Dr. William Cotton
CIRA Fellow, Prof. Atmos. Sci.
Office: ATS, Rm 215, Fort Collins
Phone: 970-491-8593
Fax: (970) 491-8449
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Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1371
Selected Publications
  • Carrio, G. G., Cotton, W. R., 2011: Direct and indirect effects of urban pollution and landuse change impacts: A comparison., 91st Annual Meeting.Jan 23-27, 2011, Seattle, WA
  • Carrio, G. G., Cotton, W. R., 2011: Effects of the Urban growth of Houston on convection and precipitation. Part II: Their dependence on instability, (accepted) Atmospheric Research, vol. ,
  • Carrio, G. G., Cotton, W. R., 2010: Aerosol pollution impacts over an urban complex., 13th Conference on Cloud Physics/13th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation. Jun 28- Jul 2, 2010, Portland, OR
  • Carrio, G. G., Cheng, W. Y., Cotton, W. R., 2010: Effects of the Urban growth of Houston on convection and precipitation: Part I: The August 2000 case , Atmospheric Research, vol. 96, 560-574
  • Cotton, W., Krall, G., 2010: Potential Indirect Effects of Aerosol on Tropical Cyclone Prediction, Annual Review of the DoD Center for Geosciences/Atmospheric Research at Colorado State University, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.March 30,
  • Carrio, G. G., Cotton, W. R., 2010: Study of the feasibility of the mitigation of the intensity of tropical cyclones by CCN seeding in the outer rainband region: A HAMP Project, 29th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology.May 10-14, 2010, Tucson, AZ
  • Carrio, G. G., Cotton, W. R., 2010: Virtual flights modificating simulated hurricanes, Annual Meeting of the Weather Modification Association.April 21-23, 2010, Santa Fe, NM
  • Carrio, G. G., Cotton, W. R., 2009: Sea-breeze induced convection over Houston: Sensitivity of aerosol indirect effects on instability, AGU Fall 2009 Meeting.December 14-18, 2009, San Francisco, CA
  • Carrio, G. G., Cotton, W. R., 2009: Urban land-use and pollution impacts on mesoscale criculations and convection over Houston, 13th AMS Conference on Mesoscale Processes.August 17-20, 2009, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Carrio, G. G., Cotton, W. R., Zupanski, D., Zupanski, M., 2008: Development of an aerosol retrieval method: Description and preliminary tests, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, vol. 47, 2760-2776
  • Smith, M. A., Cotton, W. R., Saleeby, S. M., Stokowski, D. M., 2008: Evaluation of mesoscale simulations of dust sources, sinks and transport over the Middle East, (Submitted) Atmospheric Research, vol. ,
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2008: Impact of sea surface temperature initialization on monsoon-related warm season precipitation at multiple spatial and temporal scales, (In preparation) Geophysical Research Letters, vol. ,
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2008: Impact of soil moisture initialization on monsoon-related warm season precipitation at multiple spatial and temporal scales, (In preparation) Geophysical Research Letters, vol. ,
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cheng, W. Y., Cotton, W. R., 2007: New developments in the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System suitable for simulating snowpack augmentation over complex terrain, Journal of Weather Modification, vol. 39, 37-49
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2007: Sensitivity of monsoon-related warm season precipitation to large and regional scale soil moisture anomalies, Geophysical Research Letters (in revision), vol. ,
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2007: Sensitivity of simulated monsoonal warm-season precipitation at varying model resolutions to the choice of initial soil moisture dataset, Journal of Climate (In preparation), vol. ,
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2006: Sensitivity of simulated monsoonal warm-season precipitation at varying model resolutions to SST forcing from multiple SST datasets, Annual CPPA-PACS (Climate Prediction Program for the Americas) PI Meeting.August 14-16, 2006, Tucson, Arizona
  • Stokowski, D. M., Cotton, W. R., 2005: Addition of the aerosol direct effect to the Colorado State University regional atmospheric modeling system (CSU-RAMS), Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations (BACIMO) 2005 Conference.October 11-15, 2005, Monterey, California
