2024
Steckler, S., M. Orescanin, S. W. Powell, P. Ortiz, V. Petkovic, 2024: Scaling uncertainty quantification from patches to scenes through discontinuity-aware stitching. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., accepted.

Powell, S. W., 2024: Updraft size implications for cumulonimbus growth in a moist marine environment. J. Atmos. Sci., 81, 629-648, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-23-0065.1.

Ortiz, P., E. Casas, M. Orescanin, S. W. Powell, and V. Petkovic 2023: Bridging the microwave data gap: Using Bayesian deep learning to "see" the unseen. Env. Data Sci., revised.

2023
Ortiz, P. E. Casas, M. Orescanin, S. W. Powell, V. Petkovic, and M. Hall, 2023: Uncertainty calibration of passive microwave brightness temperatures predicted by Bayesian deep learning. J. Artif. Intell. Earth. Syst., 2, e220056, https://doi.org/10.1175/AIES-D-22-0056.1.

2022
Ortiz, P., B. Marsh, M. Orescanin, V. Petkovic, and S. W. Powell, 2022: Decomposing satellite-based classification uncertainties in large Earth science datasets. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 60, 1-11. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2022.3152516.

Wolding, B. O., S. W. Powell, J. Dias, M. Gehne, G. N. Kiladis, F. Ahmed, and J. D. Neelin, 2022: Tropical thermodynamic-convection coupling in observations and reanalyses. J. Atmos. Sci., doi:10.1175/JAS-D-21-0256.1.

Powell, S. W., 2022: Criticality in the shallow-to-deep transition of simulated tropical marine convection. J. Atmos. Sci, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-21-0155.1.

Snide, C., Á. F. Adames, S. W. Powell, and V. C. Mayta, 2022: Large-scale moistening by adiabatic lifting during MJO initiation over the Indian Ocean. J. Climate, 35, 269-284, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0322.1.

2021
Orescanin, M., V. Petkovic, S. W. Powell, B. R. Marsh, and S. C. Heslin, 2021: Bayesian deep learning for passive microwave precipitation type estimates. IEEE: Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., doi:10.1109/LGRS.2021.3090743..

Peters, J. M., H. Morrison, G. J. Zhang, and S. W. Powell, 2021: Improving the physical basis for updraft dynamics in deep convection parameterization. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 13, doi:10.1029/2020MS002282.

Jackson, R., S. Collis, V. Louf, A. Protat, D. Wang, S. Giangrande, E. J. Thompson, B. Dolan, and S. W. Powell, 2021: The development of rainfall retrievals from radar at Darwin. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 14, 53-69, doi:10.5194/amt-14-53-2021.

Adames, Á. F., S. W. Powell, F. Ahmed, V. C. Mayta, and J. D. Neelin, 2021: Tropical precipitation evolution in a buoyancy-based framework. J. Atmos. Sci, 78, 509-528, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-20-0074.1.

2020
Wolding, B., J. Dias, G. Kiladis, F. Ahmed, S. W. Powell, E. Maloney, and M. Branson, 2020: Interactions between moisture and tropical convection. Part I: The co-evolution of moisture and convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 77, 1783-1799, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-19-0225.1.

2019
Powell, S. W., 2019: Observing possible thermodynamic controls on tropical marine rainfall in moist environments. J. Atmos. Sci., 76, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-19-0144.1.

Powell, S. W., and M. M. Bell, 2019: Near-surface frontogenesis and atmospheric instability along the U.S. East Coast during the extratropical transition of Hurricane Matthew (2016), Mon. Wea. Rev., 147, 719-732, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-18-0094.1

2018
Sakaeda, N., S. W. Powell, G. N. Kiladis, and J. Dias, 2018: The diurnal variability of precipitating cloud populations during DYNAMO, J. Atmos. Sci, 75, 1307-1326.

2017
Powell, S. W., 2017: Successive MJO Propagation in MERRA2 Reanalysis, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 5178-5186, doi:10.1002/2017GL073399.

2016
Powell, S. W., 2016: Updraft buoyancy within and moistening by cumulonimbi prior to MJO convective onset in a regional model, J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 2913-2934.

Powell, S. W., R. A. Houze, Jr., and S. R. Brodzik, 2016: Rainfall-type categorization of radar echoes using polar coordinate reflectivity data, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 33, 523-538.
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2015
Powell, S. W., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2015: Effect of dry large-scale vertical motions on initial MJO convective onset. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, 4783-4805, doi:10.1002/2014JD022961.

Powell, S. W., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2015: Evolution of convective echo top heights observed by TRMM radar over the Indian Ocean during DYNAMO. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, 3906-3913, doi:10.1002/2014JD022934.

2013
Powell, S. W., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2013: The cloud population of the Madden-Julian Oscillation over the Indian Ocean during DYNAMO-AMIE. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 11979-11995, doi:10.1002/2013JD020421.

Zeng, X, W-K. Tao, S. W. Powell, R. A. Houze, Jr., P. Ciesielski, N. Guy, H. Pierce, T. Matsui, 2013: Comparison of water budgets between AMMA and TWP-ICE clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 487-503.

2012
Powell, S. W., R. A. Houze, Jr., A. Kumar, and S. A. McFarlane, 2012: Comparison of simulated and observed continental tropical anvil clouds and their radiative heating profiles. J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 2662-2681.

2010
Nolan, D. S., S. W. Powell, C. Zhang, and B. E. Mapes, 2010: Idealized simulations of the intertropical convergence zone and its multi-level flows. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 4028-4053.

2008
Powell, S. W. and H. D. O'Hair, 2008: Communicating weather information to the public: people's reactions and understandings of weather information and terminology. Preprints, 3rd Symposium on Policy and Socioeconomic Impacts, New Orleans, LA, American Meteorological Society, P1.3.