Dale Richard Durran

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Dale Richard Durran

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#1657

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#2353

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Atmospheric Sciences

#113

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#117

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Dale Richard Durran's Degrees

PhD Atmospheric Sciences University of Washington
Masters Atmospheric Sciences University of Washington

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Numerical methods for wave equations in geophysical fluid dynamics (1999) (906)
An Upper Boundary Condition Permitting Internal Gravity Wave Radiation in Numerical Mesoscale Models (1983) (482)
Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics (2010) (455)
A Compressible Model for the Simulation of Moist Mountain Waves (1983) (368)
On the Effects of Moisture on the Brunt-Väisälä Frequency. (1982) (345)
Improving the Anelastic Approximation (1989) (313)
Mountain Waves and Downslope Winds (1990) (308)
Numerical simulations of convectively generated stratospheric gravity waves (1992) (297)
Another Look at Downslope Windstorms. Part I: The Development of Analogs to Supercritical Flow in an Infinitely Deep, Continuously Stratified Fluid. (1986) (286)
The Gravity Wave Response above Deep Convection in a Squall Line Simulation. (1995) (263)
The Third-Order Adams-Bashforth Method: An Attractive Alternative to Leapfrog Time Differencing (1991) (225)
A Numerical Study of Three-Dimensional Gravity Waves Triggered by Deep Tropical Convection and Their Role in the Dynamics of the QBO (2000) (205)
Interaction of low-level flow with the Western Ghat mountains and offshore convection in the summer monsoon (1984) (201)
Vortex Formation and Vortex Shedding in Continuously Stratified Flows past Isolated Topography. (1997) (198)
The Dynamics of Mountain-Wave-Induced Rotors (2002) (197)
The Influence of Convectively Generated Thermal Forcing on the Mesoscale Circulation around Squall Lines (1996) (145)
Can Machines Learn to Predict Weather? Using Deep Learning to Predict Gridded 500‐hPa Geopotential Height From Historical Weather Data (2019) (141)
Another Look at Downslope Winds. Part II: Nonlinear Amplification beneath Wave-Overturning Layers (1987) (137)
Improving Data‐Driven Global Weather Prediction Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on a Cubed Sphere (2020) (125)
Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics: With Applications to Geophysics (2010) (123)
An intercomparison of model predicted wave breaking for the 11 January 1972 Boulder windstorm (2000) (121)
The Effects of Moisture on Trapped Mountain Lee Waves (1982) (120)
Factors Governing Cellular Convection in Orographic Precipitation (2004) (111)
Atmospheric Predictability: Why Butterflies Are Not of Practical Importance (2014) (106)
The climatology of small‐scale orographic precipitation over the Olympic Mountains: Patterns and processes (2008) (89)
An Idealized Comparison of One-Way and Two-Way Grid Nesting (2010) (88)
Estimating Topographic Blocking Using a Froude Number When the Static Stability Is Nonuniform (2008) (88)
Gap flows: Results from the Mesoscale Alpine Programme (2007) (87)
Mesoscale Controls on the Mountainside Snow Line (2011) (87)
Rotor and Subrotor Dynamics in the Lee of Three-Dimensional Terrain (2007) (84)
Selective monotonicity preservation in scalar advection (2008) (82)
Cross-tropopause tracer transport in midlatitude convection (2005) (79)
Numerical modelling of Bora winds (1987) (76)
Implicit–Explicit Multistep Methods for Fast-Wave–Slow-Wave Problems (2012) (73)
Three-Dimensional Effects in High-Drag-State Flows over Long Ridges. (2001) (64)
Small-Scale Spatial Gradients in Climatological Precipitation on the Olympic Peninsula (2007) (63)
Local and remote effects of mountains on weather: Research needs and opportunities (1997) (63)
The Triggering of Orographic Rainbands by Small-Scale Topography (2007) (63)
Gap Flows through Idealized Topography. Part I: Forcing by Large-Scale Winds in the Nonrotating Limit. (2004) (61)