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2005: Interseasonal survey of long-lived positive potential vorticity anomalies generated from monsoon convection, NAME Special Session, 30th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop., State College, PA
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2005: Sensitivity of wet and dry North American Monsoon seasons to variability in sea surface temperature and soil moisture, 85th AMS Annual Meeting.2005, San Diego, CA
  • Larson, V. E., Cotton, W. R., Golaz, J.-C., Jiang, H., 2005: Supplying local microphysics parameterizations with information about subgrid variability: Latin hypercube sampling, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 62, 4010-4026
  • Cotton, W. R., 2004: Aerosols, clouds, and precipitation
  • Cotton, W. R., Carrio, G. G., Jiang, H., Saleeby, S. M., Stokowski, D. M., Van Den Heever, S., Zarovy, E. M., 2004: Mesoscale numerical prediction of aerosols and dust - Extended abstract, AHPCRC Workshop.May 24-26, 2004, Jackson, Mississippi
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2004: Simulations of the North American monsoon system. Part I: Model analysis of the 1993 monsoon season, Journal of Climate, vol. 17, 1997-2018
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2004: Simulations of the North American monsoon system. Part II: Interseasonal variability and sensitivity to soil moisture and sea surface temperature, Journal of Climate (in revision)
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2003: Impact of the northwest Mexican monsoon on precipitation in the Central United States: A moisture and PV transport perspective, AMS 83rd Annual Meeting.February 9-13, 2003, Long Beach, CA
  • Chibe, R. J., Cotton, W. R., 2003: Numerical forecasting of fog with the RAMS@CSU cloud-resolving mesoscale forecast model (poster), Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations (BACIMO) 2003 Conference.September 9-11, 2003, Monterey, California
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2003: Potential vorticity transport from Mexican Monsoon surges, GAPP PI Meeting.July 20, 2003, Seattle, WA
  • Cheng, W. Y., Alexander, G. D., Cotton, W. R., Jiang, H., Krieger, J. M., McAnelly, R. L., Rafkin, S. C., 2003: Preliminary results of a coupled convective/mesoscale parameterization in RAMS, J. Atmos. Sci. (in prep.)
  • Cotton, W. R., Carrio, G. G., Harrington, J. L., Jiang, H., Liston, G. E., McAnelly, R. L., McFadden, J. P., Nicholls, M. E., Pielke, R. A., Sr., Tremback, C. J., Walko, R. L., 2003: RAMS 2001: Current status and future directions, Meteor. Atmos. Phys., vol. 82, 5-29
  • Cheng, W. Y., Cotton, W. R., 2003: Sensitivity of cloud-resolving simulation of a mesoscale convective system to soil moisture initialization, Mon. Wea. Rev. (in press)
  • Rozoff, C. M., Adegoke, J. O., Cotton, W. R., 2003: Simulation of St. Louis, MO land-use impacts on thunderstorms, J. App. Met., vol. 42, 716-738
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2003: Simulations of the North American monsoon system, part II: Potential vorticity transport and land-surface sensitivity, J. Climate (in prep)
  • Jiang, H., Cotton, W. R., 2003: Soil moisture estimation using artificial neural networks, Preprints, AMS Annual Meeting.February 9-13, 2003, Long Beach, CA
  • Jiang, H., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., 2002: A modeling study of entrainment of cloud condensation nuclei into the marine boundary layer during ASTEX, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 107, 4813
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2002: Examinations of linkages between the northwest Mexican monsoon and Great Plains precipitation: Characteristics of surge events and low to mid-level moisture transport into the U.S. Southwest and Rocky Mountains, AMS Mississippi River Hydrology Conference.May 13-17, 2002, New Orleans, LA
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Jiang, H., Kreidenweis, S. M., 2002: Large-eddy simulations of aerosol-cloud-chemistry interactions, AGU Fall Meeting.December 6-10, 2002, San Francisco, CA
  • Rutledge, S. A., Castro, C. L., Cotton, W. R., Liston, G. E., Petersen, W. A., Pielke, R. A., Sr., Saleeby, S. M., 2002: RAMS investigations of the North American monsoon, 5th VAMOS Panel Meeting.March 2002, San Jose, Costa Rica
