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Overview

Aaron Bansemer is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Atmospheric Science as a subfield.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Icing and De-icing Technologies
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Bansemer has contributed to 37 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 19 in Environmental Science. Their subfield involvement includes 31 publications in Atmospheric Science, 18 in Global and Planetary Change, 6 in Earth-Surface Processes, 6 in Aerospace Engineering, and 2 in Artificial Intelligence.

Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (6 publications)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (2 publications)
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2 publications)
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology (2 publications)
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology (2 publications)

Their recent papers reflect a focus on atmospheric processes related to precipitation, cloud physics, and secondary ice production. Notable publications include:

  • Contributions of the Liquid and Ice Phases to Global Surface Precipitation: Observations and Global Climate Modeling, 2020, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Evidence for Secondary Ice Production in Southern Ocean Maritime Boundary Layer Clouds, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • New Empirical Formulation for the Sublimational Breakup of Graupel and Dendritic Snow, 2021, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Survival of Snow in the Melting Layer: Relative Humidity Influence, 2021, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Dependencies of Four Mechanisms of Secondary Ice Production on Cloud-Top Temperature in a Continental Convective Storm, 2022, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Bansemer collaborates frequently with several researchers in their field, including:

  • Andrew J. Heymsfield
  • Vaughan T. J. Phillips
  • Sachin Patade
  • Deepak Waman
  • Akash Deshmukh

Best Publications

  • Shattering and Particle Interarrival Times Measured by Optical Array Probes in Ice Clouds

    P. R. Field;A. J. Heymsfield;A. Bansemer

  • Observations and Parameterizations of Particle Size Distributions in Deep Tropical Cirrus and Stratiform Precipitating Clouds: Results from In Situ Observations in TRMM Field Campaigns

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Aaron Bansemer;Paul R. Field;Stephen L. Durden

  • Snow Size Distribution Parameterization for Midlatitude and Tropical Ice Clouds

    Paul R. Field;Andrew J. Heymsfield;Aaron Bansemer

  • Improvements in Shortwave Bulk Scattering and Absorption Models for the Remote Sensing of Ice Clouds

    Bryan A. Baum;Ping Yang;Andrew J. Heymsfield;Carl G. Schmitt

  • Ice Cloud Particle Size Distributions and Pressure-Dependent Terminal Velocities from In Situ Observations at Temperatures from 0° to −86°C

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Carl Schmitt;Aaron Bansemer

  • A general approach for deriving the properties of cirrus and stratiform ice cloud particles

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Sharon Lewis;Aaron Bansemer;Jean Iaquinta

  • Effective Ice Particle Densities Derived from Aircraft Data

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;A Aron Bansemer;Carl Schmitt;Cynthia Twohy

  • Saharan dust particles nucleate droplets in eastern Atlantic clouds

    Cynthia H. Twohy;Sonia M. Kreidenweis;Trude Eidhammer;Edward V. Browell

  • Ice cloud single-scattering property models with the full phase matrix at wavelengths from 0.2 to 100 µm

    Bryan A. Baum;Ping Yang;Andrew J. Heymsfield;Aaron Bansemer

  • The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E)

    M. P. Jensen;W. A. Petersen;Aaron R. Bansemer;N. Bharadwaj

  • Improved Representation of Ice Particle Masses Based on Observations in Natural Clouds

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Carl Schmitt;Aaron Bansemer;Cynthia H. Twohy

  • On the importance of small ice crystals in tropical anvil cirrus

    E. J. Jensen;P. Lawson;B. Baker;B. Pilson

  • Microphysical Observations of Tropical Clouds

    Jeffrey L. Stith;James E. Dye;Aaron Bansemer;Andrew J. Heymsfield

  • Statistical properties of the normalized ice particle size distribution

    Julien Delanoë;Alain Protat;Jacques Testud;Dominique Bouniol

  • Processing of Ice Cloud In Situ Data Collected by Bulk Water, Scattering, and Imaging Probes: Fundamentals, Uncertainties, and Efforts toward Consistency

    Greg M. McFarquhar;Darrel Baumgardner;Aaron Bansemer;Steven J. Abel

  • Homogeneous Ice Nucleation in Subtropical and Tropical Convection and Its Influence on Cirrus Anvil Microphysics

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Larry M. Miloshevich;Carl Schmitt;Aaron Bansemer

  • Evidence for ice particles in the tropical stratosphere from in-situ measurements

    M. de Reus;M. de Reus;S. Borrmann;S. Borrmann;A. Bansemer;A. J. Heymsfield

  • Secondary Ice Production by Fragmentation of Freezing Drops: Formulation and Theory

    Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Sachin Patade;Julie Gutierrez;Aaron Bansemer

  • Contributions of the Liquid and Ice Phases to Global Surface Precipitation: Observations and Global Climate Modeling

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Carl Schmitt;Chih-Chieh-Jack Chen;Aaron Bansemer

  • Potential impacts from biological aerosols on ensembles of continental clouds simulated numerically

    Vaughan Phillips;C. Andronache;B. Christner;C. E. Morris

  • Evaluation of Ice Water Content Retrievals from Cloud Radar Reflectivity and Temperature Using a Large Airborne In Situ Microphysical Database

    Alain Protat;Julien Delanoë;Dominique Bouniol;A. Heymsfield

  • Refinements to Ice Particle Mass Dimensional and Terminal Velocity Relationships for Ice Clouds. Part I: Temperature Dependence

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Aaron Bansemer;Cynthia H. Twohy

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Heymsfield
Andrew J. Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research
Cynthia H. Twohy
Cynthia H. Twohy Northwest Research Associates
Paul R. Field
Paul R. Field Met Office
Michael R. Poellot
Michael R. Poellot University of North Dakota
Vaughan T. J. Phillips
Vaughan T. J. Phillips Lund University
Gerald M. Heymsfield
Gerald M. Heymsfield Goddard Space Flight Center
Hugh Morrison
Hugh Morrison National Center for Atmospheric Research
Greg M. McFarquhar
Greg M. McFarquhar University of Oklahoma
Darrel Baumgardner
Darrel Baumgardner National Autonomous University of Mexico
Alexander V. Ryzhkov
Alexander V. Ryzhkov University of Oklahoma

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