TRANSATLANTIC DUST VOYAGE
Prof. Alex Kostinski

Publications

Alex B.Kostinski and Ajaree Mongkolsittisilp, (2013), "Minimum principles in electromagnetic scattering by small aspherical particles", Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer 131, 194–201

Weidong Yang, A. Marshak, A. Kostinski, and Tamás Várnai, 2013, "Shape-induced gravitational sorting of Saharan dust during transatlantic voyage: evidence from CALIOP lidar depolarization measurements", Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 40, 3281–3286, doi:10.1002/grl.50603, 2013.

Edery, Y., A. Kostinski, S. Majumdar and Berkowtz B. (2013), "Record-breaking statistics for random walks in the presence of measurement error and noise", Physical Review Letters, Volume: 110, 180602, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.180602

Gurganus, C., A. B. Kostinski and Shaw, R. (2013). "High Speed Imaging of Freezing Drops: Still No Preference for the Contact Line." J. Physical Chemistry C, 117: 6195-6200.

Chudnovsky, A., Kostinski, Lyapustin, A., and Koutrakis, P. (2013) "Spatial scales of pollution from variable resolution satellite imaging", Environmental Pollution, 172, 131-138.

Nemiroff, R.; Connolly, R.; Holmes, J.; Kostinski, A. (2012) "Bounds on Spectral Dispersion from Fermi-Detected Gamma Ray Bursts": Physical Review Letters, Volume: 108 Issue: 23, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.231103

Kostinski, S.; Pandey, R.; Gowtham, S; Pernisz, U., Kostinski, A, (2012) "Diffusion of Water Molecules in Amorphous Silica", IEEE Electron device letters, Volume: 33, pp. 863-865 DOI: 10.1109/LED.2012.2189750

W. Yang , A. Marshak, T. Varnai , O. Kalashnikova , and A. Kostinski, 2012, "CALIPSO observations of transatlantic dust: vertical stratification and effect of clouds", Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 11339–11354, 2012, www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/11339/2012/, doi:10.5194/acp-12-11339-2012

Chudnovsky, A., Lee H., Kostinski, A., Kotlov, T., and Koutrakis, P. (2012) "Prediction of daily fine particulate matter concentrations using aerosol optical depth retrievals from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite" Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 62(9), pp. 1022-1031. DOI: 10.1080/10962247.2012.695321

Davidi, A., A. B. Kostinski, Koren I., Lehahn, Y.. (2012) "Observational bounds on atmospheric heating by aerosol absorption: Radiative signature of transatlantic dust." Geophysical Research Letters 39, L04803, doi:10.1029/2011GL050358

Ben-Ami, Y., I. Koren, Altaratz O., Kostinski A., Lehann, Y (2012) "Discernible rhythm in the spatio/temporal distributions of transatlantic dust." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12(5): 2253-2262.

Flores, JM; Bar-Or, RZ; Bluvshtein, N; Abo-Riziq, A; Kostinski, A; Borrmann, S; Koren, I; Koren, I; Rudich, Y; (2012). "Absorbing aerosols at high relative humidity: linking hygroscopic growth to optical properties" Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Volume: 12 Issue: 12 Pages: 5511-5521 DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-5511-2012

Lehahn, Y, Koren I, Altaratz O, Kostinski A (2011) "Effect of coarse marine aerosols on stratocumulus clouds" Geophysical Research Letters 38, L20804, doi:10.1029 /2011GL048504

Gurganus, C., A. B. Kostinski and Shaw, R. (2011). "Fast Imaging of Freezing Drops: No Preference for Nucleation at the Contact Line." J. Physical Chemistry Letters 2(12): 1449-1454.

Edery, Y., A. Kostinski and Berkowtz B. (2011) "Record setting during dispersive transport in porous media" Geophysical Research Letters 38, L16403, doi:10.1029/2011GL048558

Chudnovsky, A., A. Kostinski, Herrmann, L., Koren, I., Nutesku, G., Ben-Dor, E (2011). "Hyperspectral spaceborne imaging of dust-laden flows: Anatomy of Saharan dust storm from the Bodele Depression." Remote Sensing of Environment 115(4): 1013-1024.

