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Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer: An ARM Mobile Facility Deployment. Wood, R., M. Wyant, C. S. Bretherton, J. Rémillard, P. Kollias, J. Fletcher, J. Stemmler, S. deSzoeke, S. E. Yuter, M. Miller, D. Mechem, G. Tselioudis, C. Chiu, J. Mann, E. O’Connor, R. Hogan, X. Dong, M. Miller, V. Ghate, A. Jefferson, Q. Min, P. Minnis, R. Palinkonda, B. Albrecht, E. Luke, C. Hannay, Y. Lin, 2014: Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., in press.
Global and regional modeling of clouds and aerosols in the marine boundary layer during VOCALS: the VOCA Intercomparison. M. C. Wyant, C. S. Bretherton, R. Wood, G. R. Carmichael, A. Clarke, J. Fast, R. C. George, W. I. Gustafson Jr., C. Hannay, A. Lauer, Y. Lin J.-J. Morcrette, J. Mulcahy, P. E. Saide, S. N. Spak, and Q. Yang. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 14, 6537–6587, 2014.
Factors determining the most efficient spray distribution for marine cloud brightening, P. J. Connolly, G. B. McFiggans, and R. Wood. Submitted to Phil. Trans., April 2014.
The effect of solar zenith angle on MODIS cloud optical and microphysical retrievals, D. P. Grosvenor and R. Wood. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Disc., 14, 303-375, 2014.
Aircraft observations of five pockets of open cells sampled during VOCALS REx. C. R. Terai, C. S. Bretherton, R. Wood, and G. Painter. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Disc., 14, 8287-8332, 2014.
A 19-month Record of Marine Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Properties derived from DOE ARM AMF deployment at the Azores: Part I: Cloud Fraction and Single-layered MBL Cloud Properties. X. Dong, B. Xi, A. Kennedy. P. Minnis, and R. Wood. J. Clim., in press, 2014.
Climatology of stratocumulus cloud morphologies: Microphysical properties and radiative effects. A. Muhlbauer, I. McCoy, and R. Wood. Submitted to Atmos. Chem. Phys, Jan 2013.
Marine boundary layer cloud regimes and POC formation in an LES coupled to a bulk aerosol scheme. A. H. Berner, C. S. Bretherton, R. Wood, and A. Muhlbauer, Submitted to Atmos. Chem. Phys., June 2013.
2014
Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Interactions in the Southeastern Pacific: The VOCALS Program. C. R. Mechoso, R. Wood, R. Weller, C. S. Bretherton, A. D. Clarke, H. Coe , C. Fairall, J. T. Farrar, G. Feingold, R. Garreaud, C. Grados, J. C. McWilliams , S. P. de Szoeke, S. E. Yuter, and P. Zuidema. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 95, 357-37, 2014.
Climate Effects of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions. Daniel Rosenfeld, Steven Sherwood, Robert Wood, Leo Donner. Science, 343, 379-380, 2014.
2013
Climatic change special issue: geoengineering research and its limitations. Robert Wood, Stephen Gardiner and Lauren Hartzell-Nichols. Climatic Change, 121, 427-430, DOI 10.1007/s10584-013-1000-4
Defining success and limits of field experiments to test geoengineering by marine cloud brightening. R. Wood and T. P. Ackerman. Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s10584-013-0932-z, 2013.
US CLIVAR Science Plan. December 2013.
The seasonal cycle of planetary boundary layer depth determined using COSMIC radio occultation data. K.-M. Chan and R. Wood. J. Geophys. Res., May 2013.
Aerosol cloud-mediated radiative forcing: highly uncertain and opposite effects from shallow and deep clouds. Rosenfeld, D., R. Wood, L. Donner, S. Sherwood, 2013. A WCRP Community Position Paper
Community position papers are intended to address current and future research and intellectual challenges that must be tackled by WCRP, and in so doing engage the next generation of scientists who will lead the WCRP over the years and decades ahead.
