Email: lemone@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8962
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Professional Interests
My current research interests involve the atmospheric boundary layer and its interaction with the surface and clouds; and the structure of deep precipitating convection and its effect on momentum. In my early career, I combined numerical models and observations to study the structure of and transports through the fair weather planetary boundary layer and its interaction with clouds.Starting around 1980, I became interested in the generation and transport of momentum by lines of deep convection, using aircraft and Doppler-radar observations, and comparing the results of these and other case studies to idealized models. Most recently, I have returned to boundary-layer research, with an emphasis on the effects of surface properties (vegetation, soil moisture, soil properties, terrain) on the evolution of the atmospheric PBL. I have extensive experience in field programs, having participated in GATE, PRESTORM, TAMEX, STORM FEST, and TOGA-COARE, CASES-97, CASES-99, and IHOP. I am a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Association of the Atmospheric Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In addition to my scientific activities, I have written several popular articles on weather, including a booklet on clouds published by the AMS and the weather portion of a high-school textbook, and have been involved in educational outreach for over 30 years.
Recent Publications
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LeMone, M. A., Chen, F., Tewari, M., Dudhia, J., Geerts, B., Miao, Q., Coulter, R., Grossman, R., 2010: Simulating the IHOP_2002 fair-weather CBL with the WRF-ARW-Noah modeling system. Part 1: Surface fluxes and CBL structure and evolution along the eastern track. Monthly Weather Review, 138, doi: 10.1175/2009MWR3003.1, 722-744.
LeMone, M. A., Chen, F., Tewari, M., Dudhia, J., Geerts, B., Miao, Q., Coulter, R., Grossman, R., 2010: Simulating the IHOP_2002 fair-weather CBL with the WRF-ARW-Noah modeling system. Part 2: Structures from a few km to 100 km across. Monthly Weather Review, 138, doi: 10.1175/2009MWR3004.1, 745-764.
Moeng, C., Lemone, M. A., Khairoutdinov, M. F., Krueger, S. K., Bogenschutz, P. A., Randall, D. A., 2009: The tropical marine boundary layer under a deep convection system: A large-eddy simulation study. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems - Discussion, 1, doi: 10.3894/JAMES.2009.1.16, 1-13.
Fierro, A., Simpson, J., LeMone, M. A., Straka, J., Smull, B., 2009: On how hot towers fuel the Hadley cell: An observational and modeling study of line-organized convection in the equatorial trough from TOGA COARE. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, doi: 10.1175/2009JAS3017.1, 2730-2746.
Alfieri, J. G., Niyogi, D., Zhang, H., LeMone, M. A., Chen, F., 2009: Quantifying the spatial variability of airborne surface flux measurements using data from the 2002 International H20 Project: Using the surface energy budget. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. (In Press).
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