Cantrell, W., A. Kostinski, Szedlak, A and Johnson, A (2011). "Heat of Freezing for Supercooled Water: Measurements at Atmospheric Pressure." Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115(23): 5729-5734.

Borysow, J., A. Kostinski and Fink, M. (2011). "Laser multipass system with interior cell configuration." Applied Optics 50(30): 5812-5815.

Anderson, A. and A. Kostinski (2011). "Evolution and Distribution of Record-Breaking High and Low Monthly Mean Temperatures." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 50(9): 1859-1871.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (2010). "Partially Coherent Backscatter in Radar Observations of Precipitation." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 67(6): 1928-1946.

Amalia Anderson and A. B. Kostinski Reversible Record Breaking and Variability: Temperature Distributions across the Globe, J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 1681-1691, 2010 

Jameson, A.R. and A. B. Kostinski, Direct observations of coherent backscatter of radar waves in precipitation, J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 3000-3005, 2010 

Hezi Gildor, Erick Fredj and Alex Kostinski, The Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba: a natural driven cavity? Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Volume 104, Pages 301-308, 2010 

Jameson, A.R. and A. B. Kostinski, On the enhanced temporal coherency of radar observations in precipitation J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 49, 1794-1804, 2010 

Jameson, A.R. and A. B. Kostinski, Partially coherent backscatter in radar observations of precipitation J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 1928-1946, 2010. 

Kostinski AB and Shaw RA, Raindrops large and small, NATURE PHYSICS, Volume: 5 Issue: 9, Pages: 624-625 Published: SEP 2009 

Larsen ML and Kostinski AB, Simple dead-time corrections for discrete time series of non-Poisson data, MEASUREMENT SCIENCE \& TECHNOLOGY Volume: 20 Issue: 9 Article Number: 095101 Published: SEP 2009 

Chudnovsky A, Ben-Dor E, Kostinski AB, and Koren I., Mineral content analysis of atmospheric dust using hyperspectral information from space, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Volume: 36 Article Number: L15811 Published: AUG 6 2009 

G. Montero-Martinez, A. Kostinski, R. Shaw, F. Garcia-Garcia, Do All Raindrops Fall at Terminal Speed?, Geophysical Research Letters, appeared June 2009. 

A B Kostinski, Simple approximations for condensational growth Environ. Res. Lett. 4 (2009) 015005 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/1/015005 

A B Kostinski, Drizzle rates versus cloud depths for marine stratocumuli, Environ. Res. Lett. 3 (2008) 045019 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/045019 

Taraniuk I, Kostinski A, Rudich, Enrichment of surface-active compounds in coalescing cloud drops, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 35, L19810, doi:10.1029/2008GL034973, 2008 

Jameson and A. Kostinski, The Effect of Clustering on the Uncertainty of Differential Reflectivity Measurements, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Volume: 47 Issue: 11 Pages: 2816-2827 Published: NOV 2008 

Kostinski and Cantrell, Entropic Aspects of Supercooled Droplet Freezing, J. Atmos. Sciences Volume: 65 Issue: 9 pages: 2961-2971 SEP 2008 

Cantrell, Ochshorn, Kostinski, and Bozin, Measurements of the vapor pressure of supercooled water using infrared spectroscopy, J.Atmos. Ocean. Technology, Volume: 25 Issue: 9 Pages: 1724-1729 Published: SEP 2008. 

