Recent Publications and Presentations

Papers in refereed journals and books are listed first. These are followed by Ph.D and M.S.dissertations and conference proceedings and presentations.

Refereed Journals and Books

Albrecht , B.A., "Effects of precipitation on the thermodynamic structure of the trade wind boundary layer," J. Geophys. Res. 98:7327-7337, 1993.

Barron , E.J. and G.S. Jenkins, "General circulation and regional climate model simulations over the eastern United States: Large scale to synoptic scale simulations for the Susquehanna River Basin Experiment," Global and Planetary Change (to be submitted), 1994.

Bluth , G.J.S. and L.R. Kump, "Lithologic and climatologic controls of river chemistry," Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58:2341-2359, 1994.

Capehart , W.J. and T.N. Carlson, "Estimating near-surface soil moisture availability using a meteorologicially driven soil water profile model," J. Hydro., 160:1-20, 1994.

Carlson , T.N., R.R. Gillies, and E.M. Perry, "A method to make use of thermal infrared temperature and NDVI measurements to infer soil water content and fractional vegetation cover," Remote Sens. Rev., 52:45-59, 1994.

Carlson , T.N., R.R. Gillies, and T.J. Schmugge, "An interpretation of NDVI and radiant surface temperature as measures of surface soil water content and fractional vegetation cover," Ag. Forest. Met., 1995 (submitted).

Carlson , T.N., W.J. Capehart, and R.R. Gillies, "A new look at the simplified method for remote sensing of daily evapotranspiration," Remote Sens. Environ. (to be submitted).

Chamberlain , R., "Fragipans and land use in the Mahantango Creek Intensive Study Area," unpublished working paper, Dept. of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, 1993.

Chen , J.P., "Numerical simulations of the redistribution of atmospheric trace chemicals through cloud processes," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, 342 p., 1992.

Chen , J.P. and D. Lamb, "Simulation of cloud microphysical and chemical processes using a multicomponent framework. Part I: Description of the microphysical model," J. Atmos. Sci. 51:2613-2630, 1994.

Chen , J.P. and D. Lamb, "The theoretical basis for the parameterization of ice crystal habits: Growth by vapor deposition," J. Atmos. Sci. 51:1206-1221, 1994.

Christy , J.R., "Monitoring global temperature changes from satellites", Chapter 11 of Global Climate Change: Implications, Challenges and Mitigation Measures, S.K. Majumdar et al. eds., The Pennsylvania Academy of Science, 566 pp., 1992.

Christy , J.R. and R.W. Spencer, "Monitoring global temperature from satellites," Storm 1: 18-24, 1993.

Christy , J.R. and S.J. Drouilhet, "Variability in daily, lower zonal mean lower stratospheric temperatures," J. Climate (in press).

Dutton , E.G. and J.R. Christy, "Solar radiative forcing at selected locations and evidence for global lower tropospheric cooling following the eruptions of El Chichon and Pinatubo," Geophys. Res. Lett. 19:2313-2316, 1992.

Gillies , R. and T.N. Carlson, "A physically based land use scheme for use in the study of deforestation and urbanization," (to be submitted to Water Resources Bulletin ), 1995.

Gillies , R.R. and T.N. Carlson, "A physically based modeling approach for including remotely sensed measurements in the study of land use change," Proc. Am. Water Resour. Assoc., Ann. Summer Symp. on Effects of Human-Induced Changes on Hydrologic Systems, Jackson Hole, WY, June 26-29, 1994, (reviewed paper).

Gillies , R.R. and T.N. Carlson, "Thermal remote sensing of surface soil water content with partial vegetation cover for incorporation into mesoscale prediction models, J. Appl. Met., 1995 (in press).

Gillies , R.R., A. Olioso, and K.S. Humes, eds. "Proc. of the Workshop on Thermal Remote Sensing over Vegetation. La Londe les Maures, France. September 20-24, 1993," (Remote Sensing Rev. and Ag. Forest Met.), 1995.

Gillies , R.R., J. Cui, T.N. Carlson, W.P. Kustas, and K.S. Humes, "Verification of the triangle method for remotely derived surface energy fluxes," (to be submitted to J. Appl. Meteor. ), 1995.

