VOCALS Publications
Organized by theme

General VOCALS

Wood R., C. R. Mechoso, C. S. Bretherton, B. Huebert, R. Weller, 2007: The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS). Clivar Variations, 5, No 1, 2007.

Garreaud, R., J. Rutllant, J. Quintana, J. Carrasco and P. Minnis, 2001: CIMAR-5: A snapshot of the lower troposphere over the Southeast subtropical Pacific. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 82, 2193-2207.

Clouds and precipitation

Bretherton, C. S., T. Uttal, C. W. Fairall, S. Yuter, R. Weller, D. Baumgardner, K. Comstock, R. Wood, and G. Raga, 2004: The EPIC 2001 stratocumulus study. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 967-977.

Comstock, K. K., Wood, R., Yuter, S. E., and Bretherton, C. S., 2004: Reflectivity and rain rate in and below drizzling stratocumulus. Quart. J.Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 130, 2891-2919.

Wood, R., and C. S. Bretherton, 2004: Boundary layer depth, entrainment and decoupling in the cloud-capped subtropical and tropical marine boundary layer. J. Clim., 17,3576-3588, 2004.

Stevens, B., G. Vali, K. Comstock, R. Wood, M. VanZanten, P.H. Austin, C. S. Bretherton, D.H. Lenschow, 2005: Pockets of Open Cells (POCs) and Drizzle in Marine Stratocumulus Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 86, 51-57.

Wood, R., and Hartmann, D. L., 2006: Spatial variability of liquid water path in marine low cloud: The importance of mesoscale cellular convection. J.Clim., 19,1748-1764..

Wood, R., 2006: The rate of loss of cloud droplets by coalescence in warm clouds. J.Geophys. Res., 111, D21205, doi:10.1029/2006JD007553.

Comstock, K. K., S. E. Yuter, R. Wood, and C. S. Bretherton. The three dimensional structure and kinematics of drizzling stratocumulus. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3767-3784, 2007.

Wood, R., K. K. Comstock, C. S. Bretherton, C. Cornish, J. Tomlinson, D. R. Collins, and C. Fairall, 2008: Open cellular structure in marine stratocumulus sheets. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D12207, doi:10.1029/2007JD009371.

Chen, R., R. Wood, Z. Li, R. Ferraro, and F-L Chang, 2008: Studying the vertical variation of cloud droplet effective radius using ship and spaceborne remote sensing data. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D00A02, doi:10.1029/2007JD009596.

Aerosol physical and chemical properties

Tomlinson, J. M., Li, R., and Collins, D. R., 2007. Physical and chemical properties of the aerosol within the southeastern Pacific marine boundary layer, J. Geophys. Res. – Atmospheres, 112 art No. D12211.

Diurnal cycle

Wood, R., C. S. Bretherton, andD. L. Hartmann, 2002: Diurnal cycle of liquid water path over the subtropical and tropical oceans. Geophys. Res. Lett. 10.1029/2002GL015371.

Garreaud, R., R. Munoz, 2004a: The diurnal cycle of circulation and cloudiness over the subtropical southeast Pacific: A modeling study. J. of Climate, 17, 1699-1710.

Wood, R., M. Köhler, R. Bennartz, C. O'Dell, 2008: The diurnal cycle of surface divergence over the global oceans. submitted to Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc.

Boundary layer structure and turbulence

Caldwell , P., Bretherton, C.S., and Wood, R. Mixed-layer budget analysis of the diurnal cycle of entrainment in SE Pacific stratocumulus. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 3775-3791, 2005.

Synoptic meteorology and dynamics

Garreaud, R., R. Munoz, 2005: The low-level jet off the subtropical west coast of South America: Structure and variability. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 2246-2261.

Munoz. R. and R. Garreaud, 2005: Dynamics of the low-level jet off the subtropical west coast of South America. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 3661-3677.

Rutllant J. and R. Garreaud, 2004: Episodes of strong flow down the western slope of the subtropical Andes. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 611-622.

Garreaud, R. and H. Fuenzalida, 2007: The Influence of Andes on cutoff lows: A modeling study. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 1596-1613.