DRI / DIRECTORY / ERIC WILCOX
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Dr. Eric Wilcox [he/him/his]
Research Professor, Atmospheric Science

Research Areas

  • Radiative forcing of aerosols and clouds
  • Remote sensing and in-situ observation of clouds
  • Solar energy applications
  • Atmospheric modeling

Professional Interests

Dr. Wilcox is statewide director for the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium and NASA EPSCoR programs. He is principal investigator for the federal awards that fund these programs and directs the distribution of these funds in scholarships and fellowships for STEM students at NSHE institutions and faculty seed grants for research, curriculum development and STEM training projects.

Dr. Wilcox’s research addresses the interactions among aerosols, clouds, and precipitation towards a goal of improved understanding of precipitation, cloud variability and radiative forcing of climate at regional scales. This work relies on satellite and in-situ observations, as well as simulations with numerical models of the atmosphere and climate.

Dr. Wilcox manages DRI’s atmospheric modeling group, which implements a wide range of numerical models, including fine-resolution atmospheric models for regional climate studies and applied research in water resources and renewable energy projects, air quality and chemistry models, and global coupled ocean/atmosphere climate models. Dr. Wilcox is also director of the Airborne Systems Testing and Environmental Research (ASTER) Laboratory which conducts and facilitates the development and use of unmanned aircraft, payloads, and data analysis for a broad range of applications in the environmental sciences.

Dr. Wilcox teaches Atmospheric Physics (ATMS 411/611) and Atmospheric Modeling (ATMS 746) at University of Nevada, Reno.He also serves as a member representative to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) on behalf of the Nevada System of Higher Education.

Education

Degree Year Institution Area
Ph.D. 2002 Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, UCSD Oceanography
B.S. 1995 University of California, San Diego Physics

Professional Experience

Dates Experience
2022-present Director, Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium and NASA EPSCoR Programs.
2022-present Director, Airborne Systems Testing and Environmental Research (ASTER) Laboratory, DRI.
2010-present Research professor of atmospheric science, Desert Research Institute, Reno NV.
2011-present Graduate faculty, Interdisciplinary atmospheric sciences program, Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, NV.
2005-2010 Physical scientist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD.
2003-2005 Visiting fellow of the NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change, Princeton University Dept. of Geosciences Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
1996-2002 Graduate student researcher, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

Professional Memberships

  • American Geophysical Union
  • American Meteorological Society

Keywords

climate, aerosols, clouds, remote sensing, satellites, climate modeling, NASA, climate forcing

 

Program(s)

 

Publications
2024
Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2024). A New Look into the Impacts of Dust Radiative Forcing on the Energetics of Tropical Easterly Waves, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24 (1), 707-724, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-707-2024

2023
Kant, S., Sarangi, C., Wilcox, E.M. (2023). Aerosol processes perturb cloud trends over Bay of Bengal: observational evidence, Nature Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6 (1), 132, 10.1038/s41612-023-00443-x

Yuan, T., Song, H., Wood, R., Oreopoulos, L., Platnick, S., Wang, C., Yu, H., Meyer, K., Wilcox, E.M. (2023). Observational Evidence of Strong Forcing from Aerosol Effect on Low Cloud Coverage, Science Advances, 9, eadh7716, 10.1126/sciadv.adh7716

Wilcox, E.M., Yuan, T., Song, H. (2023). Deep convective cloud system size and structure across the global tropics and subtropics, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 16, 5387–5401, 10.5194/amt-16-5387-2023

2022
Yuan, T., Song, H., Wood, R., Wang, C., Oreopoulos, L., Platnick, S., von Hippel, S., Meyer, K., Light, S., Wilcox, E.M. (2022). Global Reduction in Ship-tracks from Sulfur Regulations for Shipping Fuel, Science Advances, 8 (29), July 22, 2022, 10.1126/sciadv.abn7988

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2022). Sierra Nevada Extreme Weather: A Novel Investigation of the Energetics of Atmospheric Rivers, Final report to NASA EPSCOR, 10

2021
Lu, Z., Wang, J., Xu, X., Chen, X., Kondragunta, S., Torres, O., Wilcox, E.M., Zeng, J. (2021). Hourly Mapping of the Layer Height of Thick Smoke Plumes Over the Western U.S. in 2020 Severe Fire Season, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 2, 36

2020
Shan, Y., Wilcox, E.M., Gao, L., Lin, L., Mitchell, D. L., Yin, Y., Zhang, L., Shi, H., Gao, M. (2020). Evaluating errors in gamma function representations of the rain drop size distribution: A method for determining the optimal parameter set for use in bulk microphysics schemes, J. Atmos. Sci., 77 (2), 513-529, American Meteorological Society, 10.1175/JAS-D-18-0259.1

2019
Spencer, R. S., Levy, R. C., Remer, L. A., Mattoo, S., Arnold, G. T., Hlavka, D. L., Meyer, K. G., Marshak, A., Wilcox, E.M., Platnick, S. E. (2019). Exploring Aerosols Near Clouds With High-Spatial-Resolution Aircraft Remote Sensing During SEAC4RS, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 124, 10.1029/2018JD028989

Nelson, K. N., Boehmler, J., Khlystov, A. Y., Moosmüller, H., Samburova, V., Bhattarai, C., Wilcox, E.M., Watts, A. C. (2019). A Multipollutant Smoke Emissions Sensing and Sampling Instrument Package for Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Development and Testing, Fire, 2, 32, 10.3390/fire2020032

