Publications

Note: Bold font indicates Rasmussen group members

2024

Stansfield, A. M., and K. L. Rasmussen, 2024: The Response of Tropical Cyclone Inner Core and Outer Rainband Precipitation to Warming in Idealized Convection-Permitting WRF. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, in review.

Schulte, R. M., R. J. Chase, B. Dolan, P. J. Marinescu, D. J. Posselt, K. L. Rasmussen, and S. C. van den Heever, 2024: Unclouding the Correlations: A Principal Component Analysis of Convective Environments. Geophysical Research Letters, in review.

Chase, R., B. Dolan, K. L. Rasmussen, R. M. Schulte, G. Stephens, F. J. Turk, and S. C. van den Heever, 2024: A multi-frequency spaceborne radar perspective of deep convection. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, in review.

Franke, M., J. W. Hurrell, K. L. Rasmussen, and L. Sun, 2024: Impact of forced and internal climate variability on changes in convective environments over the Eastern United States. Frontiers in Climate, in press.

Li, F., D. R. Chavas, B. Medeiros, K. A. Reed, and K. L. Rasmussen, 2024: Upstream surface roughness drives contrast in tornado potential between North and South America. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS), 121, e2315425121, doi:10.1073/pnas.2315425121.

Cornejo, I. C., A. K. Rowe, K. L. Rasmussen, and J. C. DeHart, 2024: Orographic Controls on Extreme Precipitation associated with a Mei-yu Front. Monthly Weather Review, 152, 531–551, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-23-0170.1.

Rocque, M., K. L. Rasmussen, W. Deierling, R. Albrecht, and B. Medina, 2024: Lightning Characteristics Associated with Storm Modes Observed during RELAMPAGO. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039520. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD039520.

Dominguez, F., R. Rasmussen, C. Liu, K. Ikeda, A. Prein, A. Varble, P. A. Arias, J. Betancourt,M. L. Bettolli, P. Callaghan, L. M. V. Carvalho, C. L. Castro, F. Chen, D. Chug, K. P. Chun, A. Dai, L. Danaila, R. Porfírio da Rocha, E. Nascimento, E. Dougherty, J. Dudhia, T. Eidhammer, Z. Feng, L. Fita, R. Fu, J. Giles, H. Gilmour, K. Halladay, Y. Huang, A. Wong, M. Lagos-Zúñiga, C. Jones, J. Llamocca, M. Llopart, J. A. Martinez, J. C. Martinez, J. R. Minder, M. Morrison, Z. L. Moon, Ye Mu, R. B. Neale, K.M. Núñez Ocasio, S. Pal, E. Potter, G. Poveda, F. Puhales, K. L. Rasmussen, A. Rehbein, R. Rios-Berrios, C. B. Risanto, A. Rosales,L. Scaff, A. Seimon, M. Somos-Valenzuela, Y. Tian, P. Van Oevelen, D. Veloso-Aguila, L. Xue, and T. Schneider, 2024: Advancing South American Hydroclimate Science Through Multi-Decadal Convection-Permitting Modeling. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105, E32–E44, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0226.1.

Veloso-Aguila, D., K. L. Rasmussen, and E. D. Maloney, 2024: Tornadoes in Southeast South America: Mesoscale to Planetary-Scale Environments. Monthly Weather Review, 152, 295-318, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0248.1.

2023

Glade, I., J. Hurrell, L. Sun, K. L. Rasmussen, 2023: Assessing the impact of stratospheric aerosol injection on U.S. convective weather environments. Earth's Future, 11, e2023EF004041, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF004041.

Dolan, B. D., P. Kollias, S. van den Heever, K. L. Rasmussen, M. Oue, E. Luke, K. Lamer, B. Treserras, Z. S. Haddad, G. Stephens, V. Chandrasekar, 2023: Time resolved reflectivity measurements of convective clouds. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL105723, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105723.

Burt, M. A., E. Fischer, K. L. Rasmussen, and K. C. Beem, 2023: Shifting the Paradigm: Cultivating Socially Responsible Atmospheric Scientists through Leadership and Action. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104, E1552–E1563, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0077.1.

