HAR Publications
EDOP Journal Articles | EDOP Conference Papers | CRS Journal Articles | CRS Conference Papers
HIWRAP Journal Articles | HIWRAP Conference Papers | EXRAD Journal Articles | EXRAD Conference Papers
EDOP Journal Articles
- Heymsfield, G. M., S. Bidwell, I. J. Caylor, S. Ameen, S. Nicholson, W. Boncyk, L. Miller, D. Vandemark, P. E. Racette, and L. R. Dod, 1996: The EDOP radar system on the high-altitude NASA ER-2 aircraft. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 13, 795-809.
- Heymsfield, G. M., J. M. Shepherd, S.W. Bidwell, W. C. Boncyk, I.J. Caylor, S. Ameen, and W.S. Olson, 1996: Structure of Florida thunderstorms using high-altitude aircraft radiometer and radar observations. J. Appl. Meteor., 35, 1736-1762.
- Caylor, I. J., G. M. Heymsfield, R. Meneghini, and L.S. Miller, 1996: Correction of sampling errors in ocean surface cross-sectional estimates from nadir-looking weather radar. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 14, 203-210.
- Olson, W. S., C. D. Kummerow, G. M. Heymsfield, and L. Giglio, 1996: A method for combined passive/active microwave retrievals of cloud and precipitation profiles.J. Appl. Meteor., 35, 1763-1789.
- Kummerow, C., W. S. Olson, and L. Giglio, 1996: A simplified scheme for obtaining precipitation and vertical hydrometeor profiles from passive microwave sensors.IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing.34, 1213-1232.
- Wang, J. R., J. Y. Zhan, and P. Racette, 1997: Storm-associated microwave radiometric signatures in the frequency range of 90-220 GHz.J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 14, 13-31.
- Heymsfield, G. M., J. B. Halverson, I. J. Caylor, 1999: A wintertime Gulf coast squall line observed by EDOP airborne Doppler radar. Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 2928-2950.
- Geerts, B., G.M. Heymsfield, L. Tian, J.B. Halverson, A. Guillory, and M.I. Mejia, 2000: Hurricane Georges' landfall in the Dominican Republic: detailed airborne Doppler radar imagery. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 81, 999-1018.
- Heymsfield, G. M., B. Geerts, and L. Tian, 2000: TRMM precipitation radar reflectivity profiles as compared with high-resolution airborne and ground-based radar measurements. J. Appl. Meteor., 39, 2080-2102.
- Heymsfield, G. M., J. B. Halverson, J. Simpson, L. Tian, and T. Paul Bui, 2001: ER-2 Doppler Radar investigations of the eyewall of Hurricane Bonnie during the Convection and Moisture Experiment-3. J. Appl. Meteor, 40, 1310-1330.
- Tian, L., Heymsfield, G. M., Srivastava, R. C., 2002: Measurement of attenuation with airborne and ground-based radar in convective storms over land and its microphysical implications. J. Appl.Meteor, 41, 716–733.
- Meneghini R., S. W. Bidwell, R. Rincon, G. M. Heymsfield, and L. Liao, 2003: Differential-frequency Doppler weather radar: Theory and experiment. Radio Sci., 38, 5-1 to 5-5.
- Skofronic-Jackson, G. M., J. Wang, G.M. Heymsfield, R. Hood, W. Manning, R. Meneghini, and J. Weinman., 2003: Combined Radiometer Radar Microphysical Profile Estimations with Emphasis on High-Frequency Brightness Temperature Observations. J. Appl. Meteor., 42, 476-487.
- Hood, R., D. Cecil, F. LaFontaine, R. Blakeslee, D. Mach, G. Heymsfield, F. Marks and E. Zipser, 2004: Classficiation of tropical oceanic precipitation using high altitude aircraft microwave and electric field measurements. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 218 - 233.
- McFarquhar, G.M., H. Zhang, G.M. Heymsfield, R. Hood, J. Dudhia, J. Halverson, and F. Marks, 2006: Factors affecting the evolution of Hurricane Erin (2001) and the distributions of hydrometeors: Role of microphysical processes. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 127 - 150.
- Heymsfield, G.M., J. Halverson, E. Ritchie, J. Simpson, J. Molinari, and L. Tian, 2006: Structure of highly sheared Tropical Storm Chantal during CAMEX-4. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 268 - 287.