Hewitson , B.C. and R.G. Crane, "Precipitation controls in southern Mexico," In: Hewitson, B.C. and R.G. Crane (eds.). Neural Nets: Applications for Geography, Kluwer Academic Pub., Dordrecht, Holland (in press).

Johnson , D.L. and A.C. Miller, "A hydrologic model for use with rasterized data," Proc. Am. Water Resour. Assoc., Ann. Summer Symp. on Effects of Human-Induced Changes on Hydrologic Systems, Jackson Hole, WY, June 26-29, 1994, (reviewed paper).

Kapsner , W.R., R.B. Alley, C.A. Shuman, S. Anandakrishnan, P.M. Grootes, D.A. Meese and A.J. Gow, "Dominant influence of atmospheric circulation on snow accumulation in Greenland over the past 18,000 years," Nature, (in review).

Lakhtakia , M.N. and D.A. Miller, "The role of the USGS-EDC land-cover characteristics database in the NASA-EOS interdisciplinary study at Penn State," Ecol. Appl., (submitted).

Lakhtakia , M.N. and T.T. Warner, "A comparison of simple and complex treatments of surface hydrology and thermodynamics suitable for mesoscale atmospheric models, Mon. Wea. Rev. 122:880-896, 1994.

McGinnis , D., "Predicting snowfall from synoptic circulation: A comparison of linear regression and neural network methodologies," in: Hewitson, B.C. and R.G. Crane (eds.), Neural Nets: Applications for Geography, Kluwer Academic Pub., Dordrecht, Holland (in press).

Peuquet , D.J., "It's About Time: A Conceptual Framework for the Representation of Temporal Dynamics in Geographic Information Systems," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 84:441-461, 1994.

Peuquet , D.J. and N.Duan, :An Event-Based Spatio-Temporal Data Model (ESTDM) for Temporal Analysis of Geographic Data," International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, (in press).

Richards , P.A. and L.R. Kump, "The effects of watershed scale, lithology, and land use on weathering fluxes in the Susquehanna River Basin," Hydrological Processes (submitted).

Shuman , C.A. and R.B. Alley, "Spatial and temporal characterization of hoar formation in Central Greenland using SSM/I brightness temperatures," Geophys. Res. Letters (in press).

Shuman , C.A., R.B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan, J.W.C. White, P.M.Grootes and C.R. Stearns, "Temperature and accumulation at the Greenland Summit: Comparison of high-resolution isotope profiles and satellite passive microwave brightness temperature trends," J. Geophys. Res. (in review).

Shuman , C.A., R.B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan, and C.R. Stearns, "An empirical technique for estimating near-surface air temperatures in central Greenland from SSM/I brightnesss temperatures," Remote Sens. Environ. (in press).

Shuman , C.A., R.B. Alley, and S. Anadakrishnan, "Characterization of a hoar-development episode using SSM/I brightness temperatures in the vicinity of the GISP2 site, Greenland," Ann. Glaciol. 17:183-188, 1993.

Slingerland , R., J. W. Harbaugh, and K.P. Furlong, Simulating clastic sedimentary basins, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 220 p., 1994.

Smith , C.B., M.N. Lakhtakia, W.J. Capehart, and T.N. Carlson, "Initialization of soil-water content in regional-scale atmospheric prediction models," Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. 75:585-593, 1994.

Spencer , R.W. and J.R. Christy, "Precision lower stratopsheric temperature monitoring with the MSU: Validation and results 1979-91," J. Climate 6: 1194-1204, 1993.

Tucker , G.E. and R. Slingerland, "Erosional dynamics, flexural isostasy, and long- lived escarpments: A numerical modeling study," J. Geophys. Res. 99,B6:12229-12243, 1994.

Wang , S. and Q. Wang, "Roles of drizzle in a third-order turbulence closure model of the nocturnal stratus-topped marine boundary layer," J. Atmos. Sci. (in press).

Wang , S., B.A. Albrecht, and P. Minnis, "A regional simulation of marine boundary-layer clouds," J. Atmos. Sci. 50:4022-4043, 1993.

Warner , T.T., Y.-H. Kuo, J.D. Doyle, J. Dudhia, D.R. Stauffer, and N.L. Seaman, "Nonhydrostatic, mesobeta-scale, real data simulations with the Penn State University/National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model," Met. and Atmos. Phys. 49:209-227, 1992.

