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  1. A Regionally Determined Climate‐Informed West Nile Virus Forecast Technique

    Article • GeoHealth, January 2026, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Stan Benjamin

  2. Excessive Downward Shortwave Radiation in the HRRR and RAP Weather Models and Testing Strategies for Improvements

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, November 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  3. Characterizing Near-Surface Moisture Increase during the Clear-Sky Afternoon-to-Evening Transition Using a Single-Column Model

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, July 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  4. A Regionally Determined Climate-Informed West Nile Virus Forecast Technique

    Article • March 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Stan Benjamin

  5. Depth Matters: Lake Bathymetry Selection in Numerical Weather Prediction Systems

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Stan Benjamin

  6. The 30 December 2021 Colorado Front Range Windstorm and Marshall Fire: Evolution of Surface and 3D Structure, NWP Guidance, NWS Forecasts, and Decision Support

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

    Stan Benjamin

  7. Multi‐Model Prediction of West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease With Machine Learning for Identification of Important Regional Climatic Drivers

    Article • GeoHealth, November 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Stan Benjamin

  8. Advancements in RUC Snow Model for Implementation in the Regional Application of the Unified Forecasting System (UFS)

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Stan Benjamin

  9. Inland lake temperature initialization via coupled cycling with atmospheric data assimilation

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, September 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Stan Benjamin

  10. Cover Image, Volume 9, Issue 4

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, July 2022, Wiley

    Stan Benjamin

  11. Land–Snow Data Assimilation Including a Moderately Coupled Initialization Method Applied to NWP

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, June 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  12. Forecasting lake‐/sea‐effect snowstorms, advancement, and challenges

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, April 2022, Wiley

    Stan Benjamin

  13. Inland lake temperature initialization via cycling with atmospheric data assimilation

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Stan Benjamin

  14. Inland lake temperature initialization via cycling with atmospheric data assimilation

    Article • February 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Stan Benjamin

  15. Single‐Column Validation of a Snow Subgrid Parameterization in the Rapid Update Cycle Land‐Surface Model (RUC LSM)

    Article • Water Resources Research, August 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Stan Benjamin

  16. Stratiform Cloud-Hydrometeor Assimilation for HRRR and RAP Model Short-Range Weather Prediction

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, June 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  17. Improvements to Lake-Effect Snow Forecasts Using a One-Way Air–Lake Model Coupling Approach

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2020, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  18. Recommendations for Developing Useful and Usable Convection-Allowing Model Ensemble Information for NWS Forecasters

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, August 2020, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  19. A new look at assimilation and boundary-layer modeling effects to improve NOAA ceiling/visibility/convection HRRR forecasts

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Joseph Olson, Stan Benjamin

  20. Common evaluation/evolution of cloud-radiation processes from 25km S2S to 3km NWP

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Joseph Olson, Stan Benjamin

  21. A Verification Approach Used in Developing the Rapid Refresh and Other Numerical Weather Prediction Models

    Article • Journal of Operational Meteorology, February 2020, National Weather Association

    Stan Benjamin

  22. A Scale‐Aware Parameterization for Estimating Subgrid Variability of Downward Solar Radiation Using High‐Resolution Digital Elevation Model Data

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Stan Benjamin

  23. The Impact of Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation within a Frequently Updated Regional Forecast System Using a GSI-based Ensemble Kalman Filter

    Article • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stan Benjamin

  24. The Subseasonal Experiment (SubX): A Multimodel Subseasonal Prediction Experiment

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, October 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  25. Improvement of Mountain-Wave Turbulence Forecasts in NOAA’s Rapid Refresh (RAP) Model with the Hybrid Vertical Coordinate System

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, June 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Jung-Hoon Kim, Stan Benjamin

  26. 100 Years of Progress in Forecasting and NWP Applications

    Article • Meteorological Monographs, January 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  27. Subseasonal Variability of Rossby Wave Breaking and Impacts on Tropical Cyclones during the North Atlantic Warm Season

