Papers Published in Refereed Journals or presented at Scientific Conferences that included
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences faculty and/or graduate students, 2006-2011
(Names in bold represent current IAS staff/students. See link at bottom of list for prior years.)

2011:

Refereed:

French, A.J. and M.D. Parker, 2012: Observations of mergers between squall lines and isolated supercell thunderstorms. Accepted for publication in Weather and Forecasting.

Smith, P.L., 2011: The unit symbol for the logarithmic scale of radar reflectivity factors. JTECH, 27, 615-616.

Smith, P.L., R. Orville, and A.G. Detwiler, 2011: Memoriam piece for Dr. Harry Orville. BAMS, 92, 1206-1207.

Sundareshwar, P.V., S. Upadhayay, M. Abessa, S. Honomichl, B. Berdanier, S.A. Spaulding, C. Sandvik, and A. Trennepohl, 2011: The paradox of algal blooms in oligotrophic waters. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L10405, doi:10.1029/2010GL046599.

Kliche, D.V. and C.A. Kliche, 2011: Instruments and available internet-based data for documenting weather conditions. Journal of Explosives Engineers, 28, 6-17.

Johnson, R.W., D.V. Kliche, and P.L. Smith, 2011: Comparison of estimators for parameters of gamma distributions with left-truncated samples. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 50, 296-310.

Sundareshwar, P.V., 2011: Contributor to Chapters 2 and 3, “Expedited CCS Development: Challenges and Opportunities. National Coal Council Report” prepared for the US Department of Energy, 202 pgs.

Conference:

Kliche, D.V.,  2011: Instruments and available internet-based data for documenting weather conditions. Presented at 37^th Annual Conference on Explosives and Blasting Technique, San Diego, CA, International Society of Explosive Engineers, February 2011.

Detwiler, A.G., J. Scannell, D.V. Kliche, and S. Williams, 2011: Creating the long-term T-28 instrumented research aircraft data archive. 91^st AMS Annual Conference, January 23-27, Seattle, WA, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Smith, P.L., 2011: Sampling issues in using raindrop disdrometer observations to determine radar Z_dr – Z relationships. 35^th Radar Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Brewer, J.D. and W.J. Capehart, 2011: Improving Representation of Low-Level Meteorological Fields in Forecasts and Analyses. 11^th Annual WRF User’s Workshop, Boulder, CO, June 20-24, 2011.

D’Amico, D.F., W.J. Capehart, C.K. Wright, and G.M. Henebry, 2011: Downscaling in WRF from regional climate to storm scale for different vegetation and boundary condition sources. 11^th Annual WRF User’s Workshop, Boulder, CO, June 20-24, 2011.

Capehart, W.J., J. Stamm, and P. Norton, 2011: Representing Great Plains Prairie Wetland Feedbacks in WRF. 11^th Annual WRF User’s Workshop, Boulder, CO, June 20-24, 2011.

Caye, H., A.G. Detwiler, and R.D. Farley, 2011: Electrification of the 29 June 2000 supercell thunderstorm. AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2011.

2010:

Refereed:

Marcelo M. F. Saba, Wolfgang Schulz, Tom A. Warner, Leandro Z. S. Campos, Carina Schumann, E. Philip Krider, Kenneth L. Cummins, and Richard E. Orville, 2010: High-speed video observations of positive lightning flashes to ground. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D24201, doi:10.1029/2010JD014330.

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Conference:

Phillips, L., M. Hjelmfelt, D. Kliche, and W. Capehart, 2010: Testing and application of a forecast confidence index in a variety of regions and with two different models. 11th WRF User's Workshop, Boulder, CO, NCAR.

Stauffer, P., W. Capehart, C. Wright, G. Henebry, 2010: Influence of vegetation cover estimates on the simulation of the Northern Great Plains regional climate. 11th WRF User's Workshop, Boulder, CO, NCAR.

Meyer, J., M. Hjelmfelt, and W. Capehart, 2010: Improving Lake-Effect Snow Forecasting through High Resolution  MODIS Derived Ice Fields. 11^th Annual WRF User’s Workshop, Boulder, CO, NCAR.

Johnson, R.W., D.V. Kliche, and P.L. Smith, 2010: Maximum likelihood estimation of gamma parameters for coarsely-binned and truncated raindrop size data. 13^th Conf. on Cloud Physics, Porland, OR, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Sundareshwar, P. V. , 2010: Wetlands and Global Change. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Materials and Techniques in Civil Engineering. VLBJCET, Coimbatore. pg.125 – 130.