O. Altaratz Stollar, I. Koren, T. Reisin, A. Kostinski, G. Feingold, Z. Levin, and Y. Yin, Aerosols' influence on the interplay between condensation, evaporation and rain in warm cumulus cloud;  Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2008, in press

Khain A, Pinsky M, Elperin T, et al. Kostinski, Critical comments to results of investigations of drop collisions in turbulent clouds;  Atmospheric Research,   Volume: 86   Issue: 1   Pages: 1-20   Published: OCT 2007 

Taraniuk I, Graber ER, Kostinski A, Rudich; Surfactant properties of atmospheric and model humic-like substances (HULIS), Geophysical  Research Letters, Volume: 34   Issue: 16 Article Number: L16807   Published: AUG 21 2007 

A.B. Kostinski, M.L. Larsen and A. R. Jameson: ``Exploring the stochastic micro-structure of rain: scale dependence of spatial correlations'', Journal of Hydrology, 328 (1-2): 38-45 AUG 30 2006

Weidong Yang, A.B. Kostinski and R.A. Shaw, ``Phase signature for particle detection with digital in-line holography", Optics Letters, vol. 31, no. 11, June 2006.

A. B. Kostinski and Weidong Yang, ``Pupil phase apodization for imaging of faint companions in prescribed regions'',  J. Modern Optics, vol. 52, no. 17, 20 November 2005.

M. L. Larsen, A.B. Kostinski and A. Tokay, ``Observations and Analysis of Uncorrelated Rain'', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2005, vol. 62, pp. 4071-4083.

Weidong Yang, A.B. Kostinski and R.A. Shaw, ``Depth-of-focus Reduction for Digital In-line Holography of Particle Fields", Optics Letters, vol. 30, no. 11, June 2005.

A. B. Kostinski and R. A. Shaw, ``Fluctuations and Luck in Droplet Growth by Coalescence'', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2005, vol. 86, pp. 235-244.

A. R. Jameson and A. B. Kostinski, Reply to Comments by Zhen-Jia Wu and Ali Tokay on ‘Spurious power-law relations among rainfall and radar parameters’ (July B 2002, 128, 2045–2058) 385, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , vol. 131(A), no. 605, JANUARY 2005.

Weidong Yang, A.B. Kostinski, "One-sided Achromatic Phase Apodization for Imaging of Extra-solar Planets", Astrophysical Journal, 2004, vol. 605, pp. 892–901, 2004 April 20.

M.L. Larsen, W. Cantrell, A.B. Kostinski, J. Kannosto,  "Response from Authors to Comment on 'Detection of Spatial Correlations Among Aerosol Particles' ", Aerosol Science and Technology, 2004, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 129-130.

Yang, W. D. and A. B. Kostinski (2003). "Phase-modulated pupil for achromatic imaging of faint companions." Physics Letters A 320(1): 5-8.

Larsen, M. L., W. Cantrell, et al. (2003). "Detection of Spatial Correlations Among Aerosol ParticlesAerosol Science and Technology 37(6): 476-485.

Shaw, R. A., A. B. Kostinski, et al. (2002). "Toward Quantifying Droplet Clustering in Clouds." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 128(582): 1043-1057.

Shaw, R. A., A. B. Kostinski, et al. (2002). "Super-exponential extinction of radiation in a negatively-correlated random mediumJournal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer 75(1): 13-20.

Kostinski, A. B. (2002). "On the Extinction of Radiation by a Homogeneous but Spatially Correlated Random Medium: Review and Response to CommentsJournal of the Optical Society of America a-Optics Image Science and Vision 19(12): 2521-2525.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (2002). "When is Rain Steady?Journal of Applied Meteorology 41(1): 83-90.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (2002). "Spurious Power-law Relations Among Rainfall and Radar Parameters." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 128(584): 2045-2058.

Kostinski, A. B. and R. A. Shaw (2001). "Scale-dependent Droplet Clustering in Turbulent CloudsJournal of Fluid Mechanics 434: 389-398.

Kostinski, A. B. (2001). "On the Extinction of Radiation by a Homogeneous but Spatially Correlated Random Medium." Journal of the Optical Society of America a-Optics Image Science and Vision 18(8): 1929-1933.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (2001). "Reconsideration of the physical and empirical origins of Z-R relations in radar meteorology."Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 127(572): 517-538.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (2001). "Comments on "Errors in the estimate of the fractal correlation dimension of raindrop spatial distribution''." Journal of Applied Meteorology 40(11): 2098-2098.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (2001). "What is a raindrop size distribution?" Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 82(6): 1169-1177.