2018
Mejia, J. F., Giordano, M. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2018). Conditional Summertime Day-Ahead Solar Irradiance Forecast, Solar Energy, 163, 610-622, 10.1016/j.solener.2018.01.094

Mejia, J. F., Koracin, D. R., Wilcox, E.M. (2018). Effect of Coupled GCM SST Biases on Simulated Climate of the Western U.S., Intl. J. Climatol., 1-19, 10.1002/joc.5817

Xu, X., Wang, J., Zeng, J., Hou, W., Meyer, K., Platnick, S., Wilcox, E.M. (2018). A pilot study of shortwave spectral fingerprints of smoke aerosols above liquid clouds, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.09.024

Mejia, J. F., Koracin, D. R., Wilcox, E.M. (2018). Effect of coupled global climate models sea surface temperature biases on simulated climate of the western United States, International Journal of Climatology, 38 (14), 5386-5404, 10.1002/joc.5817

2017
Wilcox, E.M. (2017). Multi-Spectral Remote Sensing of Sea Fog with Simultaneous Passive Infrared and Microwave SensorsChapter 11: . In Koracin, D. R., Dorman, C. (Eds.), Marine Fog: Challenges and Advancements in Observations, Modeling and Forecasting, Springer Atmospheric Sciences, 511-526. Springer International Publishing: Basel, Switzerland

2016
Pistone, K., Praveen, P., Thomas, R., Ramanathan, V., Wilcox, E.M., Bender, F. (2016). Observed correlations between aerosol and cloud properties in an Indian Ocean trade cumulus regime, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16 (8), 5203-5227. Copernicus GmbH, 10.5194/acp-16-5203-2016

Ichoku, C., Ellison, L. T., Willmot, K. E., Matsui, T., Gatebe, C. K., Wang, J., Wilcox, E.M., Lee, J., Adegoke, J., Okonkwo, C., Bolton, J., Policelli, F. S., Habib, S. (2016). Biomass burning, land-­cover change, and the hydrological cycle in Northern sub-­Saharan Africa, Environmental Research Letters, 11 (9), 13 p., Article No. 095005, 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/095005

Chung, C.E., Lewinschal, A., Wilcox, E.M. (2016). Relationship between low-cloud presence and the amount of overlying aerosols, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16 (9), 5781-5792. Copernicus Publications, 10.5194/acp-16-5781-2016

Wilcox, E.M., Thomas, R. M., Praveen, P. S., Pistone, K., Bender, F. A., Ramanathan, V. (2016). Black Carbon Solar Absorption Suppresses Turbulence in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 113 (42), 11794-11799, 10.1073/pnas.1525746113, 2016

Ichoku, C., Ellison, L. T., Willmot, K. E., Matsui, T., Desfuli, A. K., Gatebe, C. K., Wang, J., Wilcox, E.M., Lee, J., Adegoke, J., Okonkwo, C., Bolton, J., Policelli, F. S., Habib, S. (2016). Biomass Burning, Land-Cover Change, and the Hydrological Cycle in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa, Environ. Res. Lett., 11 (9), Article No. 095005, 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/095005

Thompson, D. R., McCubbin, I. B., Gao, B., Green, R. O., Matthews, A. A., Mei, F., Meyer, K. G., Platnick, S., Schmid, B., Tomlinson, J., Wilcox, E.M. (2016). Characterization of Liquid and Ice Clouds with Shortwave Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy, J. Geophys. Res., 121, 9174-9190, 10.1002/2016JD024999

2014
Koracin, D. R., Dorman, C. E., Lewis, J. M., Hudson, J. G., Wilcox, E.M., Torregrosa, A. (2014). Marine fog: A review, Atmos. Res., 143, 142-175

Gatebe, C. K., Ichoku, C. M., Poudyal, R., Roman, M. O., Wilcox, E.M. (2014). Surface albedo darkening from wildfires in northern sub-Saharan Africa, Environ. Res. Lett., 9 (6), 065003 (12pp), 10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/065003

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2014). Aerosol interactions with African/Atlantic climate dynamics, Environ. Res. Lett., 9, 075004, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075004

2012
Chakrabarty, R. K., Garro, M. A., Moosmüller, H., Wilcox, E.M. (2012). Strong Radiative Heating due to Wintertime Black Carbon Aerosols in the Brahmaputra River Valley, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39 (9), L09804, 10.1029/2012GL051148

Wilcox, E.M. (2012). Direct and semi-direct radiative forcing of smoke aerosols over clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 139-149

2011
Gatebe, C., Wilcox, E.M., Poudyal, R., Wang, J. (2011). Effects of ship wakes on ocean brightness and radiative forcing over ocean, Geophysical Research Letters, 38 (17). Wiley Online Library

Ramanathan, V., Thomas, R. M., Nguyen, H. V., Wilcox, E.M., Bender, F., Pistone, K. (2011). Cloud Aerosol Radiative Forcing Dynamics EXperiment (CARDEX)

2010
Gatebe, C. K., Poudyal, R., Wilcox, E.M., Wang, J. (2010). Effects of ship wakes on ocean brightness and radiative forcing over ocean, Atmos Chem Phys Discuss, 10, 21683-21696, doi:10.5194/acpd-10-21683-2010

