Publications

CASA Year Six - Bibliography of Publications

Peer-Reviewed Technical Journals:

Bass, E.J., Baumgart, L.A., Philips, B., Kloesel, K., Dougherty, K., Rodríguez, H., Díaz, W., Donner, W., Santos, J., & Zink, M. (2009). "Incorporating emergency management needs in the development of weather radar networks." Journal of Emergency Management, 7(1), 45-52.

Baumgart, L.A., Bass, E.J., Philips, B. & Kloesel, K. (2008). "Emergency management decision-making during severe weather." Weather and Forecasting, 23(6) 1268-1279.

Chandrasekar, V. and S. Lim, 2008: "Retrieval of reflectivity in a networked radar environment. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology", 25(10), 1755-1767.

Cheong, B. L., R. D. Palmer, and M. Xue, 2008: "A time-series weather radar simulator based on high-resolution atmospheric models." J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 25, 230-243.

Cheong, B. L., R.D. Palmer, C. Curtis, T.-Y. Yu, D. Zrnic and D. Forsyth, "Refractivity Retrieval Using the Phased Array Radar: First Results and Potential for Multi-Function Operation", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 46(9), pp 2527-2537, Sepetember 2008

Cheong, B. L., T.-Y. Yu, R. D. Palmer, K.-F. Yang, M. W. Hoffman, S. J. Frasier and F. J. Lopez-Dekker, "Effects of Wind Field Inhomogeneities on Doppler Beam Swinging Revealed by an Imaging Radar", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 25, pp 1414-1422, August, 2008

Contreras, R.F., and S.J. Frasier, 2008: "High-Resolution Observations of Insects in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer." J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 25, 2176-2187.

Donner, W. 2008. "Decision Making as Community Adaptation: A Case  Study of Emergency Managers in Oklahoma." Disasters. 32: 292-302.

Donner, W. and Rodríguez, H. (2008). "Population Composition, Migration, and Inequality: The Influence of Demographic Changes on Disaster Risk and Vulnerability." Social Forces, Vol. 87, No. 2: 1089-1114.

Gao, J. and M. Xue, 2008: "An efficient dual-resolution approach for ensemble data assimilation and tests with assimilated Doppler radar data". Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 945-963.

Gao, J., K. Brewster, and M. Xue, 2008: "Variation of radio reflectivity with respect to moisture and temperature and influnce on radar ray path." Adv. Atmos. Sci., 1098-1106.

Gao, S., S. Yang, M. Xue, and C. Cui, 2008: "The total deformation and its role in heavy precipitation events associated with deformation-dominant flow patterns." Adv. Atmos. Sci., 25, 11-23.

Gorgucci, E., V. Chandrasekar, and L. Baldini, 2008: "Microphysical Retrievals from Dual-Polarization Radar Measurements at X Band." J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 25, 729-741.

Harmsen, E. W., S. E. Gomez Mesa, E. Cabassa, N. D. Ramírez-Beltran, S. Cruz Pol, R. J. Kuligowski and R. Vasquez, 2008. "Satellite sub-pixel rainfall variability." WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, Issue 8, Volume 4.

Hefner, E.; Chandrasekar, V., 2008: "Whitening Dual-Polarized Weather Radar Signals with a Hermitian Transformation, Geoscience and Remote Sensing", IEEE Transactions on, vol.46, no.8, pp.2357-2364, Aug. 2008.

Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor (2008). "Using Quantitative Models to Search for Appropriate Organizational Designs." Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 16, Number 2, Springer, pp. 95-149.

Jung, Y., G. Zhang,  and M. Xue, 2008: "Assimilation of simulated polarimetric radar data for a convective storm using ensemble Kalman filter. Part I: Observation operators for reflectivity and polarimetric variables." Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 2228-2245.

Jung, Y., M. Xue, G. Zhang, and J. M. Straka, 2008: "Assimilation of simulated polarimetric radar data for a convective storm using ensemble Kalman filter. Part II: Impact of polarimetric data on storm analysis." Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 2246-2260.

Khandelwal, N.., R. W. Jackson, "Active Antenna Module for Low Cost Electronically Scanned Phased Arrays," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 55, No 10, October 2008.

Liu, H. and M. Xue, 2008: "Prediction of convective initiation and storm evolution on 12 June 2002 during IHOP. Part I: Control simulation and sensitivity experiments." Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 2261-2283.

Moisseev, Dmitri N., Cuong M. Nguyen and V. Chandrasekar, "Clutter Suppression for Staggered PRT Waveforms", J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol, Vol 25 No. 11, pp. 2209-2218, 2008.

Ramírez-Beltran, N.D, Kuligowski, R.J., Harmsen, E., Castro, J.M., Cruz-Pol, S., Cardona-Soto, M. (2008). "Rainfall Estimation from Convective Storms Using the Hydro-Estimator and NEXRAD." WSEAS Transaction on Systems. No. 10, Vol. 7, pp 1016-1027.

Ruzanski, E., J. Hubbert, V. Chandrasekar, 2008: "Evaluation of the Simultaneous Multiple Pulse Repetition Frequency Algorithm for Weather Radar", J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 25:1166-1181.