Yarnal , B., "Human dimensions of global environmental changes in the Susquehanna River Basin: A call for research," Pennsylvania Geographer XXX (2), 19-34, 1992.

Yarnal , B., Synoptic Climatology in Environmental Analysis, Belhaven Press, London, 1993.

Yarnal , B. and J.D. Draves, "A synoptic climatology of stream flow and acidity," Climate Research 2:193-202, 1993.

Yarnal , B., "Policy relevance of the Susquehanna River Basin Experiment," Global and Planetary Change (submitted).

Yarnal , B., A.C. Comrie, M. Dilley, J.D. Draves, B.C. Hewitson,and K.B.Yelsey, "On choosing the best classification procedure in synoptic climatology," International Journal of Climatology. (submitted).

Ph.D. and M.S. Dissertations

Chen , J.P., "Numerical simulations of the redistribution of atmospheric trace chemicals through cloud processes," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, 342 p., 1992.

Gillies , R.R., "A physically based land-use classification scheme using remote solar and thermal infrared measurements suitable for describing urbanization," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Architecture, University of Newcastle, UK, 1993

Guerrero , T., "Linking a general circulation model and a mesoscale model to examine the effects of model resolution on a simulated last glacial maximum storm in the western North Atlantic Ocean," unpublished M.S. thesis, Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 233p., 1992.

Kapsner , W.R., "Response of snow accumulation to temperature variations in central Greenland," unpublished M.S. thesis, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 1994.

Kasper , W.J., "Modeling Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Nitrous Oxide and Methane Soil-Gas Fluxes on a Farmstead," unpublished M.S. thesis, Dept. of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, 1993.

Smith , C.B., "Initialization of soil-water-content for regional-scale atmospheric prediction models," unpublished M.S. thesis, Dept. of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, 87 p., 1993.

Zahn , S.G., "An investigation of warm-cloud microphysics using a multi-component cloud model: Interactive effects of the aerosol spectrum," unpublished M.S. thesis, Dept. of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, 107 p., 1993.

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

Ackerman , T.P., B.A. Albrecht, M.A. Miller, E. Clothiaux, R. Peters, and W. Syrett, "Remote sensing of cloud properties using a 94 GHz radar," Topical Symp. on Combined Optical-Microwave Earth and Atmosphere Sensing, March 22-25, Albuquerque, NM, pp. 211-214, 1993.

Barron , E.J. and G.S. Jenkins, "General circulation model prediction of regional precipitation: The Susquehanna River Basin," Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-27, 1994 (invited abstract).

Capehart , W.J. and T.N. Carlson, "A soil-water-budget model enhanced with remotely sensed observations to provide initial soil-water content for atmospheric prediction and terrestrial hydrology models," Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-27, 1994 (invited abstract).

Capehart , W.J. and T.N. Carlson, "Estimation of surface moisture availability using a hydrological budget model aided by surface satellite observations and a soil vegetation atmosphere transfer scheme (SVAT), Proc. 21st AMS Con. on Ag. and Forest Met. and 11th Con. on Biomet. and Aerobiol., San Diego, CA. March 7-11, 1994.

Carlson , T.N. and A. Olioso, "Radiometric temperature response of soybean and corn leaves to water stress," Proc. Workshop on Thermal Remote Sensing of the Energy and Water Balance over Vegetation in Conjunction with Other Sensors, , 1993 (in preparation).

Carlson , T.N. and R.R. Gillies, "A physical approach for inverting vegetation index with surface radiometric temperature to estimate surface soil water content," Proc. Workshop on Thermal Remote Sensing of the Energy and Water Balance over Vegetation in Conjunction with Other Sensors, 1993 (in preparation).

Carlson , T.N., O. Taconet, A. Vidal, R.R. Gillies, A. Olioso, and K. Humes, "An overview of the Workshop on Thermal Remote Sensing held at La Londe les Maures, France. September 20-24, 1993," Remote Sens. Rev., 1995 (in press).

Fitzjarrald , D., F. Robertson, E. Barron, S. Thompson, and D. Pollard, "Simulated interannual variability in the hydrologic cycle over North America," Ann. Meet. Am. Met. Soc., Nashville, TN, 1994 (abstract submitted).

