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L. D. Carey and S. A. Rutledge, "The Relationship Between Precipitation and Lightning in Tropical Island Convection: A C-Band Polarimetric Study", Monthly Weather Review, p. 2687, vol. 128, (2000). Published,

A. J. DeCaria, K. E. Pickering, G. L. Stenchikov, J. R. Scala, J. L. Stith, J. E. Dye, B. A. Ridley, and P. Laroche, "A Cloud-Scale Model Study of Lightning-Generated NOx in an Individual Thunderstorm During STERAO-A", Journal of Geophysical Research, p. 11601, vol. 105, (2000). Published,

R. J. Doviak, V. N. Bringi, A. Ryzhkov, and D. S. Zrnic, "Polarimetric Upgrades to Operational WSR-88D Radars", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, p. 257, vol. 17, (2000). Published,

J. E. Dye et al., "An Overview of the Stratospheric-Tropospheric Experiment: Radiation, Aerosols, and Ozone (STERAO-A) - Deep Convection Experiment with Results for the July 10, 1996 Storm", Journal of Geophysical Research, p. 10023, vol. 105, (2000). Published,

E. Gorgucci, G. Scarchilli, V. Chandrasekar, and V. N. Bringi, "Rainfall Estimation from Polarimetric Radar Measurements: Composite Algorithms Immune to Variability in Raindrop Shape-Size Relation", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, p. 1773, vol. 18, (2001). Published,

E. Gorgucci, G. Scarchilli, V. Chandrasekar, and V. N. Bringi, "Measurement of Mean Raindrop Shape from Polarimetric Radar Observations", Journal of Atmospheric Science, p. 3406, vol. 57, (2000). Published,

E. Gorgucci, V. Chandrasekar, G. Scarchilli, and S. Bolen, "Variation of Mean Raindrop Shape Derived from Polarimetric Radar Measurements", Journal of Atmospheric Research, p. 283, vol. 59-60, (2001). Published,

J. Hubbert and V. N. Bringi, "The Effects of Three-Body Scattering on Differential Relflectivity Signatures", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, p. 51, vol. 17, (2000). Published,

P. C. Kennedy, S. A. Rutledge, W. A. Petersen, and V. N. Bringi, "Polarimetric Observations of Hail Formation", Journal of Applied Meteorology, p. 1347, vol. 40, (2001). Published,

T. J. Lang, S. A. Rutledge, J. E. Dye, M. Venticinque, P. Laroche, and E. Defer, "Anomalously Low Negative Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flash Rates in Intense Convective Storms Observed During STERAO-A", Monthly Weather Review, p. 160, vol. 128, (2000). Published,

H Liu and V. Chandrasekar, "Classification of Hydrometeors Based on Polarimetric Radar Measurements: Development of Fuzzy Logic and Neuro-Fuzzy Systems, and In Situ Verification", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, p. 140, vol. 17, (2000). Published,

J. E. Nachamkin, R. L. McAnelly, and W. R. Cotton, "Interactions Between a Developing Mesoscale Convective System and Its Environment. Part I: Observational Analysis", Monthly Weather Review, p. 1205, vol. 128, (2000). Published,

F. L. Ogden, H. O. Sharif, S. U. S. Senarath, J. A. Smith, M. L. Baeck, and J. R. Richardson, "Hydrologic Analysis of the Ft. Collins, Colorado Flash Flood of 1997", Journal of Hydrology, p. 82, vol. 228, (2000). Published,

W. C. Skamarock, J. Powers, M. Barth, J. E. Dye, T. Matejka, D. Bartels, K. Baumann, J. Stith, D. D. Parrish, and G. Hubler, "Numerical Simulations of the 10 July STERAO/Deep Convection Experiment Convective System: Dynamics and Transport", Journal of Geophysical Research, p. 19973, vol. 105, (2000). Published, J. M. Straka, D. S. Zrnic, A. V. Ryzhkov, "Bulk Hydrometeor Classification and Quantification Using Polarimetric Radar Data: Synthesis of Relations", Journal of Applied Meteorology, p. 1341, vol. 39, (2000). Published,

V. N. Bringi, V. Chandrasekar, J. Hubbert, E. Gorgucci, W. L. Randeu and M. Schoenhuber, "Raindrop Size Distribution in Different Climatic Regimes from Disdrometer and Dual-Polarized Radar Analysis", Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, p. 354, vol. 60, (2003). Published,

L. D. Carey, S. A. Rutledge, and W. A. Petersen, "The Relationship Between Severe Storm Reports and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Polarity in the Contiguous United States from 1989-98", Monthly Weather Review, p. , vol. , ( ). Accepted,

L. D. Carey and S. A. Rutledge, "Some Characteristics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in Severe and Non-Severe Thunderstorms over the Central United States from 1989-98", Journal of Geophysical Research, p. , vol. , ( ). Accepted,

E. Gorgucci, V. Chandrasekar, V. N. Bringi, and G. Scarchilli, "Estimation of Raindrop Size Distribution Parameters from Polarimetric Radar Measurements", Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, p. 2373, vol. 59, (2002). Published,

