GOES-R Series Scientific Publications | 2017

The following publications and articles are ordered chronologically.

 
Forecasting Tropical Cyclone Eye Formation and Dissipation in Infrared Imagery
John A. Knaff and Robert T. DeMaria
Weather and Forecasting
Volume 32, Issue 6, December 2017, pp. 2103-2116
   
     
The Intracloud Lightning Fraction in the Contiguous United States
Gina Medici, Kenneth L. Cummins, Daniel J. Cecil, William J. Koshak, and Scott D. Rudlosky
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 145, Issue 11, November 2017, pp. 4481-4499
   
     
Breaking New Ground in Severe Weather Prediction: The 2015 NOAA/Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment
Burkely T. Gallo, Adam J. Clark, Israel Jirak, John S. Kain, Steven J. Weiss, Michael Coniglio, Kent Knopfmeier, James Correia Jr., Christopher J. Melick, Christopher D. Karstens, Eswar Iyer, Andrew R. Dean, Ming Xue, Fanyou Kong, Youngsun Jung, Feifei Shen, Kevin W. Thomas, Keith Brewster, Derek Stratman, Gregory W. Carbin, William Line, Rebecca Adams-Selin, and Steve Willington
Weather and Forecasting
Volume 32, Issue 4, August 2017, pp. 1541-1568
   
     
Lightning decision support using VHF total lightning mapping and NLDN cloud-to-ground data in North Alabama
Schultz, C. J., G. T. Stano, P. J. Meyer, B. C. Carcione, T. Barron
Journal of Operational Meteorology
Volume 5, Issue 11, August 24, 2017, pp. 134-145
   
     
An efficient radiative transfer model for hyperspectral IR radiance simulation and applications under cloudy-sky conditions
Jun Li, Zhenglong Li, Pei Wang, Timothy J. Schmit, Wenguang Bai, Robert Atlas
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Volume 122, Issue 14, July 27, 2017, pp. 7600-7613
   
     
Relationships between total lightning, deep convection, and tropical cyclone intensity change
Weixin Xu, Steven A. Rutledge and Wenjuan Zhang
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Volume 122, Issue 13, July 17, 2017, pp. 7047-7063
   
     
GOES: Past, Present, and Future
S.J. Goodman, T.J. Schmit, J. Daniels, W. Denig, K. Metcalf
Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
June 28, 2017, 28 pp.
   
     
Impact of space weather on the satellite industry
J. C. Green, J. Likar and Yuri Shprits
Space Weather
Volume 15, Issue 6, June 2017, pp. 804-818
   
     
Electrification and Lightning in Idealized Simulations of a Hurricane-Like Vortex Subject to Wind Shear and Sea Surface Temperature Cooling
Alexandre O. Fierro and Edward R. Mansell
Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
Volume 74, No. 6, June 2017, pp. 2023-2041
   
     
Retrieval of volcanic ash height from satellite-based infrared measurements
Lin Zhu, Jun Li, Yingying Zhao, He Gong and Wenjie Li
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Volume 122, Issue 10, May 27, 2017, pp. 5364-5379
   
     
Electrification life cycle of incipient thunderstorms
Enrique V. Mattos, Luiz A. T. Machado, Earle R. Williams, Steven J. Goodman, Richard J. Blakeslee and Jeffrey C. Bailey
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Volume 122, Issue 8, April 27, 2017, pp. 4670-4697
   
     
Impact Assessment of Himawari-8 AHI Data Assimilation in NCEP GDAS/GFS with GSI
Zaizhong Ma, Eric S. Maddy, Banglin Zhang, Tong Zhu, and Sid Ahmed Boukabara
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Volume 122, Issue 8, April 27, 2017, pp. 4670-4697
   
     
A Closer Look at the ABI on the GOES-R Series
Timothy J. Schmit, Paul Griffith, Mathew M. Gunshor, Jaime M. Daniels, Steven J. Goodman, and William J. Lebai
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume 98, No. 4, April 2017, pp. 681-698
   
