Peter Blossey

bloss@atmos.washington.edu

Mailing Address: University of Washington; Atmospheric Sciences; Box 351640; Seattle, WA 98195-1640
Office: 711 Atmospheric Sciences-Geophysics Bldg; Phone: 206-685-9526; Fax: 206-685-9302

Research Interests:: Cloud Modeling; Atmospheric Convection; Numerical Modeling; Turbulent Shear Flows

Publications

Preprints:

S. J. Woolnough, P. N. Blossey, K.-M. Xu, P. Bechtold, J.-P. Chaboureau, T. Hosomi, S. F. Iacobellis, Y. Luo, J. C. Petch, R. Y. Wong and S. Xie.
Modeling convective processes during the suppressed phase of a Madden-Julian Oscillation: Comparing single-column models with cloud-resolving models.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, submitted 12/2008.
M. C. Wyant, C. S. Bretherton and P. N. Blossey.
Understanding Subtropical Low Cloud Response to a Warmer Climate in a Superparameterized Climate Model. Part I. Regime sorting and physical mechanisms.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, submitted 7/2008, revised 3/2009, accepted 4/2009.
P. N. Blossey, C. S. Bretherton and M. C. Wyant.
Understanding Subtropical Low Cloud Response to a Warmer Climate in a Superparameterized Climate Model. Part II. Column Modeling with a Cloud Resolving Model.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, submitted 7/2008, revised 3/2009, revised 5/2009.
M. A. Lopez, D. L. Hartmann, P. N. Blossey, R. Wood, C. S. Bretherton and T. Kubar.
A Test of the Simulation of Tropical Convective Cloudiness by a Cloud-Resolving Model.
Journal of Climate, in press.

2007-2008:

J. C. Petch, P. N. Blossey and C. S. Bretherton 2008.
Differences in the lower troposphere in two- and three-dimensional cloud-resolving model simulations of deep convection.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 134, issue 636, pp. 1941-1946.
P. N. Blossey and D. R. Durran 2008.
Selective monotonicity preservation in scalar advection.
Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 227, pp. 5160-5183.
C. S. Bretherton, P. N. Blossey and J. Uchida 2007.
Cloud droplet sedimentation, entrainment efficiency, and subtropical stratocumulus albedo.
Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L03813, doi:10.1029/2006GL027648.
P. N. Blossey, C. S. Bretherton, J. Cetrone and M. Khairoutdinov 2007.
Cloud-resolving model simulations of KWAJEX: Model sensitivities and comparisons with satellite and radar observations.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 64, pp. 1488-1508.

2005-2006:

C. S. Bretherton, P. N. Blossey and M. E. Peters 2006.
Comparison of simple and cloud-resolving models of moist convection-radiation interaction with a mock-Walker circulation.
Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, vol. 20, pp. 421-442.
C. S. Bretherton, P. N. Blossey and M. Khairoutdinov 2005.
An energy-balance analysis of deep convective self-aggregation above uniform SST.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 62, pp. 4273-4292.
R. Wood and P. N. Blossey 2005.
Comments on: "On the parameterization of the autoconversion process. Part I: Analytical formulation of the Kessler-type parameterizations".
Journal of the Atmopsheric Sciences, vol. 62, pp. 3003-3006.
Z. Kuang, P. N. Blossey and C. S. Bretherton 2005.
A DARE approach for 3D cloud resolving simulations of large scale atmospheric circulation.
Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L02809, doi:10.1029/2004GL021024.

Journals (each link gives a google search for the journal title):: Geophysical Research Letters; Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems; Journal of Climate; Journal of Computational Physics; Journal of the Atmopsheric Sciences; Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society; Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics