Research Publications

2020 CESSRST Research Publications

Atmospheric Hazards, Coastal Resilience, Water Prediction and Ecosystem Services

1. Hernández, W.J.; Ortiz-Rosa, S.; Armstrong, R.A.; Geiger, E.F.; Eakin, C.M.; Warner, R.A. Quantifying the Effects of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Coastal Water Quality in Puerto Rico using Moderate Resolution Satellite Sensors. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 964. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12060964
2. Joshua Hrisko, Prathap Ramamurthy, Yunyue Yu, Peng Yu, David Melecio-Vázquez, “ Urban air temperature model using GOES-16 LST and a diurnal regressive neural network algorithm,”. Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 237, 2020, ISSN 0034-4257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111495.
3. Robinson J., A. Kotsakis, F. Santos, R. Swap, K. E. Knowland, G. Labow, V. Connors, M. Tzortziou, N. Abuhassan, M. Tiefengraber, and A. Cede (2020). "Using networked Pandora observations to capture spatiotemporal changes in total column ozone associated with stratosphere-to-troposphere transport". https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.104872
4. Gilerson A, C. Carrizo, A. Ibrahim, R. Foster, T. Harmel, A. El-Habashi, Z. Lee, X. Yu, S. Ladner and M. Ondrusek, “Hyperspectral polarimetric imaging of the water surface and retrieval of water optical parameters from multi-angular polarimetric data,” Applied Optics, 59(10) C8-C20, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.59.0000C8
5. Groetsch P., R. Foster, A. Gilerson, “Exploring the limits for sky and sun glint correction of hyperspectral above-surface reflectance observations,” Applied Optics, 2020, accepted. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.385853
6. J.Chiu, Jessica, Stephany Paredes-Mesa, Tarendra Lakhankar, Peter Romanov, Nir Krakauer, Reza Khanbilvardi, and Ralph Ferraro, Inter-comparison and Validation of MIRS, MSPPS, and IMS Snow Cover Products, Advances in Meteorology, (2020): 4532478. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/4532478.
7. McCormick, M.P., L. Lei, M.T. Hill, J. Anderson, R. Querel, and W. Steinbrecht, Early Results and Validation of SAGE III-ISS Ozone Profile Measurements from Onboard the International Space Station, Atmos. Meas. Tech. , 2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2019-353
8. Su, J., M.P. McCormick, and L. Lei, New Technique to Retrieve Tropospheric Temperature Using Vibrational and Rotational Raman Backscattering, AGU-Advancing Earth and Space Science, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA000817,
9. León-Pérez, M., R.A. Armstrong, W.J. Hernández, and A. Aguilar-Perera. 2020. Seagrass Cover Expansion off Caja de Muertos Island, Puerto Rico, as determined by Long-term Analysis of Historical Aerial and Satellite Images (1950 – 2014). Ecological Indicators, 117:10656, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106561 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106561
10. Gomez, Andrea M.; McDonald, Kyle C.; Shein, Karsten; DeVries, Stephanie; Armstrong, Roy A.; Hernandez, William J.; Carlo, Milton. 2020. "Comparison of Satellite-Based Sea Surface Temperature to In Situ Observations Surrounding Coral Reefs in La Parguera, Puerto Rico." J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 8(6): 453. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8060453
11. Escarzaga, Stephen, Kinsman, N.E.M., and Overbeck, J.R, Technical report entitled “Photogrammetric digital surface models and mosaiced orthoimagery for Barter Island, Alaska” and Raw Data File through the Alaska Department of Natural Resources; June 2020; https://doi.org/10.14509/30456
12. Narinesingh, V., Booth, J. F., Clark, S. K., & Ming, Y. (July 2020). Atmospheric blocking in an aquaplanet and the impact of orography. Weather and Climate Dynamics, 1(2), 293-311. https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-293-2020
13. H. Gamarro, L. Ortiz, and J.E. González. (2020). Adapting to Extreme Heat: Social, Atmospheric, and Infrastructure Impacts of Air Conditioning in Megacities-The Case of New York City. J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities (August 2020). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048175.
14. Adrian Diaz Fortich, Victor Dominguez, Yonghua Wu, Barry Gross and Fred Moshary, Observations of Aerosol Spatial Distribution and Emissions in New York City Using a Scanning Micro Pulse Lidar, EPJ Web Conf., 237 (2020) 03020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023703020
15. Mark Arend, Dave A. Ligon, Deryck James, Mark J. Campmire, David Melecio-Vazquez, Jorge Gonzalez and Fred Moshary, Observations and Models of Turbulence During Heat Events in Complex Urban Coastal Regions Using Multiple Doppler Wind Lidars, EPJ Web Conf., 237 (2020) 06010 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023706010
16. Fred Moshary, Adrian Diaz Fortich, Yonghua Wu, Mark Arend, Prathap Ramamurhty and Barry Gross, Observation of Fast Tropospheric Dynamics and Impacts on Humidity and Air Pollution During a Heatwave Event in New York City, as Observed by Lidars, Other Profilers and Surface Measurements, EPJ Web Conf., 237 (2020) 03018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023703018