Rasmussen, R., F. Chen, C. Liu, K. Ikeda, A. Prein, J-H. Kim, T. Schneider, A. Dai, D. Gochis, A. Dugger, Y. Zhang, A. Jaye, J. Dudhia, C. He, M. Harrold, L. Xue, S. Chen, A. Newman, E. Dougherty, R. Abolafia-Rosenzweig, N. Lybarger, R. Viger, D. P. Lesmes, K. Skalak, J. W. Brakebill, D. Clline, K. Dunne, K. Rasmussen, and G. Miguez-Macho, 2023: CONUS404: The NCAR-USGS 4-km long-term regional hydroclimate reanalysis over the CONUS. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104, E1382–E1408, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0326.1.

Hammond, J., G. Sexstone, A. Putman, T. Barnhart, D. Rey, J. Driscoll, G. Liston, K. L. Rasmussen, D. McGrath, S. Fassnacht, and S. Kampf, 2023: High resolution SnowModel simulations reveal future elevation dependent snow loss and earlier, flashier surface water input for the Upper Colorado River Basin. Earth's Future, 11, e2022EF003092. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003092.

Oke, O., E. Dougherty, K. L. Rasmussen, R. R. Morrison, and E. Carter, 2023: Spatial distribution of socio-demographic and housing-based factors in relation to flash and slow-rise flooding hazards in the U.S. Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acce4e.

2022

Panasawatwong, W., K. L. Rasmussen, and M. M. Bell, 2022: A Climatology of Extreme Convective Storms in Tropical East Asia and their Ingredients for Heavy Rainfall as seen by TRMM. JGR-Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD036863. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD036863.

Rocque, M., and K. L. Rasmussen, 2022: The Impact of Topography on the Environment and Lifecycle of Weakly- and Strongly-forced MCSs during RELAMPAGO. Mon. Wea. Rev., 150(9), 2317-2338.

Zhang, M., K. L. Rasmussen, Z. Meng, and Y. Huang, 2022: Impacts of the Coastal Terrain on the Warm-Sector Heavy-Rain-Producing MCSs in Southern China. Mon. Wea. Rev., 150(3), 603-624.

Sasaki, C., A. K. Rowe, L. McMurdie, and K. L. Rasmussen, 2022: New Insights into the South American Low-Level Jet from RELAMPAGO Observations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 150(6), 1247-1271.

Dolan, B., S. Rutledge, and K. L. Rasmussen, 2022: Multiscale interactions contributing to orographic precipitation enhancement. Mon. Wea. Rev., 150(6), 1207-1231.

2021

Rasmussen, K. L., Sexstone, G., McGrath, D., Liston, G. E., Fassnacht, S., Dougherty, E. M., Kingston, A. P., 2021: Peering into the future: The evolution of seasonal snow in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Colorado Water, 37, 9-12.

Yu, H., K. L. Rasmussen, and H. Kuo, 2021: Quasi-two-day and Diurnal Cloud Variation Timescales over Convectively Active Regions. JGR-Atmospheres, 126, e2021JD035426. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035426.

Nesbitt, S.W. and coauthors, 2021: A storm safari in Subtropical South America: proyecto RELAMPAGO. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(8), E1621-E1644.

Rasmussen, K. L., M. A. Burt, A. Rowe, R. Haacker, D. Hence, L. M. Luna, S. W. Nesbitt, and J. Maertens, 2021: Enlightenment strikes! Broadening graduate school training through field campaign participation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(10), E1987-E2001.

Dougherty, E., R. M. Morrison, and K. L. Rasmussen, 2021: High-Resolution Flash Flood Precipitation and Streamflow Relationships in Two U.S. River Basins, Meteorological Applications, 28:e1979. https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1979.

Raupach, T. H., O. Martius, J. T. Allen, M. Kunz, S. Lasher-Trapp, S. Mohr, K. L. Rasmussen, R. J. Trapp, and Q. Zhang, 2021: The effects of climate change on hailstorms, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-00133-9.

Piersante, J., K. L. Rasmussen, R. Schumacher, A. K. Rowe, and L. McMurdie, 2021: A Synoptic Evolution Comparison of the Largest MCSs in Subtropical South America between Spring and Summer, Monthly Weather Review, 149, 1943-1966.

