selected publications

• journal article

  • Cloud-Dependent Piecewise Assimilation Based on a Hydrometeor-Included Background Error Covariance and Its Impact on Regional Numerical Weather Prediction.  Monthly Weather Review. 3155-3171. 2021
  • Diurnally varying background error covariances estimated in RMAPS-ST and their impacts on operational implementations.  Atmospheric Research. 2021
  • The impact of optimal selected historical forecasting samples on hybrid ensemble-variational data assimilation.  Atmospheric Research. 2020
  • Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 775-778. 2020
  • Addressing the sensitivity of forecast impact to flight path design for targeted observations of extratropical winter storms: A demonstration in anOSSEframework.  Meteorological Applications. 2020
  • NOAA's Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (SHOUT) Experiment Observations and Forecast Impacts.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. E968-E987. 2020
  • A Multi-Time-Scale Four-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation Scheme and Its Application to Simulated Radial Velocity and Reflectivity Data.  Monthly Weather Review. 2063-2085. 2020
  • Variational Bias Correction of TAMDAR Temperature Observations in the WRF Data Assimilation System.  Monthly Weather Review. 1927-1945. 2019
  • The evaluation of EnVar method including hydrometeors analysis variables for assimilating cloud liquid/ice water path on prediction of rainfall events.  Atmospheric Research. 1-12. 2019
  • Impact of UAS Global Hawk Dropsonde Data on Tropical and Extratropical Cyclone Forecasts in 2016.  Weather and Forecasting. 1121-1141. 2018
  • Improving Winter Storm Forecasts with Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs). Part I: An Idealized Case Study of Three US Storms.  Monthly Weather Review. 1341-1366. 2018
  • Ensemble transform sensitivity for adaptive observations: a general formulation and its practicable implementation.  Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 352-357. 2018
  • Refinement of the Use of Inhomogeneous Background Error Covariance Estimated from Historical Forecast Error Samples and its Impact on Short-Term Regional Numerical Weather Prediction.  Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. 429-446. 2018
  • Precipitation data assimilation in WRFDA 4D-Var: implementation and application to convection-permitting forecasts over United States.  Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 2017
  • Comparison of the Impacts of Momentum Control Variables on High-Resolution Variational Data Assimilation and Precipitation Forecasting.  Monthly Weather Review. 149-169. 2016
  • Ensemble transform sensitivity method for adaptive observations.  Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 10-20. 2016
  • Blending of Global and Regional Analyses with a Spatial Filter: Application to Typhoon Prediction over the Western North Pacific Ocean.  Weather and Forecasting. 754-770. 2015
  • Using Adjoint-Based Forecast Sensitivity Method to Evaluate TAMDAR Data Impacts on Regional Forecasts.  Advances in Meteorology. 2015
  • Development of an Efficient Regional Four-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation System for WRF.  Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 2777-2794. 2014
  • An Observing System Simulation Experiment for the Impact of MTG Candidate Infrared Sounding Mission on Regional Forecasts: System Development and Preliminary Results.  ISRN Meteorology. 1-18. 2013
  • Sensitivity of 0-12-h Warm-Season Precipitation Forecasts over the Central United States to Model Initialization.  Weather and Forecasting. 832-855. 2012
  • Impact of Microphysics Scheme Complexity on the Propagation of Initial Perturbations.  Monthly Weather Review. 2287-2296. 2012
  • A Method for Identifying the Sensitive Areas in Targeted Observations for Tropical Cyclone Prediction: Conditional Nonlinear Optimal Perturbation.  Monthly Weather Review. 1623-1639. 2009