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1 Mark L. Morrissey EDUCATION: Home Address: Work Address: School of Meteorology Storm King Road University of Oklahoma Norman, OK David L. Boren Blvd. (405) Norman, OK (405) Fax:(405) : Ph.D. (Meteorology) The University of Hawaii. Dissertation: "An Examination of the Measurability of Tropical Convection and Area Averaged Precipitation". Committee: Wan- Cheng Chiu, James C. Sadler, Thomas A. Schroeder and Edward Stroup. 1981: M.S. (Atmospheric Science) The University of Michigan. 1980: Graduate study (Meteorology) Florida State University. 1979: Undergraduate study (Meteorology) Penn State University. 1978: B.S. (Business Administration) Penn State University. Total Years As A Faculty Member at OU: 8.5 Average number of students graduated per year: 0.5 NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Received tenure after 3 years. Top 5 in the University in total grant money procurement from 1994 to 1999 ($12,076,531 in total funding within last 17 years) Established the Environmental Verification and Analysis Center and was its initial Director 48 refereed publications Chaired 1 Ph.D. student, 3 Chaired Masters students Committee member of 8 Ph.D. students and 6 Masters students Organized and was Principal Investigator (PI) of the first NASA EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) at OU; Oklahoma EPSCoR Program, $5,000,000 over 5 years ( ) PI of 28 distinct grants throughout career PI of an 18 year continuously funded project First Pacific Island Global Climate Observing Systems Coordinator, Apia Samoa ( ) Accomplishments noted by the Professional Development and Community Service by Scientists Funded by the NOAA Office of Climate Observation while on Leave w/o Pay from the University Mark Morrissey (University of Oklahoma) Served as PI-GCOS Coordinator in Apia, Samoa from January 2004 through May Accomplishments include: Formed PI-GCOS Steering Group from original PIRGIT group;

2 Organized the 10th Regional Meteorological Service Director s meeting, April, 2005, Niue; Organized PI-GCOS Steering group meeting, April, 2005 Niue; Prepared PI-GCOS side event at the 10th UNFCCC meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December Grantsmanship Summary (1991 to Present): Distinct Grants:28 Distinct Awarding Agencies: 12 Total Amount of Awards Total Awards as Principal Investigator Total Awards of Co- Principal Investigator $12,076,531 $6,299,439 $5,777,093 PRESENT POSITIONS: Associate Professor in the School of Meteorology Co-Director of the Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment, 4 employees Active Web page for SPaRCE, Director of the Comprehensive Pacific Rainfall Data Base Project. Active Web page, PAST POSITIONS: : ON LEAVE FROM OU from January 2004 through September 2005: Pacific Island Global Climate Observing System Coordinator (PI-GCOS): Principle duties included managing day to day operations of the PI-GCOS project and advocating the need for in-situ climate instrumentation owned and operated by the Pacific Island meteorological services. Refer to Responsibilities included organizing, implementing and maintaining a technical and educational support system for the Meteorological Services in South Pacific Islands. Primary results included the establishment of rainfall climate network throughout the Pacific with high temporal resolution rain gauges. Funding was through NOAA. No university related duties were required during this period : Originator and Director of the Environmental Verification and Analysis Center : Associate Professor of Geosciences : Assistant/Associate Professor of Geography (received tenure in 1996, Tenured after 3 years). 1993: Acting Director Oklahoma Climatological Survey : Assistant/Associate State Climatologist for Research in the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. 1991: Research faculty member with the Planetary Geosciences Division of the University of Hawaii : Research faculty member with the Meteorology Department of the University of Hawaii.