Wilcox, E.M., Lau, K. M., Kim, K. (2010). A Northward Shift of the North Atlantic Ocean Intertropical Convergence Zone in Response to Summertime Saharan Dust Outbreaks, Geophys Res Lett, 37, doi:10.1029/2009GL041774.2010

Wilcox, E.M. (2010). Stratocumulus cloud thickening beneath layers of absorbing smoke aerosol, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10 (23), 11769-11777. Copernicus GmbH

Conference Proceedings
2024
Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2024). The Influence of Dust Radiative Effects on the Energetics of Tropical Easterly Waves. American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting: Baltimore, MD, January 28, 2024-February 2, 2024

2023
Yuan, T., Wood, R., Song, H., Oriopoulos, L., Meyer, K., Wilcox, E.M. (2023). Climatology of Marine Low-Cloud Morphology Types, Their Climatological Transitions, Cloud Radiative and Physical Properties, and Environment. 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Denver, CO, January 8, 2023-January 12, 2023, 12B.1

Wilcox, E.M., Yuan, T., Song, H. (2023). Deep convective cloud system size and structure across the global tropics and subtropics. NASA MODIS Science Team Meeting: College Park, MD, May 1, 2023-May 4, 2023

Wilcox, E.M., Giordano, M. E., Hosseinpour, F. E., Wang, J., Chutia, L., Pistone, K. (2023). Quantifying impacts of light-absorbing aerosols on atmospheric temperature and circulation. NASA MODIS Science Team Meeting: College Park, MD, May 1, 2023-May 4, 2023

Giordano, M. E., Wilcox, E.M., Pistone, K. (2023). Simulations and Experiments using Satellite-retrieved Carbon Monoxide (CO) as a Speciated Proxy of Smoke Aerosol Layered Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) for Radiative Transfer (RT) Model Studies. AGU 2023: San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2023-December 15, 2023, Abstract. Final Paper No. A13H-2266

Pistone, K., Wilcox, E.M., Ryoo, J., Giordano, M. E. (2023). The Seasonal Evolution of Atmospheric Vertical Structure of Smoke and Humidity over the Southeast Atlantic Biomass Burning Region. AGU 2023: San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2023-December 15, 2023, Abstract. Final Paper No. A41K-2769

Chutia, L., Wang, J., Zhou, M., Chen, X., Lu, Z., Wilcox, E.M. (2023). Exploring Correlated Variations of Aerosols and Tropospheric Temperature over the Indian Region: A Principal Component Analysis Approach. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2023-December 15, 2023, A41J-2757

Wilcox, E.M., Yuan, T., Song, H. (2023). The Influence of Convective Available Potential Energy and Vertical Wind Shear on the Size and Structure of Deep Convective Cloud Systems Throughout the Global Tropics. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2023-December 15, 2023, A33R-2793

Noll, S., Wilcox, E.M. (2023). Stratospheric Gravity Wave Parameterization in the Presence of a Rare Southern Hemisphere Sudden Stratospheric Warming. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2023-December 15, 2023, A53K-2399

2022
Giordano, M. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2022). Aerosol Radiative Forcing: Top-of-the-Atmosphere (TOA), Atmospheric Column, and Surface Radiative Forcing for Globally Widespread Aerosol Types. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 102, 14th Symposium on Aerosol, Cloud, Climate Interaction, Paper 12J12A.2, delivered Wednesday 26 January 2022.

Downing, M., McAdams, D. R., Christian, J. F., Baumgardner, D., Wilcox, E.M., Giordano, M. E., French, J. R., Shaffer, K., Johnson, E. B. (2022). Intercomparison of Validation Test Flight Data from a Holographic Cloud Particle Imager (HCPI) and Several Commercial Cloud Probes. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 102, 22nd Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation: Houston, TX, January 24, 2022-January 28, 2022, Paper 12.1, delivered 24 January 2022.

Wilcox, E.M., Yuan, T. (2022). Exploration of a Global Satellite Database of Deep Convective Cloud System Size, Cloud Microphysics, and Atmospheric Thermodynamic Structure. 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 19th Conference on Mesoscale Processes: Houston, TX, January 23, 2022-January 27, 2022, 180

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2022). A Novel Investigation of the Energetics of Atmospheric Rivers. 35th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Houston, TX, January 26, 2022

Moosmüller, H., Hosseinpour, F. E., Fenstermaker, L.F., Wilcox, E.M. (2022). NASA funding opportunities and RFP Process. DRI Lunch and Learn, Desert Research Institute: Reno & Las Vegas, Nevada, April 20, 2022, Invited

Wilcox, E.M., Yuan, T. (2022). A new global satellite database of deep convective cloud systems to explore cloud system organization, microphysics and links to atmospheric thermodynamic structure, GEWEX Global Atmospheric System Studies Panel Meeting: Monterey, CA, July 25, 2022-July 29, 2022, CO65

Wilcox, E.M., Giordano, M. E., Wang, J. (2022). Modulation of the Diurnal Variations in Clouds By Light-Absorbing Aerosols. American Meteorological Society Collective Madison Meeting: Madison, WI, August 8, 2022-August 12, 2022, 4.5

Pistone, K., Wilcox, E.M., Giordano, M. E. (2022). Variation and Evolution of Atmospheric Structure over the Southeast Atlantic Biomass Burning Season as seen from Aircraft and Reanalysis. American Meteorological Society Collective Madison Meeting: Madison, WI, August 8, 2022-August 12, 2022, 4.4

