Dolan, B., P. Kollias, S. C. van den Heever, K. L. Rasmussen, M. Oue, E. Luke, K. Lamer, B. P. Terserras, Z. Haddad, G. Stephens, and V. Chandrasekar, 2023: Time resolved reflectivity measurements of convective clouds. Geo. Res. Let. 50 (22), e2023GL105723.
van den Heever, S.C., and G.L. Stephens, 2023: How bad will future rains be? AGU Advances Commentary, In review.
Gupta, G., A. Mancini, P. Focardi, 2023: Preliminary Feed Assembly Design for INCUS, Proceedings of the Wireless Antenna and Microwave Symposium, Gandhinagar, India, June 7-10.
Takahashi, H., Z. J. Luo, G. L. Stephens, and J. Mulholland, 2023: Revisiting the Land-Ocean Contrasts in Deep Convective Cloud Intensity Using Global Satellite Observations, Geophys. Res. Lett. DOI: 10.1029/2022GL102089.
Mancini, A., N. Chahat, S. Tanelli, P. Focardi, 2023: A Multi-Beam Ka-Band Deployable Mesh Reflector Antenna for the INCUS Mission, Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Florence, Italy, March 26-31.
Mancini, A., Q. Kostelecky, P. Focardi, 2023: Uncertainty Quantification Analysis for a Ka-band Deployable Mesh Reflector for INCUS, Proceedings of the Wireless Antenna and Microwave Symposium, Gandhinagar, India, June 7-10.
Prasanth, S., Z. S. Haddad, O. O. Sy, and R. C. Sawaya, 2022: Derived Observations From
Frequently Sampled Microwave Measurements of Precipitation—Part III: Convoys of mm-Wave
Radiometers. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60, pp.1-8.
Prasanth, S., Z. Haddad, R. C. Sawaya, O. O. Sy, M. van den Heever, T. N. Rao, and S. Hristova-
Veleva, 2022: Quantifying the vertical transport in convective storms using time sequences of radar
reflectivity observations. Submitted to J. Geo. Res.
INCUS Presentations
Dolan, B., J. Bukowski, R. Chase, L. Grant, Z. Haddad, P. Kollis, P. Marinescu, M. Oue, D. Posselt, K. L. Rasmussen, R. Schulte, IT Singh, and R. Storer, and S. C. van den Heever 2023: Quantitative analysis of the dZ/dT method using ground radar observations, 40th AMS Conference on Radar Meteorology, Minnesota, MN, 28 August – 1 Sept. (Oral)
Dolan, B., S. C. van den Heever, K. L. Rasmussen, L. Grant, Z. Haddad, R. Chase, R. Schulte, P. Marinescu, P. Kollias, D. Posselt, and V. Chandrasekar, 2023: Relating radar reflectivity time-lapse to vertical momentum using ground-based radar observations. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA Dec. 11-15. (Oral)
van den Heever, S.C., and co-authors, 2023: Tropical Convection through the Lens of the INCUS Mission. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 26 April 2023, In-Person
Haddad, Z., S. Prasanth, S.C. van den Heever, P. Marinescu, S. Freeman, and D. Posselt, 2023: Parametrizing the evolution of convective updraft vertical velocities. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 26 April 2023, In-Person
Freeman, S.W., R. Schulte, G. Leung, S.C. van den Heever, 2023: Tracking Convective Storms and their Environments with the tobac Tracking Package. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 26 April 2023, In-Person
Donitz, Benjamin, et. al. (April 16 – 21, 2023). INCUS Mission Architecture and Systems Engineering Approach. COSPAR 2023, Singapore.
van den Heever, S.C., and co-authors, 2023: The INCUS Mission. Seminar, NextGEMS Storms and Science Hour, 5 April 2023, Virtual.
Marinescu, P. J., S. C. van den Heever, Z. Haddad, S. W. Freeman, D. J. Posselt,
L. D. Grant, and S. Prasanth, 2023: The Temporal Variability of Cloud Properties in Tropical, Convective Clouds. 103rd American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting. 8-12 January 2023, Denver, CO.
Kollias, P., A. Battaglia, S. A. Braun, and S. C. van den Heever, 2022: What knowledge gaps
related to convective cloud-scale dynamics and microphysics should we expect to fill with the
new spaceborne missions? AGU Fall Meeting, 12-16 December 2022, Chicago, IL.
Dolan, B., P. Kollias, S. C. van den Heever, K. L. Rasmussen, E. P. Luke, and B. P. Treserras, 2022: High-Resolution C-band Radar Observations of Convective Cores. AGU Fall Meeting, 12-16 December 2022, Chicago, IL.
Prasanth, S., Z. S. Haddad, S. W. Freeman, P. J. Marinescu, and S. C. van den Heever, 2022:
Quantifying the Nonstationarity of the Vertical Mass Transport at Convective Time Scales. AGU
Fall Meeting, 12-16 December 2022, Chicago, IL.
