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Refereed CMMAP Publications

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2009

Ahlgrimm, M., D. A. Randall, and M. Kohler, 2009: Evaluating cloud frequency of occurrence and top height using space-borne lidar observations. Submitted to Mon. Wea. Rev., undergoing revisions.
Arakawa, A. and Celal S. Konor, 2009: Unification of the anelastic and quasi-hydrostatic systems of equations. Mon. Wea, Rev., 137, 710-726.
Benedict, J. and D.A. Randall, 2009: Structure of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the Superparameterized CAM, J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
Blossey, P. N., M. C. Wyant, and C. S. Bretherton, 2009: Subtropical low cloud response to a warmer climate in a superparameterized climate model. Part II. Column modeling with a cloud resolving model. J. Adv. Modeling Earth Systems., 1, Art #8, 14pp.

Geophys. Res. Lett.

Cheng A., and K.-M. Xu, 2009: A pdf-based microphysics parameterization considering subgrid-scale variabilities for simulation of drizzling boundary-layer clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2317-2334.
Cheng A., K.-M. Xu, and B. Stevens, 2009: Effects of resolution on simulation of boundary-layer clouds. Submitted to J. Adv. Modeling Earth Systems.
DeMott, C., and D. A. Randall, 2009: Implied ocean heat transports in the standard and super-parameterized Community Atmosphere Models. Submitted to J. Climate, in press.
Finnigan. J. J., R. H. Shaw, and E. G. Patton: 2009, Turbulent structure above a vegetation canopy. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, in press.
Hosoi, S. A., and S. S. Canetto, 2009: Constraints and choices of professional married women who quit careers and head home. Submitted to Psychology of Women Quarterly.
Huang. J. P., X. Lee, and E. G. Patton: 2009, Dissimilarity of scalar transport in the convective boundary layer in inhomogeneous landscapes. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 130, 327-345.
Kim, D. and K. Sperber, W. Stern, D. Waliser, I.-S. Kang, E. Maloney, W. Wang, K. Weickmann. J. Benedict, M. Khairoutdinov, M.-I. Lee, R. Neale, M. Suarex, K. Thayer-Calder, and G. Zhang, 2009: Application of MJO Simulation Diagnostics to Climate Models. Submitted to J. Climate.
Klein, S., and Coauthors, 2009: Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment, Part 1: Single-layer cloud. Submitted to Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc.
Konor, C. S., G. C. Boezio, C. R. Mechoso and A. Arakawa, 2009: Parameterization of PBL Processes in an Atmospheric General Circulation Model: Description and Preliminary Assessment. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 1061-1082.
Lappen, C-L., D. A. Randall, and T. Yamaguchi, 2009: A higher-order closure model with an explicit PBL top. J. Atmos. Sci, submitted.
Lee, M.-I., I. Choi, W.-K. Tao, S. D. Schubert, and I.-K. Kang, 2009: Mechanisms of diurnal precipitation over the United States Great Plains: A cloud-resolving model simulations. Climate Dynamics, 32, doi:10. 1007/s00382-009-0531-x.
Li, J.-L. F. . J. Teixeira, D. E. Waliser, C. Woods, D. G. Vane. J. Bacmeister. J. –D. Chern, B.-W. Shen, W.-K. Tao, A. M. Tompkins, 2009: A comparison of cloud vertical structure between CloudSat, the ECMWF analysis and two climate prediction models along the GPCI transect over the Northeastern Pacific. Geophys. Res. Letters (submitted).
Maloney, E. D., 2009: The moist static energy budget of a composite tropical intraseasonal oscillation in a climate model. J. Climate,22, 711-729.
Marchand, R. . J. Haynes, G. G. Mace, T. Ackerman, and G. Stephens, 2009: A comparison of simulated cloud radar output from the multiscale modeling framework global climate model with CloudSat cloud radar observations. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D00A20, doi:10. 1029/2008JD009790.
Matsui, T., X. Zeng, W.-K. Tao, H. Masunaga, W. S. Olson, and S. Lang, 2009: Evaluation of long-term cloud-resolving model simulations using satellite radiance observations and multi-frequency satellite simulators. J. Atmos. Oce. Tech. (in press).
McCrary, R. and D.A. Randall, 2009: Great Plains Drought in Simulations of the Twentieth Century. J. Climate, submitted.
Morrison, H. and Coauthors, 2009: Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment, Part 2: Multi-layer cloud. Submitted to Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc.
