2014 Publications

• Ringerud, S., Peters-Liddard, C, and Kummerow, C. 2014: A Comparison of Microwave Window Channel Retrieved and Forward-Modeled Emissivities over the US Southern Great Plains. IEEE Trans.Geo. and Rem. Sen., 53/4, 2395-2412 doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2260759
• Rebecca Bolinger, Christian D. Kummerow, Nolan J. Doesken, 2014: Attribution and Characteristics of Wet and Dry Seasons in the Upper Colorado River Basin. J. Climate, 27(23), 8661-8673 DOI: JCLI-D-13-00618
• Arthur Y. Hou; Ramesh K. Kakar; Steven Neeck; Ardeshir Azarbarzin; Christian D. Kummerow; Masahiro Kojima; Riko Oki; Kenji Nakamura; Toshio Iguchi, 2014: The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission, BAMS, 95(5), 701-722 DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00164.1
• Paula J. Brown, Christian D. Kummerow, 2014: An Assessment of Atmospheric Water Budget Components Over Tropical Oceans, J.Climate, 27(5), 2054-2071 DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00385.1
• David I. Duncan, Christian D. Kummerow, Gregory S. Elsaesser, 2014: A Lagrangian Analysis of Deep Convective Systems and their Local Environmental Effects, J. Climate, 27(5), 2072-2086 DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00285.1
• Luiz Augusto Toledo Machado, PhD; Maria Assunão Faus Silva Dias; Carlos Augusto Morales; Gilberto fernando Fisch; Daniel Vila; Rachel Albrecht; Steven J. Goodamn; Alan james Calheiros; Thiago Biscaro; Christian Kummerow; Julia C.P. Cohen; David Fitzjarrald; Ernani Nascimento; Meiry Sayuri Sakamoto; Christopher Cunningham; jean pierre Chaboureau; Walter A. Petersen; David K. Adams; Luca Baldini; Carlos Frederico Angelis; Luiz F. Sapucci; Paola Salio; Henrique Barbosa; Eduardo Landulfo; Rodrigo Ferreira Souza; Richard J Blakeslee; Jeffrey C. Bailey; Saulo freitas, 2014: The CHUVA Project - how does convection vary across the tropics? Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95(9) 1365-1380 DOI BAMS-D-13-00084

        2013 Publications

• Bytheway, J. and C.D.Kummerow 2013: Inferring the Uncertainty of Satellite Precipitation Estimates in Data-Sparse Regions over Land, J Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres. 118(17) 9524-9533 DOI:1002/JGRD-50607
• Kim, J.-H., D.-B. Shin, and C. Kummerow, 2013: Impacts of a-priori databases using six WRF microphysics schemes on passive microwave rainfall retrievals. J.Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 30(10), 2367-2381, DOI 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00261.1
• Matsui, T., T. Iguchi, X. Li, M. Han., W.-K. Tao, W. Petersen, T. L'Ecuyer, R. Meneghini, W. Olson, C. D. Kummerow, A. Y. Hou, M. R. Schwaller, E. F. Stocker, J. Kwiatkowski, 2013: GPM satellite simulator over ground validation sites, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 94, 1653-1660 DOI 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00161.1
• Elsaesser, Gregory, C.D. Kummerow, 2013: A Multisensor Observational Depiction of the Transition from Light to Heavy Rainfall on Subdaily Timescales, J. Atmos. Sci. 70, 2309-2324, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0210.1
• Smith, R. and C.D. Kummerow, 2013: A comparison of in-situ, reanalysis, and satellite water budgets, J. Hydrometeorology, 14, 888-905, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-001191.
• Sapiano, M, W. Berg, D. McKague, and C. Kummerow, 2013: Toward an intercalibrated fundamental climate data record of the SSM/I sensors, IEEE Trans. Geo. and Rem. Sen., 51(3), 1492-1503, DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2206601.
• Berg, W., M. R. P. Sapiano, J. Horsman, and C. Kummerow, 2013: Improved geolocation and earth incidence angle information for a fundamental climate data record of the SSM/I sensors, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens, 51(3) 1504-1513, OI:10.1109/TGRS.2012.2199761

