2026 STAR Publications

Beierle, P. J., Iturbide-Sanchez, F., Tremblay, D., Predina, J. P., Zhang, K., Chen, Y., Johnson, D. G., Glass, S., & Strow, L. (2026). Evaluation of Redundancy Methods and Strategies for the on-Board Spectral Reference of the NOAA CrIS Instruments. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 64. [10.1109/tgrs.2026.3654416]

Cintineo, J. L., Pavolonis, M. J., Heuscher, L., & Sieglaff, J. M. (2026). The Impact of Radar Reflectivity Data in a Satellite-Based Lightning Nowcasting Model. Weather and Forecasting, 41(1), 149-168. [10.1175/waf-d-25-0067.1]

Dutt, R., Zheng, G. M., Curran, Z. C., Fick, R., Jr., Nezlin, N. P., Medina, M., He, W. C., DiGiacomo, P. M., Zare, A., & Jiang, Z. (2026). A Machine Learning Approach for Chlorophyll-a Estimation in Coastal Waters from Top-of-Atmosphere VIIRS Satellite Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 64. [10.1109/tgrs.2026.3670718]

Eakin, C. M., Heron, S. F., Connolly, S. R., Devotta, D. A., Liu, G., Geiger, E. F., De La Cour, J. L., Gomez, A. M., Skirving, W. J., Baird, A. H., Cantin, N. E., Couch, C. S., Donner, S. D., Gilmour, J., Gonzalez-Rivero, M., Gudka, M., Harrison, H. B., Hodgson, G., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Hoey, A. S., Hoogenboom, M. O., Hughes, T. P., Johnson, M. E., Kerry, J. T., Kimura, T., Mihaly, J., Muñiz-Castillo, A. I., Obura, D. O., Pratchett, M. S., Rivera-Sosa, A., Ross, C. L., Stein, J., Thompson, A., Torda, G., Viehman, T. S., Walter, C. S., Wilson, S., Marsh, B. L., Spady, B. L., Dyer, N., Adam, T. C., Alcolado, P., Alidoostsalimi, M., Alidoostsalimi, P., Alvarez-Filip, L., Alvarez-Noriega, M., Arias-González, J. E., Bahr, K. D., Barnes, P., Sandoval, J. E. B., Baum, J. K., Bauman, A. G., Beger, M., Berry, K., Bessell-Browne, P., Bigot, L., Bonito, V., Brodnicke, O. B., Burdick, D., Burkepile, D. E., Burt, A. J., Burt, J. A., Butler, I. R., Caldwell, J. M., Chancerelle, Y., Chen, C. A., Cherh, K. L., Childress, M. J., Coker, D. J., Costa, B., Coward, G., Crabbe, M. J. C., Dallison, T., Dalton, S., DeCarlo, T. M., Drury, C., Drysdale, I., Edwards, C. B., Eggertsen, L., Elma, E., Ennis, R. S., Evans, R. D., Eyal, G., Fenner, D., Figueroa-Zavala, B., Fisch, J., Fox, M. D., Gadoutsis, E., Gilbert, A., Halford, A., Heintz, T., Hewlett, J., Hobbs, J. P. A., Hoot, W. C., Houk, P., Johnston, L., Johnston, M. A., Kayanne, H., Kennedy, E. V., de Kikuchi, R. K. P., Kloiber, U., Koike, H., Kramer, K. L., Kuo, C. Y., Lang, J., Lawrence, A., Leadbeater, A., Leao, Z., Lee, J. N., Lewis, C., Lirman, D., Longo, G. O., MacDonald, C., Mallela, J., Mangubhai, S., da Silva, I. M., Mason-Parker, C., McDonough, V., McField, M., Mello, T., Miternique-Agathe, C., Madi, M., Moldzio, S., Monroe, A. A., Montefalcone, M., Moses, K. S., Mostafavi, P. G., de Moura, R. L., Munasinghe, C. S., Mwaura, J., Nakamura, T., Nicet, J. B., Nuttall, M. F., Oliveira, M. D. M., Oxenford, H. A., Pandolfi, J. M., Patankar, V., Perez, D., Perera, N., Prabuning, D., Precht, W., Raj, K. D., Reimer, J. D., Richardson, L. E., Rotjan, R., Ryan, N., Salm, R., Sandin, S. A., Schopmeyer, S., Shedrawi, G., Shokri, M. R., Smith, J. E., Smith, K., Smith, S. R., Smith, T. B., Sommer, B., Soto, M., Suckoo, R., Sykes, H., Tagarino, K. A., Teoh, M., Thai, M. Q., Toh, T. C., Tredinnick, A., Tso, A., Tyley, H., Ussi, A. M., Vargas-Angel, B., Vaterlaus, C., Vermeij, M. J. A., Vo, S. T., Voolstra, C. R., Wee, H. B., Weiler, B. A., Williams, D. E., Yahya, S. A. S., Yeemin, T., Ziegler, M., & Manzello, D. P. (2026). Severe and Widespread Coral Reef Damage During the 2014-2017 Global Coral Bleaching Event. Nature Communications, 17(1). [10.1038/s41467-025-67506-w]

