Publications

Forthcoming (submitted or under review)

Kukulies, J., Li, W., Chen, D (2023). Mean flow and eddy summer moisture transport downwind of the Tibetan Plateau in reanalysis data and a regional climate simulation. Submitted to Climate Dynamics. Access preprint here

Peer-reviewed (chronologically backwards)

Prein, A., Feng, Z., Fiolleau, T., Moon, Z., Nunez Ocasio, K., Kukulies, J., Roca, R., Varble, A., Rehbein, A., Liu, C., Ikeda, K., Mu, Y. and Rasmussen, R (2023). Km-Scale Simulations of Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) Over South America - A Feature Tracker Intercomparison. JGR Atmosphere Access here

Sokolowsky, G. A., Freeman S. W., Jones , W., Kukulies, J., Senf, F., Marinescu, P. J., Heikenfeld, M., Brunner, K., Bruning, E., Collis, S., Jackson, R.,Leung, G., Pfeifer,N., Raut, B., Saleeby, S., Stier, P. and van den Heever, S. C., (2023). tobac v1.5: Introducing Fast 3D Tracking, Splits and Mergers, and Other Enhancements for Identifying and Analysing Meteorological Phenomena. Geoscientific Model Development. Access here

Minola, L., Zhang, G., Ou, T., Kukulies, J., Curio, J., Guijarro, J. A., Deng, K., Azorin-Molina, C., Shen, C., Pezzoli, A. and Chen, D. (2023). Climatology of near-surface wind speed from observations and high-resolution climate modelsover the Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics. Access paper here

Freeman, S. W., Brunner, K., Jones, W. K., Kukulies, J., Senf, F., Stier, P. and van den Heever, S. C., (2023). Advancing our Understanding of Cloud Processes and Their Role in the Earth System through Cloud Object Tracking. Bulletin of the AMS. Access paper here

Kukulies, J, Prein, A., Curio, J. and Chen, D. (2023). Kilometer-scale multi-model and multi-physics ensemble simulations of a mesoscale convective system in the lee of the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for climate simulations. Journal of Climate. Access paper here

Kukulies, J, Lai, H., Curio, J., Feng, Z., Lin, C., Li, P., Sugimoto, S., Ou, T. and Chen, D. (2023). Mesoscale convective systems in the Third Pole region: Characteristics, Mechanisms and Impact on precipitation. Frontiers in Earth Science. Access paper here

Ou, T., Chen, D., Tang, J., Lin, C., Wang X., Kukulies, J. and Lai, H. (2023). Wet bias of summer precipitation in the northwestern Tibetan Plateau in ERA5 is linked to weakened lower-level southerly wind over the plateau. Climate Dynamics, 1-15. Access paper here

Prein, A. F., Ban, N., Ou, T., Tang, J., Sakaguchi, K., Collier, E., Jayanarayanan, S., Sobolowski, S., Li, L., Chen, X., Zhou, X., Lai, H., Sugimoto, S., Zhou, L., Hasson, S., Ekstrom, M., Pothapakula, P., Ahrens, B., Stuart, R., Steen-Larsen, H. C., Leung, R. Belusic, D., Kukulies, J. , Curio, J. and Chen, D. (2022). Towards Ensemble-Based Kilometer-Scale Climate Simulations over the Third Pole region. Climate Dynamics, 1-27. Access paper here

Kukulies, J., Chen, D. and Curio, J. (2021). The Role of Mesoscale Convective Systems in Precipitation in the Tibetan Plateau Region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126(23), e2021JD035279. Access paper here

Zhang, X., Yin, Y., Kukulies, J., Li, Y., Kuang, X., He, C., and Chen, J. (2021). Revisiting Lightning Activity and Parameterization Using Geostationary Satellite Observations. Remote Sensing, 13(19). Access paper here

Lai, H. W., Chen, H. W., Kukulies, J., Ou, T. and Chen, D. (2020). Regionalization of seasonal precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau and associated large-scale atmospheric systems. Journal of Climate, 1-45. Access paper here

Kukulies, J., Chen, D. and Wang, M. (2020). Temporal and spatial variations of convection and precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau based on recent satellite observations. Part II: Precipitation climatology derived from GPM. International Journal of Climatology. Access paper here

Kukulies, J., Chen, D. and Wang, M. (2019). Temporal and spatial variations of convection and precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau based on recent satellite observations.Part I: Cloud climatology derived from CloudSat and CALIPSO. International Journal of Climatology. Access paper here