Gabor Vali work page and index
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Gabor
Vali, Professor Emeritus
Department
of Atmospheric Science
Room
6050, Engineering Building
Mailing address: Dept. 3038, 1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
e-mail: vali@uwyo.edu
phone:
(307) 766-3225; fax: (307) 766-2635; main office: (307) 766-3245
Major professional activities:
Contributor to the ICCP report that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
External Member, Hungarian
Academy of Science.
Editorial Board, "Atmospheric
Research"
Editorial Board, "Idojaras"
Journal
of the Hungarian Meteorological Service.
Recent publications and talks:
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Somewhat older publications:
vanZanten, M. C., B. Stevens, G. Vali, et al., 2005: Observations of drizzle in nocturnal marine stratocumulus. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 62, 88-106.
Stevens, B., G. Vali, K. Comstock, et al., 2005: Pockets of open cells and drizzle in marine stratocumulus. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86, 51-57.
Lothon, M., D. H. Lenschow, D. Leon, et al., 2005: Turbulence measurements in marine stratocumulus with airborne doppler radar. Quart. J. Roy. Metetor. Soc., 131, 2063-2080.
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"
Structure of "non-drizzling" marine stratocumulus."
July
23, 2004 presentation at the 14th International Conference on Clouds
and Precipitation. Bologna, Italy.
"Airborne
radar observations of non-drizzling marine stratocumulus. "
Paper
to be presented at the Intern'l Conference on Clouds and
Precipitation, Bologna, July 2004.
Stevens, B., D. H. Lenschow, G. Vali, et al., 2003: Dynamics and chemistry of marine stratocumulus{mdash}DYCOMS-II. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 84, 579-593.
Stevens, B., D. H. Lenschow, I. Faloona, et al., 2003: On entrainment rates in nocturnal marine stratocumulus. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 129, 3469-3493.
"Polarimetric
signatures from ice crystals observed at 95 GHz in winter clouds.
Part I: Dependence on crystal form." by M. Wolde and G. Vali. J.
Atmos. Sci., 58, 828-841, 2001
"Polarimetric
signatures from ice crystals observed at 95 GHz in winter clouds.
Part II: Frequencies of occurrence." by M. Wolde and G. Vali J.
Atmos. Sci., 58, 842-849, 2001.
"Cloud
structure and crystal growth in Nimbostratus." M. Wolde and G.
Vali. Atmos..Res., 61, 49-74, 2001
"Evaluations
of COAMPS forecasts of coastal stratus using satellite microphysical
retrievals and aircraft measurements." by Melanie A. Wetzel,
William T. Thompson, Gabor Vali, Steven K. Chai, Tracy Haack, Marcin
J. Szumowski and Robert Kelly. Weath. and Forecasting,16,
588-599, 2001.
"Observations
of microphysics pertaining to the development of drizzle in warm,
shallow cumulus clouds" by J.R. French, G. Vali and R.D. Kelly,
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 126, 415-443, 2000.
"Evolution
of small cumulus clouds in Florida: Observations of pulsating
growth." by J.R. French, G. Vali and R.D. Kelly, Atmos. Res.
52, 143-165, 1999. (a draft version of the paper is available online
).
"Finescale
structure and microphysics of coastal stratus." by G. Vali, R.D.
Kelly, J. French, S. Haimov, D. Leon, R.E. McIntosh and A. Pazmany,
J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 3540-3564, 1998. (a draft version of the
paper is available online
).
"Retrieval
of three-dimensional particle velocities from airborne Doppler radar
data" by D. Leon and G. Vali, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol.,
15, 860-870, 1998.
"Detection
of ice hydrometeor alignment using an airborne W-bandpolarimetric
radar". by J. Galloway, A. Pazmany, J. Mead, R.E. McIntosh, D.
Leon, J. French, R. Kelly and G. Vali, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol.,
14,, 3-12, 1997.
"Airborne
radar and in-situ observations of a shallow stratus with drizzle"
by G. Vali, R. Kelly, A. Pazmany and R.E. McIntosh. Atmos. Res.,
38, 361-380, 1995.
"An
airborne 95 GHz polarimetric radar for cloud studies". by A.
Pazmany, R.E. McIntosh, R. Kelly and G. Vali. IEEE Trans. Geosci.
Remote Sensing , 32, 731-739. 1993
"
Ice Observations, 1949-2004; Part 1 - Historical."
June
7, 2004 presentation at the Ice Initiation Workshop, Boulder,
Colorado. (11 MB file)
"
Ice Observations, 1949-2004; Part 2 - Recent results."
June
7, 2004 presentation at the Ice Initiation Workshop, Boulder,
Colorado. (33 MB file)
"Ice
nucleation - theory. A tutorial."
Presentation
at the 1999 NCAR/ASP Summer Colloquium. (The .pdf version might miss
some symbols depending on the version of Acrobat Reader you use. For
a better copy download the postscript
version.)
"Ice
nucleation - a review." 1996
"Jegkezodes a legkorben es a bioszferaban " Magyar Tudomany, 8, 922-934. 1995.
"Principles
of ice nucleation." Chapter 1. in "Biological Ice
Nucleation and Its Applications" R.E. Lee Jr. and G.J. Warren
editors, APS Press, St.Paul, Minnesota. pp.1 - 28. 1995.
"The
discovery of bacterial ice nucleation and the role of bacterial ice
nucleation in frost injury to plants" by C.D. Upper and G. Vali.
Chapter 2 in "Biological Ice Nucleation and Its Applications"
R.E. Lee Jr. and G.J. Warren editors, APS Press, St.Paul, Minnesota.
pp. 29-40. 1995.
"Freezing
rate due to heterogeneous nucleation." J. Atmos. Sci.,
51,1843-1856. 1994.
"Memory
effect in the nuclation of ice on mercuric iodide". in
"Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols", N. Fukuta and P.
Wagner (eds.), A. Deepak Publ., 1992.
"Atmospheric
ice nucleation - a review" J. Rech. Atmos., 19,
105-112.1985.
"
Reflections on PEP-SSP3 and the status os weather modification
efforts." Talk
given in Valladolid, Spain, May 7, 2005.
"Wanted:
More PhDs. Graduate Enrollments in the Atmospheric Sciences." by
G. Vali, R. Anthes, D. Thomson, D. Houghton, J. Fellows and S.
Warner. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 83, 63-71, 2002.
"A
balloon-borne cloud condensation nuclei counter" by D.J. Delene,
T. Deshler, P. Wechsler and G. Vali. J. Geophys. Res., 103,
8927-8934, 1998.
"Calibration
of a photoelectric cloud condensation nucleus counter" by J.C.
Parente de Oliviera and G. Vali. Atmos. Res., 38, 237-248.
1995.
"Sulfur
dioxide oxidation in wintertime orographic cap clouds." by J.R.
Snider and G. Vali. J. Geophys. Res. (Atm.), 99, 18713-18733.
1994.
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