Snook, N. and M. Xue, 2008: "Effects of microphysical drop size distribution on tornadogenesis in supercell thunderstorms." Geophy. Res. Letters, 35, L24803, doi:10.1029/2008GL035866.

Tong, M. and M. Xue, 2008: "Simultaneous estimation of microphysical parameters and atmospheric state with radar data and ensemble Kalman filter. Part I: Sensitivity analysis and parameter identifiability." Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 1630-1648.

Tong, M. and M. Xue, 2008: "Simultaneous estimation of microphysical parameters and atmospheric state with radar data and ensemble Kalman filter. Part II: Parameter estimation experiments." Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 1649-1668.

Wang, Y., T.-Y. Yu, M. Yeary, A. Shapiro, N. Shamim, M. Foster, D. Andra, and M. Jain, 2008:  "Tornado Detection Using a Neuro-fuzzy System to Integrate Shear and Spectral Signatures", J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 25, 1136-1148.

Xu, Q., H. Lu, S. Gao, M. Xue, and M. Tong, 2008: "Time-expanded sampling for ensemble Kalman filter: Assimilation experiments with simulated radar observations." Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 2651-2667.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings:

An, Bo; Lesser, Victor; and Sim, K.M. (2008). "Decommitment in Multi-resource Negotiation."  Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1553-1556.

Bharadwaj, Nitin; Chandrasekar, V., "Networked Waveform System for Range Velocity Ambiguity Mitigation," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International , vol.4, no., pp.IV -1010-IV -1013, 7-11 July 2008.

Chandrasekar, V.; McLaughlin, D.; Brotzge, J.; Zink, M.; Philips, B.; Yanting Wang, "Distributed Collaborative Adaptive radar network: Preliminary results from the CASA IP1 testbed," Radar Conference, 2008. RADAR '08. IEEE , vol., no., pp.1-5, 26-30 May 2008.

Chandrasekar, V.; McLaughlin, D.; Brotzge, J.; Zink, M.; Philips, B.; Yanting Wang, "Evaluation of Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing in a Four-Node Radar Network: Integrated Project 1," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008.

IEEE International , vol.5, no., pp.V -148-V -151, 7-11 July 2008.

Chandrasekar, V., Dave McLaughlin, Yanting Wang, Jerry Brotzge, Michael Zink and Brenda Philips, 2008: "Radar Observations of a Severe Weather Event from Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing Network in the IP1 Testbed", 2008 URSI General Assembly, Chicago IL, August 2008.

Chandrasekar, V., M. Maki, Yanting Wang, and K. Nakane, 2009: "Considerations for Urban Floods Monitoring Using X-band Dual-polarization Radar Network", J8.3, 89th AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix AZ, January 2009.

Cuong M. Nguyen, V. Chandrasekar and Dmitri N. Moisseev, "Gaussian model adaptive time domain filter (GMAT) for weather radars", IEEE Proceedings of Intl. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston, MA, July 6-11, 2008

Diao, Y., B. Li, A. Liu, L. Peng, C. Sutton, T. Tran, M. Zink, 2009: "Capturing Data Uncertainty in High-Volume Stream Processing", In Proceedings of the Fourth biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems, Pacific Grove, CA, January 2009.

Dolan, B. and S. A. Rutledge, 2008: "Microphysical and kinematic observations of an ordinary storm from the CASA IP1 network of polarimetric, X-band radars." Poster presentation, 5th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, Helsinki, Finland, July 2008.

Donovan, B., D. McLaughlin, M. Zink, J. Kurose, 2007: "OTGsim: Simulation of and Off-the-Grid Radar Network with High Sensing Energy Cost", In Proceedings of SECON 2008, San Francisco, CA

Fritz, J.; Chandrasekar, V., "Ground Scattering Analysis to Identify Targets for Refractivity Field Estimation," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International , vol.5, no., pp.V -429-V -432, 7-11 July 2008.

George, Jim; Bharadwaj, Nitin; Chandrasekar, V., "Considerations in Pulse Compression Design for Weather Radars," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International , vol.5, no., pp.V -109-V -112, 7-11 July 2008.

Gorgucci, Eugenio; Baldini, Luca; Chandrasekar, V.; Le, Minda, "Reflectivity and Differential Reflectivity Rainfall Algorithm Performance at X-band," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International , vol.5, no., pp.V -459-V -462, 7-11 July 2008.

Insanic, Edin and Paul Siqueira, 2008: "Use of Vector Velocity Estimate Accuracy for Improved Resource Allocation in Network of Radars",Proceedings, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS '08.

Insanic, Edin and Paul Siqueira, 2008: "Vector Unfolding in  Networked Radar System", Proceedings, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS '08.

Junyent, Francesc; Chandrasekar, V., "Weather Radar Network Design," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International , vol.4, no., pp.IV -1022-IV -1025, 7-11 July 2008.

Krainin, Michael; An, Bo; Lesser, Victor. "An Application of Automated Negotiation to Distributed Task Allocation." In Proceedings of 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), pp. 138-145, November 2007.