Schulte, R., S. C. van den Heever, D. J. Posselt, S. W. Freeman, R. Beauchamp, P. J. Marinescu, and
R. L. Storer, 2022: The Effects of Instrument Noise, Forward Model Uncertainties, and Footprint
Overlap on Simulated Measurements from INCUS. AGU Fall Meeting, 12-16 December 2022,
Chicago, IL.
van den Heever, S. C., 2022: Data, Data and More Data – An Atmospheric Scientist’s Perspective
of the Pros and Cons of the Use of Commercialized SmallSats and Instrumentation in Future
Science Missions. AGU Fall Meeting, 12-16 December 2022, Chicago, IL.
van den Heever, S. C., and co-authors, 2022: The NASA INCUS Mission. AGU Fall Meeting, 12-16
December 2022, Chicago, IL.
van den Heever, S. C., and the INCUS science team, 2022: INCUS – Investigation of Convective
Updrafts. INCUS Science Team Meeting, 11-13 October, Fort Collins, CO.
van den Heever, S. C., and the INCUS team, 2022: INCUS. Plenary Talk. 30 September 2022,
Oxford University, Oxford.
van den Heever, S. C., Z. S. Haddad, S. Tanelli, G. L. Stephens, D. J. Posselt, Y. Kim, K. L.
Rasmussen, S. T. Brown, S. A. Braun, B. Dolan, S. W. Freeman, L. D. Grant, P. Kollias, Z. Luo, G. G.
Mace, P. J. Marinescu, S. Padmanabhan, P. Partain, W. A. Petersen, S. Prasanth, S. C. Reising, R.
Schulte, C. J. Schumacher, R. Storer, and O. Sy: The NASA INCUS Mission, The 16th Conference
on Cloud Physics Remote Sensing of Clouds, AMS Collective Madison Meeting, 8-12 August
2022, Madison, Wisconsin.
Posselt, D.J., S. C. van den Heever, Z. S. Haddad, K. L. Rasmussen, G. L. Stephens, S. Tanelli, S.
Padmanabhan, and Y. Kim: The Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) Mission: Studying
Convective Motions with a Convoy of SmallSats, The 15th Satellite Meteorology Conference,
AMS Collective Madison Meeting, 8-12 August 2022, Madison, Wisconsin.
Posselt, D.J., S. C. Van Den Heever, M. Minamide, L. D. Grant, R. Storer, S. W. Freeman, P. J.
Marinescu, and K. L. Rasmussen: Examining Convection-Environment Interactions and
Designing Next Generation Convection Observing Systems using Large Ensembles of Convection
Resolving Simulations, The 25th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and
Climatology/Joint 2022 NOAA Satellite Conference SmallSats, CubeSats and Constellations for
Satellite Meteorology, AMS Collective Madison Meeting, 8-12 August 2022, Madison,
Wisconsin.
van den Heever, S. C., Z. Haddad, S. Tanelli, G. L. Stephens, D. Posselt, and co-authors, 2022: The
INCUS Mission. 10th Workshop of the International Precipitation Working Group, 13-17 June
2022, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO.
van den Heever, S. C., Z. S. Haddad, S. Tanelli, G. L. Stephens, D. J. Posselt, Y. Kim, K. L.
Rasmussen, S. T. Brown, P. Partain, S. A. Braun, B. Kahn, P. Kollias, Z. Luo, W. A. Petersen, and C.
J. Schumacher, 2022: The NASA INCUS Mission. The INCUS Mission. The Living Planet
Symposium, ESA, 23-27 May 2022, Bonn, Germany.
van den Heever, S. C., Z. Haddad, S. Tanelli, G. Stephens, D. Posselt, Y. Kim, S. Brown, S. Braun, L.
Grant, P. Kollias, Z. Luo, G. Mace, P. Marinescu, S. Padmanabhan, P. Partain, W. Petersen, S.
Prasanth, K. Rasmussen, S. Reising, and C. Schumacher and the INCUS Mission team. The INCUS
Mission. EGU, 23-27 May 2022, Vienna, Austria.
Haddad, Z., R. Sawaya, S. Prasanth, M. van den Heever, O. Sy, S. van den Heever, L. Grant, T. N.
Rao, G. Stephens, S. Hristova-Veleva, D. Posselt and R. Storer, 2022: Observation strategy of the
INCUS mission: retrieving vertical mass flux in convective storms from low-earth-orbit convois
of miniaturized microwave instruments. EGU, 23-27 May 2022, Vienna, Austria.
Tanelli, S., Z. S. Haddad, S. C. van den Heever, S. Brown, and S. C. Reising, 2022: INCUS as
RainCube and TEMPEST-D Legacy. 4S Symposium, CNES/ESA, 16-20 May 2022, Vilamoura,
Portugal.
van den Heever, S. C., 2022: The INCUS Mission. Department Seminar Series, 24 February 2022,
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.