. Prabhawati, K. Sowjanya, J. Dudhia, C. Liu, and M. W. Moncrieff, 2003: Simulation of heavy precipitation events using different cloud microphysics parameterizations and FDDA in a mesoscale model. Abstracts, XXIII General Assembly of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Sapporo, Japan.

Davis, C. A., 2003: An overview of the Bow Echo and MCV Experiment (BAMEX). Preprints, Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Defer, E.*, P. Laroche*, J. E. Dye, and W. C. Skamarock, 2003: Use of total lightning lengths to estimate Nox production in a Colorado thunderstorm. Proceedings, International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE), Versailles, France.

Derbyshire*, S., W. W. Grabowski, I. Beau*, P. Bechtold*, J.-Y. Grandpeix*, J. P. Piriou*, J. -L Redelsperger*, and P. Soares, 2003: Impact of free-troposheric humidity on deep convection. CD-ROM, XXIII General Assembly of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Sapporo, Japan.

Downton, M. W., H. Cullen, R. E. Morss, O. Wilhelmi, and B. Rajagopalan, 2003: Problems of climate variability and uncertainty in flood hazard planning for the Colorado Front Range. Preprints, Symposium on the Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges, Long Beach, CA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Dudhia, J., 2003: Development of the Weather Research and Forecast model (WRF). Proceedings, International Workshop on NWP Models for Heavy Precipitation in Asia and Pacific Areas, Tokyo, Japan, 42-47.

Dudhia, J., 2003: Verification of the global version of MM5. Preprints, 13th Annual PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model Users' Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 1-2.

Dudhia, J., and J. Bresch, 2003: Verification of the global version of MM5. Preprints, 13th PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model User's Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 118-121.

Dudhia, J., M. L. Weisman, W. C. Skamarock, and W. Wang, 2003: Studies of heavy rainfall in the United States with WRF. Proceedings, International Workshop on NWP Models for Heavy Precipitation in Asia and Pacific Areas, Tokyo, Japan, 84-89.

Dudhia, J., 2003: Mesoscale modeling research and development at NCAR. Weather and Climate Modeling, S.V. Singh, S. Basu, and T.N. Krisnamurti, Eds., New Age International, Ltd, 55-62.

Dye, J. E., E. Defer*, W. Deierling, C. A. Grainger, M. Bateman*, D. Mach*, H. J. Christian*, P. Willis*, and F. Merceret*, 2002: Microphysical properties and the decay of electric fields in Florida anvils. Preprints, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (AGU) San Francisco, CA, USA.

Dye, J. E., W. D. Hall, J. C. Willett*, S. A. Lewis, E. Defer*, P. Willis*, D. M. Mach*, M. Bateman*, H. J. Christian*, C. A. Grainger, J. Schild*, and F. Merceret*, 2003: The decay of electric field in anvils: Observations and comparison with model calculations. Proceedings, International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE), Versailles, France.

Fritsch, J. M., and R. E. Carbone, 2003: Research and development to improve quantitative precipitation forecasts in the warm season: A synopsis of the March 2002 USWRP Workshop and Statement of Priority Recommendations. Office of the Lead Scientist, U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP), 137.

Grabowski, W. W., 2003: Cloud microphysics and climate: Are we deadlocked? CD-ROM, XXIII General Assembly of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Sapporo, Japan.

Grabowski, W. W., 2003: Daytime convective development over land. CD-ROM, XXIII General Assembly of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Sapporo, Japan.

Grabowski, W. W., 2003: Toward cloud-resolving modeling of atmospheric general circulation. Proceedings, 2nd Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling for Monsoon System, Yokohama, Japan, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC).

Grabowski, W. W., D. Randall, M. Khairoutdinov, and A. Arakawa, 2003: Toward cloud-resolving modeling of atmospheric general circulation. CD-ROM, XXIII General Assembly of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Sapporo, Japan.

Guo, Y.-R., H. Kusaka*, D. M. Barker, and N. A. Crook, 2003: Impact of assimilating GPS PWV measurements with 3DVAR system for IHOP 12 June 2002 case. Preprints, 13th PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model Users' Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Ha, S. Y., Y.-H. Kuo, and G. H. Lim, 2003: Assimilation of GPS slant wet delay: Impact of observing network design. Proceedings, International Workshop on GPS Meteorology, Tsukuba, Japan, 1-5.

Ha, S. Y., Y.-H. Kuo, and G. H. Lim, 2003: The impact of ground-based GPS slant-path wet delay measurements on short-range prediction of a prefrontal squall line. Preprints, Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 1-7.

Kingsmill, D. E.*, and N. A. Crook, 2003: An observational study on atmospheric bore formation from colliding density currents. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 933-936.

Knievel, J. C., 2002: Examples of the resolution sensitivity of MCS forecasts by the WRF Model. Abstracts, Mini-Forum on Prediction and Observation of Mesoscale Meteorological Phenomena, Tokyo, Japan, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

Knievel, J. C., 2003: The kinematics and thermodynamics of a midlatitude, continental mesoscale convective system and its mesoscale vortex. Atmospheric Science Paper, 99.

Koracin, D.*, J. G. Powers, M. A. Wetzel*, S. Chai*, and N. Adhikari*, 2003: Improving prediction of marine coastal clouds using satellite and aircraft data. Preprints, 5th Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, Seattle, WA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Kuo, Y.-H., T. K. Wee, and S. Sokolovskiy, 2003: Analysis and assimilation of GPS occultation measurements. Proceedings, International Workshop on GPS Meteorology, Tsukuba, Japan, 1-7.

LeMone, M. A., R. L. Grossman, F. Chen, K. J. Davis, and B. Geerts, 2003: The effects of surface heterogeneity on boundary-layer structure and energy fluxes from aircraft. Preprints, Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Lim, E.*, Q. Xiao, M. Lee*, and J. Cho*, 2003: Radar data assimilation by 3DVAR system to enhance the predictability of heavy rainfall in Korean Peninsula. Preprints, International Workshop in NWP Models, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

Manning, K. W., 2003: An update on AMPS operations and recent system developments. Preprints, Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System Users' Workshop, Madison, WI, USA, Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Manning, K. W., and F. Chen, 2003: High resolution land data assimilation system and its application to NWP. Abstracts, European Geophysics Society (EGS)-American Geophysical Union (AGU)-European Union of Geosciences (EUG) Joint Assembly, Nice, France.

Margolin, L. G.*, and P. K. Smolarkiewicz, 2003: On the transition between DNS and LES simulations of turbulence. Abstracts, Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, San Diego, CA, USA, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Michalakes, J., 2002: The Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model project. Proceedings, HPC Asia: 6th International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region, Bangalore, India, HPC Asia.

Miller, L. J., and J. Sun, 2003: Initialization and forecasting of thunderstorms: Specification of radar measurement errors. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 146-149.

Miloshevich, L. M., H. Voemel*, S. J. Oltmans*, and A. Paukkunen*, 2003: In-situ validation of a correction for time-lag and bias errors in Vaisala RS80-H radiosonde humidity measurements. On-Line, http://arm.gov/docs/documents/technical/conference.html 13th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting, Broomfield, CO, USA.

Moeng, C.-H., 2003: Investigating 2D modeling of atmospheric convection in the PBL. Preprints, Harold D. Orville Symposium, Rapid City, SD, USA, University of South Dakota.

Monaghan, A. J., D. H. Bromwich, Y. -H. Kuo, T. K. Wee, J. G. Powers, and A. Cayette*, 2003: The performance of the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) for an intense summer storm in the Ross Sea. Preprints, 7th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Hyannis, MA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Moncrieff, M. W., and C. Liu, 2003: Sequences of precipitation and organized convection: Dynamics and parameterization. Proceedings, 83rd American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, USA.

Moncrieff, M. W., and W. W. Grabowski, 2003: MJO-like systems in idealized aquaplant simulations. CD-ROM, XXIII General Assembly of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Sapporo, Japan.

Morss, R. E., 2003: Assessing the needs of users of warm season quantitative precipitation forecasts in Colorado. Preprints, Symposium on the Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges, Long Beach, CA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Parker, M. D., and J. C. Knievel, 2003: Are there mesoscale, convective "weather holes?" Preprints, 10th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Portland, OR, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Powers, J. G., and K. W. Manning, 2003: AMPS status and developments: 2002-2003. Preprints, Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) Users' Workshop 2003, Madison, WI, USA, University of Wisconsin.

Powers, J. G., K. W. Manning, Y.-H. Kuo, and D. H. Bromwich, 2003: Mesoscale NWP in support of international Antarctic science and operations. Preprints, 7th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Hyannis, MA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Rocken, C., J. Braun, T. VanHove, J. Johnson, and Y.-H. Kuo, 2003: Developments in ground-based GPS meteorology. Proceedings, International Workshop on GPS Meteorology, Tsukuba, Japan, 1-6.

