AMU Fact
The AMU has published 27 peer-reviewed papers in 11 scientific journals since 1991.
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AMU Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
The AMU publishes their work in professional peer-reviewed journals.
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The AMU has published their work in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals to include the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Weather and Forecasting, Journal of Atmosperhic and Oceanic Technology, Monthly Weather Review, College Mathematics Journal, Journal of Climate, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Journal of Geophysical Research and the National Weather Digest.
The information below contains a list of all peer-reviewed journal articles authored by the AMU listed by the year of publication. The AMU author's name is in bold font.
| 2013 | ||
| Merceret, F. J., T. P. O'Brien, W. P. Roeder, L. L. Huddleston, W. H. Bauman III, and G. J. Jedlovec | Transitioning Research to Operations: Transforming the "Valley of Death" into a "Valley of Opportunity" | Space Weather, Vol 11, pp. 637-640, doi:10.1002/swe.20099 |
| 2009 | ||
| Merceret, F. J. | Two Empirical Models for Land-falling Hurricane Gust Factors | National Weather Digest, Vol 33, No 1, pp. 27-35 |
| 2008 | ||
| Merceret, F. J., J. G. Ward, D. M. Mach, M. G. Bateman, and J. E. Dye | On the Magnitude of Electric Fields Near Thunderstorm Associated Clouds | J. Appl. Meteor. & Climatol., Vol. 47, No. 1, pp.240-248 |
| 2007 | ||
| Dye, J. E., M. G. Bateman, H. J. Christian, E. Defer, C. A. Grainger, W. D. Hall, E. P. Krider, S. A. Lewis, D. M. Mach, Francis Merceret, J. C. Willett, and P. T. Willis | Electric Fields, Cloud Microphysics and Reflectivity in Anvils of Florida Thunderstorms | J. Geophys. Res & Atmos., Vol. 112, D11215, doi:10.1029/ 2006JD007550 |
| 2006 | ||
| Francis Merceret | Rapid Temporal Changes of Boundary Layer Winds | J. Appl. Meteor. & Climatol., Vol. 45, No. 7, pp. 1016-1020 |
| Merceret, Francis, David Short, and Jennifer Ward | Radar Evaluation of Optical Cloud Constraints to Space Launch Operations | J. Spacecraft & Rockets, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 248-251 |
| Pinter, Don, Francis Merceret, and Clay Hatley | Performance Validation of the Upgraded Eastern Range 50 MHz Profiler | J. Spacecraft & Rockets, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 693-695 |
| 2005 | ||
| Case, Jonathan, Mark Wheeler, John Manobianco, Johnny Weems, and William Roeder | A 7-Yr Climatological Study of Land Breezes over the Florida Spaceport | J. Appl. Meteor., Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 340-356 |
| Short, David and Francis Merceret | On the Positive Bias of Peak Horizontal Velocity from an Idealized Doppler Profiler | J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 98-104 |
| 2004 | ||
| Case, Jonathan, John Manobianco, John Lane, Christopher Immer, and Francis Merceret | An Objective Technique for Verifying Sea Breezes in High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Models | Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 690-705 |
| Short, David, James Sardonia, Winifred Lambert, and Mark Wheeler | Nowcasting Thunderstorm Anvil Clouds over Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station | Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 706-713 |
| Ward, Jennifer and Francis Merceret | An Automated Cloud-Edge Detection Algorithm Using Cloud Physics and Radar Data | J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol. , Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 762-765 |
| 2003 | ||
| Lambert, Winifred, Francis Merceret, Gregory Taylor, and Jennifer Ward | Performance of Five 915 MHz Wind Profilers and an Associated Automated Quality Control Algorithm in an Operational Environment | J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., Vol. 20, No. 11, pp. 1488-1495 |
| Short, David | Atlantic Equatorial Rain Frequency: An Inter-centennial Comparison | J. Climate, Vol. 17, No. 13, pp. 2296-2301 |
| 2002 | ||
| Case, Jonathan, John Manobianco, Timothy Oram, Tim Garner, Peter Blottman, and Scott Spratt | Local Data Integration over East-Central Florida using the ARPS Data Analysis System | Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 3-26 |
| Case, Jonathan, John Manobianco, Allan Dianic, Mark Wheeler, Dewey Harms, and Carlton Parks | Verification of High-Resolution RAMS Forecasts over East-Central Florida during the 1999 and 2000 Summer Months | Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 1133-1151 |
| 2000 | ||
| Merceret, Francis | The Coherence Time of Midtropospheric Wind Features as a Function of Vertical Scale from 300 m to 2 km | J. Appl. Meteor., Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2409-2420 |
| Short, David, and Kenji Nakamura | TRMM Radar Observations of Shallow Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans | J. Climate, Vol. 13, No. 23, pp 4107-4124 |
| Smith, Brian, and Francis Merceret | The Lognormal Distribution | College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 259-261 |
| Rogers, Robert, J. Michael Fritsch, and Winifred Lambert | A Simple Technique for Using Radar Data in the Dynamic Initialization of a Mesoscale Model | Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 128, No. 7, pp. 2560-2574 |
| 1999 | ||
| Merceret, Francis | The Vertical Resolution of the Kennedy Space Center 50 MHz Wind Profiler | J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., Vol. 16, No. 9, pp. 1273-1278 |
| Schumann, Robin, Greg Taylor, Francis Merceret, and Timothy Wilfong | Performance Characteristics of the Kennedy Space Center 50 MHz Doppler Radar Wind Profiler Using the Median Filter/First Guess Data Reduction Algorithm | J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 532-549 |
| Nutter, Paul, and John Manobianco | Evaluation of the 29-km Eta Model. Part I: Objective Verification at Three Selected Stations | Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 5-17 |
| Manobianco, and Paul Nutter | Evaluation of the 29-km Eta Model. Part II: Subjective Verification over Florida | Wea. Forecasting, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 18-37 |
| 1998 | ||
| Merceret, Francis | Risk Assessment Consequences of the Lognormal Distribution of Mid-Tropospheric Winds | J. Spacecraft & Rockets, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 111-112 |
| 1997 | ||
| Merceret, Francis | Rapid Temporal Changes of Midtropospheric Winds | J. Appl. Meteor., Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 1567-1575 |
| 1996 | ||
| Manobianco, John, John Zack, and Gregory Taylor | Workstation-Based Real-Time Mesoscale Modeling Designed for Weather Support to Operations at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Station | Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 5-17 |
| 1995 | ||
| Merceret, Francis | The Effect of Sensor Spacing on Wind Measurements at the Shuttle Landing Facility | NASA Technical Paper, 3529 |