3 : Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research at the University of Hawaii : Research Assistant working with Dr. Colin Ramage at the University of Hawaii UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE: 2009: Executive Committee Member OU Faculty Senate Member Graduate Studies Committee - SOM Undergraduate advisor (since 2001) 2008: Member -Committee A (fall 08), Member - Undergraduate Studies Committee, Member -Graduate Studies Committee, Undergraduate Advisor 1991 to present, Member SOM Graduate Studies Vision Group 2007: Member Graduate Studies Committee - SOM : Member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee - SOM : Member Faculty Senate 2003: Member University Faculty Appeals Board 2003: Member, Campus Graduate College Misconduct Panel 1994: Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Geography Department, : Chair, Computer Resource Committee, Geography Department, : Member, Geoscience Computer Network Steering Committee, 1993 Current and Past Professional Service: Journal Article Reviewer: Atmospheric Research. Elsevier Editorial System J. Hydrometeorology, AMS J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., AMS J. Appl. Meteor. Climat., AMS Applied Engineering in Agriculture, the Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health, and Biological Engineering JGR-Atmospheres, AGU JGR-Hydrology, AGU Mon. Wea. Rev. AMS Intl. J. Remote Sensing. Wat. Resourc. Res., AGU 2009: Reviewer: NOAA's Annual State of the Climate report for 2008 and : Invited Speaker: Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Fall : Invited Speaker: March 2008: 7 th Annual Conference of the Oklahoma Sustainability Network

4 2006: Organized and Chaired the 1 st Automatic Climate Station conference held in Noumea, New Caledoina, June : Organized and Chaired the 10 th Regional Pacific Meteorological Director s meeting held in Alofi, Niue, May : Coordinator of the Pacific Island Global Climate Observing System (PI-GCOS) project 2004: Organized the PI-GCOS meeting at the UNFCCC 10 th Conference of the Parties in Buenas Aires, Argentina, December, : Editor of the Validator, a GEWEX-sponsored newsletter Present: Member of the Steering Group member of the Radio/Internet (RANET) project whose goal is to set up and maintain solar powered remote Pacific island village radio warning systems. See : Coordinated and participated in several resource manager workshops on disaster preparedness in several Pacific Island nations (Samoa, Am. Samoa, Fiji). 2002: Chair, International Precipitation Working Group, Validation Element, Madrid, Spain, August, : Coordinated and sponsored the installation of several Pacific local climate monitoring networks (Samoa, Majuro - Marshall Islands) : GEWEX International Scale Project (GCIP) representative on the Working Group for Data Management (WGDM) of the World Climate Research Programmes' Global Precipitation Climatology Project. 1999: Guest Editor of the Pacific ENSO Applications Newsletter (PEAC). 1998: Invited to the White House sponsored Workshop on the Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the Hawaii-Pacific Region: Challenges and Opportunities, East-West Center, Univ. of Hawaii, March 3-6, I996: Invited speaker to the U.S. Congress; The Southwest Drought: A Case Study in predicting Climate Extremes, Congress, Washington D.C., July 19, : Coordinator of the Algorithm Intercomparison Project 'NEXT' by the WGDM of Global Precipitation Climatology Project. Committee member of GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project s Principle Research Area (PRA). Scaling issues coordinator : Member of the American Geophysical Union's Precipitation Committee : Member of Association of American Geographers 1997: Present: Member of the American Statistical Association. 1997: Special session organizer and convener for the 1997, Spring, AGU meeting, Procedures to Validate Model and/or Remote Sensing Estimates of Precipitation

