Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volume 82 (2025): Issue 2 (Feb 2025)

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The Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (JAS) publishes basic research related to the physics, dynamics, and chemistry of the atmosphere of Earth and other planets, with emphasis on the quantitative and deductive aspects of the subject.

ISSN: 0022-4928; eISSN: 1520-0469

Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

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Environmental conditions controlling the morphology of shallow orographic convection

Jialin Liu

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Daniel J. Kirshbaum

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-24-0113.1

Published Online:: 03 Feb 2025

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Energy gain kernel for climate feedbacks. Part II: Spatial pattern of surface amplification factor and its dependency on climate mean state

Xiaoming Hu

Ming Cai

Jie Sun

Feng Ding

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Jing Feng

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-24-0079.1

Published Online:: 30 Jan 2025

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An Idealized Parameter Study of Destabilization and Convection Initiation in Coastal Regions. Part I: Calm or Offshore Synoptic-Scale Flow

Christian H. Boyer

Jason M. Keeler

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Brian C. Rakoczy

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0180.1

Published Online:: 30 Jan 2025

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An Idealized Parameter Study of Destabilization and Convection Initiation in Coastal Regions. Part II: Onshore Synoptic-Scale Flow

Christian H. Boyer

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Jason M. Keeler

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0179.1

Published Online:: 30 Jan 2025

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The impact of transience in the interaction between orographic gravity waves and mean flow

Felix Jochum

Ray Chew

François Lott

Georg S. Voelker

Jan Weinkaemmerer

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Ulrich Achatz

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-24-0158.1

Published Online:: 30 Jan 2025

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Anelastic Convective Entities. Part 1: Formulation and implication for nighttime convection

Yi-Hung Kuo

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J. David Neelin

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0214.1

Published Online:: 24 Jan 2025

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Anelastic Convective Entities. Part 2: Adjustment processes and convective cold top

Yi-Hung Kuo

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J. David Neelin

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-24-0130.1

Published Online:: 24 Jan 2025

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Broadening of cloud droplet spectra through eddy hopping: Why did we all have it wrong?

Wojciech W. Grabowski

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-24-0082.1

Published Online:: 16 Dec 2024

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Theoretical analysis of water-droplet condensation and evaporation in prescribed environment with radiation

M. Q. Brewster

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0162.1

Published Online:: 22 Oct 2024

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Small-scale wind fluctuations within melting layers of winter storms: results from WINTRE-MIX

Troy J. Zaremba

Justin R. Minder

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Katja Friedrich

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-24-0087.1

Published Online:: 18 Oct 2024

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The structural compactness of a tropical cyclone seed affects its persistence

Kuan-Yu Lu

Daniel R. Chavas

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Danyang Wang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0149.1

Published Online:: 23 Sep 2024

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Airborne measurements of mesoscale divergence at high latitudes during HALO-(AC)³

Fiona M. Paulus

Michail Karalis

Geet George

Gunilla Svensson

Manfred Wendisch

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Roel A. J. Neggers

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-24-0034.1

Published Online:: 07 Aug 2024

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Surface drag on deformed topographic boundaries: Tests using a semi-idealized model

Yi Li

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Craig Epifanio

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0235.1

Published Online:: 17 May 2024

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Large-amplitude quasi-stationary Rossby wave events in ERA5 and the CESM2: features, precursors, and model biases in Northern Hemisphere winter

Cuiyi Fei

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Rachel H. White

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0042.1.1

Published Online:: 28 Jul 2023

Volume 82 (2025): Issue 2 (Feb 2025)

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A Study of Aerosol Impacts on Clouds and Precipitation Development in a Large Winter Cyclone

Gregory Thompson

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Trude Eidhammer

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-13-0305.1

Cited by:: 484

Published Online:: Oct 2014

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Review of Aerosol–Cloud Interactions: Mechanisms, Significance, and Challenges

Jiwen Fan

Yuan Wang

Daniel Rosenfeld

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Xiaohong Liu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-16-0037.1

Cited by:: 449

Published Online:: Nov 2016

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Parameterization of Cloud Microphysics Based on the Prediction of Bulk Ice Particle Properties. Part I: Scheme Description and Idealized Tests

Hugh Morrison

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Jason A. Milbrandt

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-14-0065.1

Cited by:: 366

Published Online:: Jan 2015

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Spectrally Consistent Scattering, Absorption, and Polarization Properties of Atmospheric Ice Crystals at Wavelengths from 0.2 to 100 μm

