Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Submitted/In preparation:
Dias Neto, J. and L. Nuijens ( In preparation ): Thermal circulations and momentum transport in convective boundary layers.
Published:
Whelan, M., Parazoo, N., Wennberg, P., Natraj, V., Posselt, D., Andrews, A.,
Cartwright, M., Commane, R., Cunningham, E., Dadheech, N., Davis, K.,
Frankenberg, C., Franklin, J., Gao, X., Harrison, J., Keppel-Aleks, G.,
Kuai, L., Liu, J., Marshall, J., Michalak, A., Nuijens, L., Rastogi, B.,
Romanou, A., Schuh, A., Sheldon, D., Walton, P., Wu, F., Wu, D. (2025):
“Tracing Greenhouse Gases: A Blueprint for a Joint Meteorology and Atmospheric Composition
Program.” Whelan, M. E., Parazoo, N. C., Wennberg, P. O. (Eds.) Report prepared for the
W. M. Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS), California Institute of Technology.https://doi.org/10.26206/sk7nw-4ej15
De Roode, S. R., Jansson, F., Mak, L. and L. Nuijens (2025): Countergradient Momentum Transport in Clear Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layers. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17, e2024MS004579. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004579
Savazzi, A. C. M., L. Nuijens, W. de Rooy, and A. P. Siebesma (2025): The Influence of Parameterized Shallow Convection on Trade-Wind Clouds and Circulations in the HARMONIE-AROME Mesoscale Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17, e2024MS004538. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004538
Nuijens, L. , J. Wenegrat, P. Lopez-Dekker, C. Pasquero, L. O'Neill, F. Ardhuin, A. Ayet, P. Bechtold, W. Bruch, L.C. Laurindo, X. Chen, F. Desbiolles, R. Foster, I. Frenger, G. George, R. Giesen, E. Hayden, M. Hell, S. Iyer, J. Kousal, N. Laxague, L. Lenain, M.M. Pacheco, A.N. Meroni, S. Minobe, C. Muller, O. O'Driscoll, V. Oerder, N. Pizzo, D. Putrasahan, J.-L. Redelsperger, L. Renault, B. Rommen, C. Sauvage, N. Schneider, M. Shao, P. Siebesma, J. Small, B. Stevens, A. Stoffelen, E. Strobach, P. Sullivan, E.J. Thompson, L. Thompson, I. Uchoa, D. Vandemark, B. Villas Boas, B. Yang, D., S. Zippel: The Air-Sea Interaction (ASI) submesoscale: Physics and impact. Lorentz Center workshop white paper. 2024. https://doi.org/10.5065/78ac-qd31
Savazzi, A. C. M., L. Nuijens, W. de Rooy, M. Janssens, and A. P. Siebesma (2024): Momentum Transport in Organized Shallow Cumulus Convection. J. Atmos. Sci.), 81, 279–296, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0098.1.
