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  1. Synoptic Modulation of the West African Coastal Atmosphere and Mesoscale Convective Systems

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio, Quinton Lawton

  2. Evaluating Environmental Moisture Relative to Tropical Deep Convective Growth Using CPEX‐CV Airborne and Satellite Observations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  3. On the Definition and Tracking of Tropical Cyclone Seeds from a Climate Perspective

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, September 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  4. Thermodynamic Processes Governing the Evolution of Developing and Strong Nondeveloping African Easterly Waves

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, June 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  5. Response of African Easterly Waves to a Warming Climate: A Convection-Permitting Approach

    Article • April 2025, Wiley

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  6. Mesoscale Convective Systems in Africa and the Atlantic Ocean Under a Km-Scale Future Climate Scenario

    Article • April 2025, Wiley

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  7. Mesoscale Convective Systems Tracking Method Intercomparison (MCSMIP): Application to DYAMOND Global km‐Scale Simulations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  8. Celebrating 50 Years since GATE

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, April 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  9. Evaluating Environmental Moisture Relative to Tropical Deep Convective Growth Using CPEX-CV Airborne and Satellite Observations

    Article • March 2025, Wiley

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  10. Mesoscale Convective Systems in DYAMOND Models: A Feature Tracking Intercomparison.

    Article • January 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  11. The Effect of Pseudo‐Global Warming on the Weather‐Climate System of Africa in a Convection‐Permitting Model

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  12. Dust, Convection, Winds and Waves: The 2022 NASA CPEX-CV Campaign

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, September 2024, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio, Quinton Lawton, Ryan Torn

  13. Mesoscale Convective Systems tracking Method Intercomparison (MCSMIP): Application to DYAMOND Global km-scale Simulations

    Article • August 2024, Authorea, Inc.

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  14. TAMS: a tracking, classifying, and variable-assigning algorithm for mesoscale convective systems in simulated and satellite-derived datasets

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, August 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  15. Moisture Dependence of an African Easterly Wave Within the West African Monsoon System

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, June 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio, Quinton Lawton

  16. Km‐Scale Simulations of Mesoscale Convective Systems Over South America—A Feature Tracker Intercomparison

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

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  17. The Effect of Pseudo-Global Warming on the Weather-Climate System of Africa in a Convection-Permitting Model

    Article • March 2024, Authorea, Inc.

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  18. TAMS: A Tracking, Classifying, and Variable-Assigning Algorithm for Mesoscale Convective Systems in Simulated and Satellite-Derived Datasets

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  19. Km-Scale Simulations of Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) Over South America - A Feature Tracker Intercomparison

    Article • October 2023, Authorea, Inc.

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  20. Advancing South American Water and Climate Science Through Multi-Decadal Convection-Permitting Modeling

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, October 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio, Dr Yongjie Huang

  21. Tropical cyclogenesis: Controlling factors and physical mechanisms

    Article • Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, September 2023, Elsevier

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  22. Commitment to Active Allyship Is Required to Address the Lack of Hispanic and Latinx Representation in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, July 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio, Suzana J. Camargo

  23. African Easterly Wave Evolution and Tropical Cyclogenesis in a Pre‐Helene (2006) Hindcast Using the Model for Prediction Across Scales‐Atmosphere (MPAS‐A)

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, February 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  24. Favorable monsoon environment over eastern Africa for subsequent tropical cyclogenesis of African easterly waves

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, June 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  25. A Wave-Relative Framework Analysis of AEW–MCS Interactions Leading to Tropical Cyclogenesis

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

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  26. Topographic Influence on the African Easterly Jet and African Easterly Wave Energetics

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  27. Tracking Mesoscale Convective Systems that are Potential Candidates for Tropical Cyclogenesis

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

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  28. An Extreme Event in the Eyewall of Hurricane Felix on 2 September 2007

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

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio

  29. The relationship between the Guinea Highlands and the West African offshore rainfall maximum

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Kelly Nunez Ocasio