Books

GeoComputation 99: Proceedings of the International Conference on GeoComputation, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA, 25-28 July 1999. GeoComputation CD-ROM, n.d. CD-ROM. G/70.39/P7/1999.

Matthew, Neil and Stones, Richard. Beginning databases with MySQL. Birmingham, UK, Wrox Press Ltd., 2002. xi, 575p. QA/76.73/S67/M337/2002.

Mitchell, Tom M. Machine learning. McGraw-Hill series in computer science. Boston, MA, WCB/McGraw-Hill, 1997. xvii, 414p. QA/76.9/A43/M58/1997.

Moran, Joseph M. and Hopkins, Edward J. Wisconsin's weather and climate. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. xviii, 321p. QC/984/W6/M67/2002.

Taubman, David S. and Marcellin, Michael W. JPEG2000: Image compression fundamentals, standards and practice. Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science. Boston, MA, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. xix, 773p., CD-ROM. TK/6680.5/T38/2002.

U.S. Government Reports: NASA

Halpern, D.; Woiceshyn, P; Zlotnicki, V. et al. An atlas of monthly mean distributions of SSMI wind speed, AVHRR sea surface temperature, TMI sea surface temperature, QuikSCAT ocean vector wind, SeaWiFS chlorophyll-a, and TOPEX/POSEIDON sea surface topography during 2001. Pasadena, CA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2002. v, 103p. JPL Publication 02-23. NAS 1.12/7:02-23.

In-House Publications: SSEC, AOS, NESDIS, CCR

Ackerman, Thomas P.; Comstock, Jennifer M., and Turner, David D. Raman lidar: A versatile remote sensing instrument for water vapor and cirrus cloud studies. Joint Session J3: Instrumentation and Remote Sensing to Observe Water in All its Phases (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in the Weather and Climate and the Conference on Hydrology, 17th) Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper J3.4. Reprint #3285.

Anderson, M. C.; Norman, J. M.; Kustas, W. P.; Prueger, J. H.; Neale, C. M. U.; MacPherson, J. I.; Mecikalski, J. R., and Diak, G. R. Comparison of aircraft- and tower-measured fluxes acquired during SMACEX with predictions from a regional atmosphere-land exchange model. Conference on Hydrology, 17th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper 1.7. Reprint #3284.

Aune, Robert M.; Frey, Richard, and Wetzel-Seemann, Suzanne. Evaluating water vapor and cloud retrievals from MODIS over Antarctica. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P3.12. Reprint #3299.

Daniels, Jaime; Velden, Christopher S.; Dengel, Gail A.; Stettner, David R., and Bresky, Wayne. Status and development of GOES wind products at NOAA/NESDIS. Joint Poster Session between Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, and Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, 3rd, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper JP1.6. Reprint #3291.

DeMaria, Mark; Maineilli, Michalle; Shay, Lynn K.; Knaff, John A., and Kossin, James P. Improvements in real-time statistical tropical cyclone intensity forecasts using satellite data. Joint Poster Session between Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, and Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, 3rd, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper JP1.4. Reprint #3314.

Diak, George R.; Mecikalski, John R.; Anderson, Martha C.; Norman, John M.; Torn, Ryan D.; DeWolf, Rebecca L., and Kustas, William P. Estimating the land-surface radiant, turbulent and conductive energy budgets using satellite systems and complementary synoptic data. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper 6.3. Reprint #3302.

Donner, Simon D. The impact of climate and land use on nitrate export by the Mississippi River. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2002. Ph.D. thesis. UW MET Publication No.02.00.D1.

Ellrod, Gary P. and Bachmaier, Scott [Bachmeier Scott]. Inter-comparison of GOES and MODIS imagery in the analysis of fog and stratus. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P1.15. Reprint #3289.

Feltz, Wayne F.; Nelson, James P. III; Schmit, Timothy J., and Wade, Gary S. Validation of GOES-8/11 sounder derived products during IHOP 2002 field experiment. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P4.5. Reprint #3303.

