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INCUS Publications

  • Wang, C.-W., Luo, Z. J., & Hung, H.-M., 2026: Two time scales governing convective venting of trace gases: Turnover time versus chemical lifetime. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 131, e2025JD045575. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD045575
  • Martire, P., Quinn Kostelecky, Kenza Boudad, Simone Tanelli, and Alessandro Battaglia, 2026: Attitude Profiles for Ground-path Pointing and Alignment of Radar Footprints: Application to the INCUS mission. Acta Astronautica, Volume 240, Pages 581-599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.12.019
  • Leganés, Livia J., Sai Prasanth, Andrés Navarro, Joe Turk, Gyuwon Lee, Ziad Haddad, Jennie Bukowski, Peter Marinescu, Itinderjot Singh, and Francisco J. Tapiador, 2025: Machine Learning-Based Forecasting of Ice Water Path for Storm Detection and Tracking Using Geostationary Infrared and Passive Microwave Data. Accepted at Earth and Space Science. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.174526060.08790106/v1.
  • Singh, I., J. Bukowski, P.J. Marinescu, L.D. Grant, and S.C. van den Heever, 2025: How Spatially Variable are Tropical and Subtropical Convective Environments? 52, e2025GL116613. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116613
  • Gupta, G., A. Umeyama, P.B. Karlmann, S. Durden, A. Mancini, J.K. Wolff, N.E. Chahat, J. Harrell, N. Beidleman, S. Liddle, K. Neff, J. Rodrigues, R. Perez, J. Fulton, M. Smith, and P. Focardi, 2025: Development of Multi-beam Ka-band Mesh Reflector Antenna for NASA INCUS Mission, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, available in Early Acess. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2025.3621524
  • Haddad, Z.S., and O. O. Sy, 2024: From RainCube to INCUS: Using Miniaturized Microwave Instruments to Analyze the Dynamics of Tropical Convection. IEEE Journal of Microwaves, 4, 858-870. https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2024.3438126.
  • Schulte, R.M., R.J. Chase, B. Dolan, P.J. Marinescu, D.J. Posselt, K.L. Rasmussen, and S.C. van den Heever, 2024: Unclouding the Correlations: A Principal Component Analysis of Convective Environments. Geo. Res. Lett., 51, e2024GL111732. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111732
  • Marinescu, P.J., S.C. van den Heever, L.D. Grant, J. Bukowski and Itinderjot Singh, 2024: How Much Convective Environment Subgrid Spatial Variability is Missing within Atmospheric Reanalysis Datasets? Geo. Res. Lett., 51, e2024GL111856. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111856
  • Sokolowsky, G.A., S.W. Freeman, W.K. Jones, J. Kukulies, F. Senf, P.J. Marinescu, M. Heikenfeld, K.N. Brunner, E.C. Bruning, S.C. Collis, R.C. Jackson, G.R. Leung, N. Pfeifer, B.A. Raut, S.M. Saleeby, P. Stier, and S.C. van den Heever, 2024: tobac v1.5: Introducing Fast 3D Tracking, Splits and Mergers, and Other Enhancements for Identifying and Analyzing Meteorological Phenomena. Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 5309-5330. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5309-2024.
  • Chase, R.J., B. Dolan, K.L. Rasmussen, R.M. Schulte, G.L. Stephens, F.J. Turk and S.C. van den Heever, 2025: A Multifrequency spaceborne radar perspective of deep convection. J. Appl. Met. Clim., 64, 133-145. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-24-0109.1.
  • Freeman, S.W., K. Brunner, W.K. Jones, J. Kukulies, F. Senf, P. Stier, and S.C. van den Heever, 2024: Advancing our Understanding of Cloud Processes and Their Role in the Earth System through Cloud Object Tracking. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., E297-E299. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0204.1.
  • 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, e2023GL105723.
  • Prasanth, S., Z.S. Haddad, R.C., Sawaya, O.O. Sy, M. van den Heever, T. Narayana Rao, and S. Hristova-Veleva, 2023: Quantifying the Vertical Transport in Convective Storms using Time Sequences of Radar Reflectivity Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 128, e2022JD037701. https://doi/org/10.1029/2022JD037701.
  • 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., 50, e2022GL102089. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102089.
  • 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, 1-8.

INCUS Conference Proceedings

  • 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.
  • 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.