On this page, you will find several resources. First, I will collect unpublished (unpublishable?!) manuscripts and essays here. Below that, you will find a bibliography of peer-reviewed and informal published articles by myself and collaborators. Finally, I include a list of references I have found useful in severe weather research. These lists will be developed as time permits. If you want a source of other web sites with easier reading about severe weather, click on the “easy” button above.
Hall of Disreputable Manuscripts and Essays
First, I am making available a few manuscripts that failed to pass the muster of peer review. In my opinion, there are times when peer review breaks down. There can be strong differences of opinion on how the atmosphere behaves, and unfortunately these personal feelings can spill over into the review process and cripple scientific objectivity. I have had a decent fraction of my manuscripts rejected, and there are times when I must agree with the reviewers… I simply failed to communicate information effectively, failed to reason correctly, reached conclusions not carefully derived from the facts presented, etc. But there are a few manuscripts that probably contain some useful information, and I post them here to let the reader have access to this information. The reader needs to be aware that my peers have found what they believe are critical shortcomings in these manuscripts, and thus the reader must understand that, if the peer-review process has any merit, these papers may have much less credibility than formally published papers.
Here is a list of the contents of the Hall of Disreputable Manuscripts. Click on any of them to see an online version of the manuscript. Below each reference, I make a few remarks as to the reviewer comments that seemed to weigh most critically in the rejection of the paper.
(The hall is presently empty.)
Rasmussen and Collaborators’ Bibliography
The hyperlinks below all link to the AMS online journal service. I link to the paper abstracts; the reader may wish to download the entire articles from that point. Note that this is a subscription service.
Dimmit, TX tornado at about 0118 UTC in it's rope stage.
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Published or in press…
Markowski, P. M., J. M. Straka, and E. N. Rasmussen, 2002: Direct surface thermodynamic observations within the rear-flank downdrafts of nontornadic and tornadic supercells. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 1692-1721.
Ziegler, Conrad L., Erik N. Rasmussen, Tom R. Shepherd, Andrew I. Watson, Jerry M. Straka, 2001: The evolution of low-level rotation in the 29 May 1995 Newcastle-Graham, Texas, storm complex suring VORTEX.. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 1339–1368.
Rasmussen, E. N., S. Richardson, J. M. Straka, P. M. Markowsi, and D. O. Blanchard, 2000: The association of significant tornadoes with a baroclinic boundary on 2 June 1995. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 174-191.
Markowski, P. M., E. N. Rasmussen, J. M. Straka, and D. C. Dowell, 1998: Observations of low-level baroclinity generated by anvil shadows. Mon. Wea. Rev, 126, 2942-2958.
Markowski, P. M., J. M. Straka, and E. N. Rasmussen, D. O. Blanchard, 1998: Variability of storm-relative helicity during VORTEX. Mon. Wea. Rev, 126, 2959-2971.
Ziegler, C., and E. N. Rasmussen, 1998: The initiation of moist convection at the dryline. Forecasting issues from a case study perspective. Wea. Forecasting, 13, 1106-1131.
Rasmussen, E. N., and D. O. Blanchard, 1998: A baseline climatology of sounding-derived supercell and tornado forecast parameters. Wea. Forecasting 13, 1148-1164
Markowski, P. M., E. N. Rasmussen, and J. M. Straka, 1998: The occurrence of tornadoes in supercells interacting with boundaries during VORTEX-95. Wea. Forecasting, 13, 852-859.
Rasmussen, E. N., and J. M. Straka, 1998: Variations in supercell morphology. Part I: Observations of the role of upper-level storm-relative flow. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 2406-2421
Straka, J. M., and E. N. Rasmussen,1997: Toward improving microphysical parameterizations of conversion processes. J. Applied. Meteor., 36, 896-902.
Wurman, J., J. M. Straka, E. N. Rasmussen, 1997: Design and deployment of a portable, pencil-beam, pulsed Doppler radar. J. Ocean. Atmos. Tech., 14, 1502-1512.
Wurman, J., J. M. Straka, and E. N. Rasmussen, 1996: Fine-scale Doppler radar observations of tornadic storms. Science, 272, 1774-1777.
Straka, J. M., E. N. Rasmussen, and S. E. Fredrickson,1996: A mobile mesonet for fine scale meteorological observations. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 13, 921-936.
Doswell, C. A., III, and E. N. Rasmussen, 1994: The effect of neglecting the virtual temperature correction on CAPE calculations. Weather and Forecasting, 9, 625-629.
Rasmussen, E. N., J. M. Straka, R. Davies-Jones, C. A Doswell III, F. H. Carr, M. D. Eilts, and D. R. MacGorman, 1994: Verifications of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment: VORTEX. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 995-1006.
Rasmussen, E. N., and S. A. Rutledge,1993: Squall line evolution. Part I: Kinematic and reflectivity structure. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 2584-2606 .
Rasmussen, E. N.: Refined supercell and tornado forecast parameters. Submitted to Wea. Forecasting. 9/01; revisions submitted 7/02. Online version.
Rasmussen, E. N., R. P. Davies-Jones, and R. Holle: Terrestrial photogrammetry of weather images acquired in uncontrolled circumstances. Submitted to J. Atmos. Oceanic. Technol., 7/02. Online version.
Gilmore, M. S., J. M. Straka, and E. N. Rasmussen: Precipitation and evolution sensitivity in precipitating deep convective storms: Comparisons between liquid-only and simple ice and liquid phase microphysics. Submitted to Mon. Wea. Rev., 7/02. Online version.