Morrison, H., G. Thompson, and V. Tatarskii, 2009: Impact of cloud microphysics on the development of trailing stratiform precipitation in a simulated squall line: Comparison of one- and two-moment schemes. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 991-1007.
Patton, E. G. and G. G. Katul: 2009, Turbulent pressure and velocity perturbations induced by gentle hills covered with sparse and dense canopies. Submitted to Boundary-Layer Meteorology.
Pincus, R. and B. Stevens, 2009: Monte Carlo spectral integration: A consistent approximation for radiative transfer in large eddy simulations. J. Adv. Model. Earth Sys., 1, 9pp.
Pritchard, M. S., and R. C. J. Somerville. Empirical orthogonal function analysis of the diurnal cycle of precipitation in a multi-scale climate model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, doi: doi:10. 1029/2008GL036964.
Quaas. J., S. Bony, W. Collins, L. Donner, A. Illingworth, A. Jones, U. Lohmann, M. Satoh, S. E. Schwartz, W.-K. Tao, and R. Wood, 2009: Clouds in the Perturbed Climate System, Current Understanding and Quantification of Clouds in the Changing Climate System and Strategies for Reducing Critical Uncertainties, MIT Press, Chapter 24, 557-573.
Schmitt, C. G., A. J. Heymsfield, 2009: The size distribution and mass weighted terminal velocity of low-latitude tropopause cirrus crystal populations. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2013-2028.
Schubert, W. H., L. Silvers, M. Masarik, A. Gonzalez, 2008: A filtered model of tropical wave motions. Submitted to J. Adv. Modeling Earth Syst.
Schubert, W. H., M. T. Masarik, L. G. Silvers, and A. O. Gonzalez, 2008: An analytic study of filtered tropical flows. J. Adv. Modeling Earth Systems, in press.
Shen, B.-W., W.-K. Tao, J.-D. Chern, and R. Atlas, 2009: Improvements in the Scalability of the NASA Goddard Multiscale Multicomponent Modeling Framework for Hurricane Climate Studies. Submitted to the International Journal of High-Performance Computing Application. Under revision.
Shen, B.-W., W.-K. Tao, R. Atlas, Y.-L. Lin, R. Reale, J.-D. Chern, C.-D. Peters-Lidard, K.-S. Kuo, 2009: Forecasts of Tropical Cyclogensis with a Global Mesoscale Model: Preliminary Results with Six Tropical Cyclones. Undergoing revision.
Sobel, A. H., E. D. Maloney, Bellon, G., and D. M. Frierson, 2009: Surface fluxes and tropical intraseasonal variability: a reassessment. J. Adv. Modeling Earth Systems, accepted pending major revisions.
Tao, W.-K., and M. W. Moncrieff, 2009: Multiscale Cloud-System Modeling. Rev. Geophys., in press.
Tao, W.-K., J.-D. Chern, R. Atlas, D. Randall, M. Khairoutdinov, J.-L. Li, D. E. Waliser, A. Hou, X. Lin, C. Peters-L., W. Lau, J. Jiang, and J. Simpson, 2009: A Multiscale Modeling System - Developments, Applications, and Critical issues. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 515-534.
Thayer-Calder, K. and D.A. Randall, 2009: The Role of Convective Moistening in the Madden-Julian Oscillation. J. of Atmos. Sci., submitted.
Toy, M. D., and D. A. Randall, 2009: Design of a non-hydrostatic atmospheric model based on a generalized vertical coordinate. Submitted to Mon. Wea. Rev., undergoing revisions.
Tromeur E. and M. Zhang, 2009: Large Eddy Simulations of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds in an Idealized Setup : Sensitivity to Climate Change. Submitted to J. Atmos. Sci.
Tromeur, E., and W. B. Rossow, 2009: Interaction of tropical deep convection with the large-scale circulation in the Madden-Julian oscillation. Submitted to J. Climate.
Tselioudis, G., and W. B. Rossow, 2009: Time scales of variability of the tropical atmosphere derived from cloud-defined weather states. Submitted to J. Climate.
Wyant, M. C., C. S. Bretherton, and P. N. Blossey, 2009: <Understanding subtropical low cloud response to a warmer climate in a superparameterized climate model. J. Adv. Modeling Earth Systems, 1, Art #7, 11pp.
Xu, K.-M., A. Cheng, M. Zhang, and B. Stevens, 2009: Cloud-resolving simulation of low cloud feedback to an increase in sea surface temperature. Submitted to J. Climate.
Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, A. Y. Hou, S. Xie, S. Lang, X. Li, D. Starr, X. Li, and J. Simpson, 2009: The indirect effect of ice nuclei on atmospheric radiation. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 41-61.
Zhang, Y., B. Stevens, B. Medeiros and M. Ghil, 2009: Low-cloud fraction, lower-tropospheric stability and large-scale divergence. J. Climate, 22, 4827-4844.