Initial-Condition Sensitivities and the Predictability of Downslope Winds (2009) (61)
Maintenance of tropical tropopause layer cirrus (2010) (61)
A physically motivated approach for filtering acoustic waves from the equations governing compressible stratified flow (2008) (61)
Thunderstorms Do Not Get Butterflies (2016) (60)
A Modeling Study of Nonstationary Trapped Mountain Lee Waves. Part I: Mean-Flow Variability (1997) (58)
Observations and Modeling of Banded Orographic Convection (2005) (58)
Lee Waves and Mountain Waves (2003) (56)
Toward More Accurate Wave-Permeable Boundary Conditions (1993) (55)
Two-Layer Solutions to Long's Equation For Vertically Propagating Mountain Waves: How Good Is Linear Theory? (1992) (53)
Atmospheric factors governing banded orographic convection (2005) (52)
The Diagnosis of Synoptic-Scale Vertical Motion in an Operational Environment (1987) (52)
Comments on “Thermally Forced Gravity Waves in an Atmosphere at Rest” (1993) (51)
Lee-vortex formation in free-slip stratified flow over ridges. Part II: Mechanisms of vorticity and PV production in nonlinear viscous wakes (2002) (49)
On the Sensitivity of Downslope Windstorms to the Asymmetry of the Mountain Profile (1991) (49)
On the Dynamical Causes of Variability in the Rain-Shadow Effect: A Case Study of the Washington Cascades (2013) (48)
A Modeling Study of Nonstationary Trapped Mountain Lee Waves. Part II: Nonlinearity (1998) (46)
Sub‐Seasonal Forecasting With a Large Ensemble of Deep‐Learning Weather Prediction Models (2021) (46)
Is the Coriolis Force Really Responsible for the Inertial Oscillation (1993) (44)
Do Breaking Mountain Waves Deceierate the Local Mean Flow (1995) (42)
Eddy diffusivities derived from a numerical model of the convective planetary boundary layer (1978) (41)
The Mesoscale Dynamics of Thin Tropical Tropopause Cirrus (2009) (41)
Mountain-Wave Momentum Flux in an Evolving Synoptic-Scale Flow (2005) (39)
A Comparison of the Accuracy of Three Anelastic Systems and the Pseudo-Incompressible System (1994) (38)
Including Coriolis effects in the Prandtl model for katabatic flow (2007) (36)
Large-Scale Errors and Mesoscale Predictability in Pacific Northwest Snowstorms (2013) (36)
Estimating the Response of Extreme Precipitation over Midlatitude Mountains to Global Warming (2015) (34)
Effect of large-scale kinetic power extraction on time-dependent estuaries (2008) (33)
Gap Flows through Idealized Topography. Part II: Effects of Rotation and Surface Friction (2006) (33)
NOWCAST: THE MAP ROOM: Recent Developments in the Theory of Atmospheric Rotors (2004) (33)
The Dependence of the Predictability of Mesoscale Convective Systems on the Horizontal Scale and Amplitude of Initial Errors in Idealized Simulations (2017) (33)
Comments on "The Differentiation between Grid Spacing and Resolution and Their Application to Numerical Modeling" (2000) (30)
The Overamplification of Gravity Waves in Numerical Solutions to Flow over Topography (2009) (30)
Sensitivities of Extreme Precipitation to Global Warming Are Lower over Mountains than over Oceans and Plains (2016) (30)
Practical Considerations for Computing Dimensional Spectra from Gridded Data (2017) (27)
The Response of Orographic Precipitation over Idealized Midlatitude Mountains Due to Global Increases in CO2 (2014) (25)
Cirrus and water vapor transport in the tropical tropopause layer - Part 1: A specific case modeling study (2012) (25)
Lee-Vortex Formation in Free-Slip Stratified Flow over Ridges. Part I: Comparison of Weakly Nonlinear Inviscid Theory and Fully Nonlinear Viscous Simulations (2002) (24)
The Influence of Convective Thermal Forcing on the Three-Dimensional Circulation around Squall Lines (2000) (23)
Transient Mountain Waves and Their Interaction with Large Scales (2005) (23)
Comments on “The Roles of the Horizontal Component of the Earth's Angular Velocity in Nonhydrostatic Linear Models” (2004) (20)
A Numerical Study of Stratospheric Gravity Waves Triggered by Squall Lines Observed during the TOGA COARE and COPT-81 Experiments. (2001) (19)
The effects of moisture on mountain lee waves (1981) (19)
