Eric J Nelkin
(SCIENTIST/ENGINEER)
| Email: | eric.j.nelkin@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.6311 |
| Org Code: | 612 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 612 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC |
Current Projects
GPM - Global Precipitation Measurement
Precipitation
GPCP - Global Precipitation Climatology Project
Professional Societies
American Meteorological Society
1988 - Present
Publications
Refereed
2021. "Assessment of the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) for Snowfall Retrieval in High Latitudes Using CloudSat and Machine Learning." Journal of Hydrometeorology 22 1591-1608 [10.1175/jhm-d-20-0240.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "IMERG V06: Changes to the Morphing Algorithm." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 36 (12): 2471-2482 [10.1175/jtech-d-19-0114.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Diurnal Cycle of IMERG V06 Precipitation." Geophysical Research Letters 46 (22): 13584-13592 [10.1029/2019gl085395] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "The TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) (Chapter 1)." Satellite Rainfall Applications for Surface Hydrology 3-22 [10.1007/978-90-481-2915-7_1] [Article in Book]
2009. "Comparison of GPCP Monthly and Daily Precipitation Estimates with High-Latitude Gauge Observations." J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol. 48 (9): 1843–1857 [10.1175/2009JAMC2147.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "A note on reviving the Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes (GSSTF) dataset." Adv. Atmos. Sci. 26 (6): 1071-1080 [10.1007/s00376-009-8138-z] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "The TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA): Quasi-Global, Multiyear, Combined-Sensor Precipitation Estimates at Fine Scales." J. Hydrometeor. 8 (1): 38-55 [10.1175/JHM560.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Chapter 23: Global Rainfall Analyses at Monthly and 3-hr Time Scales." Measuring Precipitation from Space: EURAINSAT and the Future 291-306 [10.1007/978-1-4020-5835-6_23] [Article in Book]
2006. "Comments on “El Niño: Catastrophe or Opportunity”." J. Climate 19 (24): 6439-6442 [10.1175/JCLI4009.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "A Comparison of Latent Heat Fluxes over Global Oceans for Four Flux Products." J. Climate 17 (20): 3973-3989 [10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3973:ACOLHF>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "The Version-2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979–Present)." J. Hydrometeor 4 (6): 1147-1167 [10.1175/1525-7541(2003)004<1147:TVGPCP>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Validation of TRMM and other rainfall estimates with a high-density gauge data set for West Africa. Part II. Validation of TRMM rainfall products." J Appl Meteor 42 1355-1368 [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Validation of TRMM and other rainfall estimates with a high-density gauge data set for West Africa Part I Validation of GPCC rainfall product and pre-TRMM satellite and blended products." J Appl Meteor 42 1337-1354 [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Surface Turbulent Heat and Momentum Fluxes over Global Oceans Based on the Goddard Satellite Retrievals, Version 2 (GSSTF2)." J. Climate 16 (20): 3256-3273 [10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<3256:STHAMF>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "Evolution of tropical and extratropical precipitation anomalies during the 1997-1999 ENSO cycle." Int. J. Climatol. 21 (8): 961-971 [10.1002/joc.643] [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "Tropical Rainfall Distributions Determined Using TRMM Combined with Other Satellite and Rain Gauge Information." J. Appl. Meteor. 39 (12): 2007-2023 [10.1175/1520-0450(2001)040<2007:TRDDUT>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
1999. "Climatic Variability of Precipitation from the Seasonal Cycle to ENSO using GPCP's Merged Data Product and SSM/I-based microwave estimates." Third International Conf on the Global Energy and Water Cycle (World Climate Resear): 535-536 [Journal Article/Letter]
1995. "Evaluation of Passive Microwave Precipitation Algorithms in Wintertime Midlatitude Situations." J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol. 12 (1): 20-32 [10.1175/1520-0426(1995)012<0020:EOPMPA>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
1994. "Regional Rainfall Climatologies Derived from Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) Data." BAMS 75 (7): 1165-1182 [10.1175/1520-0477(1994)075<1165:RRCDFS>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2011. "Highlights of Version 7 TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA)." 5th International Precipitation Working Group Workshop, Workshop Program and Proceedings, Hamburg, Germany. C. Klepp and G. Huffman, Eds. Reports on Earth System Sci., Max Planck-Institut for Meteorologie. 100/2011 109-110 [Proceedings]
2010. "A Recently Revived and Produced Global Air-Sea Surface Turbulent Fluxes Dataset - GSSTF2b: Validation and Findings." Joint 2010 CWB Weather Analysis and Forecasting & COAA 5th International Ocean-Atmosphere Conference, Taipei, Taiwan 307-312 [Proceedings]
2001. "An Introduction to New Daily and Sub-Daily Quasi-Global Combined Precipitation Estimates in TRMM and GPCP." Eighth Scientific Assembly of the Internat Assoc of Meteor and Atmos Sci 18 [Other]
