As of: 12 August 2008

FORMAL PUBLICATIONS - Charles A. Doswell III

[* - not yet appeared]

A. Lead-authored publications

  1. Doswell, C.A. III, and S.A. Tegtmeier (1973): Rotating clouds at Norman, Oklahoma. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 53, 1180.
  2. ______, and J.T. Schaefer (1976): On the relationship of cirrus clouds to the jet stream. Mon. Wea. Rev., 104, 105-106.
  3. ______ (1977): Obtaining meteorologically significant surface divergence fields through the filtering property of objective analysis. Mon. Wea. Rev., 105, 885-892.
  4. ______ (1980): Synoptic scale environments associated with High Plains severe thunderstorms. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 61, 1388-1400.
  5. ______, L.R. Lemon and R.A. Maddox (1981): Forecaster training - A review and analysis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 61, 983-988.
  6. ______ (1984): A kinematic analysis of frontogenesis associated with a nondivergent vortex. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 1241-1248.
  7. ______ (1986): The human element in weather forecasting. Nat. Wea. Dig., 11, No. 2, 6-18.
  8. ______ (1987): The distinction between large-scale and mesoscale contribution to severe convection: A case study example. Wea. Forecasting, 2, 3-16.
  9. ______, and D.W. Burgess (1988): On some issues of United States tornado climatology. Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 495-501.
  10. ______, and F. Caracena (1988): Derivative estimation from marginally-sampled vector point functions. J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 242-253.
  11. ______, and J.A. Flueck (1989): Forecasting and verifying in a field research project: DOPLIGHT '87. Wea. Forecasting, 4, 97-109.
  12. ______, R. Davies-Jones and D.L. Keller (1990): On summary measures of skill in rare event forecasting based on contingency tables. Wea. Forecasting, 5, 576-585.
  13. ______ (1991): A review for forecasters on the application of hodographs to forecasting severe thunderstorms. Nat. Wea. Dig., 15, No. 1, 2-16.
  14. ______ (1991): A point of clarification about area and energy on common thermodynamic diagrams. Wea. Forecasting, 6, 299-301.
  15. ______ (1992): Forecaster workstation design: Issues and concepts. Wea. Forecasting, 7, 398-407.
  16. ______, and E.N. Rasmussen (1994): The effect of neglecting the virtual temperature correction on CAPE calculations. Wea. Forecasting, 9, 625-629.
  17. ______, H.E. Brooks and R.A. Maddox (1996): Flash flood forecasting: An ingredients-based methodology. Wea. Forecasting, 11, 560-581. [winner: NSSL Outstanding Scientific Paper Award, January 1999]
  18. ______, and S.G. Lasher-Trapp (1997): On measuring the degree of irregularity in an observing network. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 13, 120-132.
  19. ______, and H.E. Brooks (1998): Budget-cutting and the value of weather services. Wea. Forecasting, 13, 206-212.
  20. ______, C. Ramis, R. Romero and S. Alonso (1998): A diagnostic study of three heavy precipitation episodes in the western Mediterranean. Wea. Forecasting, 13, 102-124.
  21. ______, and H.E. Brooks (1999): Case analysis of a historic killer tornado event in Kansas on 10 June 1938, Ann. Improbable Res., 5, No.3., 14-15.
  22. ______, A.R. Moller and H.E. Brooks (1999): Storm spotting and public awareness since the first tornado forecasts of 1948. Wea. Forecasting, 14, 544-557.
  23. _______, and H.E. Brooks (2002). Lessons learned from the damage produced by the tornadoes of 3 May 1999. Wea. Forecasting, 17, 611-618.
  24. ______, D.V. Baker and C.A. Liles (2002): Recognition of negative mesoscale factors for severe weather potential: A case study. Wea. Forecasting, 17, 937-954.
  25. ______, and J.S. Evans (2003): Proximity sounding analysis for derechos and supercells &endash; An assessment of similarities and differences. Atmos. Res., 58, 117-133.
  26. ______ (2003): Societal impacts of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes: Lessons learned and implications for Europe. Atmos Res., 58, 135-152.
  27. ______, and P.M. Markowski (2004): Is buoyancy a relative quantity? Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 853-863.
  28. ______ (2004): Weather forecasting by humans - Heuristics and decision-making. Wea. Forecasting, 19, 1115-1126.
  29. ______, H.E. Brooks, and M. Kay (2005): Climatological distributions of daily local nontornadic severe thunderstorm events in the United States. Wea Forecasting, 20, 577-595.
  30. ______ (2005): Progress toward developing a practical societal response to severe convection. Nat. Hazards and Earth System Sci., 5, 691-702.
  31. ______, R. Edwards,  R.L. Thompson, J.A. Hart, and K.C. Crosbie (2006): A simple and flexible method for ranking severe weather events.  Wea. Forecasting, 21, 931-951.
  32. ______, and D. M. Schultz (2006):  On the use of indices and parameters in severe forecasting severe storms.  Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor.,  1 (3), 1-22.
  33. ______ (2007): Historical overview of severe convective storms research. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 2 (1), 1-25.
  34. ______, and M.J. Haugland (2007): A comparison of two cold fronts - Effects of the planetary boundary layer on the mesoscale. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 2 (4), 1-12.
  35. ______ (2007):  Small sample size and data quality issues illustrated using tornado occurrence data.Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 2 (5), 1-16.

