IAS Institute of Atmospheric Sciences

at SDSM&T South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Rapid City, South Dakota USA

 

Selected recent published and presented works of Paul L. Smith

 

Smith, P.L., 2010: The unit symbol for the logarithmic scale of radar reflectivity factors. JTECH, 27, 615-616.

Johnson, R.W., D.V. Kliche, and P.L. Smith, 2010: Comparison of estimators for parameters of gamma distributions with left-truncated samples. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, (in press).

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.

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.

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.

Smith, P.L. and Kliche, D.V., 2005. The bias in moment estimators for parameters of drop-size distribution functions: sampling from exponential distributions. J. Appl. Meteor., 44, 1195-1205.

Smith, P.L. and Kliche, D.V., 2003. The bias in moment estimators for parameters of drop size distribution functions, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Seattle, WA., 47-50.

Smith, P.L., 2003. Raindrop size distributions: Exponential or gamma - does the difference matter? J. Appl. Meteorol., 42, 1031-1034.

Smith, P.L., Liu, Z. and Joss, J., 1993. A study of sampling-variability effects in raindrop-size observations. J. Appl. Meteor., 32(7): 1259-1269.

Smith, P.L., 1982. On the graphical presentation of raindrop size data. Atmosphere-Ocean., 20(1): 4-16.

Whiton, R.C., Smith, P.L., Bigler, S.G., Wilk, K.E. and Harbuck, A.C., 1998. History of operational use of weather radar by U.S. Weather Services. Part II: Development of operational Doppler weather radars. Weather and Forecasting, 13: 244-252.

Smith, P.L., Detwiler, A.G., Musil, D.J. and Ramachandran, R., 1999. Observations of mixed-phase precipitation within a CaPE thunderstorm. J. Appl. Meteor., 38(2): 145-155.

French, J.R., Helsdon, J.H., Detwiler, A.G. and Smith , P.L., 1996. Microphysical and electrical evolution of a Florida thunderstorm.  Part I: Observations. J. Geophys. Res., 101(D14): 18961-18977.

Smith, P.l. and Waldvogel, A., 1989. On determinations of maximum hailstone sizes from hailpad observations. J. Appl. Meteor., 28: 71-76.

Smith, P.L.J., Myers, C.G. and Orville, H.D., 1975. Radar reflectivity factor calculations in numerical cloud models using bulk parameterization of precipitation. J. Appl. Meteor., 14(6): 1156-1165.