Alan K. Betts
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Alan K. Betts's Degrees
- PhD Atmospheric Science University of Washington
- Masters Meteorology Pennsylvania State University
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Published Works
- Modeling the Exchanges of Energy, Water, and Carbon Between Continents and the Atmosphere (1997) (1423)
- A new convective adjustment scheme. Part II: Single column tests using GATE wave, BOMEX, ATEX and arctic air‐mass data sets (1986) (1143)
- Modeling of land surface evaporation by four schemes and comparison with FIFE observations (1996) (1012)
- A Revised Hydrology for the ECMWF Model: Verification from Field Site to Terrestrial Water Storage and Impact in the Integrated Forecast System (2009) (749)
- The land surface‐atmosphere interaction: A review based on observational and global modeling perspectives (1996) (669)
- The Anomalous Rainfall over the United States during July 1993: Sensitivity to Land Surface Parameterization and Soil Moisture Anomalies (1996) (517)
- Albedo over the boreal forest (1997) (457)
- Non‐precipitating cumulus convection and its parameterization (1973) (452)
- Contrasting convective regimes over the Amazon: Implications for cloud electrification (2002) (416)
- A new convective adjustment scheme. Part I: Observational and theoretical basis (1986) (374)
- Convection in GATE (1981) (351)
- Global intercomparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates (2011) (343)
- A new convective adjustment scheme (1985) (291)
- The simulation of the diurnal cycle of convective precipitation over land in a global model (2004) (262)
- Evaluation of the diurnal cycle of precipitation, surface thermodynamics, and surface fluxes in the ECMWF model using LBA data (2002) (252)
- Understanding Hydrometeorology Using Global Models (2004) (240)
- Climatic Equilibrium of the Atmospheric Convective Boundary Layer over a Tropical Ocean (1989) (237)
- Assessment of the Land Surface and Boundary Layer Models in Two Operational Versions of the NCEP Eta Model Using FIFE Data (1997) (223)
- FIFE Surface Climate and Site-Average Dataset 1987–89 (1998) (212)
- Impact on ECMWF forecasts of changes to the albedo of the boreal forests in the presence of snow (1999) (181)
- The Betts-Miller Scheme (1993) (154)
- Impact of deforestation in the Amazon basin on cloud climatology (2009) (150)
- Land‐Surface‐Atmosphere Coupling in Observations and Models (2009) (145)
- The FIFE surface diurnal cycle climate (1995) (141)
- Thermodynamic constraint on the cloud liquid water feedback in climate models (1987) (140)
- FIFE atmospheric boundary layer budget methods (1992) (138)
- Parametric Interpretation of Trade-Wind Cumulus Budget Studies (1975) (125)
- Mean climate and transience in the tropics of the UGAMP GCM: Sensitivity to convective parametrization (1994) (119)
- An Agenda for Land-Surface Hydrology Research and a Call for the Second International Hydrological Decade (2013) (113)
- Recent trends of the tropical hydrological cycle inferred from Global Precipitation Climatology Project and International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project data (2011) (112)
- Report of the first prospectus development team of the U.S. Weather Research Program to The NOAA and the NSF (1995) (111)
- Study of diurnal cycle of convective precipitation over Amazonia using a single column model (2002) (109)
- Transport of ozone to the surface by convective downdrafts at night (2002) (107)
- Model of the Thermodynamic Structure of the Trade-Wind Boundary Layer: Part I. Theoretical Formulation and Sensitivity Tests. (1979) (107)
- Evaluation of the ERA-40 Surface Water Budget and Surface Temperature for the Mackenzie River Basin (2003) (106)
- Coupling of the radiative, convective, and surface fluxes over the equatorial Pacific (1988) (105)
- O ine validation of the ERA 40 surface scheme (2000) (105)
- Conserved Variable Analysis of the Convective Boundary Layer Thermodynamic Structure over the Tropical Oceans (1987) (103)
- Saturation Point Analysis of Moist Convective Overturning (1982) (103)
- Comparison of ERA40 and NCEP/DOE near‐surface data sets with other ISLSCP‐II data sets (2006) (100)
- Comparison between the land surface response of the ECMWF model and the FIFE‐1987 data (1993) (100)