 

B. Other peer-reviewed publications

  1. Moller, A., C. Doswell, J. McGinley, S. Tegtmeier and R. Zipser (1974): Field observations of the Union City tornado in Oklahoma. Weatherwise, 27, 68-79.
  2. Schaefer, J.T., and C.A. Doswell III (1978): The inherent position errors in double-theodolite pibal measurements. J. Appl. Meteor., 17, 911-915.
  3. Kelly, D.R., J.T. Schaefer, R.P. McNulty, C.A. Doswell III and R.F. Abbey, Jr. (1978): An augmented tornado climatology. Mon. Wea. Rev., 106, 1172-1183.
  4. Schaefer, J.T., and C.A. Doswell III (1979): On the interpolation of a vector field. Mon. Wea. Rev., 107, 458-476.
  5. Lemon, L.R., and C.A. Doswell III (1979): Severe thunderstorm evolution and mesocyclone structure as related to tornadogenesis. Mon. Wea. Rev., 107, 1184-1197.
  6. Schaefer, J.T., D.L. Kelly, C.A. Doswell III, J.G. Galway, R.J. Williams, R.P. McNulty, L.R. Lemon, and B.D. Lambert (1980): Tornadoes: When -- where -- how often. Weatherwise, 33, 52-59.
  7. ______, and C.A. Doswell III (1980): The theory and application of antitriptic balance. Mon. Wea. Rev., 108, 746-756.
  8. Maddox, R.A., and C.A. Doswell III (1982): An examination of jetstream configurations, 500 mb vorticity advection and low level thermal advection patterns during extended periods of intense convection. Mon. Wea. Rev., 109, 184-197.
  9. ______, and ______ (1982): Forecasting severe thunderstorms: A brief consideration of some accepted techniques. Nat. Wea. Dig., 7, No. 2, 26-30.
  10. Schaefer, J.T., and C.A. Doswell III (1984): Empirical orthogonal function expansion applied to progressive tornado outbreaks. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 62, 929-936.
  11. Kelly, D.L., J.T. Schaefer and C.A. Doswell III (1985): Climatology of nontornadic severe thunderstorm events in the United States. Mon. Wea. Rev., 113, 1997-2014.
  12. Zamora, R.J., M.A. Shapiro and C.A. Doswell III (1987): Diagnosis of upper tropospheric divergence and ageostrophic wind using profiler wind observations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 115, 871-884.
  13. Setvák, M., and C.A. Doswell III (1991): The AVHRR channel 3 cloud top reflectivity of convective storms. Mon. Wea. Rev., 119, 841-847.
  14. Schwartz, B.E., and C.A. Doswell III (1991): North American rawinsonde observations: Problems, concerns, and a call to action. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 72, 1885-1896.
  15. Branick, M.L., and C.A. Doswell III (1992): An observation of the relationship between supercell structure and lightning ground strike polarity. Wea. Forecasting, 7, 143-149.
  16. Brooks, H.E., C.A. Doswell III and R.A. Maddox (1992): On the use of mesoscale and cloud-scale models in operational forecasting. Wea. Forecasting, 7, 120-132.
  17. Jincai, D., C.A. Doswell III, D.W. Burgess, M.P. Foster and M.L. Branick (1992): Verification of mesoscale forecasts during MAP '88 and MAP '89. Wea. Forecasting, 7, 468-479.
  18. Johns, R.H., and C.A. Doswell III (1992): Severe local storms forecasting. Wea. Forecasting, 7, 588-612.
  19. Imy, D.A., K.J. Pence and C.A. Doswell III (1992): On the need for volumetric radar data when issuing severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings. Nat. Wea. Dig., 17, No. 4, 2-17.
  20. Brooks, H.E., C.A. Doswell III and L.J. Wicker (1993): STORMTIPE: A forecasting experiment using a three-dimensional cloud model. Wea. Forecasting, 8, 352-362.
