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  1. Lightning Forecasting Using EWRF Model Over North‐Eastern India: Preliminary Results

    Article • Earth and Space Science, December 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  2. Explicitly Resolving Lightning and Electrification Processes From the 10–12 April 2019 Thundersnow Outbreak

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  3. Electrification Within Wintertime Stratiform Regions Sampled During the 2020/2022 NASA IMPACTS Field Campaign

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  4. Lightning forecasting in Bangladesh based on the lightning potential index and the electric potential

    Article • Atmospheric Research, April 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  5. Assessment of Storm‐Scale Real Time Assimilation of GOES‐16 GLM Lightning‐Derived Water Vapor Mass on Short Term Precipitation Forecasts During the 2020 Spring Forecast Experiment

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  6. Evaluation of an experimental Warn‐on‐Forecast 3DVAR analysis and forecast system on quasi‐real‐time short‐term forecasts of high‐impact weather events

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2021, Wiley

    Patrick Skinner, Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  7. Aerosol effects on electrification and lightning discharges in a multicell thunderstorm simulated by the WRF-ELEC model

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", September 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Yoav Yair, Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  8. Assimilating FY-4A Lightning and Radar Data for Improving Short-Term Forecasts of a High-Impact Convective Event with a Dual-Resolution Hybrid 3DEnVAR Method

    Article • Remote Sensing, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  9. Evaluation of the impact of assimilating spaceborne (GLM) total lightning data and radar data on short-term forecasts of convective events in the 3DVAR framework

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  10. Aerosol Effects on Electrification and Lightning Discharges in a Multicell Thunderstorm Simulated by the WRF-ELEC Model

    Article • January 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Yoav Yair, Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  11. Polarimetric Signatures in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, January 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  12. Assimilation of GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper Flash Extent Density Data in GSI EnKF for the Analysis and Short-Term Forecast of a Mesoscale Convective System

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, May 2020, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  13. Exploring the Assimilation of GLM-Derived Water Vapor Mass in a Cycled 3DVAR Framework for the Short-Term Forecasts of High-Impact Convective Events

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, February 2020, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  14. Variational Assimilation of Radar Data and GLM Lightning-Derived Water Vapor for the Short-Term Forecasts of High-Impact Convective Events

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  15. Assimilation of Radar Radial Velocity, Reflectivity, and Pseudo–Water Vapor for Convective-Scale NWP in a Variational Framework

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, July 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  16. Electrified Cloud Areas Observed in the SHV and LDR Radar Modes

    Article • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, January 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  17. Incorporating geostationary lightning data into a radar reflectivity based hydrometeor retrieval method: An observing system simulation experiment

    Article • Atmospheric Research, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  18. Evolution of GLM-Observed Total Lightning in Hurricane Maria (2017) during the Period of Maximum Intensity

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, June 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  19. Performance Evaluation of an Explicit Lightning Forecasting System

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Stavros Dafis, Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  20. Relationships between Electrification and Storm-Scale Properties Based on Idealized Simulations of an Intensifying Hurricane-Like Vortex

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, February 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  21. Improving Lightning and Precipitation Prediction of Severe Convection Using Lightning Data Assimilation With NCAR WRF-RTFDDA

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  22. CORRIGENDUM

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, August 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro, Research Meteorologist Jidong Gao

  23. Evaluation of deep convective transport in storms from different convective regimes during the DC3 field campaign using WRF-Chem with lightning data assimilation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2017, Wiley

    YUNYAO LI, Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  24. Electrification and Lightning in Idealized Simulations of a Hurricane-Like Vortex Subject to Wind Shear and Sea Surface Temperature Cooling

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, June 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  25. Assimilation of Flash Extent Data in the Variational Framework at Convection-Allowing Scales: Proof-of-Concept and Evaluation for the Short-Term Forecast of the 24 May 2011 Tornado Outbreak

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, November 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  26. Present State of Knowledge of Electrification and Lightning within Tropical Cyclones and Their Relationships to Microphysics and Storm Intensity

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  27. Explicitly Simulated Electrification and Lightning within a Tropical Cyclone Based on the Environment of Hurricane Isaac (2012)

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, November 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  28. Impact of Storm-Scale Lightning Data Assimilation on WRF-ARW Precipitation Forecasts during the 2013 Warm Season over the Contiguous United States

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, March 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  29. Relationships between California rainfall variability and large-scale climate drivers

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, August 2014, Wiley

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  30. An Electrical and Polarimetric Analysis of the Overland Reintensification of Tropical Storm Erin (2007)

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, June 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  31. Relationships between Southeast Australian Temperature Anomalies and Large-Scale Climate Drivers

    Article • Journal of Climate, February 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  32. Evaluation of a Cloud-Scale Lightning Data Assimilation Technique and a 3DVAR Method for the Analysis and Short-Term Forecast of the 29 June 2012 Derecho Event

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, January 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  33. The Implementation of an Explicit Charging and Discharge Lightning Scheme within the WRF-ARW Model: Benchmark Simulations of a Continental Squall Line, a Tropical Cyclone, and a Winter Storm

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, July 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  34. Links between Central West Western Australian Rainfall Variability and Large-Scale Climate Drivers

    Article • Journal of Climate, April 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  35. Determining Key Model Parameters of Rapidly Intensifying Hurricane Guillermo (1997) Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, November 2012, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro, Dr. Steve Guimond

  36. Application of a Lightning Data Assimilation Technique in the WRF-ARW Model at Cloud-Resolving Scales for the Tornado Outbreak of 24 May 2011

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, August 2012, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  37. Tropical Oceanic Hot Towers: Need They Be Undilute to Transport Energy from the Boundary Layer to the Upper Troposphere Effectively? An Answer Based on Trajectory Analysis of a Simulation of a TOGA COARE Convective System

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, January 2012, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  38. Evolution of Eyewall Convective Events as Indicated by Intracloud and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity during the Rapid Intensification of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, May 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  39. High-Resolution Simulation of the Electrification and Lightning of Hurricane Rita during the Period of Rapid Intensification

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, March 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  40. Australian east coast rainfall decline related to large scale climate drivers

    Article • Climate Dynamics, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  41. Microphysics of Maritime Tropical Convective Updrafts at Temperatures from −20° to −60°

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, December 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  42. The Impact of Horizontal Grid Spacing on the Microphysical and Kinematic Structures of Strong Tropical Cyclones Simulated with the WRF-ARW Model

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, November 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Frank D Marks, Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  43. On How Hot Towers Fuel the Hadley Cell: An Observational and Modeling Study of Line-Organized Convection in the Equatorial Trough from TOGA COARE

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, September 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  44. Numerical Simulations of the Microphysics and Electrification of the Weakly Electrified 9 February 1993 TOGA COARE Squall Line: Comparisons with Observations

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, January 2008, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  45. A high-resolution simulation of microphysics and electrification in an idealized hurricane-like vortex

    Article • Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, March 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  46. Electrification and Lightning in an Idealized Boundary-Crossing Supercell Simulation of 2 June 1995*

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, November 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro