HMT Publications

2008

Coplen, Tyler B., Paul J. Neiman, Allen B. White, Jurate M. Landwehr, F. Martin Ralph, and Michael D. Dettinger, 2008: Extreme changes in stable hydrogen isotopes and precipitation characteristics in a landfalling Pacific storm. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L21808. DOI:10.1029/2008GL035481 [Abstract]
Lundquist, J. D., P. J. Neiman, B. Martner, A. B. White, D. J. Gottas, and F. M. Ralph, 2008: Rain versus snow in the Sierra Nevada, California: Comparing radar and surface observations of melting level. J. Hydrometeor., 9, 194-211. DOI: 10.1175/2007JHM853.1 [Abstract]
Martner, B. E., S. E. Yuter, A. B. White, S. Y. Matrosov, D. E. Kingsmill, and F. M. Ralph, 2008: Raindrop size distributions and rain characteristics in California coastal rainfall for periods with and without a radar brightband. J. Hydrometeor., 9, (3), 408-425. DOI: 10.1175/2007JHM924.1 [Abstract]
Neiman, P. J., F. M. Ralph, G. A. Wick, Y.-H. Kuo, T.-K. Wee, Z. Ma, G. H. Taylor, and M. D. Dettinger, 2008: Diagnosis of an intense atmospheric river impacting the Pacific Northwest: Storm summary and offshore vertical structure observed with COSMIC satellite retrievals. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 4398-4420.
Neiman, P. J., F. M. Ralph, G. A. Wick, J. D. Lundquist and M. D. Dettinger, 2008: Meteorological characteristics and overland precipitation impacts of atmospheric rivers affecting the West Coast of North America based on eight years of SSM/I satellite observations. J. Hydrometeor., 9, 22-47. [Abstract]
Neiman, P. J., A. B. White, F. M. Ralph, D. J. Gottas, S. I. Gutman, 2008: A water vapor flux tool for precipitation forecasting. Water Management (accepted in final form April 2008).
Restrepo, P., D.P. Jorgensen, S.H. Cannon, J. Costa, J. Laber, J. Major, B. Martner, J. Purpura, K. Werner, 2008: Joint NOAA/NWS/USGS Prototype Debris Flow Warning System for Recently Burned Areas in Southern California. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, 1845-1851. DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2416.1 [Abstract]
Wick, Gary A., Ying-Hwa Kuo, F. Martin Ralph, Tae-Kwon Wee, and Paul J. Neiman, 2008: Intercomparison of integrated water vapor retrievals from SSM/I and COSMIC. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L21805.
Yuan, H., J. A. McGinley, P. J. Schultz, C. J. Anderson, and C. Lu, 2008: Short-Range Precipitation Forecasts from Time-lagged Multimodel Ensembles during the HMT-West-2006 Campaign. J. Hydrometeor., (in press).

2007

Jankov, I., P. J. Schultz, C. J. Anderson, and S. E. Koch, 2007: The Impact of Different Physical Parameterizations and Their Interactions on Cold Season QPF in the American River Basin. J. Hydrometeor., 8, 1141-1151. [Abstract]
Morss, R. E., and F. M. Ralph, 2007: Use of information by National Weather Service forecasters and emergency managers during CALJET and PACJET-2001. Wea. Forecasting, 22, 539-555. [Abstract]
Martner, B. E., P. J. Neiman, and A. B. White, 2007: Collocated radar and radiosonde observations of a double brightband melting layer in northern California. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 2016-2024. [Abstract]
Matrosov, S. Y., K. A. Clark, and D. E. Kingsmill, 2007: A polarimetric radar approach to identify rain, melting-layer, and snow regions for applying corrections to vertical profiles of reflectivity. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 46, 154-166. [Abstract]
Wilczak, J. M., R. R. Leben, and D. S. McCollum, 2007: Upper-ocean thermal structure and heat content off the U.S. West Coast during the 1997-1998 El Nino event using AXBT and satellite altimetry data. Progress in Oceanography, 74, 48-70. [Abstract]

2006

Bao, J.-W., S. A. Michelson, P. J. Neiman, F. M. Ralph, and J. M. Wilczak, 2006: Interpretation of enhanced integrated water-vapor bands associated with extratropical cyclones: Their formation and connection to tropical moisture. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 1063-1080. [Abstract]
Kingsmill, D. E., A. B. White, P. J. Neiman, F. M. Ralph, 2006: Northern California Precipitation Characteristics during the 1998 CALJET Winter Season: Vertical Structure and Radar Reflectivity-Rainfall Rate Relationships. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 2072-2094. [Abstract]
Neiman, P. J., F. M. Ralph, A. B. White, D. D. Parrish, J. S. Holloway, and D. L. Bartels, 2006: A Multiwinter analysis of channeled flow through a prominent gap along the northern California Coast during CALJET and PACJET. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 1815-1841. [Abstract]
Ralph, F. M., P. J. Neiman, G. A. Wick, S. I. Gutman, M. D. Dettinger, C. R. Cayan, and A. B. White 2006: Flooding on California’s Russian River: The Role of Atmospheric Rivers. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L13801, doi:10.1029/2006GL026689. [Abstract]

