Steed, C. A., J. E. Swan, P. J. Fitzpatrick, and T. J. Jankun-Kelly, 2010. A visual analytics approach for correlation, classification, and regression data mining. Submitted to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

Sanyal, J., P. Amburn, K. Wu, S. Zhang, J. Dyer, P. J. Fitzpatrick, and R. J. Moorhead, 2010. On immersive virtual environments facilitating hurricane modelling and analysis. Submitted to Computers and Geosciences.

Fitzpatrick, P. J., Y. Lau, N. Tran, Y. Li, and C. M. Hill, 2010. The role of bathymetry to local storm surge potential. Submitted to Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

Hill, C. M., P. J. Fitzpatrick, J. Corbin, Y. Lau, and S. Bhate, 2010: Summertime precipitation regimes associated with the sea breeze and land breeze circulations in southern Mississippi and eastern Louisiana. Wea. Forecasting. In press. PDF file (4.4 Mb)

Karan, H., P. J. Fitzpatrick, C. M. Hill, Y. Li, Q. Xiao, and E. Lim, 2010: The formation of two prefrontal squall lines, and the impact of WSR-88D radial winds in a WRF simulation. Wea. Forecasting, 25, 242-262. PDF file (10.8 Mb)

Xiao, Q., X. Zhang, C. Davis, J. Tuttle, G. Holland, and P. J. Fitzpatrick, 2009: Experiments of hurricane initialization with airborne Doppler radar data for the Advanced Hurricane WRF (AHW) model. Mon.Wea. Rev., 137, 2758-2777. PDF file (5.0 Mb)

Steed, C. A., P. J. Fitzpatrick, T. J. Jankun-Kelly , A. N. Yancey, and J. E. Swan, 2009. An interactive parallel coordinates technique applied to a tropical cyclone climate analysis. Computers and Geosciences, 35, 1529-1539. PDF file (0.93 Mb)

Steed, C. A., P. J. Fitzpatrick, T. J. Jankun-Kelly, A. N. Yancey, and J. E. Swan, 2009. Tropical cyclone trend analysis using enhanced parallel coordinates and statistical analysis. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 36, 251-265. PDF file (13.9 Mb)

Steed, C. A., J. E. Swan, T. J. Jankun-Kelly, and P. J. Fitzpatrick, 2009. Guided analysis of hurricane trends using statistical processes integrated with interactive parallel coordinates. In IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2009, Oct. 11-13, Atlantic City, NJ. PDF file (1.1 Mb)

Zhang, X., Q. Xiao, and P. J. Fitzpatrick, 2007: The impact of multi-satellite data on the initialization and simulation of Hurricane Lili's (2002) rapid weakening phase. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 526-548. PDF file (4.8 Mb)

Eamon, C. D., P. J. Fitzpatrick, and D. D. Truax, 2007: Observations of structural damage caused by Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. J. Perf. Constr. Fac., 21, 117-127. PDF file (2.5 Mb)

Mostovoi, G. V., P. J. Fitzpatrick, and Y. Li, 2006: Regional accuracy of QuikSCAT gridded winds. Int. J. Remote Sensing, 26, 4117-4136. PDF file (0.70 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 1997: Understanding and forecasting tropical cyclone intensity change with the Typhoon Intensity Prediction Scheme (TIPS). Wea. Forecasting, 12, 826-846. PDF file (0.28 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., J. A. Knaff, C. W. Landsea, and S. V. Finley, 1995: Documentation of a systematic bias in the Aviation model's forecast of the Atlantic Tropical Upper-Tropospheric Trough: Implications for tropical cyclone forecasting. Wea. Forecasting, 10, 433-446. PDF file (1.3 Mb)

Pielke, R. A., L. R. Bernardet, P. J. Fitzpatrick. S. C. Gillies, R. F. Hertenstein, A. S. Jones, X. Lin, J. E. Nachamkin, U. S. Nair, J. M. Papineau, G. S. Poulos, M. H. Savoie, and P. L. Vidale, 1995. Standardized test to evaluate numerical weather prediction algorithms. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 46-48. PDF file (0.65 Mb)

Books:

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 2005: Hurricanes: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO. 412 pp. (The book may be previewed through Google books at this site .The book is available for purchase from ABC-CLIO here .)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 1999: Natural Disasters: Hurricanes. ABC-CLIO. 288 pp.

