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George C. Craig is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Geophysics, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Craig has contributed extensively to topics related to climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, precipitation measurement and analysis, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Frequent coauthors with whom Craig has collaborated include Christian Keil, Kirsten Tempest, Martin Weißmann, Mirjam Hirt, and Tobias Selz. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers engaged in atmospheric and environmental sciences.

Craig's recent publications reflect their focus on meteorological and climate studies:

  • Cold-pool-driven convective initiation: using causal graph analysis to determine what convection-permitting models are missing (2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society)
  • Spontaneous Aggregation of Convective Storms (2021, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics)
  • Can Artificial Intelligence-Based Weather Prediction Models Simulate the Butterfly Effect? (2023, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • The Transition from Practical to Intrinsic Predictability of Midlatitude Weather (2022, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences)
  • Extreme precipitation events over northern Italy. Part II: Dynamical precursors (2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society)

The venues in which Craig publishes most frequently include the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Monthly Weather Review, Geoscientific Model Development, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). This range demonstrates their engagement with both meteorological and broader earth science communities.

Craig's publications often address complex atmospheric processes and contribute to the understanding of weather prediction, convective systems, and extreme precipitation events. Their work combines observational analysis, modeling, and advanced computational techniques within the atmospheric sciences.

Best Publications

  • A Stochastic Parameterization for Deep Convection Based on Equilibrium Statistics

    R.S. Plant;G.C. Craig

  • The Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study. A Research and Development Project of the World Weather Research Program for Improving Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting in Low-Mountain Regions

    Volker Wulfmeyer;Andreas Behrendt;Hans-Stefan Bauer;Christoph Kottmeier

  • Radiative–convective equilibrium in a three-dimensional cloud-ensemble model

    Adrian M. Tompkins;George C. Craig

  • The Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS): the scientific strategy, the field phase, and research highlights

    Volker Wulfmeyer;Andreas Behrendt;Christoph Kottmeier;Ulrich Corsmeier

  • Global climate change and tropical cyclones

    J. Lighthill;G. Holland;W. Gray;C. Landsea

  • The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

    Andreas Schäfler;George Craig;Heini Wernli;Philippe Arbogast

  • CISK or WISHE as the Mechanism for Tropical Cyclone Intensification

    George C. Craig;Suzanne L. Gray

  • Mesoscale simulations of organized convection: Importance of convective equilibrium

    J. M. Done;G. C. Craig;S. L. Gray;Peter A. Clark

  • Upscale Error Growth in a High-Resolution Simulation of a Summertime Weather Event over Europe

    Tobias Selz;George C. Craig

  • Stratospheric Influence on Tropopause Height: The Radiative Constraint

    John Thuburn;George C. Craig

  • On the temperature structure of the tropical substratosphere

    John Thuburn;George C. Craig

  • Fluctuations in an equilibrium convective ensemble. Part I: Theoretical formulation

    George C. Craig;Brenda G. Cohen

  • The convective adjustment time-scale as indicator of predictability of convective precipitation

    Christian Keil;Florian Heinlein;George C. Craig

  • The impact of downscaled initial condition perturbations on convective-scale ensemble forecasts of precipitation

    C. Kühnlein;C. Kühnlein;C. Keil;G. C. Craig;C. Gebhardt

  • GCM Tests of Theories for the Height of the Tropopause

    John Thuburn;George C. Craig

  • The hurricane‐like Mediterranean cyclone of January 1995

    Ioannis Pytharoulis;George C Craig;Susan P Ballard

  • A Displacement-Based Error Measure Applied in a Regional Ensemble Forecasting System

    Christian Keil;George C. Craig

  • A Displacement and Amplitude Score Employing an Optical Flow Technique

    Christian Keil;George C. Craig

  • The extratropical transition of hurricane Irene (1999): A potential-vorticity perspective

    A. Agusti‐panareda;C. D. Thorncroft;G. C. Craig;S. L. Gray

  • Sensitivity of Tropical Convection to Sea Surface Temperature in the Absence of Large-Scale Flow

    Adrian M. Tompkins;George C. Craig

  • On a Threefold Classification of Extratropical Cyclogenesis

    R. S. Plant;G. C. Craig;S. L. Gray

Frequent Co-Authors

Suzanne L. Gray
Suzanne L. Gray University of Reading
Heini Wernli
Heini Wernli ETH Zurich
Andreas Behrendt
Andreas Behrendt University of Hohenheim
Volker Wulfmeyer
Volker Wulfmeyer University of Hohenheim
Ulrich Corsmeier
Ulrich Corsmeier Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Susanne Crewell
Susanne Crewell University of Cologne
Christoph Kottmeier
Christoph Kottmeier Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Andreas Dörnbrack
Andreas Dörnbrack German Aerospace Center
Alan M. Blyth
Alan M. Blyth University of Leeds
Adrian M. Tompkins
Adrian M. Tompkins International Centre for Theoretical Physics

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