School of Meteorology

University of Oklahoma, USA

Professor

Email: mmorriss@ou.edu

Qualifications

1986 Ph.D., Meteorology, University of Hawaii, USA

1981 M.S., Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan, USA

1978 B.S., Business Management, Penn State University, USA

Publications (Selected)

1. Morrissey, M. L., W.E. Cook, and J.S. Greene, 2010: An Improved Method for Estimating the Wind Power Density Function, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech, 27(7): 1153-1164.
2. Morrissey, M. L., Albers, A., J.S. Greene, and S.E Postawko, 2010: An Isofactorial Change-of-Scale Model for the Wind Speed Probability Density Function, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech, 27(2), p. 257-273.
3. Morrissey M...L., 2009: Superposition of the Neyman-Scott Rectangular Pulses Model and the Poisson White Noise Model for the Representation of Tropical Rain Rates. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 10, 395-412.
4. Morrissey, M.L. and Greene, J.S. 2009: A theoretical framework for the sampling error variance for three-dimensional climate averages of ICOADS monthly ship data, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 96, p. 235.
5. Greene, J. S, M. D. Klatt, M. L. Morrissey, and S Postawko, 2008: "The Comprehensive Pacific Rainfall Database: An enhanced tool for research and education", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 25, pp., 71-82.
6. Morrissey, M. L. and J. S. Greene 2007: “Ground Validation for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project” in "Measuring Precipitation from Space - EURAINSAT and the future" Levizzani, Vincenzo; Bauer, Peter; Turk, F. Joseph (editors), 2007, Approx. 745 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5834-9.. p. 381-392.
7. Gremichael, M.; Krajewski, W. F., M. L. Morrissey, 2005: A Detailed Evaluation of GPCP 1° Daily Rainfall Estimates over the Mississippi River Basin, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 44 685-681.
8. Grebremichael, M, W. F. Krajewski, M. Morrissey, D. Langerud, G.J. Huffman, R. Adler, 2003: Error uncertainty analysis of GPCP monthly rainfall products: A data based simulation study, ,J.Appl.Meteor.,42,12, 1837-1848.
9. Adler, R., F., C. Kidd, G. Petty, M. Morrissey, and H. M. Goodman, 2003: Intercomparison of Global Precipitation Products: The Third Precipitation Intercomparison Project (PIP-3), August, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society., Vol. 82, No. 7, pp. 1377–1396.
10. Huffman, G.J., R.F. Adler, M. Morrissey, D.T. Bolvin, S. Curtis, R. Joyce, B McGavock, J. Susskind, 2001: Global Precipitation at One-Degree Daily Resolution from Multi-Satellite Observations. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2(1), 36-50.
11. Ciach, G., M.L. Morrissey, W.F. Krajewski, 2000: Conditional Bias in Radar Rainfall Estimation, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 39, 1941-1946.
12. Morrissey, M.L. and N. Graham, 1996: Recent trends in tropical Pacific rainfall, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 1207-1219.
13. Morrissey, M.L., J.A. Maliekal and J.S. Greene, J. Wang, 1995: The uncertainty of simple spatial averages using rain gauge networks, Water Resource. Research, 31, 2011-2017.
14. Janowiak, J.E., P.A. Arkin, and M.L. Morrissey, 1994: An examination of the diurnal cycle in oceanic tropical rainfall using satellite and In Situ data, Monthly Weather Review, 122, 2296-2311.