  • Cheng, W. Y., Cotton, W. R., Saleeby, S. M., 2002: Sensitivity of a simulated mesoscale convective system to horizontal resolution of soil moisture initialization, AMS Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference.May 13-17, 2002, New Orleans, LA
  • Rozoff, C. M., Adegoke, J. O., Cotton, W. R., 2002: Simulated thunderstorms over St. Louis, MO, AMS 4th Symposium on the Urban Environment.May 20-24, 2002, Norfolk, VA
  • Castro, C. L., Beltran, A. B., Cheng, W. Y., Cotton, W. R., Marshall, C. H., Pielke, R. A., Sr., 2002: The incorporation of the Kain-Fritsch cumulus parameterization scheme in RAMS with a terrain-adjusted trigger function, 5th RAMS Users' Workshop.September 29-October 3, 2002, Santorini Island, Greece
  • Golaz, J.-C., Cotton, W. R., Jiang, H., 2001: A large-eddy simulation study of cumulus clouds over land and sensitivity to soil moisture, Atmos. Res., vol. 59, 373-392
  • Costa, A. A., Cotton, W. R., Pielke, R. A., Sr., Walko, R. L., 2001: Coupled ocean-cloud-resolving simulations of the air-sea interaction over the equatorial western Pacific, J. Atmos. Sci., vol. 58, 3357-3375
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2001: Examination of the linkages between the Northwest Mexican monsoon and Great Plains precipitation, GAPP PI Meeting.May 2001, Washington D.C.
  • Saleeby, S. M., Cotton, W. R., 2001: Examinations of linkages between the Northwest Mexican monsoon and Great Plains precipitation: Model configuration and performance for initial test simulations, AGU Fall Meeting.December 10-16, 2001, San Francisco, CA
  • Jiang, H., Cotton, W. R., Duynkerke, P. G., Feingold, G., 2001: Large-eddy simulations of entrainment of cloud condensation nuclei into the Arctic boundary layer: 18 May 1998 FIRE/SHEBA case study, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 106, 15113-15122
  • Cotton, W. R., Cheng, W. Y., Golaz, J.-C., 2001: Parameterization of cumulonimbus and MCSs, Mini-Workshop on Cumulus Parameterization Schemes Used in Large-Scale Models.December 3-5, 2001, Greenbelt, MD
  • Schuster, D. C., Cotton, W. R., Walko, R. L., 2001: Prototype real-time boundary layer prediction in support of the CASES-99 nocturnal boundary layer experiment, Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations (BACIMO) 2001 Conference.July 10-12, 2001, Fort Collins, CO
  • Costa, A. A., Cotton, W. R., Jiang, H., Pielke, R. A., Sr., Walko, R. L., 2001: SST sensitivities in multi-day TOGA-COARE cloud-resolving simulations, J. Atmos. Sci., vol. 58, 253-268
  • Larson, V. E., Cotton, W. R., Field, P. R., Golaz, J.-C., Vonder Haar, T. H., Wood, R., 2001: Small-scale and mesoscale variability of scalars in cloudy boundary layers: One-dimensional probability density functions, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 58, 1978-1994
  • Larson, V. E., Cotton, W. R., Field, P. R., Golaz, J.-C., Vonder Haar, T. H., Wood, R., 2001: Systematic biases in the microphysics and thermodynamics of numerical models that ignore subgrid-scale variability, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 58, 1117-1128
  • Schuster, D. C., Cotton, W. R., Walko, R. L., 2000: A prototype realtime boundary layer forecast model running on clusters of PCs, Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations (BACIMO) 2000 Conference.24-27 April 2000, Fort Collins, CO
  • Walko, R. L., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, B., Stevens, B., 2000: Efficient computation of vapor and heat diffusion between hydrometeors in a numerical model, Atmos. Res., vol. 53, 171-183
  • Larson, V. E., Cotton, W. R., Field, P. R., Golaz, J.-C., Vonder Haar, T. H., Wood, R., 2000: Jensen's inequality and systematic biases in numerical simulations, AMS 14th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence.August 2000, Snowmass, CO
  • Larson, V. E., Cotton, W. R., Field, P. R., Golaz, J.-C., Vonder Haar, T. H., Wood, R., 2000: Jensen's inequality and systematic biases in numerical simulations of the atmosphere, Preprints, International Conference on Scientific Computing and Mathematical Modeling.May 2000, Milwaukee, WI
  • Harrington, J. L., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Kreidenweis, S. M., 2000: Radiative impacts on the growth of a population of drops within simulated summertime arctic stratus, J. Atmos. Sci , vol. 57, 766-785
