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PNNL Publications

2024

• Gaudet B.J., G. Garcia Medina, R. Krishnamurthy, L.M. Sheridan, Z. Yang, R.K. Newsom, and M.S. Pekour, et al. 2024. Assessing Impacts of Waves on Hub-Height Winds off the U.S. West Coast Using Lidar Buoys and Coupled Modeling Approaches. PNNL-35856. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Assessing Impacts of Waves on Hub-Height Winds off the U.S. West Coast Using Lidar Buoys and Coupled Modeling Approaches
• Pichugina Y., R.M. Banta, E. Strobach, B.J. Carroll, W.A. Brewer, D. Turner, and V. Wulfmeyer, et al. 2024. "Case study of a bore wind-ramp event from lidar measurements and HRRR simulations over ARM Southern Great Plains." Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 16, no. 1:Art. No. 013303. PNNL-SA-194392. doi:10.1063/5.0161905
• Sheridan L.M., R. Krishnamurthy, W.I. Gustafson, Y. Liu, B.J. Gaudet, N. Bodini, and R.K. Newsom, et al. 2024. "Offshore Low-Level Jet Observations and Model Representation Using Lidar Buoy Data off the California Coast." Wind Energy Science 9, no. 3:741-758. PNNL-SA-192096. doi:10.5194/wes-2023-152

2023

• Debnath M., P. Moriarty, R. Krishnamurthy, R.K. Newsom, N. Bodini, E. Quon, and J.K. Lundquist, et al. 2023. "Characterization of wind speed and directional shear at the AWAKEN field campaign site." Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 15, no. 3:Art. No. 033308. PNNL-SA-170841. doi:10.1063/5.0139737
• Jackson R.C., B.A. Raut, D. Dematties, S. Collis, N. Ferrier, P. Beckman, and R. Sankaran, et al. 2023. "ARMing the Edge: Designing Edge Computing-capable Machine Learning Algorithms to Target ARM Doppler Lidar Processing." Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems 2, no. 4:Art. No. 220062. PNNL-SA-185989. doi:10.1175/AIES-D-22-0062.1
• Krishnamurthy R., G. Garcia Medina, B.J. Gaudet, W.I. Gustafson, E.I. Kassianov, J. Liu, and R.K. Newsom, et al. 2023. "Year-long Buoy-Based Observations of the Air-Sea Transition Zone off the U.S. West Coast." Earth System Science Data 15, no. 12:5667-5699. PNNL-SA-182977. doi:10.5194/essd-15-5667-2023
• Tai S., L.K. Berg, R. Krishnamurthy, R.K. Newsom, and A. Kirincich. 2023. "Validation of Turbulence Intensity as Simulated by the Weather Research and Forecasting Model off the U.S. Northeast Coast." Wind Energy Science 8, no. 3:433-448. PNNL-SA-177603. doi:10.5194/wes-8-433-2023
• Wharton S., M. Brown, D.N. Dexheimer, J.D. Fast, R.K. Newsom, W. Schalk, and D.J. Wiersema. 2023. "Capturing plume behavior in complex terrain: an overview of the Nevada National Security Site Meteorological Experiment (METEX21)." Frontiers in Earth Science 11. PNNL-SA-195849. doi:10.3389/feart.2023.1251153
• Wiersema D.J., S. Wharton, R. Arthur, T. Juliano, K. Lundquist, L.G. Glascoe, and R.K. Newsom, et al. 2023. "Assessing turbulence and mixing parameterizations in the gray-zone of multiscale simulations over mountainous terrain during the METEX21 field experiment." Frontiers in Earth Science 11. PNNL-SA-188268. doi:10.3389/feart.2023.1251180