5 : Special session organizer and convener for the 1994, 1995 Spring, 1996 Fall AGU meetings, Remote Sensing of Precipitation, Observations of Precipitation and Evaporation Across a Range of Space and Time Scales. 1993: Acting Director of the Oklahoma Climate Survey (spring 1993) 1986-Present: Member of the American Meteorological Society 1986-Present: Manuscripts and proposal reviewer (JGR, AMS Journals, Prof GEOG, J. Atmos. Res., J. Theor. Appl. Clim.) RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES: Overall research interests are in the fields of tropical meteorology/climatology, satellite remote sensing and mathematical statistics as applied to meteorology/hydrology. Primary interest is in stochastic method development as applied to meteorological data, stochastic rainfall modeling and wind power resource assessment and modeling. Past efforts have included the analysis of ocean surface data sets, such as the Comprehensive Atmosphere Data Set (COADS), the TOGA TAO array of moored optical rain gauges and the existing island and atoll meteorological station data. I developed the Pacific Rainfall Data Base for which is core funded by NOAA (PACRAIN, Investigations include the development and testing of satellite algorithms, the study of physical mechanisms responsible for climate variability, the reliability of existing ocean monitoring systems, the testing of mesoscale hydrologic models, assessments of radar rainfall accuracy, and stochastic rainfall modeling over land and ocean. Proficient in the development and utilization of statistical scaling and pattern recognition techniques for application to geophysical data. Former Director and founder of the Environmental Verification and Analysis Center (EVAC, which houses the Surface Reference Data Center (a World Climate Research Programme center) and the Oklahoma Wind Power Institute. Co-Director of the research/educational outreach activity; the Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment (SPaRCE, Former Atmospheric Co-Investigator in U.S. Vice President Al Gore s Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program. EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES: Outreach Activities: Co-Director of the Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment (SPaRCE). SPaRCE is an education/research program funded by NOAA, NSF and the Dept. of Energy to both increase the data density throughout the Pacific basin and to educate Pacific Island students about global and regional climate issues. Over 140 Pacific region high schools and technical centers participate. Classes Taught at University of Oklahoma: Graduate and undergraduate courses taught include; Physical Meteorology I, Graduate Radiation, Earth System Science Modeling, Applied Climatology, Satellite Climatology, Satellite Meteorology, Analytical Methods, Data Mining and Quantitative Methods, Tropical Meteorology, Climate and Renewable Energy, Introductory Meteorology, Introduction to Physical Geography, Geostatistics, Satellite Climatology, Neural Networks for Geoscientists, Numerical Methods for Geosciences using Maple. International workshops given (sample): 10 th Regional Meeting of the Meteorological Service Directors, Niue, April, 2005, Principal Organizer and Chair.

6 Samoa Climate Workshop, Apia, Samoa, 2005 Globe Teacher training, Pago Pago, Am. Samoa, August, 2000 (organizer). Global Change and Island Environments, Koror, Republic of Palau, December Hawaii Sea Grant Pathfinder Teacher Workshop, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, August A Hands-On Student-Scientist Partnership to Study Global Climate, Majuro, Marshall Islands, August 1997(organizer). Training Workshop for the Study of Weather and Climate Around the Pacific, Majuro, Marshall Islands, August 1997 (organizer). Hawaii Sea Grant Pathfinder Teacher Workshop, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, August 1997 (organizer). The GLOBE Program, Guam, February Understanding Global Climate Change: Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, August The GLOBE Program, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, August, Majuro, Marshall Islands, July, (organizer) The Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment, The 12th Annual Pacific Educator's Conference, Pohnpei, FSM, August, (organizer) Interannual climate variability in the tropical Pacific, Hawaii Sea Grant Workshop in Majuro, Climate and Weather in the Pacific, The 12th Annual Pacific Educator's Conference, Koror, Palau, August Remote Sensing in the Classroom@, GLOBE workshop, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, June Hawaiian and regional Pacific climate and weather, presented at the Hawaii Space Grant Workshop: Exploring Planets in the Classroom, June 13-24, Honolulu, HI The Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment, presented for the Upward-Bound Program at the University of Hawaii, July 7,1994, Honolulu, HI. Pacific weather and SPaRCE, given at the 11th Annual Pacific Educator's Conference, August 13-18, 1994,Saipan. The SPaRCE program, given for the Hawaii Sea Grant Program - Oceanography and Coastal Processes in the Classroom, July 25-August 5, 1994, Honolulu, HI. Natural climate variability in the Pacific, given at the Hawaii Sea Grant Extension/NSF program - Global Environmental Education Workshop, July 18- August 3,1994, Honolulu, HI. Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral Mentoring ( During 8.5 years in academic departments) Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr. Gregory Ciach: Current Students:

7 Ethan Cook (Committee Chair), SOM, Ph.D. Angie Albers (Committee Chair), Interdisciplinary A&GS, M.S. Richard Lam (Committee Chair), SOM, M.S. Nathan Lehman (Committee Chair), SOM, M.S. Derek Rosenthal (Committee Member), Ph.D. Ph.D. Students Completed As Chair: R. Mahmood, 1999: Monsoonal rainfall variability, water stress and rainfed rice productivity in Bangladesh, Ph.D. Dissertation. Geography. Currently Associate Professor Geography Dept. University of Western Kentucky. As Ph.D. Committee Member: R. Hale: 2004: Alteration in land surface-atmosphere processes resulting from the 1988 greater Yellowstone area fires. SOM. M. E. Baldwin, 2003: Automated classification of rainfall systems using statistical characterization SOM. A. Tribble: The relationship between weather variables and electricity demand to improve shortterm load forecasting, SOM. B. Gibson, 2001: A geotechniques-based exploratory investigation of VOG impacts to the environmental system on Hawai i island, GEOS. E. Mansell, 2000: Electrification and Lightning in Simulated Supercell and Non-Supercell Thunderstorms, Physics and Astronomy V. Polzin-French, 2000: Reservoir characterization and geostatistical modeling of the west Jordan unit San Andres formation, central basin platform, Ector and Crane counties, West Texas, Geology. T. Crawford, 1995: Observational/modeling studies of the effect of small-scale variations in surface characteristics and clouds in initiation of convection on the dryline. SOM. J. S. Greene, 1994: Precipitation variability and analysis of satellite-derived rainfall using a spatial synoptic classification, Ph.D. University of Delaware, Geography. Currently Professor Geography Dept. OU. Masters Students Completed As Chair: N. I. Sviatopolk-Mirsky, 2001: Using neural networks to predict three month rainfall at Tarawa atoll with total precipitable water. SOM. J. Wang, 1994: The standard error estimation of solar radiation data for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, Master's Thesis, University of Oklahoma, SOM. Work resulted in published refereed journal article with Ms. Wang as co-author. Y. Wang, 1994: The effects of sampling error on satellite IR and Microwave rainfall estimates over the open ocean, Master's Thesis, University of Oklahoma, SOM Refereed journal paper published with Ms. Wang as co-author based partly on her research.

8 As M.S. Committee Member: J. Krause, 1998: Using the Oklahoma Mesonet to Evaluate a Practical Sampling Error Statistics for Missing data in Monthly Mean Temperature Calculations, SOM., S. Dumolt, 1996: Assessments of WSR-88D radar estimates of rainfall over Oklahoma. Geography. Michael Conley, 1995: The effect of rain gage biases on a hydrologic model, Geography. P. Robinson, 1995: Rain-rate statistics in Oklahoma for 1994 based on rain-gauge data from the Oklahoma Mesonet, SOM. J. Scott Greene, 1994: Examination of Precipitation variability and validation of satellite-based rainfall algorithm using a new spatial synoptic classification, University of Hawaii, Geography A.L. Wyatt, 1994: Estimation of area-average rain rates using WSR-88D (NEXRAD) reflectivity measurements and a dense rain gauges network, Master's Thesis, University of Oklahoma, SOM. GRANTS (current and past): Principal Investigator: : Program Support for the Assimilation, Analysis, and Dissemination of Pacific Rain Gauge data: PACRAIN, NOAA s Climate Observation Program, 5 years, (renewal), NEW: $154,000/year : The PACRAIN dataset: NOAA s Climate Observation Program, ~ $154,000/year. NOAA s Climate Observations Program Present: PI-GCOS Surface Instrumentation Project: NOAA s PI-GCOS, NOAA S Climate Observation Program, $20,000/year : Program support through the assimilation, analysis and dissemination of global raingauge data, NOAA s Office of Global Change Program, $420,000 ( ) : Establishing a cooperative observer raingauge network in Vanautu, $6,000 NOAA s Office of Global Programs : Surface Reference Data Center of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project, $285,000 over 3 years NOAA s Climate and Global Change Program, Climate Observations : Verification of Satellite-Based Rainfall Algorithms for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project: The Surface Reference Data Center, $95,000, Co-I: John Greene, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies) : NASA EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research); Oklahoma EPSCoR Program, $500,000 per year over 5 years.

