Tropical Dynamics and Climate Publications
Research Topic: Dynamics
Avery, S. K. and R. Schafer, 2000: Analysis of planetary waves in the troposphere utilizing the tropical Pacific profiler network. Ninth International Workshop of Technical and Scientific Aspects of MST Radar, Toulouse, France/2000.
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. and D. A. Carter, 1989: Mountain waves in the tropical Pacific atmosphere: A comparison of vertical wind fluctuations over Pohnpei and Christmas Island using VHF wind profilers. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 46, 2698-2715.
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, A. C. Riddle, and K. S. Gage, 1988: Average vertical motions in the tropical atmosphere observed by a radar wind profile on Pohnpei (7šN Latitude, 157šE Longitude). Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 45, 396-405.
Balsley, B. B., D. A. Carter, A. C. Riddle, W. L. Ecklund, and K. S. Gage, 1991: On the potential of VHF wind profilers for studying convective processes in the tropics. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 72, 1355-1360.
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.
Chang, J. L., S. K. Avery, and R. A. Vincent, 1999: New narrow-beam meteor radar results at Christmas Island: implications for diurnal wind estimation. Radio Science, 34, 179-197.
Chang, J. L., S. K. Avery, A. C. Riddle, S. E. Palo, and K. S. Gage, 1997: First results of tropospheric gravity wave momentum flux measurements over Christmas Island. Radio Science, 32, 727-748.
Ciesielski, P. E., L. M. Hartten, and R. H. Johnson, 1997: Impacts of merging profiler and rawinsonde winds on TOGA COARE analyses. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 14, 1264-1279.
Cifelli, R. and S. A. Rutledge, 1994: Vertical motion structure in Maritime Continent mesoscale convective systems: Results from a 50 MHz profiler. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 51, 2631-2652.
--, 1998: Vertical motion, diabatic heating and rainfall characterisitics in northern Australia convective systems. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 123.
Cifelli, R., S. A. Rutledge, D. J. Boccippio, and T. Matejka, 1996: Horizontal divergence and vertical velocity retrievals from Doppler radar and wind profiler observations. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 13, 948-966.
Cifelli, R., D. Rajopadhyaya, P. May, C. R. Williams, S. K. Avery, and K. S. Gage, 1997: Unambiguous refractivity turbulence measurements using UHF and S-Band profilers. 28th Conference on Radar Meteorology, Austin, Texas/7-12 September 1997, American Meteorological Society.
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.
Gage, K. S. and C. R. Williams, 1995: First year of observations from the Galapagos utilizing a 915 MHz wind profiler. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Seattle, Washington/October 23-27, 1995, 271-274.
Gage, K. S., J. R. McAfee, and G. C. Reid, 1992: Diurnal variation in vertical motion over the central equatorial Pacific from VHF wind-profiling Doppler radar observations at Christmas Island (2ƒN, 157ƒW). Geophysical Research Letters, 19, 1827-1830.
Gage, K. S., J. R. McAfee, and C. R. Williams, 1996: On the annual variation of tropospheric zonal winds observed above Christmas Island in the central equatorial Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 15061-15070.
--, 1996: Recent changes in tropospheric circulation over the central equatorial Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters, 23, 2149-2152.
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., B. B. Balsley, W. L. Ecklund, R. F. Woodman, and S. K. Avery, 1990: Wind-profiling Doppler radars for tropical atmospheric research. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 71, 1851-1854.
Gage, K. S., B. B. Balsley, W. L. Ecklund, D. A. Carter, and J. R. McAfee, 1991: Wind profiler related research in the tropical Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96, 3209-3220.
Gage, K. S., J. R. McAfee, D. A. Carter, A. C. Riddle, G. C. Reid, and B. B. Balsley, 1991: Long-term mean vertical motion over the tropical Pacific: wind-profiling Doppler radar measurements. Science, 254, 1771-1773.
