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  1. An All-Seasons Surface Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm (sfcHCA) for the WSR-88D Radar Network

    Article • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, January 2026, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  2. Direct Assimilation of Radar Reflectivity Data in Logarithmic Scale or Power Transform?

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jacob Carlin

  3. What Can Polarimetric Radar Signatures of Developing Downbursts Reveal about Their Intensity?

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, October 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  4. Analysis of Polarimetric Radar Downburst Precursors Using Automated Storm Identification and Tracking

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, September 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  5. Diagnosis of winter precipitation types using the spectral bin model (version 1DSBM-19M): comparison of five methods using ICE-POP 2018 field experiment data

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, June 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Jacob Carlin

  6. The impact of downburst and hail on the accuracy of polarimetric radar rainfall estimation

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Jacob Carlin

  7. Diagnosis of winter precipitation types using Spectral Bin Model (SBM): Comparison of five methods using ICE-POP 2018 field experiment data

    Article • November 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Jacob Carlin

  8. Assimilation of Radar Reflectivity Data Using Parameterized Forward Operators for Improving Short‐Term Forecasts of High‐Impact Convection Events

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jacob Carlin

  9. A multi-instrument fuzzy logic boundary-layer-top detection algorithm

    Article • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Jacob Carlin

  10. Contextualizing Polarimetric Retrievals of Boundary Layer Height Using State-of-the-Art Boundary Layer Profiling

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, July 2024, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  11. A New Melting Model and Its Implementation in Parameterized Forward Operators for Polarimetric Radar Data Simulation With Double Moment Microphysics Schemes

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jacob Carlin

  12. Assimilation of Water Vapor Retrievals from ZDR Columns Using the 3DVar Method for Improving the Short-Term Prediction of Convective Storms

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, April 2024, American Meteorological Society

    Research Meteorologist Jidong Gao, Jacob Carlin

  13. A multi-instrument fuzzy logic boundary-layer top detection algorithm

    Article • December 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Jacob Carlin

  14. Improving Polarimetric Radar-Based Drop Size Distribution Retrieval and Rain Estimation Using a Deep Neural Network

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, November 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  15. Test of Power Transformation Function to Hydrometeor and Water Vapor Mixing Ratios for Direct Variational Assimilation of Radar Reflectivity Data

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, October 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  16. High‐Resolution Snowstorm Measurements and Retrievals Using Cross‐Platform Multi‐Frequency and Polarimetric Radars

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jacob Carlin

  17. Impacts of Vertical Nonuniform Beam Filling on the Observability of Secondary Ice Production due to Sublimation

    Article • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, January 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  18. Radar Retrieval Evaluation and Investigation of Dendritic Growth Layer Polarimetric Signatures in a Winter Storm

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, November 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  19. The influence of multiple groups of biological ice nucleating particles on microphysical properties of mixed-phase clouds observed during MC3E

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", September 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Jacob Carlin

  20. An efficient polarimetric radar forward operator for NWP model validation and data assimilation

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Jacob Carlin

  21. Evaluation of the COSMO model in polarimetric radar space – impact of uncertainties in model microphysics, retrievals and forward operators

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Jacob Carlin

  22. Evaluation of the COSMO model (v5.1) in polarimetric radar space – impact of uncertainties in model microphysics, retrievals and forward operators

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, January 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Jacob Carlin

  23. The influence of multiple groups of biological ice nucleating particles on microphysical properties of mixed-phase clouds observed during MC3E

    Article • January 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Jacob Carlin

  24. Multi-channel Imager Algorithm (MIA): A novel cloud-top phase classification algorithm

    Article • Atmospheric Research, October 2021, Elsevier

    Jacob Carlin

  25. Evaluation of the COSMO model (v5.1) in polarimetric radar space – Impact of uncertainties in model microphysics, retrievals, and forward operator

    Article • September 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Jacob Carlin

  26. Polarimetric Observations and Simulations of Sublimating Snow: Implications for Nowcasting

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, July 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  27. A New Weather-Radar Feature Shows Promise in Predicting Downbursts

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, April 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Charles Kuster, Jacob Carlin

  28. Polarimetric Radar Relations for Estimation of Visibility in Aggregated Snow

    Article • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, April 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  29. Radar reflectivity data assimilation method based on background‐dependent hydrometeor retrieval: Comparison with direct assimilation for real cases

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2021, Wiley

    Jacob Carlin

  30. HailTrack—Improving Radar-Based Hailfall Estimates by Modeling Hail Trajectories

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, March 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  31. A radar reflectivity data assimilation method based on background-dependent hydrometeor retrieval: An observing system simulation experiment

    Article • Atmospheric Research, October 2020, Elsevier

    Jacob Carlin

  32. What Polarimetric Weather Radars Offer to Cloud Modelers: Forward Radar Operators and Microphysical/Thermodynamic Retrievals

    Article • Atmosphere, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Jacob Carlin

  33. Estimation of Melting-Layer Cooling Rate from Dual-Polarization Radar: Spectral Bin Model Simulations

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, July 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  34. Assimilation of ZDR Columns for Improving the Spinup and Forecast of Convective Storms in Storm-Scale Models: Proof-of-Concept Experiments

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

    Jacob Carlin

  35. Hydrometeor Mixing Ratio Retrievals for Storm-Scale Radar Data Assimilation: Utility of Current Relations and Potential Benefits of Polarimetry

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, August 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Jacob Carlin

  36. Weather radar polarimetry

    Article • Physics Today, March 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Jacob Carlin