selected publications

• conference proceeding

  • Using VIIRS Fire Radiative Power data to simulate biomass burning emissions, plume rise and smoke transport in a real-time air quality modeling system.  2806-2808. 2017
  • 4-D CLOUD WATER CONTENT FIELDS DERIVED FROM OPERATIONAL SATELLITE DATA.  308-311. 2010
  • Consolidated Storm Prediction for Aviation (CoSPA).  350-+. 2008
  • The impact of wind profiler data on short-range RUC model forecasts.  509-511. 2003
  • Rapid retrieval and assimilation of ground based GPS precipitable water observations at the NOAA forecast systems laboratory: Impact on weather forecasts.  Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. 351-360. 2003
  • Cloud/hydrometeor initialization in the 20-km RUC using GOES and radar data.  232-235. 2002
  • Development of automated national ceiling and visibility products: Scientific and practical challenges, research strategies, and first steps.  61-64. 2002
  • The 20-km rapid update cycle - Overview and implications for aviation applications.  24-27. 2002
  • Verification of RUC surface forecasts at major US airport hubs.  327-330. 2002
  • Visibility forecasts from the RUC20.  150-153. 2002
  • A variational assimilation technique in a hybrid isentropic-sigma coordinate.  Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 245-257. 2001
  • Validation of long-term precipitation and evolved soil moisture and temperature fields in MAPS..  43-46. 2000
  • Verification of RUC2 precipitation forecasts using the NCEP multisensor analysis.  182-185. 2000
  • A collaborative effort towards a future community mesoscale model (WRF).  242-243. 1998
  • Application of a three-dimensional variational analysis in RUC-2.  37-40. 1998
  • Forecast performance of a prognostic turbulence formulation implemented in the MAPS/RUC model.  J39-J41. 1998
  • Forecast performance of a prognostic turbulence formulation implemented in the maps/RUC model.  J123-J125. 1998
  • Impact of a snow physics parameterization on short-range forecasts of skin temperature in MAPS/RUC.  161-164. 1998
  • Introduction of MM5 level 4 microphysics into the RUC-2.  113-115. 1998
  • Precipitation forecast sensitivity to GPS precipitable water observations combined with GOES using RUC-2.  73-76. 1998
  • The combined use of GOES cloud drift, ACARS, VAD, and profiler winds in the RUC-2.  297-299. 1998
  • The operational RUC-2.  249-252. 1998
  • Verification of RUC-2 and Eta model precipitation forecasts.  J103-J105. 1998
  • Verification of RUC-2 and Eta model precipitation forecasts.  J19-J21. 1998
  • Maps forecasts of aviation-impact variables.  51-56. 1995
  • The next version of the rapid update cycle - RUC II.  57-61. 1995
  • Comparative experiments for different boundary-layer schemes based on the implementation of a soil model.  432-434. 1994
  • Relative impact of data sources on a data assimilation system.  491-493. 1994
  • The rapid update cycle at NMC.  566-568. 1994
  • A 3-HOUR MESOSCALE ASSIMILATION SYSTEM USING ACARS AIRCRAFT DATA COMBINED WITH OTHER OBSERVATIONS.  117-122. 1989
  • QUALITY-CONTROL OF ACARS METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS - A PRELIMINARY DATA SURVEY.  124-129. 1989
  • NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE SEVERE STORM ENVIRONMENT FOR THE 10 APRIL 1979 (SESAME-I) CASE.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1410-1410. 1981
  • THE ROLE OF THE LID IN SEVERE STORM FORMATION - SOME SYNOPTIC EXAMPLES FROM SESAME.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1411-1411. 1981
  • RADIATIVE HEATING RATES IN THE ATMOSPHERE AS A FUNCTION OF SAHARAN DUST CONCENTRATION.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1550-1550. 1978

• journal article

  • Depth Matters: Lake Bathymetry Selection in Numerical Weather Prediction Systems.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2025
  • Representation of Blowing Snow and Associated Visibility Reduction in an Operational High-Resolution Weather Model.  Weather and Forecasting. 1319-1334. 2024
  • The 30 December 2021 Colorado Front Range Windstorm and Marshall Fire: Evolution of Surface and 3D Structure, NWP Guidance, NWS Forecasts, and Decision Support.  Weather and Forecasting. 2551-2573. 2023
  • Multi-Model Prediction of West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease With Machine Learning for Identification of Important Regional Climatic Drivers.  GeoHealth. 2023
