Publications

A pamphlet that summarizes the NYS Mesonet networks and applications is available for download.
indicates a publication authored by a student.

2024


  • Min, L., Min, Q., & Wang, C. (2024). Comparison of forecasting biases over New York State mesonet: A wet summer versus a dry summer. Earth and Space Science, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023ea002870
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA002870
  • Gaudet, L. C., Sulia, K. J., Torn, R. D., & Bassill, N. P. (2024). Verification of the Global Forecast System, North American Mesoscale Forecast System, and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model Near-Surface Forecasts by use of the New York State Mesonet. Weather and Forecasting, 39(2), 369–386. https://doi.org/10.1175/waf-d-23-0094.1
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0094.1

2023


2022


  • Gabriel Rios, Prethap Ramamurthy, A novel model to estimate sensible heat fluxes in urban areas using satellite-derived data, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 270, pages 112880. March 1, 2022
    DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112880
  • Robert Fovell, Alex Gallagher, An Evaluation of Surface Wind and Gust Forecasts from the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model, Weather and Forecasting, Volume 37: issue 6. June 13, 2022
    DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-21-0176.1
  • Treinish, L. A., Praino, A. P., Tewari, M., & Cipriani, J. (2022, December). Applications of the New York State Mesonet with Urban High-Resolution Numerical Weather Predictions. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. A42J-04).
  • Jerald Brotzge, Junhong (June) Wang, Nathan Bain, Scott Miller, and Crystal Perno, Camera Network for Use in Weather Operations, Research, and Education, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 103, Issue 9, pages E2000-E2016, 2022
    DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0056.1
  • L. McMurdie, G. Heymsfield, J. Yorks, S. Braun, G. Skofronick-Jackson, R. Rauber, S. Yuter, B. Colle, G. McFarquhar, M.Poellot, D. Novak, T. Lang, R.Kroodsma, M. Mclinde, M. Oue, P. Kollias, M. Kumjian, S. Greybush, A. Heymsfield, J. Finlon, V. McDonald, S. Nicholls, Chasing Snowstorms: The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 103 : session 5. May 01, 2022
    DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0246.1
  • David Roy Fitzjarrald, Coupling of the Earth’s Surfaces to the Lower Atmospheres, July 19, 2022
    DOI: 10.20944/preprints202207.0287.v1
  • Deng, Xinlei, Developing High-Resolution Meteorological Datasets to Assess the Short-Term Association between Meteorological Factors and Green Space and Mental Disorders, University at Albany, SUNY. 2022
  • Xiao-Ming Hu, Jun Park, Timothy Supinie, Nathan A. Snook, Ming Xue, Keith A. Brewster, Jerald Brotzge, Jacob R. Carley, Diagnosing Near-Surface Model Errors with Candidate Physics Parameterization Schemes for Multi-Physics Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS) Ensemble during Winter over the Northeastern US and Southern Great Plains, Monthly Weather Review, August 2022
    DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-22-0085.1
  • Randy J. Chase, Stephen W. Nesbitt, Greg M. McFarquhar, Norman B. Wood, and Gerald M. Heymsfield, Direct Comparisons between GPM-DPR and CloudSat Snowfall Retrievals, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Volume 61: Issue 9, pg. 1257- 1271. September 01, 2022.
    DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0081.1
  • Ortiz, L; Gamarro, H; Gonzalez, JE; McPhearson, Timon, Energy burden and air conditioning adoption in New York City under a warming climate, Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 76, pages 103465. January 2022
    DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.103465
  • Lanxi Min, QiLong Min, Yuyi Du, Evaluation of model summertime boundary layer cloud development over complex terrain in New York State, Weather and Forecasting, Volume 37, Issue 10. Sept 12,2022
    DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-21-0172.1
  • Shrestha, B., J. Brotzge and J. Wang, 2022: Evaluation of the New York State Mesonet Profiler Network Data. Atmos. Measurement Tech., 15, 6011–6033,
    DOI: 10.5194/amt-15-6011-2022
  • Deng, X., Chang, H., Brotzge, J., Tracy, M., Romeiko, X., & Lin, S. (2022, September). Generating daily high-resolution gridded meteorological datasets for New York State from 2017-2018 using two-stage downscaling model. In ISEE Conference Abstracts (Vol. 2022, No. 1).
  • Alexandra M. Catena, Jie Zhang, Roisin Commane, Lee T. Murray, Margaret J. Schwab, Eric M. Leibensperger, Joseph Marto, Mackenzie L. Smith, James J. Schwab, Hydrogen Sulfide Emission Properties from Two Large Landfills in New York State, atmosphere, Volume 13, 2022
