Selected Recent Publications

Ricciotti, J. A., & Cordeira, J. M. (2022). Summarizing Relationships among Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers, Integrated Water Vapor Transport, and California Watershed Precipitation 1982-2019. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 23(9), 1439–1454. https://doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-21-0119.1
Cordeira, J. M., & Ralph, F. M. (2021). A summary of GFS ensemble integrated water vapor transport forecasts and skill along the US West Coast during water years 2017-20. Weather and Forecasting, 36(2), 361–377. https://doi.org/10.1175/waf-d-20-0121.1
Cannon, F., Oakley, N. S., Hecht, C. W., Michaelis, A., Cordeira, J. M., Kawzenuk, B., Demirdjian, R., Weihs, R., Fish, M. A., Wilson, A. M., & Ralph, F. M. (2020). Observations and predictability of a high-impact narrow cold-frontal rainband over Southern California on 2 February 2019. Weather and Forecasting, 1–40. https://doi.org/10.1175/waf-d-20-0012.1
Wilson, A. M., Chapman, W., Payne, A., Ramos, A. M., Boehm, C., Campos, D., Cordeira, J., Garreaud, R., Gorodetskaya, I. V., Rutz, J. J., Viceto, C., & Ralph, F. M. (2020). Training the next generation of researchers in the science and application of atmospheric rivers. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(6), E738–E743. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-19-0311.1
Ralph, F. M., Cannon, F., Tallapragada, V., Davis, C. A., Doyle, J. D., Pappenberger, F., Subramanian, A., Wilson, A. M., Lavers, D. A., Reynolds, C. A., Haase, J. S., Centurioni, L., Ingleby, B., Rutz, J. J., Cordeira, J. M., Zheng, M., Hecht, C., Kawzenuk, B., & Delle Monache, L. (2020). West Coast forecast challenges and development of atmospheric river reconnaissance. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-19-0183.1
Cannon, F., Cordeira, J. M., Hecht, C. W., Norris, J. R., Michaelis, A., Demirdjian, R., & Ralph, F. M. (2020). GPM satellite radar observations of precipitation mechanisms in atmospheric rivers. Monthly Weather Review, 148(4), 1449–1463. https://doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-19-0278.1
Sanders, M. C., Cordeira, J. M., & Metz, N. D. (2020). Hydrometeorological Characteristics of Ice Jams on the Pemigewasset River in Central New Hampshire. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(12), 2923–2942. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0027.1
Cordeira, J. M., Stock, J., Dettinger, M. D., Young, A. M., Kalansky, J. F., & Ralph, F. M. (2019). A 142-year climatology of Northern California landslides and atmospheric rivers. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(8), 1499–1509. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-18-0158.1
Ralph, F. M., Rutz, J. J., Cordeira, J. M., Dettinger, M., Anderson, M., Reynolds, D., Schick, L. I., & Smallcomb, C. (2019). A scale to characterize the strength and impacts of atmospheric rivers. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(2), 269–290. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-18-0023.1
Cannon, F., Hecht, C. W., Cordeira, J. M., & Ralph, F. M. (2018). Synoptic and mesoscale forcing of Southern California extreme precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 123(24), 13714–13730. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jd029045
Cordeira, J., Neureuter, M., & Kelleher, L. (2018). Atmospheric Rivers and National Weather Service Watches, Warnings, and Advisories Issued Over California 2007–2016. Journal of Operational Meteorology, 06, 87–94. https://doi.org/10.15191/nwajom.2018.0608
Ralph, F. M., Iacobellis, S. F., Neiman, P. J., Cordeira, J. M., Spackman, J. R., Waliser, D. E., Wick, G. A., White, A. B., & Fairall, C. (2017). Dropsonde observations of total integrated water vapor transport within North Pacific atmospheric rivers. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 18(9), 2577–2596. https://doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-17-0036.1
Hecht, C. W., & Cordeira, J. M. (2017). Characterizing the influence of atmospheric river orientation and intensity on precipitation distributions over North Coastal California. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(17), 9048–9058. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl074179
Cordeira, J. M., Ralph, F. M., Martin, A., Gaggggini, N., Spackman, J. R., Neiman, P. J., Rutz, J. J., & Pierce, R. (2017). Forecasting atmospheric rivers during CalWater 2015. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98(3), 449–459. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-15-00245.1
F. M. Ralph, M. Dettinger, D. Lavers, I. V. Gorodetskaya, A. Martin, M. Viale, A. B. White, N. Oakley, J. Rutz, J. R. Spackman, H. Wernli, & J. Cordeira. (2017). Atmospheric rivers emerge as a global science and applications focus. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98(9), 1969–1973. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-16-0262.1
Cordeira, J. M., Metz, N. D., Howarth, M. E., & Galarneau, T. J. (2017). Multiscale Upstream and In Situ Precursors to the Elevated Mixed Layer and High-Impact Weather over the Midwest United States. Weather and Forecasting, 32(3), 905–923. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-16-0122.1
Ralph, F. M., Cordeira, J. M., Neiman, P. J., & Hughes, M. (2016). Landfalling atmospheric rivers, the Sierra barrier jet, and extreme daily precipitation in Northern California’s Upper Sacramento River watershed. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 17(7), 1905–1914. https://doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-15-0167.1
Ralph, F. M., Prather, K. A., Cayan, D., Spackman, J. R., DeMott, P., Dettinger, M., Fairall, C., Leung, R., Rosenfeld, D., Rutledge, S., Waliser, D., White, A. B., Cordeira, J., Martin, A., Helly, J., & Intrieri, J. (2016). CalWater field studies designed to quantify the roles of atmospheric rivers and aerosols in modulating US West Coast precipitation in a changing climate. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(7), 1209–1228. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-14-00043.1
Cordeira, J. M., Ralph, F. M., & Moore, B. J. (2013). The development and evolution of two atmospheric rivers in proximity to western North Pacific tropical cyclones in October 2010. Monthly Weather Review, 141(12), 4234–4255. https://doi.org/10.1175/Mwr-D-13-00019.1
Neiman, P. J., Ralph, F. M., Moore, B. J., Hughes, M., Mahoney, K. M., Cordeira, J. M., & Dettinger, M. D. (2013). The landfall and inland penetration of a flood-producing atmospheric river in Arizona. Part I: Observed synoptic-scale, orographic, and hydrometeorological characteristics. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 14(2), 460–484. https://doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-12-0101.1
Evans, C., Archambault, H. M., Cordeira, J. M., Fritz, C., Galarneau, T. J., Gjorgjievska, S., Griffin, K. S., Johnson, A., Komaromi, W. A., Monette, S., Muradyan, P., Murphy, B., Riemer, M., Sears, J., Stern, D., Tang, B., & Thompson, S. (2012). The Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-Systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) Field Campaign: Perspectives of Early Career Scientists. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(2), 173–187. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00024.1