Climatic Effects of / Controls on Mesoscale Processes

Publications

(1992 - 1995)

Refereed Publications

Gong, X.-F., and M.B. Richman, 1992: A study of statistical experiment for the application of principal component analysis to regional climate patterns. Scientia Atmospherica Sinica, 16, 649-658.

Gong, X.-F., and M.B. Richman, 1995: An examination of cluster analysis methodology in geophysical research. Part I: Precipitation data. J. Climate, 8, in press.

Kogan Y. L., 1993: Drop size separation in numerically simulated convective clouds and its effect on warm rain formation. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1238-1253

Kogan, Y.L., M.P. Khairoutdinov, D.K. Lilly, Z.N. Kogan, and Q. Liu, 1995: Modeling of stratocumulus cloud layers in a large eddy simulation model with explicit microphysics. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, in press.

Kogan, Z.N., D.K. Lilly, Y.L. Kogan, and V. V. Filyushkin, 1995: Study of the effects of cloud microphysics on solar radiative properties of stratocumulus cloud layers. Atmos. Res., 35, 157-172.

Kogan Y. L. , D. K. Lilly, Z. N. Kogan, and V. V. Filyushkin, 1994: The effect of CCN regeneration on the evolution of stratocumulus cloud layers. Atmos. Res., 33, 137-150.

Kogan Y.L., and W. J. Martin, 1994: On parameterization of bulk condensation in numerical cloud models. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 1728-1739.

Lamb, P.J., and R.A. Peppler, 1992: Further case studies of tropical Atlantic surface atmospheric and oceanic patterns associated with Subsaharan drought. J. Climate, 5, 476-488.

Petersen, M.S., P.J. Lamb, and K.E. Kunkel, 1995: Implementation of a semi-physical model for examining solar radiation in the Midwest. J. Appl. Meteor., 34, in press.

Pryor, S.C., T.E. Hoffer, T.D. Davies, and M.B. Richman, 1995: Synoptic scale controls on the occurrence of regional haze at two remote monitoring sites in the southwestern U.S.A. Atmos. Env., 29A, in press.

Richman, M.B., 1993: Comments on: "The effect of domain shape on principal component analyses". Int. J. Climatol., 13, 203-218.

Richman, M.B., and S.J. Vermette, 1993: The use of Procrustes Target Analysis to discriminate dominant source regions of fine sulfur in the western United States. Atmos. Env., 27A, 475-481.

Ropelewski, C.F., P.J. Lamb, and D.H. Portis, 1993: The global climate for June to August 1990: Drought returns to Subsaharan West Africa and warm Southern Oscillation episode conditions develop in the central Pacific. J. Climate, 6, 2188-2212.

Shapiro A., and Y. L. Kogan, 1994: On the mechanism of vortex formation due to multicell cloud interaction. Atmos. Res., 33,125-136.

Smith, K., and M.B. Richman, 1993: Recent hydrologic fluctuations and their effects on water resources in Illinois. Climatic Change, 15, 249-269.

Zangvil, A., D.H. Portis, and P.J. Lamb, 1993: Diurnal variations in the water vapor budget components over central North America in summer 1979. Interactions Between Global Climate Subsystems: The Legacy of Hann, Geophysical Monograph Volume 75 (G.A. McBean and M. Hantel, edits.), IUGG Volume 15, 53-63.

Unrefereed Publications

Bell, M.A., and P.J. Lamb, 1994: Temporal variations in the rainfall characteristics of the disturbance lines over Subsaharan West Africa: 1951-90. Proceedings of International Conference on Monsoon Variability and Prediction, Volume 1, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 35-41.

Birmingham, D.L. and P.J. Lamb, 1994: Diagnostics of growing season rainfall fluctuations in central North America. Proceedings of Eighteenth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 283-286.

Gong, X.-F. and M.B. Richman, 1992: An examination of methodological issues in clustering North American precipitation. Preprints, 5th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Environment Canada, Atmospheric Environment Service, Toronto, J103-J108. [Also appeared in Preprints, Twelfth Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences.]

Kogan Y. L., 1992: Drop size separation as a mechanism of warm rain formation. Preprints of the 11th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Montreal, Canada, 276-279.

Kogan, Y.L., Z. N. Kogan, D.K. Lilly, and M. F. Khayroutdinov: 1994: On parameterization of optical depth in GCM and global climate models. Proceedings of Fourth ARM Science Team Meeting, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C., in press.

Kogan, Y. L., Z. N. Kogan, D. K. Lilly, and M. F. Khayroutdinov: 1994: Evaluation of two radiative parameterizations using a 3-D LES microphysical model. Preprints of Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, American Meteorological Society, Boston.

Kogan Y. L., D. K. Lilly, Z. N. Kogan, and V. V. Filyushkin, 1992: A 3-D large-eddy simulation model of a stratocumulus cloud layer with explicit formulation of microphysical and radiative processes. Preprints of the 11th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Montreal, Canada, 340-343.