Gage, K. S., J. R. McAfee, W. G. Collins, D. Soderman, H. Bottger, A. Radford, and B. B. Balsley, 1988: A comparison of winds observed at Christmas Island (2ƒN, 157ƒW) using a wind profiling Doppler radar with NMC and ECMWF analysis. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 69, 1041-1046.
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., J. R. McAfee, D. A. Carter, W. L. Ecklund, G. C. Reid, A. C. Riddle, P. E. Johnston, and B. B. Balsley, 1993: Wind profiler yields observations of ENSO signal. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 74, 137 and 142.
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.
Gutzler, D. S. and L. M. Hartten, 1995: Daily variability of lower tropospheric winds over the tropical western Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 22999-23008.
Hartten, L. M., 1998: Reconciliation of surface and profiler winds at ISS sites. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 15, 826-834.
Hartten, L. M. and D. S. Gutzler, 1998: Estimates of large-scale divergence in the lower troposphere over the western equatorial Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 25895-25904.
Hartten, L. M. and K. S. Gage, 2000: ENSO's impact on the annual cycle: The view from Galápagos. Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 385-388.
Hartten, L. M. and W. M. Angevine, 2001: A comparison of the daily cycle of lower-tropospheric winds over the open ocean and those above a small island. Eleventh ARM Science Team Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Hartten, L. M., N. A. Bond, and K. S. Gage, 2000: Variability of near-equatorial lower tropospheric flow over the east pacific cold tongue. 24th Conference on Hurricones and Tropical Meteorology, Fort Lauderdale, FL/29 May-2 June 2000, American Meteorological Society, 112-113.
--, 2000: Spatial and temporal variability of lower-tropospheric flow over the east Pacific cold tongue. 14th Symposium on Boundary Layer And Turbulence, Aspen, CO, USA/7-11 August 2000, American Meteorological Society, 275-278.
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.
Liziola, L. E. and B. B. Balsley, 1997: Horizontally propagating quasi-sinusoidal tropospheric waves observed in the lee of the Andes. Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 1075-1078.
--, 1998: Studies of quasi horizontally propagating gravity waves in the troposphere using the Piura ST wind profiler. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 8641-8650.
May, P. T., W. L. Ecklund, and G. D. Hess, 1994: Spectral and bispectral characteristics of wind variability at Darwin, Australia observed by a VHF radar wind profiler. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 121, 527-544.
May, P. T., A. R. Jameson, T. D. Keenan, P. E. Johnston, and C. Lucas, 2001: Combined wind profiler/polarimetric radar studies of the vertical motion and microphysical characteristics of tropical sea breeze thunderstorms. Monthly Weather Review, submitted.
McPhaden, M. J., A. J. Busalacchi, R. Cheney, J.-R. Donguy, K. S. Gage, D. Halpern, M. Ji, P. Julian, G. Meyers, G. T. Mitchum, P. P. Niiler, J. Picaut, R. W. Reynolds, N. Smith, and K. Takeuchi, 1998: The Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) observing system: A decade of progress. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 14169-14240.
Nastrom, G. D., K. S. Gage, and W. L. Ecklund, 1990: Uncertainties in estimates of the mean vertical velocity from MST radar observations. Radio Science, 25, 933-940.
Palo, S. E. and S. K. Avery, 1996: Observations of the quasi-two-day wave in the middle and lower atmosphere over Christmas Island. Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 12833-12846.
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.
Rodriguez-Achach, M., D. J. Raymond, L. M. Hartten, and K. S. Gage, 2000: The cross-equatorial Hadley Circulation of the eastern Pacific. 24th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Fort Lauderdale, FL/29 May-2 June 2000, American Meteorology Society, 437-438.
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.
Schafer, R. and S. K. Avery, 2000: Analysis of tropospheric waves with periods of 1 to 30 days using the tropical Pacific profiler network. 24th Conference of Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA/2000, American Meteorological Society, 43-44.