  21. ______, and ______ (1993): New technology and numerical weather prediction: A wasted opportunity? Weather, 48, 173-177..
  22. ______, ______, and R.B. Wilhelmson (1994): On the role of the mid-tropospheric winds in the evolution and maintenance of low-level mesocyclones. Mon Wea. Rev., 122, 126-136. [winner: 1996 ERL Outstanding Scientific Paper Award]
  23. Davies, J.M., C.A. Doswell III, D.W. Burgess and J.F. Weaver (1994): Some noteworthy aspects of the Hesston, Kansas tornado family of 13 March 1990. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 1007-1017.
  24. Moller, A.R., M.P. Foster, C.A. Doswell III and G.R. Woodall (1994): The operational recognition of supercell thunderstorm environments and storm structures. Wea. Forecasting, 8, 327-347.
  25. Rasmussen, E.N., J.M. Straka, R. Davies-Jones, C.A. Doswell III, F.H. Carr, M.D. Eilts and D.R. MacGorman (1994): Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment (VORTEX). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, (995-1006).
  26. Brooks, H.E., C.A. Doswell III and J. Cooper (1994): On the environments of tornadic and non-tornadic mesocyclones. Wea. Forecasting, 9, 606-618.
  27. Sanders, F.P., and C.A. Doswell III (1995): A case for detailed surface analysis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 505-521.
  28. Carr, F.H., P.L. Spencer, C.A. Doswell III and J.D. Powell (1995): A comparison of two objective analysis techniques for profiler time-height data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 123, 2165-2180.
  29. Spencer, P.L., F.H. Carr, and C.A. Doswell III (1996): Diagnosis of an amplifying and decaying baroclinic wave using wind profiler data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 124, 209-223.
  30. Brooks, H.E., and C.A. Doswell III (1996): A comparison between measures-oriented and distributions-oriented approaches to forecast verification. Wea. Forecasting, 11, 288-303.
  31. Romero, R., C. Ramis, S. Alonso, C.A. Doswell III and D.J. Stensrud (1998): Mesoscale model simulations of three heavy precipitation events in the western Mediterranean region. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 1859-1881.
  32. Spencer, P.L., P.R. Janish and C.A. Doswell III (1999): A 4-dimensional objective analysis scheme and multi-triangle technique for wind profiler data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 279-291.
  33. Hall, T., H.E. Brooks, and C.A. Doswell III (1999): Precipitation forecasting using a neural network. Wea. Forecasting, 14, 338-345.
  34. Schultz, D.M., and C.A. Doswell III (1999): Conceptual models of upper-level frontogenesis in southwesterly and northwesterly flow. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 125, 2535-2562.
  35. Trapp, R.J., and C.A. Doswell III (2000): Radar data objective analysis. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 17, 105-120.
  36. Schultz, D.M., and C.A. Doswell III (2000): Analyzing Rocky Mountain lee cyclogenesis often associated with damaging winds. Wea. Forecasting, 15, 152-173.
  37. Romero, R., C.A. Doswell III, and C. Ramis (2000): Mesoscale numerical study of two cases of long-lived quasistationary convective systems over eastern Spain. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 3731-3751.