  • Evaluation of the Near-Surface Variables in the HRRR Weather Model Using Observations from the ARM SGP Site.  Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 769-780. 2023
  • Advancements in RUC Snow Model for Implementation in the Regional Application of the Unified Forecasting System (UFS) 2023
  • Inland lake temperature initialization via coupled cycling with atmospheric data assimilation.  Geoscientific Model Development. 6659-6676. 2022
  • Radar Reflectivity-Based Model Initialization Using Specified Latent Heating (Radar-LHI) within a Diabatic Digital Filter or Pre-Forecast Integration.  Weather and Forecasting. 1419-1434. 2022
  • The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): An Hourly Updating Convection-Allowing Forecast Model. Part I: Motivation and System Description.  Weather and Forecasting. 1371-1395. 2022
  • The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): An Hourly Updating Convection-Allowing Forecast Model. Part II: Forecast Performance.  Weather and Forecasting. 1397-1417. 2022
  • Cover Image, Volume 9, Issue 4.  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 2022
  • Forecasting lake-/sea-effect snowstorms, advancement, and challenges.  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 2022
  • Land-Snow Data Assimilation Including a Moderately Coupled Initialization Method Applied to NWP.  Journal of Hydrometeorology. 825-845. 2022
  • Inland lake temperature initialization via cycling with atmospheric data assimilation 2022
  • Inland lake temperature initialization via cycling with atmospheric data assimilation 2022
  • Doppler Lidar Evaluation of HRRR Model Skill at Simulating Summertime Wind Regimes in the Columbia River Basin during WFIP2.  Weather and Forecasting. 1961-1983. 2021
  • Single-Column Validation of a Snow Subgrid Parameterization in the Rapid Update Cycle Land-Surface Model (RUC LSM).  Water Resources Research. 2021
  • Stratiform Cloud-Hydrometeor Assimilation for HRRR and RAP Model Short-Range Weather Prediction.  Monthly Weather Review. 2673-2694. 2021
  • Improvements to Lake-Effect Snow Forecasts Using a One-Way Air-Lake Model Coupling Approach.  Journal of Hydrometeorology. 2813-2828. 2020
  • Commercial-Aircraft-Based Observations for NWP: Global Coverage, Data Impacts, and COVID-19.  Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 1809-1825. 2020
  • Recommendations for Developing Useful and Usable Convection-Allowing Model Ensemble Information for NWS Forecasters.  Weather and Forecasting. 1381-1406. 2020
  • A new look at assimilation and boundary-layer modeling effects to improve NOAA ceiling/visibility/convection HRRR forecasts 2020
  • Common evaluation/evolution of cloud-radiation processes from 25km S2S to 3km NWP 2020
  • A Verification Approach Used in Developing the Rapid Refresh and Other Numerical Weather Prediction Models.  39-53. 2020
  • A Scale-Aware Parameterization for Estimating Subgrid Variability of Downward Solar Radiation Using High-Resolution Digital Elevation Model Data.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 13680-13692. 2019
  • The Impact of Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation within a Frequently Updated Regional Forecast System Using a GSI-based Ensemble Kalman Filter.  Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 1308-1326. 2019
  • The Subseasonal Experiment (SubX): A Multimodel Subseasonal Prediction Experiment.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 2043-2060. 2019
  • Improvement of Mountain-Wave Turbulence Forecasts in NOAA's Rapid Refresh (RAP) Model with the Hybrid Vertical Coordinate System.  Weather and Forecasting. 773-780. 2019
  • 100 Years of Progress in Forecasting and NWP Applications.  Meteorological Monographs- American Meteorological Society. 13.1-13.67. 2019
  • Subseasonal Variability of Rossby Wave Breaking and Impacts on Tropical Cyclones during the North Atlantic Warm Season.  Journal of Climate. 9679-9695. 2018
  • EVALUATING AND IMPROVING NWP FORECAST MODELS FOR THE FUTURE How the Needs of Offshore Wind Energy Can Point the Way.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1155-1176. 2018
  • Subseasonal Forecasting with an Icosahedral, Vertically Quasi-Lagrangian Coupled Model. Part I: Model Overview and Evaluation of Systematic Errors.  Monthly Weather Review. 1601-1617. 2018
  • Subseasonal Forecasting with an Icosahedral, Vertically Quasi-Lagrangian Coupled Model. Part II: Probabilistic and Deterministic Forecast Skill.  Monthly Weather Review. 1619-1639. 2018