M.S. Thesis and Ph.D. Dissertation:

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 1995. Understanding and forecasting tropical cyclone intensity change. Ph.D. dissertation. Colorado State University, 380 pp. Postscript files (with some empty figures) are available for  Chapters 1, 2 & 3 (0.75 Mb) , Chapters 4, 5 & 6 (2.5 Mb)  , Chapters 7 & 8 (1.3 Mb) , and Chapter 9 + Appendix (0.25 Mb) . [Scans of missing figures are available upon request]

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 1992. A numerical study of mesoscale convection in a rotating tropical atmosphere. M. S. thesis, Texas A&M University, 117 pp.

Encyclopedias:

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 2010: The debate over tropical cyclones and anthropogenic climate change. World History Encyclopedia. A. J. Andrea, Ed., ABC-CLIO, accepted.

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 2010: Global warming. World History Encyclopedia. A. J. Andrea, Ed., ABC-CLIO, accepted.

Technical reports:

Steed, C. A., P. J. Fitzpatrick, T.J. Jankun-Kelly, A. N. Yancey, and J. E. Swan II, 2008. An interactive parallel coordinates technique applied to a tropical cyclone climate analysis, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, NRL/MR/7440--08-0126, 25 pp. PDF file (2.1 Mb)

Steed, C. A., P. J. Fitzpatrick, T.J. Jankun-Kelly, and J. E. Swan II, 2008. Visual analysis of North Atlantic hurricane trends using parallel coordinates and statistical techniques, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, NRL/MR/7440--08-9130, 18 pp. PDF file (1.8 Mb)

White, T. D., B. McAnally, D. Truax, H. Cole, C. Eamon, L. Zhang, P. Gullett, P. Fitzpatrick, Y. Lau, S. Bhate, Y. Li, 2006. Coast in the eye of the storm: Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005. Mississippi State University. 86 pp. PDF file (4.3 Mb)

Valenti, E., P. J. Fitzpatrick, and Y. Li, 2005. Web-Based hurricane storm surge and flood forecasting using optimized IFSAR bald earth DEMs. SBIR Phase II Final Report, WorldWinds, Inc. PDF file (15.6 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P., G. Mostovoi, and Y. Li, 2002. Validation and comparison of a mesoscale model and NOGAPS in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea for March-August 2001. MSU technical report submitted to the US Naval Oceanographic Office, MSSU-COE-ERC-02-11, 88 pp. PDF file (15.3 Mb)  [Thanks to Janet Haselmaier, Suzanne Shean, and Lisa Parker for digitizing this document.]

Herndon, D., and E. Valenti, 2002. High-resolution atmospheric model comparison over Navy operational areas in CONUS. WorldWinds' technical report submitted to the Central Navy Meteorology and Oceanography Command, 46 pp.

Fitzpatrick, P., G. Mostovoi, Y. Li, M. Bettencourt, and S. Sajjadi, 2002. Coupling of COAMPS and WAVEWATCH with improved wave physics. Final Project Report, Contract No. N62306-01-D-7110, 10 pp. PDF file (0.61 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 1996. Understanding and forecasting tropical cyclone intensity change. CSU bluebook technical report number 598. 346 pp. Postscript files (with some empty figures) are available for  Chapters 1 & 2 (0.34 Mb) ,  Chapter 3 (0.37 Mb) , Chapters 4 & 5 (0.22 Mb)  , Chapter 6, Part 1 (0.89 Mb)  , Chapter 6, Part 2 (0.78 Mb)  , Chapter 6, Part 3 (0.79 Mb)  , Chapter 6, Part 4 (0.50 Mb)  , Chapter 7 (0.35 Mb) , Chapter 8, Part 1 (0.23 Mb)  , Chapter 8, Part 2 (0.8 Mb)  , Chapter 9 (0.2 Mb)  and Appendix (0.8 Mb) . [Scans of missing figures are available upon request]

Conference preprints:

Fitzpatrick, P. J., N. Tran, Y. Lau, Y. Li, and C. M. Hill, 2009. A proposed new storm surge scale. Oceans 09 MTS/IEEE, October 26-29, Biloxi, MS. PDF file (0.56 Mb)

