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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

The AMU publishes their work in professional peer-reviewed journals.
The table below contains a list of all peer-reviewed journal articles authored by the AMU.
Journal Articles Authored by Applied Meteorology Unit Team Members as of February 2008
(AMU authors in bold font)
Author(s) Title of Article Publication Date
Merceret, F. J., J. G. Ward, D. M. Mach, M. G. Bateman, and J. E. Dye On the Magnitude of Electric Fields Near Thunderstorm Associated Clouds J. Appl. Meteor. & Climatol., Vol. 47, No. 1, pp.240-248 2008
Dye, J. E., M. G. Bateman, H. J. Christian, E. Defer, C. A. Grainger, W. D. Hall, E. P. Krider, S. A. Lewis, D. M. Mach, Francis Merceret, J. C. Willett, and P. T. Willis Electric Fields, Cloud Microphysics and Reflectivity in Anvils of Florida Thunderstorms J. Geophys. Res & Atmos.Vol. 112, D11215, doi:10.1029/ 2006JD007550 2007
Merceret, Francis Rapid Temporal Changes of Boundary Layer Winds J. Appl. Meteor. & Climatol., Vol. 45, No. 7, pp. 1016-1020 Jul 2006
Pinter, Don, Francis Merceret, and Clay Hatley Performance Validation of the Upgraded Eastern Range 50 MHz Profiler J. Spacecraft & Rockets, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 693-695 May 2006
Merceret, Francis, David Short, and Jennifer Ward Radar Evaluation of Optical Cloud Constraints to Space Launch Operations J. Spacecraft & Rockets, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 248-251 Jan 2006
Case, Jonathan, Mark Wheeler, John Manobianco, Johnny Weems, and William Roeder A Seven-Year Climatological Study of Land Breezes over the Florida Spaceport J. Appl. Meteor., Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 340-356 Mar 2005
Short, David, and Francis Merceret On the Positive Bias of Peak Horizontal Velocity from an Idealized Doppler Profiler J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 98-104 Jan 2005
Case, Jonathan, John Manobianco, John Lane, Christopher Immer, and Francis Merceret An Objective Technique for Verifying Sea Breezes in High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Models Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 690-705 Aug 2004
Short, David, James Sardonia, Winifred Lambert, and Mark Wheeler Nowcasting Thunderstorm Anvil Clouds over Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 706-713 Aug 2004
Ward, Jennifer and Francis Merceret An Automated Cloud-Edge Detection Algorithm Using Cloud Physics and Radar Data J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 762-765 May 2004
Lambert, Winifred, Francis Merceret, Gregory Taylor, and Jennifer Ward Performance of Five 915 MHz Wind Profilers and an Associated Automated Quality Control Algorithm in an Operational Environment J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., Vol. 20, No. 11, pp. 1488-1495 Nov 2003
Short, David Atlantic Equatorial Rain Frequency: An Inter-centennial Comparison J. Climate, Vol. 17, No. 13, pp. 2296-2301 Jul 2003
Case, Jonathan, John Manobianco, Allan Dianic, Mark Wheeler, Dewey Harms, and Carlton Parks Verification of High-Resolution RAMS Forecasts over East-Central Florida during the 1999 and 2000 Summer Months Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 1133-1151 Dec 2002
Case, Jonathan, John Manobianco, Timothy Oram, Tim Garner, Peter Blottman, and Scott Spratt Local Data Integration over East-Central Florida using the ARPS Data Analysis System Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 3-26 Feb 2002
Merceret, Francis The Coherence Time of Midtropospheric Wind Features as a Function of Vertical Scale from 300 m to 2 km J. Appl. Meteor., Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2409-2420 Dec 2000
Short, David, and Kenji Nakamura TRMM Radar Observations of Shallow Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans J. Climate, Vol. 13, No. 23, pp 4107-4124 Dec 2000
Smith, Brian, and Francis Merceret The Lognormal Distribution College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 259-261 Sep 2000
Rogers, Robert, J. Michael Fritsch, and Winifred Lambert A Simple Technique for Using Radar Data in the Dynamic Initialization of a Mesoscale Model Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 128, No. 7, pp. 2560-2574  
Merceret, Francis The Vertical Resolution of the Kennedy Space Center 50 MHz Wind Profiler J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., Vol. 16, No. 9, pp. 1273-1278 Sep 1999
Schumann, Robin, Greg Taylor, Francis Merceret, and Timothy Wilfong Performance Characteristics of the Kennedy Space Center 50 MHz Doppler Radar Wind Profiler Using the Median Filter/First Guess Data Reduction Algorithm J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 532-549 May 1999
Nutter, Paul, and John Manobianco Evaluation of the 29-km Eta Model. Part I: Objective Verification at Three Selected Stations Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 5-17 Feb 1999
Manobianco, John, and Paul Nutter Evaluation of the 29-km Eta Model. Part II: Subjective Verification over Florida Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 18-37 Feb 1999
Merceret, Francis Risk Assessment Consequences of the Lognormal Distribution of Mid-Tropospheric Winds J. Spacecraft & Rockets, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 111-112 Jan 1998
Merceret, Francis Rapid Temporal Changes of Midtropospheric Winds J. Appl. Meteor., Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 1567-1575 Nov 1997
Manobianco, John, John Zack, and Gregory Taylor Workstation-Based Real-Time Mesoscale Modeling Designed for Weather Support to Operations at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Station Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 5-17 Apr 1996
Merceret, Francis The Effect of Sensor Spacing on Wind Measurements at the Shuttle Landing Facility NASA Technical Paper 3529 Jan 1995