Gabor Vali work page and index
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Publications and talks
Gabor
Vali, Professor Emeritus
Department
of Atmospheric Science
Room
6050, Engineering Building
Mailing address: Dept. 3038, 1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
e-mail: vali@uwyo.edu
phone:
(307) 766-3225; fax: (307) 766-2635; main office: (307) 766-3245
Recent publications and talks:
Vali, G., B. Geerts, D. Leon and J.R. Snider, 2008:"Surface sources of ice particles in mountain clouds." Paper to be presented at the 15th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation. Cancun, Mexico. July 2008.
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"Rain and Snow - Water and Ice." Talk given at the Western Wyoming Community College, January 31, 2008.
"What global climate change means?" Talk given as part of the Focus the Nation program, Rock Springs, WY. January 31, 2008.
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"Summery of IAPSAG findings." Talk given as part of the Forum of the 9th WMO Scientific Conference on Weather Modification, October 25, 2007.
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Ice initiation in the atmosphere and in the laboratory."
September 26, 2007 talk given at the International Workshop on Comparing Ice Nucleation Measuring Systems, ICIS-07, Karlsruhe, Germany,
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What will the doctor prescribe? - A look at weather modification."
January 31, 2007 talk given at the reception for the International Symposium on
Weather Modification. Tsukuba, Japan. Other presentations at the symposium can be found on this site.
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Some older publications can be accessed through this link.
Somewhat older publications:
Lothon, M., D. H. Lenschow, D. Leon, et al., 2005: Turbulence measurements in marine stratocumulus with airborne doppler radar. Quart. J. Roy. Metetor. Soc., 131, 2063-2080.
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Structure of "non-drizzling" marine stratocumulus."
July
23, 2004 presentation at the 14th International Conference on Clouds
and Precipitation. Bologna, Italy.
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Stevens, B., D. H. Lenschow, G. Vali, et al., 2003: Dynamics and chemistry of marine stratocumulus{mdash}DYCOMS-II. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 84, 579-593.
Stevens, B., D. H. Lenschow, I. Faloona, et al., 2003: On entrainment rates in nocturnal marine stratocumulus. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 129, 3469-3493.
"Polarimetric
signatures from ice crystals observed at 95 GHz in winter clouds.
Part I: Dependence on crystal form." by M. Wolde and G. Vali. J.
Atmos. Sci., 58, 828-841, 2001
"Polarimetric
signatures from ice crystals observed at 95 GHz in winter clouds.
Part II: Frequencies of occurrence." by M. Wolde and G. Vali J.
Atmos. Sci., 58, 842-849, 2001.
"Cloud
structure and crystal growth in Nimbostratus." M. Wolde and G.
Vali. Atmos..Res., 61, 49-74, 2001
"Evaluations
of COAMPS forecasts of coastal stratus using satellite microphysical
retrievals and aircraft measurements." by Melanie A. Wetzel,
William T. Thompson, Gabor Vali, Steven K. Chai, Tracy Haack, Marcin
J. Szumowski and Robert Kelly. Weath. and Forecasting,16,
588-599, 2001.
"Observations
of microphysics pertaining to the development of drizzle in warm,
shallow cumulus clouds" by J.R. French, G. Vali and R.D. Kelly,
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 126, 415-443, 2000.
"Evolution
of small cumulus clouds in Florida: Observations of pulsating
growth." by J.R. French, G. Vali and R.D. Kelly, Atmos. Res.
52, 143-165, 1999. (a draft version of the paper is available online
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"Finescale
structure and microphysics of coastal stratus." by G. Vali, R.D.
Kelly, J. French, S. Haimov, D. Leon, R.E. McIntosh and A. Pazmany,
J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 3540-3564, 1998. (a draft version of the
paper is available online
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"Retrieval
of three-dimensional particle velocities from airborne Doppler radar
data" by D. Leon and G. Vali, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol.,
15, 860-870, 1998.
"Detection
of ice hydrometeor alignment using an airborne W-bandpolarimetric
radar". by J. Galloway, A. Pazmany, J. Mead, R.E. McIntosh, D.
Leon, J. French, R. Kelly and G. Vali, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol.,
14,, 3-12, 1997.
"Airborne
radar and in-situ observations of a shallow stratus with drizzle"
by G. Vali, R. Kelly, A. Pazmany and R.E. McIntosh. Atmos. Res.,
38, 361-380, 1995.
"An
airborne 95 GHz polarimetric radar for cloud studies". by A.
Pazmany, R.E. McIntosh, R. Kelly and G. Vali. IEEE Trans. Geosci.
Remote Sensing , 32, 731-739. 1993
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Ice Observations, 1949-2004; Part 2 - Recent results."
June
7, 2004 presentation at the Ice Initiation Workshop, Boulder,
Colorado. (33 MB file)
"Ice
nucleation - theory. A tutorial."
Presentation
at the 1999 NCAR/ASP Summer Colloquium. (The .pdf version might miss
some symbols depending on the version of Acrobat Reader you use. For
a better copy download the postscript
version.)
"Principles
of ice nucleation." Chapter 1. in "Biological Ice
Nucleation and Its Applications" R.E. Lee Jr. and G.J. Warren
editors, APS Press, St.Paul, Minnesota. pp.1 - 28. 1995.
"The
discovery of bacterial ice nucleation and the role of bacterial ice
nucleation in frost injury to plants" by C.D. Upper and G. Vali.
Chapter 2 in "Biological Ice Nucleation and Its Applications"
R.E. Lee Jr. and G.J. Warren editors, APS Press, St.Paul, Minnesota.
pp. 29-40. 1995.
"Freezing
rate due to heterogeneous nucleation." J. Atmos. Sci.,
51,1843-1856. 1994.
"Memory
effect in the nuclation of ice on mercuric iodide". in
"Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols", N. Fukuta and P.
Wagner (eds.), A. Deepak Publ., 1992.
"Atmospheric
ice nucleation - a review" J. Rech. Atmos., 19,
105-112.1985.
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"Wanted:
More PhDs. Graduate Enrollments in the Atmospheric Sciences." by
G. Vali, R. Anthes, D. Thomson, D. Houghton, J. Fellows and S.
Warner. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 83, 63-71, 2002.
"A
balloon-borne cloud condensation nuclei counter" by D.J. Delene,
T. Deshler, P. Wechsler and G. Vali. J. Geophys. Res., 103,
8927-8934, 1998.
"Calibration
of a photoelectric cloud condensation nucleus counter" by J.C.
Parente de Oliviera and G. Vali. Atmos. Res., 38, 237-248.
1995.
"Sulfur
dioxide oxidation in wintertime orographic cap clouds." by J.R.
Snider and G. Vali. J. Geophys. Res. (Atm.), 99, 18713-18733.
1994.
Recent conference papers:
Papers related to
the radar work are listed here.
Last modified: Feb. 27, 2008
RICO
- Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean, 2004-5