  38. Schultz, D.M., P.N. Schumacher and C.A. Doswell III (2000): The intricacies of instabilities. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 4143-4148.
  39. Brooks, H.E., and C.A. Doswell III (2001): Some aspects of the international climatology of tornadoes by damage. Atmos. Res., 56, 191-201.
  40. ______, and ______ (2001): Normalized damage from major tornadoes in the United States: 1890-1999. Wea. Forecasting, 16, 168-176.
  41. Evans, J., and C.A. Doswell III (2001): Examination of derecho environments using proximity soundings. Wea. Forecasting, 16, 329-342.
  42. Romero, R., C.A. Doswell III and R. Riosalido (2001): Observations and fine-grid simulations of a convection outbreak in northeastern Spain: Importance of diurnal forcing and convective cold pools. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 2157-2182.
  43. Spencer, P.L., and C.A. Doswell III (2001): A quantitative comparison between traditional and line integral methods of derivative estimation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 2538-2554.
  44. Smith, J.A., M.L. Baeck, Y. Zhang and C.A. Doswell III (2001): Extreme rainfall and flooding from supercell thunderstorms. J. Hydrometeor., 2, 469-489.
  45. Brooks, H.E., and C.A. Doswell III (2002): Deaths in the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City tornadoes from a historical perspective Wea. Forecasting, 17, 354-361.
  46. Speheger, D.A., C.A. Doswell III and G.J. Stumpf (2002): The tornadoes of 3 May 1999: Event verification in Central Oklahoma and related issues. Wea. Forecasting, 17, 362-381.
  47. Hanstrum, B.N., G.A. Mills, A. Watson, J.P. Monteverdi and C.A. Doswell III (2002): The cool-season tornadoes of California and southern Australia. Wea. Forecasting, 17, 705-722.
  48. Monteverdi, J.P., C.A. Doswell III and G.S. Lipari (2003): Shear parameter thresholds for forecasting California tornadic thunderstorms. Wea. Forecasting, 18, 357-370.
  49. Brooks, H.E., C.A. Doswell III and M. Kay (2003): Climatological estimates of local daily tornado probability for the United States. Wea. Forecasting, 18, 626-640.
  50. Setvák, M., R.M. Rabin, C.A. Doswell III, and V. Levizzani (2003): Satellite observations of convective storm top features in the 1.6 and 3.7/3.9 mm spectral bands. Atmos. Res, , 58, 607-627.
  51. Ramsay, H., and C.A. Doswell III (2005): A sensitivity study of hodograph-based methods for estimating supercell motion. Wea. Forecasting, 20, 954-970.
  52. Romero, R., M. Gaya, and C.A. Doswell III (2007): European climatology of severe convective storm environmental parameters: A test for significant tornado events. Atmos. Res., 83, 389-404.
  53. Spencer, P,L, M.A. Askelson, and C.A. Doswell III (2007):  Choosing the smoothing parameters within a multiple-pass Barnes objective analysis scheme:  A cautionary note.  J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol, 24, 713-726.
  54. Loftus, A.M., D.B. Weber, and C.A. Doswell III (2008):  Parameterized mesoscale forcing mechanisms for initiating numerically-simulated isolated multicellular convection.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 2408-2421.
  55. *Shafer, C.M., A.E. Mercer, C.A. Doswell III, M.B. Richman, and L.M. Leslie (2009):  Evaluation of WRF forecasts of tornadic and nontornadic outbreaks when initialized with synoptic-scale input.  Mon. Wea. Rev., [in press].

 

C. Textbooks, Chapters in Books, Monographs, or Encyclopedias

  1. Doswell, C.A. III (1986): Short range forecasting. Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting, Chapter 29 (P. Ray, Ed.), Amer. Meteor. Soc., 689-719.
  2. ______, and M.L. Branick (1992): Weather Merit badge pamphlet, Boy Scouts of America (Irving, Texas), 80 pp.
  3. ______, and D.W. Burgess (1993): Tornadoes and tornadic storms: A review of conceptual models. The Tornado: Its Structure, Dynamics, Hazards, and Prediction (Geophys. Monogr. 79) (C. Church, D. Burgess, C. Doswell, and R. Davies-Jones, Eds.), Amer. Geophys. Union, 161-172.
  4. ______, R.H. Johns and S.J. Weiss (1993): Tornado forecasting: A review (Invited paper). The Tornado: Its Structure, Dynamics, Hazards, and Prediction (Geophys. Monogr. 79) (C. Church, D. Burgess, C. Doswell, and R. Davies-Jones, Eds.), Amer. Geophys. Union, 557-571.
  5. Brooks, H.E., C.A. Doswell III and R.P. Davies-Jones (1993): Environmental helicity and the maintenance and evolution of low-level mesocyclones. The Tornado: Its Structure, Dynamics, Hazards, and Prediction (Geophys. Monogr. 79) (C. Church, D. Burgess, C. Doswell, and R. Davies-Jones, Eds.), Amer. Geophys. Union, 97-104.
  6. Doswell, C.A. III (1996): Thunderstorms. Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather (S. Schneider, Ed.), Oxford University Press (New York), 757-761.
  7. ______ (1996): Storms. Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather (S. Schneider, Ed.), Oxford University Press (New York), 720-723.
  8. ______ (2001): Severe convective storms -- An overview. Severe Convective Storms, Meteor. Monogr., 28, no. 50, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 1-26.
  9. ______, and L.F. Bosart (2001): Extratropical synoptic-scale processes and severe convection. Severe Convective Storms, Meteor. Monogr ., 28, no. 50, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 27-69.
  10. ______ (2002): Flooding. Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (J. Holton, J. Curry, and J. Pyle, Eds.), Academic Press (New York), 769-776.
  11. ______ (2002): Severe storms. Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (J. Holton, J. Curry, and J. Pyle, Eds.), Academic Press (New York), 2054-2061.
  12. Brooks, H., C. Doswell III, D. Dowell, R. Holle, B. Johns, D. Jorgensen, D. Schultz, D. Stensrud, S. Weiss, L. Wicker, and D. Zaras, 2003: Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Chapter 29, Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water: Dynamics, Climate, Physical Meteorology, Weather Systems, and Measurements (B. R. Colman and T. D. Potter, Eds.), John Wiley and Sons, 575-619.
  13. Doswell, C.A. III (2005): Storm systems. Chapter 27, Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences (M.G. Anderson, Ed.), John Wiley and Sons, DOI: 10.1002/0470848944.hsa029, 413-422.
  14. Doswell, C.A. III (2007): The science of storms. Adventures in Tornado Alley: The Storm Chasers (M. Hollingshead and E. Nguyen), Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 177-187.
  15. Doswell, C.A. III (2009): Severe storms. Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing (Eni Njoku, Ed.), Springer, [in press].