        2012 Publications

• Petkovic, V. and C. Kummerow, 2012: A spatio-temporal correlation technique to improve satellite rainfall accumulation, J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol., 51, 2122-2136, DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0178.1.
• Bringi, V., G-J. Huang, J. Munchak, C. Kummerow, D. Marks, and D. Wolff, 2012: Comparison of drop size distribtuion parameter (D0) and rain rate from S-band dual-polarized ground radar, TRMM-precipitation radar (PR) and combined PR/TMI: Two events from Kwajalein Atoll, J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 29, 1603-1616, DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00153.1
• Wang, F. andW C. Kummerow, 2012. A clustering approach to compare cloud model simulation to satellite observations, J. of Climate, 25, 7896-7916, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00472.1
• Wang, F., C. Kummerow, A. J. Geer, P. Bauer, G. Elsaesser, 2012: Comparing rain retrievals from GPROF with ECMWF 1D-Var products. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 138, 1852-1866, DOI:10.1002/qj.1931.
• Ryu, Geun-Hyeok, B.-J. Sohn, C. Kummerow, E-K. Seo, G. Tripoli, 2012: Rain-rate characteristics over the Korean Peninsula and improvement of the Goddard Profiling (GPROF) database for TMI rainfall retrievals, J. Appl. Meteorol. and Climatol., 51, 786-798.
• Munchak, S. J., C. Kummerow, and T. Lang, 2012. Relationships between the raindrop size distribution and properties of the environment and clouds inferred from TRMM, J. Climate, 25, 2963-2978.

        2011 Publications

• Bauer, P., G. Ohring, C. Kummerow, and T. Auligne, 2011: Assimilating satellite observations of clouds and precipitation into NWP models, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 92, 1625-1632, doi: 10.1175/2011BAMS2809.1. [PDF print version]
• Munchak, S. J. and C. Kummerow, 2011: A modular optimal estimation method for combined radar-radiometer precipitation profiling, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 50, 433-448, doi: 10.1175/2010JAMC2535.1. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Kummerow, C. D., S. Ringerud, J. Crook, D. Randel and W. Berg, 2011: An observationally generated A-Priori database for microwave rainfall retrievals, J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 28(2), 113-130, doi: 10.1175/2010JTECHA1468.1. [Abstract] [PDF print version]

        2010 Publications

• Saleeby, S. M., W. Berg, S. van den Heever, and T. L'Ecuyer, 2010: Impact of cloud-nucleating aerosols in cloud-resolving model simulations of warm-rain preicpitation in the East China Sea, J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 3916-3930, doi: 10.1175/2010JAS3528.1. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Masunaga, H., T. Matsui, W.-K. Tao, A. Hou, C. Kummerow, T. Nakajima, P. Bauer, W. Olson, M. Sekiguchi and T. Y. Naka, 2010: Satellite Data Simulator Unit (SDSU): A multi-sensor, multi-spectral satellite simulator package, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 1625-1632, doi: 10.1175/2010BAMS2809.1. [PDF print version]
• Lebsock, M.D., C. Kummerow, G.L. Stephens, 2010: An observed tropical oceanic radiative-convective cloud feedback, J. of Climate, 23, 2065-2078, doi:10.1175/2009JCLI3091.1. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Berg, W., T. L'Ecuyer, and J. M. Haynes, 2010: The distribution of rainfall over oceans from spaceborne radars, J. Appl. Meteor. Climtol., 49, 535-543, doi: 10.1175/2010JAMC2330.1. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Elsaesser G.S., C.D. Kummerow, T.S. L'Ecuyer, Y.N. Takayabu, S. Shige, 2010: Observed self-similarity of precipitation regimes over the tropical oceans, J. of Climate, 23, 2686-2698. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Semunegus H., W. Berg, J.J. Bates, K.R. Knapp, C. Kummerow, 2010: An extended and improved Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) period of record, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 49, 424-436, doi: 10.1175/2009JAMC2314.1. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Bytheway, J.L., C.D. Kummerow, 2010: A physically based screen for precipitation over complex surfaces using passive microwave observations, IEEE: Trans on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48(1), 299-313, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2027434. [Abstract]