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Overview

Mitchell W. Moncrieff is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Environmental Science. Within these fields, their work extensively covers subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The main topics of Moncrieff's research include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Moncrieff has coauthored multiple papers with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Chih-Chieh Chen
  • Jadwiga H. Richter
  • Shaocheng Xie
  • Haochen Tan
  • Pallav Ray

Their work has been published in a variety of scientific journals. Among the most frequent venues are:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Notable recent publications by Moncrieff include:

  • "Effects of Organized Convection Parameterization on the MJO and Precipitation in E3SMv1. Part I: Mesoscale Heating," 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Shear-Parallel Tropical Convective Systems: Importance of Cold Pools and Wind Shear," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Understanding the role of topography on the diurnal cycle of precipitation in the Maritime Continent during MJO propagation," 2022, Climate Dynamics
  • "Systematic Patterns in Land Precipitation Due to Convection in Neighboring Islands in the Maritime Continent During MJO Propagation," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Quasi-stationary extreme rain produced by mesoscale convective system on the Mei-Yu front," 2020, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Best Publications

  • The dynamics and simulation of tropical cumulonimbus and squall lines

    M. W. Moncrieff;M. J. Miller

  • MJO Simulation Diagnostics

    D Waliser;K Sperber;H Hendon;D Kim

  • Two‐dimensional convection in non‐constant shear: A model of mid‐latitude squall lines

    A. J. Thorpe;M. J. Miller;M. W. Moncrieff

  • A Numerical Investigation of the Organization and Interaction of the Convective and Stratiform Regions of Tropical Squall Lines

    Jean-Philippe Lafore;Mitchell W. Moncrieff

  • Organized convective systems : archetypal dynamical models, mass and momentum flux theory, and parametrization

    Mitchell W. Moncrieff

  • Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Tropical Cloud Systems during Phase III of GATE. Part I: Two-Dimensional Experiments.

    Wojciech W. Grabowski;Xiaoqing Wu;Mitchell W. Moncrieff

  • The propagation and transfer properties of steady convective overturning in shear

    M. W. Moncrieff;J. S. A. Green

  • Collaboration of the Weather and Climate Communities to Advance Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction

    Gilbert Brunet;Melvyn Shapiro;Melvyn Shapiro;Brian Hoskins;Brian Hoskins;Mitch Moncrieff

  • Cloud-resolving modeling of cloud systems during Phase III of GATE. Part II: Effects of resolution and the third spatial dimension

    Wojciech W. Grabowski;Xiaoqing Wu;Mitchell W. Moncrieff;William D. Hall

  • The ``Year'' of Tropical Convection (May 2008-April 2010): Climate Variability and Weather Highlights

    Duane E. Waliser;Mitchell W. Moncrieff;David Burridge;Andreas H. Fink

  • A theory of organized steady convection and its transport properties

    M. W. Moncrieff

  • Confronting Models with Data: The Gewex Cloud Systems Study

    David Randall;Steven Krueger;Christopher Bretherton;Judith Curry

  • Cracking the MJO nut

    Chidong Zhang;Jon Gottschalck;Eric D. Maloney;Mitchell W. Moncrieff

  • Moisture–convection feedback in the tropics

    W. W. Grabowski;M. W. Moncrieff

  • The Generation and Propagation of a Nocturnal Squall Line. Part I: Observations and Implications for Mesoscale Predictability

    R. E. Carbone;J. W. Conway;N. A. Crook;M. W. Moncrieff

  • Simulation of a Himalayan cloudburst event

    Someshwar Das;Raghavendra Ashrit;M. W. Moncrieff

  • Analytic representation of the large-scale organization of tropical convection

    Mitchell W. Moncrieff

  • Large‐scale organization of tropical convection in two‐dimensional explicit numerical simulations

    Wojciech W. Grabowski;Mitchell W. Moncrieff

  • Organized convective systems in the tropical western pacific as a process in general circulation models: A toga coare case-study

    Mitchell W. Moncrieff;Ernst Klinker

  • Long-Term Behavior of Cloud Systems in TOGA COARE and Their Interactions with Radiative and Surface Processes. Part I: Two-Dimensional Modeling Study

    Xiaoqing Wu;Wojciech W. Grabowski;Mitchell W. Moncrieff

Frequent Co-Authors

Changhai Liu
Changhai Liu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Wojciech W. Grabowski
Wojciech W. Grabowski National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jimy Dudhia
Jimy Dudhia National Center for Atmospheric Research
Richard H. Johnson
Richard H. Johnson Colorado State University
Richard E. Carbone
Richard E. Carbone National Center for Atmospheric Research
Chidong Zhang
Chidong Zhang Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Melvyn A. Shapiro
Melvyn A. Shapiro National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Matthew C. Wheeler
Matthew C. Wheeler Bureau of Meteorology
Wei-Kuo Tao
Wei-Kuo Tao Goddard Space Flight Center

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