Publications2008 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. 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, 2008: Coupling terrestrial and atmospheric water dynamics to improve prediction in a changing environment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, 1275-1279. Liu, C., E. J. Zipser, D. J. Cecil, S. W. Nesbitt, and S. Sherwood, 2007: University of Utah TRMM cloud and preciptiation feature database. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 47, 2712-2728. Lang, T. J., S. W. Nesbitt, and L. D. Carey, 2008: On the correction of partial beam blockage in polarimetric radar data. J. Atmos. Ocean Tech., in press. Gochis, D. J., S. W. Nesbitt, W. Yu, and S. Williams, 2008: Comparison of gauge-corrected versus non-gauge corrected satellite-based quantitative precipitation estimates during the 2004 NAME Enhanced Observing period. Atmosphera, conditionally accepted. (pdf) Peters, O., J. D. Neelin, and S. W. Nesbitt, 2008: Mesoscale convective clusters as critical phenomena. J. Atmos. Sci, conditionally accepted. Nesbitt, S. W., and A. M. Anders, 2008: Very high resolution precipitation frequency and rainfall estimates from TRMM: Applications and uncertainties. Geophys. Res. Lett., submitted. 2007 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). 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