Email: grabow@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8974
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Professional Interests

Geophysical fluid dynamics and cloud physics in general; numerical modeling; numerical methods for fluid dynamics; moist convection; turbulence; small-scale dynamics; cloud microphysics and its parameterization; convection and its interaction with radiative, surface, and large--scale processes; the role of clouds in the climate system.

Recent Publications

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Malinowski, S. P., Andrejczuk, M., Grabowski, W. W., Korczyk, P., Kowalewski, T. A., Smolarkiewicz, P. K., 2008: Laboratory and modeling studies of cloud-clear air interfacial mixing: anisotropy of small-scale turbulance due to evaporative cooling. New Journal of Physics. (In Press).

Grabowski, W. W., 2007: Representation of turbulent mixing and buoyancy reversal in bulk cloud models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, 3666-3690.

Ayala, O., Grabowski, W. W., Wang, L., 2007: A hybrid approach for simulating turbulent collisions of hydrodynamically-interacting particles. Journal of Computational Physics. (In Press).

Morrison, H., Grabowski, W. W., 2007: A novel approach for representing ice microphysics in models: description and tests using a kinematic framework. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Wang, L., Xue, Y., Grabowski, W. W., 2007: Bin integral method for solving the kinetic collection equation. Journal of Computational Physics.

Morrison, H., Grabowski, W. W., 2007: Modeling supersaturation and subgrid-scale mixing in a large-eddy model with two-moment bulk warm microphysics. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Slawinska, J., Grabowski, W. W., Pawlowska, H., Wyszogrodzki, A. A., 2007: Optical properties of shallow convective clouds diagnosed from a bulk-microphysics large-eddy simulation. Journal of Climate.

Morrison, H., Grabowski, W. W., 2007: Comparison of bulk and bin warm rain microphysics models using a kinematic framework. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, doi: 10.1175/JAS3980, 2839-2861.

Grabowski, W. W., Morrison, H., 2007: Toward the mitigation of spurious cloud-edge supersaturation in cloud models. Monthly Weather Review. (In Press).

Barstad, I., Grabowski, W. W., Smolarkiewicz, P. K., 2007: Characteristics of large-scale orographic precipitation: evaluation of linear model in idealized problems. Journal of Hydrology, 340, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.04.005, 78-90.


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