    Article • Journal of Climate, December 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  28. Evaluating and Improving NWP Forecast Models for the Future: How the Needs of Offshore Wind Energy Can Point the Way

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, June 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Yelena L Pichugina Pichugina, Robert Banta, Stan Benjamin

  29. Subseasonal Forecasting with an Icosahedral, Vertically Quasi-Lagrangian Coupled Model. Part I: Model Overview and Evaluation of Systematic Errors

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, May 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  30. Subseasonal Forecasting with an Icosahedral, Vertically Quasi-Lagrangian Coupled Model. Part II: Probabilistic and Deterministic Forecast Skill

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, May 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  31. Offshore wind speed estimates from a high‐resolution rapidly updating numerical weather prediction model forecast dataset

    Article • Wind Energy, December 2017, Wiley

    Stan Benjamin

  32. GSI Three-Dimensional Ensemble–Variational Hybrid Data Assimilation Using a Global Ensemble for the Regional Rapid Refresh Model

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

    Stan Benjamin

  33. Assessment of NWP Forecast Models in Simulating Offshore Winds through the Lower Boundary Layer by Measurements from a Ship-Based Scanning Doppler Lidar

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

    Robert Banta, Stan Benjamin

  34. Radiance Preprocessing for Assimilation in the Hourly Updating Rapid Refresh Mesoscale Model: A Study Using AIRS Data

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, October 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  35. Observation System Experiments with the Hourly Updating Rapid Refresh Model Using GSI Hybrid Ensemble–Variational Data Assimilation

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

    Stan Benjamin

  36. Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation within the Hourly Updated Rapid Refresh

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, August 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  37. The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Overview, System Efforts, and Future Directions

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

    Stan Benjamin

  38. Evaluation of MJO Predictive Skill in Multiphysics and Multimodel Global Ensembles

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

    Stan Benjamin

  39. A Performance Comparison between Multiphysics and Stochastic Approaches within a North American RAP Ensemble

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

    Stan Benjamin

  40. A unified high-resolution wind and solar dataset from a rapidly updating numerical weather prediction model

    Article • Renewable Energy, March 2017, Elsevier

    Stan Benjamin

  41. The Influence of Topography on Convective Storm Environments in the Eastern United States as Deduced from the HRRR

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, October 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  42. Comments on “A Comparison of Temperature and Wind Measurements from ACARS-Equipped Aircraft and Rawinsondes”

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, June 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  43. Modifications to the Rapid Update Cycle Land Surface Model (RUC LSM) Available in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model

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

    Stan Benjamin

  44. NOAA's latest hourly-updated atmospheric model over North America.

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

    Stan Benjamin, Dr. Joseph Olson

  45. Explicit Precipitation-Type Diagnosis from a Model Using a Mixed-Phase Bulk Cloud–Precipitation Microphysics Parameterization

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, April 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  46. Implementation of a Digital Filter Initialization in the WRF Model and Its Application in the Rapid Refresh

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

    Stan Benjamin

  47. The Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP): A Public–Private Partnership Addressing Wind Energy Forecast Needs

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, October 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Joseph Olson, Stan Benjamin

  48. A Vertically Flow-Following Icosahedral Grid Model for Medium-Range and Seasonal Prediction. Part I: Model Description

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

    Stan Benjamin

  49. A GSI-Based Coupled EnSRF–En3DVar Hybrid Data Assimilation System for the Operational Rapid Refresh Model: Tests at a Reduced Resolution

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

    Stan Benjamin

  50. A Regional GSI-Based Ensemble Kalman Filter Data Assimilation System for the Rapid Refresh Configuration: Testing at Reduced Resolution

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  51. Predictions of 2010’s Tropical Cyclones Using the GFS and Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation Methods

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  52. The Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction: Current Status and Development

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, October 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  53. Global Ensemble Predictions of 2009’s Tropical Cyclones Initialized with an Ensemble Kalman Filter

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, February 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  54. 4-D cloud water content fields derived from operational satellite data

    Article • July 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stan Benjamin

