Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles


Submitted/In Press
  • Savazzi, A. C. M., L. Nuijens, W. de Rooy, and A. P. Siebesma (Submitted to Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems): The influence of shallow convection on trade-wind clouds and circulations in a mesoscale model.
  • De Roode, S. R., Jansson, F., Mak, L. and L. Nuijens (Submitted to Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems): Countergradient momentum transport in turbulent atmospheric boundary layers. DOI: 10.22541/essoar.172191616.61101761/v1

    • 2023/2024
  • 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. White-paper from the Lorentz-Center Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, Sept 2023.
  • 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, link

    • 2022
  • Dias Neto, J. (2022): The Tracing Convective Momentum Transport in Complex Cloudy Atmospheres Experiment – Level 1, Zenodo [data set], link 
  • Dias Neto, J. (2022): The Tracing Convective Momentum Transport in Complex Cloudy Atmospheres Experiment – Level 2, Zenodo [data set], link,
  • 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.link
  • 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. [link]
  • 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 [link]

    • 2021
  • 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. [link]
  • 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. [link]
  • Stevens, B. and coauthors (2021): EUREC4A. Earth System Science Data [link]
  • 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. [link]
  • 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. [link]

    • 2020
  • Sandu, I., Bechtold P., Nuijens, L., Beljaars, A. and Brown, A. (2020) What controls the systematic forecast biases in near-surface wind direction over the oceans? (ECMWF Technical Memo no 866 ) [link]
  • 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. [link]
  • 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, [link]
  • 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. [link]

    • 2019
  • 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 [link]

    • 2018
  • 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. [link]

    • 2017
  • 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. [link]
  • 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. [link]

    • 2016
  • 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. [link]

    • 2015
  • 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. [link]
  • 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. [link]
  • 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[link]
  • 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 [link]
  • 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. [link]
  • 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. [link]
  • 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. [link]
  • 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. [link]

    • 2007-2015
  • 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. [link]
  • 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. [link]
  • 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. [link]
  • Nuijens L. & B. Stevens (2012): The influence of wind speed on shallow marine cumulus convection. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 69:1, pp 168–184. [link]
  • Nuijens, L. & B. Stevens (2012): The Influence of Wind Speed on Shallow Marine Cumulus Convection, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences , 69(1), 168-184. [link]
  • 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. [link]
  • 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. [link]
  • 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. DOI: 10.1002/qj.684
  • 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. [link]
  • Nuijens, L., B. Stevens and A.P. Siebesma (2009): The environment of precipitating shallow cumulus convection. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 66, pp 1962-1979. [link]
  • 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. DOI: 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