Email: knightc@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8940
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Professional Interests

Cloud Physics; precipitation formation; snow, hail, frost -- ice in general; the biological antifreezes

Recent Publications

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Schlatter, P. T., Schlatter, T. W., Knight, C. A., 2007: An unusual hailstorm on 24 June 2006, Boulder, Colorado, Part I: Mesoscale setting and radar features. Monthly Weather Review. (Submitted).

Knight, C. A., Schlatter, P. T., Schlatter, T. W., 2007: An unusual hailstorm on 24 June 2006, Boulder, Colorado, Part II: Low density growth of hail. Monthly Weather Review. (Submitted).

Rauber, R. M., Stevens, B., Ochs III, H. T., Knight, C., Albrecht, B. A., Blyth, A. M., Fairall, C. W., Jensen, J. B., Lasher-Trapp, S. G., Mayol-Bracero, O. L., Vali, G., Anderson, J. R., Baker, B. A., Bandy, A. R., Burnet, F., Brenguier, J., Brewer, W. A., Brown, P. R. A., Chuang, P., Cotton, W. R., Di Girolamo, L., Geert, B., Gerber, H., Goeke, S., Gomes, L., Heikes, B. G., Hudson, J. G., Kollias, P., Lawson, R. P., Jonas, P., Krueger, S. K., Lenschow, D. H., Nuijens, L., O'Sullivan, D. W., Rilling, R. A., Rogers, D. C., Siebesma, A. P., Snodgrass, E., Stith, J. L., Thornton, D. C., Tucker, S., Twohy, C. H., Zuidema, P., 2007: Rain in (shallow) cumulus over the ocean - the RICO campaign. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. (In Press).

Knight, C. A., Miller, L. J., Rilling, R. A., 2007: Structural and evolutionary aspects of trade wind cumulus determined from dual-polarization radar measurements. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. (Submitted).

Knight, C. A., 2006: Very early formation of big, liquid drops revealed by ZDR in continental cumulus. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63, 1939-1953.

Knight, C. A., 2005: An exploratory study of ice cube spikes. Journal of Glaciology, 51, 191-200.

Knight, C. A., Knight, N. C., 2005: Very large hail: Growth conditions and falling behavior. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86, 1773-1881.

Cerveny, R., Knight, C. A., Knight, N., 2005: Strange tales of hail. Weatherwise, 58, 28-34.

Lang, T. J., Miller, L. J., Weisman, M. L., Rutledge, S. A., Barker III, L. J., Bringi, V. N., Chandrasekar, V., Detwiler, A., Doesken, N., Helsdon, J., Knight, C. A., Krehbiel, P. R., Lyons, W. A., MacGorman, D., Rasmussen, E., Rison, W., Rust, W. D., Thomas, R., 2004: The Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 85, 1107-1125.

Knight, C. A., Miller, L. J., Hall, W. D., 2004: Deep convection and "first echoes" within anvil precipitation. Monthly Weather Review, 132, 1877-1890.

Blyth, A., Lasher-Trapp, S. G., Cooper, W. A., Knight, C. A., Latham, J., 2003: The role of giant and ultragiant nuclei in the formation of early radar echoes in warm cumulus clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 60, 2557-2572.

Raymond, J. A., Knight, C. A., 2003: Ice Binding, Recrystallization Inhibition and Cryoprotective Properties of Ice-Active Substances Associated with Antarctic Sea Ice Diatoms. Cryobiology, 46, 174-181.

Knight, C. A., Knight, N. C., 2002: Hail and Hailstorms. Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, 924-929.

Knight, C. A., Rider, K. T., 2002: Free growth forms of tretrahydrofuran clathrate hydrate crystals from the melt: Plates and needles from a fast-growing, vicinal, cubic crystal. Philosophical Magazine, 82, 1609-1632.

Knight, C. A., Vivekanadan, J., Lasher-Trapp, S. G., 2002: First radar echoes and the early ZDR history of Florida cumulus. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 59, 1454-1472.

Lasher-Trapp, S. G., Knight, C. A., Straka, J. M., 2001: Early radar echoes from ultragiant aerosol in a cumulus congestus: Modeling and observations. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 58, 3545-3562.

Knight, C. A., Knight, N. C., 2001: Hailstorms. Severe Convective Storms, 223-249.

Knight, C. A., Wierzbicki, A., Laursen, R. A., Zhang, W., 2001: The adsorption of biomolecules to ice and their effects upon ice growth Part I. Measuring adsorption orientations and initial results. Crystal Growth and Design, 1, 429-438.

Knight, C. A., Wierzbicki, A., 2001: The adsorption of biomolecules to ice and their effects upon ice growth Part II. A discussion of the basic mechanism of "antifreeze" phenomena. Crystal Growth and Design, 1, 439-446.

Wierzbicki, A., Knight, C. A., Rutland, R. J., Muccio, D. D., Pybus, B. S., Sikes, C. S., 2000: Structure-Function relationship in the antifreeze activity of synthetic alanine-lysine antifreeze polypeptides. Biomacromolecules, 1, 268-274.