Frakes , B. and B. Yarnal, "Using synoptic climatology to define representative hydrologic events in the Susquehanna River basin," Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-27, 1994 (invited abstract).

Frakes , B. and B. Yarnal, "The variable response of watersheds to synoptic forcing: The SRBEX results," Preprints of the Sixth Symposium on Global Change Studies. Dallas, TX, January 1995, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA (in press).

Frakes , B. and B. Yarnal, "The variable response of differing-scale watersheds to synoptic forcing," Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 15-19, 1995, Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC (in press).

Gillies , R.R. and T.N. Carlson, "Translation of satellite measurements to land surface parameters," Proc. ERDAS Northern Regional User's Group Meeting, 1993.

Gillies , R.R. and T.N. Carlson, "An efficient method for incorporating remote multispectral measurements in land-surface models," Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-27, 1994 (invited abstract).

Gillies , R.R., J. Cui, T.N. Carlson, W.P. Kustas, K.S. Kustas, "Implications of the NDVI and the surface radiant temperature relationship" AMS Con. on Hydrology, Dallas, TX. January, 1995 (abstract submitted).

Jenkins , G.S. and E.J. Barron, "Coupled general circulation and mesoscale simulations over the Susquehanna River Basin, "Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-27, 1994 (invited abstract).

Johnson , D.L. and A.C. Miller, "A terrestrial hydrologic model for use with rasterized data sets," Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-27, 1994 (invited abstract).

Johnson , D.L. and A.C. Miller, "Application of GIS to a raster based hydrologic model," 2nd Ann. Pennsylvania GIS Con., Harrisburg, PA, March, 1994.

Lakhtakia , M.N., "The application of a mesoscale model like the Penn State/NCAR MM5 to downscaling," BAHC Focus 4 Workshop on Downscaling Methods, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 26-28, 1994, (invited presentation), abstract published in Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrologic Cycle (BAHC) - Focus 4: The Weather Generator Project, Report No. 4 , p. 46, 1994.

Lakhtakia , M.N., A.M. Lario, and T.N. Carlson, "Initialization of soil-water content for real-time simulations with the Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model," Preprints 10th Con. on Num. Weath. Pred., Portland, OR, July 18-22, 1994, pp. 428-429.

Lakhtakia , M.N., C.B. Smith, T.N. Carlson, W.J. Capehart, and A.M. Lario, "Initialization of soil-water content for regional-scale atmospheric prediction models," EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 1994 Spring Meeting Supplement , vol. 75, no. 16 (supplement), p. 97 (invited abstract).

Lakhtakia , M.N., D.A. Miller, R.A. White, and C.B. Smith, "GIS as an integrative tool in climatologic and hydrologic modeling," Proceedings of the Second International Conference/Workshop on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, September 26-30, 1993, Breckenridge, Colorado , (in press)

Lamb , D. and J.P. Chen, "An expanded parameterization of the growth of ice crystals by vapor deposition," in: Preprints, AMS Con. on Cloud Physics. Dallas, TX. January 15-20, 1995.

Lukhele , D., A.C. Miller and D.L. Johnson, "Estimating parameters for infiltration models utilizing STATSGO data," Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-27, 1994 (invited abstract).

Mace , G.G. and T.P. Ackerman, "Cirrus cloud development in a mobile upper tropospheric trough: The November 26th FIRE cirrus case study," Proc. of the FIRE Cirrus Science Con. June 14-17, 1993, Breckenridge, CO.

Mace , G.G. and T.P. Ackerman, "Examination of the observed synoptic scale Cirrus cloud environment: The December 4-6 FIRE Cirrus case study, Proc. of the FIRE Cirrus Science Con. June 14-17, 1993, Breckenridge, CO.

Mace , G.G., T.P. Ackerman, and E. Clothiaux, "Mesoscale diagnostic quantities from arrays of doppler wind profilers and radiosondes," in: Preprints of the Fourth Symposium on Global Change Studies, Anaheim, CA, January 17-22, 1993, pp. 232-234.

Miller , A.C. and D.L. Johnson, "Formulation of a hydrologic model for use with remotely sensed data," Proc. Amer. Soc. Civ. Eng. - 1993 Int. Symp. on Eng. Hydro., San Francisco, CA, 1993.