2022

• Gaudet B.J., G. Garcia Medina, R. Krishnamurthy, W.J. Shaw, L.M. Sheridan, Z. Yang, and R.K. Newsom, et al. 2022. "Evaluation of coupled wind-wave model simulations of offshore winds in the Mid-Atlantic Bight using lidar-equipped buoys." Monthly Weather Review 150, no. 6:1377-1395. PNNL-SA-161940. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-21-0166.1
• Mei F., M.S. Pekour, D. Dexheimer, G. de Boer, R. Cook, J.M. Tomlinson, and B. Schmid, et al. 2022. "Observational data from uncrewed systems over Southern Great Plains." Earth System Science Data 14, no. 7:3423-3438. PNNL-SA-170566. doi:10.5194/essd-14-3423-2022
• Sakaguchi K., L.K. Berg, J. Chen, J.D. Fast, R.K. Newsom, S. Tai, and Z. Yang, et al. 2022. "Determining Spatial Scales of Soil Moisture - Cloud Coupling Pathways using Semi-Idealized Simulations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127, no. 2:Art. No. e2021JD035282. PNNL-SA-162397. doi:10.1029/2021JD035282
• Sheridan L.M., R. Krishnamurthy, G. Garcia Medina, B.J. Gaudet, W.I. Gustafson, A.M. Mahon, and W.J. Shaw, et al. 2022. "Offshore Reanalysis Wind Speed Assessment Across the Wind Turbine Rotor Layer off the United States Pacific Coast." Wind Energy Science 7, no. 5:2059-2084. PNNL-SA-169723. doi:10.5194/wes-7-2059-2022
• Zaveri R.A., J. Wang, J. Fan, Y. Zhang, J.E. Shilling, A. Zelenyuk-Imre, and F. Mei, et al. 2022. "Rapid growth of anthropogenic organic nanoparticles greatly alters cloud life cycle in the Amazon rainforest." Science Advances 8, no. 2:Art. No. eabj0329. PNNL-SA-155974. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abj0329

2021

• Krishnamurthy R., G. Garcia Medina, B.J. Gaudet, A.M. Mahon, R.K. Newsom, W.J. Shaw, and L.M. Sheridan. 2021. "Potential of Offshore Wind Energy Off the Coast of California." In OCEANS 2021, September 20-23, San Diego, CA, 1-6. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-164552. doi:10.23919/OCEANS44145.2021.9705976
• Krishnamurthy R., R.K. Newsom, L.K. Berg, H. Xiao, P. Ma, and D.D. Turner. 2021. "On the estimation of boundary layer heights: A machine learning approach." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 14, no. 6:4403-4424. PNNL-SA-157374. doi:10.5194/amt-14-4403-2021

2020

• Newsom R.K., D.D. Turner, R. Lehtinen, C. Munkel, J. Kallio, and R. Roininen. 2020. "Evaluation of a Compact Broadband Differential Absorption Lidar for Routine Water Vapor Profiling of the Atmospheric Boundary layer." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 37, no. 1:47-65. PNNL-SA-135887. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0102.1
• Shaw W.J., J. Draher, G. Garcia Medina, A.M. Gorton, R. Krishnamurthy, R.K. Newsom, and M.S. Pekour, et al. 2020. General Analysis of Data Collected from DOE Lidar Buoy Deployments Off Virginia and New Jersey. PNNL-29823. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. doi:10.2172/1632348.General Analysis of Data Collected from DOE Lidar Buoy Deployments Off Virginia and New Jersey
• Sheridan L.M., R. Krishnamurthy, A.M. Gorton, W.J. Shaw, and R.K. Newsom. 2020. "Validation of Reanalysis-Based Offshore Wind Resource Characterization Using Lidar Buoy Observations." Marine Technology Society Journal 54, no. 6:44-61. PNNL-SA-154410. doi:10.4031/MTSJ.54.6.13
• Tai S., J.D. Fast, W.I. Gustafson, D. Chand, B.J. Gaudet, Z. Feng, and R.K. Newsom. 2020. "Simulation of Continental Shallow Cumulus Populations using an Observation-Constrained Cloud-System Resolving Model." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12, no. 9:e2020MS002091. PNNL-SA-151559. doi:10.1029/2020MS002091