Flack, D. L. A., & Pryor, K. L. (2026). The Predictability of the Southern England 23 October 2022 Severe Downbursts. Atmospheric Science Letters, 27(3). [10.1002/asl2.70024]

Hsu, C. H., Henze, D. K., Mizzi, A. P., Harkins, C., Lyu, C. M., Cooper, O. R., Schwantes, R. H., He, J., Li, M., Wang, S. Y., Stockwell, C. E., Warneke, C., Rollins, A. W., Waxman, E. M., Zuraski, K., Peischl, J., Kondragunta, S., Li, F. J., Xu, C. Y., Pierce, R. B., Abad, G. G., Nowlan, C. R., Liu, X., & McDonald, B. C. (2026). Top-Down Estimates of US Nox Emissions Using Tempo and Tropomi No2 Remote Sensing Observations with Wrf-Chem/Chem-Dart. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 131(2). [10.1029/2025jd044223]

Li, F. J., Zhang, X. Y., Cochrane, M., Kondragunta, S., & An, S. (2026). Fire Spread, Intensity, and Emissions Observations by Multiple Satellites: The Southern California Wildfires of January 2025. AGU Advances, 7(1). [10.1029/2025av002064]

Liang, X. M., Liu, Q. H., & Grassotti, C. (2026). Refining Clear-Sky Ai Radiative Transfer Model Forward Predictions and Jacobian Accuracy for ATMS Using a Resnet and Physical Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 64. [10.1109/tgrs.2026.3665759]

Lie, A. A. Y., Coffer, M. M., Van Dyke, M., Nilson, C., & Smith, J. (2026). California's Approach to Standardizing Cyanobacterial Bloom Metrics Derived from Satellite Imagery. Ecological Indicators, 182. [10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.114492]

Major, D., Prat, O. P., Nelson, B. R., Miller, D. K., Petkovic, V., Arulraj, M., & Ferraro, R. (2026). Event-Based Verification of Imerg Precipitation Estimates over Complex Terrain in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 43(3), 309-325. [10.1175/jtech-d-24-0110.1]

Mikelsons, K., & Wang, M. H. (2026). Improved Land Mask for Satellite Remote Sensing of Oceans and Inland Waters. Earth System Science Data, 18(1), 231-244. [10.5194/essd-18-231-2026]

Moradi, I., Kalluri, S., & Zhu, Y. (2026). Forward Modeling of Spaceborne Radar Observations. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 19(2), 549-563. [10.5194/amt-19-549-2026]

Mouche, A., Avenas, A., Chang, P., Chapron, B., Cevaer, T., Clement, C., Courtney, J., Febvre, Q., Foster, R. C., Grouazel, A., Hayashi, M., Horinouchi, T., Ikuta, Y., Isoguchi, O., Jackson, C. R., Jelenak, Z., Knaff, J. A., Langlade, S., Miadana, J. R., Nouguier, F., Ohki, M., Pouplin, C., Ruff, T. W., Sampson, C. R., Sapp, J., Shimada, U., Tadono, T., Tsukada, T., & Vinour, L. (2026). Fostering Tropical Cyclone Research and Applications with Synthetic Aperture Radar. Remote Sensing of Environment, 333. [10.1016/j.rse.2025.115139]

Qi, L., Wang, M. H., Hu, C. M., Xie, Y. Y., & Barnes, B. B. (2026). Hyperspectral Oci/Pace Observations of the Atlantic Sargassum. Remote Sensing of Environment, 334. [10.1016/j.rse.2025.115185]

Wagner, P., Blockley, E., Brucker, L., Dierking, W., Falkingham, J., Fleming, A., & Hughes, N. (2026). Editorial: The State of Knowledge from Operational Ice Service Perspectives: Previous and Future Mandates. [Editorial]. Frontiers in Marine Science, Volume 12 - 2025. [10.3389/fmars.2025.1764046]

Yan, B. H., Liang, D., Jin, X., Sun, N. H., Iturbide-Sanchez, F., Wu, X. Q., & Wang, L. K. (2026). Long-Term Assessment of Inter-Sensor Radiometric Biases among SNPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 OMPS Nadir, and CrIS Instruments Using the NOAA Icvs-Isensor-Rcba Portal. Remote Sensing, 18(2). [10.3390/rs18020254]