Dias Neto, J., Nuijens, L., Unal. C. and Knoop, S. (2023): Combined Wind Lidar and Cloud Radar for Wind Profiling. Earth System Science Data ,15, 769–789, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-769-2023
Dias Neto, J. (2022): The Tracing Convective Momentum Transport in Complex Cloudy Atmospheres Experiment – Level 1, Zenodo [data set], https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6926483
Dias Neto, J. (2022): The Tracing Convective Momentum Transport in Complex Cloudy Atmospheres Experiment – Level 2, Zenodo [data set], https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6926605,
Savazzi, A.C.M., Nuijens, L., Sandu, I., George, G., Bechtold, P. (2022): The representation of the trade winds in ECMWF forecasts and reanalyses during EUREC4A. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 13049–13066.https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-13049-2022
Nuijens, L., Savazzi, A.C.M., de Boer, G., Brilouet, P-E., George, G., Lothon, M., Zhang, D. (2022): The frictional layer in the observed momentum budget of the trades. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4364
Koning, A.M., Nuijens, L., Mallaun, C. (2022): Momentum fluxes from airborne wind measurements in three cumulus cases over land. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 7373–7388 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7373-2022
Helfer, K.C. and Nuijens, L. (2021): The morphology of simulated trade-wind convection and cold pools under wind shear. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2021JD035148. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035148
Koning, A.M., Nuijens, L., Bosveld, F.C., Siebesma, A.P., van Dorp, P.J., Jonker, H.J.J. (2021): Surface-Layer wind shear and momentum transport from clear-sky to cloudy weather regimes over land. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , 126, e2021JD035087. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035087
Stevens, B. and coauthors (2021): EUREC4A. Earth System Science Data https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021
Dixit, V.V., Nuijens, L., Helfer, K.C. (2021): Counter-gradient momentum transport through subtropical shallow convection in ICON-LEM simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems , 13, e2020MS002352. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002352
Helfer, K.C., Nuijens, L., Dixit, V.V. (2021): The role of shallow convection in the momentum budget of the trades from large-eddy-simulation hindcasts. QJR Meteorol Soc. 2021; 147: 2490– 2505. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4035
Sandu, I., Bechtold P., Nuijens, L., Beljaars, A. and Brown, A. (2020) On the causes of systematic forecast biases in near-surface wind direction over the oceans. (ECMWF Technical Memo no 866 ) https://doi.org/10.21957/wggbl43u
Helfer, K.C., Nuijens, L., De Roode, S.R. and Siebesma, A.P. (2020): How wind shear affects trade-wind cumulus convection (2020). Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2020MS002183. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002183
Saggiorato, B., Nuijens, L., Siebesma, A. P., de Roode, S., Sandu, I. and Papritz, L. ( 2020). The influence of convective momentum transport and vertical wind shear on the evolution of a cold air outbreak. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001991
Vogel, R, Nuijens, L., Stevens, B. Influence of deepening and mesoscale organization of shallow convection on stratiform cloudiness in the downstream trades. Q J R Meteorol Soc. 2020; 146: 174– 185. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3664
Nuijens, L. & Siebesma, A.P. (2019) Boundary Layer Clouds and Convection over Subtropical Oceans in our Current and in a Warmer Climate. Curr Clim Change Rep 5, 80–94 [https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-019-00126-x]
Nuijens, L. & Emanuel, K. (2018): Shallow cumulus and congestus modes in circulating equilibria of the tropical atmosphere in a two-column model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 144: 2676– 2692. [https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3385]
Nuijens, L., Emanuel, K., Masunaga, H., & L’Ecuyer, T. (2017): Implications of Warm Rain in Shallow Cumulus and Congestus Clouds for Large-Scale Circulations. Surveys in Geophysics. [http://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-017-9429-z]
Bony, S., Stevens, B., Ament, F., Bigorre, S., Chazette, P., Crewell, S., … Wirth, M. (2017). EUREC4A: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Couplings Between Clouds, Convection and Circulation. Surveys in Geophysics, 38(6), 1529–1568. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-017-9428-0
Vogel, R., Nuijens, L. and Stevens, B. (2016): The role of precipitation and spatial organization in the response of trade-wind clouds to warming. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems <8(2), 843–862. http://doi.org/10.1002/2015MS000568
Medeiros, B. and Nuijens, L. (2015): Clouds at Barbados are representative of clouds across the trade wind regions in observations and climate models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(22), E3062–E3070. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1521494113