2019

• Fast J.D., L.K. Berg, L. Alexander, D.M. Bell, E. D'Ambro, J.M. Hubbe, and C. Kuang, et al. 2019. "Overview of the HI-SCALE Field Campaign: A New Perspective on Shallow Convective Clouds." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100, no. 5:821-840. PNNL-SA-133582. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0030.1
• Fast J.D., L.K. Berg, Z. Feng, F. Mei, R.K. Newsom, K. Sakaguchi, and H. Xiao. 2019. "The Impact of Variable Land-Atmosphere Coupling on Convective Cloud Populations Observed During the 2016 HI-SCALE Field Campaign." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 11, no. 8:2629-2654. PNNL-SA-143151. doi:10.1029/2019MS001727
• Gorton A.M., R.K. Newsom, W.J. Shaw, and J. Draher. 2019. "Contributing to Long-term Wind Resource Characterization through Buoy-based Observations of Meteorological and Oceanographic Conditions." In OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE, October 27-31, 2019, Seattle, WA. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-147232. doi:10.23919/OCEANS40490.2019.8962727
• Shukla K.K., D.V. Phanikumar, R.K. Newsom, N. Ojha, K. NiranjanKumar, N. Singh, and S. Sharma, et al. 2019. "Investigations of vertical wind variations at a mountain top in the Himalaya using Doppler Lidar observations and model simulations." Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 183. PNNL-SA-148114. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2018.12.011

2018

• Bodini N., J.K. Lundquist, and R.K. Newsom. 2018. "Estimation of turbulence dissipation rate and its variability from sonic anemometer and wind Doppler lidar during the XPIA field campaign." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 11, no. 7:4291-4308. PNNL-SA-135886. doi:10.5194/amt-11-4291-2018
• Osman M.K., D.D. Turner, T. Heus, and R.K. Newsom. 2018. "Characteristics of Water Vapor Turbulence Profiles in Convective Boundary Layers During the Wet and Dry Seasons Over Darwin." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123, no. 10:4818-4836. PNNL-SA-125855. doi:10.1029/2017JD028060
• Turner D.D., V. Wulfmeyer, A. Behrendt, T. Bonin, A. Choukulkar, R.K. Newsom, and W.A. Brewer, et al. 2018. "Response of the Land-Atmosphere System Over North-Central Oklahoma During the 2017 Eclipse." Geophysical Research Letters 45, no. 3:1668-1675. PNNL-SA-131903. doi:10.1002/2017GL076908
• Wulfmeyer V., D. Turner, B. Baker, R.M. Banta, A. Behrendt, T. Bonin, and W.A. Brewer, et al. 2018. "A New Research Approach for Observing and Characterizing Land-Atmosphere Feedback." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 99, no. 8:1639-1667. PNNL-SA-131856. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0009.1

2017

• Berg L.K., R.K. Newsom, and D.D. Turner. 2017. "Year-Long Vertical Velocity Statistics Derived From Doppler Lidar in the Continental Convective Boundary Layer." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 56, no. 9:2441-2454. PNNL-SA-122020. doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0359.1
• Newsom R.K., W.A. Brewer, J.M. Wilczak, D. Wolfe, S.P. Oncley, and J.K. Lundquist. 2017. "Validating Precision Estimates in Horizontal Wind Measurements from a Doppler Lidar." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 10, no. 3:1229-1240. PNNL-SA-121097. doi:10.5194/amt-10-1229-2017

