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Rowe, P. M., Zou, X., Gorodetskaya, I., Stillwell, R. A., Cordero, R. R., Bromwich, D., Zhang, Z., Ralph, F. M., & Neshyba, S. (2025). Comparison of Cloud and Radiation Measurements to Models Over the Southern Ocean at Escudero Station, King George Island. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(16), e2025JD043563. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD043563
Wang, J., Lavers, D. A., Delle Monache, L., Ingleby, B., Zheng, M., Wu, X., Ralph, F. M., & Pappenberger, F. (2025). Impacts of atmospheric river reconnaissance dropsondes on ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System precipitation forecasts. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, e70019. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.70019
Battula, S. B., Cordeira, J. M., & Ralph, F. M. (2025). Characteristics and Predictability of Extreme Precipitation Related to Atmospheric Rivers, Mesoscale Convective Systems, and Tropical Cyclones in the U.S. Southeast. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(15), e2024JD042471. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042471
Lavers, D. A., Centurioni, L., Wilson, A. M., Ingleby, B., & Ralph, F. M. (2025). An overview of drifting‐buoy deployments in atmospheric river reconnaissance from 2019 to 2024. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.5049
Lin, W., Norris, J. R., DeFlorio, M. J., Rutz, J. J., Cordeira, J. M., & Ralph, F. M. (2025). Characteristics of Precipitation Patterns in Moisture‐Dominated Versus Wind‐Dominated Atmospheric Rivers Over Western North America. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(9), e2024JD041966. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD041966
Poulsen, C. D., Clemesha, R. E. S., Howard, I. M., Gershunov, A., Dettinger, M. D., Zhang, Z., Luna-Niño, R., Stahle, D. W., & Ralph, F. M. (2025). The 1991 California ‘Miracle March’: precipitation myth or miracle? Environmental Research Communications, 7(5), 051004. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/add3cc
Sengupta, A., Waliser, D. E., DeFlorio, M. J., Guan, B., Delle Monache, L., & Ralph, F. M. (2025). Role of evolving sea surface temperature modes of variability in improving seasonal precipitation forecasts. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 256. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02235-y
Zou, X., Cordeira, J. M., Bartlett, S. M., & Ralph, F. M. (2025). A Case Study of an Exceptional Atmospheric River and Explosively Deepening Cyclone Over the US Central Plains in March 2019. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(1), e2024JD042309. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042309
Rush, W. D., Lora, J. M., Skinner, C. B., Menemenlis, S. A., Shields, C. A., Ullrich, P., O’Brien, T. A., Brands, S., Guan, B., Mattingly, K. S., McClenny, E., Nardi, K., Nellikkattil, A., Ramos, A. M., Reid, K. J., Shearer, E., Tomé, R., Wille, J. D., Leung, L. R., … Quagraine, K. T. (2025). Atmospheric River Detection Under Changing Seasonality and Mean‐State Climate: ARTMIP Tier 2 Paleoclimate Experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(1), e2024JD042222. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042222
Zheng, M., Ralph, F. M., Tallapragada, V., Wilson, A. M., Babbitt, S. H., Bartlett, S. M., Cao, B., Centurioni, L., Cordeira, J. M., Davis, C., Delle Monache, L., Doyle, J. D., Elless, T. J., Feuer, S., Haase, J. S., Hathaway, N., Hutchinson, T., Iniguez, P., Kawzenuk, B., … Wu, X. (2025). Atmospheric River Reconnaissance: Mission Planning, Execution, and Incorporation of Operational and Science Objectives. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106(11), E2243–E2275. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0160.1
Delle Monache, L., Steinhoff, D. F., Weihs, R., Simpson, M., Ghazvinian, M., Afzali Gorooh, V., Lupo, K. M., Mulrooney, P., Papadopoulos, C., & Ralph, F. M. (2025). CW3E’s West-WRF 200-Member Ensemble. Monthly Weather Review, 153(8), 1401–1429. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-24-0136.1
Cordeira, J. M., Kawzenuk, B. K., Bartlett, S. M., Hecht, C., Castellano, C., Roj, S., & Ralph, F. M. (2025). A Case Study of Forecast Uncertainty Prior to a High-Impact Landfalling Atmospheric River in California in January 2021. Weather and Forecasting, 40(8), 1543–1561. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-24-0088.1
Luna-Niño, R., Gershunov, A., Ralph, F. M., Weyant, A., Guirguis, K., DeFlorio, M. J., Cayan, D. R., & Williams, A. P. (2025). Heresy in ENSO teleconnections: atmospheric rivers as disruptors of canonical seasonal precipitation anomalies in the Southwestern US. Climate Dynamics, 63(2), 115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-025-07583-1
Yang, Z., DeFlorio, M. J., Sengupta, A., Wang, J., Castellano, C. M., Gershunov, A., Guirguis, K., Slinskey, E., Guan, B., Delle Monache, L., & Ralph, F. M. (2024). Seasonality and climate modes influence the temporal clustering of unique atmospheric rivers in the Western U.S. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 734. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01890-x
Zhang, Z., Ralph, F. M., Zou, X., Kawzenuk, B., Zheng, M., Gorodetskaya, I. V., Rowe, P. M., & Bromwich, D. H. (2024). Extending the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) atmospheric river scale to the polar regions. The Cryosphere, 18(11), 5239–5258. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-5239-2024
Guirguis, K., Hatchett, B., Gershunov, A., DeFlorio, M., Clemesha, R., Brandt, W. T., Haleakala, K., Castellano, C., Luna Niño, R., Tardy, A., Anderson, M., & Ralph, F. M. (2024). Reinterpreting ENSO’s Role in Modulating Impactful Precipitation Events in California. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(14), e2024GL110326. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110326
Martens, H. R., Lau, N., Swarr, M. J., Argus, D. F., Cao, Q., Young, Z. M., Borsa, A. A., Pan, M., Wilson, A. M., Knappe, E., Ralph, F. M., & Gardner, W. P. (2024). GNSS Geodesy Quantifies Water‐Storage Gains and Drought Improvements in California Spurred by Atmospheric Rivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(13), e2023GL107721. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107721
Wang, J., DeFlorio, M. J., Gershunov, A., Guirguis, K., Delle Monache, L., & Ralph, F. M. (2024). Association of western US compound hydrometeorological extremes with Madden-Julian oscillation and ENSO interaction. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 314. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01449-w
Ghazvinian, M., Delle Monache, L., Afzali Gorooh, V., Steinhoff, D., Sengupta, A., Hu, W., Simpson, M., Weihs, R., Papadopoulos, C., Mulrooney, P., Kawzenuk, B., Mascioli, N., & Ralph, F. M. (2024). Deep Learning of a 200-member Ensemble with a Limited Historical Training to Improve the Prediction of Extreme Precipitation Events. Monthly Weather Review. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-23-0277.1
Li, L., Cannon, F., Mazloff, M. R., Subramanian, A. C., Wilson, A. M., & Ralph, F. M. (2024). Impact of atmospheric rivers on Arctic sea ice variations. The Cryosphere, 18(1), 121–137. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-121-2024
Ralph, F. M., Simpson, M., Iacobellis, S., Cordeira, J. M., Cannon, F., Cobb, A., Michaelis, A. C., & Delle Monache, L. (2024). Dropsonde Observations of the Stable Marine Boundary Layer beneath Atmospheric Rivers. Monthly Weather Review, 152(12), 2735–2751. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-23-0207.1
Bromwich, D. H., Gorodetskaya, I. V., Carpentier, S., Alexander, S., Bazile, E., Heinrich, V. J., Massonnet, F., Powers, J. G., Carrasco, J. F., Cayette, A., Choi, T., Chyhareva, A., Colwell, S. R., Cordeira, J. M., Cordero, R. R., Doerenbecher, A., Durán-Alarcón, C., French, W. J. R., Gonzalez-Herrero, S., … Zou, X. (2024). Winter Targeted Observing Periods during the Year of Polar Prediction in the Southern Hemisphere (YOPP-SH). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(9), E1662–E1684. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0249.1
Zheng, M., Delle Monache, L., Wu, X., Kawzenuk, B., Ralph, F. M., Zhu, Y., Torn, R., Tallapragada, V. S., Zhang, Z., Wu, K., & Wang, J. (2024). Impact of Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Dropsonde Data on the Assimilation of Satellite Radiance Data in GFS. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 41(9), 819–832. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-23-0167.1