- Halverson, J., J. Simpson, G.M. Heymsfield, H. Pierce, T. Hock, and L. Ritchie, 2006: Warm core structure of Hurricane Erin diagnosed from high-altitude dropsondes during CAMEX-4. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 309-324.
- Halverson, J., M. Black, S. Braun, D. Cecil, M. Goodman, A. Heymsfield, G. Heymsfield, R. Hood, T. Krishnamurti, G. McFarquhar, M.J. Mahoney, J. Molinari, R. Rogers, J. Turk, C. Velden, D.-L. Zhang, E. Zipser, R. Kakar, 2007: NASA's Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes (TCSP) experiment: Investigating tropical cyclogenesis and hurricane intensity change. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 867 - 882.
- Heymsfield, G.M., L. Tian, A.J. Heymsfield, L. Li, and S. Guimond, 2009: Characteristics of deep tropical and subtropical convection from nadir-viewing high-altitude airborne Doppler radar. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 285 - 308.
- Guimond, S.R., G.M. Heymsfield, and F.J. Turk, 2009: Multiscale observations of Hurricane Dennis (2005): The effects of hot towers on rapid intensification. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 633 - 654.
- Zipser, E.J., C.H. Twohy, S.-C. Tsay, K. L. Thornhill, S. Tanelli, R. Ross, T.N. Krishnamurti, Q. Ji, G. Jenkins, S. Ismail, N.C. Hsu, R. Hood, G.M. Heymsfield, A. Heymsfield, J. Halverson, M.W. Goodman, R. Ferrare, J.P. Dunion, M. Douglas, R. Cifelli, G. Chen, E.V. Browell, and B. Anderson, 2009: The Saharan air layer and the fate of African easterly waves - NASA's AMMA field study of tropical cyclogenesis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 1137 - 1156.
EDOP Conference Papers
- Caylor, I. J., G. M. Heymsfield, S. Bidwell, and S. Ameen, 1995: "Estimating the rain rate profile in the presence of attenuation using EDOP airborne radar observations." Preprints, 27th Radar Meteor. Conf., Amer. Meteor. Soc.
- Heymsfield, G. M., I. J. Caylor, S.W. Bidwell, S. Ameen, and J. Scala, 1995: "Structure of vertical velocities in a rapidly advancing Gulf coast squall line observed by EDOP." Preprints, 27th Radar Meteor. Conf., Amer. Meteor. Soc.
- Geerts, B., G. M. Heymsfield and L. Tian, 1999: "High Resolution reflectivity profiles in various convectively generated precipitation systems." Preprints, 22nd Radar Meteor. Conf., Amer. Meteor. Soc., Montreal, 11-16 July.
- Tian, L., G. M. Heymsfield and S. Bidwell, 1999: "Potential application of the surface reference technique over land at large incidence angle." Preprints, 22nd Radar Meteor. Conf., Amer. Meteor. Soc., Montreal, 11-16 July.
- Heymsfield, G. M., L. Tian and B. Geerts, 1999: "Rain fallspeeds and rates derived from airborne nadir-pointing Doppler radar measurements." Preprints, 22nd Radar Meteor. Conf., Amer. Meteor. Soc., Montreal, 11-16 July.
- Heymsfield, G. M., L. Li, L. Tian, M. McGill, Z. Wang, 2003: Thunderstorm generated cirrus observed from X and W-band airborne radar during CRYSTAL-FACE, Preprints 31st AMS Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, 6-12 August.
- Tian, L., G. M. Heymsfield, L. Li, 2003: Stratiform precipitation observed by airborne radar at 94 and 10 GHZ, Preprints 31st AMS Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, 6-12 August.
CRS Journal Articles
- Li L., G. M. Heymsfield, P. E. Racette, L. Tian, E. Zenker, 2003: A 94 GHz Cloud Radar System on a NASA High-altitude ER-2 Aircraft,J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 21, 1378-1388.
- M.J. McGill, L. Li, W.D. Hart, G.M. Heymsfield, D.L. Hlavka, P.E. Racette, L. Tian, M.A. Vaughan, and D.M. Winker, 2004: Combined Lidar-Radar Remote Sensing: Initial Results from CRYSTAL-FACE, J. Geophys. Res.,109, D2703.