- Comparison of river basin hydrometeorology in ERA-Interim and ERA-40 reanalyses with observations (2009) (99)
- Boundary-layer heat and moisture budgets from fife (1990) (91)
- NCEP-NCAR and ECMWF Reanalysis Surface Water and Energy Budgets for the Mississippi River Basin (2000) (90)
- Estimates of net CO2 flux by application of equilibrium boundary layer concepts to CO2 and water vapor measurements from a tall tower (2004) (88)
- The Thermodynamic Transformation of the Tropical Subcloud Layer by Precipitation and Downdrafts (1976) (87)
- Budget analysis of FIFE 1987 sonde data (1994) (85)
- ISLSCP initiative II global data sets : Surface boundary conditions and atmospheric forcings for land-atmosphere studies (2006) (84)
- Budget analysis of the boundary layer grid flights during FIFE 1987 (1992) (83)
- Comparison of NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis with 1987 FIFE Data (1996) (82)
- Radiosonde boundary layer budgets above a boreal forest (1997) (81)
- Land-surface, boundary layer, and cloud-field coupling over the southwestern Amazon in ERA-40 (2005) (76)
- Surface diurnal cycle and boundary layer structure over Rondônia during the rainy season (2002) (75)
- Characterization of increased persistence and intensity of precipitation in the northeastern United States (2015) (75)
- Idealized Model for Equilibrium Boundary Layer over Land (2000) (74)
- Evaluation of land-surface interaction in ECMWF and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis models over grassland (FIFE) and boreal forest (BOREAS) (1998) (72)
- A cloudiness transition in a marine boundary layer (1990) (72)
- Impact of the ECMWF reanalysis soil water on forecasts of the July 1993 Mississippi flood (1999) (71)
- Coupling of water vapor convergence, clouds, precipitation, and land-surface processes (2007) (68)
- Controls on Evaporation in a Boreal Spruce Forest. (1999) (68)
- Air–Sea Interaction during an Extreme Cold Air Outbreak from the Eastern Coast of the United States (1990) (68)
- Modeling Subcloud Layer Structure and Interaction with a Shallow Cumulus Layer (1976) (68)
- Intercomparison of water and energy budgets for five Mississippi subbasins between ECMWF reanalysis (ERA‐40) and NASA Data Assimilation Office fvGCM for 1990–1999 (2003) (67)
- A case study of convective organization into precipitating lines in the Southwest Amazon during the WETAMC and TRMM‐LBA (2002) (66)
- Mixing Line Analysis of Clouds and Cloudy Boundary Layers (1985) (65)
- Greenhouse warming and the tropical water budget (1990) (65)
- Climate-Convection Feedbacks: Some Further Issues (1998) (64)
- Hydrometeorology of the Amazon in ERA-40 (2005) (62)
- Comparison of Ceilometer, Satellite, and Synoptic Measurements of Boundary-Layer Cloudiness and the ECMWF Diagnostic Cloud Parameterization Scheme during ASTEX (1995) (62)
- Surface Energy and Water Balance for the Arkansas-Red River Basin from the ECMWF Reanalysis (1998) (62)
- The GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) (1993) (61)
- Basin‐scale surface water and energy budgets for the Mississippi from the ECMWF reanalysis (1999) (60)
- Near‐surface climate in the boreal forest (2001) (59)
- Reply to comment on the paper ‘Non‐precipitating cumulus convection and its parameterization’ (1974) (58)
- The Amazonian Boundary Layer and Mesoscale Circulations (2013) (57)
- Impact of agriculture, forest and cloud feedback on the surface energy budget in BOREAS (2007) (57)
- Diurnal variation of California coastal stratocumulus from two days of boundary layer soundings (1990) (57)
- Structure and motion of tropical squall‐lines over Venezuela (1976) (53)
- Relationships between Land Surface and Near-Surface Atmospheric Variables in the NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis (2007) (53)
- Progress in Understanding Land‐Surface‐Atmosphere Coupling from LBA Research (2010) (51)
- Near-Surface Biases in ERA5 Over the Canadian Prairies (2019) (51)
- Traveling Convective Storms over Venezuela (1977) (49)
- Eta model estimated land surface processes and the hydrologic cycle of the Mississippi basin (2003) (49)
- Impact of land use change on the diurnal cycle climate of the Canadian Prairies (2013) (46)