 

D. Comments or replies to comments

  1. Doswell, C.A. III and J.T. Schaefer (1976): Reply to comments on "On the relationship of cirrus clouds to the jet stream." Mon. Wea. Rev., 104, 1185.
  2. Weiss, S.J., C.A. Doswell III, and F.P. Ostby (1980): Comments on "Automated 12-36 hour probability forecasts of thunderstorms and severe local storms." J. Appl. Meteor., 19, 1328-1333.
  3. Doswell, C.A. III and R.A. Maddox (1982): Reply to comments on "Forecaster training - A review and analysis." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 63, 785-786.
  4. ______ and ______ (1983): Reply to comments on "Forecaster training - A review and analysis." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 64, 518.
  5. ______ (1983): Comments on "Photographic documentation of some distinctive cloud forms observed beneath a large cumulonimbus." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 64, 1389-1390.
  6. ______ (1985): Reply to comments on "A kinematic analysis of frontogenesis associated with a nondivergent vortex." J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 2076-2079.
  7. ______ (1988): Comments on "An improved technique for computing the horizontal pressure-gradient force at the earth's surface." Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 1251-1254.
  8. ______ (1989): Comments on "Vertical motion evaluation of a Colorado snowstorm from a synoptician's perspective." Wea. Forecasting, 4, 568-570.
  9. _____ (1990): Comments on "A winter mesocyclone over the midwestern United States." Wea. Forecasting, 5, 162-165.
  10. ______ (1990): Comments on "On the need for augmentation in automated surface observations." Nat. Wea. Dig., 15, No. 3. 29-30.
  11. ______, and S.L. Barnes (1991): Comments on "The theoretical, discrete, and actual response of the Barnes objective analysis scheme for one- and two-dimensional fields." Mon. Wea. Rev., 119, 1490-1492.
  12. ______ (1991): Comments on "Mesoscale convective patterns of the southern High Plains." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 72, 389-390.
  13. ______, R. Davies-Jones and D.L. Keller (1991): Reply to comments on "On summary measures of skill in rare event forecasting based on contingency tables." Wea. Forecasting, 6, 403.
  14. Schwartz, B.E., and C.A. Doswell III (1992): Reply to comments on "North American rawinsonde observations: Problems, concerns, and a call to action." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 73, 1457.
  15. Doswell, C.A. III, and H.E. Brooks (1993): Supercell thunderstorms [Comments on "How severe can a 'severe thunderstorm' be?: An investigation into two violent electrical storms in Australia"]. Weather, 48, 209-210.
  16. ______, and ______ (1993): Comments on "Anomalous cloud-to-ground lightning in an F5-tornado-producing supercell thunderstorm on 28 August 1990." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74, 2213-2218.
  17. Davies-Jones, R., C.A. Doswell III, and H.E. Brooks (1994): Comments on "Initiation and evolution of updraft rotation within an incipient supercell thunderstorm." J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 326-331.
  18. Doswell, C.A. III (1995): Comments on "Single-Doppler radar observations of a mini-supercell tornadic thunderstorm." Mon. Wea. Rev., 123, 230-234.
  19. Schultz, D.M., C.A. Doswell III and J.V. Cortinas, Jr. (2002): Comments on "An operational ingredients-based methodology for forecasting midlatitude winter season precipitation." Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 160-167.
  20. Doswell, C.A. III (2003): Comments on "Extraction of geopotential height and temperature structure from profiler and rawinsonde winds." Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 1502-1503.
  21. _____ (2006):  Comments on "Contraction rate and its relationship to frontogenesis, the Lyapaunov exponent, fluid trapping, and airstream boundaries."  Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 2642-2643.
  22. ______ (2007):  Comments on "A preliminary study of severe wind-producing MCSs in environments of limited moisture."  Wea. Forecasting, 22, 1360-1361.
  23. ______ (2008):  Comments on "The mysteries of mammatus clouds:  Observations and formative mechanisms."  J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 1093-1094.
  24. Brooks, H.E., C.A. Doswell III, and D. Sutter (2008):  Comments on "Low-level winds in tornadoes and potential catastrophic tornado impacts in urban areas." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, 87-90.