Masutani, M., J. S. Woollen, R. Errico, T. W. Schlatter, Y. Xie, T. Zhu, N. Prive, R. Yang, S. Greco, L. P. Riishojgaard, A. Stoffelen, G.-J. Marseille, E. Andersson, F. Weng, T. J. Kleespies, O. Reale, G. D. Emmitt, S. A. Wood, C. Hill, V. Anantharaj, P. Fitzpatrick, X. Fan, H. Pryor, E. Salmon, H.- C. Liu, M. Sienkiewicz, A. da Silva, H. Sun, Y. Song, M. Govett, Z. Pu, L. Cucurull, S. J. Lord, D. Devenyi, D. L. Birkenheuer, T. Jung, A. Thompkins, D. Groff1, D. Kleist,+, R. Treadon, K. Fielding, W. Lahoz, E. Brin, Z. Toth, Y. Sato, M. Hu, S. Weygandt, M. J. McGill, T. Miyosh, T. Enomoto, M. Watanabe, H. Koyama, Y. Rochen, M. Seablom, B. I. Hauss, R. Burn, G. Higgins, R. Atlas, S. Koch, H. Wang, Y. Chen, and X.-Y. Huang, 2009. Expanding collaboration in Joint OSSEs.  89th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 11-16, Phoenix, AZ. PDF file (0.12 Mb)

Masutani, M., J. S. Woollen, R. Errico, Y. Xie, T. Zhu, H. Sun, J. Terry, R. Yang, S. Greco, N. Prive, E. Andersson, T. W. Schlatter, A. Stoffelen, F. Weng, O. Reale, L. P. Riishojgaard, G. D. Emmitt, S. J. Lord, Z. Toth, G. J. Marseille, V. Anantharaj, K. Fielding, G. McConaughy, S. J. Worley, C. F. Shih, M. Yanaguchi, J. C. Jusem, C. M. Hill, P. J. Fitzpatrick, D. Devenyi, S. S. Weygandt, S. A. Wood, Y. Song, E. Liu, D. N. Groff, M. Hart, G. Gayno, A. Da Silva, M. J. McGill, D. Kleist, Y. Sato, and S. A. Boukabara, 2008. Progress in joint OSSEs: Three joint OSSE nature runs and simulations of observations. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 20-24, New Orleans, LA. PDF file (0.06 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 2009: Hurricanes and climate: The debate over tropical cyclones and anthropogenic climate change. MMS Gulf of Mexico Information Transfer Meeting, January 6-8, New Orleans, LA. PDF file (0.04 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 2009: Unmanned aircraft hurricane reconnaissance. MMS Gulf of Mexico Information Transfer Meeting, January 6-8, New Orleans, LA. PDF file (0.02 Mb)

Anantharaj, A., G. Mostovoy, and P. J. Fitzpatrick, 2008. Impact of soil moisture initialization on numerical weather forecasting over the Mississippi Delta region.88th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 20-24, New Orleans, LA. PDF file (0.06 Mb)

Masutani, M., E. Andersson,  J. Terry,  O. Reale,  J. C. Jusem, L. P. Riishojgaard, T. Schlatter,  A. Stoffelen,    J. Woollen,   S. Lord,   Z. Toth,  Y. Son,   D. Kleist,  Y. Xie, N. Prive,   E. Liu, H. Sun,   D. Emmitt,  S. Greco,  S. A. Wood,  G.-J. Marseille, R. Errico,  R. Yang, G.  McConaughy,  D. Devenyi,  S. Weygandt, V. Anantharaj, C. Hill, P. Fitzpatrick,  F. Weng, T. Zhu, and S. Boukabara, 2007. Progress in Joint OSSEs: A new Nature Run and international collaborations. 18th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, June 25-29, Park City, UT. PDF file (0.50 Mb)

Lim, E., Q. Xiao, J. Sun, P. J. Fitzpatrick, Y. Li, and J. L. Dyer, 2007. The impact of Doppler radar data on rainfall forecast: a case study of a convective rainband event in Mississippi Delta usin WRF 3D-Var. 22nd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, June 25-29, Park City, UT. PDF file (0.50 Mb)

Anantharaj, V. G., P. J. Fitzpatrick, Y. Li, R. L. King, and E. Johnson, 2006. Influences of MODIS landuse data on a Gulf Coast sea breeze simulation. Proceeding of the 10th Symposium on IOAS-AOLS, 86th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. January 29-February 2, Atlanta, GA. PDF file (0.3 Mb)

Zhang, X., Q. Xiao, P. J. Fitzpatrick, and Y. Kuo, 2005. Four-dimensional variational data assimilation of satellite retrieval data for Hurricane Lili (2002). 6th WRF/15th MM5 Users Workshop, June 27-30, Boulder, CO. PDF file (0.6 Mb)

Mostovoi, G. V., and P. Fitzpatrick, 2004. Numerical modeling of rising thermal: Application for cumulus clouds parameterization. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitations, Bologna, Italy. Vol. 2. 1386-1388.