- Boundary Layer Thermodynamics of a High Plains Severe Storm (1984) (45)
- Coupling of winter climate transitions to snow and clouds over the Prairies (2014) (45)
- Thermodynamic Classification of Tropical Convective Soundings (1974) (45)
- Estimation of effective roughness length for heat and momentum from FIFE data (1993) (44)
- Unsaturated Downdraft Thermodynamics in Cumulonimbus. (1979) (44)
- Coupling between CO2, water vapor, temperature, and radon and their fluxes in an idealized equilibrium boundary layer over land (2004) (43)
- Thermodynamics of Mixed Stratocumulus Layers: Saturation Point Budgets (1983) (43)
- Impact of BOREAS on the ECMWF forecast model (2001) (43)
- Cloud radiative forcing of the diurnal cycle climate of the Canadian Prairies (2013) (42)
- Climate coupling between temperature, humidity, precipitation, and cloud cover over the Canadian Prairies (2014) (41)
- A Review of the Tropical Boundary Layer and Cumulus Convection: Structure, Parameterization, and Modeling (1974) (39)
- Comparison of the Land-Surface Interaction in the ECMWF Reanalysis Model with the 1987 FIFE Data (1998) (39)
- Cloud Thermodynamic Models in Saturation Point Coordinates (1982) (37)
- Relation between Mean Boundary-Layer Structure and Cloudiness at the R/V Valdivia during ASTEX (1995) (36)
- Tropical boundary layer equilibrium in the last ice age (1992) (36)
- A Composite Mesoscale Cumulonimbus Budget (1973) (35)
- The Parameterization of Deep Convection (1997) (34)
- First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Field Experiment 1987 sonde budget revisited (1996) (34)
- Assessing land-surface-atmosphere coupling in the ERA-40 reanalysis with boreal forest data (2006) (34)
- Comparison of regional surface fluxes from boundary-layer budgets and aircraft measurements above boreal forest (1997) (34)
- A Probabilistic Bulk Model of Coupled Mixed Layer and Convection. Part II: Shallow Convection Case (2013) (32)
- Intercomparison of BOREAS northern and southern study area surface fluxes in 1994 (2001) (31)
- Aircraft encounters with strong coherent vortices over the boreal forest (1997) (31)
- Hydroclimatic Variability and Predictability: A Survey of Recent Research. (2017) (30)
- Vermont Climate Change Indicators (2011) (30)
- Climate change policy in the European Union: Confronting the dilemmas of mitigation and adaptation? (2011) (29)
- A Probabilistic Bulk Model of Coupled Mixed Layer and Convection. Part I: Clear-Sky Case (2013) (29)
- Saturation point structure of marine stratocumulus clouds (1988) (28)
- Further Comments on `A Comparison of the Equivalent Potential Temperature and the Static Energy'. (1974) (27)
- Radiative scaling of the nocturnal boundary layer and the diurnal temperature range (2006) (25)
- Hydrological Budgets and Surface Energy Balance of Seven Subbasins of the Mackenzie River from the ECMWF Model (2000) (24)
- Daytime Cycle of Low-Level Clouds and the Tropical Convective Boundary Layer in Southwestern Amazonia (2005) (24)
- Observationally based evaluation of NWP reanalyses in modeling cloud properties over the Southern Great Plains (2012) (24)
- Empirical Formula for Saturation Pseudoadiabats and Saturation Equivalent Potential Temperature (1973) (24)
- Triggering Deep Convection with a Probabilistic Plume Model (2014) (23)
- Evaluation of Daily Precipitation from the ERA5 Global Reanalysis against GHCN Observations in the Northeastern United States (2020) (23)
- How well does the ERA40 surface water budget compare to observations in the Amazon River basin (2008) (21)
- Integration of satellite and surface data using a radiative-convective oceanic boundary-layer model (1992) (21)
- Possible self-organizing dynamics for land-atmosphere interaction (Paper 98JD02454) (1998) (20)
- Thermodynamic Budget Diagrams for the Hurricane Subcloud Layer (1987) (20)
- Seasonal climate transitions in New England (2011) (19)
- An equilibrium model for the coupled ocean-atmosphere boundary layer in the tropics (1991) (18)
- A Mesoscale Budget Study of Cumulus Convection (1978) (18)
- Relation between equilbrium evaporation and the saturation pressure budget (1994) (18)
- Observational study of land-surface-cloud-atmosphere coupling on daily timescales (2015) (18)
- The density temperature and the dry and wet virtual adiabats (1991) (18)