  • Costa, A. A., Cotton, W. R., Pielke, R. A., Sr., 1999: Barrier-layer/warm-layer simulation of the influence of clouds and precipitation at the tropical ocean mixed-layer, 13th Conference on Boundary Layers and Turbulence.10-15 January 1999, Dallas, TX
  • Costa, A. A., Cotton, W. R., Jiang, H., Pielke, R. A., Sr., 1999: Combined ocean-cloud resolving modeling of the western Pacific warm pool coupled system, 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology.10-15 January 1999, Dallas, TX
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Davis, J. T., Kreidenweis, S. M., 1999: Impact of giant cloud condensation nuclei on drizzle formation in marine stratocumulus: Implications for cloud radiative properties, J. Atmos. Sci. , vol. 56, 4100-4117
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Frisch, A. S., Stevens, B., 1999: On the relationship among cloud turbulence, droplet formation, and drizzle as viewed by Doppler radar, microwave radiometer and lidar, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 104, 22195-22203
  • Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Jiang, H., 1999: Preliminary Simulations of the 18 May 1998 Case, FIRE/SHEBA Workshop.January 1999,
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Frisch, A. S., Stevens, B., 1999: The stratocumulus-capped boundary layer as viewed by K-band radar, microwave radiometer and lidar, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 104, 22195-22203
  • Stevens, B., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., 1998: A critique of one and two-dimensional models of marine boundary layer clouds with detailed representations of droplet microphysics, J. Atmos. Res., vol. 47, 529-553
  • Kreidenweis, S. M., Cotton, W. R., Zhang, T. L., 1998: Cloud processing of aerosol and gases in a trajectory ensemble model, AMS Cloud Physics Conference.August 1998, Everett, WA
  • Olsson, P. Q., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Harrington, J. L., Kreidenweis, S. M., 1998: Exploratory cloud resolving simulations of boundary layer arctic stratus clouds, part I: Warm season clouds, J. Atmos. Res., vol. 47, 573-597
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Hardesty, R. M., Yang, S., 1998: Feasibility of retrieving cloud condensation nucleus properties from lidar, Doppler cloud radar, and microwave radiometer, AMS Cloud Physics Conference.August 1998, Everett, WA
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Kreidenweis, S. M., 1998: Impact of CCN on stratocumulus cloud microphysics and boundary layer dynamics, AMS Cloud Physics Conference.August 1998, Everett, WA
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Davis, J. T., Kreidenweis, S. M., 1998: Impact of giant cloud condensation nuclei on drizzle formation in marine stratocumulus, J. Atmos. Sci. (submitted)
  • Stevens, B., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Moeng, C. H., 1998: Large-eddy simulations of strongly precipitating, shallow, stratocumulus-topped boundary layers, J. Atmos. Sci., vol. 55, 3616-3638
  • Hertenstein, R. F., Cotton, W. R., McAnelly, R. L., Watts, R. D., 1998: Modeling heavy precipitation events in the Rio Puerco basin, Presented at the CIRA 5-year Formal Review.21-22 April 1998, Fort Collins, CO
  • Costa, A. A., Cotton, W. R., Jiang, J., Pielke, R. A., Sr., 1998: Modeling the interaction between the ocean mixed-layer and deep convection, CLIVAR/GEWEX COARE 98.07-14 July 1998, Boulder, CO
  • Harrington, J. L., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., 1998: Radiative impacts on growth of drops in an explicit microphysical modeling study of Arctic stratus, AMS Cloud Physics Conference.August 1998, Everett, WA
  • Wu, T., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Harrington, J. L., Reisin, T., 1998: Radiative impacts on the growth of a population of ice crystals in simulated cirrus clouds, AMS Cloud Physics Conference.August 1998, Everett, WA
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Hardesty, R. M., Yang, S., 1998: Retrieving cloud condensation nucleus properties from Doppler cloud radar, microwave radiometer, and lidar., J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech, vol. 15, 1189-1196
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Stevens, B., Walko, R. L., 1998: Simulations of marine stratocumulus using a new microphysical parameterization scheme, J. Atmos. Res., vol. 47, 505-528