Fitzpatrick, P. J., A. Mehta, T. Haupt, J. Corbin, J. McCaffrey, T. Haupt, P. Bangalore, G. Henley, R. Moorhead, J. van der Zwaag, and M. Bettencourt, 2002. The Distributed Marine Environment Forecast System (DMEFS). 18th International Conference on IIPS. Preprints, 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 13-17, Orlando, FL. PDF file (0.11 Mb)

Mostovoi, G. V., P. J. Fitzpatrick, and other authors, 2002. The effect of averaging surface roughness values on coastal winds for different mesoscale model resolutions. Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems. Preprints, 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 13-17, Orlando, FL. PDF file (0.39 Mb)

Sajjadi, S. G., M. Bettencourt, P. J. Fitzpatrick, and G. Mostovoi, 2002. Sensitivity of a coupled tropical cyclone/ocean wave simulation to different energy transfer schemes. 25th Tropical Meteorology and Hurricane Conference, April 29-May 3, San Diego, CA. PDF file (0.1 Mb)

Veeramony, J., P. J. Fitzpatrick, D. Dmitry, D. Herndon, N. Tran, and E. Valenti, 2002. Assimilating IFSAR DEM data into an ADCIRC simulation of Hurricane Camille. 25th Tropical Meteorology and Hurricane Conference, April 29-May 3, San Diego, CA. PDF file (0.11 Mb)

Mostovoi, G. V., P. J. Fitzpatrick, P. J., and Y. Li, 2001. Comparison of 9-km wind forecasts versus 27-km wind forecasts during the Northern Gulf of Mexico Littoral Initiative. Preprints, Ninth Conference on Mesoscale Processes, July 29- August 2, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.  PDF file (0.2 Mb)

Blumberg, A., J. Blaha, P. Fitzpatrick, and others, 2001. The Northern Gulf of Mexico Littoral Initiative. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, November 5-7, 2001, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. PDF file  (0.95 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., S. Mehta, V. Budamgunta, U. Reddy, R. Mahecha, N. W. Scheffner, and G. Easson, 1999. Operational modeling and validation of the hurricane storm surge using ADCIRC. Preprints, 79th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 10-15, Dallas, TX. PDF file (0.2 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., N. Tran, Y. Li, S. Mehta, and E. Valenti, 1999. Validation study of operational MM5 forecasts on the Gulf Coast using FDDA in a commercial environment. Preprints, Third Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanographic Prediction and Processes, November 3-5, New Orleans, LA. PDF file (0.5 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., S. Mehta, V. Budamgunta, R. Mahecha, Y. Li, and D. Zhang, 1999. Analysis and comparison of a tropical cyclone boundary layer database against model simulations. Preprints, 79th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 10-15, Dallas, TX. PDF file (0.26 Mb)

Scheffner, N. W., and P.J. Fitzpatrick, 1998. Real-time predictions of surge propagation. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, October 22-24, 1997, Alexandria, VA. PDF file (2.9 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., S. Mehra, Y. Li, J. K. Lee, E. Valenti, and E. Barker, 1998. Improved MM5 and QLM forecasts using scatterometer data. Preprints, 79th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 10-15, Dallas, TX. PDF file (0.24 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 1995: Forecasting tropical cyclone intensity change in the West Pacific. Proceedings of the 21^st Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, April 22-28, Miami, FL, 94-96.  PDF file (0.24 Mb)

Finley, S. V., P. J. Fitzpatrick, J. A. Knaff, and C. W. Landsea, 1995: A systematic bias in the Aviation's forecast of the Atlantic TUTT: Implications for tropical cyclone forecasting. Proceedings of the 21^st Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, April 22-28, Miami, FL. PDF file (0.87 Mb)

Fitzpatrick, P. J., 1993: Some observational and theoretical processes related to rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones. Preprint, Twentieth Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, May 10-14, San Antonio, TX, 516-519. PDF file (0.4 Mb) Also available in postscript minus figure on page 4: Postscript file (0.4 Mb)

Other publications:

Anantharaj, V., Y. Li, and P. J. Fitzpatrick. 2009. Incorporation of MODIS land cover data into COAMPS. NASA Tech Briefs, pending publication.

Lau, Y., S. K. Bhate, and P. J. Fitzpatrick. 2008. Visual data analysis for satellites. NASA Tech Briefs, 32(8), 18,20. PDF file (0.57 Mb)

Anantharaj, V, and P. J. Fitzpatrick. 2008. MODIS - Atmospheric data handler. NASA Tech Briefs, 32(12), 26-27. PDF file (0.65 Mb)