- Intercomparison of Water and Energy Budgets for Five Mississippi Sub-basins between ECMWF Reanalysis (ERA-40) and NASA-DAO fvGCM for 1990-1999 (2002) (16)
- Annual Climatology of the Diurnal Cycle on the Canadian Prairies (2016) (15)
- Idealized model for changes in equilibrium temperature, mixed layer depth, and boundary layer cloud over land in a doubled CO2 climate (2010) (15)
- Analysis of near‐surface biases in ERA‐Interim over the Canadian Prairies (2017) (15)
- Residual Erros of the VIZ Radiosonde Hygristor as Deduced from Observations of Sub-Cloud Layer Structure (1974) (13)
- Soil-Vegetation Atmosphere Transfer Schemes and Large-Scale Hydrological Models, vol. 270 (2004) (13)
- The diurnal cycle over land. (2004) (13)
- Revisiting Hydrometeorology Using Cloud and Climate Observations (2017) (13)
- The Boreal Climate (2004) (12)
- Report of the First Prospectus Development Team - U.S. Weather Research Program (1995) (10)
- Summarising climate and air quality (ozone) data on self-organising maps: a Sydney case study (2016) (10)
- An Example of Hurricane Tracking and Forecasting with a Global Analysis-Forecasting System (1987) (9)
- Trade Cumulus: Observations and Modelling (1997) (9)
- Land-surface , boundary layer and cloud-field coupling over the Amazon in ERA-40 (2004) (9)
- The impact of clouds, land use and snow cover on climate in the Canadian Prairies (2016) (8)
- Regional-scale estimates of forest CO2 and isotope flux based on monthly CO2 budgets of the atmospheric boundary layer. (2005) (8)
- Atmosphere/surface interactions in the ECMWF model at high latitudes (2006) (7)
- A Linear Spectral Model of Tropical Mesoscale Systems: Sensitivity Studies (1984) (7)
- A case study of GATE convective activity (1979) (5)
- Bridging the climate information gap: a framework for engaging knowledge brokers and decision makers in state climate assessments (2016) (5)
- A Relationship Between Stratification, Cloud Depth, and Permitted Cloud Radii (1973) (5)
- Communicating climate science (2011) (5)
- Mean inversion strength of the convective boundary layer over the oceans (1989) (4)
- Surface diurnal cycle over Venezuela (1998) (4)
- 568 Comparison of river basin hydrometeorology in ERA-Interim and ERA-40 with observations (2008) (4)
- Convective systems and surface processes in Amazonia during the WETCAMC/LBA (2000) (4)
- Integrating solar energy and climate research into science education (2016) (3)
- Environmental Journalism Revisited (2012) (3)
- BOUNDARY LAYER (ATMOSPHERIC) AND AIR POLLUTION | Diurnal Cycle (2015) (3)
- An Analog Approach for Weather Estimation Using Climate Projections and Reanalysis Data (2019) (3)
- Idealized model for stratocumulus cloud layer thickness (1989) (3)
- USE OF FIELD DATA TO DIAGNOSE LAND-SURFACE INTERACTION (2000) (3)
- Corrigendum: Annual Climatology of the Diurnal Cycle on the Canadian Prairies (2016) (3)
- Understanding Land–Atmosphere–Climate Coupling from the Canadian Prairie Dataset (2018) (2)
- Climate change and society (2021) (2)
- Comparison of BOREAS and Atmospheric Environment Service humidity sensors at Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan (1997) (2)
- Site Averaged AMS Data: 1987 (Betts) (1994) (2)
- The energy formula in a moving reference frame (1969) (2)
- Evaluation of the FLake Model in ERA5 for Lake Champlain (2020) (2)
- Thermodynamic structure of the cumulus sub-cloud layer, The (2007) (1)
- Comparative Clinical Science Foundation. (2004) (1)
- Comments on `budget studies of heat flux profiles in the convective boundary layer over land' by H. Cattle and K. J. Weston (Q.J. 1975, 353 363) (1977) (1)
- Convective Overturning and the Saturation Point (1982) (1)
- Observations of particulate matter concentrations from the Upper Hunter Air Quality Monitoring Network, NSW (2014) (1)
- Tropical Meteorology: Panel Report (1990) (1)
- A lagged mixing parameterization for the dry convective boundary layer (1995) (1)
- Site Averaged Neutron Soil Moisture: 1987-1989 (Betts) (1994) (1)
- A new convective parameterization scheme for global models (1985) (1)
- Vector representation of trade cumulus thermodynamic fluxes (1985) (1)
- Case study of convection lines during GATE (2007) (1)
- Betts-Tawfik2016-feart-04-00001corrected (2016) (0)
