selected publications
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                conference proceeding
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                   Evaluation of Retrospective National Water Model Soil Moisture and Streamflow for Drought-Monitoring Applications. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
             2024
         
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                   Extending the HIRS Data Record with IASI Measurements. 
                     Remote Sensing.
             2023
         
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                   Assessing the ability of satellite sea surface temperature analyses to resolve spatial variability - The northwest tropical Atlantic ATOMIC region. 
                     Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
             2023
         
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                   Potential caveats in land surface model evaluations using the US drought monitor: roles of base periods and drought indicators. 
                     Environmental Research Letters.
             2022
         
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                   Forecasts of Opportunity for Northern California Soil Moisture. 
                     Land.
             2021
         
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                   ADVANCING SCIENCE AND SERVICES DURING THE 2015/16 EL NINO The NOAA El Nino Rapid Response Field Campaign. 
                     Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
                    975-1002.
             2018
         
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                   Understanding the Role of Atmospheric Rivers in Heavy Precipitation in the Southeast United States. 
                     Monthly Weather Review.
                    1617-1632.
             2016
         
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                   Evaluation of landfalling atmospheric rivers along the US West Coast in reanalysis data sets. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
                    2705-2718.
             2016
         
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                   An Airborne and Ground-Based Study of a Long-Lived and Intense Atmospheric River with Mesoscale Frontal Waves Impacting California during CalWater-2014. 
                     Monthly Weather Review.
                    1115-1144.
             2016
         
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                   An Improved Near-Surface Specific Humidity and Air Temperature Climatology for the SSM/I Satellite Period. 
                     Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
                    412-433.
             2015
         
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                   Propagation of uncertainty analysis of CO2 transfer velocities derived from the COARE gas transfer model using satellite inputs. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
                    1828-1842.
             2014
         
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                   Satellite-Based Reconstruction of the Tropical Oceanic Clear-Sky Outgoing Longwave Radiation and Comparison with Climate Models. 
                     Journal of Climate.
                    941-957.
             2014
         
- Supporting Satellite Research With Data Collected by Vessels Automated Meteorological Sampling From SAMOS Project Gathers Data Required to Test Satellite Algorithms, Validate Products. Sea Technology. 21-24. 2012
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                   A comparison of satellite-derived carbon dioxide transfer velocities from a physically based model with GasEx cruise observations. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
             2012
         
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                   Measurement of turbulent water vapor fluxes using a lightweight unmanned aerial vehicle system. 
                     Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
                    243-257.
             2012
         
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                   Ocean Winds and Turbulent Air-Sea Fluxes Inferred From Remote Sensing. 
                     Oceanography.
                    36-51.
             2010
         
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                   Predicting near-surface atmospheric variables from Special Sensor Microwave/Imager using neural networks with a first-guess approach. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
             2010
         
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                   Near-Surface Air Temperature Retrieval Derived from AMSU-A and Sea Surface Temperature Observations. 
                     Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
                    1769-1776.
             2010
         
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                   Improved multisensor approach to satellite-retrieved near-surface specific humidity observations. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
             2009
         
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                   An upper tropospheric humidity data set from operational satellite microwave data. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
             2008
         
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                   Error characterization of infrared and microwave satellite sea surface temperature products for merging and analysis. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
             2008
         
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                   Detection and correction of diurnal sampling bias in HIRS/2 brightness temperatures. 
                     Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
                    1425-1438.
             2007
         
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                   Near-surface retrieval of air temperature and specific humidity using multisensor microwave satellite observations. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
             2006
         
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                   The radiative signature of upper tropospheric moistening. 
                     Science.
                    841-844.
             2005
         
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                   Interannual co-variability of tropical temperature and humidity: A comparison of model, reanalysis data and satellite observation - art. no. L17808. 
                     Geophysical Research Letters.
             2005
         
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                   Trends in global cloud cover in two decades of HIRS observations. 
                     Journal of Climate.
                    3021-3031.
             2005
         
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                   Spatial scales of tropical precipitation inferred from TRMM microwave imager data. 
                     IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
                    1542-1551.
             2005
         
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                   Upper tropospheric humidity algorithm assessment. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
                    32259-32270.
             2001
         
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                   Variability of tropical upper tropospheric humidity 1979-1998. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
                    32271-32281.
             2001
         
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                   Radiance and Jacobian intercomparison of radiative transfer models applied to HIRS and AMSU channels. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
                    24017-24031.
             2001
         
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                   Trends in upper-tropospheric humidity. 
                     Geophysical Research Letters.
                    1695-1698.
             2001
         
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                   Calibration of the Meteosat water vapor channel using collocated NOAA/HIRS 12 measurements. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
                    11925-11933.
             2000
         
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                   An intercomparison of radiation codes for retrieving upper-tropospheric humidity in the 6.3-mu m band: A report from the first GVaP workshop. 
                     Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
                    797-808.
             2000
         
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                   Evidence of atmospheric contamination on the measurement of the spectral response of the GMS-5 water vapor channel. 
                     Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
                    1851-1853.
             1999
         
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                   Analysis of upper-tropospheric water vapor brightness temperatures from SSM/T2, HIRS, and GMS-5 VISSR. 
                     Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
                    580-595.
             1999
         
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                   A comparison of water vapor observations with AMIP I simulations. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
                    21837-21852.
             1997
         
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                   Global observations of upper-tropospheric water vapor derived from TOVS radiance data. 
                     Journal of Climate.
                    305-326.
             1996
         
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                   Interannual variability of upper-troposphere water vapor band brightness temperature. 
                     Journal of Climate.
                    427-438.
             1996
         
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                   A STUDY OF SSM/I-DERIVED COLUMNAR WATER-VAPOR OVER THE GLOBAL OCEANS. 
                     Journal of Climate.
                    2025-2038.
             1995
         
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                   A COMPARISON OF SSM/I AND TOVS COLUMN WATER-VAPOR DATA OVER THE GLOBAL OCEANS. 
                     Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics.
                    183-201.
             1994
         
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                   A PHYSICAL RETRIEVAL OF CLOUD LIQUID WATER OVER THE GLOBAL OCEANS USING SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER (SSM/I) OBSERVATIONS. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
                    18471-18488.
             1993
         
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                   SPACEBORNE OBSERVATION OF COLUMNAR WATER-VAPOR - SSMI OBSERVATIONS AND ALGORITHM. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
                    10941-10954.
             1991
         
 
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                   Evaluation of Retrospective National Water Model Soil Moisture and Streamflow for Drought-Monitoring Applications. 
                     Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
             2024
         
 
 
					 
                	