    DOI: 10.3390/atmos13081251
  • Deng, X., Brotzge, J., Tracy, M., Chang, H. H., Romeiko, X., Zhang, W., ... & Lin, S. (2022). Identifying joint impacts of sun radiation, temperature, humidity, and rain duration on triggering mental disorders using a high-resolution weather monitoring system. Environment International, 167, 107411.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107411
  • Freedman, J. M., Colle, B., McCabe, E., & Fragano, C. (2022, December). Integrating Unique Observations and Models to Improve Offshore Wind Resource Assessment and Energy Production Forecasts. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. GC15E-06).
  • Luo, H., & Lu, C. H. (2022, December). Investigating Impacts of Local Circulation on Coastal Ozone Problem in the New York Metropolitan Area. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. A13B-03).
  • Chen, Y., Fovell, R. G., & Joseph, E. (2022, December). Investigating the Uncertainties of Forecasting NE Cold Season Precipitation in NWP Models. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. A55P-1331).
  • McNulty, Stacy; Karniski-Keglovits, Natasha L.; Demers, Charlotte L.; Federice, Michael J.; and Palmer, Carrick T. (2022) "Long-Term Observation of the Adirondack Ecosystem - Data from the SUNY ESF Newcomb Campus," Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies: Vol. 25: No. 1, Article 16.
  • McDonald, Victoria, Measuring Kinematic Forcing on Snowbands in Midlatitude Winter Cyclones, University of Washington, 2022
  • Ashley Rose Williamson, New York City Micronet: Comprehensive Site Metadata and Classifications and Characteristics of the Urban Heat Island, 2022
    DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112880
  • Couillard, Maxim, Observations and Analysis of the 7 October 2020 Derecho, University at Albany, SUNY. 2022
  • Shrestha B, Brotzge JA, Wang J. Observations and impacts of long‐range transported wildfire smoke on air quality across New York State during July 2021. Geophysical Research Letters.:e2022GL100216.
  • ZS Han, JE González-Cruz, HN Liu, D Melecio-Vázquez, H Gamarro, YH Wu, F Moshary, R Bornstein, Observed sea breeze life cycle in and around NYC: Impacts on UHI and ozone patterns, Urban Cllimate, Volume 42, pages 101109, 2022
    DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101109
  • Ana Torres-Vazquez, Jonathan Pleim, Robert Gilliam, George Pouliot, Performance Evaluation of the Meteorology and Air Quality Conditions From Multiscale WRF-CMAQ Simulations for the Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS), JGR Atmospheres, Volume 127, Issue 5, 2022
    DOI: 10.1029/2021JD035890
  • Varcie, M. M., Zaremba, T. J., Rauber, R. M., McFarquhar, G. M., Finlon, J. A., McMurdie, L. A., Ryzhkov, A., Schnaiter, M., Järvinen, E., Waitz, F., Delene, D. J., Poellot, M. R., McLinden, M. L. W., & Janiszeski, A. (2023). Precipitation Growth Processes in the Comma-Head Region of the 7 February 2020 Northeast Snowstorm: Results from IMPACTS, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 80(1), 3-29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0118.1
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0118.1
  • Vergopolan, Noemi; Chaney, Nathaniel W; Pan, Ming; Sheffield, Justin; Beck, Hylke E; Ferguson, Craig R; Torres-Rojas, Laura; Sadri, Sara; Wood, Eric F, SMAP-HydroBlocks, a 30-m satellite-based soil moisture dataset for the conterminous US, US. Sci Data 8, 264 (2021)
    DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-01050-2
  • Chandler S. Engel, Rachel L. Hastings, Jeremy J. Giovando, Eric P. Gabel, Caroline R. Duncan, Travis A. Dahl, Summary of ground-based snow measurements for the Northeastern United States, Engineer Research and Development Center, 2022
    DOI: 10.21079/11681/44122
  • Oliveira, A.W., Wang, J., Perno, C. et al. The Backyard Weather Science Curriculum: Using a Weather-Observing Network to Support Data-Intensive Issue-Based Atmospheric Inquiry in Middle and High School. J Sci Educ Technol 32, 181–210 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-022-10021-0
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-022-10021-0
  • Theodore Letcher, Justin Minder, Patrick Naple, Understanding and improving snow processes in Noah-MP over the Northeast United States via the New York State Mesonet, Technical Report (Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.) 2022
    DOI: 10.21079/11681/45060
  • Jie Zhang, Alexandra Catena, Bhupal Shrestha, Jeffrey Freedman, Elizabeth McCabe, Margaret J. Schwab, Dirk Felton, John Kent, Bob Gaza, James J. Schwab. Unraveling the interaction of urban emission plumes and marine breezes involved in the formation of summertime coastal high ozone on Long Island, Environmental Science: Atmospheres, Volume 2, pages 1438-1449, 2022
    DOI: 10.1039/D2EA00061J