- Diagnosing causes of cloud parameterization deficiencies using ARM measurements over SGP site (2010) (0)
- BOREAS ECMWF 6-Hour Analysis and Forecast Data (2000) (0)
- Site Averaged Flux Data: 1987-1989 (Betts) (1994) (0)
- A Proposal for Communicating Science (2011) (0)
- Climate lessons from the study of the boreal forest (2001) (0)
- The Earth's view of climate change (2022) (0)
- Toward a unified stochastic representation of dry, shallow and deep convection (2013) (0)
- LBA-HMET PC-06 ECMWF Modeled Precipitation and Surface Flux, Rondonia, Brazil: 1999 (2013) (0)
- Coupling of regional water vapor convergence, clouds and land-surface processes (2006) (0)
- Coupling of the surface energy balance, clouds and their diabatic forcings (2010) (0)
- ISLSCP II ECMWF Near-Surface Meteorology Parameters (2014) (0)
- Alan Betts: Green Energy Times, 2018 (2019) (0)
- OBSERVATIONAL-BASED EVALUATION OF CLOUD PROPERTIES IN REANALYSES OVER THE SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS (2011) (0)
- Site Averaged Flux Data: 1988 (Betts) (1994) (0)
- Understanding Land–Atmosphere–Climate Coupling Using Data from the Canadian Prairies (2021) (0)
- Radiative control on tropical convective boundary layer equilibrium (1990) (0)
- Betts Frontiers RevisedManuscript-10Dec-2015 (2015) (0)
- Understanding Land-Surface-Atmosphere Coupling in the Warm Season (2014) (0)
- EVALUATING LAND-ATMOSPHERE-CLOUD COUPLING IN REANALYSES (2012) (0)
- A case study of convective development in the Southwest Amazon region during the Wet Season Atmospheric Mesoscale Campaign ( WETAMC ) and Tropical (2002) (0)
- Corrigendum: Observational study of land-surface-cloud-atmosphere coupling on daily timescales (2016) (0)
- Landscape Coupling Between Climate, Clouds, Precipitation, Snow and the Surface Radiation Budget (2014) (0)
- Mesoscale characteristics of cumulus convection : a mesoscale budget study of convection in the NHRE network (2007) (0)
- BOREAS Follow-On HMet-04 1996-1998 NSA Meteorological Data (2001) (0)
- Understanding the surface and BL coupling of water, CO2 and cloud feedbacks (2010) (0)
- Site Averaged AMS Data: 1989 (Betts) (1994) (0)
- Site Averaged Flux Data: 1989 (Betts) (1994) (0)
- Correction to “Observationally based evaluation of NWP reanalyses in modeling cloud properties over the Southern Great Plains” (2012) (0)
- Site Averaged Flux Data: 1987 (Betts) (1994) (0)
- Land-surface-atmosphere-climate coupling (2012) (0)
- Thermodynamic structure of the stratocumulus-capped boundary layer on 5 July 1987 (1990) (0)
- Diagnostic tests of models for the thermal structure of the non-precipitating convective boundary layer (2007) (0)
- Chapter A . 7 The Boreal Climate (2004) (0)
- Site Averaged Gravimetric Soil Moisture: 1987-1989 (Betts) (1994) (0)
- Evaluation of the GEOS5 reanalysis system with a Multi-model Analysis for CEOP (2008) (0)
- Climate Change Indicators Are Not Enough (2017) (0)
- Surface climate equilibrium over land (2000) (0)
- Land-surface-cloud coupling and climate change (2009) (0)
- During the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia wet season experiment (2002) (0)
- Characteristics of tropical squall-lines over Venezuela (2007) (0)
- A probabilistic-bulk model of shallow convection over land (2011) (0)
- Climate, Energy and Community: Vermont 2018 (2019) (0)
- Site Averaged AMS Data: 1987-1989 (Betts) (1994) (0)
- Cumulus parameterization theory in terms of feedback and control (2007) (0)
- Multi-Scale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (2004) (0)
- EVALUATION OF NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION IN MODELING CLOUD- RADIATION INTERACTIONS OVER THE SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS (2012) (0)
- Site Averaged AMS Data: 1988 (Betts) (1994) (0)
- G. A. Schultz, M. Hornbogen, P. Viterbo and J. Noilhan, ‘Coupling Large-scale Atmospheric and Hydrologic Models’ (1997) (0)
- BOREAS AFM-08 ECMWF Hourly Surface and Upper Air Data for the SSA and NSA (2000) (0)
- Corrigendum: Observational study of land-surface-cloud-atmosphere coupling on daily timescales (2016) (0)
- Analysis of diurnal variation of SCu layer using 2 days of CLASS soundings on San Nicolas Island (1990) (0)
- Review (2020) (0)
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