9 : Collaboration of SPaRCE: The Dept. of Energy s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (Tropical Western Pacific), $90, : Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment; $30,000 3 years - NOAA Climate and Global Change Program; $4,000 - University of Oklahoma Research Administration; $2,000 - University of Oklahoma College of Geosciences.\ : Accuracy assessments of the 4km x 4km hourly GCIP precipitation data derived from WSR-88D's, $245,000, NOAA's Climate and Global Change Program - GEWEX section : Environmental Remote Sensing, GIS and the Oklahoma Mesonet. M. Morrissey (Principal Investigator), Co-I s: M. Yuan, C. Duchon, M. Jakubauskas, S. Stadler, D. Waits, and R. Elliot, NASA, Total award: $125, : NASA EPSCoR program (pilot program), $75,000 one year starting May 1995; $50,000 match from the State Regents : Validation of satellite-based rainfall algorithms over the tropical Pacific; $240,000 over 3 years - NOAA's Climate and Global Change Program Climate Observations section : Open Ocean Verification of Satellite-Based Rainfall Algorithms for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project; $203,884. NOAA Climate and Global Change Program, Operational Measurements Section : Verification of satellite rainfall estimates for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project - NOAA's Climate and Global Change Project Climate Diagnostics and Data Base Development - $176, : Westerly winds bursts in the equatorial western Pacific; $75,561 for NOAA's EPOCS program : A diagnostic study of westerly winds bursts in the equatorial western Pacific; $43,413 for 6 months in NOAA's Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies (EPOCS) program : Satellite-based rainfall estimation within the equatorial western Pacific, $5,000 seed project, University of Hawaii Research Administration grant. Co-Investigator: : "The Renewable EDGE", Oklahoma EDGE board. $7,586,272 over three years (P.I. Scott Greene) : P.I.: John Greene, Determining the Accuracy and Limits of Predictability of Numerical Weather Prediction for Regional Tactical Military Operations, Environmental Verification and Analysis Center $49,585.00, U.S. Department of Defense, Air Force.

10 : P.I.: John Greene, Environmental Verification and Analysis Center $50,000 Co.I s: Howard Johnson, Mark Morrissey, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies), EVAC/OCS Weather Modification Evaluation : Educational Explorations of the Earth System, P.I.: John Snow, Geosciences Dean's Office $25,000, Co_I s: Mark Morrissey, Susan Postawko, Linda Wallace, Universities Space Research Association, Prime is: NASA : "Climate Prediction, Information, and Policy Response: A Retrospective Assessment of Drought Management in Oklahoma," PI: M. Meo, Co-PIs: R. Gowda, S. Greene, M. Morrissey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; $192, : Center of Excellence in Application of Remote Sensing to Regional and Global Integrated Environmental Assessments, $339,000, ( P.I. Karen Humes, ) : Development of an intelligent Geographic Information System to Support Spatiotemporal Queries, Analysis, and Modeling in Hydrology, DoD/NIMA, $997,919. (P.I. May Yuan) : Verification of Oklahoma Enhancement of Cloud Systems, $109,000, State of Oklahoma. (P.I. Scott Greene) : Educational Exploration of the Earth System, University Space Research Association, $82,000 4 years. (P.I. John Snow) : Determining the accuracy and limits of predictability of numerical weather prediction for regional tactical military operations, DoD, $470,000. (P.I. Scott Greene) : Climate Prediction & Policy Response: A Retrospective Assessment of Drought Management in Oklahoma, $192,845, , NOAA. (P.I. Scott Greene) : GLOBE program, Phase II scientist team: Atmospheric Science, $650,000 4 years, NSF; (P.I. Susan Postawko) : Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment (project enhancement), $160,000 3 years - NSF International Programs (P.I. Susan Postawko) : The Environmental Computing Applications System; $1,500,000 3 years - NSF (P.I. Kelvin Droegemeier) : GLOBE program, Phase II scientist team: Atmospheric Science, $561,000, NSF; , $50,000 match from the University of Oklahoma.(P.I. Susan Postawko) REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: Book under Contract and in Preparation:

11 Theory and Applications of Satellites to Meteorology, J. Wiley & Sons, Textbook for upper level undergraduates and graduates in Meteorology. Refereed Publications and Book Chapters (48 Total; 21 First Authored, 5 Single Authored) NOTE: On Leave from the University of Oklahoma from 2004 through 2005 to Coordinate the Pacific Island Global Climate Observing System in Apia, Samoa 1. Morrissey, M.L. W. E Cook and J. S. Greene: 2009: An Improved Method for Estimating the Wind Power Density Distribution Function, Accepted, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech. 2. Morrissey, M.L., A. Albers, J. S. Greene, S. Postawko, 2009: An Isofactorial Change-of-Scale Model for the Wind Speed Probability Density Function, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Technology, 27, pp , doi:, /2009jtecha Morrissey M...L., 2009: Superposition of the Neyman-Scott Rectangular Pulses Model and the Poisson White Noise Model for the Representation of Tropical Rain Rates. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 10, Morrissey, M.L. and Greene, J.S. 2009: A theoretical framework for the sampling error variance for three-dimensional climate averages of ICOADS monthly ship data, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 96, p Greene, J.S., K. McNabb, R. Zwilling, M. L. Morrissey and S. Stadler, 2009: Analysis of Vertical Wind Shear in the Southern Great Plains and Potential Impacts on Estimation of Wind Energy Production, International Journal of Global Energy Issues,39. doi: /IJGEI Greene, J. S, M. D. Klatt, M. L. Morrissey, and S Postawko, 2008: "The Comprehensive Pacific Rainfall Database: An enhanced tool for research and education", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 25, pp., Morrissey, M. L. and J. S. Greene 2007: Ground Validation for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project in "Measuring Precipitation from Space - EURAINSAT and the future" Levizzani, Vincenzo; Bauer, Peter; Turk, F. Joseph (editors), 2007, Approx. 745 p., Hardcover ISBN: p Gruber, A., B. Rudolf, M, L. Morrissey, T. Kurino, J. Janowiak, R. Ferraro, R. Francis, A. Chang and R.F. Adler, 2007: The Global Precipitation Climatology Project in "Measuring Precipitation from Space - EURAINSAT and the future" Levizzani, Vincenzo; Bauer, Peter; Turk, F. Joseph (editors), 2007, Approx. 745 p., Hardcover ISBN: p Greene, JS, B Paris, and M Morrissey, 2007, Analysis of Historical Changes in Extreme Precipitation Events in the Tropical Pacific, Climate Research, 34, Gremichael, M.; Krajewski, W. F., M. L. Morrissey, 2005: A Detailed Evaluation of GPCP 1 Daily Rainfall Estimates over the Mississippi River Basin, Journal of Applied Meteorology,

12 11. Grebremichael, M, W. F. Krajewski, M. Morrissey, D. Langerud, G.J. Huffman, R. Adler, 2003: Error uncertainty analysis of GPCP monthly rainfall products: A data based simulation study,,j.appl.meteor.,42,12, Mahmood, R., M. Meo, D. R. Legates, M.L. Morrissey, 2003: The CERES-rice model-based estimates of potential monsoon season rainfed rice productivity in Bangladesh, The Professional Geographer, 55, Gibson, B., S. Postawko, J. Ensworth, M. Morrissey, J. Wurman, S. Ellis, 2003: Introducing High-tech and Low-tech Geoscience-related Technology to Disadvantaged Schools in the tropical Pacific, Journal of Geoscience Education, 51, March Adler, R., F., C. Kidd, G. Petty, M. Morrissey, and H. M. Goodman, 2003: Intercomparison of Global Precipitation Products: The Third Precipitation Intercomparison Project (PIP-3), August, Buletin of the American Meteorological Society., Vol. 82, No. 7, pp Huffman, G.J., R.F. Adler, M. Morrissey, D.T. Bolvin, S. Curtis, R. Joyce, B McGavock, J. Susskind, 2001: Global Precipitation at One-Degree Daily Resolution from Multi-Satellite Observations. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2(1), Greene, J.S. and M.L. Morrissey: 2000: Evaluation and validation of simulated and observed climate data, Climate Prediction for Agricutural and Resource Management, Bureau of Resource Sciences, L. Leslie and R. Munro, eds., Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra. 17. Greene, J.S., and M.L. Morrissey: Validation and Uncertainty Analysis of Satellite Rainfall Algorithms, 2000: The Professional Geographer, 52, Young, B., A.A. Bradley, W.F. Krajewski, A. Kruger, and M. Morrissey 2000:, An evaluation study of NEXRAD multi-sensor precipitation estimates for operational hydrologic forecasting, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 1(3), Ciach, G., M.L. Morrissey, W.F. Krajewski, 2000: Conditional Bias in Radar Rainfall Estimation, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 39, Postawko, S., M.L. Morrissey, J.S. Greene, B. Gibson, A. Wood, S. Ellis, D. Harrison, and J.B. McGavock, 1999: Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment: The Value of Real Science in the Classroom, Journal of Science Education and Technology. 21. Climate and Climate Change: Pacific Teacher's Curriculum Manual. 1998: T. Aung and C. Kaluwin, Part One: Physical Science. eds. Published by the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program, Apia, Western Samoa, 200 pp. 22. Climate and Climate Change: Pacific Teacher's Curriculum Manual. 1998: T. Aung and C. Kaluwin, Part Two: Social Science. eds. Published by the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program, Apia, Western Samoa, 200 pp. 23. Morrissey, M.L., and J. S. Greene, 1998: Using the Oklahoma Mesonetwork to Develop and Test a Practical Sampling Error Statistic for Meteorological Time Series, Journal of Geophysical. Research, 103, Morrissey, M. L. and J. S. Greene, 1998: Uncertainty of satellite rainfall algorithms over the tropical Pacific, Journal of Geophysical. Res., 103, 19,569-19,576.