Microphysical Process Rates and Global Aerosol-Cloud Interactions. A. Gettelman, H. Morrison, C. R. Terai, and R. Wood. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 9855-9867, 2013.
Development and impact of hooks of large droplet concentration on remote southeast Pacific stratocumulus. R. C. George, R. Wood, C. S. Bretherton and G. Painter. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 6305-6328, doi:10.5194/acp-13-6305-2013, 2013.
How forecasts expressing uncertainty are perceived by UK students. J. A. Peachey, D. M. Schultz, R. Morss, P. J. Roebber, R. Wood. Weather, 67, 176-181, 2013.
Aircraft observations of cold pools under marine stratocumulus. C. R. Terai and R. Wood, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Disc, 13, 11023-11069, 2013.
Community Modeling and Long-Term Predictions of the Integrated Water Cycle. Topic Lead and Coauthor, Report from a DoE Workshop, September 2012.
Impacts of aerosol particles on the microphysical and radiative properties of stratocumulus clouds over the southeast Pacific Ocean. C. H. Twohy, J. R. Anderson, D. W. Toohey, M. Andrejczuk, A. Adams, M. Lytle, R. C. George, R. Wood, P. Saide, S. Spak, P. Zuidema, and D. Leon, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 2541–2562, 2013.
2012
On the nature and extent of optically-thin low clouds. L. V. Leahy, R. Wood, R. J. Charlson, C. A. Hostetler, R. R. Rogers, M. A. Vaughan, and D. M. Winker. Submitted to J. Geophys. Res, April 2012.
Marine boundary layer cloud observations at the Azores. J. Rémillard, P. Kollias, E. Luke, and R. Wood. Submitted to J. Climate ., Oct 2011.
Precipitation driving of droplet concentration variability in marine low clouds. R. Wood, D. Leon, M. Lebsock, J. Snider, A. D. Clarke. Submitted to J. Geophys. Res., June 2012.
Aerosol optical depth enhancement in partly cloudy conditions. D. Chand, R. Wood, S. Ghan, M. Wang, M. Ovchinnikov, P. J. Rasch, S. Miller, B. Schichtel, T. Moore. J. Geophys. Res.., 117, D17207, doi:10.1029/2012JD017894, 2012.
Stratocumulus clouds. R. Wood. Review paper, Mon. Wea. Rev., 140, 2373–2423, 2012.
The "Year" of Tropical Convection (May 2008 to April 2010): Climate Variability and Weather Highlights. D. E. Waliser, M. Moncrieff, D. Burrridge, Andreas H. Fink, D. Gochis, B. N. Goswami, B. Guan, P. Harr, J. Heming, H.-H. Hsu, C. Jakob, M. Janiga, R. Johnson, S. Jones, P. Knippertz, J. Marengo, H. Nguyen, M. Pope, Y. Serra, C. Thorncroft, M. Wheeler, R. Wood, S. E. Yuter. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2011BAMS3095.1, August 2012.
Does precipitation susceptibility vary with increasing cloud thickness in marine stratocumulus?
Terai, C. R., R. Wood, D. C. Leon, and P. Zuidema. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 4567-4583, doi:10.5194/acp-12-4567-2012, 2012.
Organic carbon and non-refractory aerosol over the remote Southeast Pacific: oceanic and combustion sources. L. M .Shank, A.D. Clarke ,S. Howell, S. Freitag, V. Brekhovskikh, V. Kapustin, C. McNaughton, T. Campos, and R. Wood. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 557-576, doi:10.5194/acp-12-557-2012, 2012.
Marine Cloud Brightening. J. Latham, K. Bower, T. Choularton, H. Coe, P. Connolly , G. Cooper ,T. Craft, J. Foster, A. Gadian, L. Galbraith, H. Iacovides, D. Johnston, B. Launder, B. Leslie, J. Meyer, A. Neukermans, B. Ormond, B. Parkes, P. J. Rasch, J. Rush, S. Salter, T. Stevenson, H. Wang, Q. Wang, and R. Wood. Phil Trans Roy. Soc. A, 2012, 370, 4217-4262, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0086.
