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Overview

Brian A. Colle is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science and related subfields.

Their main research topics cover meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, flood risk assessment and management, cryospheric studies and observations, disaster management and resilience, evacuation and crowd dynamics, as well as tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Brian A. Colle has coauthored numerous publications, frequently collaborating with Josef M. Moses, Phillip Yeh, Saeed Boorboor, Arie Kaufman, and Nicholas Leonardo.

They have published extensively in several key scientific journals, including:

  • Monthly Weather Review
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Weather and Forecasting
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Brian A. Colle include:

  • Chasing Snowstorms: The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Evaluating Warm and Cold Rain Processes in Cloud Microphysical Schemes Using OLYMPEX Field Measurements, 2020, Monthly Weather Review
  • A Double-Moment SBU-YLIN Cloud Microphysics Scheme and Its Impact on a Squall Line Simulation, 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • An Investigation of a Northeast U.S. Cyclone Event without Well-Defined Snow Banding during IMPACTS, 2023, Monthly Weather Review
  • Impact of direct experience on disaster preparedness and evacuation: A Protective Action Decision Model analysis in low-income New York City communities, 2024, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Their research integrates observational data and modeling approaches to improve understanding of complex atmospheric processes, contributing to both theoretical and applied knowledge in meteorology and disaster risk reduction.

Best Publications

  • Does Increasing Horizontal Resolution Produce More Skillful Forecasts

    Clifford F. Mass;David Ovens;Ken Westrick;Brian A Colle

  • CMIP5 climate model analyses: Climate extremes in the United States

    Donald Wuebbles;Gerald Meehl;Katharine Hayhoe;Thomas R. Karl

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments: Part III: Assessment of Twenty-First-Century Projections*

    Eric D. Maloney;Suzana J. Camargo;Edmund Chang;Brian Colle

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 experiments. Part I: Evaluation of historical simulations of continental and regional climatology

    Justin Sheffield;Andrew P. Barrett;Brian Colle;D. Nelun Fernando;D. Nelun Fernando

  • Sensitivity of Orographic Precipitation to Changing Ambient Conditions and Terrain Geometries: An Idealized Modeling Perspective

    Brian A. Colle

  • Improvement of Microphysical Parameterization through Observational Verification Experiment

    Mark T. Stoelinga;Peter V. Hobbs;Clifford F. Mass;John D. Locatelli

  • Evaluation of MM5 and Eta-10 Precipitation Forecasts over the Pacific Northwest during the Cool Season

    Brian A. Colle;Kenneth J. Westrick;Clifford F. Mass

  • Electric power from offshore wind via synoptic-scale interconnection

    Willett Kempton;Felipe M. Pimenta;Dana E. Veron;Brian A. Colle

  • The 5–9 February 1996 Flooding Event over the Pacific Northwest: Sensitivity Studies and Evaluation of the MM5 Precipitation Forecasts

    Brian A. Colle;Clifford F. Mass

  • A New Bulk Microphysical Scheme That Includes Riming Intensity and Temperature-Dependent Ice Characteristics

    Yanluan Lin;Brian A. Colle

  • MM5 precipitation verification over the pacific northwest during the 1997-99 cool seasons

    Brian A. Colle;Clifford F. Mass;Kenneth J. Westrick

  • The Limitations of the WSR-88D Radar Network for Quantitative Precipitation Measurement over the Coastal Western United States

    Kenneth J. Westrick;Clifford F. Mass;Brian A. Colle

  • Toward Improved Prediction: High-Resolution and Ensemble Modeling Systems in Operations

    Paul J. Roebber;David M. Schultz;Brian A. Colle;David J. Stensrud

  • Historical Evaluation and Future Prediction of Eastern North American and Western Atlantic Extratropical Cyclones in the CMIP5 Models during the Cool Season

    Brian A. Colle;Zhenhai Zhang;Kelly A. Lombardo;Edmund Chang

  • The Structure and Evolution of Gap Outflow over the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico

    W. James Steenburgh;David M. Schultz;Brian A. Colle

  • The Structure and Evolution of Cold Surges East of the Rocky Mountains

    Brian A. Colle;Clifford F. Mass

  • New York City's Vulnerability to Coastal Flooding

    Brian A. Colle;Frank Buonaiuto;Malcolm J. Bowman;Robert E. Wilson

  • An Intercomparison of Model-Predicted Wave Breaking for the 11 January 1972 Boulder Windstorm

    J. D. Doyle;D. R. Durran;C. Chen;B. A. Colle

  • The Future of Midlatitude Cyclones

    Jennifer L. Catto;Duncan Ackerley;James F. Booth;Adrian J. Champion

  • The 13–14 December 2001 IMPROVE-2 Event. Part III: Simulated Microphysical Budgets and Sensitivity Studies

    Brian A. Colle;Matthew F. Garvert;Justin B. Wolfe;Clifford F. Mass

  • FORECASTER'S FORUM Toward Improved Prediction: High-Resolution and Ensemble Modeling Systems in Operations

    Paul J. Roebber;David M. Schultz;Brian A. Colle;David J. Stensrud

Frequent Co-Authors

Clifford F. Mass
Clifford F. Mass University of Washington
Sandra E. Yuter
Sandra E. Yuter North Carolina State University
Edmund K. M. Chang
Edmund K. M. Chang Stony Brook University
Linda K. Nozick
Linda K. Nozick Cornell University
Bradley F. Smull
Bradley F. Smull University of Washington
Nicholas A. Bond
Nicholas A. Bond Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Christian Hogrefe
Christian Hogrefe Environmental Protection Agency
George S. Young
George S. Young Pennsylvania State University
W. James Steenburgh
W. James Steenburgh University of Utah
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton

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