2021


2020


  • Olmstead, Dan; Carroll, Juliet; Brotzge, Jerry, 2020 NEWA Annual Report for New York State Mesonet, New York State Integrated Pest Management Program, 2020
  • J. Brotzge, J. Wang, C. Thorncroft, E. Joseph, N. Bain, N. Bassill, N. Farruggio, J. Freedman, K. Hemker, D. Johnston, E. Kane, S. McKim, S. Miller, J. Minder, P. Naples, S. Perez, J. J. Schwab, M. J. Schwab, and J. Sicker, 2020: A Technical Overview of the New York State Mesonet Standard Network, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 1-48.
    DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0220.1
  • Gamarro, Harold; Ortiz, Luis; González, Jorge E, Adapting to Extreme Heat: Social, Atmospheric, and Infrastructure Impacts of Air-Conditioning in Megacities—The Case of New York City, ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities, Volume 1, Issue 3. 2020
    DOI: 10.1115/1.4048175
  • WUNSCH, MATTHEW S; FRENCH, MICHAEL M, Delayed Tornadogenesis Within New York State Severe Storms, Journal of Operational Meteorology, Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages 79-92. 2020
    DOI: 10.15191/nwajom.2020.0806
  • Eaton, Timothy T, Episodic and Continuous Recharge Estimation from High‐Resolution Well Records, Groundwater, Volume 58, Issue 4, Pages 511-523. 2020
  • Zhang, Jie; Lance, Sara; Marto, Joseph; Sun, Yele; Ninneman, Matthew; Crandall, Brian A; Wang, Junfeng; Zhang, Qi; Schwab, James J, Evolution of aerosol under moist and fog conditions in a rural forest environment: Insights from high‐resolution aerosol mass spectrometry, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 47, Issue 19, Pages e2020GL089714. 2020
    DOI: 10.1029/2020GL089714
  • Reilly, Lucas Andrew, Exploration of Model-Resolution Dependence of Forecasted Wind Hazards for Small Unmanned Aircraft System Operations, The University of North Dakota, 2020
  • Grushin, Alexander; Tyagi, Ankit; Gluck, Joshua; Mohseni, Seyedmohammad; Nigam, Nikhil; Klopfenstein, Mark; Lee, Robert, GUMP: General Urban Area Microclimate Predictions Tool, AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUM, Page 3213. 2020
    DOI: 10.2514/6.2020-3213
  • P. Naple, T. Letcher, J. Minder, D. Gochis, A.L. Dugger, A. Rafieeinasab, Improving Parameterizations of Snow in the National Water Model with Observations from the New York State Mesonet, to Better Simulate Snow and Streamflow in the Northeastern United States, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2020, abstract #C063-0006, Dec 2020
  • Zhang, Jie; Ninneman, Matthew; Joseph, Everette; Schwab, Margaret J; Shrestha, Bhupal; Schwab, James J, Mobile laboratory measurements of high surface ozone levels and spatial heterogeneity during LISTOS 2018: Evidence for sea breeze influence, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 125, Issue 11, Pages e2019JD031961. June 2020
    DOI: 10.1029/2019JD031961
  • A.Patrignani, N. Mohankumar, C. Redmound, E. Alvarez Santos, M. Knapp, Optimizing the Spatial Configuration of Mesoscale Environmental Monitoring Networks Using a Geometric Approach, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Volume: 37: Issue 5. May 01, 2020.
    DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0167.1
  • Hrisko, Joshua; Ramamurthy, Prathap; Melecio-Vázquez, David; Gonzalez, Jorge E, Spatiotemporal Variability of Heat Storage in Major US Cities—A Satellite-Based Analysis, Remote Sensing, Volume 13, Issue 1, Page 59. 2020
    DOI: 10.3390/rs13010059
  • Hung, W.T., Lu, C.H.S., Shrestha, B., Lin, H.C., Lin, C.A., Grogan, D., Hong, J., Ahmadov, R., James, E. and Joseph, E., 2020. The impacts of transported wildfire smoke aerosols on surface air quality in New York State: A case study in summer 2018. Atmospheric Environment, 227, p.117415.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117415
  • Dewey, Richard J, The NYISO Carbon Pricing Initiative: Helping New York Meet Its Clean Energy Goals, Natural Gas and Electricity, Volume 36, Issue 8, Pages 1-10. January 2020
    DOI: 10.1002/gas.22160
  • Hrisko, Joshua E, Toward Closing the Urban Surface Energy Balance Using Satellite Remote Sensing, The City College of New York, 2020

