Ronald Leeper

Leeper, R. D., Bilotta, R., Petersen, B., Stiles, C. J., Heim, R., Fuchs, B., … Ansari, S. (2022, April 25). Characterizing US drought over the past 20 years using the US drought monitor. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7653

Moreno, C., Sugg, J., Runkle, J., Leeper, R. D., Perry, L. B., & Sugg, M. (2022, February 15). Examining spatiotemporal trends of drought in the conterminous United States using self-organizing maps. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2022.2035891

Nelson, B. R., Prat, O. P., & Leeper, R. D. (2021). An Investigation of NEXRAD-Based Quantitative Precipitation Estimates in Alaska. REMOTE SENSING. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13163202

Leeper, R. D., Matthews, J. L., Cesarini, M. S., & Bell, J. E. (2021). Evaluation of Air and Soil Temperatures for Determining the Onset of Growing Season. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006171

Leeper, R. D., Petersen, B., Palecki, M. A., & Diamond, H. (2021). Exploring the Use of Standardized Soil Moisture as a Drought Indicator. JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-20-0275.1

Prat, O. P., Nelson, B. R., Nickl, E., & Leeper, R. D. (2021). Global Evaluation of Gridded Satellite Precipitation Products from the NOAA Climate Data Record Program. JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0246.1

Nelson, B. R., Prat, O. P., & Leeper, R. D. (2021). Using Ancillary Information from Radar-Based Observations and Rain Gauges to Identify Error and Bias. JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0193.1

Sugg, M., Runkle, J., Leeper, R., Bagli, H., Golden, A., Handwerger, L. H., … Woolard, S. (2020). A scoping review of drought impacts on health and society in North America. CLIMATIC CHANGE. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02848-6

Lawrimore, J. H., Wuertz, D., Wilson, A., Stevens, S., Menne, M., Korzeniewski, B., … Trunk, T. (2020). Quality Control and Processing of Cooperative Observer Program Hourly Precipitation Data. JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY, 21(8), 1811–1825. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-19-0300.1

Runkle, J. D., Sugg, M. M., Leeper, R. D., Rao, Y., Matthews, J. L., & Rennie, J. J. (2020). Short-term effects of specific humidity and temperature on COVID-19 morbidity in select US cities. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140093

Leeper, R. D., Bell, J. E., & Palecki, M. A. (2019). A Description and Evaluation of US Climate Reference Network Standardized Soil Moisture Dataset. JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY, 58(7), 1417–1428. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0269.1

Leeper, R. D., Kochendorfer, J., Henderson, T. A., & Palecki, M. A. (2019). Impacts of Small-Scale Urban Encroachment on Air Temperature Observations. JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY, 58(6), 1369–1380. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-19-0002.1

Leeper, R. D., Bell, J. E., Vines, C., & Palecki, M. (2017). An evaluation of the North American regional reanalysis simulated soil moisture conditions during the 2011-13 drought period. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 18(2), 515–527. https://doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-16-0132.1

Kochendorfer, J., Rasmussen, R., Wolff, M., Baker, B., Hall, M. E., Meyers, T., … Leeper, R. (2017). The quantification and correction of wind-induced precipitation measurement errors. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21(4), 1973–1989. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1973-2017

Quintanar, A. I., Mahmood, R., Suarez, A., & Leeper, R. (2016). Atmospheric sensitivity to roughness length in a regional atmospheric model over the Ohio-Tennessee River Valley. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 128(3), 315–330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-015-0415-z

Klotzbach, P. J., Oliver, E. C. J., Leeper, R. D., & Schreck, C. J. (2016). The Relationship between the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and Southeastern New England snowfall. Monthly Weather Review, 144(4), 1355–1362. https://doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-15-0434.1

Bell, J. E., Leeper, R. D., Palecki, M. A., Coopersmith, E., Wilson, T., Bilotta, R., & Embler, S. (2015). Evaluation of the 2012 drought with a newly established national soil monitoring network. Vadose Zone Journal, 14(11). https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2015.02.0023

Leeper, R. D., & Kochendorfer, J. (2015). Evaporation from weighing precipitation gauges: Impacts on automated gauge measurements and quality assurance methods. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 8(6), 2291–2300. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2291-2015

Leeper, R. D., Palecki, M. A., & Davis, E. (2015). Methods to calculate precipitation from weighing-bucket gauges with redundant depth measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 32(6), 1179–1190. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-14-00185.1

Leeper, R. D., Rennie, J., & Palecki, M. A. (2015). Observational perspectives from US Climate Reference Network (USCRN) and Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) network: Temperature and precipitation comparison. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 32(4), 703–721. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-14-00172.1