- Ridley B., L. Ott, K. Pickering, L. Emmons, D. Montzka, A. Weinheimer, D. Knapp, F. Grahek, L. Li, G. Heymsfield, M. McGill, P. Kucera, M. J. Mahoney, D. Baumgardner, M. Schultz, and B. Brasseur, 2004: Florida Thunderstorms: A Faucet of Reactive Nitrogen to the Upper Troposphere,J. Geophys. Res., 109, D17305, doi:10.1029/2004JD004769.
- Evans, K.F., J. R. Wang, P. E. Racette, G. M. Heymsfield, and L. Li, 2005: Ice Cloud Retrievals and Analysis with the Compact Scanning Submillimeter Imaging Radiometer and the Cloud Radar System during CRYSTAL-FACE, J. Appl. Meteor., 44, 839-859.
- Li L., G. M. Heymsfield, L. Tian, P. E. Racette, 2005: Measurements of ocean surface backscattering using an airborne 94-GHz cloud radar - Implication for calibration of airborne and spaceborne W-band radars, J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 22, 1033-1045.
- Mitrescu, C., J, M. Haynes, G. L. Stephens, S. D. Miller, G. M. Heymsfield, and M. J. McGill 2005: Cirrus cloud optical, microphysical, and radiative properties observed during the CRYSTAL-FACE experiment: A lidar-radar retrieval system, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D09208, doi:10.1029/2004JD005605.
- Wang, Z., G. M. Heymsfield, L. Li, and A. J. Heymsfield, 2005: Retrieving optically thick ice cloud microphysical properties by using airborne dual-wavelength radar measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D19201, doi:10.1029/2005JD005969.
- Sayres, D. S., J. B. Smith, J. V. Pittman, E. M. Weinstock, J. G. Anderson, G. Heymsfield, L. Li, A. M. Fridlind, and A. S. Ackerman (2008), Validation and determination of ice water content-radar reflectivity relationships during CRYSTAL-FACE: Flight requirements for future comparisons J. Geophys. Res., 113, D05208, doi:10.1029/2007JD008847.
- Hogan, R.J., L. Tian, P.R.A. Brown, C.D. Westbrook, A.J. Heymsfield, and J.D. Eastment, 2012: Radar scattering from ice aggregates using the horizontally aligned oblate spheriod approximation. J. Appl. Meteor. and Clim., 51, 655 - 671.
- Evans, K.F., J.R. Wang, D. Starr, G.M. Heymsfield, L. Li, L. Tian, R.P. Lawson, A.J. Heymsfield, and A. Bansemer, 2012: Ice hydrometeor profile retrieval algorithm for high frequency microwave radiometers: application to the CoSSIR instrument during TC4. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 5, 2277 - 2306.
- Tian, L., G.M. Heymsfield, A.J. Heymsfield, A. Bansemer, L. Li, C.H. Twohy, R.C. Srivastava, 2010: A study of cirrus particle size distribution using TC4 observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 195 - 216.
- Schmidt, K.S., P. Pilewskie, B. Mayer, M. Wendisch, B. Kindel, S. Platnick, M.D. King, G. Wind, G.T. Arnold, L. Tian, and G.M. Heymsfield, 2010: Apparent absorption of solar spectral irradiance in heterogeneous ice clouds. J. Geophy. Res., 115, D10.
- Liao, L., R. Meneghini, L. Tian, and G.M. Heymsfield, 2009: Measurements and simulations of nadir-viewing radar returns from the melting layer at X and W-bands. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 48, 2215 - 2226.
- Tian, L., G.M. Heymsfield, L. Li and R.C. Srivastava, 2007: Properties of light stratiform rain derived from 10 and 94 GHz airborne Doppler radar measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D11.
- Liao, L., R. Meneghini, L. Tian, and G.M. Heymsfield, 2008: Retrieval of snow and rain from combined X- and W-band airborne radar measurements. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens., 46, 1514 - 1524.
CRS Conference Papers
- Caylor, I. J., G. M. Heymsfield, S. Bidwell, and S. Ameen, 1995: "Estimating the rain rate profile in the presence of attenuation using EDOP airborne radar observations." Preprints, 27th Radar Meteor. Conf., Amer. Meteor. Soc.
- Heymsfield, G. M., I. J. Caylor, S.W. Bidwell, S. Ameen, and J. Scala, 1995: "Structure of vertical velocities in a rapidly advancing Gulf coast squall line observed by EDOP." Preprints, 27th Radar Meteor. Conf., Amer. Meteor. Soc.