2008

Baker, I. T., L. Prihodko, A. S. Denning, M. Goulden, S. Miller, and H. R. da Rocha, 2008: Seasonal drought stress in the Amazon: Reconciling models and observations. J. Geophys. Res., 113, G00B01, doi:10. 1029/2007JG000644.
Eidhammer, T., DeMott, P. J., and Kreidenweis, S. M. (2009), A comparison of heterogeneous ice nucleation parameterizations using a parcel model framework. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D06202, doi:10.1029/2008JD011095.
Elsaesser, G. S. and C. K. Kummerow, 2008: Towards a fully parametric retrieval of the nonraining parameters over the global oceans. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 47, 1599-1618.
Fan. J., R. Zhang, W.-K. Tao, K. I. Mohr, 2008: Aerosol radiative effects on deep convective clouds and associated radiative forcing. J. Geophy. Res., 113, D08209, doi:10. 1029/2007JD009257.
Gettelman, A., H. Morrison, and S. J. Ghan, 2008: A new two-moment stratiform cloud microphysics scheme in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM3), Part II: Single column and global model results. J. Climate, 21, 3660-3679.
Grabowski, W. W., and H. Morrison, 2008: Toward the mitigation of spurious cloud-edge supersaturation in cloud models. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 1224-1234.
Guo, H., Y. Liu, P. H. Daum, G. I. Senum, and W.-K. Tao, 2008: Characteristics of vertical velocity in marine stratocumulus: Comparison of LES simulations with observations. Environ. Res. Lett., 3, 045020, doi:10. 1088/1748-9326/3/4/045020.
Gustafson, W. I. Jr., L. K. Berg, R. C. Easter, and S. J. Ghan, 2008: The Explicit-Cloud Parameterized-Pollutant hybrid approach for aerosol-cloud interactions in multiscale modelling framework models, Environ. Res. Lett., 3, doi:10. 1088/1748-9326/3/2/025005.
Jung, J.-H., and A. Arakawa, 2008: A three-dimensional anelastic model based on the vector vorticity equation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 276-294.
Khairoutdinov, M, C. A. Demott, and D. A. Randall, 2008: Evaluation of the simulated interannual and subseasonal variability in an AMIP-style simulation using the CSU Multi-scale Modeling Framework. J. Climate, 21, 413-431.
Li, J.-L. F., D. Waliser, C. Woods. J. Teixeira. J. Bacmeister. J. Chern, B-W Shen, A. Tompkins, W.-K. Tao, M. Kohler, 2008: Comparisons of Satellite Liquid Water Estimates with ECMWF and GMAO Analyses, 20th Century IPCC AR4 Climate Simulations, and GCM Simulations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L19710, doi:10. 1029/2008GL035427.
Li, X., W.-K. Tao, A. Khain. J. Simpson and D. Johnson, 2008: Sensitivity of a cloud-resolving model to bulk and explicit-bin microphysics schemes: Part I: Comparisons. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 3-21.
Li, X., W.-K. Tao, A. Khain. J. Simpson and D. Johnson, 2008: Sensitivity of a cloud-resolving model to bulk and explicit-bin microphysics schemes:: Part II: Cloud microphysics and storm dynamics interactions. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 22-40.
Liu, C., and M. W. Moncrieff, 2008: Explicitly simulated tropical convection over idealized warm pools. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D21121, doi:10. 1029/2008JD010206
Medeiros, B. P., B. Stevens, Held, I. M., M. Zhao, D. L. Williamson. J. G. Olson, and C. S. Bretherton, 2008: Aquaplanets, climate sensitivity and low clouds. J. Climate, 21, 4974-4991.
Morrison, H. and W. W. Grabowski, 2008: Modeling supersaturation and sub-grid mixing with two-moment warm bulk microphysics. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 792-812.
Morrison, H., and A. Gettelman, 2008: A new two-moment bulk stratiform cloud microphysics scheme in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM3), Part I: Description and numerical tests. J. Climate, 21, 3642-3659.
