Terry Hock

Electrical Engineer (Eng IV)

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Hock, T. F., Franklin, J. L. 1999: the NCAR GPS Dropwindsonde. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 80, 407-420.

Randall, M. and T. Hock, 2001: General Oscillator Characteristics using linear open-loop S-Parameters, IEEE Trans. On Microwave Theory and Techs. 49, 1094-1100

Parsons, D., Dabberdt, W., Cole, H. Hock, T., Martin, C., 1994: The Integrated Sounding System: Description and Preliminary Observations from TOGA Coare, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 553-568.

UCAR Technology Achievement Awards: 1992 ISSS, 1998 GPS Dropsonde, 1989 LORAN digital dropwindsonde

U.S. Patent 5,486,835 1996, Low cost telemetry receiving system

Publications and Presentations (32)
Title	Source	Date
The Sundowner Winds Experiment (SWEX) in Santa Barbara, California: Advancing Understanding and Predictability of Downslope Windstorms in Coastal Environments	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	2024-03-01
Planning for LOTOS: A New LOwer Troposphere Observing System	20th Conference on Mountain Meteorology	2022-06-30
NCAR NRD41 dropsonde observations of thermodynamic parameters and wind during OTREC	34th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology	2021-05-13
Current and future uses of UAS for improved forecasts/warnings and scientific studies	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	2020-08-01
Eye of the storm: Observing hurricanes with a small unmanned aircraft system	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	2020-03-05
The NCAR–NOAA Global Hawk Dropsonde System	Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology	2018-08-01
Observations of infrared sea surface temperature and air–sea interaction in Hurricane Edouard (2014) using GPS dropsondes	Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology	2017-06-01
Twenty five years of NCAR dropsonde in service to science and operations [presentation]	NCAR Day of Networking and Discovery 2017	2017-04-28
NCAR GPS Dropsonde Humidity Dry Bias	NCAR Technical Note	2016-10-14
The Pilatus unmanned aircraft system for lower atmospheric research	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	2016-04-28
The Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX)	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	2015-12-01
A long-term, high-quality, high-vertical-resolution GPS dropsonde dataset for hurricane and other studies	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	2015-06-01
Global Hawk dropsonde observations of the Arctic atmosphere obtained during the Winter Storms and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers (WISPAR) field campaign	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	2014-11-25
Wind profiler radar antenna sidelobe reduction	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation	2014-01-01
Driftsondes: Providing in situ long-duration dropsonde observations over remote regions	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	2013-11-01
Driftsonde observations to evaluate numerical weather prediction of the late 2006 African monsoon	Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology	2013-04-01
Unprecedented upper-air dropsonde observations over Antarctica from the 2010 Concordiasi Experiment: Validation of satellite-retrieved temperature profiles	Geophysical Research Letters	2013-03-28
Low-cost 63% efficient 2.5-kW UHF power amplifier for a wind profiler radar	Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2012 IEEE MTT-S International	2012-06-22
A new portable 449 MHz spaced antenna wind profiler radar	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	2012-03-08
A 449-MHz wind profiler radar with low-cost 3 kW transmitter [presentation]	URSI National Radio Science Meeting	2012-01-07
Water vapor variability and comparisons in the subtropical Pacific from the Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment-Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC) Driftsonde, Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC), and reanalyses	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	2010-11-04
Le projet Concordiasi en Antarctique	La Météorologie	2010-05-01
High power amplifier design for a new 449 MHz wind profiler radar [presentation]	National Radio Science Meeting 2010	2010-01-06
The Concordiasi project in Antarctica	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	2010-01-01
A new 449 MHz wind profiler radar: Evaluation of antennas, amplifiers and capabilities [presentation]	34th Conference on Radar Meteorology	2009-10-05
Development of a modular wind profiling network (MPN) [presentation]	Symposium on Recent Developments in Atmospheric Applications of Radar and Lidar	2008-01-20
Warm core structure of Hurricane Erin diagnosed from high altitude dropsondes during CAMEX-4	Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences	2006-01-01
Performance of operational radiosonde humidity sensors in direct comparison with a chilled mirror dew-point hygrometer and its climate implication	Geophysical Research Letters	2003-08-27
Comments on "General oscillator characterization using linear open-loop S-parameters" - Authors' reply	IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques	2002-01-01
General oscillator characterization using linear open-loop S-parameters	IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques	2001-06-01
The NCAR GPS Dropwindsonde	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	1999-03-01
The integrated sounding system: Description and preliminary observations from TOGA COARE	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	1994-04-01

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