17. Kaihui Zhao, Yonghua Wu, Jianping Huang, Rongsheng Jiang, Guillaume Gronoff, Timothy A. Berkoff and Fred Moshary, Variation of Ozone and PBL from the Lidar Observations and WRF-Chem Model in NYC Area During the 2018 Summer LISTOS Campaign, EPJ Web Conf., 237 (2020) 08027, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023708027
18. Yonghua Wu, Kaihui Zhao, Jianping Huang, Dingdong Li, Mark Arend, Barry Gross and Fred Moshary, Observation of Wildfire Smoke Transport and PBL Variation During Summer 2018 Listos Campaign in New York City, EPJ Web Conf., 237 (2020) 03019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023703019
19. Dingdong Li, Barry Gross, Yonghua Wu and Fred Moshary. Correlation Study of Planetary-Boundary-Layer-Height Retrievals from CL51 and CHM15K Ceilometers with Application To PM2.5 Dynamics in New York City, EPJ Web Conf., 237 (2020) 03010, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023703010
20. Brent A. McBride, J. Vanderlei Martins, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, William Birmingham, and Lorraine A. Remer, Spatial distribution of cloud droplet size properties from Airborne Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (AirHARP) measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 1777–1796 (2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1777-2020
21. V. Caicedo, R. Delgado, R. Sakai, T. Knepp, D. Williams, K. Cavender, B. Lefer, J. Szykman, An automated common algorithm for planetary boundary layer retrievals using aerosol lidars in support of the U.S. EPA Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations Program, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol. 1–51, (2020), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-20-0050.1
22. Armal, S., Devineni, N., Krakauer, N. Y., & Khanbilvardi, R. (2020). Simulating precipitation in the Northeast United States using a climate‐informed K‐nearest neighbor algorithm. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13853
23. Krakauer, N. Y., Cook, B. I., & Puma, M. J. (2020). Effect of irrigation on humid heat extremes. Environmental Research Letters, 15(9), 094010. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ecf
24. Arndt, K. A., Lipson, D. A., Hashemi, J., Oechel, W. C., & Zona, D. (2020). Snow melt stimulates ecosystem respiration in Arctic ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 26(9), 5042-5051. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15193
25. Najafi, E., Pal, I., & Khanbilvardi, R. (2020). Larger-scale ocean-atmospheric patterns drive synergistic variability and world-wide volatility of wheat yields. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-11.S https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60848-z
26. Joshua Hrisko, Prathap Ramamurthy, Jorge E. Gonzalez, Estimating heat storage in urban areas using multispectral satellite data and machine learning, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 252, 2021 112125, ISSN 0034-4257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112125
27. Najibi, N., Mazor, A., Devineni, N., Mossel, C., & Booth, J. F. (2020). Understanding the spatial organization of simultaneous heavy precipitation events over the conterminous United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2020JD033036. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033036
28. Shen, Samuel S. P., Julien Pierret, Isaiah Dorado and Snehal Ilawe. “4DVD visualization and delivery of the 20th century reanalysis data: methods and examples.” Theoretical and Applied Climatology 142 (2020): 243 - 254. doi: 10.1007/s00704-020-03288-z
29. Tucker, Tyler, Donata Giglio, Megan Scanderbeg, and Samuel S. P. Shen. " Argovis: A Web Application for Fast Delivery, Visualization, and Analysis of Argo Data", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 37, 3 (2020): 401-416, accessed Jan 18, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0041.1
30. Naz, Falak, Ghulam Hussain Dars, Kamran Ansari, Shoaib Jamro, and Nir Y. Krakauer. 2020. "Drought Trends in Balochistan" Water 12, no. 2: 470. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020470
31. Jamro, Shoaib, Falak N. Channa, Ghulam H. Dars, Kamran Ansari, and Nir Y. Krakauer. 2020. "Exploring the Evolution of Drought Characteristics in Balochistan, Pakistan" Applied Sciences 10, no. 3: 913. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10030913
32. Corrie Monteverde, Fernando De Sales, Impacts of global warming on southern California's winegrape climate suitability, Advances in Climate Change Research, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 279-293, ISSN 1674-9278, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2020.08.002.
33. Ortiz-Rosa, Suhey, William J. Hernández, Stacey M. Williams, and Roy A. Armstrong. 2020. "Water Quality Anomalies following the 2017 Hurricanes in Southwestern Puerto Rico: Absorption of Colored Detrital and Dissolved Material" Remote Sensing 12, no. 21: 3596. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12213596
34. Lopez, Karla, Enhanced Engagement and Risk Communication for Underserved Communities: Research Findings and Emerging Best Practices, 2020, https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/3921...