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Steven K. Krueger

Steven K. Krueger

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
7110
World Ranking
6775
National Ranking
2420

Overview

Steven K. Krueger is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Medicine. Their work spans a number of subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ocean Engineering, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their research topics cover multiple dimensions of atmospheric and environmental phenomena, with notable focus areas including Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Aeolian processes and effects, Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows, and Fire effects on ecosystems.

Steven K. Krueger has published numerous papers in a variety of scientific journals. Selected recent works include:

  • "The Impact of Telehealth Implementation on Underserved Populations and No-Show Rates by Medical Specialty During the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2021, Telemedicine Journal and e-Health
  • "Cloud-Aerosol-Turbulence Interactions: Science Priorities and Concepts for a Large-Scale Laboratory Facility," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Midwinter Arctic leads form and dissipate low clouds," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Interatrial Shunt Treatment for Heart Failure: The Randomized RELIEVE-HF Trial," 2024, Circulation
  • "Evaluating Wildfire Smoke Transport Within a Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Model Using a High-Density Observation Network for an Episodic Smoke Event Along Utah's Wasatch Front," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative work include Raymond A. Shaw, Will Cantrell, Fan Yang, Nicholas Leonard, and Mehdi Rashighi.

The scientist has published regularly in several key venues, such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters, and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Rain in Shallow Cumulus Over the Ocean: The RICO Campaign

    R. M. Rauber;B. Stevens;B. Stevens;H. T. Ochs;C. Knight

  • Improvements of an ice-phase microphysics parameterization for use in numerical simulations of tropical convection

    Steven K. Krueger;Qiang Fu;K. N. Liou;Hung-Neng S. Chin

  • Large-Eddy Simulations of a Drizzling, Stratocumulus-Topped Marine Boundary Layer

    Andrew S. Ackerman;Margreet C. Vanzanten;Bjorn Stevens;Verica Savic-Jovcic

  • Evaluation of cloudiness parameterizations using a cumulus ensemble model

    Kuan-Man Xu;Steven K. Krueger

  • Numerical simulation of tropical cumulus clouds and their interaction with the subcloud layer

    Steven K. Krueger

  • An intercomparison of cloud-resolving models with the atmospheric radiation measurement summer 1997 intensive observation period data

    Kuan Man Xu;Richard T. Cederwall;Leo J. Donner;Wojciech W. Grabowski

  • Confronting Models with Data: The Gewex Cloud Systems Study

    David Randall;Steven Krueger;Christopher Bretherton;Judith Curry

  • Interactions of Radiation and Convection in Simulated Tropical Cloud Clusters

    Qiang Fu;Steven K. Krueger;K. N. Liou

  • Large-Eddy Simulation of Maritime Deep Tropical Convection

    Marat F. Khairoutdinov;Steve K. Krueger;Chin-Hoh Moeng;Peter A. Bogenschutz

  • The Role of Boundary-Layer Convergence Zones and Horizontal Rolls in the Initiation of Thunderstorms: A Case Study

    James W. Wilson;G. Brant Foote;N. Andrew Cṙook;James C. Fankhauser

  • Evaluation of the NCEP Global Forecast System at the ARM SGP Site

    Fanglin Yang;Hua Lu Pan;Steven K. Krueger;Shrinivas Moorthi

  • Numerical simulation of the stratus-to-cumulus transition in the subtropical marine boundary layer. Part I: boundary-layer structure

    Steven K. Krueger;George T. McLean;Qiang Fu

  • A simplified PDF parameterization of subgrid-scale clouds and turbulence for cloud-resolving models

    Peter A. Bogenschutz;Steven K. Krueger

  • Intercomparison and evaluation of cumulus parametrizations under summertime midlatitude continental conditions

    Shaocheng Xie;Kuan Man Xu;Richard T. Cederwall;Peter Bechtold

  • The Macroscopic Behavior of Cumulus Ensembles Simulated by a Cumulus Ensemble Model

    Kuan-Man Xu;Akio Arakawa;Steven K. Krueger

  • A comparison of single column model simulations of summertime midlatitude continental convection

    Steven J. Ghan;David A. Randall;Kuan-Man Xu;Richard Cederwall

  • GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) Working Group 4: Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems

    Mitchell W. Moncrieff;Steven K. Krueger;David Gregory;Jean Luc Redelsperger

  • Linear eddy modeling of droplet spectral evolution during entrainment and mixing in cumulus clouds

    Chwen Wei Su;Steven K. Krueger;Patrick A. McMurtry;Philip H. Austin

  • A GCSS boundary-layer cloud model intercomparison study of the first ASTEX Lagrangian experiment

    Christopher S. Bretherton;Steven K. Krueger;Matthew C. Wyant;Peter Bechtold

  • The importance of fire–atmosphere coupling and boundary-layer turbulence to wildfire spread

    Ruiyu Sun;Steven K. Krueger;Mary Ann Jenkins;Michael A. Zulauf

  • Simulations of midlatitude frontal clouds by single-column and cloud--resolving models during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement March 2000 cloud intensive operational period

    Shaocheng Xie;Minghua H. Zhang;Mark Branson;Richard T. Cederwall

Frequent Co-Authors

William T. Abraham
William T. Abraham The Ohio State University
Kuan-Man Xu
Kuan-Man Xu Langley Research Center
Jan Mandel
Jan Mandel University of Colorado Denver
Michael R. Bristow
Michael R. Bristow University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Alan R. Kerstein
Alan R. Kerstein Sandia National Laboratories
Timothy J. Garrett
Timothy J. Garrett University of Utah
David A. Randall
David A. Randall Colorado State University
Marat Khairoutdinov
Marat Khairoutdinov Stony Brook University
Raymond A. Shaw
Raymond A. Shaw Michigan Technological University
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society

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