Ftaclas, C. and A. Kostinski (2001). "Curvature sensors, adaptive optics, and Neumann boundary conditions." Applied Optics 40(4): 435-438.

Kostinski, A. B. and A. C. Koivunen (2000). "On the condition number of Gaussian sample-covariance matrices." Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 38(1): 329-332.

Kostinski, A. B. and A. R. Jameson (2000). "On the Spatial Distribution of Cloud Particles." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 57(7): 901-915.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (2000). "Fluctuation properties of precipitation. Part VI: Observations of hyperfine clustering and drop size distribution structures in three-dimensional rain." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 57(3): 373-388.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (2000). "The effect of stochastic cloud structure on the icing process." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences57(17): 2883-2891.

Krotkov, N. A., O. Torres, et al. (1999). "Comparison of TOMS and AVHRR volcanic ash retrievals from the August 1992 eruption of Mt. Spurr." Geophysical Research Letters 26(4): 455-458.

Krotkov, N. A., D. E. Flittner, et al. (1999). "Effect of particle non-sphericity on satellite monitoring of drifting volcanic ash clouds." Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer 63(2-6): 613-630.

Kostinski, A. B. and A. R. Jameson (1999). "Fluctuation properties of precipitation. Part III: On the ubiquity and emergence of the exponential drop size spectra." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 56(1): 111-121.

Koivunen, A. C. and A. B. Kostinski (1999). "Feasibility of Data Whitening to Improve Performance of Doppler Weather RadarJournal of Applied Meteorology 38(6): 741-749.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (1999). "Fluctuation properties of precipitation. Part IV: Finescale clustering of drops in variable rain."Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 56(1): 82-91.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (1999). "Non-Rayleigh signal statistics in clustered statistically homogeneous rain." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 16(5): 575-583.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (1999). "Fluctuation properties of precipitation. Part V: Distribution of rain rates - Theory and observations in clustered rain." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 56(22): 3920-3932.

Jameson, A. R., A. B. Kostinski, et al. (1998). "The texture of clouds." Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 103(D6): 6211-6219.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (1998). "Fluctuation properties of precipitation. Part II: Reconsideration of the meaning and measurement of raindrop size distributions." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 55(2): 283-294.

Schulz, T. J. and A. B. Kostinski (1997). "Variance bounds on the estimation of reflectivity and polarization parameters in radar meteorology."Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 35(2): 248-255.

Kostinski, A. B. and A. R. Jameson (1997). "Fluctuation properties of precipitation .1. On deviations of single-size drop counts from the Poisson distribution." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 54(17): 2174-2186.

Jameson, A. R. and A. B. Kostinski (1996). "Non-Rayleigh signal statistics caused by relative motion during measurements." Journal of Applied Meteorology 35(10): 1846-1859.

Adams, R. J., W. F. Perger, et al. (1996). "Measurements of the complex dielectric constant of volcanic ash from 4 to 19 GHz." Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth 101(B4): 8175-8185.

Kwiatkowski, J. M., A. B. Kostinski, et al. (1995). "THE USE OF OPTIMAL POLARIZATIONS FOR STUDYING THE MICROPHYSICS OF PRECIPITATION - NONATTENUATING WAVELENGTHS." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology12(1): 96-114.

Kulkarni, M. D. and A. B. Kostinski (1995). "A SIMPLE FORMULA FOR MONITORING QUADRATURE PHASE ERROR WITH ARBITRARY SIGNALS." Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 33(3): 799-802.

Suits, B. H., A. B. Kostinski, et al. (1994). "MONITORING QUADRATURE PHASE ERROR AND GAIN MISMATCH USING NOISE."Journal of Magnetic Resonance Series A 108(2): 230-233.