  55. On the Use of an Adaptive, Hybrid-Isentropic Vertical Coordinate in Global Atmospheric Modeling

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, June 2010, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  56. Evaluation of Regional Aircraft Observations Using TAMDAR

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, April 2010, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  57. Relative Short-Range Forecast Impact from Aircraft, Profiler, Radiosonde, VAD, GPS-PW, METAR, and Mesonet Observations via the RUC Hourly Assimilation Cycle

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, April 2010, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  58. Convective-Scale Warn-on-Forecast System

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, October 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  59. Short-Range Forecast Impact from Assimilation of GPS-IPW Observations into the Rapid Update Cycle

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, August 2007, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  60. Short-Range Numerical Weather Prediction Using Time-Lagged Ensembles

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, June 2007, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  61. The New England High-Resolution Temperature Program

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, April 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  62. The Value of Wind Profiler Data in U.S. Weather Forecasting

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, December 2004, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  63. An Hourly Assimilation–Forecast Cycle: The RUC

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, February 2004, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  64. Mesoscale Weather Prediction with the RUC Hybrid Isentropic–Terrain-Following Coordinate Model

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, February 2004, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  65. Rapid Retrieval and Assimilation of Ground Based GPS Precipitable Water Observations at the NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory: Impact on Weather Forecasts

    Article • Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stan Benjamin

  66. A variational assimilation technique in a hybrid isentropic-sigma coordinate

    Article • Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, November 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stan Benjamin

  67. Accuracy of RUC-1 and RUC-2 Wind and Aircraft Trajectory Forecasts by Comparison with ACARS Observations

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, June 2000, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  68. Parameterization of cold‐season processes in the MAPS land‐surface scheme

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2000, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Stan Benjamin

  69. Accuracy of ACARS Wind and Temperature Observations Determined by Collocation

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, December 1999, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  70. Performance of Different Soil Model Configurations in Simulating Ground Surface Temperature and Surface Fluxes

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, August 1997, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  71. Initialization and Validation of a Simulation of Cirrus Using FIRE-II Data

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, December 1996, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  72. A Comparison of Temperature and Wind Measurements from ACARS-Equipped Aircraft and Rawinsondes

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, September 1995, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  73. Comparative Experiments with MAPS on Different Parameterization Schemes for Surface Moisture Flux and Boundary-Layer Processes

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, March 1994, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  74. Regional Weather Prediction with a Model Combining Terrain-following and Isentropic Coordinates. Part I: Model Description

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, June 1993, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  75. Impact of Network Wind Profiler Data on a 3-h Data Assimilation System

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, May 1993, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  76. A System for the Hourly Assimilation of Surface Observations in Mountainous and Flat Terrain

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 1992, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  77. An Isentropic Three-Hourly Data Assimilation System Using ACARS Aircraft Observations

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, April 1991, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  78. An Alternative Sea Level Pressure Reduction and a Statistical Comparison of Geostrophic Wind Estimates with Observed Surface Winds

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 1990, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  79. An Isentropic Mesoα-Scale Analysis System and Its Sensitivity to Aircraft and Surface Observations

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, July 1989, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  80. Some Effects of Surface Heating and Topography on the Regional Severe Storm Environment. Part I: Three-Dimensional Simulations

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, February 1986, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  81. Some Effects of Surface Heating and Topography on the Regional Severe Storm Environment. Part II: Two-Dimensional Idealized Experiments

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, February 1986, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  82. A Simple Scheme for Objective Analysis in Curved Flow

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, July 1985, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  83. Elevated Mixed Layers in the Regional Severe Storm Environment: Conceptual Model and Case Studies

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, July 1983, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  84. The Evolution of the Mesoscale Environment of Severe Local Storms: Preliminary Modeling Results

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, September 1982, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  85. Satellite Estimation of the Surface Energy Balance, Moisture Availability and Thermal Inertia

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology, January 1981, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin

  86. Radiative Heating Rates for Saharan Dust

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, January 1980, American Meteorological Society

    Stan Benjamin