D. Hillger received the Bernice Scholl Award for the best Astrophile article(s) in 2004. Astrophile is the journal of the American Topical Association philatelic unit that deals with space themes on postage stamps. Dr. Hillger has published many articles on weather and other scientific/research satellites on stamps and was honored with the award for his continuing series of articles on Un-Manned Satellite on Postage Stamps. Currently 20 articles in the series have been published. The Award was shared with co-author, Garry Toth, a research meteorologist with Environment Canada at the Prairie and Arctic Storm Prediction Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. (D. Hillger)

To Accepted, Submitted, and Reviews

Published: 

Refereed

Bikos, D.E., J.F. Weaver, and J. Braun, 2006:  The Role of GOES Satellite Imagery in Tracking Low-Level Moisture. Wea. Forecasting, 21 , 232-241.

DeMaria, M., J.A. Knaff, and J. Kaplan, 2006: On the decay of tropical cyclone winds crossing narrow landmasses, J. Appl. Meteor., 45:3, 491-499.

Nonrefereed

Connell, B.H., and F. Prata, 2006: Detecting volcanic ash and blowing dust using GOES, MODIS, and AIRS imagery. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

Daniels, J., R. Scofield, G. Ellrod, R. Kuligowski, D.W. Hillger, T.J. Schmit, W. Bresky, J.C. Davenport, and A.J. Schreiner, 2006: Validation of GOES-N Imager data and products during the GOES-N Science Test. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA, 5 pp.

DeMaria, M., 2006:  Application of Oceanic Heat Content Estimation to Operational Forecasting of Recent Atlantic Category 5 Hurricanes. AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting. 20-23 February, Honolulu, HI.

DeMaria, M., D.W. Hillger, C. Barnet, R.T. DeMaria, 2006: Tropical Cyclone Applications of Next-Generation Operational Satellite Soundings. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

DeMaria, M., J.A. Knaff, J. Kaplan, 2006:  Improved Statistical Intensity Forecast Models : A Joint Hurricane Testbed Project Update. 60th Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference. 20-23 March, Mobile, AL

Dostalek, J.F. and M. DeMaria, 2006: Polar wind retrievals using the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

Grasso, L.D., and D.T. Lindsey, 2006: Analysis of a hook echo and RFD from a simulated supercell on 8 May 2003. AMS Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

Grasso, L.D., M. Sengupta, J.F. Dostalek, and M. DeMaria, 2005: Synthetic GOES-R and NPOESS imagery of mesoscale weather events. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

Grasso, L.D., M. Sengupta, and D.T. Lindsey, 2006. A technique for computing hydrometeor effective radius in bins of a gamma distribution. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

Hillger, D.W., 2006: GOES-R Product Development Risk Reduction Activities. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

Hillger, D.W., T. Schmit, D.T. Lindsey, J.A. Knaff, and J. Daniels, 2006: An Overview of GOES-N Science Test. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

Knaff, J.A., and M. DeMaria, 2006: Continued Development of Tropical Cyclone Wind Probability Products: A Joint Hurricane Testbed Project Update. 60th Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference. 20-23 March, Mobile, AL.

Knaff, J.A., and M. DeMaria, 2006: A Multi-platform Satellite Tropical Cyclone Wind Analysis System. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

Lindsey, D.T., 2006: A Climatological Study of Ice Cloud Reflectivity over the Continental US. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

Schmit, T.J., G.S. Wade, M.M. Gunshor, J.P. Nelson III, A.J. Schreiner, J. Li, J. Daniels, and D.W. Hillger, 2006: The GOES-N Sounder Data and Products. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA. 6 pp.

Sengupta, M., L.D. Grasso, D.T. Lindsey, and M. DeMaria, 2006: Statistical comparisons of model output with satellite observations: a severe weather case. AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

Zupanski, D., L.D. Grasso, M. DeMaria, M. Sengupta, and M. Zupanski, 2006: Evaluating the Impact of Satellite Data Density within an Ensemble Data Assimilation Approach.  AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. 29 January-3 February, Atlanta, GA.

Accepted:

Refereed

Bessho, K., M. DeMaria, J.A. Knaff, 2006:  Tropical Cyclone Wind Retrievals from the Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (AMSU): Application to Surface Wind Analysis.  J. of Applied Meteorology.

Doesken, N.J., J.F. Weaver, and M. Osecky, 2006:  Microscale aspects of rainfall patterns as measured by a local volunteer network. National Weather Digest.

Hillger, D., S.Q. Kidder, 2006:  A simple GOES skin temperature product. National Weather Digest.

Jones, T., D.J. Cecil, and M. DeMaria, 2006: Passive Microwave-Enhanced Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme.Weather and Forecasting.