Leon, L., V.N. Bringi, and Chandrasekar, C., "Estimation and Correction of Wet Ice Attenuation at X-band during a convective storm Using the X-band CASA radar network IP1 and WSR-88D KOUN Radar", Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology (ERAD) 2008.

Lim, S., V. Chandrasekar, P. Lee, and A.P. Jayasumana, "Real-time implementation of the network-based reflectivity retrieval for CASA", IEEE Proceedings of Intl. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston, MA, July 6-11, 2008.

Pepyne, D., D. Westbrook, B. Philips, E. Lyons, M. Zink, and J. Kurose, "Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensor Networks for Remote Sensing Applications," Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA, 11-13 June 2008.

Philips, B., Westbrook, D., Pepyne, D., Bass, E.J., Rude, D.J., Brotzge, J. (2008) "User Evaluations Of Adaptive Scanning Patterns in the CASA Spring Experiment 2007". 2008 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. July 6-11, Boston, MA.

Ruzanski, E., Y. Wang, V. Chandrasekar, "The Dynamic and Adaptive Radar Tracking of Storms Nowcasting Algorithm", Radar Meteorology and Hydrology - ERAD 2008: 5th European Conference. Helsinki, Finland, June 30-July 4.

Salazar, J., R. Medina, E. Knapp and D. J. McLaughlin. "Phase-Tilt Array Antennae Design for Dense Distributed Radar Network for Weather Sensing", Proceedings of IGARSS 2008, Boston, United States.

Sanchez, M. and R. W. Jackson, "Architecture for Low Cost Electronically Steered Phased Arrays," International Microwave Symposium Symposium Digest, June 2008."

Wang, Yanting, V. Chandrasekar and Brenda Dolan, 2008: "Development of Scan Strategy for Dual Doppler Retrieval in a Networked Radar System", Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008 IEEE International, Boston MA, 7-11 July 2008.

Zink, M., E. Lyons, D. Westbrook, D. Pepyne; B. Pilips, J. Kurose, V. Chandrasekar, 2008: "Meteorological Command & Control: Architecture and Performance Evaluation", Proceedings, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 7-11 July, Boston, MA

Zafar, Huzaifa; Lesser, Victor; Corkill, Daniel; and Ganesan, Deepak (2008). "Using Organization Knowledge to Improve Routing Performance in Wireless Multi-Agent Networks." Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Padgham, Parkes, Muller and Parsons (eds.), IFAAMAS, pp. 821-828.

Non Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings:

Gao, J., D. J. Stensrud and M. Xue, 2008: "Importance of Environmental Variability to Storm-scale Radar Data Assimilation". 24th Conference on Severe Local Storms, AMS, Sa-vannah, GA, AMS, (online publication).

Gao, J., J. Brotzge, Y. Wang, K. Thomas, M. Xue, V. Chandrasekar, Y. Wang, B. Philips, and M. Zink, 2009: "High temporal and spatial resolution 2D wind analysis of CASA and WSR-88D radar data using the ARPS 3DVar."  Preprints, 13th Conf IOAS-AOLS, Phoenix, AZ, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

González, Rojas, A.M., Harmsen. E., Cruz-Pol, S., 2008. "Assessment Predictability Limits in Small Watersheds to Enhance the Flash Flood Prediction in Western Puerto Rico." ASPRS 2008 Annual Conference Bridging the Horizons: New Frontiers in Geospatial Collaboration, Portland, Oregon, April 28th - May 2nd, 2008.

Potvin, C. K., A. Shapiro, T.-Y. Yu, J. Gao, and M. Xue, 2008: "Evaluation of a new multiple-Doppler tornado detection and characterization technique using real radar observations." Preprints, 24th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, Savannah, GA, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Ruzanski, E., Y. Wang, V. Chandrasekar, "Development of a Real-Time Dynamic and Adaptive Nowcasting System", Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology - 25IIPS: 25th International Conference, Phoenix, AZ, Jan. 10-14, 2009.

Trabal, J.M., I. Zawadzki and D.J. McLaughlin, "A Method to Correct for Wet Radome Attenuation in CASA Radars by the Use of a Contiguous WSR-88D Radar", ERAD 2008, Helsinki, Finland.

Trade Journals:

Santos-Hernandez, J., Rodriguez, H., and Diaz, W. (2008)." Disaster Decision Support Tool (DDST): An Additional Step Towards Community Resilience." University of Puerto Rico Sea Grant College Program, UPRSG-H-203.

Other:

Carbone, R.E., J. Block, S. E. Boselly, G. R. Carmichael, F. H. Carr, V. Chandrasekar, E. Gruntfest, R. M. Hoff, W. F. Krajewski, M. A. LeMone, J. F. W. Purdom, T. W. Schlatter, E. S. Takle, and J. Titlow, 2009: "Observing Weather and Climate FROM THE GROUND UP:  A Nationwide Network of Networks".  The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.  234 pp.

Smith, Paul L.,J.Davis, IM Eastwood, J.Lazo, D. McLaughlin, R. Palmer, S. Rutledge, S.Sandgathe, R.Serafin, M. Wolfson, 2008: "Evaluation of the Multifunction Phased Array Radar Planning Process". The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 79pp