Ping Yang

Lei Bi

Bryan A. Baum

Kuo-Nan Liou

George W. Kattawar

Michael I. Mishchenko

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Benjamin Cole

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-12-039.1

Cited by:: 318

Published Online:: Jan 2013

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Moisture Modes and the Eastward Propagation of the MJO

Adam Sobel

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Eric Maloney

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-12-0189.1

Cited by:: 293

Published Online:: Jan 2013

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Representing Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Convection in Large-Scale Models

Peter Bechtold

Noureddine Semane

Philippe Lopez

Jean-Pierre Chaboureau

Anton Beljaars

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Niels Bormann

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-13-0163.1

Cited by:: 279

Published Online:: Feb 2014

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A Particle-Surface-Area-Based Parameterization of Immersion Freezing on Desert Dust Particles

Monika Niemand

Ottmar Möhler

Bernhard Vogel

Heike Vogel

Corinna Hoose

Paul Connolly

Holger Klein

Heinz Bingemer

Paul DeMott

Julian Skrotzki

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Thomas Leisner

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-11-0249.1

Cited by:: 275

Published Online:: Oct 2012

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The Effect of Mesh Resolution on Convective Boundary Layer Statistics and Structures Generated by Large-Eddy Simulation

Peter P. Sullivan

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Edward G. Patton

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-10-05010.1

Cited by:: 253

Published Online:: Oct 2011

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Have Aerosols Caused the Observed Atlantic Multidecadal Variability?

Rong Zhang

Thomas L. Delworth

Rowan Sutton

Daniel L. R. Hodson

Keith W. Dixon

Isaac M. Held

Yochanan Kushnir

John Marshall

Yi Ming

Rym Msadek

Jon Robson

Anthony J. Rosati

MingFang Ting

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Gabriel A. Vecchi

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-12-0331.1

Cited by:: 250

Published Online:: Apr 2013

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The MJO as a Dispersive, Convectively Coupled Moisture Wave: Theory and Observations

Ángel F. Adames

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Daehyun Kim

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-15-0170.1

Cited by:: 244

Published Online:: Mar 2016

Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow

Edward N. Lorenz

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1963)020<0130:DNF>2.0.CO;2

Page(s):: 130–141

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Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity

Syukuro Manabe

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Richard T. Wetherald

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1967)024<0241:TEOTAW>2.0.CO;2

Page(s):: 241–259

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The Effects of Doubling the CO2 Concentration on the climate of a General Circulation Model

Syukuro Manabe

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Richard T. Wetherald

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1975)032<0003:TEODTC>2.0.CO;2

Page(s):: 3–15

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What Is the Predictability Limit of Midlatitude Weather?

Fuqing Zhang

Y. Qiang Sun

Linus Magnusson

Roberto Buizza

Shian-Jiann Lin

Jan-Huey Chen

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Kerry Emanuel

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0269.1

Page(s):: 1077–1091

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The Mysteries of Mammatus Clouds: Observations and Formation Mechanisms

David M. Schultz

Katharine M. Kanak

Jerry M. Straka

Robert J. Trapp

Brent A. Gordon

Dusan S. Zrnić

George H. Bryan

Adam J. Durant

Timothy J. Garrett

Petra M. Klein

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Douglas K. Lilly

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS3758.1

Page(s):: 2409–2435

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Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Convective Adjustment

Syukuro Manabe

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Robert F. Strickler

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1964)021<0361:TEOTAW>2.0.CO;2

Page(s):: 361–385

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Description of Global-Scale Circulation Cells in the Tropics with a 40–50 Day Period

Roland A. Madden

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Paul R. Julian

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1972)029<1109:DOGSCC>2.0.CO;2

Page(s):: 1109–1123

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A Formulation of a Phase-Independent Wave-Activity Flux for Stationary and Migratory Quasigeostrophic Eddies on a Zonally Varying Basic Flow

Koutarou Takaya

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Hisashi Nakamura

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<0608:AFOAPI>2.0.CO;2

Page(s):: 608–627

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Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves Simulated on an Aquaplanet in a Global Nonhydrostatic Experiment

Tomoe Nasuno

Hirofumi Tomita

Shinichi Iga

Hiroaki Miura

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Masaki Satoh

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JAS2395.1

Page(s):: 1246–1265

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THE TERMINAL VELOCITY OF FALL FOR WATER DROPLETS IN STAGNANT AIR

Ross Gunn

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Gilbert D. Kinzer

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1949)006<0243:TTVOFF>2.0.CO;2

Page(s):: 243–248

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