2011
Large-eddy simulation of mesoscale dynamics and entrainment around a pocket of open cells observed in VOCALS RF06. A. H. Berner, C. S. Bretherton, and R. Wood. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 10525-10540, 2011.
The distribution of cloud horizontal sizes . R. Wood, and P. R. Field, J. Clim., 24, 4800-4816, 2011 .
Temperature and water vapor variance scaling in global models: Comparisons to satellite and aircraft data. B. H. Kahn, J. Teixeira, E. J. Fetzer, A. Gettelman, S. M. Hristova-Veleva, X. Huang, A. K. Kochanski, M. Köhler, S. K. Krueger, R. Wood, and M. Zhao. J. Atmos. Sci., 68, 2156-2168, 2011 .
Direct and semi-direct aerosol effects of Southern African biomass burning aerosol. N. Sakaeda, R. Wood, and P. J. Rasch (2011). J. Geophys. Res., 116, D12205, doi:10.1029/2010JD015540.
Southeast Pacific atmospheric composition and variability sampled along 20S during VOCALS-REx. G. Allen, Coe, H., Clarke, A., Bretherton, C., Wood, R., Abel, S. J., Barrett, P., Brown, P., George, R., Freitag, S., McNaughton, C., Howell, S., Shank, L., Kapustin, V., Brekhovskikh, V., Kleinman, L., Lee, Y.-N., Springston, S., Toniazzo, T., Krejci, R., Fochesatto, J., Shaw, G., Krecl, P., Brooks, B., McMeeking, G., Bower, K. N., Williams, P. I., Crosier, J., Crawford, I., Connolly, P., Allan, J. D., Covert, D., Bandy, A. R., Russell, L. M., Trembath, J., Bart, M., McQuaid, J. B., Wang, J., and Chand, D., Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 5237-5262, doi:10.5194/acp-11-5237-2011, 2011.
Large-scale and synoptic meteorology in the south-east Pacific during the observations campaign VOCALS-REx in austral Spring 2008. T. Toniazzo, S. J. Abel, R.Wood, C. R. Mechoso, L. C. Shaffrey. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 4977-5009, doi:10.5194/acp-11-4977-2011, 2011
An aircraft case study of the spatial transition from closed to open mesoscale cellular convection. R. Wood, C. S. Bretherton, D. Leon, A. D. Clarke, P. Zuidema, G. Allen, and
H. Coe, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 2341-2370, doi:10.5194/acp-11-2341-2011, 2011.
The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx): Goals, platforms, and field operations. R. Wood, C. S. Bretherton, C. R. Mechoso, R. A. Weller, B. Huebert, F. Straneo, B. A. Albrecht, H. Coe, G. Allen, G. Vaughan, P. Daum, C. Fairall, D. Chand, L. Gallardo Klenner, R. Garreaud, C. Grados Quispe, D. S. Covert, T. S. Bates, R. Krejci, L. M. Russell, S. de Szoeke, A. Brewer, S. E. Yuter, S. R. Springston, A. Chaigneau, T. Toniazzo, P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, S. J. Abel, W. O. J. Brown, S. Williams, J. Fochesatto, J. Brioude, and K.N. Bower, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 11, 627-654, 2011.
2010
Southeast Pacific stratocumulus clouds, precipitation and boundary layer structure sampled along 20S during VOCALS-REx. C. S. Bretherton, R. Wood, R. C. George, D. Leon, G. Allen, and X. Zheng, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 10639-10654, 2010.
Source Attribution of Climatically Important Aerosol Properties measured at Paposo (Chile) during VOCALS. D. Chand, D.A. Hegg, R. Wood, G.E. Shaw, D. Wallace and D. S. Covert, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 10789-10801, 2010.
