CLiMMATE: Cloud Microwave Measurements of Atmosfheric Events
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"Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing (DCAS) for Improved Detection, Understanding, and Prediction of Atmospheric Hazards."
David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003., V. Chandrasekar, Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Stephen J. Frasier, Jose Colom, Jim Kurose, and Sandra Cruz-Pol.
2005 American Meteorological Society (85th AMS Annual Meeting), Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), 2005. (submitted)
"Cirrus Clouds Millimeter-Wave Reflectivity Comparison with In-Situ Ice Crystal Airborne Data."
José Morales, M.S. Student, Jorge Trabal, PhD. Student, Sandra Cruz-Pol, PhD., Stephen Sekelsky, PhD.
SPIE 04, Hawaii, Nov 8-12, 2004.
"Built your Own Electronic Piano Workshop for K-12 students."
Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD.
International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE 04), FL, Oct 18-20 2004.
"An Undergraduate/Graduate Research Collaboration between UMASS and UPRM."
José Colom-Ustáriz, PhD., Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., Stephen M Sekelsky, PhD.
ASEE 2003 International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE’03), Valencia, Spain, 2003. 
"An Electrical Engineering Module for Women in Engineering."
Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suárez, and Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD.
Proceeding for the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Nashville, TN, 2003.
"Active Rain Gauge Concept For Moderate To Heavy Precipitation Using W-Band And S-Band Doppler Radars."
Leyda V. León-Colón, Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., Stephen M. Sekelsky, PhD.
Electrical and Computer Enginnering Department, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus and University of Massachusettts-Amherst.
IGARSS 03, Toulouse, France, 2003.
"Puerto Rico Deployable Radar Network Design; Site Survey."
Jorge M. Trabal del Valle, José Colom-Ustáriz, PhD., Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., Stephen M Sekelsky, PhD.
Electrical and Computer Enginnering Department, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus and University of Massachusettts-Amherst.
IGARSS 03, Toulouse, France, 2003.
"Cloud Images retrieval and Characterization using a Ground-based dual-wavelength millimeter radar."
Colón-Díaz, Nivia, S.M. Sekelsky, and  Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD.
SPIE 9th International Symposium on Remote Sensing, Crete, Greece, 2002.
"Modeling, Simulation and Comparison Study of Cirrus Clouds Ice Crystals."
Jorge M Villa, Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., Stephen M Sekelsky, PhD.
SPIE 9th International Symposium on Remote Sensing, Crete, Greece, 2002.
"Performance of Scanning Millimeter-Wave Radar in a Tropical Environment."
Jorge M Villa, Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., Stephen M Sekelsky, PhD.
IGARSS 2002, Toronto, Canada, 2002.
"A Case Study: High Percentage of Women in Engineering College at UPRM."
Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD. and José Colom-Ustáriz, PhD.
Wepan Conference 2002, San Juan, PR, June 2002.
"Active Rain-Gauge Concept for Liquid Clouds using Vertically Oriented W-band and S-band Doppler Radars."
Leyda V. León, Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., Stephen M. Sekelsky, PhD.
Electrical and Computer Enginnering Department, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus and University of Massachusettts-Amherst.
SPIE 9th International Symposium on Remote Sensing, Crete, Greece, 2002.
"Modeling, Simulation and Comparison Study of Cirrus Clouds' Ice Crystals."
Jorge M Villa, Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., José Colom-Ustáriz, PhD., Stephen M Sekelsky, PhD.
Electrical and Computer Enginnering Department, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus and University of Massachusettts-Amherst.
SPIE 9th International Symposium on Remote Sensing, Crete, Greece, 2002.
"Performance of Scanning Millimeter-Wave Radar in a Tropical Environment."
Jorge M. Villa, Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., Stephen M. Sekelsky, PhD.
Electrical and Computer Enginnering Department, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus and University of Massachusettts-Amherst.
IGARSS 2002, Toronto, Canada, 2002.
"Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Image Processing."
Sandra Cruz-Pol, Miguel Vélez-Reyes, Shawn Hunt, Hamed Parsiani, José Colom-Ustáriz,
Luis O. Jiménez, Ramón Vásquez, and Fernando Gilbes.
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Newsletter, Dec. 2001.
"Multidimensional Cloud Images Retrieval From Dual-Frequency Millimeter-Wave Radar."
Nivia Colón Díaz, Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., Stephen M. Sekelsky, PhD.
Electrical and Computer Enginnering Department, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus and University of Massachusettts-Amherst.
IGARS 2001 Sydney, Australia, July 2001.
"Remote Sensing Modules to Increase Interest in Traditional Difficult Courses."
José Colom-Ustáriz, PhD., Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD.
IGARSS 2001 Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 2001.
"A Modified Model for Specular Sea Surface Emissivity at Microwave Frequencies."
Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD. and Christopher S. Ruf, PhD., Senior Member, IEEE.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, VOL. 38, NO. 2, pp. 858-869, MARCH 2000.
"Relevance Of The Modified Model For The Microwave Brightness Temperature To The TOPEX/Poseidon Satellite Altimetry Mission."
Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD.
SPIE 99, Denver , CO, July 1999.
"Modified Model for the Microwave Sea Surface Emissivity."
Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., C. S. Ruf and S. J. Keihm.
IGARSS '99 Symposium, Germany, 1999. 
"Improved 20-32 GHz Atmospheric Absorption Model."
Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., Christopher S. Ruf, PhD., and S. J. Keihm
Communications and Space Science Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Stephen J. Keihm.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA.
Version: June 1, 1998.
Radio Science, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp1319-1333, September-October 1998.
"Improved 20-32 GHz Atmospheric Absorption Model."
Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., C. S. Ruf and S. J. Keihm.
IGARSS  '96 Symposium, Vol. 3, pp 1435-1437, 1996.
"Non-Precipitating Stratus Cloud Images Retrieval and Characterization Using a Ground-Based Dual-Wavelength
Millimeter Doppler Radar."
Nivia Colón Díaz, Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD., Stephen M. Sekelsky, PhD.
Electrical and Computer Enginnering Department, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus and University of Massachusettts-Amherst.
"Rain Attenuation Retrieval Using Surface Reference Technique and the NASA ER-2 Doppler Radar Data."
E. Verónica Morales-Irizarry, Jessenia Merced-González, Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, PhD.
Electrical and Computer Enginnering Department, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus.
"Ice Crystal Simulation for Comparison with Microwave Radar."
Shannon Rodriguez for IAP AMP programs, under supervision of Jorge Villa, and Dr. Sandra Cruz-Pol, PhD.
Electrical and Computer Enginnering Department, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus.

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