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Research Publications

Recent Peer Reviewed Publications (Since 2000):

2011

Boone, K. M., R. A. McPherson, M. B. Richman, and D. J. Karoly, 2011: Spatial coherence of rainfall variations using the Oklahoma Mesonet. International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.2322 

McPherson, R. A., J. D. Lane, K. C. Crawford, and W. G. McPherson Jr., 2011: A climatological analysis of heatbursts in Oklahoma (1994 – 2009). International Journal of Climatology, 31, 531-544  

2010

Basara, J. B., B. G. Illston, C. A. Fiebrich, P. Browder, C. Morgan, J. P. Bostic, A. McCombs, R. A. McPherson, A. J. Schroeder, and K. C. Crawford, 2010: The Oklahoma City Micronet. Meteorological Applications, DOI:10.1002/met.189.

Basara, J. B., H. G. Basara, B. G. Illston, and K. C. Crawford, 2010: The Impact of the Urban Heat Island During an Intense Heat Wave in Oklahoma City. Advances in Meteorology, DOI:10.1155/2010/230365.

Fiebrich, C. A., C. R. Morgan, A. G. McCombs, P. K. Hall, Jr., and R. A. McPherson, 2010: Quality assurance procedures for mesoscale meteorological data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 27, 1565–1582.

Klockow, K. E., R. A. McPherson, and D. S. Sutter, 2010: On the Economic Nature of Crop Production Decisions Using the Oklahoma Mesonet. Weather, Climate, and Society, 2, 224-236.

McGovern, A., T. Supinie, D. J. Gagne II, N. Troutman, M. Collier, R. A. Brown, J. B. Basara, J. Williams, 2010: Understanding severe weather processes through spatiotemporal relational random forests. Proceedings of the NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding: CIDU 2010.

Schroeder, A. J., J. B. Basara, B. G. Illston, 2010: Challenges Associated with Classifying Urban Meteorological Stations: The Oklahoma City Micronet Example. The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, 4, 88-100.

Sutter, D., and S. Erickson, 2010: The Time Cost of Tornado Warnings and the Savings with Storm-Based Warnings. Weather, Climate, and Society, 2, 103-112.

2009

Arndt, D. A., J. B. Basara, R. A. McPherson, B. G. Illston, G. D. McManus, and D. B. Demko, 2009: The overland reintensification of Tropical Storm Erin (2007).Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 1079–1093. 

Basara, J. B., P. K. Hall, A. Schroeder, B. G. Illston, and K. L. Nemunaitis, 2008: The diurnal cycle of the urban heat island in Oklahoma City. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D20109, doi:10.1029/2008JD010311.

Basara, J. B., B. G. Illston, T. E. Winning, and C. A Fiebrich, 2009: Evaluation of Rainfall Measurements from the WXT510 Sensor for use in the Oklahoma City Micronet. The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, 3, 39-45.

Fiebrich, C. A., 2009: History of surface weather observations in the United States. Earth-Science Reviews, 93, 77-84.

Fiebrich, C.A., and K.C. Crawford, 2009: Automation: A Step toward Improving the Quality of Daily Temperature Data Produced by Climate Observing Networks. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 26, 1246–1260.

Pathe, C., W. Wagner, D. Sabel, M. Doubkova, J. B. Basara, 2009: Using ENVISAT ASAR Global Model Data for Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval over Oklahoma. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47, 468-480.

Pinker, R.T., D. Sun, M.P. Hung, C. Li, and J.B. Basara, 2009: Evaluation of Satellite Estimates of Land Surface Temperature from GOES over the United States. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 48, 167–180.

Schroeder, A. J., 2009: An Analysis of Observations from Portable Temperature and Humidity Sensors Deployed Across Oklahoma City. The Journal of Young Investigators, 19, 11.

2008

Basara, J. B., P. K. Hall, A. J. Schroeder, and B. G. Illston, K. L. Nemunaitis, 2008: The diurnal cycle of the urban heat island in Oklahoma City. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D20109, doi:10.1029/2008JD010311.

