Kyle C. Wiens
Publications

Peer Reviewed (starting from most recent)

Lyons, W. A., S. A. Cummer, M. A. Stanley, K. C. Wiens, and T. E. Nelson (2008), Supercells and Sprites, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., in review.

Wiens, K. C., T. Hamlin, J. Harlin, and D. M. Suszcynsky (2008), Relationships among narrow bipolar events, ''total'' lightning, and radar-inferred convective strength in Great Plains thunderstorms, J. Geophys Res., 113, D05201, doi:10.1029/2007JD009400.

Tessendorf, S.A., K. C. Wiens, and S. A. Rutledge (2007), Radar and lightning observations of the 3 June 2000 electrically inverted storm from STEPS, Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3665--3681.

Tessendorf, S. A., S. A. Rutledge, and K. C. Wiens (2007), Radar and lightning observations of normal and inverted polarity multicellular storms from STEPS, Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3682--3706.

Shao, X. M., J. Harlin, M. Stock, M. Stanley, A. Regan, K. Wiens, T. Hamlin, M. Pongratz, D. Suszcynsky, and T. Light (2005), Katrina and Rita were lit up with lightning, EOS Trans., AGU, 86(42), 398. doi:10.1029/2005EO420004.

Tessendorf, S. A., L. J. Miller, K. C. Wiens, and S. A. Rutledge (2005), The 29 June 2000 supercell observed during STEPS. Part I: Kinematics and microphysics. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 4127--4150.

Wiens, K. C., S. A. Rutledge, and S. A. Tessendorf (2005), The 29 June 2000 supercell observed during STEPS. Part II: Lightning and charge structure. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 4151--4177.

MacGorman, D. R., W. D. Rust, P. R. Krehbiel, E. Bruning, and K. Wiens (2005), The electrical structure of two supercell storms during STEPS. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 2583--2607.

Lang, T.J., S. A. Rutledge, and K. C. Wiens (2004), Origins of positive cloud-to-ground lightning flashes in the stratiform region of a mesoscale convective system. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L10105, doi:10.1029/2004GL019823.

Smith, D. A., M. J. Heavner, A. R. Jacobson, X. M. Shao, R. S. Massey, R. J. Sheldon, and K. C. Wiens (2004), A method for determining intracloud lightning and ionospheric heights from VLF/LF electric field records, Radio Sci., 39, RS1010, doi:10.1029/2002RS002790.

Smith, D.A., K. B. Eack, J. Harlin, M. J. Heavner, A. R. Jacobson, R. S. Massey, X. M. Shao, and K. C. Wiens (2002), The Los Alamos Sferic Array: A research tool for lightning investigations. J. Geophys. Res., 107 (D13), 10.1029/2001JD000502.

Selected Conference Presentations (starting from most recent)

Wiens, K. C., and D. M. Suszcynsky (2006), Narrow bipolar events as indicators of severe thunderstorms, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract AE53A-0282.

Suszcynsky, D. M. and K. Wiens (2006), Narrow bipolar events, strong VHF pulses and the detection of severe weather from GPS orbit, 2nd Conf. on Meteorol. Applications of Lightning Data, AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Abstract P1.9.

Wiens, K. C. (2006), Thunderstorm electrical structures observed by lightning mapping arrays, (Invited Talk), 2nd Conf. on Meteorol. Applications of Lightning Data, AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Abstract 3.1.

Hamlin, T., K. C. Wiens, X. M. Shao, J. Harlin, M. A. Stanley, and M. Stock (2005), Lightning location and classification with the Great Plains Los Alamos Sferic Array, EOS Trans., AGU, 86(52), Abstract AE41A-0149.

Shao, X., J. Harlin, M. Stanley, M. Stock, K. Wiens, and T. Hamlin (2005), Initial analysis of the Los Alamos Sferic Arrays in north-central Florida and Great Plains, EOS Trans., AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract AE43A-03.

Suszcynsky, D. M., K. C. Wiens, and X. Shao (2005), Narrow bipolar events, strong VHF pulses and their relationship to thunderstorm evolution, EOS Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract AE21A-0975.

Wiens, K. C., and D. M. Suszcynsky (2005), Observed relationships among narrow bipolar events, total lightning and convective strength in summer 2005 Great Plains thunderstorms, EOS Trans., AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract AE21A-0974.

Wiens, K. C., S. A. Tessendorf, and S. A. Rutledge (2003), STEPS June 29, 2000 Supercell: Observations of kinematic, microphysical, and electrical structure. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, Int. Comm. on Atmos. Electr., Versailles, France, 9-13 June, pp. 263-266.

Wiens, K. C., S. A. Tessendorf, and S. A. Rutledge (2002), June 29, 2000 STEPS supercell storm: Relationships between kinematics, microphysics, and lightning. Preprints, 21st Conference on Severe Local Storms, San Antonio, Amer. Meteor. Soc.. pp. 315-318.

Wiens, K., W. P. Winn, P. R. Krehbiel, T. Hamlin, R. J. Thomas, and W. Rison (1999), Explanations of strange ground-based electric field measurements using the New Mexico Tech Lightning Mapping System. EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A31A-23.

Smith, D., R. Massey, K. Wiens, K. Eack, X. Shao, D. Holden, P. Argo (1999), Observations and inferred physical characteristics of compact intracloud discharges. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, edited by H. Christian, NASA Conf. Publ., 209261, pp. 6-9.

Wiens, K., R. Massey, X. Shao, M. Eberle, and K. Eack (1998), The Los Alamos Electric-Field-Change Sensor Array. EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A31D-04.

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