Feltz, Wayne F.; Posselt, Derek; Mecikalski, John R.; Wade, Gary S., and Schmit, Timothy J. 12 June 2002 rapid water vapor transitions during the IHOP field program. Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper 1.5. Reprint #3282.

Ferrare, R. A.; Browell, E. V.; Ismail, S.; Barrick, J.; Diskin, G.; Kool, S.; Brasseur, L. H.; Brackett, V. G.; Clayton, M.; Lesht, B.; Miloshevich, L.; Podolske, J.; Schmidlin, F.; Turner, D. D., and Whiteman, D. Lidar characterizations of water vapor measurements over the ARM SGP site. Joint poster session JP2: Instrumentation and Remote Sensing (Joint with Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the Conference on Hydrology, 17th) Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper JP2.9. Reprint #3286.

Geer, Ira W.; Smith, David R.; Hopkins, Edward J.; Moran, Joseph M.; Weinbeck, Robert S., and Blair, Bernard A. Water in the Earth System (WES): A midterm evaluation of a distance learning course on the water cycle. Symposium on Education, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper 4.3. Reprint #3279.

Gunshor, Mathew W.; Tobin, David; Schmit, Timothy J., and Menzel, W. Paul. First satellite intercalibration comparing high spectral resolution AIRS with operational geostationary imagers. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P5.14. Reprint #3311.

Gurka, James J.; Dittberner, Gerald J.; Taylor, Pamela, and Schmit, Timothy J. Specifying the requirement for imaging and sounding capabilities on the GOES-R series. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P5.2. Reprint #3307.

Hibbard, William L.; Whittaker, Thomas M., and Rueden, Curtis T. Integrating science metadata into Python using VisAD. International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, 19th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper 3.5. Reprint #3276.

Inoue, Toshiro and Ackerman, Steve A. Radiative effects of various cloud types as classified by the split window technique over the eastern sub-tropical Pacific derived from collocated ERBE and AVHRR data. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan v.80, no.6, 2002, pp1383-1394. Reprint #3317.

Jackson, Darrin L.; Wylie, Donald P., and Bates, John J. The HIRS Pathfinder radiance data set (1979-2001). Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P1.8. Reprint #3288.

Kossin, James P.; Olander, Timothy L., and Velden, Christopher S. A new statistical method for estimating tropical cyclone intensity from GOES-IR imagery. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P2.18. Reprint #3296.

La Casse, Katherine M. and Morgan, Michael C. Use of satellite-derived atmospheric motion vectors in simulations of cyclones during PACJET. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P3.15. Reprint #3300.

Lazzara, Matthew A.; Keller, Linda M.; Stearns, Charles R.; Thom, Jonathan E., and Weidner, George A. Antarctic satellite meteorology: Applications for weather forecasting. Monthly Weather Review v.131, no.2, 2003, pp371-383. Reprint #3316.

Lee, Yoonkyung; Wahba, Grace, and Ackerman, Steven A. Cloud classification of satellite radiance data by multicategory support vector machines. Joint Poster Session between Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, and Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, 3rd, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper JP1.22. Reprint #3295.

Li, Jun; Menzel, W. Paul; Yang, Zhongdong, and Frey, Richard A. Ackerman Steven A. High-spatial-resolution surface and cloud-type classification from MODIS multispectral band measurements. Journal of Applied Meteorology v.42, no.2, 203, pp204-226. Reprint #3319.

Li, Jun; Schmit, Timothy J.; Sun, Fengying, and Menzel, W. Paul. Surface and atmospheric retrievals from the future GOES sounder - Advanced Baseline Sounder (ABS). Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P5.5. Reprint #3310.

Mecikalski, John R.; Anderson, Martha C.; Torn, Ryan D.; Norman, John M.; Diak, George R.; Richardson, Scott J., and Brotzge, Jerry A. The Atmosphere-Land EXchange Inverse (ALEXI) model: Regional-scale flux validations, climatologies and available soil water derived from remote sensing inputs. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P4.22. Reprint #3305.

