Select Conference Presentations and Extended Abstracts Given in 2020
Martinaitis, S. M., S. B. Cocks, S. Harkema, M. J. Simpson, A. P. Osborne, J. Zhang, and K. W. Howard, 2020: Gauge data characteristics within the MRMS system: Advanced quality control logic and the need to improve metadata. 45th Natl. Wea. Assoc. Virtual Annual Meeting.
Cocks, S. B., L. Tang, J. Zhang, A. Ryzhkov, P. Zhang, and K. W. Howard, 2020: Enhancing specific attenuation rain rates in stratiform and convective rain regimes. 34th Conf. on Hydrology, Boston, MA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 1069. [Link]
Gerard, A. E., J. J. Gourley, K. W. Howard, S. M. Martinaitis, and J. Zhang, 2020: An overview of the performance and operational applications of the MRMS and FLASH systems in recent significant urban flash flood events. Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2019 – 100th AMS Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 388. [Link]
Gerard, A. E., J. Brogden, J. J. Gourley, K. W. Howard, S. M. Martinaitis, H. D. Reeves, A. E. Reinhart, and J. Zhang, 2020: Multiple Radar/Multiple Sensor (MRMS ) system: Next-generation optimization and enhancement project. Eighth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation. Boston, MA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 4.4. [Link]
Hanft, W., J. Zhang, P. Bukovcic, A. V. Ryzhkov, S. B. Cocks, S. M. Martinaitis, and K. W. Howard, 2020: Dual-polarization radar snow QPE in MRMS. 36th Conf. on Environmental Information Processing Technologies, Boston, MA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 11B.2. [Link]
Hanft, W., and J. Zhang, 2020: Brightband delineation and dual-pol VPR corrections for QPE improvements in MRMS. 34th Conf. on Hydrology, Boston, MA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 15B.5. [Link]
Martinaitis, S. M., A. P. Osborne, M. Simpson, C. Langston, J. Zhang, and K. W. Howard, 2020: Collaborative efforts on the transition of MRMS multisensor precipitation estimation from research to operations. 10th Conf. on Transition of Research to Operations, Boston, MA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 5A.4. [Link]
Osborne, A. P., J. Zhang, S. B. Cocks, M. J. Simpson, and K. W. Howard, 2020: Improving Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) precipitation estimates for orographically enhanced rainfall in Hawaii and the western United States. 34th Conf. on Hydrology, Boston, MA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 15B.4. [Link]
Reinhart, A. E., J. W. Brogden, S. M. Martinaitis, S. B. Cocks, T. M. Smith, J. Zhang, H. D. Reeves, K. W. Howard, and A. E. Gerard, 2020: Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor Version 20: Optimization and research strategy. 10th Conf. on Transition of Research to Operations, Boston, MA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 9.6. [Link]
Simpson, M., J. Zhang, and K. W. Howard, 2020: Radar quantitative precipitation estimate results using a convolution neural network. 19th Conf. on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science, Boston, MA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 7A.2. [Link]
Tang, L., J. Zhang, Y. S. Tang, and P. L. Chang, 2020: S-band radar rainfall estimation in Taiwan. 36th Conf. on Environmental Information Processing Technologies, Boston, MA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 13B.3. [Link]
Zhang, J. K. W. Howard, S. B. Cocks, S. M. Martinaitis, L. Tang, A. P. Osborne, M. Simpson, W. Hanft, C. Langston, B. T. Kaney, K. Cooper, A. Arthur, and J. Brogden, 2020: High-resolution QPE products from the experimental MRMS system. 36th Conf. on Environmental Information Processing Technologies, Boston, MA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 3A.3. [Link]