Gabor Vali work page and index
Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
External Member, Hungarian Academy of Science.
Author of a section of Climate Change 2007: The Scientific Basis — Contribution of Working Group I to the IPCC Third Assessment Report 2007" that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Selected publications, by topic:
Vali, G., 2021: "Exploratory experiments on pre-activated freezing nucleation on mercuric iodide." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 2551-2568.
DeMott, Paul, J., Ottmar Möhler, Olaf Stetzer, Gabor Vali, Zev Levin, Markus D. Petters, Masataka Murakami, Thomas Leisner, Ulrich Bundke, Holger Klein, Zamin A. Kanji, Richard Cotton, Hazel Jones, Stefan Benz, Maren Brinkmann, Daniel Rzesanke, Harald Saathoff, Mathieu Nicolet, Atsushi Saito,
Bjorn Nillius, Heinz Bingemer, Jonathan Abbatt, Karin Ardon, Eli Ganor, Dimitrios G. Georgakopoulos, Clive Saunders, 2011: Resurgence of ice
nuclei measurement reserach. Bull. Amer. Meteor.Soc., 92, 1623-1635.
"
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,
"
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.)
"Jegkezodes a legkorben es a bioszferaban " Magyar Tudomany, 8, 922-934. 1995.
"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.
Vali, G., D. Leon, and J. R. Snider, 2012: "Ground-layer snow clouds." Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 138, 1507-1525; doi: 10.1002/qj.1882.
Vali, G., B. Geerts, D. Leon and J.R. Snider, 2008: "Surface sources of ice particles in mountain clouds." Paper presented at the 15th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation. Cancun, Mexico. July 2008.
"Summery of IAPSAG findings." Talk given as part of the Forum of the 9th WMO Scientific Conference on Weather Modification, October 25, 2007.
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.
"
Structure of "non-drizzling" marine stratocumulus."
July
23, 2004 presentation at the 14th International Conference on Clouds
and Precipitation. Bologna, Italy.
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.
"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
).
"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
"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.
" 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.
"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.
Online reports:
Papers related to
the radar work are listed here.
DYCOMS project reports
here.
Last modified: February 2023