Gu, Y., E. Hunt, B. Wardlow, J. B. Basara, J. F. Brown, and J. P. Verdin, 2008: Evaluation and validation of MODIS NDVI and NDWI for vegetation drought monitoring using Oklahoma Mesonet soil moisture data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L22401, doi:10.1029/2008GL035772.

Hocker, J. E., and J. B. Basara, 2008: A ten year spatial climatology of squall line storms across Oklahoma. Int. J. Climatol., 28, 765-775.

Hocker, J. E., and J. B. Basara, 2008: A geographic information systems based analysis of supercells across Oklahoma. J. Appl. Meteor. and Climatol., 47, 1518-1538.

Illston, B.G., J.B. Basara, D.K. Fischer, R.L. Elliott, C. Fiebrich, K.C. Crawford, K. Humes, and E. Hunt, 2008: Mesoscale Monitoring of Soil Moisture Across a Statewide Network. J. of Atmos. and Oceanic Tech, 25, 167-182.

Swenson, S., J. Famiglietti, J. Basara, and J. Wahr, 2008: Estimating Profile Soil Moisture and Groundwater Storage Variations in the Southern Great Plains Using GRACE Satellite Gravimetric and Oklahoma Mesonet Soil Moisture Data. Water Resources Research, 44, W01413, doi:10.1029/2007WR006057.

2007

Basara, J. B., D. R. Cheresnick, D. Mitchell, and B. G. Illston, 2007: An analysis of Severe Hail Swaths in the Southern Plains of the United States. Trans. in GIS, 11, 531-554.

Chen, F., K. W. Manning, M. A. LeMone, S. B. Trier, J. G. Alfieri, R. Roberts, J. Wilson, M. Tewari, D. Niyogi, T. W. Horst1, S. P. Oncley, J. B. Basara , and P. D. Blanken, 2007: Evaluation of the Characteristics of the NCAR High-Resolution Land Data Assimilation System During IHOP-02. J. Appl. Meteor., 46, 694-713.

Hunt, E., J. B. Basara, C. Morgan, 2007: Significant Inversions and Rapid In-Situ Cooling at a Well-Sited Oklahoma Mesonet Station. J. Appl. Meteor., 46, 353-367.

Lin, X., R. A. Pielke Sr., K. G. Hubbard, K. C. Crawford, M. A. Shafer, and T. Matsui, 2007. An examination of 1997 – 2007 surface layer temperature trends at two heights in Oklahoma. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L24705, doi:10.1029/2007GL031652.

McPherson, R. A., 2007: A review of vegetation–atmosphere interactions and their influences on mesoscale phenomena.

McPherson, R. A., C. Fiebrich, K. C. Crawford, R. L. Elliott, J. R. Kilby, D. L. Grimsley, J. E. Martinez, J. B. Basara, B. G. Illston, D. A. Morris, K. A. Kloesel, S. J. Stadler, A. D. Melvin, A.J. Sutherland, and H. Shrivastava, 2007: Statewide monitoring of the mesoscale environment: A technical update on the Oklahoma Mesonet. 

2006

Fiebrich, C. A., D. L. Grimsley, R. A. McPherson, K. A. Kesler, and G. R. Essenberg, 2006: The value of routine site visits in managing and maintaining quality data from the Oklahoma Mesonet. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 23, 406-416.  

Liu, Y., F. Chen, T. Warner, and J. B. Basara, 2006: Verification of a Mesoscale Data-Assimilation and Forecasting System for the Oklahoma City Area During the Joint Urban 2003 Field Project. J. Appl. Meteor., 45, 912-929.

Niyogi, D., T. Holt, S. Zhong, P. C. Pyle, and J. B. Basara, 2006: Urban and Land Surface Effects on the 30 July 2003 MCS Event Observed in the Southern Great Plains, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D19107, doi:10.1029/2005JD006746.  

2005

Cheresnick, D.R., and J. B. Basara, 2005: The Impact of Land-Atmosphere Interactions on the Benson, MN Tornado of 11 June 2001. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86, 637-642.  

Haugland, M. J., and K. C. Crawford, 2005: The diurnal cycle of land-atmosphere interactions across Oklahoma's winter wheat belt. Monthly Weather Review, 133, 120-130.