Yuan, T., Song, H., Wood, R., Oreopoulos, L., Steven, P. E., Wang, C., Yu, H., Meyer, K., Wilcox, E.M. (2022). Observational Evidence of Strong Forcing from Aerosol Effect on Low Cloud Coverage With Large-scale Ship-track Samples, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Chicago, IL, December 12, 2022-December 16, 2022, A12G-04

2021
Giordano, M. E., Hamill, P. J., Wilcox, E.M. (2021). On an Optical-Physical Aerosol Typology Based in AERONET Data to Define Aerosol Subtypes for Deployment in Modeling Applications. 2021 Winter Meeting 101, American Meteorological Association: [Virtual], January 10, 2021-January 15, 2021, 13th Symposium on Aerosol – Cloud – Climate Interactions – Advances in Observational and Modeling Studies of the Role of Mineral Dust in the Earth system. Part II, Paper Number 12.11A.

Wilcox, E.M., Giordano, M. E., Wang, J. (2021). An investigation of potential global indicators of light-absorbing aerosol effects and their impacts on the boundary layer and lower troposphere. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 13th Symposium on Aerosol – Cloud – Climate Interactions, January 10, 2021-January 15, 2021, 1.5

Light, S., Yuan, T., Song, H., Wilcox, E.M. (2021). Analyzing Micro- and Macrophysical Properties of Tropical Deep Convective Cloud Objects. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 34th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, January 10, 2021-January 15, 2021, 962

McAdams, D., Baumgardner, D., Wilcox, E.M., Giordano, M. E., French, J., Plummer, D., Oolman, L. D., Christian, J., Harrington, A., Burkhart, M., Mahon, N. (2021). Holographic Cloud Particle Imager (HCPI) Phase IIB Update. PI/Science Team Meeting DOE ARM/ASR Annual PI/Science TEAM Meeting 2021: [Virtual], June 21, 2021-June 24, 2021
https://asr.science.energy.gov/meetings/joint-arm-asr-meeting/2021-june

Giordano, M. E., Wilcox, E.M., Hamill, P. J. (2021). Progress on the Development of a Multi-decadal Historic Global Ground-Based Monthly Seasonal Aerosol Climatology. Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union: New Orleans, LA USA, December 13, 2021-December 17, 2021, A35K-1797/916384

Wilcox, E.M., Moosmüller, H. (2021). SBIR/STTR Grant Opportunities. DRI Lunch-Time Seminar: Desert Research Institute, Reno and Las Vegas, December 6, 2021

Saftner, D. M., Hosseinpour, F. E., Fenstermaker, L.F., Moosmüller, H., Wilcox, E.M. (2021). NASA Proposal Writing Workshop. NV Space Grant and NASA EPSCoR Statewide Virtual Meeting: Reno and Las Vegas, NV, April 30, 2021

Saftner, D. M., Sion, B., Hosseinpour, F. E., Fenstermaker, L.F., Moosmüller, H., Wilcox, E.M. (2021). NASA Proposal Writing Workshop. Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Webinar: Reno and Las Vegas, NV, February 18, 2021

Wilcox, E.M., Wang, J. (2021). Light-absorbing aerosols and signatures of cloud and climate responses in satellite observations and models. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: New Orleans, LA, December 13, 2021-December 17, 2021, A55F-1446

Wilcox, E.M. (2021). The AIRS day-night temperature contrast as an indicator of light-absorbing aerosols and associated responses in low clouds. NASA AIRS/Sounder Science Team Meeting, October 26, 2021-October 28, 2021

2020
Aznavi, S., Fajri, P., Wilcox, E.M., Shadmand, M. (2020). Risk Assessment of Smart Buildings Equipped with Solar Generation Using Information Gap Decision Theory, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo: Detroit Michigan, October 11, 2020-October 15, 2020, 10.1109/ECCE44975.2020.9235433

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2020). Dust-Induced Changes on Energy and Activity of Atmospheric Waves Using a Global Climate Model. 100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Boston, MA, January 16, 2020

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2020). A New Look: Atmospheric Rivers from an Energy Perspective. Virtual Symposium by the International Atmospheric Rivers Conference (IARC) Community: [Virtual], October 5, 2020, Talk.

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2020). The influence of Saharan Dust Radiative Forcing on Wave Activity over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting: [Virtual], December 2, 2020, Talk.

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2020). A New Look to Atmospheric Rivers from an Energy Perspective. International Atmospheric Rivers Conference (IARC) Community: [Virtual], October 5, 2020, Talk.

McAdams, D., Harrington, A. M., Axisa, D., Baumgardner, D., Wilcox, E.M., Giordano, M. E., French, J., Plummer, D. M., Mahon, R. N., Burkhart, M. D., Oolman, L., Christian, J. F. (2020). Validation Test Flight of a Holographic Cloud Particle Imager (HCPI) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs). Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union: [Virtual], December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020, Unmanned Systems in Atmospheric Research – A111, Paper Number A111-05.

Giordano, M. E., Hamill, P. J., Wilcox, E.M. (2020). On Refining an AERONET Opto-physical Aerosol Typology: Expressing Aerosol Optical Properties as Distribution Functions by Specific Aerosol Type. Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union: [Virtual], December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020, Advances in Atmospheric Remote Sensing Inversion III, Paper Number A211 – 0002.

