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A. Kostinski - Publications

Kostinski and Cantrell, Entropic Aspects of Supercooled Droplet Freezing, J. Atmos. Sciences, in press

Cantrell, Ochshorn, Kostinski, and Bozin, Measurements of the vapor pressure of supercooled water using infrared spectroscopy, J.Atmos. Ocean. Technology, in press.

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.

Weidong Yang, A.B. Kostinski, "Phase-modulated pupil for achromatic imaging of faint companions", Physics Letters A, 2003, vol. 320, pp. 5-8.

M.L. Larsen, W. Cantrell, J. Kannosto, A.B. Kostinski,  "Detection of Spatial Correlations Among Aerosol Particles",  Aerosol Science and Technology, 2003, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 476-485.

A.B. Kostinski, "On the Extinction of Radiation by a Homogeneous but Spatially Correlated Random Medium: Review and Response to Comments", J. Optical Society of America, A., 2002, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 2521-2525.

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

R.A. Shaw, A.B. Kostinski and M.L. Larsen, "Toward Quantifying Droplet Clustering in Clouds'',  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society,  2002, vol. 128, no. 582, pp. 1043-1057.

R.A. Shaw, A.B. Kostinski and D.D.  Lanterman, "Super-exponential extinction of radiation in a negatively-correlated random medium'', J. of Quant. Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 2002, vol. 75, no.1, pp. 13-20.

A.R. Jameson and A.B. Kostinski, "When is Rain Steady?'', J. Applied Meteor., vol.41, Jan. 2002, pp.83-90.

A. R. Jameson and A. B. Kostinski, "What is a Raindrop Size Distribution?", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,  2001, vol.82., pp. 1169-1177.

A. B. Kostinski and R. A. Shaw, "Scale-dependent Droplet Clustering in Turbulent Clouds", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2001, vol. 434, pp. 389-398.

A.B. Kostinski, "On the Extinction of Radiation by a Homogeneous but Spatially Correlated Random Medium", J. Optical Society of America, A., 2001,  vol.18, no.8, pp. 1929-1933.

A.R. Jameson and A.B. Kostinski. "Reconsideration of the Physical and Empirical Origins of Z-R Relations in Radar Meteorology", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2001, 127, pp. 517-538.

C. Ftaclas and A. Kostinski, "Curvature Sensors, Adaptive Optics and Neumann Boundary Conditions", Applied Optics, 2001, vol.40, no.4, pp. 435-438.

A. B. Kostinski and A. R. Jameson, ``On the Spatial Distribution of Cloud Particles'', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2000, vol.57, no.7, 1 April, pp.901-915.

A.R. Jameson and A.B. Kostinski ``The Effect of Stochastic Cloud Structure on the Icing Process'', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, September 1, 2000, 57, pp.2883-2891.

A.R. Jameson and A. B. Kostinski ``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, No.3, 15 Feb. 2000, pp. 373-388.

A.B. Kostinski and A. Koivunen, ``On The Condition Number of Gaussian Sample Covariance Matrices'', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Jan. 2000, vol.38, no.1, pp.329-332.

N. Krotkov, D. Flittner, A. Krueger, A. Kostinski, C. Riley, W. Rose; ``Effect of Particle Non-Sphericity on Satellite Monitoring of Drifting Volcanic Ash Clouds'', J. Quant. Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 63, 613-630, Sept.-Dec. 1999

A. R. Jameson and A. B. Kostinski ``Fluctuation Properties of Precipitation. Part V: ``On the Distribution of Rain Rates - Theory and Observations in Clustered Rain'', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56, November 15 1999, pp. 3920-3931.

A. Koivunen and A.B. Kostinski, ``Feasibility of Data Whitening to Improve Performance of Doppler Weather Radar'', Journal of Applied Meteorology, vol.38, no. 6, pp.741-749, June 1999.

A.R. Jameson and A.B. Kostinski, ``Non-Rayleigh Signal Returns from Homogeneous Clustered Rain'', Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, vol.16, pp. 575-583, May, 1999.

N. Krotkov, O. Torres, C. Selfor, A. Krueger, A.Kostinski, W. Rose, G.Bluth, D. Schneider, S. Schaefer, Comparison of TOMS and AVHRR volcanic ash retrievals from the August 1992 Eruption of Mt. Spurr, Geophysical Research Letters, vol.26, pp.455-458 Feb. 15, 1999.

A. B. Kostinski and A. R. Jameson, ``Fluctuation Properties of Precipitation. Part III: On the Ubiquity and Emergence of the Exponential Size Spectra'', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 56, pp. 111-121, January 1, 1999.

A. R. Jameson, A. B. Kostinski and A. Kruger ``Fluctuation Properties of Precipitation. Part IV: ``Fine Scale Clustering of Drops in Variable Rain'', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol.56, pp. 82-91, Jan. 1, 1999.

A. R. Jameson, A. B. Kostinski, and R. A. Black, ``The Texture of Clouds'', J. Geophys. Res., vol. 103, No. D6, pp. 6211-6219, March 27, 1998.

A. R. Jameson and A. B. Kostinski, ``Fluctuation Properties of Precipitation. Part II: Reconsideration of the Meaning and Measurement of Raindrop Size Distributions'', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, pp. 283-294, Jan. 15, 1998.