Morrison, H., and W. W. Grabowski, 2008: A novel approach for representing ice microphysics in models: Description and tests using a kinematic framework. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 1528-1548.
Norris, P. M., L. Oreopooulos, A. Hou, W.-K. Tao, and X. Zeng, 2008: Clouds and copulas: Part I: Theory for water clouds. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 134, 1843-1864.
Phillips, V. T. J., DeMott, P., and C. Andronache, 2008: An empirical parametrisation of heterogeneous ice nucleation for multiple chemical species of aerosol, J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
Shige, S., Y. N. Takayabu, and W.-K. Tao, 2008: Spectral retrieved of latent heating profiles from TRMM PR data. Part III: Moistening estimates over the tropical ocean regions. J. Applied Meteor. Climatol., 47, 620-640.
Slawinska, J., W. W. Grabowski, H. Pawlowska, and A. A. Wyszogrodzki, 2008: Optical properties of shallow convective clouds diagnosed from a bulk-microphysics large-eddy simulation. J. Climate, 21, 1639-1647.
Sobel, A. H., E. D. Maloney, Bellon, G., and D. M. Frierson, 2008: The role of surface heat fluxes in tropical intraseasonal oscillations. Nature Geoscience, 1, 653 - 657.
Stevens, Bjorn and Jean-Louis Brenguier, 2008: Cloud Controlling Factors -- Low Clouds, Ernst Strungmann Forum Contribution to Perturbed Clouds in the Climate System, Heintzenberg and Charslon Eds., MIT Press
Stevens, Bjorn and Axel Seifert, 2008: Understanding macrophysical outcomes of microphysical choices in simulations of shallow cumulus convection. J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 86A, 143-162.
Waliser, D. E. . J. F. Li, C. Woods, R. Austin. J. Bacmeister. J. Chern, A. D. Genio. J. Jiang, Z. Kuang, H. Meng, P. Minnis, S. Platnick, W. B. Rossow, G. Stephens, S. Sun-Mack, W.-K. Tao, A. Tompkins, D. Vane, C. Walker, D. Wu, 2008: Cloud Ice: A Climate Model Challenge With Signs and Expectations of Progress. J. Geoph. Res., 114, D00A21, doi:10. 1029/2008JD010015.
Wang, D., X. Li, W.-K. Tao, Y. Liu and H. Zhou, 2009: Torrential rainfall processes associated with a landfall of severe tropical storm Bills (2006): A cloud-resolving modeling study. Atmos. Res., 91, 94-104.
Yamaguchi, T., and D. A. Randall, 2008: Large-eddy simulation of evaporatively driven entrainment in cloud-topped mixed layers. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 1481-1504.
Zeng, X., 2008: The influence of radiation on ice crystal spectrum in the upper troposphere. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 134, 609-620.
Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 2008: A choice of prognostic variables for long-term cloud-resolving modeling. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 86, No. 6, (in press).
Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, S. Lang, A. Hou, M. Zhang, and J. Simpson, 2008: On the sensitivity of atmospheric ensemble to cloud microphysics in long-term cloud-resolving model simulations. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, Special Issue on high-resolution cloud models, 86A, 45-65.
Zhang, M., and C. S. Bretherton, 2008: Mechanisms of low cloud climate feedback in idealized single-column simulations with the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM3). J. Climate, 21, 4859-4878.
Zhang, Y., S. A. Klein, C. Liu, B. Tian, R. T. Marchand, J. M. Haynes, R. B. McCoy, Y. Zhang, and T. P. Ackerman, 2008: On the diurnal cycle of deep convection, high-level cloud, and upper troposphere water vapor in the Multiscale Modeling Framework. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D16105, doi:10.1029/2008JD009905.

