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Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

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Volume 80 (2023): Issue 4 (Apr 2023)

About the Journal

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

Editor in Chief

Anne K. Smith, National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Effects from time dependence of ice nucleus activity for contrasting cloud types

Deepak Waman
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Akash Deshmukh
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Arti Jadav
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Sachin Patade
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Martanda Gautam
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Vaughan Phillips
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Aaron Bansemer
, and
Jonas Jakobsson
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Evaluation of the ice particle simulation of microphysics schemes with aircraft measurements of a stratiform cloud in North China

Shaofeng Hua
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Baojun Chen
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Yubao Liu
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Gang Chen
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Yang Yang
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Xiaobo Dong
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Zhen Zhao
,
Yang Gao
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Xu Zhou
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Rong Zhang
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Jing Duan
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Scaling for Saturated Moist Quasi-Geostrophic Turbulence

Marguerite L. Brown
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Olivier Pauluis
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Edwin P. Gerber
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Effects of varying saturation vapor pressure on climate, clouds, and convection

Francisco E. Spaulding-Astudillo
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Jonathan L. Mitchell
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Estimating the lowest latitude of baroclinic growth

Oren Peles
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Orli Lachmy
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Vortex structure of head bubble in convective cloud starting plume

Mark Pinsky
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Eshkol Eytan
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Ehud Gavze
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Alexander Khain
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Vertical structure and ice production processes of shallow convective post-frontal clouds over the Southern Ocean in MARCUS, Part I: Observational study

Yazhe Hu
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Bart Geerts
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Min Deng
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Coltin Grasmick
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Yonggang Wang
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Christian Philipp Lackner
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Yishi Hu
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Zachary J. Lebo
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Damao Zhang
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On the Origins of Vorticity in a Simulated Tornado-Like Vortex

Johannes M. L. Dahl
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Jannick Fischer
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Toward a Numerical Benchmark for Warm Rain Processes

Adrian A. Hill
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Zachary J. Lebo
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Miroslaw Andrejczuk
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Sylwester Arabas
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Piotr Dziekan
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Paul Field
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Andrew Gettelman
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Fabian Hoffmann
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Hanna Pawlowska
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Ryo Onishi
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Benoit Vié
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Water lifting and outflow gain of kinetic energy in tropical cyclones

Anastassia M. Makarieva
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Victor G. Gorshkov
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Andrei V. Nefiodov
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Alexander V. Chikunov
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Douglas Sheil
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Antonio Donato Nobre
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Paulo Nobre
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Günter Plunien
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Ruben D. Molina

Volume 80 (2023): Issue 4 (Apr 2023)

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

Jiwen Fan
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Yuan Wang
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Daniel Rosenfeld
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Xiaohong Liu
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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
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Lei Bi
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Bryan A. Baum
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Kuo-Nan Liou
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George W. Kattawar
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Michael I. Mishchenko
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Benjamin Cole
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A Particle-Surface-Area-Based Parameterization of Immersion Freezing on Desert Dust Particles

Monika Niemand
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Ottmar Möhler
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Bernhard Vogel
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Heike Vogel
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Corinna Hoose
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Paul Connolly
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Holger Klein
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Heinz Bingemer
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Paul DeMott
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Julian Skrotzki
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Thomas Leisner
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Have Aerosols Caused the Observed Atlantic Multidecadal Variability?

Rong Zhang
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Thomas L. Delworth
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Rowan Sutton
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Daniel L. R. Hodson
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Keith W. Dixon
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Isaac M. Held
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Yochanan Kushnir
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John Marshall
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Yi Ming
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Rym Msadek
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Jon Robson
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Anthony J. Rosati
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MingFang Ting
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Gabriel A. Vecchi
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Representing Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Convection in Large-Scale Models

Peter Bechtold
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Noureddine Semane
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Philippe Lopez
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Jean-Pierre Chaboureau
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Anton Beljaars
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Niels Bormann
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Turbulence Regimes and Turbulence Intermittency in the Stable Boundary Layer during CASES-99

Jielun Sun
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Larry Mahrt
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Robert M. Banta
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Yelena L. Pichugina

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What Is the Predictability Limit of Midlatitude Weather?

Fuqing Zhang
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Y. Qiang Sun
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Linus Magnusson
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Roberto Buizza
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Shian-Jiann Lin
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Jan-Huey Chen
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Kerry Emanuel
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The Mysteries of Mammatus Clouds: Observations and Formation Mechanisms

David M. Schultz
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Katharine M. Kanak
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Jerry M. Straka
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Robert J. Trapp
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Brent A. Gordon
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Dusan S. Zrnić
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George H. Bryan
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Adam J. Durant
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Timothy J. Garrett
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Petra M. Klein
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Douglas K. Lilly
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