Member Since 2012
Kristen Lani Rasmussen
Associate Professor, Colorado State University Fort Collins
Secretary, Atmospheric Sciences Executive Committee
Professional Experience
Colorado State University Fort Collins
Associate Professor
2016 - Present
Education
Doctorate
2014
University of Washington Seattle
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received December 2014
Presentation Title: Convective initiation in the vicinity of the subtropical Andes
Event: 2014 Fall Meeting
Awarding Section: Atmospheric Sciences
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Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received December 2013
Presentation Title: TRMM precipitation analysis of extreme storms in South America: Bias and climatological contribution
Event: 2013 Fall Meeting
Awarding Section: Hydrology
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Publications
Unclouding the Correlations: A Principal Component Analysis of Convective Environments
In this study, we leverage 25 years of observations from spaceborne radars, along with coincident reanalysis data, to determine how the depth ...
December 16, 2024
Lightning Characteristics Associated With Storm Modes Observ...
February 14, 2024
Assessing the Impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection on U...
December 26, 2023
Time Resolved Reflectivity Measurements of Convective Clouds
November 22, 2023
High Resolution SnowModel Simulations Reveal Future Elevatio...
January 31, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Investigating the Response of Tropical Cyclone Inner Core and Outer Rainband Precipitation to Climate Change in Observations and Convection-Permitting Models
AGU 2024
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)
AGU 2024
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
AGU 2024
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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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Secretary
Atmospheric Sciences Executive Committee
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