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  • 2020 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to the understanding atmospheric turbulences role in cloud processes, from droplet nucleation to growth through condensation and coalescence, using precise laboratory and atmospheric measurements and insightful theoretical work

Overview

Raymond A. Shaw is affiliated with Michigan Technological University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and aeolian processes and effects. Additional topics covered include particle dynamics in fluid flows, meteorological phenomena and simulations, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

The main fields of study for this scientist include Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Subfields encompass global and planetary change, atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, ocean engineering, and computational mechanics.

Raymond A. Shaw has contributed to the following recent papers:

  • "Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA)," 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "The role of turbulent fluctuations in aerosol activation and cloud formation," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Cloud-Aerosol-Turbulence Interactions: Science Priorities and Concepts for a Large-Scale Laboratory Facility," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Observations of Aerosol, Cloud, Turbulence, and Radiation Properties at the Top of the Marine Boundary Layer over the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean: The ACORES Campaign," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Vertical Variation of Turbulent Entrainment Mixing Processes in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds Using High-Resolution Digital Holography," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Raymond A. Shaw include:

  • Will Cantrell
  • Fan Yang
  • Mikhail Ovchinnikov
  • Prasanth Prabhakaran
  • Jesse C. Anderson

Raymond A. Shaw was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2020, with a citation recognizing contributions to understanding atmospheric turbulence's role in cloud processes, including droplet nucleation and growth through condensation and coalescence, supported by laboratory and atmospheric measurements and theoretical work.

Best Publications

  • PARTICLE-TURBULENCE INTERACTIONS IN ATMOSPHERIC CLOUDS

    Raymond A. Shaw

  • Heterogeneous surface crystallization observed in undercooled water.

    Raymond A. Shaw;and Adam J. Durant;Youshi Mi

  • Preferential Concentration of Cloud Droplets by Turbulence: Effects on the Early Evolution of Cumulus Cloud Droplet Spectra

    Raymond A. Shaw;Walter C. Reade;Lance R. Collins;Johannes Verlinde

  • Can We Understand Clouds Without Turbulence

    Eberhard Bodenschatz;Szymon P. Malinowski;Raymond A. Shaw;Frank Stratmann

  • Evaporation freezing by contact nucleation inside-out

    Adam J. Durant;Raymond A. Shaw

  • Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Mixing in Cumulus Clouds: Dependence on Local Turbulence Structure

    Katrin Lehmann;Holger Siebert;Raymond A. Shaw

  • Inertial clustering of particles in high-Reynolds-number turbulence.

    Ewe Wei Saw;Raymond A. Shaw;Sathyanarayana Ayyalasomayajula;Patrick Y. Chuang

  • Heterogeneous ice nucleation: exploring the transition from stochastic to singular freezing behavior

    D. Niedermeier;R. A. Shaw;S. Hartmann;H. Wex

  • Scale-dependent droplet clustering in turbulent clouds

    Alexander Kostinski;Raymond Shaw

  • Aerosol indirect effect from turbulence-induced broadening of cloud-droplet size distributions

    Kamal Kant Chandrakar;Will Cantrell;Kelken Chang;David Ciochetto

  • Cloud particle size distributions measured with an airborne digital in-line holographic instrument

    J. P. Fugal;J. P. Fugal;R. A. Shaw

  • Holographic measurements of inhomogeneous cloud mixing at the centimeter scale

    Matthew J. Beals;Jacob P. Fugal;Raymond A. Shaw;Jiang Lu

  • Ice nucleation and overseeding of ice in volcanic clouds

    Adam J Durant;Adam J Durant;R. A. Shaw;William I. Rose;Y. Mi

  • Heterogeneous freezing of droplets with immersed mineral dust particles – measurements and parameterization

    D. Niedermeier;S. Hartmann;R. A. Shaw;R. A. Shaw;D. Covert

  • Do all raindrops fall at terminal speed

    Guillermo Montero-Martínez;Alexander B. Kostinski;Raymond A. Shaw;Fernando García-García

  • Crystal structure, stable isotopes (δ18O), and development of sea ice in the Ross, Amundsen, and Bellingshausen seas, Antarctica

    Martin O. Jeffries;Raymond A. Shaw;Kim Morris;Alice L. Veazey

  • Airborne digital holographic system for cloud particle measurements.

    Jacob P. Fugal;Raymond A. Shaw;Ewe Wei Saw;Aleksandr V. Sergeyev

  • Experimental determination of the thermal accommodation and condensation coefficients of water

    Raymond A. Shaw;Dennis Lamb

  • Probing Finescale Dynamics and Microphysics of Clouds with Helicopter-Borne Measurements

    Holger Siebert;Harald Franke;Katrin Lehmann;Rolf Maser

  • Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA)

    Jian Wang;Jian Wang;Rob Wood;Michael P. Jensen;J. Christine Chiu

  • FLUCTUATIONS AND LUCK IN DROPLET GROWTH BY COALESCENCE

    Alexander B. Kostinski;Raymond A. Shaw

  • Observations of turbulence-induced new particle formation in the residual layer

    B. Wehner;H. Siebert;A. Ansmann;F. Ditas

  • Airborne Phase Doppler Interferometry for Cloud Microphysical Measurements

    P. Y. Chuang;E. W. Saw;J. D. Small;R. A. Shaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Eberhard Bodenschatz
Eberhard Bodenschatz Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Heike Wex
Heike Wex Leibniz Association
Jörg Schumacher
Jörg Schumacher Ilmenau University of Technology
Manfred Wendisch
Manfred Wendisch Leipzig University
Birgit Wehner
Birgit Wehner Leibniz Association
Steven K. Krueger
Steven K. Krueger University of Utah
Zellman Warhaft
Zellman Warhaft Cornell University
Haitao Xu
Haitao Xu University of Science and Technology Beijing
Markus D. Petters
Markus D. Petters North Carolina State University
Pavlos Kollias
Pavlos Kollias Stony Brook University

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