Wilcox, E.M., Yuan, T. (2020). Relationships among deep convective cloud system size, cloud microphysics and atmospheric thermodynamic structure throughout the global tropics. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020, A154-0006

Wilcox, E.M., Wang, J., Giordano, M. E., Xu, X. (2020). A Study of Atmospheric Heating by Black Carbon Aerosols and its Impacts. NASA MODIS/VIIRS Science Team Meeting, November 19, 2020-November 19, 2020

2019
Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R. (2019). Energetics of the African Easterly Waves Coupled to Saharan Dust Radiative Heating: A New Look to Variability of Tropical Atlantic Storm Tracks. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Phoenix, AZ, January 6, 2019-January 10, 2019

Gao, L., McFarquhar, G. M., Redemann, J., Wilcox, E.M. (2019). Study of Aerosol Indirect Effect on Shallow Warm Clouds: Results from SEAC4RS and ORACLES Field Campaigns. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Phoenix, AZ, January 6, 2019-January 10, 2019

McAdams, D., Christian, J., Wilcox, E.M. (2019). Holographic Cloud Particle Imager (HCPI) Phase II Update. Department of Energy Joint ARM User Facility and ASR PI Meeting: Rockville, Maryland, June 10, 2019-June 13, 2019

McAdams, D. R., Harrington, A. M., Stoddard, G. J., Miller, K., Snow, M., Boiko, B., Wilcox, E.M., Gao, L., Giordano, M. E., Christian, J. F. (2019). Holographic Cloud Particle Imager (HCPI) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs). NOAA Global Monitoring Annual Conference: Boulder, CO, May 21, 2019-May 22, 2019

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2019). Large-Scale Impacts of Dust on Weather and Climate. Dust Seminar, Desert Research Institute, June 4, 2019

Nelson, K. N., Watts, A. C., Boehmler, J., Samburova, V., Khlystov, A. Y., Moosmüller, H., Wilcox, E.M. (2019). Development of a compact, portable smoke emissions sampling instrument appropriate for use with small unmanned aircraft systems. 6th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference: Albuquerque, NM, April 29, 2019-May 3, 2019

Giordano, M. E., Hamill, P. J., Wilcox, E.M. (2019). An AERONET Aerosol Opto-Physical Typology: Model Output of Aerosol Compositions, Local, Regional and Global Aerosol Climatology Results with Attention to Dust. American Geophyscal Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, December 9, 2019-December 13, 2019, A11H-2723

Gao, L., Chang, I., McFarquhar, G. M., Redemann, J., Wilcox, E.M. (2019). Remote Sensing Study of the Relationships Between Biomass Burning Aerosols and Marine Stratocumulus during ORACLES Campaign. American Geophyscal Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, December 9, 2019-December 13, 2019, A11N-2914

Wilcox, E.M., Yuan, T., Song, H. (2019). Deep convective cloud system size and structure: advances toward a new near-global database for linking convective cloud systems to aerosols, thermodynamics and circulation. American Geophyscal Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, December 9, 2019-December 13, 2019, A41I-2763

Wilcox, E.M. (2019). Revisiting the intensity distribution of rain rates in global climate models and its simulated change under climate warming. 12th International Precipitation Conference (IPC12): Irvine, CA, June 19, 2019-June 21, 2019

2018
Sengupta, D., Gao, L., Beres, N. D., Bhattarai, C., Wilcox, E.M., Samburova, V., Watts, A. C., Khlystov, A. Y., Moosmüller, H. (2018). Estimation of Snow Albedo Reduction by Light Absorbing Impurities Using a Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer Model.. Joint Meeting of 17th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-XVII) and 11th Conference on Laser-Light and Interactions with Particles (LIP2018): College Station, TX, March 4, 2018-March 9, 2018

Shan, Y., Wilcox, E.M., Gao, L., Yin, Y., Zhao, T. (2018). Evaluating and Improving Multi-Moment Cloud Microphysical Schemes. Part II: Sedimentation Section. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX, January 7, 2018-January 11, 2018

Gao, L., Wilcox, E.M., Levy, R., Shan, Y. (2018). Investigate Uncertainties in Quantifying the Aerosol?Cloud Interaction for Shallow Warm Clouds. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX

Nelson, K. N., Watts, A. C., Samburova, V., Khlystov, A. Y., Bhattarai, C., Moosmüller, H., Wilcox, E.M., Giordano, M. E. (2018). An emissions sampling payload for use with small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS). International Society for Atmospheric Research Using Remotely Piloted Aircraft Annual Conference: Boulder, CO, July 9, 2018-July 12, 2018

Giordano, M. E., Wilcox, E.M., Hamill, P. J. (2018). Progress on an AERONET Aerosol Opto-Physical Typology: Defining the Variable Space and Determination of a Reference Basis to produce a Global Aerosol Climatology. 15th American Meteorological Society Conference on Atmospheric Radiation and 15th conference on Cloud Physics: Vancouver, B.C., July 9, 2018-September 13, 2018

Wilcox, E.M., Wang, J. (2018). Low cloud responses to solar absorption by black carbon aerosols. 15th American Meteorological Society Conference on Atmospheric Radiation and 15th conference on Cloud Physics: Vancouver, B.C., July 9, 2018-September 13, 2018

Wilcox, E.M. (2018). Studies of solar absorption and semi-direct aerosol effect using AIRS and other NASA satellite products. NASA AIRS Science Team Meeting: Pasadena, CA, April 25, 2018-April 27, 2018