  • Feingold, G., Boers, B., Cotton, W. R., Stevens, B., 1997: A modeling study of the effect of drizzle on cloud optical depth and susceptibility, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 102, 13527-13534
  • Harrington, J. L., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Kreidenweis, S. M., 1997: Cloud-resolving simulations of arctic stratus, 12th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence.July-August 1997, Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Harrington, J. L., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Kreidenweis, S. M., Olsson, P. Q., Reisin, T., 1997: Cloud-resolving simulations of arctic stratus, ARM Science Team Meeting.03-07 March 1997, San Antonio, TX
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Harrington, J. L., Stevens, B., 1997: Cloud-resolving simulations with bin-resolving microphysics, The Workshop on Cloud Microphysical Issues.November 1997, Isreal
  • Stevens, B., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., 1997: Drizzle decoupling and aerosol indirect effects in marine stratocumulus, 12th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence.July-August 1997, Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Frisch, A. S., Stevens, B., 1997: Drizzling stratocumulus as viewed by radar, radiometer and lidar, 12th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence.July 28-August 1, 1997, Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Harrington, J. L., Walko, R. L., Yang, S., 1997: Mesoscale numerical prediction of clouds and cloud effects, WMO Workshop on Measurements of Cloud Properties for Forecasts of Weather, Air Quality and Climate.23-27 June 1997, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Yang, S., Cotton, W. R., McAnelly, R. L., Xu, Q., 1996: A method of gradient-decent data assimilation, AMS 11th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction.19-23 August 1996, Norfolk, VA
  • Feingold, G., Boers, G. R., Cotton, W. R., Stevens, B., 1996: A modeling study of the effects of drizzle production on cloud optical depth, Preprints, 12th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation.August 1996, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Stevens, B., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Walko, R. L., 1996: A note on the spurious production of cloud edge supersaturations by Eulerian models, Mon. Wea. Rev., vol. 124, 1034-1041
  • Kreidenweis, S. M., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Stevens, B., 1996: Cloud-processing of aerosol in the stratocumulus-capped marine boundary layer, Preprints, 12th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation.August 19-23, 1996, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Olsson, P. Q., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Harrington, J. L., Kreidenweis, S. M., 1996: Cloud-resolving simulations of warm season arctic stratus clouds, Preprints, 12th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation.August 1996, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Stevens, B., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., 1996: Equilibrium states in drizzling vs. non-drizzling stratocumulus, Preprints, 12th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation.August 1996, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Harrington, J. L., Kreidenweis, S. M., Olsson, P. Q., Reisin, T., 1996: Exploratory cloud-resolving simulations of cold-season arctic stratus clouds, 12th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation.August 1996, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Arritt, R. W., Cotton, W. R., Dalu, G. A., Flatau, P. J., Heymsfield, A. H., Stephens, G. L., 1996: Mixed layer model of cirrus cloud: Growth and dissipation mechanism, 1st International TOVS Study Conference: Intercomparison of Satellite Derived Temperature Profiles.,
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Kreidenweis, S. M., Stevens, B., 1996: Numerical simulation of stratocumulus processing of cloud condensations nuclei through collision-coalescence, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 101, 21319-21402
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W. R., Frisch, A. S., Stevens, B., 1996: On the relationship between drop in-cloud resistance time and drizzle production in numerically simulated stratocumulus clouds, J. Atmos. Sci., vol. 53, 1108-1122