2007

Benedict, J., and D. A. Randall, 2007: Observed Characteristics of the MJO Relative to Maximum Rainfall. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2332-2354.
D'Amico, R., P. Vermigli, and S. S. Canetto, 2007: Women as academics: The case of Italy. In K. A. Fanti (Ed.), Psychological Science: Research, theory and future directions, (pp. 11-20). Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece.
DeMott, C., and D. A. Randall, 2007: Convective precipitation variability as a tool for general circulation model analysis. J. Climate, 20, 91-112.
Durran, D.R., and A. Arakawa, 2007: Generalizing the Boussinesq Approximation to Stratified Compressible Flow. Comps Rendus Mecanique, 355, 655-664.
Grabowski, W. W., 2007: Representation of turbulent mixing and buoyancy reversal in bulk cloud models. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3666-3680.
Juang, H.-M., Tao, W.-K., Zeng, X., Shie, C.-L., Lang, S., and Simpson, J., 2007: Parallelization of the NASA Goddard Cumulus Ensemble Model for Massively Parallel Computing. Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 18.
Konor, C. S., and Arakawa, A., 2007: Multi-Point Explicit Differencing (MED) for Time Integration of The Wave Equation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3862-3875.
Lang, S., W.-K. Tao, R. Cifelli, W. Olson, J. Halverson, S. Rutledge, and J. Simpson, 2007: Improving simulations of convective systems from TRMM LBA: Easterly and westerly regimes. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 1141-1164.
McFarlane, S. A., and W. W. Grabowski, 2007: Optical properties of shallow tropical cumuli derived from ARM ground-based remote sensing. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L06808, doi:10.1029/2006GL028767.
Moncrieff, M. W., M. A. Shapiro, J. M. Shapiro and F. Molteni, 2007: Collaborative research at the intersection of weather and climate. WMO Bulletin, 56, 204-211.

Morrison, H., and W. W. Grabowski, 2007: Comparison of bulk and bin warm rain microphysics models using a kinematic framework. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2839-2861.
Phillips, V. T. J., L. J. Donner, and S. T. Garner, 2007: Nucleation Processes in Deep Convection Simulated by a Cloud-System-Resolving Model with Double-Moment Bulk Microphysics. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 738-761.
Rossow, W.B., and C. Pearl, 2007: 22-year survey of tropical convection penetrating into the lower stratosphere. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L04803, doi: 10.1029/2006GL028635.
Salzmann, M., M. G. Lawrence, V. T. J. Phillips, and L. J. Donner, 2007: Model sensitivity studies regarding the role of the retention coefﬁcient for the scavenging and redistribution o fhighly soluble trace gases by deep convective cloud systems. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 2027-2045.
Tao, W.-K., 2007: Cloud resolving modeling. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan. (submitted).
Toy, M. D., and D. A. Randall, 2007: Comment on the article "Vertical discretizations for compressible Euler equation atmospheric models giving optimal representation of normal modes" by Thuburn and Woollings. J. Comp. Phys., 223, 82-88.
Tulich, S. N., D. A. Randall, and B. E. Mapes, 2007: Vertical-mode and cloud decomposition of large-scale convectively coupled gravity waves in a two-dimensional cloud-resolving model. J. Atmos. Sci, 64, 1220-1229.
Wyant, M., et al., 2007: A Single-Column-Model Intercomparison of a heavily drizzling stratocumulus-topped boundary layer. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24204, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008536.

2006

Cheng A., and K.-M. Xu, 2006: Simulation of shallow cumuli and their transition to deep convective clouds by cloud-resolving models closures. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 132, 359-382.
Hosoi, S. A., 2006: Differential attrition from graduate engineering programs: Is it a factor in the under-representation of women among engineering doctorates?
Khairoutdinov, M., and D. A. Randall, 2006: High-resolution simulations of shallow-to-deep convection transition over land. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 3421-3436.
Ovtchinnikov, M., T. P. Ackerman, R. T. Marchand, and M. F. Khairoutdinov, 2006: Evaluation of the Multi-scale Modeling Framework using data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program, J. Climate, 19, 1716-1729.
Trent, Kimberly, 2006: Effect of the Gulf of Mexico's mixed layer depth on hurricane intensity in the warming environment. Published in Earth, Wind, Sea, and Sky: Protege Abstracts 2006. This volume contains abstracts written by each SOARS protege concerning their summer research. The publication is not peer-reviewed by an external community, but the protege's work was reviewed by Trent's mentoring team.
Wyant, M. E., C. S. Bretherton. J. T. Bacmeister. J. T. Kiehl, I. M. Held, M. Zhao, S. A. Klein, and B. A. Soden, 2006: A comparison of tropical cloud properties and responses in GCMs using mid-tropospheric vertical velocity. Climate Dyn., 27, 261-279.