Tropical Dynamics and Climate Publications
Research Topic: Instrumentation
Avery, S. K., J. P. Avery, T. A. Valentic, S. E. Palo, M. J. Leary, and R. L. Obert, 1990: A new meteor echo detection and collection system: Christmas Island mesospheric wind measurements. Radio Science, 25, 657-669.
Balsley, B. B., A. C. Riddle, W. L. Ecklund, and D. A. Carter, 1987: Sea surface currents in the equatorial Pacific from VHF radar backscatter observations. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 4, 530535.
Balsley, B. B., W. L. Ecklund, D. A. Carter, and A. C. Riddle, 1988: A note on reducing the horizontal sidelobes of near-vertically directed COCO arrays. IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., 36, 139-141.
Carter, D. A., W. L. Ecklund, K. S. Gage, M. Spowart, H. L. Cole, E. F. Chamberlain, W. F. Dabberdt, and J. Wilson, 1992: First test of a shipboard wind profiler. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 73, 1587-1592.
Carter, D. A., K. S. Gage, W. L. Ecklund, W. M. Angevine, P. E. Johnston, A. C. Riddle, J. Wilson, and C. R. Williams, 1995: Developments in UHF lower tropospheric wind profiling at NOAA's Aeronomy Laboratory. Radio Science, 30, 977-1001.
Ecklund, W. L., D. A. Carter, and B. B. Balsley, 1988: A UHF wind profiler for the boundary layer: Brief description and initial results. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 5, 432-441.
Ecklund, W. L., C. R. Williams, P. E. Johnston, and K. S. Gage, 1997: UHF and S-band profiler observations of deep convective clouds in MCTEX. 28th Conference on Radar Meteorology, Austin, Texas/7-12 September 1997, American Meteorological Society, 133-134.
--, 1999: A 3-GHz profiler for precipitating cloud studies. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 16, 309-322.
Gage, K. S., C. R. Williams, and W. L. Ecklund, 1994: UHF wind profilers: A new tool for diagnosing tropical convective cloud systems. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 75, 2289-2294.
--, 1996: Application of the 915 MHz profiler for diagnosing and classifying tropical precipitating cloud systems. Meteorology and Atomospheric Physics, 59, 141-151.
Gage, K. S., C. R. Williams, P. E. Johnston, and W. L. Ecklund, 1997: Unambiguous refractivity turbulence measurements using UHF and S-band profilers. 28th Conference on Radar Meteorology, Austin, Texas/September 7-12, 1997, American Meteorological Society.
Gage, K. S., C. R. Williams, W. L. Ecklund, and P. E. Johnston, 1999: Use of two profilers during MCTEX for unambiguous identification of Bragg scattering and Rayleigh scattering. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56, 3679-3691.
Gage, K. S., C. R. Williams, W. L. Clark, P. E. Johnston, and D. A. Carter, 2001: Profiler contributions to Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Ground Validation Field Campaigns. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, submitted.
Gage, K. S., J. R. McAfee, W. L. Ecklund, D. A. Carter, C. R. Williams, P. E. Johnston, and A. C. Riddle, 1994: The Christmas Island wind profiler: A prototype VHF wind-profiling Doppler radar for the tropics. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 11, 22-31.
Gage, K. S., C. R. Williams, P. E. Johnston, W. R. Maguire, II, W. L. Ecklund, P. T. May, and K. Glasson, 1995: Deep convection at Darwin, Australia observed by wind-profiler doppler radars. 27th Conference on Radar Meteorology, Vail, Colorado/9-13 October 1995, 337-339.
Gage, K. S., W. L. Ecklund, D. A. Carter, J. R. McAfee, B. B. Balsley, A. C. Riddle, P. E. Johnston, S. K. Avery, H. Cole, and R. F. Woodman, 1993: Status of the NOAA/CU Trans-Pacific profiler network. Sixth Workshop on Technical and Scientific Aspects of MST Radar, Chung-Li, Taiwan, China/17-20 August 1993, 393-394.
Hartten, L. M., B. A. Bessenbacher, P. E. Johnston, A. B. White, W. O. J. Brown, and D. A. Carter, 2001: A comparison of various processing techniques for 915-MHz profiler winds. Eleventh ARM Science Team Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Huaman, M. and B. B. Balsley, 1996: Long-term average vertical motions observed by VHF wind profilers: The effect of slight antenna pointing inaccuracies. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 13, 560-569.