Giordano, M. E., Wilcox, E.M., Hamill, P. J. (2018). Progress on an AERONET Aerosol Opto-Physical Typology: Refining Classification using Analytic Functions Based upon Density Distribution Functions of Retrieval Values. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Washington D.C., December 10, 2018-December 14, 2018, A13A-06

Gao, L., Redemann, J., Wilcox, E.M. (2018). Study of aerosol indirect effect on shallow warm clouds: results from ORACLES and SEAC4RS field campaigns. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Washington D.C., December 10, 2018-December 14, 2018, A13H-1367

Mosadegh Anbaran, E., Mejia, J. F., Wilcox, E.M., Rayne, S. (2018). Vehicle Miles Travel (VMT) trends over Lake Tahoe area and its effect on Nitrogen Deposition, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Washington D.C., December 10, 2018-December 14, 2018, A23M-1803

Wang, J., Xu, X., Zeng, J., Wilcox, E.M. (2018). A pilot study of shortwave spectral fingerprints of smoke aerosols above liquid clouds. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Washington D.C., December 10, 2018-December 14, 2018, A24A-03

McAdams, D., Harrington, A., Stoddard, G. J., Miller, K., Boiko, B., Snow, M., Wilcox, E.M., Gao, L., Giordano, M. E., Christian, J. F. (2018). Characterization of a Holographic Cloud Particle Imager (HCPI) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs). American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Washington D.C., December 10, 2018-December 14, 2018, A41N-0166

Wilcox, E.M., Rayne, S., Wang, J. (2018). Exploring the day/night temperature contrast as a global indicator of light-absorbing aerosols. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Washington D.C., December 10, 2018-December 14, 2018, A51Q-0241

Sengupta, D., Gao, L., Wilcox, E.M., Beres, N. D., Bhattarai, C., Samburova, V., Watts, A. C., Khlystov, A. Y., Moosmüller, H. (2018). Estimation of Snow Albedo Reduction by Light Absorbing Impurities Using a Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer Model. 10th International Aerosol Conference (IAC 2018): St. Louis, MO, September 2, 2018-September 7, 2018

Mejia, J. F., Wilcox, E.M., Angel, M. C. (2018). Improved skill in North American multi-model ensemble for the Americas, IV International Conference on El Niño Southern Oscillation: ENSO in a warmer Climate (Guayaquil, Ecuador), October 16, 2018-October 18, 2018

Giordano, M. E., Wilcox, E.M., Hamill, P. (2018). Progress on an AERONET Aerosol Opto-Physical Typology: Defining the Variable Space and Determination of a Reference Basis to Produce a Global Aerosol Climatology. 17th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-XVII): College Station, TX, March 4, 2018-March 9, 2018
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/mmishchenko/ELS-XVII/ELS-XVII_Abstracts.pdf

McAdams, D. R., Miller, K., Snow, M., Boiko, B., Wilcox, E.M., Gao, L., Harrington, A. M., Stoddard, G. J., Christian, J. F. (2018). Development of a Holographic Cloud Particle Imager for UAVs. International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely piloted Aircraft (ISARRA): Boulder, CO, July 9, 2018-July 12, 2018

Wilcox, E.M., Gao, L., Wang, J., Levy, R. (2018). Dynamics of shallow cumulus and stratocumulus clouds in the presence of black carbon aerosol. NASA MODIS/VIIRS Science Team Meeting: Silver Spring, MD, October 15, 2018-October 19, 2018

2017
Wilcox, E.M. (2017). Dynamics of Shallow Cumulus Clouds in the Presence of Black Carbon Aerosol. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA, January 23, 2017-January 26, 2017

Shan, Y., Wilcox, E.M., Zhao, T., Yin, Y., Gao, L. (2017). Evaluation of and Suggested Improvements to the Morrison Microphysics in WRF Model -Part I: Analysis on Triple-Moment Size Distribution Function and Sedimentation Section. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA, January 23, 2017-January 27, 2017

McAdams, D., Wilcox, E.M., Gao, L., Fernandez, E., Vogel, S., O’Reilly, J., Kolodziejski, N., Stapels, C., Christian, J. (2017). Development of a UAV-mounted Holographic Cloud Particle Imager. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA, January 23, 2017-January 26, 2017

Sengupta, D., Gao, L., Wilcox, E.M., Beres, N. D., Moosmüller, H., Khlystov, A. Y. (2017). Estimation of Snow Albedo Reduction by Light Absorbing Impurities Using Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer Model. 2017 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union: New Orleans, LA, December 11, 2017-December 15, 2017

Giordano, M. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2017). Development of a multi-purpose multi-spectral irradiance monitor for rapid deployment aerosol measurement in complex terrains. Nevada NASA Statewide Annual Meeting: Las Vegas, NV, October 20, 2017

Giordano, M. E., Mejia, J. F., Wilcox, E.M. (2017). On Conditional Summertime Day-Ahead Solar Irradiance Forecasting: Development Beyond Numerical Weather Prediction Models. Solar energy-water-environment nexus in Nevada annual meeting: Las Vegas, NV, March 27, 2017-March 29, 2017

Mejia, J. F., Wilcox, E.M. (2017). Long Range Weather Forecasting: Improvement of the Multimodel Super-Ensemble Technique for Seasonal Forecasts. Fifth Annual California Utility Forecasting Meeting (CUFM ’17): San Diego, CA, June 12, 2017, Invited presentation.