Miller , A.C. and D.L. Johnson, "A hydrologic model for use with rasterized data," Proc. HYDROVISIONS 1994 Summer Con., Phoenix, AZ, 1994.

Miller , A.C. and D.L. Johnson, "Hydrologic improvements for practicing engineer - Where is hydrology headed?", invited presentation published in Proceedings of the the 1994 Aldon Res. Lab. Innovations in Elec. Power Ind. Con., August 1994.

Miller , A.C. and D.L. Johnson. 1994, "Using spatial data structures in a raster based hydrologic model," series of 3 invited presentations to EPRI, FERC, and ASDO in Marlboro, MA, Feb. - May, 1994.

Miller , D.A. and M.N. Lakhtakia, "Quantification of soil hydraulic properties for a regional-scale atmospheric prediction model," EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 1994 Spring Meeting Supplement , vol. 75, no. 16 (supplement), p. 97 (invited abstract).

Miller , D.A. and M.N. Lakhtakia, "Quantification of soil physical and hydraulic properties for regional atmospheric modeling," Preprints 10th Con. on Num. Weath. Pred. July 18-22, 1994, Portland, OR, pp. J12-J13.

Miller , D.A., G.W. Petersen, and M.N. Lakhtakia, "Using the State Soil Geographic Database (STATSGO) for regional atmospheric modeling," poster, Ann. Meet. Soil Science Soc. Amer., Seattle, WA, November 13-17, 1994.

Nizeyimana , E., D.A. Miller, and T.W. Gardner, "Techniques to derive input soil parameters for terrestrial hydrology models from the STATSGO database," Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-27, 1994 (invited abstract).

Peuquet , D. J. and E. Wentz, "An approach for time-based analysis of spatiotemporal data," Proc. Sixth International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1994.

Peuquet , D.J., "A framework for the representation of spatiotemporal processes in geographic information systems," in: Proc. International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases, Arlington, TX, section CC, 21pp., 1993.

Peuquet , D.J., "What, Where and When - A conceptual basis for design of spatiotemporal databases," in: Proc. Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, in conjunction with Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Association for Computing Machinery, Washington, DC, 1993.

Peuquet , D.J., "An event-based spatiotemporal data model (ESTDM) for temporal analysis of geographic data," Annual National Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 1994.

Richards , P.A. and L.R. Kump, "Scale dependence of chemical erosion rates in the field: Results from the Susquehanna River Basin, Northeastern United States," Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, MD, May 23-27, 1994 (abstract).

Robertson , F.R. and E.W. McCaul, "Large scale structure of water vapor and condensate over the TOGA COARE Region," 6th Amer. Met. Soc. Con. on Climate Variations, Nashville, TN, January 23-28, 1994 (abstract submitted).

Robertson , F.R., E.J. Barron, S. Goodman, D. Fitzgerald, B. Bishop, J. Christy, S. Thompson, and D. Pollard, "GENESIS climate model: Intercomparsions with multiple climate data bases," in: Preprints Fourth Symp. on Global Change Stud., Jan. 17-22, 1993, Anaheim, CA, pp. 3-8, Amer. Met. Soc., 1993.

Uttal , T., S.M. Shaver, E.E. Clothiaux, and T.P. Ackerman, "Cloud boundaries during FIRE II," in: Proc. 26th Int. Con. on Radar Met., May 24-28 1993, Norman, OK, Amer. Met. Soc., pp. 573-575, 1993.

Wang , S., "Comparison of clouds derived from a regional boundary layer model, satellite data and ECMWF analysis for ASTEX period," Eighth Con. on Atmospheric Radiation, Nashville, TN, 23-28 January, 1994.

Warner , T.T. and M.N. Lakhtakia, "Simulation of mesoclimate with regional meteorological models," in: Directory of CRAY Sponsored University Research & Development Grants, CRAY Research, Inc., 1993.

Yarnal , B., "Policy relevance of the Susquehanna River Basin Experiment," Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-27, 1994 (abstract).

Zahn , S.G., D. Lamb, and J.P. Chen, "A modeling study of cloud drop coalescence and its impact on in-cloud chemistry and deposition," Paper A248, 87th Annual Mtg. Air and Waste Mgmt. Assoc., Cincinnati, OH, 19-24 June, 1994


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