Johnston, P. E., L. M. Hartten, C. H. Love, D. A. Carter, and K. S. Gage, 2000: Errors in wind profiling caused by strong reflectivity gradients. Ninth International Workshop on Technical and Scientific Aspects of MST Radar, Toulouse, France/13-18 March 2000, 467-470.
--, 2000: Location errors in wind profiling caused by strong reflectivity gradients. Fifth International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technology, Adelaide, Australia/4-8 December 2000, 265-267.
--, 2001: Range errors in wind profiling caused by strong reflectivity gradients. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, submitted.
May, P. T., 1993: Comparison of wind-profiler and radiosonde measurements in the tropics. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 10, 122-127.
May, P. T., A. R. Jameson, T. D. Keenan, and P. E. Johnston, 2001: A comparison between polarimetric radar and wind profiler observations of precipitaiton in tropical showers. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 40, 1702-1716.
Parsons, D., W. Dabberdt, H. Cole, T. Hock, C. Martin, A. L. Barrett, E. Miller, M. Spowart, M. Howard, W. Ecklund, D. A. Carter, K. S. Gage, and J. Wilson, 1994: The integrated sounding system: Description and preliminary observations from TOGA COARE. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 75, 553-567.
Post, M. J., C. W. Fairall, J. B. Snider, Y. Han, A. B. White, W. L. Ecklund, K. M. Weickmann, P. K. Quinn, D. I. Cooper, S. M. Sekelsky, R. E. McIntosh, P. Minnett, and R. O. Knuteson, 1997: The combined sensor program: An air-sea science mission in the central and western Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78, 2797-2815.
Riddle, A. C., W. M. Angevine, W. L. Ecklund, E. R. Miller, D. B. Parsons, D. A. Carter, and K. S. Gage, 1996: In situ and remotely sensed horizontal winds and temperature intercomparisons obtained using Integrated Sounding Systems during TOGA COARE. Contributions to Atmospheric Physics, 69, 49-61.
Rogers, R. R., D. Baumgardner, S. A. Ethier, D. A. Carter, and W. L. Ecklund, 1993: Comparison of raindrop size distribution measured by radar wind profiler and by airplane. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 32, 694-699.
Rogers, R. R., W. L. Ecklund, D. A. Carter, K. S. Gage, and S. A. Ethier, 1993: Research applications of a boundary-layer wind profiler. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 74, 567-580.
Sekelsky, S. M., W. L. Ecklund, J. M. Firda, K. S. Gage, and R. E. McIntosh, 1999: Particle size estimation in ice-phase cloud using multifrequency radar reflectivity measurements at 95, 33, and 2.8 GHz. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 38, 5-28.
Sukmadradjat, C. R. Williams, P. E. Johnston, and K. S. Gage, 1993: Results from the first year of operation of the Biak VHF wind profiler. 6th MST Workshop, Taiwan, Chung-Li, Repulic of China/17-20 August 1993.
Wang, S. T., D. Tetenbaum, B. B. Balsley, R. L. Obert, S. K. Avery, and J. P. Avery, 1988: A meteor echo detection and collection system for use on VHF radars. Radio Sci., 23, 46-54.
White, A., J. Hare, C. Williams, W. Ecklund, L. Hartten, C. Long, C. Gairall, M. Post, P. Johnston, and K. Gage, 1997: A comparison of winds and clouds observed from a ship and an island. 28th Conference on Radar Meteorology, Austin, Texas/7-12 September 1997, American Meteorological Society, 518-519.
Williams, C. R., P. E. Johnston, W. L. Ecklund, K. S. Gage, D. A. Carter, J. Cifelli, A. Tokay, and Y. Ohno, 1999: Comparison of rain drop size distribution deduced from profilers and surface disdrometers. 29th International Conference on Radar Meteorology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada/12-16 July 1999, American Meteorological Society, 697-698.
Worthington, R. M., A. Muchinski, and B. B. Balsley, 2001: Bias in mean vertical wind measured by VHF radars: significance of radar location relative to mountains. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 58, 707-723.
Last updated 18 January 2002 by L.M. Hartten