Awards

2008, Recipient, NASA New Investigator Program in Earth System Science Award

2006, Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Journal of Geophysical Research–Atmospheres, American Geophysical Union

2001 – 2003, NASA Earth System Science Fellowship

2002, Excellence in Graduate Research Award, University of Utah

1997, Highly Meritorious Meteorology Senior Award, SUNY Oswego

Publications

2009

Nesbitt, S. W., and A. M. Anders, 2009: Very high resolution precipitation climatologies from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission precipitation radar. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L15815, doi:10.1029/2009GL038026. (pdf)

Lang, T. J., S. W. Nesbitt, and L. D. Carey, 2009:  On the correction of partial beam blockage in polarimetric radar data. J. Atmos. Ocean Tech., in press. (pdf)

Peters, O., J. D. Neelin, and S. W. Nesbitt, 2009: Mesoscale convective clusters as critical phenomena. J. Atmos. Sci, in press. (pdf)

Gochis, D. J., S. W. Nesbitt, W. Yu, and S. Williams, 2009: Comparison of gauge-corrected versus non-gauge corrected satellite-based quantitative precipitation estimates during the 2004 NAME Enhanced Observing period. Atmosphera, 22, 69-98. (pdf)

2008

Nesbitt, S. W., D. J. Gochis, and T. J. Lang, 2008: The diurnal cycle of clouds and precipitation along the Sierra Madre Occidental during the North American Monsoon Experiment: Implications for precipitation estimation in complex terrain.  J. Hydromet., 9, 728-743. (pdf)

Cifelli, R., S. W. Nesbitt, and S. A. Rutledge, W. A. Petersen, and S. E. Yuter, 2008: Diurnal characteristics of precipitation features over the East Pacific:  A comparison of the EPIC and TEPPS regions.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 21, 4068-4086. (pdf)

Liu, C., E. J. Zipser, D. J. Cecil, S. W. Nesbitt, and S. Sherwood, 2008: University of Utah TRMM cloud and preciptiation feature database. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 47, 2712-2728. (pdf)

2007

Lyon, S. W., F. Domingues, D. J. Gochis, N. A. Brunsell, C. L. Castro, F. K. Chow, D. Fuka, Y. Hong, P. Kucera, S. W. Nesbitt, Y. Fan, N. Salzmann, J. Schmidli, P. K. Snyder, A. J. Teuling, T. E. Twine, S. Levis, J. D. Lundquist, G. D. Salvucci, A. M. Sealy, M. T. Walter, 2007: Coupling terrestrial and atmospheric water dynamics to improve prediction in a changing environment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, 1275-1279. (pdf)

Liberman, R. S., D. M. Riggin, D. A. Ortland, S. W. Nesbitt, and R. A Vincent, 2007:  Variability of mesospheric diurnal tides and tropospheric diurnal heating during 1997-1998.  J. Geophys. Res., 112, D20110, doi:10.1029/2007JD008578. (pdf)

Cifelli, R., S. W. Nesbitt, and S. A. Rutledge, W. A. Petersen, and S. E. Yuter, 2007: Radar characteristics of precipitation features in the EPIC and TEPPS regions of the East Pacific.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 1576-1595. (pdf)

Lang, T. J., D. Ahijevych, S. W. Nesbitt, R. Carbone, and S. A. Rutledge: 2007:  Radar-observed characteristics of precipitating systems during NAME 2004.  J. Climate, 20, 1713-1733. (pdf)

Liu, C., E. J. Zipser, and S. W. Nesbitt, 2007:  Global distribution of tropical deep convection: Different perspectives using infrared and radar as the primary data source.  J. Climate, 20, 489-503. (pdf)

2006

Nesbitt, S. W., R. Cifelli, and S. A. Rutledge, 2006:  Storm morphology and rainfall characteristics of TRMM precipitation features.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 2702-2721. (pdf)

Zipser, E. J., D. J. Cecil, C. Liu, S. W. Nesbitt, and D. P. Yorty, 2006, Where are the most intense thunderstorms on earth? Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 1057-1071. (pdf)

Matrosov, S., R. Cifelli, P. C. Kennedy, S. W. Nesbitt, V. N. Bringi. B. E. Martner, 2006: A comparitive study of rainfall retrievals based on specific differential phase shifts at X- and S-band radar frequencies. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 23, 952-963. (pdf)

Higgins, W., D. Ahijevych, J. Amador, A. Barros, E. H. Berbery, E. Caetano, P. Ciesielski, R. Cifelli, M. Cortez-Vazquez, A. Douglas, M. Douglas, G. Emmanuel, C. Fairall, D. Gochis, D. Gutzler, R. Johnson, C. King, T. Lang, M.-I. Lee, D. Lettenmaier, R. Lobato, V. Magaña, J. Meitin, K. Mo, S. Nesbitt, E. Pytlak, P. Rogers, S. Rutledge, J. Schemm, S. Schubert, F. Torres, A. White, C. Williams, A. Wood, R. Zamora, C. Zhang, 2006: The North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) field campaign and modeling strategy. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 79-94. (pdf)

2005

Cecil, D. J., S. J. Goodman, D. J. Boccippio, E. J. Zipser, and S. W. Nesbitt, 2005:  Three years of TRMM precipitation features.  Part I:  Radar, radiometric, and lightning characteristics.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 543-566. (pdf)

2004

Nesbitt, S. W., E. J. Zipser, and C. D. Kummerow, 2004:  An examination of version 5 rainfall estimates from the TRMM microwave imager, precipitation radar, and rain gauges on global, regional and storm scales. J. Appl. Meteor., 43, 1016-1036. (pdf)

Barros, A. P., G. Kim, E. Williams, and S. W. Nesbitt, 2004: Probing orographic controls in the Himalayas during the monsoon using satellite imagery.  Nat. Haz. and Earth Sys. Sci., 4, 1-23. (pdf)

2003

Nesbitt, S. W., 2003: Precipitation features according to the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Meteorology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT  84112-0110, 182 pp. (pdf)

Nesbitt, S. W., and E. J. Zipser, 2003: The diurnal cycle of rainfall and convective intensity according to three years of TRMM measurements. J. Climate, 16, 1456-1475. (pdf)

2002

Petersen, W. A., S. W. Nesbitt, R. J. Blakeslee, R. Cifelli, P. Hein and S. A. Rutledge, 2002: TRMM observations of convective regimes in the Amazon. J. Climate, 15, 1278-1294. (pdf)

Toracinta E. R., D. J. Cecil, E. J. Zipser, and S. W. Nesbitt, 2002: Radar, passive microwave, and lightning characteristics of precipitating systems in the Tropics.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 802-824. (pdf)

Cecil, D. J., E. J. Zipser, and S. W. Nesbitt, 2002: Reflectivity, ice scattering, and lightning characteristics of hurricane eyewalls and rainbands. Part I: Quantitative description.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 769-784. (pdf)

2000

Nesbitt, S. W., E. J. Zipser, and D. J. Cecil, 2000: A census of precipitation features in the Tropics using TRMM:  Radar, ice scattering, and lightning observations.  J. Climate, 13, 4087-4106. (pdf)

Nesbitt, S. W., R. Zhang, and R. E. Orville, 2000:  Seasonal and global NOx production by lightning estimated from the Optical Transient Detector (OTD).  Tellus, 52, 1206-1215. (pdf)

1999

Nesbitt, S. W., 1999: A census of precipitation features in the tropics using TRMM:  Radar, ice scattering, and lightning observations. M.S. Thesis, Dept. of Meteorology, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX 77843-3150, 96 pp.