Lin, W.-S., Norris, J. R., DeFlorio, M. J., & Ralph, F. M. (2024). Local and Object-Based Perspectives on Atmospheric Rivers Making Landfall on the Western North American Coastline. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 25(5), 673–688. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0155.1
Zheng, M., Torn, R., Delle Monache, L., Doyle, J., Ralph, F. M., Tallapragada, V., Davis, C., Steinhoff, D., Wu, X., Wilson, A., Papadopoulos, C., & Mulrooney, P. (2024). An Assessment of Dropsonde Sampling Strategies for Atmospheric River Reconnaissance. Monthly Weather Review, 152(3), 811–835. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-23-0111.1
Wille, J. D., Alexander, S. P., Amory, C., Baiman, R., Barthélemy, L., Bergstrom, D. M., Berne, A., Binder, H., Blanchet, J., Bozkurt, D., Bracegirdle, T. J., Casado, M., Choi, T., Clem, K. R., Codron, F., Datta, R., Di Battista, S., Favier, V., Francis, D., … Zou, X. (2024). The Extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “Heat” Wave. Part I: Observations and Meteorological Drivers. Journal of Climate, 37(3), 757–778. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0175.1
Wille, J. D., Alexander, S. P., Amory, C., Baiman, R., Barthélemy, L., Bergstrom, D. M., Berne, A., Binder, H., Blanchet, J., Bozkurt, D., Bracegirdle, T. J., Casado, M., Choi, T., Clem, K. R., Codron, F., Datta, R., Battista, S. D., Favier, V., Francis, D., … Zou, X. (2024). The Extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “Heat” Wave. Part II: Impacts on the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Journal of Climate, 37(3), 779–799. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0176.1
DeFlorio, M. J., Sengupta, A., Castellano, C. M., Wang, J., Zhang, Z., Gershunov, A., Guirguis, K., Luna Niño, R., Clemesha, R. E. S., Pan, M., Xiao, M., Kawzenuk, B., Gibson, P. B., Scheftic, W., Broxton, P. D., Switanek, M. B., Yuan, J., Dettinger, M. D., Hecht, C. W., … Anderson, M. L. (2024). From California’s Extreme Drought to Major Flooding: Evaluating and Synthesizing Experimental Seasonal and Subseasonal Forecasts of Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers and Extreme Precipitation during Winter 2022/23. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(1), E84–E104. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0208.1
Guirguis, K., Gershunov, A., Hatchett, B. J., DeFlorio, M. J., Subramanian, A. C., Clemesha, R., Delle Monache, L., & Ralph, F. M. (2023). Subseasonal Prediction of Impactful California Winter Weather in a Hybrid Dynamical‐Statistical Framework. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(23), e2023GL105360. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105360
Gorodetskaya, I. V., Durán-Alarcón, C., González-Herrero, S., Clem, K. R., Zou, X., Rowe, P., Rodriguez Imazio, P., Campos, D., Leroy-Dos Santos, C., Dutrievoz, N., Wille, J. D., Chyhareva, A., Favier, V., Blanchet, J., Pohl, B., Cordero, R. R., Park, S.-J., Colwell, S., Lazzara, M. A., … Picard, G. (2023). Record-high Antarctic Peninsula temperatures and surface melt in February 2022: a compound event with an intense atmospheric river. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6(1), 202. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00529-6
Zou, X., Cordeira, J. M., Bartlett, S. M., Kawzenuk, B., Roj, S., Castellano, C., Hecht, C., & Ralph, F. M. (2023). Mesoscale and Synoptic Scale Analysis of Narrow Cold Frontal Rainband During a Landfalling Atmospheric River in California During January 2021. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(20), e2023JD039426. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD039426
Zou, X., Rowe, P. M., Gorodetskaya, I., Bromwich, D. H., Lazzara, M. A., Cordero, R. R., Zhang, Z., Kawzenuk, B., Cordeira, J. M., Wille, J. D., Ralph, F. M., & Bai, L. (2023). Strong Warming Over the Antarctic Peninsula During Combined Atmospheric River and Foehn Events: Contribution of Shortwave Radiation and Turbulence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(16), e2022JD038138. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD038138
Lavers, D. A., Torn, R. D., Davis, C., Richardson, D. S., Ralph, F. M., & Pappenberger, F. (2023). Forecast evaluation of the North Pacific jet stream using AR Recon dropwindsondes. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, qj.4545. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4545