Subseasonal variability of low cloud radiative properties over the southeast Pacific Ocean. R. C. George and R. Wood. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 4047-4063, doi:10.5194/acp-10-4047-2010, 2010.
The PreVOCA Experiment: Modeling the lower troposphere in the Southeast Pacific. Wyant, M. C., R. Wood, C.S. Bretherton, C. R. Mechoso, J. Bacmeister, M. A. Balmaseda, B. Barrett, F. Codron, P. Earnshaw, J. Fast, A. Hall, C. Hannay, J. W. Kaiser, H. Kitagawa, S. A. Klein, M. Koehler, J. Manganello, H.-L. Pan, S. Wang, and Y. Wang. Atmos. Chem. Phys.,10, 4757-4774, doi:10.5194/acp-10-4757-2010, 2010.
Modelling microphysical and meteorological controls on precipitation and cloud cellular structures in Southeast Pacific stratocumulus. H. Wang, G. Feingold, R. Wood, and J. Kazil, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 6347-6362, doi:10.5194/acp-10-6347-2010, 2010.
2009
Understanding the importance of microphysics and macrophysics for warm rain in marine low clouds: Part I. Satellite observations. T. Kubar, D. L. Hartmann, and R. Wood. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2953-2972, 2009.
Understanding the importance of microphysics and macrophysics for warm rain in marine low clouds: Part II. Heuristic models of rain formation. R. Wood, T. Kubar, D. L. Hartmann. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2973-2990, 2009.
The diurnal cycle of surface divergence over the global oceans. R. Wood, M. Köhler, R. Bennartz, C. O'Dell, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 135, 1484-1493, 2009
A test of the
simulation of tropical convective cloudiness by a cloud-resolving model. Lopez, M. A., D. L. Hartmann, P. N. Blossey, R. Wood,
C. S. Bretherton, and T. L. Kubar, J. Climate., 22, 2834-2849, 2009.
Satellite-derived direct radiative effect of aerosols
dependent on cloud cover. D. Chand, R. Wood, T. Anderson, S. K. Satheesh, R. J. Charlson. Nature Geosciences, 2, 181-184.
Observational strategies from the micro to meso scale. Brenguier, J.-L. and R. Wood. From the Strüngmann Forum Report, Clouds in the Perturbed Climate System: Their Relationship to Energy Balance, Atmospheric Dynamics, and Precipitation. Edited by Jost Heintzenberg and Robert J. Charlson. 2009. MIT Press ISBN 978-0-262-01287-4
Current Understanding and quantification of clouds in the changing climate system and strategies for reducing critical uncertainties. Johannes Quaas, Rapporteur, S. Bony, W. D. Collins, L. Donner, A. Illingworth, A. Jones, U. Lohmann, M. Satoh, S. E. Schwartz, W-K. Tao, and R. Wood. From the Strüngmann Forum Report, Clouds in the Perturbed Climate System: Their Relationship to Energy Balance, Atmospheric Dynamics, and Precipitation. Edited by Jost Heintzenberg and Robert J. Charlson. 2009. MIT Press ISBN 978-0-262-01287-4
2008
Midlatitude
cyclone compositing to constrain climate model behavior using satellite
observations. Field, P. R., A. Gettelman, R.
Neale, R. Wood, P. J. Rasch and H. Morrison. J.
Clim., 21, 5887-5903.
Studying the vertical variation of cloud droplet effective radius using ship and spaceborne remote sensing data. Chen, R., R. Wood, Z. Li, R. Ferraro, and F-L Chang. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D00A02, doi:10.1029/2007JD009596, 2008
Quantifying
above-cloud aerosol using spaceborne lidar for improved understanding of
cloudy-sky direct climate forcing. Chand, D., T.
L. Anderson, R. Wood, R. J. Charlson, Y. Hu, Z. Liu, M. Vaughan. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D13206, doi:10.1029/2007JD009433, 2008.
Open cellular
structure in marine stratocumulus sheets. Wood, R., K. K. Comstock, C. S. Bretherton, C. Cornish, J. Tomlinson, D.