  • Offshore wind speed estimates from a high-resolution rapidly updating numerical weather prediction model forecast dataset.  Wind Energy. 264-284. 2018
  • Assessment of NWP Forecast Models in Simulating Offshore Winds through the Lower Boundary Layer by Measurements from a Ship-Based Scanning Doppler Lidar.  Monthly Weather Review. 4277-4301. 2017
  • GSI Three-Dimensional Ensemble-Variational Hybrid Data Assimilation Using a Global Ensemble for the Regional Rapid Refresh Model.  Monthly Weather Review. 4205-4225. 2017
  • Radiance Preprocessing for Assimilation in the Hourly Updating Rapid Refresh Mesoscale Model: A Study Using AIRS Data.  Weather and Forecasting. 1781-1800. 2017
  • Observation System Experiments with the Hourly Updating Rapid Refresh Model Using GSI Hybrid Ensemble-Variational Data Assimilation.  Monthly Weather Review. 2897-2918. 2017
  • Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation within the Hourly Updated Rapid Refresh.  Weather and Forecasting. 1273-1287. 2017
  • THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL Overview, System Efforts, and Future Directions.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1717-1737. 2017
  • Evaluation of MJO Predictive Skill in Multiphysics and Multimodel Global Ensembles.  Monthly Weather Review. 2555-2574. 2017
  • A Performance Comparison between Multiphysics and Stochastic Approaches within a North American RAP Ensemble.  Monthly Weather Review. 1161-1179. 2017
  • A unified high-resolution wind and solar dataset from a rapidly updating numerical weather prediction model.  Renewable Energy. 390-405. 2017
  • The Influence of Topography on Convective Storm Environments in the Eastern United States as Deduced from the HRRR.  Weather and Forecasting. 1481-1490. 2016
  • Comments on "A Comparison of Temperature and Wind Measurements from ACARS-Equipped Aircraft and Rawinsondes".  Weather and Forecasting. 1037-1038. 2016
  • Modifications to the Rapid Update Cycle Land Surface Model (RUC LSM) Available in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model.  Monthly Weather Review. 1851-1865. 2016
  • A North American Hourly Assimilation and Model Forecast Cycle: The Rapid Refresh.  Monthly Weather Review. 1669-1694. 2016
  • Explicit Precipitation-Type Diagnosis from a Model Using a Mixed-Phase Bulk Cloud-Precipitation Microphysics Parameterization.  Weather and Forecasting. 609-619. 2016
  • Implementation of a Digital Filter Initialization in the WRF Model and Its Application in the Rapid Refresh.  Monthly Weather Review. 99-106. 2016
  • THE WIND FORECAST IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (WFIP) A Public-Private Partnership Addressing Wind Energy Forecast Needs.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1699-1718. 2015
  • A Vertically Flow-Following Icosahedral Grid Model for Medium-Range and Seasonal Prediction. Part I: Model Description.  Monthly Weather Review. 2386-2403. 2015
  • A GSI-Based Coupled EnSRF-En3DVar Hybrid Data Assimilation System for the Operational Rapid Refresh Model: Tests at a Reduced Resolution.  Monthly Weather Review. 3756-3780. 2014
  • A Regional GSI-Based Ensemble Kalman Filter Data Assimilation System for the Rapid Refresh Configuration: Testing at Reduced Resolution.  Monthly Weather Review. 4118-4139. 2013
  • Predictions of 2010's Tropical Cyclones Using the GFS and Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation Methods.  Monthly Weather Review. 3243-3247. 2011
  • The Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction: Current Status and Development.  Weather and Forecasting. 593-612. 2011
  • Global Ensemble Predictions of 2009's Tropical Cyclones Initialized with an Ensemble Kalman Filter.  Monthly Weather Review. 668-688. 2011
  • On the Use of an Adaptive, Hybrid-Isentropic Vertical Coordinate in Global Atmospheric Modeling.  Monthly Weather Review. 2188-2210. 2010
  • Evaluation of Regional Aircraft Observations Using TAMDAR.  Weather and Forecasting. 627-645. 2010
  • Relative Short-Range Forecast Impact from Aircraft, Profiler, Radiosonde, VAD, GPS-PW, METAR, and Mesonet Observations via the RUC Hourly Assimilation Cycle.  Monthly Weather Review. 1319-1343. 2010
  • CONVECTIVE-SCALE WARN-ON-FORECAST SYSTEM A Vision for 2020.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1487-+. 2009
  • Short-range forecast impact from assimilation of GPS-IPW observations into the Rapid Update Cycle.  Monthly Weather Review. 2914-2930. 2007
