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Jennifer M. Comstock is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics of Jennifer M. Comstock's work include:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Jennifer M. Comstock has published in several journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Notable recent papers include:

  • Optimal Estimation Retrievals and Their Uncertainties: What Every Atmospheric Scientist Should Know, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The COMBLE Campaign: A Study of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds in Arctic Cold-Air Outbreaks, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Comparison of planetary boundary layer height from ceilometer with ARM radiosonde data, 2022, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Comparison of aircraft measurements during GoAmazon2014/5 and ACRIDICON-CHUVA, 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Modeling impacts of ice-nucleating particles from marine aerosols on mixed-phase orographic clouds during 2015 ACAPEX field campaign, 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Frequent co-authors in Jennifer M. Comstock's research include:

  • Damao Zhang
  • Mikhail Pekour
  • Jason Tomlinson
  • Fan Mei
  • Scot T. Martin

Best Publications

  • Dust and Biological Aerosols from the Sahara and Asia Influence Precipitation in the Western U.S.

    Jessie M. Creamean;Kaitlyn J. Suski;Daniel Rosenfeld;Alberto Cazorla

  • Substantial convection and precipitation enhancements by ultrafine aerosol particles

    Jiwen Fan;Daniel Rosenfeld;Yuwei Zhang;Yuwei Zhang;Scott E. Giangrande

  • Dominant role by vertical wind shear in regulating aerosol effects on deep convective clouds

    Jiwen Fan;Tianle Yuan;Tianle Yuan;Jennifer M. Comstock;Steven Ghan

  • Ground‐based lidar and radar remote sensing of tropical cirrus clouds at Nauru Island: Cloud statistics and radiative impacts

    Jennifer M. Comstock;Thomas P. Ackerman;Gerald G. Mace

  • Toward understanding of differences in current cloud retrievals of ARM ground-based measurements

    Chuanfeng Zhao;Shaocheng Xie;Stephen A. Klein;Alain Protat

  • Amazon boundary layer aerosol concentration sustained by vertical transport during rainfall

    Jian Wang;Radovan Krejci;Scott Giangrande;Chongai Kuang

  • The Green Ocean Amazon Experiment (GoAmazon2014/5) Observes Pollution Affecting Gases, Aerosols, Clouds, and Rainfall over the Rain Forest

    S. T. Martin;P. Artaxo;L. Machado;A. O. Manzi

  • A Midlatitude Cirrus Cloud Climatology from the Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing. Part III: Radiative Properties

    Kenneth Sassen;Jennifer M. Comstock

  • The COMBLE campaign: a study of marine boundary-layer clouds in Arctic cold-air outbreaks

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  • Aerosol impacts on California winter clouds and precipitation during CalWater 2011: local pollution versus long-range transported dust

    Jiwen Fan;Lai-Yung R. Leung;Paul J. DeMott;Jennifer M. Comstock

  • Ice Formation in Arctic Mixed-Phase Clouds: Insights from a 3-D Cloud-Resolving Model with Size-Resolved Aerosol and Cloud Microphysics

    Jiwen Fan;Mikhail Ovtchinnikov;Jennifer M. Comstock;Sally A. McFarlane

  • Optimal Estimation Retrievals and Their Uncertainties: What Every Atmospheric Scientist Should Know

    Maximilian Maahn;David D. Turner;Ulrich Löhnert;Derek J. Posselt

  • Overview of the 2010 Carbonaceous Aerosols and Radiative Effects Study (CARES)

    R. A. Zaveri;W. J. Shaw;D. J. Cziczo;B. Schmid

  • RACORO Extended-Term Aircraft Observations of Boundary Layer Clouds

    Andrew M. Vogelmann;Greg Michael McFarquhar;John A. Ogren;David D. Turner

  • Evaluation of cloud fraction and its radiative effect simulated by IPCC AR4 global models against ARM surface observations

    Yun Qian;Charles N. Long;Hailong Wang;Jennifer M. Comstock

  • An Intercomparison of Microphysical Retrieval Algorithms for Upper-Tropospheric Ice Clouds

    Jennifer M. Comstock;Robert d'Entremont;Daniel DeSlover;Gerald G. Mace

  • Evidence of high ice supersaturation in cirrus clouds using ARM Raman lidar measurements

    Jennifer M. Comstock;Thomas P. Ackerman;David D. Turner

  • The ARM Radar Network: At the Leading Edge of Cloud and Precipitation Observations

    P. Kollias;N. Bharadwaj;E. E. Clothiaux;K. Lamer

  • Comparison of cloud-top height retrievals from ground-based 35 GHz MMCR and GMS-5 satellite observations at ARM TWP Manus site

    Shawn Hollars;Qiang Fu;Jennifer Comstock;Thomas Ackerman

  • Constructing a Merged Cloud–Precipitation Radar Dataset for Tropical Convective Clouds during the DYNAMO/AMIE Experiment at Addu Atoll

    Zhe Feng;Sally A. McFarlane;Courtney Schumacher;Scott Ellis

  • Cloud and Aerosol Research Capabilities at FARS: The Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing.

    Kenneth Sassen;Jennifer M. Comstock;Zhien Wang;Gerald G. Mace

  • Cloud Characteristics, Thermodynamic Controls and Radiative Impacts During the Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5) Experiment

    Scott E. Giangrande;Zhe Feng;Michael P. Jensen;Jennifer M. Comstock

  • Aerosol Impacts on California Winter Clouds and Precipitation during CalWater 2011: Local Pollution versus Long-Range Transported Dust

    J. Fan;L. Leung;P. J. DeMott;J. M. Comstock

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason M. Tomlinson
Jason M. Tomlinson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Beat Schmid
Beat Schmid Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
John E. Shilling
John E. Shilling Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Duli Chand
Duli Chand Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David D. Turner
David D. Turner National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jiwen Fan
Jiwen Fan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Gerald G. Mace
Gerald G. Mace University of Utah
Stephen R. Springston
Stephen R. Springston Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kimberly A. Prather
Kimberly A. Prather University of California, San Diego
Daniel Rosenfeld
Daniel Rosenfeld Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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