Generalizing the Boussinesq approximation to stratified compressible flow (2007) (19)
Open Boundary Conditions: Fact and Fiction (2001) (19)
An Investigation of the Poleward Edges of Cirrus Clouds Associated with Midlatitude Jet Streams (1988) (18)
Cirrus and water vapour transport in the tropical tropopause layer - Part 2: Roles of ice nucleation and sedimentation, cloud dynamics, and moisture conditions (2014) (18)
A comparison of ground‐based Doppler lidar and airborne in situ wind observations above complex terrain (2003) (16)
Downslope Winds ∗ (2008) (16)
Pseudomomentum Diagnostics for Two-Dimensional Stratified Compressible Flow (1995) (15)
Instability in a class of explicit two‐time‐level semi‐Lagrangian schemes (2004) (15)
The scale dependence of initial‐condition sensitivities in simulations of convective systems over the southeastern United States (2018) (14)
Mountain Waves, Downslope Winds, and Low-Level Blocking Forced by a Midlatitude Cyclone Encountering an Isolated Ridge (2017) (14)
A study of long range air pollution problems related to coal development in the Northern Great Plains (1979) (14)
What Causes Weak Orographic Rain Shadows? Insights from Case Studies in the Cascades and Idealized Simulations (2016) (14)
The Dissipation of Trapped Lee Waves. Part I: Leakage of Inviscid Waves into the Stratosphere (2015) (14)
The chemistry, dispersion, and transport of air pollutants emitted from fossil fuel power plants in California: data analysis and emission impact model. Final report (1976) (14)
Preserving Nonnegativity in Discontinuous Galerkin Approximations to Scalar Transport via Truncation and Mass Aware Rescaling (TMAR) (2016) (12)
Assessing the Impact of the Tropopause on Mountain Waves and Orographic Precipitation Using Linear Theory and Numerical Simulations (2015) (11)
The Dissipation of Trapped Lee Waves. Part II: The Relative Importance of the Boundary Layer and the Stratosphere (2016) (11)
A hybrid bin scheme to solve the condensation/evaporation equation using a cubic distribution function (2011) (10)
Theoretical Aspects of Variability and Predictability in Weather and Climate Systems (2014) (10)
Ensemble Spread Grows More Rapidly in Higher-Resolution Simulations of Deep Convection (2018) (9)
Nonstationary Trapped Lee Waves Generated by the Passage of an Isolated Jet (2012) (8)
Comments on ‘‘Gravity Wave Refraction by Three-Dimensionally Varying Winds and the Global Transport of Angular Momentum’’ (2009) (8)
Small‐amplitude coastally trapped disturbances and the reduced‐gravity shallow‐water approximation (2000) (7)
MOUNTAIN METEOROLOGY | Lee Waves and Mountain Waves (2015) (7)
On a physical mechanism for Rossby wave propagation (1988) (7)
The development of a regional air pollution model and its application to the Northern Great Plains. Final report (1977) (6)
A Study of Wind Profiler Data Collected Upstream during Windstorms in Boulder, Colorado (1986) (6)
MOUNTAIN METEOROLOGY | Downslope Winds (2015) (6)
The Influence of Gravity Waves on the Slope of the Kinetic Energy Spectrum in Simulations of Idealized Midlatitude Cyclones (2019) (6)
Series-Expansion Methods (1999) (5)
Thunderstorms Don ’ t Get Butterflies (2015) (5)
Observations of Gap Flow in the Wipp Valley on 20 October 1999: Evidence of Subsidence (2009) (5)
Atmospheric Predictability: Why Butterflies Are Not Important (2014) (5)
Sensitivity of thin cirrus clouds in the tropical tropopause layer to ice crystal shape and radiative absorption (2016) (4)
The Impact of Mountain Waves on an Idealized Baroclinically Unstable Large-Scale Flow (2018) (4)
Convectively Generated Stratospheric Gravity Waves: The Role of Mean Wind Shear (1993) (4)
On the Dynamics of Atmospheric Bores (2020) (3)
Rocks and Rain: orographic precipitation and the form of mountain ranges (2005) (3)
Mountain Waves and Downslope Winds Forced by a Midlatitude Cyclone Encountering an Isolated Ridge (2016) (3)
Condensation, atmospheric motion, and cold beer (2013) (3)
Mesoscale Predictability in Moist Mid-Latitude Cyclones Is Not Sensitive to the Slope of the Background Kinetic Energy Spectrum (2021) (2)