Lindsey, D.T., D.W. Hillger, L.D. Grasso, and J.F. Dostalek, 2006: GOES climatology and analysis of thunderstorms with enhanced 3.9 µm albedo. Monthly Weather Review.

Mueller, K.J., M. DeMaria, J.A. Knaff, T.H. Vonder Haar:, 2005: Objective Estimation of Tropical Cyclone Wind Structure from Infrared Satellite Data. J. Applied Meterology.

Submitted:

Refereed

Chen, S.S., J.A. Knaff, and F.D. Marks, Jr., 2006: Effects of Vertical Wind Shear and Storm Motion Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Asymmetries Deduced from TRMM. Monthly Weather Review.

Grasso, L.D., M. Sengupta, J.F. Dostalek, and M. DeMaria, 2005: Synthetic GOES-R and NPOESS imagery of mesoscale weather events. J. of Applied Meteorology.

Knaff, J.A., and R.M. Zehr, 2006: Reexamination of Tropical Cyclone Pressure Wind Relationships. Weather and Forecasting.

Knaff, J.A., C.R. Sampson, C.J. McAdie, M. DeMaria, T.P. Marchok, J.M. Gross, 2006: Statistical Tropical Cyclone Wind Radii Using Climatology and Persistence. Weather and Forecasting.

Kossin, J.P., J.A. Knaff, H.I. Berger, K.J. Mueller, D.C. Herndon, T.A. Cram, C.S. Velden, R.J. Murnane, and J.D. Hawkins, 2006: Estimating Hurricane Wind Structure in the Absence of Aircraft Recconnaissance. Weather and Forecasting.

Landsea, C., J. Beven, J. Callaghan, B. Harper, K. Hoarau, J.A. Knaff, J. Kossin, M. Mayfield, A. Mestas-Nunez, M. Turk, 2006: Global Warming and Extreme Tropical Cyclones:  Can We Detect Climate Trends from Existing Tropical Cyclone Databases?   Science.

Sampson, C.R, J.A. Knaff, and E.M. Fukada, 2006: Operational Evaluation of a Selective Consensus in the Western North Pacific Basin, Weather and Forecasting.

Tuleya, R.E., M. DeMaria, and R.J. Kuligowski, 2005: Evaluation of GFDL Model Rainfall Forecasts for U.S. Landfalling Tropical Storms.  Weather and Forecasting.

Nonrefereed

Connell, B.H., 2006:  Preparing for GOES-R: old tools with new perspectives.  4th GOES-R Users' Conference.  1-3 May, Broomfield, CO.

DeMaria, M., 2006:  Hurricane Intensity Estimation from GOES-R Hyperspectral Environmental Suite Eye Sounding. 4th GOES-R Users' Conference.  1-3 May, Broomfield, CO.

DeMaria, M., 2006:  Statistical Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecast Improvements Using GOES and Aircraft Reconnaissance Data. AMS 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology.  24-28 April, Monterey, CA.

Cram, T., J.A. Knaff, and M. DeMaria, 2006:  Objective Identification of Annular Hurricanes Using GOES and Reanalysis Data. AMS 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology.  24-28 April, Monterey, CA.

Grasso, L.D., and M. Sengupta, 2006:  A technique for computing hydrometeor effective radius in bins of a gamma distribution. 4th GOES-R Users' Conference.  1-3 May, Broomfield, CO.

Grasso, L.D., M. Sengupta, J.F. Dostalek, and M. DeMaria, 2006:  Synthetic GOES-R and NPP Imagery of Mesoscale Weather Events. 4th GOES-R Users' Conference.  1-3 May, Broomfield, CO.

Hillger, D.W., 2006:  GOES-R ABI New Product Development: Focus on Fog and Atmospheric Dust.  4th GOES-R Users' Conference.  1-3 May, Broomfield, CO.

Maclay, K., 2006:  Tropical Cyclone Inner Core Energetics and Its Relation to Storm Structural Changes. AMS 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology.  24-28 April, Monterey, CA.

Knaff, J.A., and C. Sampson, 2006:  Reanalysis of West Pacific tropical cyclone intensity 1966-1987. AMS 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology.  24-28 April, Monterey, CA.

Zehr, R.M., 2006:  Analysis of High Resolution Infrared Images of Hurricanes from Polar Satellites as a Proxy for GOES-R. 4th GOES-R Users' Conference.  1-3 May, Broomfield, CO.

Zehr, R.M., 2006:  Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenesis - Satellite Analysis. AMS 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology.  24-28 April, Monterey, CA.

Zupanski, D., L.D. Grasso, and M. DeMaria, 2006: Ensemble Data Assimilation of Simulated Brightness Temperature Observations. 4th GOES-R Users' Conference.  1-3 May, Broomfield, CO.

Reviews: J. Knaff reviewed a manuscript discussing a global climate shift across the late 1960s that was submitted to the Journal of Climate.

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