2019


2018


2017


  • Rios, Gabriel; Ramamurthy, Prathap, Boundary layer structure and dynamics over New York City during extreme heat events. 2017
  • Nielsen-Gammon, John W; Fipps, Guy; Caldwell, Todd; McRoberts, D Brent; Conlee, Don, Feasibility Study for Development of Statewide Evapotranspiration Network, Texas Water Development Board. 2017
  • S. Lance, M. Beth, A. Carlotn, Multiphase Chemistry: Experimental Design for Coordinated Measurement and Modeling Studies of Cloud Processing at a Mountaintop, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 98: Issue 7, Pg. ES163-ES167. July 01,2017.
    DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0015.1
  • Talmor Meir, Julie Pullen, Alan F. Blumberg, Teddy R. Holt, Paul E. Bieringer, and George Bieberbach Jr, Simulation of Airborne Transport and Dispersion for Urban Waterside Releases, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Volume 56: Issue 1, pg 27-44. January 01, 2017.
    DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0025.1
  • Alim, A., A. Joshi, F. Chen, and C. T. Lawson, 2017: Techniques for efficient detection of rapid weather changes and analysis of their impacts on a highway network. 2017 IEEE International Conf. on Big Data (BIGDATA), 3378 - 3387.
    DOI: 10.1109/BigData.2017.8258323
  • David A. R. Kristovich, Richard D. Clark, Jeffrey Frame, Bart Geerts, Kevin R. Knupp, Karen A. Kosiba, Neil F. Laird, Nicholas D. Metz, Justin R. Minder, Todd D. Sikora, W. James Steenburgh, Scott M. Steiger, Joshua Wurman, and George S. Young, The Ontario Winter Lake-Effect Systems Field Campaign: Scientific and Educational Adventures to Further Our Knowledge and Prediction of Lake-Effect Storms, Volume 98: Issue 2, Pg. 315-332. February 05, 2017.
    DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00034.1