Stevens, B., Farrell, D., Hirsch, L., Jansen, F., Nuijens, L., Serikov, I., Brügmann, B., Forde, M., Linné, H., Lonitz, K., & Prospero, J. M. (2015). The Barbados Cloud Observatory — anchoring investigations of clouds and circulation on the edge of the ITCZ. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(5), 787-801. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00247.1
Nuijens, L., B. Medeiros, I. Sandu and M. Ahlgrimm, (2015): Observed and modeled patterns of covariability between low-level cloudiness and the structure of the trade wind layer, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 7[ https://doi.org/10.1002/2015MS000483]
Nuijens, L., B. Medeiros, I. Sandu and M. Ahlgrimm, (2015): The behavior of trade-wind cloudiness in observations and models: the major cloud components and their variability, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 7 [ https://doi.org/10.1002/2014MS000390]
Lonitz, K., Stevens, B., Nuijens, L. & Hirsch, L. (2015). The signature of aerosols and meteorology in long-term cloud radar observations of trade-wind cumuli. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 72, 4643-4659. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-14-0348.1
Brueck, M., Nuijens, L. & Stevens, B. (2015). On the seasonal and synoptic time scale variability of the North Atlantic trades and its low-level clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 72, 1428-1446. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-14-0054.1
Burdanowitz, J., Nuijens, L., Stevens, B. & Klepp, C. (2015). Evaluating light rain from satellite- and ground-based remote sensing data over the subtropical North Atlantic. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 54, 556-572. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0146.1
Lamer, K., Kollias, P. & Nuijens, L. (2015). Observations of the variability of shallow trade wind cumulus cloudiness and mass flux. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 120, 6161-6178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014JD022950
Nuijens, L., I. Serikov, L. Hirsch, K. Lonitz and B. Stevens (2013): The distribution and variability of low-level cloud in the North-Atlantic trades, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 140, pp 2364 -2374. [ https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2307]
Siebert, H. et al. (2013). The fine-scale structure of the trade wind cumuli over Barbados – An introduction to the CARRIBA project. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, 10061-10077. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-10061-2013
Rieck, M., Nuijens, L. & Stevens, B. (2012). Marine boundary layer cloud feedbacks in a constant relative humidity atmosphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 69, 2538-2550. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-11-0203.1
Nuijens, L. & B. Stevens (2012): The Influence of Wind Speed on Shallow Marine Cumulus Convection, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences , 69(1), 168-184. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atsc/69/1/jas-d-11-02.1.xml
Matheou, G., Chung, D., Nuijens, L., Stevens, B. & Teixeira, J. (2011). On the fidelity of large-eddy simulation of shallow precipitating cumulus convection. Monthly Weather Review, 139<, 2918-2939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2011MWR3599.1
vanZanten, M. et al (2011). Controls on precipitation and cloudiness in simulations of trade-wind cumulus as observed during RICO. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 3: M06001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011MS000056
Seifert, A., Nuijens, L., Stevens, B. (2010): Turbulence effects on warm-rainautoconversion in precipitating shallow convection. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 136 (652), pp. 1753-1762. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12127-2016
Medeiros, B., Nuijens, L., Antoniazzi, C. & Stevens, B. (2010). Low-latitude boundary layer clouds as seen by CALIPSO. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 115: D23207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JD014437
Nuijens, L., B. Stevens and A.P. Siebesma (2009): The environment of precipitating shallow cumulus convection. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 66, pp 1962-1979. https://doi.org/10.1175/2008JAS2841.1
Rauber, R., and co-authors (2007): Rain in shallow cumulus over the ocean: The RICO campaign. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88 (12), pp. 1912-1928. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-88-12-1912
Other reading (book chapter, PhD/MSc theses, reports)
Nuijens, L. and C. Jacob, (2020): Cloudy Perspectives. In A. Siebesma, S. Bony, C. Jakob, & B. Stevens (Eds.), Clouds and Climate: Climate Science's Greatest Challenge (pp. 1-32). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [link]: a graduate-level textbook initiated by the European Union FP7 CLoud Intercomparison, Process Study and Evaluation (EUCLIPSE) project.
Nuijens, L. (2010): Precipitating Shallow Cumulus Convection. PhD thesis. University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Nuijens, L. (2006): The set-up of a Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) shallow cumulus case for LES. InternshipKNMI. Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, Netherlands.
Nuijens, L. (2005): Estimating precipitation from radar observations in the trade-wind cumulus region. MSc-Thesis. Wageningen University and Research Center (WUR), Wageningen, Netherlands