Zheng, J. Y., Yu, H. B., Zhou, Y. P., Shi, Y. X., Zhang, Z. B., Di Biagio, C., Formenti, P., & Smirnov, A. (2026). A Novel Retrieval of Global Dust Optical Depth and Effective Diameter Based on MODIS Thermal Infrared Observations. Remote Sensing of Environment, 332. [10.1016/j.rse.2025.115083]

Zheng, L. X., Pan, X. L., Qi, L., Runa, A., Xiao, Y. F., Kim, K., Liu, R. J., Cao, M. M., Song, Y. W., Ryu, J. H., & Cui, T. W. (2026). Satellite-Observed First Large-Scale Sargassum Bloom in the Northern South China Sea. Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 231, 345-356. [10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.10.041]

Chen, Y., Zhou, X. J., Jing, X., Ho, S. P., Shao, X., & Liu, T. C. (2026). Processing Multiple GNSS RO Data Using Fsi and Ropp: Results from the Romex. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 19(11), 3781-3800. [10.5194/amt-19-3781-2026]

DeCarlo, T., Jasnos, O., Strange, A., Andersson, A., Bautista, A., Bloomer, S., Bolden, I., Bosman, M., Brachert, T., Braz, G., Cardoso, G., Carricart-Ganivet, J., Carilli, J., Castillo, K., Cavole, L., Chan, S. Y., Chen, X. F., Chomitz, B., Correge, T., Courtney, T., Deigan, M., D'Olivo, J., Dunbar, R., Enochs, I., Falsarella, L., Felis, T., Gutierrez-Estrada, G., Hedger, B., Hu, S. J., Jameson, S., Jupiter, S., Kench, P., Kersting, D., Lin, K., Liu, Y. W., Lorigados, C., Manzello, D., McCulloch, M., Mies, M., Moura, R., Oberle, F., Pereira, N., Prouty, N., Ramos, R., Ren, H. J., Ryan, E., Thompson, D., Toth, L., Vergotti, M., Webster, J., & Zinke, J. (2026). CoralCache: A Virtual Coral Core Repository for Transparent and Reproducible Annual Growth Rate Analyses. Earth System Science Data, 18(5), 3341-3353. [10.5194/essd-18-3341-2026]

Iturbide-Sanchez, F., Tobin, D., Strow, L., Johnson, D. G., Zhang, K., Tremblay, D., Beierle, P. J., Taylor, J. K., Predina, J. P., Williams, Y., Malloy, R., Glass, S., & Lin, L. (2026). The NOAA-21 CrIS Sensor: A NOAA Operational Asset Providing Continuity for Weather Forecast and Environmental Monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 64. [10.1109/tgrs.2026.3698463]

Lee, J., Kim, J., Cho, Y., Lee, S., Pendergrass, D. C., Jacob, D. J., Lim, H., Jung, H. C., Myung, K. M., Kim, Y. D., Han, K. M., & Koo, J. H. (2026). Evaluation for the Machine Learning Based PM2.5 Estimation Using Different Spatial Resolution of Geostationary Satellite AOD over Megacities in Korea. Atmospheric Environment, 373. [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2026.121941]

Li, J. L. F., Lee, W. L., Xu, K. M., Jiang, J. H., Wang, Y. H., Tsai, Y. C., Ho, S. P., Yue, Q., Stephens, G., Yu, J. Y., & Chuang, H. W. (2026). Attributing Upper-Tropospheric Warm Biases in CMIP6 Models to Ice Cloud-Radiation Interaction Deficiencies over Tropical Oceans. Geophysical Research Letters, 53(9). [10.1029/2025gl120130]

Ma, Z. Z., Bormann, N., Lean, K., Duncan, D., Berbery, E. U., & Kalluri, S. (2026). Ensemble of Data Assimilation (Eda) Impact Studies in Support of NOAA's Next-Generation Microwave-Sounding Missions. Monthly Weather Review, 154(4), 687-702. [10.1175/mwr-d-25-0255.1]

Sofieva, V., Szelag, M., Kramarova, N. A., Damadeo, R., Steinbrecht, W., Petropavlovskikh, I., Vigouroux, C., Maillard Barras, E., Zawada, D., Tourpali, K., Frith, S., Wild, J., Davis, S., Arosio, C., Weber, M., Rozanov, A., Auffarth, B., Froidevaux, L., Fuller, R., Degenstein, D., Dube, K., Effertz, P., Leblanc, T., Ancellet, G., Godin-Beekmann, S., McConville, G., Querel, R., Smale, D., DeBacker, M. R., Mahieu, E., & Sussmann, R. (2026). Updated Global and Regional Trends of Stratospheric Ozone Profiles. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 26(10), 7387-7405. [10.5194/acp-26-7387-2026]

