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Overview

Gerald M. Heymsfield is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, with a strong focus on atmospheric phenomena and meteorological processes.

The primary fields of study in Heymsfield's work include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their subfields of study are diverse, covering:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Aerospace Engineering

Main research topics addressed in Heymsfield's publications involve:

  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena
  • Climate variability and models

Heymsfield has published extensively, with frequent appearances in the following scientific venues:

  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Recent papers attributed to Heymsfield include:

  • Spaceborne Cloud and Precipitation Radars: Status, Challenges, and Ways Forward (2020, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • Chasing Snowstorms: The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign (2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • Hydraulic jump dynamics above supercell thunderstorms (2021, Science)
  • The Dynamics of Vortex Rossby Waves and Secondary Eyewall Development in Hurricane Matthew (2016): New Insights from Radar Measurements (2020, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences)
  • Hydrometeor Size Sorting in the Asymmetric Eyewall of Hurricane Matthew (2016) (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)

Heymsfield frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Matthew McLinden
  • Timothy J. Lang
  • Lynn A. McMurdie
  • John E. Yorks
  • Rachael Kroodsma

Best Publications

  • Multiscale Observations of Hurricane Dennis (2005): The Effects of Hot Towers on Rapid Intensification

    Stephen R. Guimond;Gerald M. Heymsfield;F. Joseph Turk

  • Characteristics of Deep Tropical and Subtropical Convection from Nadir-Viewing High-Altitude Airborne Doppler Radar

    Gerald M. Heymsfield;Lin Tian;Andrew J. Heymsfield;Lihua Li

  • The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E)

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

  • A Method for Combined Passive-Active Microwave Retrievals of Cloud and Precipitation Profiles.

    William S. Olson;Christian D. Kummerow;Gerald M. Heymsfield;Louis Giglio

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

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

  • ER-2 Doppler Radar Investigations of the Eyewall of Hurricane Bonnie during the Convection and Moisture Experiment-3

    Gerald M. Heymsfield;Jeffrey B. Halverson;Joanne Simpson;Lin Tian

  • The Saharan Air Layer and the Fate of African Easterly Waves—NASA's AMMA Field Study of Tropical Cyclogenesis

    Edward J. Zipser;Cynthia H. Twohy;Si Chee Tsay;K. Lee Thornhill

  • Spaceborne Cloud and Precipitation Radars: Status, Challenges, and Ways Forward.

    Alessandro Battaglia;Alessandro Battaglia;Pavlos Kollias;Pavlos Kollias;Ranvir Dhillon;Richard Roy

  • Factors Affecting the Evolution of Hurricane Erin (2001) and the Distributions of Hydrometeors: Role of Microphysical Processes

    Greg M. Mcfarquhar;Henian Zhang;Gerald Heymsfield;Robbie Hood

  • NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Field Experiment

    Scott A. Braun;Ramesh Kakar;Edward Zipser;Gerald Heymsfield

  • Ice Cloud Retrievals and Analysis with the Compact Scanning Submillimeter Imaging Radiometer and the Cloud Radar System during CRYSTAL FACE

    K. Franklin Evans;James R. Wang;Paul E. Racette;Gerald Heymsfield

  • The EDOP radar system on the high-altitude NASA ER-2 aircraft

    Gerald M. Heymsfield;Steven W. Bidwell;I. Jeff Caylor;Syed Ameen

  • Warm Core Structure of Hurricane Erin Diagnosed from High Altitude Dropsondes during CAMEX-4

    Jeffrey B. Halverson;J. Simpson;G. Heymsfield;H. Pierce

  • A 94-GHz Cloud Radar System on a NASA High-Altitude ER-2 Aircraft

    Lihua Li;Gerald M. Heymsfield;Paul E. Racette;Lin Tian

  • Measurements of Ocean Surface Backscattering Using an Airborne 94-GHz Cloud Radar—Implication for Calibration of Airborne and Spaceborne W-Band Radars

    Lihua Li;Gerald M. Heymsfield;Lin Tian;Paul E. Racette

  • Chasing Snowstorms: The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign

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  • Structure and evolution of a severe squall line over Oklahoma

    Gerald M. Heymsfield;Steven Schotz

  • Florida thunderstorms: A faucet of reactive nitrogen to the upper troposphere

    B. Ridley;L. Ott;K. Pickering;L. Emmons

  • Satellite-observed characteristics of midwest severe thunderstorm anvils

    Gerald M. Heymsfield;Roy H. Blackmer

  • Combined lidar-radar remote sensing: Initial results from CRYSTAL-FACE

    M. J. McGill;L. Li;W. D. Hart;G. M. Heymsfield

  • Microphysics of Maritime Tropical Convective Updrafts at Temperatures from −20° to −60°

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Aaron Bansemer;Gerald Heymsfield;Alexandre O. Fierro

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Heymsfield
Andrew J. Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research
Robert Meneghini
Robert Meneghini Goddard Space Flight Center
Edward J. Zipser
Edward J. Zipser University of Utah
Aaron Bansemer
Aaron Bansemer National Center for Atmospheric Research
Daniel J. Cecil
Daniel J. Cecil Marshall Space Flight Center
Scott A. Braun
Scott A. Braun Goddard Space Flight Center
Pavlos Kollias
Pavlos Kollias Stony Brook University
Zhien Wang
Zhien Wang University of Colorado Boulder
Joanne Simpson
Joanne Simpson Goddard Space Flight Center
Dennis L. Hlavka
Dennis L. Hlavka Goddard Space Flight Center

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