Kogan Z. N., D. K. Lilly, and Y. L. Kogan, 1992: The sensitivity of solar radiative properties to cloud microphysics in low cloud layer simulations. Preprints of the 11th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Montreal, Canada, 793-796.

Kogan Z. N., D. K. Lilly, and Y. L. Kogan, and V. V. Filyushkin, 1993: The sensitivity of optical and radiative properties to cloud microphysics in simulations of stratocumulus clouds. Preprints of The International Symposium on High Optics and Atmospheric Radiation, Tromso, Norway.

Kogan Y. L., and S. S. Yum, 1992: Parameterization of water-soluble component of aerosol particles in numerical cloud models.Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols, 177-180.

Lamb, P.J. (Ed.), 1992: The 1988-89 Drought in Illinois: Causes, Dimensions, and Impacts. Illinois State Water Survey Research Report 121, Champaign, 154 pp.

Lamb, P.J., K.C. Crawford, F.V. Brock, R.M. Rabin, 1992: Vision statement for research and educational outreach for the ARM CART Southern Great Plains Locale. Proceedings of the Second Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting, U.S. Department of Energy, CONF-9110336, UC-402, Washington, D.C., 141-143.

Lilly, D. K., Y. L. Kogan, Z. N. Kogan, and V. V. Filyushkin: 1993: Simulations of stratocumulus clouds with emphasis on particle physics and aerosol distributions. Preprints of Fourth Conference on Global Change Studies, American Meteorological Society, Boston, 203-207.

Richman, M.B., 1995: Comparison of low frequency modes of variability in NMC analyses to those generated from the ECHAM GCM. Proceedings of Nineteenth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., in press.

Richman, M.B., J.R. Angel, and X.-F. Gong, 1992: Determination of dimensionality in eigenanalysis. Preprints, Fifth International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Environment Canada, Atmospheric Environment Service, Toronto, 229-235.

Richman, M.B. and X.-F. Gong, 1992: Cluster analysis of growing season precipitation in central and eastern North America. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 286-297.

Richman, M.B. and X.-F. Gong, 1993: Relationships between the definition of the hyperplane width and the fidelity of the resulting PC loading patterns. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 372-379.

Richman, M.B., P.J. Lamb, A. Zangvil, and J.R. Angel, 1992: Multivariate statistical analysis of precipitation associated with North American storm tracks. Preprints, 12th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, American Meteorological Society, Boston, 277-283.

Richman, M.B. and D.L. Montroy, 1994: An intercomparison of North American precipitation anomalies revealed by tropical Pacific SSTs and the SOI for warm and cold events. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 41-45.

Shapiro A. and Y. L. Kogan, 1992: On vortex formation in a numerical simulation of multicell cloud interaction. Preprints of the 11th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Montreal, Canada, 668-671.

Zangvil, A., D.H. Portis, and P.J. Lamb, 1992: Relationships between water vapor budget components over central North America in summer 1979. Proceedings of Sixteenth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 298-304.

Zangvil, A., D.H. Portis, and P.J. Lamb, 1994: Investigation of 1988 drought in the midwestern U.S. using water vapor budget analysis. Proceedings of Eighteenth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 236-239.

Zangvil, A., A. Sasson, V. Isackson, D.H. Portis, and P.J. Lamb, 1993: Behavior of the large-scale moisture field and its relation to precipitation. Proceedings of International Workshop on Regional Implications of Future Climate Change, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Israel Ministry of the Environment, Jerusalem, 108-120.

B.S. (Honors) Theses Completed

Bell, M.A., 1994: Temporal Variation in the Characteristics of Rainfall Disturbances of the West African Sahel.

Montroy, D.L., 1993: On the Relation of North American Precipitation to the El Nino-Southern Oscillation.

M.S. Theses/Research Papers Completed

Birmingham, D.L., 1995: Diagnostic Analysis of Afternoon Half-Day (1800-0600 UTC) Rainfall for May-August in the Central United States. (Awaiting Final Examination)

Gong, X.-F., 1994: On the Application of Cluster Analysis to Growing Season Precipitation Data in North American East of the Rockies.

Yum, S.S., 1992: Parameterization of Water-Soluble Component of Aerosol Particles in Numerical Cloud Models.

Zheng, F.-S., 1992: Spectral Diffusion of the Solution of the Condensational Growth Equation in an Eulerian Dropsize Framework.

M.S. Theses in Progress

Finch, J.D: Relations Between Subsaharan Tropospheric Structure and Rainfall.

McManus, G.L.: A Solar Radiation and Cloud Climatology for the U.S. Great Plains.

Montroy, D.L.: Meso-to-Synoptic Scale Weather System Characteristics Associated with ENSO-Related Precipitation Variability in North America East of the Rockes.

Ph.D. Dissertations in Progress

Khayroutdinov, M.F.: Drizzle process in stratocumulus cloud layers and its parameterization for large scale models.

Liu, Q: Cloud processing of aerosols and its climatic effect.

Ovtchinnikov, M. V: Study of ice-phase clouds in a cloud model with explicit formulation of ice and liquid phase processes.