2016

• Lundquist J.K., J.M. Wilczak, R. Ashton, L. Bianco, A. Brewer, A. Choukulkar, and A. Clifton, et al. 2016. "Assessing state-of-the-art capabilities for probing the atmospheric boundary layer: the XPIA field campaign." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98, no. 2:289-314. PNNL-SA-115298. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00151.1
• Newman J.F., T.A. Bonin, P. Klein, S. Wharton, and R.K. Newsom. 2016. "Testing and validation of multi-lidar scanning strategies for wind energy applications." Wind Energy 19, no. 12:2239-2254. PNNL-SA-113096. doi:10.1002/we.1978
• Newsom R.K. 2016. Optimizing Lidar Wind Measurements from the DOE WindSentinel Buoys. PNNL-25512. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
• Van Weverberg K., I. Boutle, C.J. Morcrette, and R.K. Newsom. 2016. "Towards retrieving critical relative humidity from ground-based remote sensing observations." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 142, no. 700:2867-2881. PNNL-SA-115884. doi:10.1002/qj.2874

2015

• Klein P., T.A. Bonin, J.F. Newman, D.D. Turner, P.B. Chilson, C.E. Wainwright, and W.G. Blumberg, et al. 2015. "LABLE: A multi-institutional, student-led, atmospheric boundary layer experiment." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 96, no. 10:1743-1764. PNNL-SA-106207. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00267.1
• Newsom R.K., L.K. Berg, W.J. Shaw, and M. Fischer. 2015. "Turbine-scale wind field measurements using dual-Doppler lidar." Wind Energy 18, no. 2:219-235. PNNL-SA-90908. doi:10.1002/we.1691
• Shukla K.K., D.V. Phanikumar, N. Kumar, K. Reddy, V.R. Kotamarthi, R.K. Newsom, and T.B. Ouarda. 2015. "Wave like signatures in aerosol optical depth and associated radiative impacts over the central Himalayan region." Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 133. PNNL-SA-104522. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2015.08.001
• Thorsen T.J., Q. Fu, R.K. Newsom, D.D. Turner, and J.M. Comstock. 2015. "Automated retrieval of cloud and aerosol properties from the ARM Raman lidar, part 1: feature detection." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 32, no. 11:1977-1998. PNNL-SA-112638. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00150.1

2014

• Newsom R.K., L.K. Berg, M.S. Pekour, J.D. Fast, Q. Xu, P. Zhang, and Q. Yang, et al. 2014. "Evaluation of Single-Doppler Radar Wind Retrievals in Flat and Complex Terrain." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 53, no. 8:1920-1931. PNNL-SA-97861. doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0297.1
• Shukla K.K., D.V. Phanikumar, R.K. Newsom, N. Kumar, V. Ratnam, M. Naja, and N. Singh. 2014. "Estimation of the mixing layer height over a high altitude site in Central Himalayan region by using Doppler lidar." Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 109. PNNL-SA-101656. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2014.01.006

2013

• Newsom R.K., D.D. Turner, and J.M. Goldsmith. 2013. "Long-Term Evaluation of Temperature Profiles Measured by an Operational Raman Lidar." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 30, no. 8:1616-1634. PNNL-SA-88616. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00138.1
• Yang Q., L.K. Berg, M.S. Pekour, J.D. Fast, R.K. Newsom, M. Stoelinga, and C. Finley. 2013. "Evaluation of WRF predicted near hub-height winds and ramp events over a Pacific Northwest site with complex terrain." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 52, no. 8:1753-1763. PNNL-SA-91078. doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0267.1

2011

• Dupont J., M. Haeffelin, Y. Morille, J.M. Comstock, C.J. Flynn, C.N. Long, and C. Sivaraman, et al. 2011. "Cloud properties derived from two lidars over the ARM SGP site." Geophysical Research Letters 38. PNNL-SA-76764. doi:10.1029/2010GL046274
• Liu Y., Z. Wang, J. Wang, R.A. Ferrare, R.K. Newsom, and E.J. Welton. 2011. "The effect of aerosol vertical profiles on satellite-estimated surface particle sulfate concentrations." Remote Sensing of Environment 115, no. 2:508-513. PNNL-SA-78396. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.09.019