R. Collins, and C. Fairall. J. Geophys.
Res., 113, D12207, doi:10.1029/2007JD009371, 2008.
Dynamic effects on tropical mean cloud radiative forcing and radiation
budget. Yuan, J., D. L. Hartmann, and R. Wood. J.
Clim., 21, 2337-2351, 2008.
Timescale analysis of aerosol sensitivity during homogeneous freezing and implications for upper tropospheric water vapor budgets. Kay, J. E., and R. Wood. Geophys.
Res. Lett., 35, L10809, doi:10.1029/2007GL032628, 2008
2007
Radiative and convective driving of tropical high clouds.
Kubar, T. L., D. L. Hartmann, and R. Wood. J.
Clim., 20, 5510-5526, 2007.
The three dimensional structure and kinematics of drizzling
stratocumulus.
Comstock, K. K., S. E. Yuter, R. Wood, and C. S. Bretherton. Mon.
Wea. Rev., 135, 3767-3784, 2007.
Cancellation of
aerosol indirect effects in marine stratocumulus through cloud thinning.
R. Wood, J.
Atmos. Sci., 64,
2657-2669, 2007.
The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS).
Wood R., C. R. Mechoso, C. S. Bretherton, B. Huebert, R.
Weller. Clivar Variations, 5,
No 1, 2007.
Precipitation and cloud
structure in midlatitude cyclones.
Field,
P. R. and R. Wood, J. Clim., 20,
233-254, 2007.
Cyclones dataset available
online
BAMS Nowcast Papers of Note
summary
2006
Relationships between optical depth, liquid water path, droplet
concentration, and effective radius in adiabatic layer cloud.
R. Wood., personal note.
The rate of loss of cloud droplets by coalescence in warm clouds.
R. Wood, J.Geophys.
Res., 111,
D21205, doi:10.1029/2006JD007553, 2006.
On therelationship between stratiform low cloud cover and
lower tropospheric stability.
Wood, R., and C. S. Bretherton, J.
Clim.,19, 6425-6432,
2006.
A
characterization of tropical transient activity in the CAM3 atmospheric
hydrologic cycle.
Rasch, P. J., Stevens, M. J., Ricciardulli, L., Dai, A., Negri,
A., Wood, R., Boville, B. A., Eaton, B., and Hack, J. J., J. Clim., 19, 2222-2242, 2006.
Spatial variability
of liquid water path in marine low cloud: The importance of mesoscale cellular
convection.
Wood, R., and Hartmann, D. L., J.Clim., 19,1748-1764, 2006.
Parameterization
of the autoconversion process. Part II: Generalization of the
Sundqvist-type parameterizations.
Liu, Y., Daum,P. H., McGraw, R., and Wood,
R., J. Atmos. Sci., 63,1103-1109, 2006.
2005
Mixed-layer budget
analysis of the diurnal cycle of entrainment in SE Pacific stratocumulus.
Caldwell
, P., Bretherton,
C.S., and Wood, R. J. Atmos. Sci., 62,
3775-3791, 2005.
Integrated EPIC Stratocumulus
dataset available online
Comments on:
``On the parameterization of the autoconversion process. Part I: Analytical
formulation of the Kessler-type parameterizations''
Wood, R., and Blossey, P., J. Atmos. Sci, 62,
3003-3006, 2005.
Drizzle
in stratiform boundary layer clouds. Part I: Vertical and horizontal structure
Wood, R. J.
Atmos. Sci.,62, 3011-3033, 2005.
Drizzle
in stratiform boundary layer clouds. Part II: Microphysical aspects
Wood, R. J.
Atmos. Sci.,62, 3034-3050, 2005.
Pockets
of Open Cells (POCs) and Drizzle in Marine Stratocumulus
Stevens, B., G. Vali, K. Comstock, R. Wood, M. VanZanten, P.H.