13 25. Postawko, S. M. Morrissey, J.S. Greene, and B. Gibson, 1997: Student-Scientist Partnerships in the Pacific: The Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment. Journal of Science Education and Technology. 26. Greene, J.S., M.L.Morrissey and R. Ferraro, 1997: Verification of a scattering-based algorithm over the open ocean, Theoretical and Applied. Climatology, 56, Jan. 27. Morrissey, M.L. and N. Graham, 1996: Recent trends in tropical Pacific rainfall, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, Morrissey, M.L. and J.E. Janowiak, 1996: Sampling-induced conditional biases in satellite climatescale rainfall estimates, Journal of Applied Meteor, 35, Janowiak, J.E., P. A. Arkin, P. Xie, M. L. Morrissey and D. Legates, 1995: An examination of the east Pacific ITCZ rainfall distribution, Journal of Climate, 8, Morrissey, M.L., M.A. Shafer, S. Postawko, and B. Gibson, 1995: Pacific Raingauge Data base, Water Resource Research, 31, Morrissey, M.L., J.A. Maliekal and J.S. Greene, J. Wang, 1995: The uncertainty of simple spatial averages using rain gauge networks, Water Resource. Research, 31, Morrissey, M.L. and Y. Wang, 1995: Verifying satellite microwave rainfall estimates over the open ocean, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 34, Barrett, E.C., R.F. Adler, K. Arpe, P.Bauer,W. Berg, A. Chang, R. Ferraro, J. Ferriday, S. Goodman, Y. Hong, J. Janowiak, C. Kidd, D. Kniveton, M. Morrissey, W. Olsen, G. Petty, B. Rudolf, A. Shibata, E. Smith, R. Spencer, 1994: The first WETNET precipitation intercomparison project (PIP- 1): Interpretation of results, Remote Sensing Reviews, 11, Morrissey, M.L., W.F. Krajewski and M.J. McPhaden, 1994: Estimating rainfall in the tropics using the fractional time raining, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 33, No. 3, Morrissey, M.L., M.A. Shafer, H. Hauschild, M. Reiss, B. Rudolf, W.Ruth, and U. Schneider, 1994: Surface Data sets Used in WETNET's PIP-1 from the Comprehensive Pacific Rainfall Database and the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, Remote Sensing Reviews, 11, Morrissey, M.L., 1994: The effect of data resolution on the area threshold method, Journal of Appied. Meteorology, 33, Janowiak, J.E., P.A. Arkin, and M.L. Morrissey, 1994: An examination of the diurnal cycle in oceanic tropical rainfall using satellite and In Situ data, Monthly Weather Review, 122, Postawko, S., M.L. Morrissey, and B. Gibson, 1994: Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment: Combining research and education, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, Morrissey, M.L. and W.F. Krajewski, 1993: A point process model for tropical rainfall, Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 16,639-16, Morrissey, M.L. and J.S. Greene, 1993: A comparison of two satellite-based rainfall algorithms using Pacific atoll raingage data, Journal of Applied. Meteorology, 32, No. 2,