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R. (2017). Mechanisms of Saharan Dust Radiative Effects Coupled to Eddy Energy and Wave Activity. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: New Orleans, LA, December 11, 2017-December 15, 2017

Wilcox, E.M. (2017). Deep convective cloud system size and structure: thermodynamic forcing and modification by aerosols. 3rd International A-Train Symposium: Pasadena, CA, April 19, 2017-April 21, 2017

2016
Shan, Y., Wilcox, E.M., Gao, L., Yin, Y., Zhao, T. (2016). Improvement to microphysical schemes in WRF Model based on observation data, part I: size distribution function. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 13, 2016

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R. (2016). A New Look to Impacts of Aerosols on Storm Track Dynamics through Wave Activity. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 14, 2016

Gao, L., Wilcox, E.M., Praveen, P. S., Pistone, K. (2016). Impact of Anthropogenic Aerosol on the Properties of Shallow Maritime Cumulus Clouds, Poster. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 13, 2016

Wilcox, E.M. (2016). Semi-direct Effects of Aerosols on Low Clouds: Mechanisms for Climate Cooling by Black Carbon Aerosols. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 12, 2016

Wilcox, E.M., Mejia, J. F., Shan, Y., Giordano, M. E. (2016). Solar Irradiance Forecasting. Solar Energy-Water-Environment Nexus in Nevada Annual Meeting: Reno, March 14, 2016-March 15, 2016

Wilcox, E.M., Hosseinpour, F. E. (2016). The transport of southern Africa smoke aerosols and transient dynamics of the subtropical circulation Shan, Y. (Ed.) . American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016

Wilcox, E.M., Hosseinpour, F. E., Gao, L., Thomas, R., Praveen, P. S., Pistone, K., Bender, F. A., Ramanathan, V. (2016). Semi-direct effects of black carbon aerosols on low clouds: Mechanisms for climate cooling. Aerosols and Clouds: Connections from the Laboratory to the Field to the Globe: Telluride Science Research Center, CO, June 27, 2016-July 1, 2016

Shan, Y., Wilcox, E.M., Zhao, T., Yin, Y., Gao, L. (2016). Evaluation of and Suggested Improvements to the Morrison Microphysics in WRF Model. Part I: Analysis on Triple-moment Size Distribution Function and Sedimentation Section. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016

2015
Posselt, D., Wilcox, E.M., Yuan, T. (2015). An Observation and CRM Based Analysis of Large Scale Aerosol-Convection Interaction in the Tropics, Presentation. 95th AMS Annual Meeting: Phoenix, AZ, January 5, 2015

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R. (2015). Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Interactions with Atmospheric Wave Activity, Paper. 95th AMS Annual Meeting: Phoenix, AZ, January 7, 2015

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R. (2015). Aerosol-Climate Interactions through Atmospheric Wave Activities. Gordon Conference on Radiation and Climate: Lewiston, ME, July 26, 2015-July 31, 2015

Wilcox, E.M., Thomas, R. M., Praveen, P. S., Pistone, K., Bender, F. A., Ramanathan, V. (2015). Response of low clouds and turbulence to light-absorbing aerosol. Gordon Conference on Radiation and Climate: Lewiston, ME, July 28, 2015-July 31, 2015

Gao, L., Wilcox, E.M., Praveen, P. S. (2015). Impact of anthropogenic aerosol on the properties of shallow maritime cumulus clouds. Gordon Conference on Radiation and Climate: Lewiston, ME, July 28, 2015-July 31, 2015

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R. (2015). A New Look to Interactions of Saharan Dust with Waves in the Tropical Atlantic Storm Track. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015

Gao, L., Wilcox, E.M., Shan, Y. (2015). Impact of Anthropogenic Aerosol on the Properties of Shallow Maritime Cumulus Clouds. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015

Munchak, L., Levy, R., Mattoo, S., Patadia, F., Wilcox, E.M., Marshak, A. (2015). Retrieval of Aerosol Within Cloud Fields Using the MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS). American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015

Shan, Y., Wilcox, E.M., Gao, L., Zhao, T., Yin, Y. (2015). Improvement to microphysical schemes in WRF Model based on observed data, part I: size distribution function. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015

Watts, A. C., Fenstermaker, L.F., McGwire, K. C., Wilcox, E.M., Brown, T. J. (2015). Fire and UAS projects at the Desert Research Institute. Presentation at University of British Columbia: Okanagon, June 18, 2015

2014
Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2014). A Dynamic Perspective on aerosol-vorticity-wave Interactions. Oral presentation at the 94th American Meteorological Society (AMS): Atlanta, GA, February 2, 2014, Best Presentation Award

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2014). An Energetic Perspective on Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Interactions with Atmospheric Wave Activity, Poster. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 15, 2014

Wilcox, E.M., Hosseinpour, F. E., Colarco, P. R. (2014). Signatures of semi-direct radiative forcing by absorbing aerosols in satellite observations and models, Poster. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 15, 2014

Fenstermaker, L.F., McGwire, K. C., Wilcox, E.M., Tilley, J. S., Watts, A. C., Baker, J. L., Huntington, J. L. (2014). UAS environmental research, Invited talk. Nevada Governors Conference on Small Business: Las Vegas, NV, September 19, 2014