Stabilizing Fast Waves (2011) (2)
11 . 4 ROTOR DYNAMICS IN THE LEE OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL RIDGES (2003) (2)
Time Discretization: Some Basic Approaches (2011) (2)
Physically Insignificant Fast Waves (1999) (1)
Comments on “On the Richardson Number Dependence of Nonlinear Critical-Layer Flow over Localized Topography” (1993) (1)
Basic Finite-Difference Methods (1999) (1)
A modelling study of moisture redistribution by thin cirrus clouds (2014) (1)
Strengths and Weaknesses of Common Numerical Methods for Simulating Atmospheric Flows (2011) (1)
Finite-Volume Methods (1999) (1)
Quantifying moisture perturbations leading to stacked lenticular clouds (2013) (1)
Unusual Trapped Mountain Lee Waves with Deep Vertical Penetration and Significant Stratospheric Amplitude (2020) (1)
Can Mountain Waves Contribute to Damaging Winds Far Away from the Lee Slope? (2019) (1)
Wave Propagation in Quadratic-Finite-Element Approximations to Hyperbolic Equations (2000) (1)
The Influence of Vertical Wind Shear on the Evolution of Mountain-Wave Momentum Flux (2019) (1)
Can the Issuance of Hazardous-Weather Warnings Inform the Attribution of Extreme Events to Climate Change? (2020) (1)
Maintenance of tropical tropopause layer cirrus 3 (2009) (1)
The scale dependence of initial-condition sensitivities in simulations of convective systems over the Southeastern US (2018) (1)
Finite-Difference Approximations for One-Dimensional Transport (2010) (0)
Numerical Studies Pertaining to Airflow on the West Coast of the US (1997) (0)
Characterization of Mesoscale Predictability (2013) (0)
Unavoidable Errors: A Weather Warnings Perspective on Climate Attribution (2020) (0)
Beyond One-Dimensional Transport (2010) (0)
Shallow Cellular Convection in Orographic Precipitation (0)
The Dynamics of Atmospheric Bores (2021) (0)
The Influence of Transient Mountain Waves on a Localized Barotropic Jet (2006) (0)
Numerical Modeling of Moist Airflow over Topography (1986) (0)
Semi-Lagrangian Methods (2010) (0)
Simulated squall lines developing in horizontally homogeneous environments are more sensitive to small initial perturbations on scales of 100 km than to larger perturbations on smaller scales. THUNDERSTORMS DO NOT GET BUTTERFLIES (2016) (0)
Abstract and Titles of Talks for Scientific Grand Challenges ... Conference to celebrate Andrew J. Majda’s 70th birthday (2019) (0)
The response of statically unstable orographic clouds to small-scale topographic features [presentation] (2005) (0)
12: Characterization of Mesoscale Predictability (2012) (0)
Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions (1999) (0)
Global-warming-induced Increases in Extreme Precipitation are Smallest over Mountains (2015) (0)
Corrigenda (1928) (0)
Conservation Laws and Finite-Volume Methods (2010) (0)
Discussions for “Cirrus and water vapour transport in the tropical tropopause layer – Part 2: Roles of ice nucleation and sedimentation, cloud dynamics, and moisture conditions” – Reviewer A (2014) (0)
The Mesoscale Predictability of Terrain Induced Flows (2007) (0)
Is the Butterfly Effect Real (2019) (0)
14: Downscale Error Propagation and Mesoscale Predictability (2014) (0)
Estimating the Response of Mid-latitude Orographic Precipitation to Global Warming (2013) (0)
Mesoscale Predictability and Initial-Condition Error Growth in 1 Two East - (2013) (0)
Normal Modes of an Atmospheric Prediction Model (1981) (0)
Preserving Positivity in Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Using Truncation and Mass Aware Rescaling (2015) (0)
Sensitivity of downslope windstorms to model initial conditions (2007) (0)
The Applicability of Hydraulic Theory to Gap Winds Observed in the Wipp Valley (2006) (0)
Beyond the One-Way Wave Equation (1999) (0)
Corrigendum (2009) (0)
Comparison of the rotating Prandtl model with K(z) and a mesoscale numerical model (2007) (0)
Are finite‐amplitude effects important in non‐breaking mountain waves? (2021) (0)
An experiment uses cold beverages to demonstrate the warming power of latent heat (2013) (0)

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University of Washington