Fischer, E. V., B. Bloodhart, K. L. Rasmussen, I. B. Pollack, M. G. Hastings, E. Marin-Spiotta, A. R. Desai, J. P. Schwarz, S. Nesbitt, and D. Hence, 2021: Leveraging Field-Campaign Networks to Identify Sexual Harassment in Atmospheric Science and Pilot Promising Interventions, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(11), E2137-E2150.

Piersante, J., R. Schumacher, and K. L. Rasmussen, 2021: Comparison of Biases in Warm-Season WRF Forecasts in North and South America, Weather and Forecasting, 36, 979-1001.

Dougherty, E., and K. L. Rasmussen, 2021: Variations in Flash Flood-Producing Storm Characteristics Associated with Changes in Vertical Velocity in a Future Climate in the Mississippi River Basin, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22(3), 671-687.

van den Heever, S. C., L. Grant, S. Freeman, P. Marinescu, J. Barnum, J. Bukowski, E. Casas, A. Drager, B. Fuchs, G. Herman, S. Hitchcock, P. Kennedy, E. Nielsen, J. Park, K. L. Rasmussen, N. Razin, R. Riesenberg, E. R. Dellaripa, C. Slocum, B. Toms, and A. van den Heever, 2021: The Colorado State University Convective CLoud Outflows and UpDrafts Experiment (C3LOUD-Ex). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(7), E1283-E1305.

Jian, H.-W., W.-T. Chen, P.-J. Chen, C.-M. Wu, and K. L. Rasmussen, 2021: The Synoptically-Influenced Extreme Precipitation Systems over Asian-Australian Monsoon Region from TRMM PR Measurements. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 99, 269-285.

2020

Dougherty, E., E. Sherman, and K. L. Rasmussen, 2020: Future Changes in the Hydrologic Cycle Associated with Flood-Producing Storms in California, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21, 2607–2621.

Dougherty, E., and K. L. Rasmussen, 2020: Changes in Future Flash Flood-Producing Storms in the United States. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21, 2221-2236, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0014.1.

Schumacher, R., and K. L. Rasmussen, 2020: The Formation, Character, and Changing Nature of Mesoscale Convective Systems. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0057-7.

Chen, J., A. Dai, Y. Zhang, and K. L. Rasmussen, 2020: Changes in Convective Available Potential Energy and Convective Inhibition Under Global Warming. J. Climate, 33, 2025-2050.

2019

Bruick, Z. S., K. L. Rasmussen, and D. J. Cecil, 2019b: Subtropical South American hailstorm characteristics and environments. Monthly Weather Review, 147, 4289-4304.

Bruick, Z. S., K. L. Rasmussen, A. K. Rowe, and L. A. McMurdie, 2019a: Characteristics of intense convection in subtropical South America as influenced by El Nino Southern Oscillation. Monthly Weather Review, 147, 1947-1966.

Dougherty, E., and K. L. Rasmussen, 2019: Climatology of flood-producing storms and their associated rainfall characteristics in the United States. Mon. Wea. Rev., 147, 3861–3877.

2018

Mulholland, J. P., S. W. Nesbitt, R. J. Trapp, K. L. Rasmussen, and P. V. Salio, 2018: Convective storm life cycle and environments near the Sierras de Cordoba, Argentina. Monthly Weather Review, 136, 2541-2557.

2017

Rasmussen, K. L., A. F. Prein, R. M. Rasmussen, K. Ikeda, and C. Liu, 2017: Changes in the convective population and thermodynamic environments in convection-permitting regional climate simulations over the United States. Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-017-4000-7. SOURCE Article.

Houze, R. A. Jr., K. L. Rasmussen, L. McMurdie, M. M. Chaplin, and A. Kumar, 2017: Multiscale aspects of the storm producing the June 2013 flooding in Uttarakhand, India. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 4447-4466. Supplementary Materials

Bodine, D. J., and K. L. Rasmussen, 2017: Evolution of mesoscale convective system organization structure and convective line propagation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 3419-3440, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-16-0406.1.

2016

Rasmussen, K. L., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2016: Convective initiation near the Andes in subtropical South America. Mon. Wea. Rev., 144, 2351-2374.