2005

Dabberdt, W. F., T. W Schlatter. F. H. Carr, E. W. J. Friday, D. Jorgensen, S. Koch, M. Pirone, F. M. Ralph, J. Sun, P. Welsh, J. W. Wilson, and X. Zou, 2005: Multifunctional Mesoscale Observing Networks. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86, 961-982. [Abstract]
Matrosov, S. Y., D. E. Kingsmill, B. E. Martner, and F. M. Ralph, 2005: The utility of X-band polarimetric radar for continuous quantitative estimates of rainfall parameters. J. Hydrometeor., 6, 248-262. [Abstract]
Neiman, P. J., B. E. Martner, A. B. White, G. A. Wick, F. M. Ralph, and D. E. Kingsmill, 2005: Wintertime nonbrightband rain in California and Oregon during CALJET and PACJET: Geographic, interannual, and synoptic variability. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 1199-1223, doi:10.1175/MWR2919.1. [Abstract]
Persson, P. O. G., P. J. Neiman, B. Walter, and F. M. Ralph, 2005: Contributions from California coastal-zone surface fluxes to heavy coastal precipitation: A CALJET case study during the strong El Niño of 1998. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 1175-1198, doi: 10.1175/MWR2910.1. [Abstract]
Ralph, F. M., R. M. Rauber, B. F. Jewett, D. E. Kingsmill, P. Pisano, P. Pugner, R. M. Rasmussen, D. W. Reynolds, T. W. Schlatter, R. E. Stewart, and J. S. Waldstreicher, 2005: Improving short term (0-48 h) cool season quantitative precipitation forecasting: Recommendations from a USWRP workshop. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86, 1619-1632, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-86-11-1619.
Ralph, F. M., P. J. Neiman, and R. Rotunno, 2005: Dropsonde Observations in Low-Level Jets Over the Northeastern Pacific Ocean from CALJET-1998 and PACJET-2001: Mean Vertical-Profile and Atmospheric-River Characteristics. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 889-910, doi: 10.1175/MWR2896.1. [Abstract]

2004

Andrews, E. D., R. C. Antweiler, P. J. Neiman, and F. M. Ralph, 2004: Influence of ENSO on flood frequency along the California coast. J. Climate, 17, 337-348. [Abstract]
Matrosov, S.Y., 2004: Depolarization estimates from linear H and V measurements with weather radars operating in simultaneous transmission-simultaneous receiving mode. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 21, 574-583. [Abstract]
Neiman, P. J., F. M. Ralph, D. P. Jorgensen, A. B. White, and D. E. Kingsmill, 2004: Modification of Fronts and Precipitation by Coastal Blocking during an Intense Landfalling Winter Storm in Southern California: Observations during CALJET. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 242-273. [Abstract]
Ralph, F. M., P. J. Neiman, and G. A. Wick, 2004: Satellite and CALJET aircraft observations of atmospheric rivers over the eastern North-Pacific Ocean during the winter of 1997/98. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 1721-1745. [Abstract]

2003

Jorgensen, D. P., P. Zhaoxia, P. O. G. Persson, and W.-K. Tao, 2003: Variations associated with cores and gaps in a Pacific narrow cold frontal rainband. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 2705-2729. [Abstract]
Ralph, F. M., P. J. Neiman, D. E. Kingsmill, P. O. G. Persson, A. B. White, E. T. Strem, E. D. Andrews, and R. C. Antweiler, 2003: The Impact of a Prominent Rain Shadow on Flooding in California's Santa Cruz Mountains: A CALJET Case Study and Sensitivity to the ENSO Cycle J. Hydrometeor., 4, 1243-1264. [Abstract]
White, A. B., P. J. Neiman, F. M. Ralph, D. E. Kingsmill, and P. O. G. Persson, 2003: Coastal Orographic Rainfall Processes Observed by Radar during the California Land-Falling Jets Experiment, J. Hydrometeorology, 4, 264-282. [Abstract]

2002

Neiman, P. J., F. M. Ralph, A. B. White, D. E. Kingsmill, and P. O. G. Persson, 2002: The Statistical Relationship between Upslope Flow and Rainfall in California's Coastal Mountains: Observations during CALJET, Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 1468-1492. [Abstract]
White, A. B., D. J. Gottas, E. T. Strem, F. M. Ralph, and P. J. Neiman, 2002: An Automated Brightband Height Detection Algorithm for Use with Doppler Radar Spectral Moments, Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 19, 687-697. [Abstract]

2001

Nuss, W. A., and D. K. Miller, 2001: Mesoscale predictability under various synoptic regimes, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 8, 429-438. [Abstract]

2000

White, A. B., J. R. Jordan, B. E. Martner, F. M. Ralph, and B. W. Bartram, 2000: Extending the Dynamic Range of an S-Band Radar for Cloud and Precipitation Studies, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 17, 1226-1234. [Abstract]