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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. CORRIGENDUM

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

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

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

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, August 2014, Wiley

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  15. 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

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

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

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

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

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

    Dr Alexandre O Fierro

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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