Smith, P.L., 2010: Hail damage reduction activities. 18^th Conf. on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification, January 2011, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

2009:

Refereed:

Smith, P.L., 2009: The unit symbol for the logarithmic scale of radar reflectivity factors. JTECH, 48, 2118-2126.

Smith, P.L., D.V. Kliche, and R.W. Johnson, 2009: The bias and error in moment estimators for parameters of drop-size distribution functions: Sampling from gamma distributions. J. Appl. Meteor., 48, 2118-2126..

Smith, P.L., 2009: Comment on Silverman’s evaluation of the Kern River Program. J. Wea. Mod., 41, 161-162.

Sundareshwar, P.V., C.J. Richardson, R.A. Gleason, P.J. Pellechia, and S. Honomichl, 2009: Nature versus nurture: functional assessment of restoration effects on wetland services using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L03402, doi:10.1029/2008GL036385.

Conference:

Smith, P.L., 2009: Implications of a λ-μ relationship for Z-R relationships. 34th Conference on Radar Meteorology, 5-9 October 2009, Williamsburg, VA, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Johnson, R.W., D.V. Kliche, and P.L. Smith, 2009: Maximum likelihood estimation from a left-truncated distribution. 34th Conference on Radar Meteorology, 5-9 October 2009, Williamsburg, VA, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Clabo, D., P. Smith, and A.G. Detwiler, 2009: Polarimetric radar signatures of hydrometeors observed within mature convective storms. 34th Conference on Radar Meteorology, 5-9 October 2009, Williamsburg, VA, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Carroll, K., W. Capehart, and M. Hjelmfelt, 2009: High resolution modeling in WRF to determine the impact of terrain resolution on low-level winds in complex terrain. Presented at the 10th WRF User’s Workshop, Boulder, CO, NCAR.

Stauffer, P., W. Capehart, C. Wright, and G. Henebry, 2009: Impact of vegetation cover estimates on regional climate forecasts. Presented at the 10th WRF User’s Workshop, Boulder, CO, NCAR.

George, J.T., M.R. Hjelmfelt, W.J. Capehart, and D.A.R. Kristovitch, 2009: Simulation of environmental conditions conducive to the formation of lake-to-lake bands. 13th Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, Aug. 17-20, Salt Lake City, UT, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Axford, T., M.R. Hjelmfelt, W.J. Capehart, and D.A.R. Kristovitch, 2009: Numerical simulation of impacts of the Great Lakes on cold frontal passages. 13th Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, Aug. 17-20, Salt Lake City, UT, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Sundareshwar, P.V., 2009: Wetlands and global environmental change. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Materials and Techniques in Civil Engineering. VLBJCET, Coimbatore, pgs. 125-130.

2008:

Refereed:

Detwiler, A.G. and W. Roggenthen, 2008: Energy storage to facilitate more efficient use of electric power generated through renewable means. Proceedings of the S.D. Academy of Science, 87, 291-300.

Kliche, D.V., P.L. Smith, and R.W. Johnson, 2008: L-Moment estimators as applied to gamma drop size distributions.  J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47, 3117-3130.

Smith, P.L., 2008: Comments on “An investigation of the slope-shape relation for gamma raindrop size distribution”. J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 48, 1994-1995.

Conference:

Smith, P.L., D.V. Kliche, and R.W. Johnson, 2008: Estimating Radar Reflectivity from Observations of Raindrop Size Distributions. ERAD Conference, ERAD 2008 - The Fifth European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, Helsinki, Finland, 30 June - 4 July 2008, (IEEE).

Axford, T., M.R. Hjelmfelt, and W.R. Capehart, 2008: Understanding frontal passage over the Great Lakes. 9^th Annual WRF User’s Workshop, June 23-27, 2008, Boulder, CO, NCAR.

George, J.T., M.R. Hjelmfelt, and W.J. Capehart, 2008: WRF simulations of environmental conditions conducive to the formation of lake-to-lake bands. 9^th Annual WRF User’s Workshop, June 23-27, 2008, Boulder, CO, NCAR.

Carroll, K.M. and W.J. Capehart, 2008: Sensitivity of medium-range forecasts in WRF to sea surface temperatures. 9^th Annual WRF User’s Workshop, June 23-27, 2008, Boulder, CO, NCAR.

Capehart, W.J., E.A. Liske, K.M. Carroll, 2008: Sensitivity of WRF regional climate simulations to lateral boundary conditions. 9^th Annual WRF User’s Workshop, June 23-27, 2008, Boulder, CO, NCAR.

Barth, M.D., S.-W. Kim, C. Wang, K.E. Pickering, L.E. Ott, G. Stenchikov, M. Leriche, S. Cautenet, J.-P. Pinty, Ch. Barthe, C. Mari, J.H. Helsdon, R.D. Farley, A.M. Fridlind, A.S. Ackerman, V. Spiridonov, and B. Telenta, 2007: Cloud-scale model intercomparison of chemical constituent transport in deep convection. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 4709-4731.

Conference:

Kliche, D.V., P.L. Smith, R.W. Johnson, 2007a: L-moment estimators as applied to exponential, gamma, and lognormal drop size distributiuons. 33rd Conf. on Radar Meteorology, Cairns, Australia, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Kliche, D.V., A.G. Detwiler, P.L. Smith, R.W. Johnson, 2007b: L-moment method applied to observed raindrop size distributions. 33rd Conf. on Radar Meteorology, Cairns, Australia, AMer. Meteor. Soc

Smith, P.L., 2007: The largest particle in a sample from an exponential, gamma or lognormal distribution. 33rd Conf. on Radar Meteorology, Cairns, Australia, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Smith, P.L., 2007: Raindrop size distributions: Lies, damn lies and statistics. 33rd Conf. on Radar Meteorology, Cairns, Australia, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Franks, C.L., W.J. Capehart, and M.R. Hjelmfelt, 2007: Using abridged atmospheric data in mesoscale modeling: Applications to incident meteorology scenarios. Preprint, 18th Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction, Park City, UT, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Wetenkamp, J.R., W.J. Capehart, and M.R. Hjelmfelt, 2007: Sensitivity of short range numerical weather prediction to data availability during the North American monsoon experiment. Preprint, 18^th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Park City, UT, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Benson, R.P., 2007: A model to predict red flag warning days. 7th Symposium on Fire & Forest Meteorology, Bar Harbor, ME, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

2006:

Refereed:

Bunkers, M.J., M.R. Hjelmfelt, and P.L. Smith, Jr., 2006: An observational examination of long-lived supercells. Part I: Characteristics, evolution, and demise. Wea. Forecasting, 21, 673-688.

Bunkers, M.J., J.S. Johnson, L.J. Czepyha, J.M. Grzywacz, B.A. Klimowski, and M.R. Hjelmfelt, 2006: An observational examination of long-lived supercells. Part II: Environmental conditions and forecasting. Wea. Forecasting, 21, 689-714.

Hjelmfelt, M.R., 2006: "Microbursts and Macrobursts: Windshear and Blowdowns." Chapter 3 in Plant Disturbance Ecology, The Process and Response. E.A. Johnson and K. Miyanishi, Ed., Elsevier Science, publisher.

Schroeder, J.J., D.A.R. Kristovich, and M.R. Hjelmfelt, 2006: Boundary layer and microphysical influences of natural cloud seeding on a lake-effect snow storm. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 1842-1857.

Conference:

Kliche, D.V., and P.L. Smith, 2006: Estimators for parameters of drop-size distribution functions: Sampling from gamma distributions. 12^th Conference on Cloud Physics, July 10-14, 2006, Madison, WI.

Beals, M., D.V. Kliche, A.G. Detwiler, S. Williams, 2006: On-line archive of storm penetrating data. 23^rd Conf. on Severe Storms, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 3-10, 2006, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Benson, R.B., 2006: A model to predict the total probability of wildfires. Third International Fire Ecology And Management Congress, November 13-17, 2006; San Diego, CA.

Sundareshwar, P.V., R. Murtugudde, G. Srinivasan, S. Singh, K.J. Ramesh, D. Agarwal, D. Baldocchi, C.K. Baru, K.K. Baruah, G.R. Chowdhury, V.K. Dadhwal, C.B.S. Dutt, J. Fuentes, P.K. Gupta, M. Howard, C.S. Jha, S. Lal, W.K. Michener, A.P. Mitra, J.T. Morris, R.R. Myneni, M. Naja, R. Nemani, S. Raha, R. Ramesh, M. Sharma, A. Subramaniam, R. Sukumar, R.R. Twilley, S.K. Santhana VAnan, S.B. Verma, P.R. Zimmerman, 2006: Indoflux: A biogeochemical monitoring network for India. Science (Policy Forum Section), 316, 204-206.

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