Kostinski, A. B. (1994). "FLUCTUATIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL PHASE AND RADAR MEASUREMENTS OF PRECIPITATION."Journal of Applied Meteorology 33(10): 1176-1181.

Wang, Z. N. and A. B. Kostinski (1993). "A RANDOM WAVE METHOD FOR DETECTING PHASE IMBALANCE IN A COHERENT RADAR RECEIVER." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 10(6): 887-891.

Kostinski, A. B., J. M. Kwiatkowski, et al. (1993). "SPACEBORNE RADAR SENSING OF PRECIPITATION ABOVE AN OCEAN SURFACE - POLARIZATION CONTRAST STUDY." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 10(5): 736-751.

Kostinski, A. B., C. R. Givens, et al. (1993). "CONSTRAINTS ON MUELLER MATRICES OF POLARIZATION OPTICS." Applied Optics 32(9): 1646-1651.

Givens, C. R. and A. B. Kostinski (1993). "A SIMPLE NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITION ON PHYSICALLY REALIZABLE MUELLER MATRICES." Journal of Modern Optics 40(3): 471-481.

Brosseau, C., C. R. Givens, et al. (1993). "GENERALIZED TRACE CONDITION ON THE MUELLER-JONES POLARIZATION MATRIX." Journal of the Optical Society of America a-Optics Image Science and Vision 10(10): 2248-2251.

Kostinski, A. B. and C. R. Givens (1992). "ON THE GAIN OF A PASSIVE LINEAR DEPOLARIZING SYSTEM." Journal of Modern Optics 39(9): 1947-1952.

Kostinski, A. B. (1992). "DEPOLARIZATION CRITERION FOR INCOHERENT-SCATTERING." Applied Optics 31(18): 3506-3508.

James, B. D. and A. B. Kostinski (1992). "OPTIMAL DETECTION IN DEPOLARIZING MEDIA - EXTENSION FOR PARTIALLY POLARIZED SOURCES." Journal of the Optical Society of America a-Optics Image Science and Vision 9(12): 2259-2263.

Kostinski, A. B., B. D. James, et al. (1988). "OPTIMAL RECEPTION OF PARTIALLY POLARIZED WAVES." Journal of the Optical Society of America a-Optics Image Science and Vision 5(1): 58-64.

Kostinski, A. B., B. D. James, et al. (1988). "POLARIMETRIC MATCHED-FILTER FOR COHERENT IMAGING." Canadian Journal of Physics 66(10): 871-877.

Carhart, R. A. and A. B. Kostinski (1988). "A GENERALIZED VON KARMAN INTERPOLATION FORMULA." Physics Letters A133(3): 149-153.

Kostinski, A. B. and W. M. Boerner (1987). "ON THE POLARIMETRIC CONTRAST OPTIMIZATION." Ieee Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 35(8): 988-991.

Kostinski, A. B. and W. M. Boerner (1986). "ON FOUNDATIONS OF RADAR POLARIMETRY - AUTHORS REPLY." Ieee Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 34(12): 1471-1473.

Kostinski, A. B. and W. M. Boerner (1986). "ON FOUNDATIONS OF RADAR POLARIMETRY." Ieee Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 34(12): 1395-1404.

Smith, B. E., C. M. Maddox, et al. (1985). "MODELED VELOPHARYNGEAL ORIFICE AREA PREDICTION DURING SIMULATED STOP CONSONANT PRODUCTION IN THE PRESENCE OF INCREASED NASAL AIRWAY-RESISTANCE." Cleft Palate Journal22(3): 149-153.

Smith, B. E. and A. B. Kostinski (1985). "PREDICTIONS OF MODELED PALATOPHARYNGEAL PORT OPENINGS UNDER CONDITIONS SIMULATING PHARYNGEAL FLAP RECONSTRUCTION." Cleft Palate Journal 22(3): 154-156.

Kostinski, A. and R. A. Carhart (1985). "FREE SHEAR TURBULENCE INTENSITY ANISOTROPIES AND THE ENERGY CASCADE."Physics Letters A 107(3): 120-124.