     
Electrical discharges in the overshooting tops of thunderstorms
Donald R. MacGorman, Matthew S. Elliott and Elizabeth DiGangi
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Volume 122, Issue 5, 16 March 2017, pp. 2929-2957
   
     
Assessment of MISR Cloud Motion Vectors (CMVs) Relative to GOES and MODIS Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs)
Kevin J. Mueller, Dong L. Wu, Ákos Horváth, Veljko M. Jovanovic, Jan-Peter Muller, Larry Di Girolamo, Michael J. Garay, David J. Diner, Catherine M. Moroney, and Steve Wanzong
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Volume 56, No. 3, March 2017, pp. 555-572
   
     
Assimilation of High-Resolution Satellite-Derived Atmospheric Motion Vectors: Impact on HWRF Forecasts of Tropical Cyclone Track and Intensity
Christopher Velden, William E. Lewis, Wayne Bresky, David Stettner, Jaime Daniels, and Steven Wanzong
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 145, No. 3, March 2017, pp. 1107-1125
   
     
Adaptive Observation Error Inflation for Assimilating All-Sky Satellite Radiance
Masashi Minamide and Fuqing Zhang
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 145, No. 3, March 2017, pp. 1063-1081
   
     
Validation of the effect of cross-calibrated GOES solar proton effective energies on derived integral fluxes by comparison with STEREO observations
J. V. Rodriguez, I. Sandberg, R. A. Mewaldt, I. A. Daglis and P. Jiggens
Space Weather
Volume 15, Issue 2, February 2017, pp. 290-309
   
     
Deep convective cloud characterizations from both broadband imager and hyperspectral infrared sounder measurements
Yufei Ai, Jun Li, Wenjing Shi, Timothy J. Schmit, Changyong Cao and Wanbiao Li
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Volume 122, Issue 3, 16 February 2017, pp. 1700-1712
   
     
Detection and Inventory of Intense Pyroconvection in Western North America using GOES-15 Daytime Infrared Data
David A. Peterson, Michael D. Fromm, Jeremy E. Solbrig, Edward J. Hyer, Melinda L. Surratt, and James R. Campbell
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Volume 56, No. 2, February 2017, pp. 471-493
   
     
Using Synthetic Brightness Temperatures to Address Uncertainties in Cloud-Top-Height Verification
Jason E. Nachamkin, Yi Jin, Lewis D. Grasso, Kim Richardson
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Volume 56, No. 2, February 2017, pp. 283-296
   
     
Kinematic and Microphysical Significance of Lightning Jumps versus Nonjump Increases in Total Flash Rate
KalChristopher J. Schultz, Lawrence D. Carey, Elise V. Schultz, and Richard J. Blakeslee
Weather and Forecasting
Volume 32, No. 1, February 2017, pp. 275-288
   
     
Methods for Comparing Simulated and Observed Satellite Infrared Brightness Temperatures and What Do They Tell Us?
Sarah M. Griffin, Jason A. Otkin, Christopher M. Rozoff, Justin M. Sieglaff, Lee M. Cronce, Curtis R. Alexander
Weather and Forecasting
Volume 32, No. 1, February 2017, pp. 5-25
   
     
Impacts to Aviation Weather Center operations using total lightning observations from the Pseudo-GLM
Amanda Terborg and Geoffrey Stano
Journal of Operational Meteorology
Volume 5, No. 1, 27 January 2017, pp. 1-13
   
     
The properties of optical lightning flashes and the clouds they illuminate
Michael Peterson, Wiebke Deierling, Chuntao Liu, Douglas Mach and Christina Kalb
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Volume 122, Issue 1, 16 January 2017, pp. 423-442
   
     
Nowcasting and forecasting of the magnetopause and bow shock—A status update
S. M. Petrinec, R. J. Redmon and L. Rastaetter
Space Weather
Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2017, pp. 36-43