selected publications

• journal article

  • How Important Are Horizontal Eddy Moisture Transports for the MJO's Eastward Propagation?.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2023
  • Correcting Systematic and State-Dependent Errors in the NOAA FV3-GFS Using Neural Networks.  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2022
  • Two Extratropical Pathways to Forcing Tropical Convective Disturbances.  Journal of Climate. 2987-3009. 2022
  • Correcting systematic and state-dependent errors in the NOAA FV3-GFS using neural networks 2022
  • Role of the Tropics in State-Dependent Improvements of US West Coast NOAA Unified Forecast System Precipitation Forecasts.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2022
  • Idealized Simulations of the Tropical Climate and Variability in the Single Column Atmosphere Model (SCAM): Radiative-Convective Equilibrium.  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2022
  • Role of the Tropics and its Extratropical Teleconnections in State-Dependent Improvements of U.S. West Coast UFS Precipitation Forecasts 2021
  • On the Regionality of Moist Kelvin Waves and the MJO: The Critical Role of the Background Zonal Flow.  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2021
  • Tropical Origins of Weeks 2-4 Forecast Errors during the Northern Hemisphere Cool Season.  Monthly Weather Review. 2975-2991. 2021
  • A Stochastic Parameterization of Organized Tropical Convection Using Cellular Automata for Global Forecasts in NOAA's Unified Forecast System.  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2021
  • A comparison of OLR and circulation-based indices for tracking the MJO (vol 142, pg 1697, 2014).  Monthly Weather Review. 875-876. 2020
  • Convectively Coupled Equatorial Wave Simulations Using the ECMWF IFS and the NOAA GFS Cumulus Convection Schemes in the NOAA GFS Model.  Monthly Weather Review. 4005-4025. 2019
  • ADVANCING SCIENCE AND SERVICES DURING THE 2015/16 EL NINO The NOAA El Nino Rapid Response Field Campaign.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 975-1002. 2018
  • Convectively coupled Kelvin waves in aquachannel simulations: 1. Propagation speeds, composite structures, and comparison with aquaplanets.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2016
  • ITCZ structure as determined by parameterized versus explicit convection in aquachannel and aquapatch simulations.  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 425-452. 2016
  • A strategy for representing the effects of convective momentum transport in multiscale models: Evaluation using a new superparameterized version of the Weather Research and Forecast model (SP-WRF).  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 938-962. 2015
  • A Comparison of OLR and Circulation-Based Indices for Tracking the MJO.  Monthly Weather Review. 1697-1715. 2014
  • How systematic is organized tropical convection within the MJO?.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2013
  • Squall Lines and Convectively Coupled Gravity Waves in the Tropics: Why Do Most Cloud Systems Propagate Westward?.  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 2995-3012. 2012
  • An Object-Based Approach to Assessing the Organization of Tropical Convection.  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 2488-2504. 2012
  • Convectively coupled Kelvin and easterly waves in a regional climate simulation of the tropics.  Climate Dynamics. 185-203. 2011
  • Transient Environmental Sensitivities of Explicitly Simulated Tropical Convection.  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 923-940. 2010
  • Predictability Aspects of Global Aqua-planet Simulations with Explicit Convection.  Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. 175-185. 2008
  • Multiscale Convective Wave Disturbances in the Tropics: Insights from a Two-Dimensional Cloud-Resolving Model.  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 140-155. 2008
  • Vertical-Mode and Cloud Decomposition of Large-Scale Convectively Coupled Gravity Waves in a Two-Dimensional Cloud-Resolving Model.  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 1210-1229. 2007
  • The mesoscale convection life cycle: Building block or prototype for large-scale tropical waves?.  Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans. 3-29. 2006