Mecikalski, John R.; Bedka, Kristopher M.; Torn, Ryan D.; Feltz, Wayne F., and Weckwerth, Tammy M. Inferring convectively-induced roll structures and convergence in the boundary layer using profiling instruments: An application to convective initiation during IHOP 2002. Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper 1.3. Reprint #3281.

Mecikalski, John R.; Johnson, David B., and Murray, John J. The Advanced Satellite Aviation-weather Products (ASAP) initiative for diagnosing and nowcasting weather hazards for improved aviation safety. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P2.23. Reprint #3297.

Mecikalski, John R.; Roberts, Rita D.; Kessinger, Cathy J., and Bedka, Kristopher M. Processing realtime satellite information to nowcast convective initiation and its characteristics. Joint Poster Session between Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, and Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, 3rd, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper JP1.19. Reprint #3294.

Mitchell, David L.; d'Entremont, Robert P.; DeSlover, Daniel H., and Arnot, W. Patrick. Multispectral thermal retrievals of size distribution shape, effective size, ice water path, optical depth and photon tunneling contribution. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P4.26. Reprint #3313.

Mostek, Anthony; Bachmeier, Scott; Whittaker, Tom; Bikos, Dan; Landsey, Dan; Weaver, John; DeMaria, Mark; Grant, Brad, and LaDue, Jim. VISITview - Connecting instructions with operational forecasts. International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, 19th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P1.44. Reprint #3277.

Posselt, Derek J.; Feltz, Wayne F., and Turner, David D. Verification of mesoscale numerical model forecasts using remotely-sensed observations. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P3.21. Reprint #3301.

Posselt, Derek J.; Olson, Erik; Osborne, Brian; Feltz, Wayne F.; Mecikalski, John R.; Aune, Robert; Knuteson, Robert O.; Revercomb, Hank E., and Smith, William L. Simulation of an IHOP convective initiation case for GIFTS forward model and algorithm development. Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper 1.6. Reprint #3283.

Prins, Elaine M.; Schmidt, Chris C.; Feltz, Joleen M.; Reid, Jeff S.; Westphal, Doug L., and Richardson, Kim. A two-year analysis of fire activity in the Western Hemisphere as observed with the GOES Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P2.28. Reprint #3298.

Revercomb, H. E.; Turner, D. D.; Tobin, D. C.; Knuteson, R. O.; Feltz, W. F.; Barnard, J.; Bosenberg, j.; Clough, S.; Cook, D.; Ferrare, R.; Goldsmith, J.; Gutman, S.; Halthore, R.; Lesht, B.; Liljegen J.; Linne, H.; Michalsky, J.; Morris, V.; Porch, W.; Richardson, S.; Schmid, B.; Splitt, M.; Van Hove, T.; Westwater, E., and Whiteman, D. The ARM Program's water vapor intensive observations periods. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society v.84, no.2, 2003, pp217-236. Reprint #3315.

Santek, David; Key, Jeffrey R., and Velden, Christopher S. Real-time derivation of cloud drift and water vapor winds in the polar regions from MODIS data. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper 2.1. Reprint #3290.

Schmit, Timothy J.; Menzel, W. P.; Sieglaff, Justin; Nelson, James P. III; Griffin, Michael K., and Gurka, James J. Channel selection for the next generation geostationary Advanced Baseline Imagers. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P5.3. Reprint #3308.

Schreiner, Anthony J.; Schmit, Timothy J.; Kopken, Christina; Su, Xiujuan; Holland, Curtis, and Jung, James A. Introducing the GOES imager Clear-Sky Brightness Temperature (CSBT) product. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P4.23. Reprint #3306.

Sieglaff, Justin and Schmit, Timothy J. Vegetation monitoring and thin cirrus detection on the next generation GOES imager. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P5.4. Reprint #3309.

Skupniewicz, Charles E.; Pauley, Randal; Velden, Christopher S.; Dengel, Gail, and Schuett, Carl D. Operational satellite-derived tropospheric winds for DOD models and applications. Joint Poster Session between Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, and Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, 3rd, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper JP1.7. Reprint #3292.