Austin, C.S.Bretherton, D.H. Lenschow Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 86, 51-57,
2005
2004
Reflectivity
and rain rate in and below drizzling stratocumulus
Comstock, K. K., Wood, R., Yuter, S. E., and Bretherton, C. S. Quart.
J.Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 130,2891-2919, 2004.
Boundary layer
depth, entrainment and decoupling in the cloud-capped subtropical and tropical
marine boundary layer
Wood, R.,
and Bretherton, C. S. J. Clim., 17,3576-3588, 2004.
The EPIC 2001 Stratocumulus Study
Bretherton,
C. S., Uttal, T., Fairall, C. W., Yuter, S. E., Weller, R. A.,Baumgardner, D.,
Comstock, K., Wood, R. Bull. Am. Meteorol.Soc., 85,
967-977, 2004.
2003
Ice
particle interarrival times measured with a fast FSSP.
Field, P. R., Wood, R., Hirst, E., Greenaway, R., Kaye, P., Brown,
P. R. A., and Smith, J. A. J.Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 20,249-261,
2003.
2002
Diurnal
cycle of liquid water path over the subtropical and tropical oceans
.
Wood, R.,
C. S. Bretherton, andD. L. Hartmann, Geophys. Res. Lett. 10.1029/2002GL015371,
2002
Diurnal cycle dataset available for download
Autoconversion
rate bias in stratiform boundary layer cloud parameterizations.
Wood, R., Field,
P. R. and W. R. Cotton, Atmos.Res., 65, 109-128, 2002.
Comparison of probability
density functions for total specific humidity and saturation deficit humidity,
and consequences for cloud parameterization.
Price, J.
D., and R. Wood, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 128,2059-2072,
2002
How important is the spectral
ripening effect in stratiform boundary layer clouds?
Studies using
simple trajectory analysis.
Wood, R., S.
Irons, and P. R. Jonas, J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 2681-2693, 2002
2001
Liquid water path variability
in unbroken marine stratocumulus clouds.
Wood, R., and J.
P. Taylor, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 127,2635-2662, 2001
Small-scale and mesoscale
variabilityof scalars in cloudy boundary layers: One-dimensional probability
density functions.
Larson,
V. E., Wood, R., Field, P. R., Golaz, J-C., Vonder Haar, T. H.,
and Cotton,W. R., J. Atmos. Sci.:58, 1978-1994, 2001.
Systematic
biases in the microphysics and thermodynamics of numerical models
that ignore
subgrid-scale variability.
Larson,
V. E., Wood, R., Field, P. R., Golaz, J-C., Vonder Haar, T. H.,
and Cotton,W. R., J. Atmos. Sci.:58, 1117-1128, 2001.
Modification of the aerosol size distribution within exhaust plumes
produced by diesel-powered ships. Osborne, S. R., D. W. Johnson, K. N. Bower, R. Wood, 2001: J. Geophys. Res., 106, 9827-9842, 2001
2000
Parametrization of the effect
of drizzle upon the droplet effective radius in stratocumulus clouds.
Wood, R., Quart.
J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc.: 126, 3309-3325, 2000.
Rejected
comment on a paper by Davis
et al. (1999) which suggests that enhancedsmall scale variability in LWC can
actually be an artifact of the measurementtechnique. Wood, R. and Field, P. R.
Some
impact of pollutants on the development and optical properties of stratocumulus
clouds.
Ghosh, S.,Jonas, P.
R., and Wood, R., Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc.: 126,2851-2872,
2000.
Relationships between Total
Water,Condensed Water, and Cloud Fraction
in Stratiform
Clouds Examined Using Aircraft Data.
Wood, R. and
Field, P. R.,J. Atmos. Sci.: 57, 1888-1905,2000.
Soluble
ion chemistry of theatmospheric aerosol and SO2 concentrations over the eastern
North Atlanticduring ACE2
M. O. Andreae,
W. Elbert, R. Gabriel, D. W. Johnson,S. Osborne, R. Wood, Tellus: 52B,
1066-1087, 2000.