2010

• Hill M., R. Calhoun, H.S. Fernando, A. Wieser, A. Wieser, A. Dornbrack, and M. Weissmann, et al. 2010. "Coplanar Doppler Lidar Retrieval of Rotors from T-REX." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 67, no. 3:713-729. PNNL-SA-59795. doi:10.1175/2009JAS3016.1
• McMillan W.W., R. Pierce, L.C. Sparling, G. Osterman, K. McCann, M.L. Fischer, and B. Rappengluck, et al. 2010. "An Observational and modeling strategy to investigate the impact of remote sources on local air quality: A Houston, Texas case study from the Second Texas Air Quality Study (TEXAQS II)." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 115, no. D01301. PNNL-SA-68212. doi:10.1029/2009JD011973
• Newsom R.K. 2010. PNNL Nexrad Wind Retrieval System Users Guide. PNNL-19965. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. PNNL Nexrad Wind Retrieval System Users Guide

2009

• Newsom R.K., D.D. Turner, B. Mielke, M.F. Clayton, R. Ferrare, and C. Sivaraman. 2009. "Simultaneous analog and photon counting detection for Raman lidar." Applied Optics 48, no. 20:3903-3914. PNNL-SA-62493.
• Schmid B., C.J. Flynn, R.K. Newsom, D.D. Turner, R. Ferrare, M.F. Clayton, and E. Andrews, et al. 2009. "Validation of aerosol extinction and water vapor profiles from routine Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility measurements." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 114, no. D22207. PNNL-SA-67186. doi:10.1029/2009JD012682

2008

• Fast J.D., R.K. Newsom, K.J. Allwine, Q. Xu, P. Zhang, P. Zhang, and J.H. Copeland, et al. 2008. "An Evaluation of Two NEXRAD Wind Retrieval Methodologies and Their Use in Atmospheric Dispersion Models." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 47, no. 9:2351-2371. PNNL-SA-56373. doi:10.1175/2008JAMC1853.1
• Newsom R.K., R. Calhoun, D. Ligon, and K.J. Allwine. 2008. "Linearly Organized Turbulence Structures Observed Over a Suburban Area by Dual-Doppler Lidar." Boundary-Layer Meteorology 127, no. 1:111-130. PNNL-SA-53741.
• Pichugina Y.L., R.M. Banta, N.D. Kelley, B.J. Jonkman, B.J. Jonkman, S.C. Tucker, and R.K. Newsom, et al. 2008. "Horizontal-Velocity and Variance Measurements in the Stable Boundary Layer Using Doppler Lidar: Sensitivity to Averaging Procedures." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 25, no. 8:1307-1326. PNNL-SA-57257. doi:10.1175/2008JTECHA988.1
• Xia Q., C. Lin, R. Calhoun, and R.K. Newsom. 2008. "Retrieval of Urban Boundary Layer Structures from Doppler Lidar Data. Part I: Accuracy Assessment." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 65, no. 1:3-20. PNNL-SA-58046. doi:10.1175/2007JAS2328.1

2007

• Flaherty J.E., K.J. Allwine, M.J. Brown, W.J. Coirier, W.J. Coirier, S.C. Ericson, and O.R. Hansen, et al. 2007. "Evaluation study of building-resolved urban dispersion models." In 7th Symposium on the Urban Environment, 10-13 September 2007, San Diego, CA. Boston, Massachusetts:American Meteorological Society. PNNL-SA-56788. Evaluation study of building-resolved urban dispersion models
• Wang Y., C.L. Klipp, D.M. Garvey, D. Ligon, C.C. Williamson, S.S. Chang, and R.K. Newsom, et al. 2007. "Nocturnal Low-Level-Jet-Dominated Atmospheric Boundary Layer Observed by a Doppler Lidar Over Oklahoma City during JU2003." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 46, no. 12:2098-2109. PNNL-SA-59370. doi:10.1175/2006JAMC1283.1