Ichoku, C., Ellison, L., Willmot, E., Gatebe, C., Matsui, T., Wang, J., Okonkwo, C., Damoah, R., Lee, J., Adegoke, J., Bolten, J., Policelli, F., Wilcox, E.M., Habib, S. (2014). Fire-Induced Variation of Essential Climate Variables in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 15, 2014

Yuan, T., Li, Z., Wilcox, E.M., Oreopoulos, L., Remer, L., Yu, H., Platnick, S., Posselt, D., Zhang, Z., Martins, J. (2014). Aerosol Microphysical and Macrophysical Effects on Deep Convective Clouds. American Geophysical Union 2014 Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 15, 2014

Wilcox, E.M. (2014). Interactions among South Asian haze, radiation, and cloud systems of the Northern Indian Ocean. Invited talk. NASA MODIS Science Team Meeting: Columbia, MD, April 29, 2014-May 1, 2014

Wilcox, E.M., Posselt, D. J., Yuan, T. (2014). Radiative forcing by aerosol modification of deep convective cloud cover: An evaluation with cloud-resolving simulations and satellite observations. American Meteorological Society 2014 Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA, February 2, 2014

Wilcox, E.M., Thomas, R. M., Praveen, P. S., Pistone, K., Bender, F., Feng, Y., Ramanathan, V. (2014). Shallow cumulus clouds embedded in a deep regional haze: Results from Indian Ocean CARDEX experiment. American Meteorological Society 2014 Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA, February 2, 2014

2013
Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2013). Large-Scale Interactions of African Smoke and Dust Aerosols with Tropical/Subtropical Atmospheric Circulations and Precipitation. Presentation at the 93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX, January 5, 2013

Wilcox, E.M., Yuan, T., Posselt, D. (2013). Deep convective cloud system size and structure: A quantitative study of the forcing by atmospheric thermodynamics and modification by aerosols. Presentation at the 93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX, January 5, 2013

Wilcox, E.M., Thomas, R. M., Praveen, P. S., Pistone, K., Bender, F., Feng, Y., Ramanathan, V. (2013). Moisture dynamics in the cloudy and polluted tropical atmosphere: The Cloud Aerosol Radiative Forcing Dynamics Experiment (CARDEX). ). Presentation at the 93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX, January 5, 2013

Wilcox, E.M. (2013). Observations of aerosol semi-direct effects at multiple scales. Invited Talk. Special session on: Cancun, Mexico, May 14, 2013

Gatebe, C. K., Ichoku, C., Rajesh, R., Roman, M., Wilcox, E.M., Schaaf, C. (2013). Impact of Wildfires on Albedo in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa. Presented at 4th North American Carbon Project All-Investigators Meeting,: Albuquerque, NM, February 7, 2013

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2013). Interactions between Oceanic Saharan Air Layer and African Easterly Jet- African Easterly Waves System. Presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2013

Wilcox, E.M., Thomas, R. M., Praveen, P. S., Pistone, K., Bender, F., Feng, Y., Ramanathan, V. (2013). Trade cumulus clouds embedded in a deep regional haze: Results from Indian Ocean CARDEX experiment. AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2013

Wilcox, E.M. (2013). Deep convective cloud system size and structure: thermodynamic forcing and modification by aerosols. NASA MODIS Science Team meeting: Silver Spring, MD, April 15, 2013

Wilcox, E.M., Yuan, T., Posselt, D. J. (2013). Interrelationships among deep convective cloud systems size, atmospheric thermodynamics, aerosols, and cloud radiative forcing. Invited Talk. Special session on: Cancun, Mexico, May 14, 2013

2012
Chakrabarty, R. K., Garro, M. A., Wilcox, E.M., Moosmüller, H. (2012). The Brahmaputra River Valley: A Regional Hotspot of Black Carbon Emissions. Aerosol and Atmospheric Optics: Visibility and Air Pollution, Air & Waste Management Association: Whitefish, MT, September 24, 2012

Feng, Y., Kotamarthi, V. R., Jefferson, A., Wilcox, E.M., Thomas, R. M., Praveen, P. S., Pistone, K., Bender, F., Ramanathan, V. (2012). Observation-constrained Estimation of Aerosol Climate Impacts over S Asia. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 5, 2012

Hosseinpour, F. E., Wilcox, E.M. (2012). Mechanisms of African Aerosol-Climate Interactions and their Forcing on Dynamical Systems. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 3, 2012

Ichoku, C., Gatebe, C., Bolton, J., Policelli, F., Habib, S., Lee, J., Adegoke, J., Wang, J., Wilcox, E.M. (2012). Possible links between biomass burning and the water cycle in Northern sub-Saharan Africa. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 3, 2012

Praveen, P. S., Ramanathan, V., Wilcox, E.M., Thomas, R. M., Pistone, K., Bender, F. (2012). Source specific aerosol radiative heating over tropical Indian Ocean during Cloud Aerosol Radiative Forcing Dynamics Experiment (CARDEX). AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 3, 2012

Other
2023
Giordano, M. E., Wilcox, E.M., Pistone, K. (2023). Digital Media: Simulations and Experiments Using Satellite-retrieved Carbon Monoxide (CO) as a Speciated Proxy of Smoke Aerosol Layered Optical Depth (AOD) for Radiative Transfer (RT) Model Studies. AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, Conference posted published Open Access Through Earth and Space Sciences Open Access Online. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.170516098.86928875/v1