J. Hubbert, V. N. Bringi, and D. Brunkow, "Studies of the Polarimetric Covariance Matrix, Part I: Calibration Methodology", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, p. , vol. , (2002). Accepted,

P. C. Kennedy and A. G. Detwiler, "A Case Study of the Origin of Hail in a Multicell Thunderstorm Using In Situ Aircraft and Polarimetric Radar Data", Journal of Applied Meteorology, p. 1679, vol. 42, (2003). Published,

T. J. Lang and S. A. Rutledge, "Relationships Between Convective Storm Kinematics, Microphysics, and Lightning", Monthly Weather Review, p. 2492, vol. 130, (2002). Published,

R. D. Roberts and S. A. Rutledge, "Nowcasting Thunderstorm Initiation and Growth Using GOES-8 and WSR-88D Data", Weather and Forecasting Journal, p. , vol. , (2002). Accepted,

S. A. Rutledge and V. Chandrasekar, "Some Educational Innovations in Radar Meteorology", Meteorological Monographs, p. 259, vol. 30, (2003). Published,

Bolen, S. M., and V. Chandrasekar, "Methodology for Aligning and Comparing Spaceborne Radar and Ground-Based Radar Observations.", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, p. 647, vol. 20, (2003). Published,

Bringi, V. N., V. Chandrasekar, D. Zrnic, and C. W. Ulbrich, "The Need to Represent Raindrop Size Spectra as Normalized Gamma Distributions for the Interpretation of Polarization Radar Observations.", Journal of Applied Meteorology, p. 1184, vol. 42, (2003). Published,

Chandrasekar, V., R. Meneghini, and I. Zawadski, "Global and Local Precipitation Measurements by Radar", Meteorological Monographs, p. 215, vol. 30, (2003). Published,

Cifelli, R., N. J. Doesken, P. C. Kennedy, L. D. Carey, S. A. Rutledge, T. Depue, and C. Gimmestad, "The Community Collaborative Rain and Hail Study: An Informal Education Project Involving Scientists and Local Citizens", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, p. , vol. , (2004). Accepted,

Lang, T. J., S. A. Rutledge, and J. Stith, "Observations of Quasi-Symmetric Echo Patterns in Clear Air with the CSU-CHILL Polarimetric Radar", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, p. 1182, vol. 21, (2004). Published,

Lang, T. J., S. A. Rutledge, and K. C. Wiens, "Origins of Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flashes in the Stratiform Region of a Mesoscale Convective System", Geophysical Research Letters, p. 1029, vol. 31, (2004). Published,

Lang, T. J., J. Miller, M. Weisman, S. A. Rutledge, L. J. Barker, V. N. Bringi, V. Chandrasekar, A. G. Detwiler, N. J. Doesken, J. Helsdon, C. Knight, P. Krehbiel, W. A. Lyons, D. MacGorman, E. Rasmussen, W. Rison, W. D. Rust, and R. Thomas, "The Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS)", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, p. 1107, vol. 85, (2004). Published,

Tessendorf, S. A. , L. J. Miller, K. C. Wiens, and S. A. Rutledge, "The 29 June 2000 Supercell Observed During STEPS. Part I: Kinematics and Microphysics", Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, p. 4127, vol. 62, (2005). Published,

Wiens, K. C., S. A. Rutledge, and S. A. Tessendorf, "The 29 June 2000 Supercell Observed During STEPS. Part II: Lightning and Charge Structure", Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, p. 4151, vol. 62, (2005). Published,

Baldini, L., E. Gorgucci, and V. Chandrasekar, "Methodology for C-band Polarimetric Radars", Proceedings of ERAD (2004), p. 62, vol. , (2004). Published,

Wang, Y., V. Chandrasekar, and V.N. Bringi,, "Characterization and Evaluation of Hybrid Polarization Observation of Precipitation.", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, p. 552, vol. 23, (2006). Published,

Lang, T.J., and S.A. Rutledge, "Cloud to Ground Lightning Downwind of the 2002 Hayman Forest Fire in Colorado.", Geophysical Research Letters, p. L03804, vol. 33, (2005). Published,

Depue, T.K., P.C. Kennedy, and S.A. Rutledge, "The Performance of the Hail Differential Reflectivity (HDR) Polarimetric Radar Hail Indicator", Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, p. , vol. , ( ). Submitted,

Sergy Matrosov, Robert Cifelli, Patrick C. kennedy, Steven W. Nesbitt, Steven A. Rutledge, V. N. Bringi, and Brooks E. Martner, "A Comparative Study of Rainfall Retrievals based on Specific Differential Phase Shifts at S- and X- band Radar Frequencies", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, p. 952, vol. 23, (2006). Published,

Chandrasekar, V., A. Hou, E. Smith, V.N. Bringi, S.A. Rutledge, and E. Gorgucci, "Use of Dual Polarization radar in Validation of Satellite Precipitation Measurements: Rationale and Opportunities", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, p. , vol. , ( ). Submitted,

Books or Other One-time Publications V. N. Bringi and V. Chandrasekar, "Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar", (2001). Book, Published Bibliography: Cambridge University Press, 662 pages