McPherson, R. A., and D. J. Stensrud, 2005: Influences of a winter wheat belt on the evolution of the boundary layer. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 2178–2199. (link to article)

2004

Anderson, M. C., J. R. Mecikalski, R. D. Torn, J. M. Norman, W. L. Kustas, and J. B. Basara, 2004: Disaggregation of Regional Flux Estimates using Landsat Thermal and Visible Band Imagery. J. Hydromet., 5, 343-363.

Illston, B.G., J.B. Basara, and K.C. Crawford, 2004: Seasonal to interannual variations of soil moisture measured in Oklahoma, Int. J. Climatol, 24, 1883 - 1896.

McPherson, R. A., D. J. Stensrud, and K. C. Crawford, 2004: The impact of Oklahoma’s winter wheat belt on the mesoscale environment. 

Sun, D., R. Pinker, and J. B. Basara, 2004: Land surface temperature estimation from the next generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES M-Q. J. Applied Meteor., 43, 363-372.

2003

Brotzge, J. A., and K. C. Crawford, 2003: Examination of the surface energy budget as observed from OASIS (eddy correlation) and ARM (Bowen ratio) measurement systems. J. Hydrometeor., 4, 160–178.



Brotzge, J. A., and S. J. Richardson, 2003: Spatial and temporal correlation among Oklahoma Mesonet and OASIS surface-layer measurements. J. Appl. Meteor., 42, 5-19.

 Fiebrich, C. A., J E. Martinez, J. A. Brotzge, and J. B. Basara, 2003: The Oklahoma Mesonet’s skin temperature network. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 29, 1496-1504.

Illston, B. G., and J. B. Basara, 2003. Analysis of Short-term Droughts in Oklahoma. EOS, Transactions. American Geophysical Union. 84, 1-2. 

 

Marshall, C. H., K. Crawford, K. Mitchell, and D. Stensrud, 2003: The impact of the land-surface physics in the operational NCEP Eta model on simulating the diurnal cycle: evaluation and testing using Oklahoma Mesonet data. Weather and Forecasting, 18, 748-768


Robock, A., L. Luo, E. F. Wood, F. Wen, K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, J. C. Schaake, D. Lohmann, B. Cosgrove, J. Sheffield, Q. Duan, W. Higgins, R. T. Pinker, D. Tarpley, J. B. Basara, and K. C. Crawford, 2003: Evaluation of the North American Land Data Assimilation System over the Southern Great Plains during the Warm Season. J. Geophys. Res. GCIP special issue, 108 (D22), 8846, doi:10.1029/2002JD003245.  

2002

Basara, J. B., and K. C. Crawford, 2002: Linear relationships between root-zone soil moisture and atmospheric processes in the planetary boundary layer. J. Geophys. Res., 107, (ACL 10) 1-18.


Morris, D. A., K. C. Crawford, K.A. Kloesel, and G. Kitch, 2002: OK-FIRST: an example of successful collaboration between the meteorological and emergency response communities on 3 May 1999. Weather and Forecasting, 17, 567-576.

2001

Basara, J. B., 2001: Soil Moisture Observations for Flash Flood Research and Prediction. In: E. Gruntfest and J. Handmer, eds., Coping with flash floods, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrect, 231-241.

Fiebrich, C. A., and K. C. Crawford. 2001. The impact of unique meteorological phenomena detected by the Oklahoma Mesonet and ARS Micronet on automated quality control. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82, 2173-2187.

Morris, D. A., K. C. Crawford, K. A. Kloesel, and J. M. Wolfinbarger. 2001: OK-FIRST: a meteorological information system for public safety. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82, 1911-1923.

2000

Basara, J. B. and T. M. Crawford, 2000: Improved installation procedures for deep layer soil moisture measurements. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technology, 17, 879-884.



Brotzge, J. A., and K. C. Crawford. 2000: Estimating Sensible Heat Flux from the Oklahoma Mesonet. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 39, 102-116.

Shafer, M. A., C. A. Fiebrich, D. Arndt, S. E. Fredrickson, T. W. Hughes. 2000. Quality assurance procedures in the Oklahoma Mesonetwork. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 17, 474-494.

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