- Geerts, B., G. M. Heymsfield and L. Tian, 1999: "High Resolution reflectivity profiles in various convectively generated precipitation systems." Preprints, 22nd Radar Meteor. Conf., Amer. Meteor. Soc., Montreal, 11-16 July.
- Tian, L., G. M. Heymsfield and S. Bidwell, 1999: "Potential application of the surface reference technique over land at large incidence angle." Preprints, 22nd Radar Meteor. Conf., Amer. Meteor. Soc., Montreal, 11-16 July.
- Heymsfield, G. M., L. Tian and B. Geerts, 1999: "Rain fallspeeds and rates derived from airborne nadir-pointing Doppler radar measurements." Preprints, 22nd Radar Meteor. Conf., Amer. Meteor. Soc., Montreal, 11-16 July.
- Heymsfield, G. M., L. Li, L. Tian, M. McGill, Z. Wang, 2003: Thunderstorm generated cirrus observed from X and W-band airborne radar during CRYSTAL-FACE, Preprints 31st AMS Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, 6-12 August.
- Tian, L., G. M. Heymsfield, L. Li, 2003: Stratiform precipitation observed by airborne radar at 94 and 10 GHZ, Preprints 31st AMS Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, 6-12 August.
HIWRAP Journal Articles
- McLinden, M., J. Carswell, L. Li, G. Heymsfield, A. Emory, J. Cervantes, and L. Tian, 2013: Utilizing versatile transmission waveforms to mitigate pulse-compression range sidelobes with the HIWRAP Radar. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., doi:10.1109/LGRS.2013.2241729.
- Braun, S., R. Kakar, E. Zipser, G. Heymsfield, C. Albers, S. Brown, S. Durden, S. Guimond, J. Halverson, A. Heymsfield, S. Ismail, B. Lambrigsten, T. Miller, S. Tanelli, J. Thomas, and J. Zawislak, 2013: NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) field experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, 345 - 363.
- Heymsfield, G.M., L. Tian, L. Li, M. McLinden, and J. Cervantes, 2013: Airborne radar observations of severe hail storms: Implications for future spaceborne radar. J. Appl. Meteor. and Clim., 52, 1851 - 1867.
- Guimond, S.R., L. Tian, G.M. Heymsfield and S.J. Frasier, 2014: Wind retrieval algorithms for the IWRAP and HIWRAP airborne Doppler radars with applications to hurricanes. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 31, 1189 - 1215.
- Sippel, J.A., F. Zhang, Y. Weng, L. Tian, G.M. Heymsfield, and S.A. Braun, 2014: Ensemble Kalman filter assimilation of HIWRAP observations of Hurricane Karl (2010) from the unmanned Global Hawk aircraft. Mon. Wea. Rev., 142, 4559 - 4580.
- Didlake, A.C., Jr., G.M. Heymsfield, L. Tian, and S.R. Guimond, 2015: The coplane analysis technique for three-dimensional wind retrieval using the HIWRAP airborne Doppler radar. J. Appl. Meteor., 54, 605 - 623.
- Tian, L., G.M. Heymsfield, A.C. Didlake, Jr., S.R. Guimond, and L. Li, 2015: Velocity-azimuth display analysis of Doppler velocity for HIWRAP. J. Appl. Meteor., 54, 1792 - 1808.
- Li, L., G.M. Heymsfield, J. Carswell, D. Schaubert, M. McLinden, J. Creticos, M. Perrine, M. Coon, J.I. Cervantes, M. Vega, S. Guimond, L. Tian, and A. Emory, 2015: The NASA High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP), IEEE Trans. On Geosci. Remote Sens., in press.
HIWRAP Conference Papers
EXRAD Journal Articles
EXRAD Conference Papers
Miscellaneous
- Grecu, M., L. Tian, W.S. Olson, and S. Tanelli, 2011: A robust dual-frequency radar profiling algorithm. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 50, 1543 - 1557.
- Meneghini, R., L. Liao, and L. Tian, 2005: A feasibility study for simultaneous measurements of water vapor and precipitation parameters using a three-frequency radar. J. Appl. Meteor., 44, 1511 - 1525.
- Tian, L. and J.A. Curry, 1989: Cloud overlap statistics. J. Geophys. Res., 94, 9925 - 9935.