Mechem, D. B., R. A. Houze, Jr., and S. S. Chen, 2002: Layer inflow into precipitating convection over the western tropical Pacific. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 128, 1997-2030.
Mechem, D. B., and Y. L. Kogan, 2003: Simulating the transition from drizzling marine stratocumulus to boundary layer cumulus with a mesoscale model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 2342-2360.
Kogan, Z. N., D. B. Mechem, and Y. L. Kogan, 2005: Assessment of variability in continental low stratiform clouds based on observations of radar reflectivity. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D18205, doi: 10.1029/2005JD005982.
Mechem, D. B., S. S. Chen, and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2006: Momentum transport processes in the stratiform regions of mesoscale convective systems over the western Pacific warm pool. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 132, 709-736.
Mechem, D. B., P. C. Robinson, and Y. L. Kogan, 2006: Processing of cloud condensation nuclei by collision-coalescence in a mesoscale model. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D18204, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007183.
Kogan, Y. L., Z. N. Kogan, and D. B. Mechem, 2007: Assessing the errors of microphysical retrievals based on Doppler radar parameters. J. Hydrometeor., 8, 665-677.
Yi, L., Y. L. Kogan, and D. B. Mechem, 2008: An idealized modeling study of the effect of continental air mass aerosol parameters on marine stratocumulus. Atmos. Res., 8, 157-167.
Mechem, D. B., and Y. L. Kogan, 2008: A bulk parameterization of giant CCN. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 2458-2466.
Mechem, D. B., Y. L. Kogan, M. Ovtchinnikov, A. B. Davis, and K. F. Evans, 2008: Multi-dimensional longwave forcing of boundary layer cloud systems. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 3963-3977.
Kogan, Y. L., Z. N. Kogan, and D. B. Mechem, 2009: Fidelity of analytic drop size distributions in drizzling stratiform clouds based on large-eddy simulation. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2335-2348.
Mechem, D. B., Y. L. Kogan, and D. M. Schultz, 2010: Large-eddy observation of post-cold-frontal continental stratocumulus. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 3368-3383.
Mechem, D. B., Y. L. Kogan, and D. M. Schultz, 2010: Large-eddy simulation of post-cold-frontal continental stratocumulus. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 3835-3853.
Brunsell, N. A., D. B. Mechem, and M. C. Anderson, 2011: Surface heterogeneity impacts on boundary layer dynamics via energy balance partitioning. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 11, 3403-3416.
Melnikov, V. M., D. S. Zrnic, R. J. Doviak, P. B. Chilson, D. B. Mechem, and Y. L. Kogan, 2011: Prospects of the WSR-88D radar for cloud studies. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatology, 50, 859-872.
van Zanten, M. C., B. Stevens, L. Nuijens, A. P. Siebesma, A. Ackerman, F. Burnet, A. Cheng, F. Couvreaux, H. Jiang, M. Khairoutdinov, Y. Kogan, D. C. Lewellen, D. Mechem, K. Nakamura, A. Noda, B. Shipway, J. Slawinska, S. Wang, and A. Wyszogrodzki, 2011: Controls on precipitation and cloudiness in simulations of trade-wind cumulus as observed during RICO. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 3, M06001, doi:10.3894/JAMES.2011.3.5.
Kogan, Y. L., D. B. Mechem, and K. Choi, 2012: Effects of sea-salt aerosols on precipitation in simulations of shallow cumulus. J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
Mechem, D. B., S. E. Yuter, and S. P. de Szoeke, 2012: Thermodynamic and aerosol controls in southeast Pacific stratocumulus. J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
In review
Huber, D. B., D. B. Mechem, and N. A. Brunsell, 2012: Effects of Great Plains irrigation on regional climate. Theor. Appl. Climatol., in review.
de Szoeke, S. P., S. Yuter, D. Mechem, C. Fairall, C. Burleyson, and P. Zuidema, 2011: Observations of stratocumulus clouds and their effects on the eastern Pacific surface heat budget along 20°S. J. Climate, in review.
Mechem, D. B., and Y. L. Kogan, 2008: Structure and persistence of post-frontal stratus in numerical models, Poster at the ARM Science Team Meeting, 10-13 March 2008, Norfolk, VA.
Mechem, D. B., and Y. L. Kogan, 2008: Scalings for precipitation and coalescence scavenging obtained from simulations of trade cumulus . Preprints, 15th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Cancun, Mexico, International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation.
Mechem, D. B., and Y. L. Kogan, 2008: Simple scaling relationships of coalescence processing obtained from simulations of trade cumulus. Proc. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, AGU.
Melnikov, V., P. B. Chilson, and D. B. Mechem, 2009: Extending the capabilities of the polarimetric WSR-88D: Observations of cirrus cloud and moist layers. Preprints, 33rd Conference of Radar Meteorology, Williamsburg, VA, Amer. Meteor. Soc.
KU Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering: Numerical simulation of multiphase atmospheric flows.
AMS Mesoscale conference, 18 August 2009, Salt Lake City, UT: The role of cumulus congestus in the tropical western Pacific.
AMS Conference on Cloud Physics, 1 July 2010, Portland, OR: Thermodynamic and aerosol controls on eastern Pacific stratocumulus precipitation processes in VOCALS.
Third VOCALS Science Meeting, 21 March 2011, Miami: Numerical simulation of heavily drizzling cloud regimes in VOCALS.
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