Tsukada, T., Knaff, J. A., Miller, S. D., Duran, P., & Martinez, J. (2026). Lightning Outbreaks at the Mature Stage of Tropical Cyclone: Case Study for Hurricane Dorian (2019). Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 131(9). [10.1029/2025jd046243]

Wang, M. H., Shi, W., & Jiang, L. D. (2026). Monitoring the Long-Term VIIRS Calibration Performance at the Nir and SWIR Bands for Ocean Color Remote Sensing. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 19, 14675-14688. [10.1109/jstars.2026.3681473]

Wang, P., Li, Z. L., Blackwell, W., Li, J. L., Schmit, T. J., Nagle, F. W., Cucurull, L., & Lin, L. (2026). The Added Value from the Configurable Reflectarray for Electronic Wideband Scanning Radiometry for Hurricane Ian (2022) Forecast Via a Hybrid Observing System Simulation Experiment. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 43(5), 509-525. [10.1175/jtech-d-25-0070.1]

Xue, K., Ma, R. H., Hu, M. Q., Wang, M. H., Cheng, Y., Jiang, L. D., & Huang, Z. H. (2026). Geostationary Satellite Observations Reveal Diurnal Dynamics of Particulate Organic Carbon in Optically Complex Lakes. Journal of Hydrology, 672. [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2026.135353]

Zhang, H., Kondragunta, S., & Wei, Z. G. (2026). Hourly Pm2.5 Estimates from Tempo and ABI Aerosol Retrievals Using Geographically Weighted Regression. Earth and Space Science, 13(5). [10.1029/2025ea004959]

Lee, S., Harris, A., & Smith, T. M. (2026). SST Bias Correction Using Machine Learning Methods. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 43(9), 1141-1157. [10.1175/jtech-d-25-0056.1]

Lim, A. H. N., Santek, D., Cucurull, L., Casey, S. P. F., Mueller, M. J., & Vidal, A. (2026). Observing System Simulation Experiments for Three-Dimensional Wind Fields Generated by Tracking Humidity Features in Hyperspectral Sounder Retrieved Profiles. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 43(8), 981-997. [10.1175/jtech-d-25-0100.1]

Liu, Q., & Yan, B. H. (2026). Cloud Detection of OMPS Nadir Mapper Radiance Data Using Deep Learning Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 64. [10.1109/tgrs.2026.3719137]

McCullough, W., Iturbide-Sanchez, F., Line, W., Wrotny, J., & Sivam, S. (2026). Enhancing Weather Forecasting through CrIS and IASI Imagery. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 19, 20471-20482. [10.1109/jstars.2026.3700514]

Miller, W. J., Chen, Y., Ho, S. P., & Shao, X. (2026). How Does Assimilating a Large Commercial GNSS RO Dataset Impact HAFS Hurricane Forecasts? An Evaluation in Support of the Romex Experiment. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 19(14), 4833-4851. [10.5194/amt-19-4833-2026]

Nilsson, B., Phrampus, B. J., Salajegheh, F., Lu, B., Yu, Y., Sandwell, D., Andersen, O. B., Smith, W. H. F., Elmore, P., Kirby, J. F., & Altamirano, L. (2026). Bathymetry Prediction with Swot Gravity Anomaly Using Machine Learning Methods: Paper 2-Model Evaluation and Uncertainty Analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 131(8). [10.1029/2025jb033502]

Slocum, C. J., Knaff, J. A., Sampson, C. R., & Martinez, J. (2026). Real-Time and Postseason Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimate Differences. Weather and Forecasting, 41(8), 1617-1627. [10.1175/waf-d-25-0126.1]

Wagner, T. J., Richter, J., Mateling, M., Pettersen, C., & Kulie, M. (2026). The Synoptic, Microphysical, and Radar Characteristics of Upper Great Lakes Snow Events. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 131(14). [10.1029/2026jd046349]

Yin, J. F., Zhan, X. W., Liu, J. C., Kim, J., Jeon, C. H., & Petro, G. (2026). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Soil Moisture Operational Product System: An Overview and Data Assimilation Applications. Vadose Zone Journal, 25(4). [10.1002/vzj2.70122]

Zhu, A. H., Kondragunta, S., Csiszar, I., Zhang, X. Y., Ye, Y. C., & Li, F. J. (2026). Methane Emissions from Wildfires: Trends and Anomalies. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 131(15). [10.1029/2026jd046687]

Han, Y., & Chen, Y. (2026). 7.03 - the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Overview and Validation. Comprehensive Remote Sensing (Second Edition), 34-103. [10.1016/B978-0-443-13220-9.00012-3]

Xiong, X., Butler, J., Cao, C., Wu, X., & Angal, A. (2026). 1.13 - Optical Sensors—Vis/Nir/SWIR. Comprehensive Remote Sensing (Second Edition), 348-375. [10.1016/B978-0-443-13220-9.00021-4]