Rutgersson, A., and P. P. Sullivan, 2003: Investigating the effects of water waves on the turbulence structure in the atmosphere using direct numerical simulations. Preprints, European Geophysics Society (EGS)-American Geophysical Union (AGU)-European Union of Geosciences (EUG) Joint Assembly, Nice, France.

Salazar, V., R. T. Bruintjes, D. Breed, T. L. Jensen, A. Mangoosh*, and A. Mandoos*, 2003: Aerosol-cloud interactions in the United Arab Emirates. Preprints, 5th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry: Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds., Long Beach, CA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 7.12.

Shaw, W.*, and M. A. LeMone, 2003: Turbulence dissipation rate measured by 915 MHz wind profiling radars compared with in-situ tower and aircraft data. Proceedings, Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation, Long Beach, CA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Smolarkiewicz, P. K., 2003: A semi-implicit nonhydrostatic ocean model. Proceedings, 10th Layered Ocean Model Workshop, Miami, FL, USA, University of Miami.

Sun, J., and L. J. Miller, 2003: Initialization and forecasting of thunderstorms: A case study using STEPS data. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 150-153.

Takemi, T., O. Hirayama, and C. Liu, 2003: Effects of moisture profiles on the mode of cumulus convection. CD-ROM, 10th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Portland, OR, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Trier, S. B., and C. A. Davis, 2003: Mesoscale convective vortices (MCVs) during BAMEX. Proceedings, 12th Cyclone Workshop, Val Morin, Quebec, Canada.

Trier, S. B., K. W. Manning, and F. Chen, 2003: Convection initiation along a dryline under conditions of weak synoptic forcing. Proceedings, Workshop on Moist Convection, Mesoscale Processes and Convective Transport of Trace Gases and Aerosols, Nice, France, European Geophysics Society (EGS)-American Geophysical Union (AGU)-European Union of Geosciences (EUG) Joint Assembly.

Tuttle, J. D., and R. E. Carbone, 2003: Can't see the forest for the trees: Methods for the analysis and visualization of large radar data sets. Proceedings, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 341-346.

Wang, L. P., O. Ayala, M. Xue, and W. W. Grabowski, 2003: Effects of turbulence on the coagulational growth of cloud droplets - An overview and recent results. Proceedings, 9th International Symposium on Gas-Particle Flows, Honolulu, HI, USA, Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting.

Wang, W., 2003: MM5 pre- and post-processing software adapted for WRF application. On-Line, http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/workshop/ws02/Wang.pdf Fourth WRF Users' Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Wedi, N. P.*, and P. K. Smolarkiewicz, 2003: Extending Gal-Chen/Somerville terrain-following coordinate transformation on time-dependent curvilinear boundaries. Proceedings, 10th Layered Ocean Model Workshop, Miami, FL, USA, University of Miami.

Wedi, N. P.*, and P. K. Smolarkiewicz, 2003: Extending Gal-Chen/Somerville terrain-following coordinate transformation on time-dependent curvilinear boundaries. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Tech Memo, 22pp.

Weisman, M. L., W. Wang, and W. C. Skamarock, 2003: Preliminary results from explicit convective forecasts using the WRF Model. Abstracts, 10th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Portland, OR, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Willett, J. C.*, and J. E. Dye, 2003: A simple model to estimate electrical decay times in anvils. Proceedings, International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE), Versailles, France.

Xiao, Q., J. Sun, W. -C. Lee, E. Lim, Y.-R. Guo, D. M. Barker, and Y. -H. Kuo, 2003: Assimilation of Doppler radar observations (radial velocities) with MM5 3DVAR system. Preprints, Boulder, CO, USA, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Xiao, Q., J. Sun, W. -C. Lee, E. Lim, Y.-R. Guo, D. M. Barker, and Y. -H. Kuo, 2003: Assimilation of Doppler radar observations with a regional 3DVAR system: A heavy rainfall case study. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Xu, M., N. A. Crook, Y. Liu, and R. M. Rasmussen, 2003: Radar data assimilation for realtime short term forecasting of snowbands. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, USA, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 1024-1027.

Zhang, F., C. Snyder, and R. Rotunno, 2002: Sensitivity to grid resolution and initial state in the numerical prediction of the 24-25 January 2000 snow storm. Preprints, 2nd Northeast Regional Operational Workshop, Albany, NY, USA, National Weather Service (NWS) and University of Albany.