Peter Blossey

Research Associate Professor, Atmospheric and Climate Science

ATG 711

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

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Areas of Expertise
  • Cloud-Aerosol Interactions
  • Cloud Feedbacks
  • Atmospheric Convection
  • Numerical Modeling
  • Water Isotopologues
Awards
  • 2018 AGU Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing from Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES)
  • 2016 AGU Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing from Reviews of Geophysics
Service
  • Outreach: Helped host 13 visits by elementary and middle school students to the Atmospheric Sciences department at the University of Washington, 2015–2019. My role in hosting included leading discussions of weather, climate and careers in atmospheric science, giving tours of the weather instruments on the roof, and performing or assisting with demonstrations of atmospheric phenomena.
  • Convener of AGU Fall Meeting Sessions on Cirrus in the Tropical Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, 2020, 2021, 2022.
  • Organization within PIRE Cirrus project: coordination of an international online journal club 2019–2023 (77 meetings), primary or co-organizer of annual team meetings 2019 (Friday Harbor), 2020 (online), 2021 (online), 2023 (Friday Harbor).
  • Co-organizer of CGILS, the CFMIP/GASS Intercomparison of Large Eddy and Single Column Models, 2011–2016. This was a cooperative effort of the Cloud Feedbacks Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) and Global Atmospheric System Studies (GASS) to better constrain low cloud feedbacks using high-resolution large eddy simulation models.
Selected publications

  • McCoy, I. L., Wyant, M. C., Blossey, P. N., Bretherton, C. S. & Wood, R., 2024. Aitken Mode Aerosols Buffer Decoupled Mid-latitude Boundary Layer Clouds Against Precipitation Depletion. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039572. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD039572

  • Atlas, R. L., Bretherton, C. S., Sokol, A. B., Blossey, P. N., & Khairoutdinov, M. F. (2024). Tropical cirrus are highly sensitive to ice microphysics within a nudged global storm-resolving model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, e2023GL105868. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105868

  • Chun, J.-Y., Wood, R., Blossey, P., and Doherty, S. J., 2023.  Microphysical, macrophysical, and radiative responses of subtropical marine clouds to aerosol injections.  Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 1345-1368, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-1345-2023

  • Chris Terai, Michael Pritchard, Chris Bretherton, Peter Blossey (2020).  The impact of resolving sub-kilometer processes on aerosol-cloud interactions in global model simulations.  J. Adv. Model. Earth Sys., e2020MS002274. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002274

  • Christopher S. Bretherton and Peter N. Blossey, 2017.  Understanding mesoscale aggregation of shallow cumulus convection using large-eddy simulation.  J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 9, 2798-2821, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017MS000981

  • M. Moore, Z. Kuang and P. N. Blossey, 2014.  A moisture budget perspective of the amount effect.  Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 1329-1335, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058302

  • P. N. Blossey, C. S. Bretherton, M. Zhang, A. Cheng, S. Endo, T. Heus, Y. Liu, A. Lock, S. R. de Roode and K.-M. Xu, 2013: Marine low cloud sensitivity to an idealized climate change: The CGILS LES Intercomparison.  J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 5, 234-258, https://doi.org/10.1002/jame.20025