A. B. Kostinski and A. R. Jameson, ``Fluctuation Properties of Precipitation. Part I: Deviations of Single Size Drop Counts from the Poisson Distribution '', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, pp. 2174-2186, Sept. 1, 1997.

T. Schulz and A. B. Kostinski ``Variance Bounds on the Estimation of Reflectivity and Polarization Parameters in Radar Meteorology'', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp. 248-255, March 1997

A. R. Jameson and A. B. Kostinski, ``Non-Rayleigh Signal Statistics Caused by Relative Motion During Measurements.'', Journal of Applied Meteorology, vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 1846-1849, October, 1996

R. Adams, W. Perger, W. I. Rose, A. B. Kostinski ``Measurement of Dielectric Constants of Volcanic Ash.'', Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 101, pp.8175-8185, 1996.

W. I. Rose, A. B. Kostinski and L. Kelley, ``Real time C-band radar observations of 1992 eruption clouds from Crater Peak/Spurr Volcano, Alaska'', U.S Geological Survey Bulletin 2139, pp. 19-26, December 1995.

M. D. Kulkarni and A. B. Kostinski, ``A Simple Formula for Monitoring Quadrature Phase Error with Arbitrary Signals'', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 799-802, 1995

J. M. Kwiatkowski, A. B. Kostinski, and A. Jameson ``The Use of Optimal Polarizations for Studying the Microphysics of Precipitation'', J. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, vol. 12, pp. 196-214, Feb. 1995.

A. B. Kostinski, ``Fluctuations of Differential Phase and Radar Measurements of Precipitation'', J. of Applied Meteorology, vol 33, no. 10, pp. 1176-1181, 1994.

B. H. Suits, A. B. Kostinski, and M. D. Kulkarni, ``Monitoring Quadrature Phase Error and Gain Mismatch Using Noise'', J. of Magnetic Resonance, Series A, 108, pp.. 230-233, 1994.

"A Random Wave Method for detecting phase imbalance in a coherent radar receiver," Z. Wang and A. B. Kostinski, J. Atmos. and Ocean. Tech. 10, 887 (1993).

"A generalized trace condition on the Mueller-Jones ppolarization matrix," C. Brosseau, C. R. Givens, and A. B. Kostinski, J. Optical Soc. Am 40, 2248 (1993).

A. B. Kostinski, J. M. Kwiatkowski, and A. Jameson, ``Spaceborne Radar Sensing of Precipitation Above an Ocean Surface: Polarimetric Contrast Study", J. of Atm. and Oc. Technology, October 93, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 736-751.

"A simple necessary and sufficient condition for the physical realizability of Mueller matrices," C. R. Givens and A. B. Kostinski, J. Modern Optics 40, 471 (1993).

A. B. Kostinski, C. R. Givens, and J. M. Kwiatkowski, "Constraints on Mueller matrices of polarization optics," Applied Optics 32, 1646 (1993).

"Depolarization criterion for incoherent scattering," A. Kostinski, Applied Optics, June 1992, p 3506.

"On the gain of a passive linear depolarizing system," A. Kostinski and C. Givens, J. Modern Optics, Sept 1992, p 1947.

"Optimal reception of partially polarized waves: extension to partially polarized input," B. James and A. B. Kostinski, J. Optical Soc. Am. A 8, 2259 (1992).

R. A. Carhart and A. B. Kostinski, "On Reynolds Number Dependence of Energy-Containing Scales in Round Jet Far-Field Free-Shear Turbulence", Discovery and Innovation, vol. 1, No. 3, Sept., 1989.

R. A. Carhart and A. B. Kostinski, "A Generalized von Karman Interpolation Formula", Physics Letters, vol. 113, no.3, November 1988, pp.149-153

A. B. Kostinski, B. D. James and W-M. Boerner, "Polarimetric Matched Filter for Coherent Imaging", Canadian Journal of Physics, (invited paper for a special issue on optics), Oct., 1988, pp. 871-877

A. B. Kostinski, B.D. James and W-M. Boerner, "Optimal Reception of Partially Polarized Waves", Journal of Optical Society of America A (Optics and Image Science), Vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 58-64, January, 1988

A. B. Kostinski and W-M. Boerner, "Polarimetric Contrast Optimization", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-35, No. 8, pp. 988-990, Aug., 1987

A. B. Kostinski and W-M. Boerner "On Foundations of Radar Polarimetry", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-34, no. 12, pp. 1395-1404, Dec., 1986, see also A.B. Kostinski and W-M. Boerner, Reply to Comments "On Foundations of Radar Polarimetry", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-34, no.12, pp. 1470-1473, Dec.,1986

B. E. Smith, A.B. Kostinski, "Predictions of Modeled Palatopharyngeal Port Openings Under Conditions Simulating Pharyngeal Flap Reconstruction", Cleft Palate Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 154-156, July 1985.

B. E. Smith, C.M. Maddox and A.B. Kostinski, "Mode Velopharyngeal Orifice Area Prediction During Simulated Stop Consonant Production in the Presence of Increased Nasal Airway Resistance", Cleft Palate Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 149-153, July 1985.

A. B. Kostinski, R.A. Carhart, "Free Shear Turbulence Intensity Anisotropies and the Energy Cascade", Physics Letters, Vol. 107A, No. 3, pp. 120-124, January 1985.