Publications
Frew, E., B. Argrow, A. L. Houston, and C. Weiss: 2017: Toward an Autonomous Airborne Scientist for Studying Severe Local Storms. Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, Accepted pending revisions.
Limpert, G. and A. L. Houston., 2017: Ensemble Sensitivity Analysis for Targeted Observations of Supercell Thunderstorms. Monthly Weather Review, Accepted pending revisions.
Houston, A. L., 2017: The possible role of density current dynamics in the generation of low-level vertical vorticity in supercells. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 74, 3191-3208. doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-16-0227.1
Riganti, C. J. and A. L. Houston, 2017: Rear-flank dynamics and thermodynamics in the 10 June 2010 Last Chance, Colorado supercell. Monthly Weather Review, 145, 2487–2504. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-16-0128.1
Orf, L, R. B. Wilhelmson, B. D. Lee, C. Finley, and A. L. Houston, 2017: Evolution of a Long-Track Violent Tornado within a Simulated Supercell. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98, 45-68. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00073.1.
Houston, A. L., 2016: The Sensitivity of Deep Ascent of Cold-Pool Air to Vertical Shear and Cold-Pool Buoyancy. Electronic J. of Severe Storms Meteor., 11, 1-29.
Orf, L, R. B. Wilhelmson, B. D. Lee, C. Finley, and A. L. Houston, 2016: Evolution of a Long-Track Violent Tornado within a Simulated Supercell. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, In press. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00073.1
Houston, A. L., R. J. Laurence III, T. W. Nichols, S. Waugh, B. Argrow, and C. L. Ziegler, 2016: Intercomparison of unmanned aircraft-borne and mobile mesonet atmospheric sensors. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 33, 1569-1582, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0178.1
Houston, A. L., N. A. Lock, J. Lahowetz, B. L. Barjenbruch, G. Limpert, C. Oppermann, 2015: Thunderstorm Observation by Radar (ThOR): An algorithm to develop a climatology of thunderstorms. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 32, 961-981. DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00118.1
Lock N. A. and A. L. Houston, 2015: Spatiotemporal Distribution of Thunderstorm Initiation in the US Great Plains from 2005-2007. International Journal of Climatology, 35, 4047-4056, DOI: 10.1002/joc.4261.
Limpert, G. A. L. Houston, and N. A. Lock, 2015: The Advanced algorithm for the tracking of objects (AALTO). Meteorological Applications, 22, 694-704.
Lock, N.A., and A.L. Houston, 2014: Empirical Examination of the Factors Regulating Thunderstorm Initiation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 240-258.
Laflin, J. M., and A. L. Houston, 2012: A Modeling Study of Supercell Development in the Presence of a Preexisting Airmass Boundary. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 7(1), 1-29.
Houston, A. L., B. Argrow, J. Elston, J. Lahowetz, E. W. Frew, and P. C. Kennedy, 2012: The Collaborative Colorado-Nebraska Unmanned Aircraft System Experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93, 39-54. doi: 10.1175/2011BAMS3073.1.
Frew, E., J. S. Elston, B. Argrow,A. L. Houston, and, E. Rasmussen, 2011: Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Sampling Severe Local Storms and Related Phenomena. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. 19, 85-95.
Elston, J. S., B. Argrow, E. Frew, A. L. Houston, and, J. Straka, 2011: Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Severe Storm Sampling using Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations. Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, 8, 269-294. doi: 10.2514/1.53737.
Houston, A. L., and R. B. Wilhelmson, 2011: The impact of airmass boundaries on the propagation of deep convection: A modeling-based study in a high-CAPE, low-shear environment. Monthly Weather Review, 139, 3125-3138. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05033.1.
Houston, A. L., and R. B. Wilhelmson, 2011: The dependence of storm longevity on the pattern of deep convection initiation in a low-shear environment. Monthly Weather Review. 139, 3125-3138. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05036.1.
Elston, J. S., J. Roadman, M. Stachura, B. Argrow, A. L. Houston, and, E. Frew, 2011: The Tempest Unmanned Aircraft System for In Situ Observations of Tornadic Supercells: Design and VORTEX2 Flight Results. Journal of Field Robotics, 28, 461-483. doi: 10.1002/rob.20394.
Houston, A. L., R. L. Thompson, and, R. Edwards, 2008: The optimal bulk wind differential depth and the utility of the upper-tropospheric storm-relative flow for forecasting supercells. Weather and Forecasting, 23, 825-837.
Houston, A. L., and R. B. Wilhelmson, 2007: Observational analysis of the 27 May 1997 central Texas tornadic event. Part I: Pre-storm environment and storm maintenance/propagation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 701-726.
Houston, A. L., and R. B. Wilhelmson, 2007: Observational analysis of the 27 May 1997 central Texas tornadic event. Part II: Tornadoes. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 727-735.
Houston, A. L., and D. S. Niyogi, 2007: The sensitivity of deep convective initiation along a preexisting boundary to the lapse rate of the cloud-bearing layer: A numerical modeling study. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3013-3032.
Houston, A. L., R. L. Thompson, and, R. Edwards, 2007: The optimal bulk wind differential depth and the utility of the upper-tropospheric storm-relative flow for forecasting supercells. Wea. Forecasting, 23, 825-237.