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Kristen Lani Rasmussen
Associate Professor, Colorado State University Fort Collins
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The Response of Tropical Cyclone Inner Core and Outer Rainband Precipitation to Warming in Idealized Convection‐Permitting WRF
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
13 february 2025
Alyssa M. Stansfield, Kristen L. Rasmussen

Global mean and extreme tropical cyclone (TC) precipitation have been increasing over the past few decades and are expected to continue to increase...

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Unclouding the Correlations: A Principal Component Analysis of Convective Environments
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
16 december 2024
Richard Schulte, Randy Chase, Brenda Dolan, Peter ...

In this study, we leverage 25 years of observations from spaceborne radars, along with coincident reanalysis data, to determine how the depth ...

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Investigating the Response of Tropical Cyclone Inner Core and Outer Rainband Precipitation to Climate Change in Observations and Convection-Permitting Models
TROPICAL CYCLONES: OBSERVATIONS, MODELING, AND PREDICTABILITY—TODAY AND INTO THE FUTURE IV ELIGHTNING
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2024
Alyssa M. Stansfield, Kristen L. Rasmussen
Precipitation from tropical cyclones (TCs) commonly results in fatalities and expensive property damage in both coastal locations and hundreds of mile...
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Testing INCUS Methods Experiment - Suborbital preLaunch Investigation of Convective Evolution (TIME SLICE)
NEW SUBORBITAL APPROACHES FOR OBSERVING DEEP CONVECTION POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 11 december 2024
Brenda Dolan, Kristen L. Rasmussen, Pavlos Kollias...
The upcoming NASA INvestigation of Convective UpdraftS (INCUS) mission will employ a reflectivity time-differencing technique to estimate tropical con...
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Sensitivity of Modeled Tropical Anvils to Ice Aggregation
ATMOSPHERIC ICE PROCESSES I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 10 december 2024
Jennie Bukowski, Stephen M. Saleeby, Randy Chase, ...
In tropical convection, the microphysical properties of ice in anvils is a major factor in determining cloud-radiative forcing and cloud-climate feedb...
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Assessing Changes in Future Convective Environments and Populations in the CONUS II Dataset: Analysis of Direct Downscaling From a Climate Model
BRIDGING THE GAP FROM CLIMATE TO EXTREME WEATHER: OBSERVATIONS, THEORY, AND MODELING III POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 10 december 2024
Erin Sherman, Kristen L. Rasmussen
High-impact weather in the form of severe convection is expected to change in response to a warming climate. Previous work in the mesoscale-climate in...
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Future Projections of the 2011 Super Tornado Outbreak Under Global Warming and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
EXPLORING THE INTERPLAY OF WEATHER MODIFICATION AND CLIMATE INTERVENTION: MODELING, OBSERVATIONS, AND FIELD CAMPAIGNS II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 10 december 2024
Bali Summers, Kristen L. Rasmussen, Jim Hurrel, Ja...
Disasters associated with hazardous convective weather including severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, strong winds, large hail, and flooding, have been in...
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CONUS404 Datasets for Hydroclimate Research, Applications, and Service over the Conterminous U.S.
HIGH-RESOLUTION REGIONAL EARTH SYSTEM MODELING: HYDROCLIMATE VARIABILITY, EXTREMES, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS II ORAL
global environmental change | 10 december 2024
Lulin Xue, Roy Rasmussen, Fei Chen, Changhai Liu, ...
To support hydroclimate research, applications, and service over the conterminous U.S., two high-resolution, long-term, dynamically-downscaled model d...
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