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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Andrejczuk, M., Grabowski, W. W., Malinowski, S., Smolarkiewicz, P. K., 2009: Numerical simulation of cloud-clear air interfacial mixing: Homogeneous versus inhomogeneous mixing. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, doi: 10.1175/2009JAS2956.1, 2493-2500.
Arabas, S., Pawlowska, H., Grabowski, W. W., 2009: Effective radius and droplet spectral width from in-situ aircraft observations in trade-wind cumuli during RICO. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, doi: 10.1029/2009GL038257, L11803.
Grabowski, W. W., Petch, J. C., 2008: Deep convective clouds. Struengmann Forum Report. (In Press).
Grabowski, W. W., Wang, L., 2008: Diffusional and accretional growth of water drops in a rising adiabatic parcel: effects of the turbulent collision kernel. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. (Submitted).
Slawinska, J., Grabowski, W. W., Morrison, H., 2008: Impact of atmospheric aerosols on precipitation from deep organized convection: A prescribed-flow modeling study using double-moment bulk microphysics. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. (Submitted).
Jarecka, D., Grabowski, W. W., Pawlowska, H., 2008: Modeling of subgrid-scale mixing in large-eddy simulation of shallow convection. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. (Submitted).
Kurowski, M. J., Malinowski, S. P., Grabowski, W. W., 2008: Numerical investigation of entrainment and transport within stratocumulus-topped boundary layer. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. (Submitted).
Wang, L., Grabowski, W. W., 2008: The role of air turbulence in warm rain initiation. Atmospheric Science Letters. (Submitted).
Ayala, O., Abernethy, J., Rosa, B., Wang, L., Grabowski, W. W., 2008: Effects of turbulence on the geometric collision rate of sedimenting droplets: Part I Results from direct numerical simulation. New Journal of Physics, 10, doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/7/075015, 075015.
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, 10, doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/7/075020, 075020.
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