Refereed Publications

* paper based in part on research of a current or former student (student's name in bold)

 

Greybush, S. J., T. D. Sikora, G. S. Young, Q. Mulhern, R. D. Clark, and M. L, Jurewicz, 2024: Elevated mixed layers during Great Lakes lake-effect Events: An investigation and case study from OWLeS. Mon. Wea. Rev., 152, 79-95.

 

Parish, T. R., R. D. Clark, and T. D. Sikora, 2020: Nocturnal destabilization associated with the summertime Great Plains low-level jet. Mon. Wea. Rev., 148, 4641-4656.

 

*Eipper, D. T., S. J. Greybush, G. S. Young, S. Saslo, T. D. Sikora, and R. D. Clark, 2019: Lake-effect snowbands in baroclinic environments. Wea. Forecasting, 34, 1657-1674.

 

*Eipper, D. T., G. S. Young, S. J. Greybush, S. Saslo, T. D. Sikora, and R. D. Clark, 2018: Predicting the inland penetration of long-lake-axis parallel snowbands. Wea. Forecasting, 33, 1435-1451.

 

Kristovich, D.A.R., R.D. Clark, J. Frame, B. Geerts, K.R. Knupp, K.A. Kosiba, N.F. Laird, N.D. Metz, J. Minder, T.D. Sikora, W.J. Steenburgh, S.M. Steiger, J. Wurman, and G.S. Young, 2017: The Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) field campaign: Scientific and educational adventures to further our knowledge and prediction of lake-effect storms. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 98, 315-332.

 

*Sikora, T. D., E. B. Wendoloski, and R. E. Marter, 2014: A climatology of precipitating open-cell convection over the northeast Gulf of Alaska. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 53, 2843-2847.

 

Jones, C. T., T. D. Sikora, P. W. Vachon, and J. R. Buckley, 2014: Ocean feature analysis using automated detection and classification of sea-surface temperature front signatures in RADARSAT-2 images. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 95, 677-679.

 

Jones, C. T., T. D. Sikora, P. W. Vachon, J. Wolfe, and B. DeTracy, 2013: Automated discrimination of certain brightness fronts in RADARSAT-2 images of the ocean surface. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 30, 2203-2215.

 

Winstead, N. S., G. S. Young, and T. D. Sikora, 2012: Demonstration of the use of synthetic aperture radar-determined wind speed in numerical weather prediction error detection. Natl. Wea. Dig., 36, 69-80.

 

*Swales, D. J., G. S. Young, T. D. Sikora, N. S. Winstead, and H. N. Shirer, 2012: Synthetic aperture radar remote sensing of shear-driven atmospheric internal gravity waves in the vicinity of a warm front. Mon. Wea. Rev., 140, 1872-1882.

 

Jones, C. T., T. D. Sikora , P. W. Vachon, and J. Wolfe, 2012: Towards automated identification of sea-surface temperature front signatures in RADARSAT-2 images. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 29, 89-102.

 

*Sikora, T. D., G. S. Young, C. M. Fisher, and M. D. Stepp, 2011: A synthetic aperture radar-based climatology of open cell convection over the northeast Pacific Ocean. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 50, 594-603.

 

*Sikora, T. D., G. S. Young, and M. J. Bettwy, 2010: Analysis of the western shore Chesapeake Bay bay-breeze. Natl. Wea. Dig., 34, 55-65.

 

DeCaria, A. J., and T. D. Sikora, 2010: Momentum advection and the gradient of a vector field: A discussion of standard notation. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 1287-1291.

 

Illari, L., J. Marshall, P. Bannon, J. Botella, R. Clark, T. Haine, A. Kumar, S. Lee, K. J. Mackin, G. A. McKinley, M. Morgan, R. Najjar, T. Sikora, A. Tandon, 2009: Weather in a Tank': exploiting laboratory experiments in the teaching of meteorology, oceanography and climate. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 90 , 1619-1632.

 

Young, G. S., T. D. Sikora, and N. S. Winstead, 2008: Mesoscale near-surface wind speed variability mapping with synthetic aperture radar. Sensors, 8, 7012-7034.

 

Sikora, T. D., C. F. Dierking, and N. S. Winstead, 2008: Summary of the North Pacific Environmental Satellite Workshop for Coastal and Marine Applications. Natl. Wea. Dig., 32, 55-60 .

 

*Young, G. S., T. D. Sikora, and C. M. Fisher, 2007: Use of MODIS and synthetic aperture radar wind speed imagery to describe the morphology of open cell convection. Can. J. Remote Sens., 33, 357-367.

Young, G. S., T. D. Sikora, and N. S. Winstead, 2007: Manual and semi-automated wind direction editing for use in the generation of synthetic aperture radar wind speed imagery. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 46, 776-790.

Sikora, T. D., G. S. Young and N. S. Winstead, 2006: A novel approach to marine wind speed assessment using synthetic aperture radar. Wea. Forecasting, 21, 109-115.