  • Jensen, T. L., Clarke, J. C., Cotton, W. R., Gaudet, B. J., Walko, R. L., 1996: Prediction of ceilings and visibility using a regional scale forecasting model, AMS 11th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting.19-23 August 1996, Norfolk, VA
  • Yang, S., Cotton, W. R., 1996: Universal approximation formulas of curvature correction and equilibrium of hygroscopic particles, J. Appl. Meteor, vol. 35, 2261-2269
  • Richardson, W., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Kreidenweis, S. M., Stevens, B., 1995: Aerosol processing in two-dimensional hill-top cloud using solute following microphysics: Eulerian and Lagrangian type models, American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR).October 1995, Pittsburgh
  • Cotton, W. R., Bietler, B. A., Weaver, J. F., 1995: An unusual summertime downslope wind event in Fort Collins, Colorado on 03 July 1993, J. Weather & Forecasting, vol. 10, 786-797
  • Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Harrington, J. L., Kreidenweis, S. M., Olsson, P. Q., Wiessbluth, M. J., 1995: Challenges to modeling arctic stratus clouds, ETL/CSU Cloud-Related Process Modeling and Measurement Workshop.October 23-25, 1995, Boulder, CO
  • Yang, S., Cotton, W. R., McAnelly, R. L., Xu, Q., 1995: Extending the TREC technique to a spatially filtered variational method, Preprints, 27th Conf. on Radar Meteor..9-13 October 1995, Vail, CO
  • Stevens, B., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., Walko, R. L., 1995: On elements of the microphysical structure of numerically simulated non-precipitating stratocumulus, J. Atmos. Sci., vol. 53, 980-1106
  • Stevens, B., Cotton, W. R., Feingold, G., 1995: The microphysical characteristics of convection in marine stratocumulus, Conference on Cloud Physics, 75th American Meteorological Society Meeting., Dallas, TX
  • Walko, R. L., Cotton, W. R., Pielke, R. A., Sr., Tremback, C. J., 1994: Improvements to an existing two-way interactive grid nesting scheme, AMS 6th Conf. on Mesoscale Processes.18-22 July 1994, Portland, OR
  • Cotton, W. R., Beitler, B. A., Clarke, J. C., 1994: Mesoscale forecasting on workstations, Proceedings, International Symposium on the Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones.27 June - 1 July 1994, Bergen, Norway
  • Beitler, B. A., Clarke, J. C., Cotton, W. R., 1994: Simulation of the 3 July Colorado downslope windstorm, Preprints, 10th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction.17-22 July 1994, Portland, OR
  • Tremback, C. J., Cotton, W. R., Walko, R. L., 1994: The parallelization of an atmospheric simulation model, 10th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing System (IPPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology.23-28 January 1994, Nashville, TN
  • Flatau, P. J., Cotton, W. R., Dalu, G. A., Heymsfield, A. H., Stephens, G. L., 1989: Mixed layer model of cirrus cloud: Growth and dissipation mechanism, Symposium on the Role of the Clouds in Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Climate.,
  • Cotton, W.: EXAMINATION OF LINKAGES BETWEEN THE NORTHWEST MEXICAN MONSOON AND GREAT PLAINS PRECIPITATION
  • Feingold, G., Cotton, W.: FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES OF AEROSOL/BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUD INTERACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT OF PARAMETERIZATIONS INCLUDING THOSE PROCESSES
  • Cotton, W.: MESOSCALE NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF CEILING, VISIBILITY AND TURBULENCE
  • Cotton, W., McKee, T., Ramirez, J.: PRECIPITATION AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN THE RIO PUERCO BASIN
  • Cotton, W.: SENSITIVITY OF CLOUD RESOLVING SIMULATIONS OF CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION AND CLOUDINESS TO VARIOUS METHODS OF SOIL INITIALIZATION AND EVALUATION OF CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATIONS
  • Cotton, W. R.: SENSITIVITY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MONSOON TO SOIL MOISTURE AND VEGETATION AND ITS TELECOMMUNICATION MECHANISMS INTO THE U.S.: A MODELING AND OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
  • Cotton, W., Pielke, R. A., Sr., Walko, R.: SIMULATIONS OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN DEEP CONVECTION AND THE OCEAN MIXED LAYER DURING TOGA COARE
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