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Overview

Michael R. Poellot is affiliated with the University of North Dakota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric sciences with contributions spanning Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, Poellot works extensively on several subfields, notably:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Key topics of research covered by Poellot include:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts

Michael R. Poellot has published several papers, with recent notable works including:

  • "An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin" (2021) in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Biomass burning aerosol as a modulator of the droplet number in the southeast Atlantic region" (2020) in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Chasing Snowstorms: The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign" (2022) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Impact of the variability in vertical separation between biomass burning aerosols and marine stratocumulus on cloud microphysical properties over the Southeast Atlantic" (2021) in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Factors affecting precipitation formation and precipitation susceptibility of marine stratocumulus with variable above- and below-cloud aerosol concentrations over the Southeast Atlantic" (2022) in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Poellot frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Atmosphere
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

The scientist collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, such as:

  • Greg M. McFarquhar
  • David J. Delene
  • Jens Redemann
  • Siddhant Gupta
  • Joseph R. O'Brien

Best Publications

  • African Dust Aerosols as Atmospheric Ice Nuclei

    Paul J. DeMott;Kenneth Sassen;Michael R. Poellot;Darrel Baumgardner

  • Saharan dust storms and indirect aerosol effects on clouds: CRYSTAL-FACE results

    Kenneth Sassen;Paul J. DeMott;Joseph M. Prospero;Michael R. Poellot

  • The Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment.

    J. Verlinde;J. Y. Harrington;G. M. McFarquhar;V. T. Yannuzzi

  • Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment. I: single-layer cloud

    Stephen A. Klein;Renata B. McCoy;Hugh Morrison;Andrew S. Ackerman

  • Ice properties of single‐layer stratocumulus during the Mixed‐Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment: 1. Observations

    Greg M. McFarquhar;Gong Zhang;Michael R. Poellot;Gregory L. Kok

  • 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

  • Ice properties of single-layer stratocumulus during the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment: 2. Model results

    Ann M. Fridlind;A. S. Ackerman;Greg Michael McFarquhar;G. Zhang

  • An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin

    Jens Redemann;Robert Wood;Paquita Zuidema;Sarah J. Doherty

  • The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E)

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

  • The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX)

    Robert A. Houze;Lynn A. McMurdie;Walter A. Petersen;Mathew R. Schwaller

  • Ice nuclei characteristics from M‐PACE and their relation to ice formation in clouds

    Anthony J. Prenni;Paul J. Demott;David C. Rogers;Sonia M. Kreidenweis

  • Role of small ice crystals in radiative properties of cirrus: A case study, FIRE II, November 22, 1991

    W. Patrick Arnott;Ya Yi Dong;John Hallett;Michael R. Poellot

  • A GCM parameterization for bimodal size spectra and ice mass removal rates in mid-latitude cirrus clouds

    Dorothea Ivanova;David L Mitchell;W.Patrick Arnott;Michael Poellot

  • Chemical characteristics of ice residual nuclei in anvil cirrus clouds: evidence for homogeneous and heterogeneous ice formation

    Cynthia Twohy;M. R. Poellot

  • Comparison of Stratus Cloud Properties Deduced from Surface, GOES, and Aircraft Data during the March 2000 ARM Cloud IOP

    Xiquan Dong;Patrick Minnis;Gerald G. Mace;William L. Smith

  • 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 the Predominance of Mid-Tropospheric Aerosols as Subtropical Anvil Cloud Nuclei

    Ann M. Fridlind;Andrew S. Ackerman;Eric J. Jensen;Andrew J. Heymsfield

  • On retrieving the microphysical properties of cirrus clouds using the moments of the millimeter-wavelength Doppler spectrum

    Gerald G. Mace;Andrew J. Heymsfield;Michael R. Poellot

  • Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment. I: single-layer cloud: MIXED-PHASE MODEL COMPARISONS. I: SINGLE-LAYER CLOUD

    Stephen A. Klein;Renata B. McCoy;Hugh Morrison;Andrew S. Ackerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg M. McFarquhar
Greg M. McFarquhar University of Oklahoma
Andrew J. Heymsfield
Andrew J. Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research
Kenneth Sassen
Kenneth Sassen University of Alaska Fairbanks
Gerald G. Mace
Gerald G. Mace University of Utah
Cynthia H. Twohy
Cynthia H. Twohy Northwest Research Associates
Ann M. Fridlind
Ann M. Fridlind Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Paul J. DeMott
Paul J. DeMott Colorado State University
Andrew S. Ackerman
Andrew S. Ackerman Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Aaron Bansemer
Aaron Bansemer National Center for Atmospheric Research
Patrick Minnis
Patrick Minnis Langley Research Center

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