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Soil Moisture Model Calibration and Validation: An ARS Watershed on the South Fork Iowa River by Coopersmith, Evan J., Cosh, Michael H., Petersen, Walt A., Prueger, John, Niemeier, James J.

“…Soil moisture monitoring with in situ technology is a time-consuming and costly endeavor for which a method of increasing the resolution of spatial estimates…”
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Global precipitation measurement: Methods, datasets and applications by Tapiador, Francisco J., Turk, F.J., Petersen, Walt, Hou, Arthur Y., García-Ortega, Eduardo, Machado, Luiz A.T., Angelis, Carlos F., Salio, Paola, Kidd, Chris, Huffman, George J., de Castro, Manuel

“…This paper explores the many aspects of precipitation measurement that are relevant to providing an accurate global assessment of this important environmental…”
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BAECC: A FIELD CAMPAIGN TO ELUCIDATE THE IMPACT OF BIOGENIC AEROSOLS ON CLOUDS AND CLIMATE by Petäjä, Tuukka, O’Connor, Ewan J., Moisseev, Dmitri, Sinclair, Victoria A., Manninen, Antti J., Väänänen, Riikka, von Lerber, Annakaisa, Thornton, Joel A., Nicoll, Keri, Petersen, Walt, Chandrasekar, V., Smith, James N., Winkler, Paul M., Krüger, Olaf, Hakola, Hannele, Timonen, Hilkka, Brus, David, Laurila, Tuomas, Asmi, Eija, Riekkola, Marja-Liisa, Mona, Lucia, Massoli, Paola, Engelmann, Ronny, Komppula, Mika, Wang, Jian, Kuang, Chongai, Bäck, Jaana, Virtanen, Annele, Levula, Janne, Ritsche, Michael, Hickmon, Nicki

“…During Biogenic Aerosols—Effects on Clouds and Climate (BAECC), the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program deployed the…”
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The performance of the IMERG satellite-based product in identifying sub-daily rainfall events and their properties by Freitas, Emerson da S., Coelho, Victor Hugo R., Xuan, Yunqing, Melo, Davi de C.D., Gadelha, André N., Santos, Elias A., Galvão, Carlos de O., Ramos Filho, Geraldo M., Barbosa, Luís Romero, Huffman, George J., Petersen, Walt A., Almeida, Cristiano das N.

“…•This study evaluates the capability of IMERG in defining sub-daily rainfall events and their properties.•The MIT criterion was used to define the independent…”
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Grid box-level evaluation of IMERG over Brazil at various space and time scales by Gadelha, André N., Coelho, Victor Hugo R., Xavier, Alexandre C., Barbosa, Luís Romero, Melo, Davi C.D., Xuan, Yunqing, Huffman, George J., Petersen, Walt A., Almeida, Cristiano das N.

“…Rainfall data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission provide a new source of information with high spatiotemporal resolution that overcomes…”
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IS PRECIPITATION A GOOD METRIC FOR MODEL PERFORMANCE? by Tapiador, Francisco J., Roca, Rémy, Del Genio, Anthony, Dewitte, Boris, Petersen, Walt, Zhang, Fuqing

“…Precipitation has often been used to gauge the performances of numerical weather and climate models, sometimes together with other variables such as…”
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Understanding Overland Multisensor Satellite Precipitation Error in TMPA-RT Products by Gebregiorgis, Abebe Sine, Kirstetter, Pierre-Emmanuel, Hong, Yang E., Carr, Nicholas J., Gourley, Jonathan J., Petersen, Walt, Zheng, Yaoyao

“…The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) has provided the global community a widely used multisatellite (and…”
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Evaluation of Operational and Experimental Precipitation Algorithms and Microphysical Insights during IPHEx by Erlingis, Jessica M., Gourley, Jonathan J., Kirstetter, Pierre-Emmanuel, Anagnostou, Emmanouil N., Kalogiros, John, Anagnostou, Marios N., Petersen, Walt

“…During May and June 2014, NOAA X-Pol (NOXP), the National Severe Storms Laboratory’s dualpolarized X-band mobile radar, was deployed to the Pigeon River basin…”
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THE MIDLATITUDE CONTINENTAL CONVECTIVE CLOUDS EXPERIMENT (MC3E) by Jensen, M. P., Petersen, W. A., Bansemer, A., Bharadwaj, N., Carey, L. D., Cecil, D. J., Collis, S. M., Del Genio, A. D., Dolan, B., Gerlach, J., Giangrande, S. E., Heymsfield, A., Heymsfield, G., Kollias, P., Lang, T. J., Nesbitt, S. W., Neumann, A., Poellot, M., Rutledge, S. A., Schwaller, M., Tokay, A., Williams, C. R., Wolff, D. B., Xie, S., Zipser, E. J.

“…The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E), a field program jointly led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation…”
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IS PRECIPITATION A GOOD METRIC FOR MODEL PERFORMANCE? The suitability of precipitation as a metric for model performance and as a tool for model improvement is explored by Tapiador, Francisco J, Roca, Remy, Del Genio, Anthony, Dewitte, Boris, Petersen, Walt, Zhang, Fuqing

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A study of charge structure sensitivity in simulated thunderstorms by Mitzeva, Rumjana, Tsenova, Boryana, Albrecht, Rachel, Petersen, Walt

“…Two different thunderstorms are simulated by two distinct one-dimensional cloud models using four different parameterisations of the non-inductive mechanism of…”
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Global precipitation measurement: Methods, datasets and applications by TAPIADOR, Francisco J, TURK, F. J, DE CASTRO, Manuel, PETERSEN, Walt, HOU, Arthur Y, GARCIA-ORTEGA, Eduardo, MACHADO, Luiz A. T, ANGELIS, Carlos F, SALIO, Paola, KIDD, Chris, HUFFMAN, George J

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