14 41. Krajewski, W.F., M.L. Morrissey, J.A.Smith, and D.T. Rexroth, 1992: On the accuracy of the Area Threshold Method: A model-based simulation study, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 31, No. 11, p Morrissey, M.L., 1991: Using sparse raingages to test satellite-based rainfall algorithms. Journal of Geophysical Res.-Atmos., 96, 18,561-18, Morrissey, M.L., 1990: An evaluation of ship data in the Equatorial Western Pacific. J. Climate, 3, Morrissey, M.L., M. A. Lander and J. A. Maliekal, 1988: A preliminary evaluation of ship data within the Equatorial Western Pacific, J. Ocean Atmos. Tech., 5, Morrissey, M.L., 1986: A statistical analysis of the relationships among rainfall, outgoing longwave radiation and the moisture budget during January - March 1979, Mon. Wea. Rev., 114, Wolff, G.T., P.E. Korsog, D.P. Stroup, M.S. Ruthkosky and M.L. Morrissey, 1985: The influence of local and regional sources on the concentration of inhalable particulate matter in southeastern Michigan. Atmospheric Environment, 19, Wolff, G.T., M.L. Morrissey, and N A. Kelly, 1984: An investigation of the sources of summertime haze in the Blue Ridge Mountains using multivariate statistical methods. J. Climate Appl. Met., 23, Wolff, G.T., N.A. Kelly, M.A. Ferman and M.L. Morrissey, 1984: Rural measurements of the chemical composition of airborne particles in the eastern United States. J. Geophy. Res., 99, OTHER PUBLICATIONS (Sample): S. Postawko and M.L. Morrissey, Update of SPaRCE Activities presented at the 11 th Regional Meteorological Service Directors meeting in Noumea, New Caledonia, July 2007 Klatt, M., M. Morrissey, and J. Greene, The PACRAIN/PI-GCOS automated rain gauge initiative, presented at the 87 th AMS Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, January Morrissey, M.L. and J. S. Greene, 1996: WETNET PIP-3 Pacific Atoll Raingauge Product - Uncertainty Analysis, Environmental Verification and Analysis Center, Norman, OK. Adler, R.A., C. Kidd, M. Goodman,A. Ritchie, R. Schudalla, G. Petty, M.L. Morrissey and J. S. Greene, 1996: The results of the PIP-3, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. Morrissey, M.L., M.A. Shafer, S. Postawko, and B. Gibson, 1993: The Comprehensive Pacific Rainfall Data Base, Oklahoma Climate Survey Tech. Rep , Norman, OK Morrissey, M.L., J.S. Greene and J.A. Maliekal, 1993: Pacific Atoll Raingauge Data Set, TOGA Notes, Jan. Morrissey, M.L. and S.E. Postawko, 1993: SPaRCE Workbooks #1, Introduction to the SPaRCE program, Siting and maintaining your raingauge, OCS Pub. Morrissey, M.L. and S.E. Postawko, 1993: SPaRCE Workbooks #2, Introduction to the Earth's atmosphere, OCS Pub. Morrissey, M.L. and S.E. Postawko, 1993: SPaRCE Workbooks #3, Climate and climate change, OCS Pub.

15 Morrissey, M.L. and S.E. Postawko, 1993: SPaRCE Workbooks #4, Regional climate of the Pacific, OCS Pub. Morrissey, M.L. and S.E. Postawko, 1993: SPaRCE Workbooks #5, Data analysis methods, OCS Pub. Morrissey, M.L., J.S. Greene and J.A. Maliekal, 1993: Pacific Atoll Raingauge Data Set, TOGA Notes, Jan. Morrissey, M.L. and J.S. Greene, 1991: The Pacific Atoll Raingage Data Set, JIMAR Pub. Morrissey, M.L. and M. A. Lander, 1988: Do equatorial westerlies precede El Nino?, Tropical Ocean- Atmosphere Newsletter (TO-AN), 46, Sept., 1-5. Lander, M.A. and M. L. Morrissey, 1987: Unexpected duplicate ship reports in the Comprehensive Ocean- Atmosphere Data Set (COADS), Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Newsletter (TO-AN), 38, March, 5-7.

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