2001. "Global Trends (1979-2001) in Mean and Extreme Rainfall fron New Satellite-Gauge Merged Data Set." 11th Conference on Meteorology & Ocean [Other]
2001. "A 75-Year Dataset of SSM/I-Derived Surface Turbulent Fluxes Over Global Oceans." WCRP/SCOR 245-248 [Other]
2001. "The precipitation component of ENSO." Fourth Internat Conf On the Global Energy and Water Cycle 180 [Other]
2001. "Advances in Quasi-Global Precipitation Estimates on Monthly, Daily, and Shorter Time Scales." Seventh Internat Precip Conf [Other]
2001. "Global Monthly and Daily Precipitation Analysis for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP): Global and Regional Variations and Trends." Fourth Internat Conf On the Global Energy and Water Cycle 163 [Other]
2001. "TRMM Science Highlights and Status of Precipitation Estimates on Monthly and Finer Time Scales." Eighth Scientific Assembly of the Internat Assoc of Meteor and Atmos Sci 5 [Other]
2001. "A New Fine-Scale, Quasi-Global Combined Precipitation Estimate based on TRMM." 11th Conf on Satellite Meteor & Oceanog [Other]
2001. "The Magnitude and Variability of Global and Regional Precipitation Based on the 22-Year GPCP (Global Precipitation Climatology Project) and Three-Year TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) Data Sets." Eighth Scientific Assembly of the Internat Assoc of Meteor And Atmos Sci 18 [Other]
2001. "Fine-Scale Multi-Satellite Precipitation Estimates Calibrated to TRMM." Fourth Internat Conf On the Global Energy and Water Cycle 202 [Other]
2000. "TRMM-based Merged Precipitation Analyses." AMS Annual Meeting, 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography [Other]
1999. "Comparison of TRMM and Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Precipitation Analyses." Third International Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, World Climate Research Program 487-488 [Proceedings]
1999. "Tropical Rainfall Analysis Using TRMM in Combination with Other Satellite Gauge Data: Comparison with Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Results." 79th AMS Meeting [Other]
1999. "Using Satellite Estimates of Precipitation to Identify and Monitor Climate Variability." AMS, Eighth Conference on Climate Variations [Other]
1998. "A First Comparison of Global Merged Precipitation Analyses with Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Data." Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International 4 1892 - 1894 [10.1109/IGARSS.1998.703686] [Other]
1998. "Near Real-Time Monitoring of Global Precipitation during the 1997-98 ENSO Event Using GPCP Merged Analyses and SSM/I-Based Estimates." 23rd Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop [Other]
1998. "Early Results from TRMM Combined with Information from other Satellites." COSPAR-32nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly [Other]
1998. "Evaluation of Merged Precipitation Analyses Through Comparison with TRMM Data." Sixth Internat Conf on Precip [Other]
1998. "TRMM-Based Precipitation Analyses Compared to Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Results." 23rd Annual Climate Diagnostic and Prediction Workshop [Other]
1998. "Climatological Seasonal Cycles as Depicted in Global Precipitation Data Sets." 9th Symposium on Global Change Studies 78-79 [Other]
1996. "The Diurnal Rainfall Cycle over the Equatorial Western Pacific: Implications for SSM/I Retrievals." Eighth Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Atlanta, GA 204-208 [Proceedings]
1994. "Wintertime Rainfall over the United Kingdom and Northwest Europe Derived from Satellite Microwave Data ." Seventh Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Monterey, CA. 181-184 [Proceedings]
Talks, Presentations and Posters
Invited
Evaluation of Day-1 GPROF Precipitation Estimates from the GPM Constellation Instruments
1, 2015
Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Lab Meeting, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
IMERG Operational Status (Past, Present, and Future)
August 14, 2015
2015 NASA PMM Science Team Meeting, Baltimore, MD
Initial Results from the Version 7 TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA)
October 11, 2012
Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Lab Meeting, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
NASA/GSFC Precpitation Data Products
April 2000
TRMM African Rainfall Validation Workshop, Tallahassee, FL
Other
Using New Versions of the GPCP and TMPA Data Sets to Assess Interannual Variation of Tropical Precipitation
February 2013
25th Conference on Climate Variations and Change, Austin, TX
Improvements to the TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA): Initial Results from TRMM Version 7
February 2012
18th Conf. on Sat. Meteor., Oceanog., and Climatol./1st Joint AMS-Asia Sat. Meteor. Conf., New Orleans, LA
Improving High Latitude Precipitation Esimation Using A-Train Observations
October 2010
17th Conf. on Sat. Meteor. and Oceanog., Annapolis, MD
Prospects for High-Latitude Precipitation Estimation with A-Train Satellites
February 2009
16th Conf. on Sat. Meteor. and Oceanog., Phoenix, AZ
Developing an AIRS-based Precipitation Algorithm for High-Latitude Application in Preparation for the GPM Era
March 2008
3rd NASA/JAXA International TRMM Science Conference, Las Vegas, NV
Intercomparisons of AIRS, AMSR-E, and CloudSat for Improving GPCP High-Latitude Precipitation Estimates
February 2008
20th Conf. on Climate Var. and Change, New Orleans, LA
Recent Improvements to the Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) Using AMSR and AMSU Data
October 2004
13th Conf. on Satellite Meteor. and Oceanog., Norfolk, VA