Rasmussen, K. L., M. M. Chaplin, M. D. Zuluaga, and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2016: Contribution of extreme convective storms to rainfall in South America. J. Hydrometeorology, 17, 353-367.

2015

Houze, R. A., K. L. Rasmussen, M. D. Zuluaga, and S. R. Brodzik, 2015: The variable nature of convection in the tropics and subtropics: A legacy of 16 years of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. Rev. Geophys.,53, doi:10.1002/2015RG000488

Rasmussen, K. L., A. Hill, V. E. Toma, M. D. Zuluaga, P. J. Webster, and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2015: Multiscale analysis of three consecutive years of anomalous flooding in Pakistan. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 141, 1259-1276, doi:10.1002/qj.2433.

2014

Rasmussen, K. L., M. D. Zuluaga, and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2014: Severe convection and lightning in subtropical South America. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 7359-7366, doi:10.1002/2014GL061767.("AGU Editors Research Spotlight," What causes extreme hail, tornadoes, and floods in South America? EOS, Vol. 96, 11 May 2015; GRL Cover Article; 2015 NASA "Sensing our Planet" research highlight article, "Stormy vineyards")

Kumar, A., R. A. Houze, Jr., and K. L. Rasmussen, 2014: Simulation of a flash flooding storm at the steep edge of the Himalayas. J. Hydrometeorol., 15, 212-228.

2013

Rasmussen, K. L., S. L. Choi, M. D. Zuluaga, and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2013: TRMM precipita-tion bias in intense convection in South America. Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 3457-3461, DOI: 10.1002/grl.50651. ("AGU Editors Research Spotlight," Precipitation underestimated in extreme storms in South America, Eos, Vol. 94, No. 35, 27 August 2013, DOI: 10.1002/2013EO350009)

Viale, M., R. A. Houze, Jr., and K. L. Rasmussen, 2013: Upstream orographic enhancement of a narrow cold-frontal rainband approaching the Andes. Mon. Wea. Rev., 141, 1708-1730.

2012

Joe, P., B. Scott, C. Doyle, G. Issac, I. Gultepe, D. Forsyth, S. Cober, E. Campos, I. Heckman, N. Donaldson, D. Hudak, R. Rasmussen, P. Kucera, R. Stewart, J. M. Theriault, T. Fisico, K. L. Rasmussen, H. Carmichael, A. Laplante, M. Bailey, F. Boudala, 2012: The monitoring network of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Pure Appl. Geophys., doi:10.1007/s00024-012-0588-z.

Theriault, J. M., K. L. Rasmussen, T. Fisico, R. E. Stewart, P. Joe, and G. A. Issac, 2012: Weather observations along Whistler Mountain during five storms. Pure Appl. Geophys., doi:10.1007/s00024-012-0590-5.

Rasmussen, K. L., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2012: Flash flooding at the steep edge of high terrain: Disaster in the Himalayas. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, 1713-1724.

2011

Rasmussen, K. L., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2011: Orogenic convection in South America as seen by the TRMM satellite. Mon. Wea. Rev., 139, 2399-2420.

Houze, R. A., Jr., K. L. Rasmussen, S. Medina, S. R. Brodzik, and U. Romatschke, 2011: Anomalous atmospheric events leading to the Summer 2010 floods in Pakistan. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 92, 291-298. (BAMS Cover Article)

2007

Rauber, Robert M., B. Stevens, J. Davidson, S. Goke, O. L. Mayol-Bracero, D. Rogers, P. Zuidema, H. T. Ochs, C. Knight, J. Jensen, S. Bereznicki, S. Bordoni, H. Caro-Gautier, M. Colon-Robles, M. Deliz, S. Donaher, V. Ghate, E . Grzeszczak, C. Henry, A. M. Hertel, I. Jo, M. Kruk, J. Lowenstein, J. Malley, B. Medeiros, Y. Mendez-Lopez, S. Mishra, F. Morales-Garcia, L. A. Nuijens, D. O.Donnell, D. L. Ortiz-Montalvo, K. Rasmussen, E. Riepe, S. Scalia, E. Serpetzouglou, H. Shen, M. Siedsma, J. Small, E. Snodgrass, P. Trivej, and J. Zawislak, 2007: In the Driver's Seat: Rico and Education. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 1929-1937.