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  1. Improvements in weather forecast skill over the last three years

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, December 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  2. Community Global Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) Package (CGOP): Perfect Observations Simulation Validation

    Article • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, January 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  3. Comments on “Reanalyses and Observations: What’s the Difference?”

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, November 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  4. Evaluating and Extending the Ocean Wind Climate Data Record

    Article • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ross N Hoffman

  5. An Empirical Cumulative Density Function Approach to Defining Summary NWP Forecast Assessment Metrics

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, April 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  6. A Severe Weather Quick Observing System Simulation Experiment (QuickOSSE) of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Occultation (RO) Superconstellations

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, February 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  7. Future Observing System Simulation Experiments

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, September 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  8. Observing System Simulation Experiments to Assess the Potential Impact of New Observing Systems on Hurricane Forecasting

    Article • Marine Technology Society Journal, November 2015, Marine Technology Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  9. Assimilation of Tropical Cyclone Observations: Improving the Assimilation of TCVitals, Scatterometer Winds, and Dropwindsonde Observations

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  10. Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) to Evaluate the Potential Impact of an Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar (OAWL) on Numerical Weather Prediction

    Article • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, September 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  11. Impact of assimilation window length on diurnal features in a Mars atmospheric analysis

    Article • Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Ross N Hoffman

  12. Correcting for Position Errors in Variational Data Assimilation

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, April 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  13. An Observing System Simulation Experiment for the Unmanned Aircraft System Data Impact on Tropical Cyclone Track Forecasts

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, November 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  14. Application of Feature Calibration and Alignment to High-Resolution Analysis: Examples Using Observations Sensitive to Cloud and Water Vapor

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, February 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  15. Error Estimates for Ocean Surface Winds: Applying Desroziers Diagnostics to the Cross-Calibrated, Multiplatform Analysis of Wind Speed

    Article • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, November 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  16. Ensemble-Based Exigent Analysis. Part I: Estimating Worst-Case Weather-Related Forecast Damage Scenarios

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, June 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  17. Ensemble-Based Exigent Analysis. Part II: Using Ensemble Regression to Estimate Conditions Antecedent to Worst-Case Forecast Damage Scenarios

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, June 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  18. High-Latitude Ocean and Sea Ice Surface Fluxes: Challenges for Climate Research

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, March 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Sarah T. Gille, Ross N Hoffman, Meghan F. Cronin

  19. Ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation of Thermal Emission Spectrometer temperature retrievals into a Mars GCM

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ross N Hoffman

  20. Hurricane Irene (2011) “worst-case” estimates of wind damage to property from exigent analysis of ECMWF ensemble forecasts

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ross N Hoffman

  21. Ensemble Statistics for Diagnosing Dynamics: Tropical Cyclone Track Forecast Sensitivities Revealed by Ensemble Regression

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, August 2012, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  22. A Weather and Climate Enterprise Strategic Implementation Plan for Generating and Communicating Forecast Uncertainty Information

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, December 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  23. A Cross-calibrated, Multiplatform Ocean Surface Wind Velocity Product for Meteorological and Oceanographic Applications

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, February 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  24. An ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation system for the martian atmosphere: Implementation and simulation experiments

    Article • Icarus, October 2010, Elsevier

    Ross N Hoffman

  25. An Estimate of Increases in Storm Surge Risk to Property from Sea Level Rise in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century

    Article • Weather Climate and Society, October 2010, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  26. Impact of satellite surface wind observations on ocean surface wind analyses and numerical weather prediction

    Article • August 2010, SPIE

    Ross N Hoffman

  27. Some Characteristics of Time Interpolation Errors for Fluid Flows

    Article • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, July 2010, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  28. A Simulation Study Using a Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter for Data Assimilation in New York Harbor

    Article • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, September 2008, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  29. Application of satellite surface wind data to ocean wind analysis

    Article • August 2008, SPIE

    Ross N Hoffman

  30. A New Cross-Calibrated, Multi-Satellite Ocean Surface Wind Product

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ross N Hoffman

  31. All Data are Useful, but not All Data are Used! What'S Going on Here?

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ross N Hoffman

  32. Ensemble Data Assimilation Simulation Experiments for the Coastal Ocean: Impact of Different Observed Variables

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ross N Hoffman

  33. Error Propagation of Radar Rainfall Nowcasting Fields through a Fully Distributed Flood Forecasting Model

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, June 2007, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman, Dr. Enrique Vivoni

  34. Creating Pseudo–Forecast Ensembles Statistically Using a Characterization of Displacements: A Pilot Study

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, November 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  35. Using 4d-VAR to Move a Simulated Tropical Cyclone in a Mesoscale Model

    Article • Computers & Mathematics with Applications, October 2006, Elsevier

    Ross N Hoffman

  36. Evaluating the effects of image filtering in short-term radar rainfall forecasting for hydrological applications

    Article • Meteorological Applications, August 2006, Wiley

    Ross N Hoffman, Dr. Enrique Vivoni

  37. Extending the Predictability of Hydrometeorological Flood Events Using Radar Rainfall Nowcasting

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, August 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman, Dr. Enrique Vivoni

  38. The Response of Damaging Winds of a Simulated Tropical Cyclone to Finite-Amplitude Perturbations of Different Variables

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, July 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  39. A 4D-Var study on the potential of weather control and exigent weather forecasting

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2005, Wiley

    Ross N Hoffman

  40. An Introduction to the Near–Real–Time QuikSCAT Data

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, August 2005, American Meteorological Society

    Ross N Hoffman

  41. Comparative inverse analysis of satellite (MOPITT) and aircraft (TRACE-P) observations to estimate Asian sources of carbon monoxide

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2004, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ross N Hoffman

  42. Controlling Hurricanes

    Article • Scientific American A Matter of Time, October 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ross N Hoffman

  43. Dicussion on the meeting on 'Statistical approaches to inverse problems'

    Article • Journal Of The Royal Statistical Society, August 2004, Wiley

    Ross N Hoffman

  44. Feature calibration and alignment to represent model forecast errors: Empirical regularization

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, January 2003, Wiley

    Ross N Hoffman

  45. Physically based modeling of QuikSCAT SeaWinds passive microwave measurements for rain detection

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2002, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ross N Hoffman

  46. Chapter 4 The use of satellite surface wind data to improve weather analysis and forecasting at the NASA Data Assimilation Office

    Article • January 2000, Elsevier

    Ross N Hoffman

  47. Application of EOF's to multispectral imagery: data compression and noise detection for AVIRIS

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, January 1994, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ross N Hoffman

  48. Space-based surface wind vectors to aid understanding of air-sea interactions

    Article • Eos, January 1991, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ross N Hoffman

  49. Multiprocessing algorithms for global spectral numerical weather prediction

    Article • January 1989, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ross N Hoffman

  50. Satellite remote sensing of meteorological parameters for global numerical weather prediction

    Article • Reviews of Geophysics, January 1986, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ross N Hoffman

  51. Lagged average forecasting, an alternative to Monte Carlo forecasting

    Article • Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, March 1983, Taylor & Francis

    Ross N Hoffman

  52. Lagged average forecasting, some operational considerations

    Article • January 1983, American Institute of Physics

    Ross N Hoffman