The Use of Hourly Model-Generated Soundings to Forecast Mesoscale Phenomena. Part I: Initial Assessment in Forecasting Warm-Season Phenomena - Excellent paper that uses bufkit to validate the ETA and MesoETA vs. Observations. Also provides several useful forecasting tips!
BUFKIT: A Software Application Toolkit for Predicting Lake Effect Snow - Study done by Ed Mahoney and Thomas Niziol on the use of Bufkit to forecast LES.
Assessment of BUFKIT Methodologies to Forecast Wind and Wind Gust Speed - Excellent for forecasting winds!