Rain in Cumulus Over the Ocean (RICO) Publications

RICO (clouds & climate processes)

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This is a non-authorative, alphabetical, list of articles based on data collected during the RICO field campaign. Clicking on the links below often takes you to the publisher's website for the article, if it is in print already. Unless otherwise noted, articles are copyrighted by the journals in which they are published, and are made available here for noncommercial use courtesy of the publisher. Articles published in American Meteorological Society Journals are subject to the AMS disclaimer, which is similar to disclaimers maintained by other publishers. Please read before downloading any articles.

Refereed Articles (including in press and submitted articles)

Abel, S.J. and B.J. Shipway, 2007: A comparison of cloud-resolving model simulations of trade wind cumulus with aircraft observations taken during RICO. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 133, 781-794.
Colon-Robles, M., R.M. Rauber, J.B. Jensen, 2006: Influence of low-level wind speed on droplet spectra near cloud base in trade wind cumulus, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L20814, doi:10.1029/2006GL027487.
Ellis, S. M. and J. Vivekanadan, 2007: "Water Vapor Estimates Using Simultaneous Dual-wavelength Radar Observations" J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., submitted (September 2007).
Genkova, I., G. Seiz, P. Zuidema, G. Zhao, and L. Di Girolamo, 2007: Cloud Top Height Comparisons from
ASTER, MISR, and MODIS for Trade Wind Cumuli. Rem. Sens. Env., 107, pp. 211-222.
Gerber, H., G. Frick, J.B. Jensen and J.G. Hudson, 2008: Entrainment, Mixing, and Microphysics in Trade-Wind Cumulus, J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, in press.
Hudson, James G., and Subhashree Misha, 2007: Relationships Between CCN and Cloud Microphysics Variations in Clean Maritime Air, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16804, doi:10.1029/2007GL030044.
Knight, Charles A., L. Jay Miller, and Robert A. Rilling, 2007: Aspects of Precipitation Development in Trade Wind Cumulus Revealed by Differential Reflectivity at S Band J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 2563-2580.
Nuijens, Louise, Bjorn Stevens and A. Pier Siebesma, 2008: The environment of precipitating shallow convection, J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
Rauber, R. M., Bjorn Stevens and co-authors, 2007: Rain in (shallow) cumulus over the ocean--The RICO campaign,Bull. of the American Meteorol. Soc., 88, 1912–1928.
Rauber, R. M., Bjorn Stevens and co-authors, 2007: Electronic Supplement to Rain in (shallow) cumulus over the ocean--The RICO campaign, Bull. of the American Meteorol. Soc., 88, S12-S18.
Rauber, R. M., and co-authors, 2007: In the driver's seat--RICO and education, Bull. of the American Meteorol. Soc., 88, 1929-1937.
Snodgrass, Eric R., Larry Di Girolamo, and Robert M. Rauber, 2008: Precipitation Characteristics of Trade Wind Clouds during RICO Derived from Radar, Satellite and Aircraft Measurements, J. Appl. Meteorol. and Climatol., in press.
Stevens, Bjorn and Axel Seifert, 2008: Understanding macrophysical outcomes of microphysical choices in simulations of shallow cumulus convection, J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, in press.
Xue, H., G. Feingold and B. Stevens, 2007: Aerosol Effects on Clouds, Precipitation, and the Organization of Shallow Cumulus Convection, J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 392-406.
Zhao, G., and L. Di Girolamo, 2006: Cloud fraction errors for trade wind cumuli from EOS-Terra instruments. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L20802.
Zhao, Guangyu and Larry Di Girolamo, 2007: Statistics on the macrophysical properties of trade wind cumuli over the tropical western Atlantic, J. Geophys. Res., 112, L20814, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007371.

Theses, Reports, Popular Articles and Extended Abstracts

Donaher, Shauna 2007: Mean Boundary Layer Structure and Turbulence Associated with Fair Weather Cumulus Clouds During RICO. Masters Thesis, University of Miami.
Nuijens, L., 2005: "Op jacht naar cumulus tijdens RICO (The hunt for cumulus during RICO), Meteorologica 14-1, The Netherlands.
Nuijens, L., 2005: Estimating precipitation from radar observations in the trade-wind cumulus region", Master's thesis, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Nuijens, L., 2006: A study on the relations between thermodynamic profiles and rainfall in the trade-wind region, Master's thesis, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.