Sikora, T. D., G. S. Young, R. C. Beal, F. M. Monaldo, and P. W. Vachon, 2006:   Applications of synthetic aperture radar in marine meteorology.  Atmosphere Ocean Interactions - Volume 2, W. Perrie , Ed., WIT Press, 83-105.

Young, G. S., T. D. Sikora, and N. S. Winstead, 2005:  Use of synthetic aperture radar in fine-scale surface analysis of synoptic-scale fronts at sea.  Wea. Forecasting, 20, 311-327.

 

Sikora, T. D., and S. Ufermann, 2004:  Marine atmospheric boundary layer cellular convection and longitudinal roll vortices.  SAR Marine Users Manual, C. Jackson and J. R. Apel, Eds., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 321-330.

 

Mondaldo, F. M., and others including T. D. Sikora, 2004:  The SAR measurement of ocean surface winds:  an overview.  Proc. Second Workshop on Coastal and Marine Applications of SAR, Svalbard, Norway, 2003 September, European Space Agency SP-565, 15-32.

 

Foster, R., T. D. Sikora, and G. S. Young, 2004:  The correction of surface layer wind speeds for atmospheric stratification and height.  Proc. Second Workshop on Coastal and Marine Applications of SAR, Svalbard, Norway, 2003 September, European Space Agency SP-565, 39-47.

 

Young, G. S., and T. D. Sikora, 2003:  Mesoscale stratocumulus bands caused by Gulf Stream meanders.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 2177-2191.

 

Babin, S. M., T. D. Sikora, and N. S. Winstead, 2003:  A case study of satellite synthetic aperture radar signatures of spatially evolving atmospheric convection over the western Atlantic Ocean. Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 106, 527-546.

 

Sikora, T. D., and D. R. Thompson, 2002: Air-sea turbulence statistics from synthetic aperture radar:  An update.  Can. J. Remote Sens., 28, 517-523.

 

*Sikora, T. D., and D. M. Halverson, 2002: Multiyear observations of cloud lines associated with the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays.  J. Appl. Meteorol., 41, 825-831.  This paper was highlighted by the American Meteorological Society in the Papers of Note section of their flagship journal, The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

 

Winstead, N. S., T. D. Sikora, D. R. Thompson, and P. D. Mourad, 2002:  Direct influence of gravity waves on surface-layer stress during a cold air outbreak, as shown by synthetic aperture radar. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2764-2776.

 

*Sikora, T. D., G. S. Young, E. E. O'Marr, and R. F. Gasparovic, 2001:  Anomalous cloud lines over the mid-Atlantic Coast of the United States, Can. J. Remote Sens., 27, 320-327.

 

*Sikora, T. D., D. L. Porter, S. M. Babin, and M. D. Wisecup, 2001:  Observations of a progressive warm-fresh oceanic front and a cool-moist atmospheric front at Duck, North Carolina.  Boundary-Layer Meteorol, 100, 349-361.

 

Friedman, K. S., T. D. Sikora, W. G. Pichel, P. Clemente-Colon, and G. Hufford, 2001:  Using spaceborne synthetic aperture radar to improve marine surface analyses.  Wea. Forecasting, 16, 270-276.

 

Sikora, T. D., K. S. Friedman, W. G. Pichel, and P. Clemente-Colon, 2000:  Synthetic aperture radar as a tool for investigating polar mesoscale cyclones. Wea. Forecasting, 15, 745-758.

 

Young, G. S., T. D. Sikora, and N. S. Winstead, 2000: Inferring marine atmospheric boundary layer properties from spectral characteristics of satellite-borne SAR imagery. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 1506-1520.

 

*Sikora, T. D., D. R. Thompson, and J. C. Bleidorn, 2000:  Testing the diagnosis of marine atmospheric boundary layer structure from synthetic aperture radar. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Technical Digest, 21, 94-99.

 

Monaldo, F. M., T. D. Sikora, S. M. Babin, and R. E. Sterner, 1997:  Satellite imagery of sea surface temperature cooling in the wake of Hurricane Edouard (1996). Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 2716-2721.

 

Sikora, T. D., G. S. Young, H. N. Shirer, and R. D. Chapman, 1997: Estimating convective atmospheric boundary layer depth from microwave radar imagery of the sea surface.  J. Appl. Meteorol., 36, 833-845.

 

Sikora, T. D., 1996:  An investigation of the convective marine atmospheric boundary layer using real and synthetic aperture radar.  The Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. Dissertation.

 

Sikora, T. D., G. S. Young, R. C. Beal, and J. B. Edson, 1995:  Use of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar imagery of the sea surface in detecting the presence and structure of the convective marine atmospheric boundary layer.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 123, 3623-3632.

 

Sikora, T. D., and G. S. Young, 1994:  Observations and applications of the horizontal perturbation wind field within convective structures of the marine atmospheric surface layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 68, 419-426.

 

Sikora, T. D., and G. S. Young, 1993:  Observations of planview flux patterns within convective structures of the marine atmospheric surface layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 65, 273-288.

 

Sikora, T. D., 1992:  Air/sea flux patterns within convective structures of the marine atmospheric surface layer. The Pennsylvania State University, M.S. Thesis.