  • Short-range numerical weather prediction using time-lagged ensembles.  Weather and Forecasting. 580-595. 2007
  • John Riedel 1919-2006.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1599-1599. 2006
  • The New England high-resolution temperature program.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 491-+. 2006
  • The value of wind profiler data in US weather forecasting.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1871-+. 2004
  • An hourly assimilation-forecast cycle:: The RUC.  Monthly Weather Review. 495-518. 2004
  • Mesoscale weather prediction with the RUC hybrid isentropic-terrain-following coordinate model.  Monthly Weather Review. 473-494. 2004
  • The Role of Ground-Based GPS Meteorological Observations in Numerical Weather Prediction.  GPS Solutions. 16-24. 2001
  • Accuracy of RUC-1 and RUC-2 wind and aircraft trajectory forecasts by comparison with ACARS observations.  Weather and Forecasting. 313-326. 2000
  • Parameterization of cold-season processes in the MAPS land-surface scheme.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 4077-4086. 2000
  • Using GPS-IPW in a 4-D data assimilation system.  Earth, Planets and Space. 921-926. 2000
  • Accuracy of ACARS wind and temperature observations determined by collocation.  Weather and Forecasting. 1032-1038. 1999
  • Assessment of land-surface energy budgets from regional and global models.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 19329-19348. 1999
  • Performance of different soil model configurations in simulating ground surface temperature and surface fluxes.  Monthly Weather Review. 1870-1884. 1997
  • Initialization and validation of a simulation of cirrus using FIRE-II data.  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 3397-3429. 1996
  • A COMPARISON OF TEMPERATURE AND WIND MEASUREMENTS FROM ACARS-EQUIPPED AIRCRAFT AND RAWINSONDES.  Weather and Forecasting. 528-544. 1995
  • COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS WITH MAPS ON DIFFERENT PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES FOR SURFACE MOISTURE FLUX AND BOUNDARY-LAYER PROCESSES.  Monthly Weather Review. 449-470. 1994
  • REGIONAL WEATHER PREDICTION WITH A MODEL COMBINING TERRAIN-FOLLOWING AND ISENTROPIC COORDINATES .1. MODEL DESCRIPTION.  Monthly Weather Review. 1770-1785. 1993
  • IMPACT OF NETWORK WIND PROFILER DATA ON A 3-H DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 801-807. 1993
  • A SYSTEM FOR THE HOURLY ASSIMILATION OF SURFACE OBSERVATIONS IN MOUNTAINOUS AND FLAT TERRAIN.  Monthly Weather Review. 2342-2359. 1992
  • AN ISENTROPIC 3-HOURLY DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM USING ACARS AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS.  Monthly Weather Review. 888-906. 1991
  • AN ALTERNATIVE SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE REDUCTION AND A STATISTICAL COMPARISON OF GEOSTROPHIC WIND ESTIMATES WITH OBSERVED SURFACE WINDS.  Monthly Weather Review. 2099-2116. 1990
  • AN ISENTROPIC MESO ALPHA-SCALE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND ITS SENSITIVITY TO AIRCRAFT AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS.  Monthly Weather Review. 1586-1603. 1989
  • SOME EFFECTS OF SURFACE HEATING AND TOPOGRAPHY ON THE REGIONAL SEVERE STORM ENVIRONMENT .1. 3-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS.  Monthly Weather Review. 307-329. 1986
  • SOME EFFECTS OF SURFACE HEATING AND TOPOGRAPHY ON THE REGIONAL SEVERE STORM ENVIRONMENT .2. TWO-DIMENSIONAL IDEALIZED EXPERIMENTS.  Monthly Weather Review. 330-343. 1986
  • A SIMPLE SCHEME FOR OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS IN CURVED FLOW.  Monthly Weather Review. 1184-1198. 1985
  • ELEVATED MIXED LAYERS IN THE REGIONAL SEVERE STORM ENVIRONMENT - CONCEPTUAL-MODEL AND CASE STUDIES.  Monthly Weather Review. 1453-1473. 1983
  • THE EVOLUTION OF THE MESOSCALE ENVIRONMENT OF SEVERE LOCAL STORMS - PRELIMINARY MODELING RESULTS.  Monthly Weather Review. 1187-1213. 1982
  • SATELLITE ESTIMATION OF THE SURFACE-ENERGY BALANCE, MOISTURE AVAILABILITY AND THERMAL INERTIA.  Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 67-87. 1981
  • ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF SEVERE STORMS ENVIRONMENT.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1018-1032. 1980
  • RADIATIVE HEATING RATES FOR SAHARAN DUST.  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 193-213. 1980