--, 2000: A comparison of wind profiler measurements and the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis over the equatorial Pacific. Fifth International Symposium of Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technology, Adelaide, Australia/2000.
Schafer, R., S. K. Avery, K. Harris, and G. N. Kiladis, 2000: Observation of mixed Rossby Gravity Waves over the central equatorial Pacific, using wind profilers and the NCEP/NCAR re-analysis. Fifth International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technology, Adelaide, Australia/4-8 December 2000, 153-155.
Schafer, R., P. T. May, T. D. Keenan, K. McGuffie, W. L. Ecklund, P. E. Johnston, and K. S. Gage, 2001: Boundary layer development over a tropical island during the Maritime Continent Thunderstorm Experiment. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 58, 2163-2179.
Shige, S., 1999: Disturbances of 1-2 hour periods observed in the tropical lower troposphere during the TOGA-COARE IOP. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 77, 1123-1136.
Straub, K. H. and G. N. Kiladis, 2001: Observations of a convectively coupled Kelvin wave in the eastern Pacific ITCZ. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, in press.
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.
Takahashi, N. and H. Uyeda, 1995: Doppler radar observations of the structure and characteristics of clouds during the TOGA-COARE IOP in Manus, Papua New Guines: Three case studies of November 23 and December 16, 1992. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 73, 427-442.
Tsunoda, R. T., W. L. Ecklund, and P. E. Johnston, 2000: Radar measurements of electric fields in the topside of the equatorial electrojet: First results. Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 2861-2864.
Van Zandt, T. E., W. L. Clark, K. S. Gage, C. R. Williams, and W. L. Ecklund, 2000: A dual-wavelength radar technique for measuring the turbulent energy dissipation rate epsilon. Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 2537-2540.
Westwater, E. R., Y. Han, J. B. Snider, J. H. Churnside, J. A. Shaw, M. J. Falls, C. N. Long, T. P. Ackerman, K. S. Gage, W. Ecklund, and A. Riddle, 1999: Ground-based remote sensor observations during PROBE in the tropical western Pacific. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 80, 257-270.
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.
Widiyatmi, I., H. Hashiguchi, S. Fukao, M. D. Yamanaka, S.-Y. Ogino, K. S. Gage, S. W. B. Harijono, S. Diharto, and H. Djojodihardjo, 2001: Examination of 3-6 day disturbances over equatorial Indonesia based on boundary layer radar observations during 1996-1999 at Bukittinggi, Serpong, and Biak. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 79, 317-331.
Williams, C. R., 1994: Analysis of deep convective clouds and their association with non-migrating atmospheric diurnal tides in the tropical atmosphere. Technical Memorandum ERL AL-13.
--, 1995: Application of EOF analysis to tropical wind profiler data. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Seattle, Washington/October 23-27, 1995, 129-131.
--, 1997: Principal component analysis of wind profiler observations. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 14, 386-395.
Williams, C. R. and K. S. Gage, 1995: A comparison of equatorial Pacific winds observed by wind profilers and modeled by numerical weather prediction analyses. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Seattle, Washington/October 23-27, 1995, 322-324.
Williams, C. R. and S. K. Avery, 1996: Diurnal winds observed in the tropical troposphere using 50 MHz wind profilers. Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 15051-15060.
--, 1996: Diurnal nonmigrating tidal oscillations forced by deep convective clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 4079-4091.
Williams, C., K. Gage, and D. Gutzler, 1993: Intraseasonal oscillations observed by the Trans-Pacific wind profiler network. 6th MST Workshop, Taiwan, Chung-Li, Repulic of China/17-20 August 1993, 31-35.
Williams, C. R., S. K. Avery, J. R. McAfee, and K. S. Gage, 1992: Comparisons of observed diurnal and semidiurnal tropospheric winds at Christmas Island with tidal theory. Geophysical Research Letters, 19, 1471-1474.
Last updated 18 January 2002 by L.M. Hartten