Shulgina, T., Gershunov, A., Hatchett, B. J., Guirguis, K., Subramanian, A. C., Margulis, S. A., Fang, Y., Cayan, D. R., Pierce, D. W., Dettinger, M., Anderson, M. L., & Ralph, F. M. (2023). Observed and projected changes in snow accumulation and snowline in California’s snowy mountains. Climate Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06776-w
Zhang, Z., DeFlorio, M. J., Delle Monache, L., Subramanian, A. C., Ralph, F. M., Waliser, D. E., Zheng, M., Guan, B., Goodman, A., Molod, A. M., Vitart, F., Kumar, A., & Lin, H. (2023). Multi‐Model Subseasonal Prediction Skill Assessment of Water Vapor Transport Associated With Atmospheric Rivers Over the Western U.S. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(7), e2022JD037608. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037608
Shields, C. A., Payne, A. E., Shearer, E. J., Wehner, M. F., O’Brien, T. A., Rutz, J. J., Leung, L. R., Ralph, F. M., Marquardt Collow, A. B., Ullrich, P. A., Dong, Q., Gershunov, A., Griffith, H., Guan, B., Lora, J. M., Lu, M., McClenny, E., Nardi, K. M., Pan, M., … Zarzycki, C. (2023). Future Atmospheric Rivers and Impacts on Precipitation: Overview of the ARTMIP Tier 2 High‐Resolution Global Warming Experiment. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(6), e2022GL102091. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102091
Castellano, C. M., DeFlorio, M. J., Gibson, P. B., Delle Monache, L., Kalansky, J. F., Wang, J., Guirguis, K., Gershunov, A., Ralph, F. M., Subramanian, A. C., & Anderson, M. L. (2023). Development of a Statistical Subseasonal Forecast Tool to Predict California Atmospheric Rivers and Precipitation Based on MJO and QBO Activity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(6), e2022JD037360. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037360
Hu, W., Ghazvinian, M., Chapman, W. E., Sengupta, A., Ralph, F. M., & Delle Monache, L. (2023). Deep Learning Forecast Uncertainty for Precipitation over Western US. Monthly Weather Review. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0268.1
Guan, B., Waliser, D. E., & Ralph, F. M. (2023). Global Application of the Atmospheric River Scale. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(3), e2022JD037180. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037180
Badrinath, A., Delle Monache, L., Hayatbini, N., Chapman, W., Cannon, F., & Ralph, M. (2023). Improving Precipitation Forecasts with Convolutional Neural Networks. Weather and Forecasting. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-22-0002.1
DeHaan, L. L., Wilson, A. M., Kawzenuk, B., Zheng, M., Monache, L. D., Wu, X., Lavers, D. A., Ingleby, B., Tallapragada, V., Pappenberger, F., & Ralph, F. M. (2023). Impacts of Dropsonde Observations on Forecasts of Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Precipitation in the NCEP GFS and ECMWF IFS Models. Weather and Forecasting, 38(12), 2397–2413. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0025.1
Cobb, A., Steinhoff, D., Weihs, R., Delle Monache, L., DeHaan, L., Reynolds, D., Cannon, F., Kawzenuk, B., Papadopolous, C., & Ralph, F. M. (2023). West-WRF 34-Year Reforecast: Description and Validation. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(11), 2125–2140. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0235.1
Lord, S. J., Wu, X., Tallapragada, V., & Ralph, F. M. (2023). The Impact of Dropsonde Data on the Performance of the NCEP Global Forecast System during the 2020 Atmospheric Rivers Observing Campaign. Part II: Dynamic Variables and Humidity. Weather and Forecasting, 38(5), 721–752. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-22-0072.1
Howard, I. M., Stahle, D. W., Dettinger, M. D., Poulsen, C., Ralph, F. M., Torbenson, M. C. A., & Gershunov, A. (2023). A 440-Year Reconstruction of Heavy Precipitation in California from Blue Oak Tree Rings. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(3), 463–477. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0062.1
Lord, S. J., Wu, X., Tallapragada, V., & Ralph, F. M. (2023). The Impact of Dropsonde Data on the Performance of the NCEP Global Forecast System during the 2020 Atmospheric Rivers Observing Campaign. Part I: Precipitation. Weather and Forecasting, 38(1), 17–45. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-22-0036.1