Strabala, Kathleen I.; Gumley, Liam E.; Rink, Thomas; Huang, Hung-Lung, and Dengel, Russ. MODIS/AIRS instrument direct broadcast products and applications. Joint Poster Session between Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, and Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, 3rd, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper JP1.14. Reprint #3293.

Velden, Christopher S. UW-CIMSS satellite products: Recent research developments. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P2.17. Reprint #3312.

Wade, Gary S.; Schmit, Timothy J.; Feltz, Wayne F.; Nelson, James P. III, and Schreiner, Anthony J. GOES-11 and GOES-8 sounders during the International H2) Project (IHOP)-2002 field experiment. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P4.8. Reprint #3304.

Wang, Pao K. Cross-tropopause convective transport of water vapor: Model study, satellite observation, and implications. Joint poster session with Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, 14th; Symposium on IOS, 7th; Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, 7th; and Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper J4.2. Reprint #3280.

Weinbeck, Robert S.; Smith, David R.; Hopkins, Edward J.; Geer, Ira W.; Moran, Joseph M., and Mills, Elizabeth W. AMS Education Program - A decade of success. Symposium on Education, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P1.5. Reprint #3278.

Wylie, Donald P.; Menzel, W. Paul; Jackson, Darrin, and Bates, John J. Trends in high clouds over the last 20 years. Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 12th, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003 (preprints). Boston, MA, American Meteorological Society, 2003, Paper P1.4. Reprint #3287.

International Reports: ECMWF

Betts, Alan K. and Jakob, Christian. Evaluation of the diurnal cycle of precipitation, surface thermodynamics and surface fluxes in the ECMWF model using LBA data. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2002. 10p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.378.

Betts, Alan K. and Jakob, Christian. Study of diurnal cycle of convective precipitation over Amazonia using a single column model. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2002. 18p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.379.

Fisher, Michael. Estimation of entropy reduction and degrees of freedom for signal for large variational analysis systems. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2003. 18p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.397.

Hersbach, Hans. CMOD5: An improved geophysical model functin ofr ERS C-band scatterometry. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2003. 50p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.395.

Lubrano, A. M.; Masiello, G.; Matricardi, M., and Serio, C. Retrieving N2O from nadir viewing infrared spectrometers. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2003. 28p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.396.

Saetra, Oyvind; Bidlot, Jean-Raymond; Hersbach, Hans, and Richardson, David. Effects of observation errors on the statistics for ensemble spread and reliability. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2002. 12p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.393.

Taylor, James W. and Buizza, Roberto. A comparison of temperature density forecasts from GARCH and atmospheric models. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2003. 20p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.394.

Tremolet, Yannick. Diagnostics of linear and incremental approximations in 4D-Var. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2003. 16p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.399.

van den Hurk, Bart J. J. M. and Viterbo, Pedro. The Torne-Kalix PILPS2E experiment as a test bed for modifications to the ECMWF land surface scheme. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2002. 10p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.392.

van den Hurk, Bart J. J. M.; Viterbo, Pedro, and Los, Sietse O. Impact of Leaf Area Index seasonality on the annual land surface evaporation in a global circulation model. Reading, UK, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Research Department, 2002. 15p. ECMWF Technical Memorandum No.391.

International Reports: EUMETSAT

Chevallier, Frederic and Bauer, Peter. Microwave radiative transfer modeling in clouds and precipitation. Part III: Model rain and clouds over oceans - comparison with SSM/I observations. [Darmstadt, Germany], European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Satellite Application Facility for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP SAF), 2002. 26p. Document No.NWPSAF-EC-TR-007, version 1.0.

Foreign Reports

Wu, Zhen-Jia; Colman, Robert; Power, Scott et al. The El Nino Southern Oscillation response in the BMRC Coupled GCM. Melbourne, Australia, Bureau of Meteorology, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC), 2002. 18p. BMRC Research Report No.91.