selected publications

• conference proceeding

  • Macrophysical Properties of Continental Shallow Cumuli: Diurnal Evolution.  Proceedings of SPIE. 2019
  • Climatology of Aerosol Optical Depth at Mid-Continental US Site: Ground based Observations.  Proceedings of SPIE. 2018
  • Shallow Cumulus Macro-physical Properties at Mid-Continental US Site: Integrated Multi-year Active and Passive Observations.  Proceedings of SPIE. 2018
  • Macrophysical properties of continental cumulus clouds from active and passive remote sensing.  Proceedings of SPIE. 2017
  • How Well Can We Estimate Areal-Averaged Spectral Surface Albedo from Ground-Based Transmission in an Atlantic Coastal Area?.  Proceedings of SPIE. 2015
  • Retrieval of Areal-averaged Spectral Surface Albedo from Transmission Data Alone: Computationally Simple and Fast Approach.  Proceedings of SPIE. 2014

• journal article

  • Evaluation of the hyperspectral radiometer (HSR1) at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) site.  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 3783-3807. 2024
  • The Need for a Community of Practice for Air-Sea Flux Observations.  Marine Technology Society Journal: the international, interdisciplinary society devoted to ocean and marine engineering, science and policy. 20-25. 2024
  • Ocean surface radiation measurement best practices.  Frontiers in Marine Science. 2024
  • In Memoriam: Dr. Frank E. Vignola (1945-2023).  Solar Energy. 2024
  • The Need for a Community of Practice for Air-Sea Flux Observations.  Marine Technology Society Journal: the international, interdisciplinary society devoted to ocean and marine engineering, science and policy. 20-25. 2024
  • Supporting Advancement in Weather and Water Prediction in the Upper Colorado River Basin.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. E1853-E1874. 2023
  • Continuous observations of the surface energy budget and meteorology over the Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC.  Scientific Data. 2023
  • Evaluation of the hyperspectral radiometer (HSR1) at the ARM SGP site 2023
  • Regime-Specific Cloud Vertical Overlap Characteristics From Radar and Lidar Observations at the ARM Sites.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2023
  • Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budget.  Nature Communications. 2022
  • Evaluating convective planetary boundary layer height estimations resolved by both active and passive remote sensing instruments during the CHEESEHEAD19 field campaign.  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2479-2502. 2022
  • Investigating the Impacts of Daytime Boundary Layer Clouds on Surface Energy Fluxes and Boundary Layer Structure During CHEESEHEAD19.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2022
  • Evaluating daytime planetary boundary-layer height estimations resolved by both active and passive remote sensing instruments during the CHEESEHEAD19 field campaign.  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2021
  • Supplementary material to "Evaluating daytime planetary boundary-layer height estimations resolved by both active and passive remote sensing instruments during the CHEESEHEAD19 field campaign" 2021
  • Improving prediction of surface solar irradiance variability by integrating observed cloud characteristics and machine learning.  Solar Energy. 275-285. 2021
  • Super Sites for Advancing Understanding of the Oceanic and Atmospheric Boundary Layers.  Marine Technology Society Journal: the international, interdisciplinary society devoted to ocean and marine engineering, science and policy. 144-144. 2021
  • Development of a Random-Forest Cloud-Regime Classification Model Based on Surface Radiation and Cloud Products.  Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 477-491. 2021
  • Harmonized and high-quality datasets of aerosol optical depth at a US continental site, 1997-2018.  Scientific Data. 2021
  • The Shortwave Spectral Radiometer for Atmospheric Science: Capabilities and Applications from the ARM User Facility.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. E539-E554. 2021
  • Connecting Land-Atmosphere Interactions to Surface Heterogeneity in CHEESEHEAD19.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. E421-E445. 2021
  • Shallow cumuli cover and its uncertainties from ground-based lidar-radar data and sky images.  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2099-2117. 2020
  • Fine-Scale Variability of Observed and Simulated Surface Albedo Over the Southern Great Plains.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2020
  • Improved Accuracy in Shipborne Broadband Irradiance Measurements during MARCUS using New Tilt-Corrected SHIPRAD Systems 2020
  • Long-Term Retrievals of Cloud Type and Fair-Weather Shallow Cumulus Events at the ARM SGP Site.  Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 2031-2043. 2019
  • Regionally refined test bed in E3SM atmosphere model version 1 (EAMv1) and applications for high-resolution modeling.  Geoscientific Model Development. 2679-2706. 2019
  • Shallow Cumuli Cover and Its Uncertainties from Ground-based Lidar-Radar Data and Sky Images 2019
  • Training a New Generation of Data-Savvy Atmospheric Researchers.  Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 2019
  • Comprehensive Evaluations of Mesoscale Convective Systems Simulated in Convection-permitting WRF Model during the MC3E Field Experiment 2019
  • Heterogeneity in Warm-Season Land-Atmosphere Coupling Over the US Southern Great Plains.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 7867-7882. 2018
  • Cloud Area Distributions of Shallow Cumuli: A New Method for Ground-Based Images.  Atmosphere. 2018
  • A case study of microphysical structures and hydrometeor phase in convection using radar Doppler spectra at Darwin, Australia.  Geophysical Research Letters. 7519-7527. 2017
  • Areal-Averaged Spectral Surface Albedo in an Atlantic Coastal Area: Estimation from Ground-Based Transmission.  Atmosphere. 2017
  • Large Contribution of Coarse Mode to Aerosol Microphysical and Optical Properties: Evidence from Ground-Based Observations of a Transpacific Dust Outbreak at a High-Elevation North American Site.  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 1431-1443. 2017
  • A path towards uncertainty assignment in an operational cloud-phase algorithm from ARM vertically pointing active sensors.  Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography. 49-62. 2016
  • Evaluation of long-term surface-retrieved cloud droplet number concentration with in situ aircraft observations.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2318-2331. 2016
  • The Low-Level Jet over the Southern Great Plains Determined from Observations and Reanalyses and Its Impact on Moisture Transport.  Journal of Climate. 6682-6706. 2015
  • Areal-Averaged Spectral Surface Albedo from Ground-Based Transmission Data Alone: Toward an Operational Retrieval.  Atmosphere. 597-621. 2014
  • Spatial variability of surface irradiance measurements at the Manus ARM site.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 5475-5491. 2014
  • Climatology and Formation of Tropical Midlevel Clouds at the Darwin ARM Site.  Journal of Climate. 6835-6850. 2012
  • Comparison of methods to determine Tropical Tropopause Layer cirrus formation mechanisms.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2012
  • Frequency and morphology of tropical tropopause layer cirrus from CALIPSO observations: Are isolated cirrus different from those connected to deep convection?.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2010
  • Analyzing the contribution of aerosols to an observed increase in direct normal irradiance in Oregon.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2009
  • Trends in direct normal irradiance in Oregon: Comparison of surface measurements and ISCCP-derived irradiance.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2007

• scholarly edition

  • Connecting Land-Atmosphere Interactions to Surface Heterogeneity in CHEESEHEAD 2019 2020