Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Synoptic‐scale and mesoscale controls for tornadogenesis on cold fronts: A tornadic cold front in amplifying northwesterly flow354
Impacts of the QBO and ENSO on upper‐tropospheric Rossby‐wave activity associated with the North Atlantic and Mediterranean storm tracks210
Exploiting the full potential of Doppler lidars: High‐resolution wind‐gust profiling in significant weather98
Orographic gravity‐wave drag over multiple bell‐shaped mountains73
Evaluating atmospheric electricity changes as an indicator of fog formation72
Mesoscale evaluation of AMPS using AWARE radar observations of a wind and precipitation event over the Ross Island region of Antarctica41
Aeolus Rayleigh‐channel winds in cloudy conditions38
The interpretation and implications of the Knutsonet al. 2020 projections of changes in the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones under climate change37
Combined effects of soil moisture and microphysical perturbations on convective clouds and precipitation for a locally forced case over Central Europe37
On the relay propagation of deep convection leading to a heavy rainfall event in a weak‐wind urban environment35
Sensitive areas for target observation associated with meteorological forecasts for dust storm events in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region35
Rain in convective downdraughts34
A consistent treatment of mixed‐phase saturation for atmospheric thermodynamics33
Impact of HY‐2B SMR radiance assimilation on CMA global medium‐range weather forecasts31
Generation of state‐dependent ensemble perturbations based on time‐varying seawater density for GloSea5 initialization30
Insights from very‐large‐ensemble data assimilation experiments with a high‐resolution general circulation model of the Red Sea29
Effects of Observation‐Operator Nonlinearity on the Assimilation of Visible and Infrared Radiances in Ensemble Data Assimilation27
The effect of stochastically perturbed parametrisation tendencies (SPPT) on rapidly ascending air streams27
Impact of ensemble‐based hybrid background‐error covariances in ECMWF's next‐generation ocean reanalysis system26
Including observation error correlation for ensemble radar radial wind assimilation and its impact on heavy rainfall prediction25
Multivariate post‐processing of probabilistic sub‐seasonal weather regime forecasts24
Frontal effects on the rapid formation of a deep layer of marine fog and cloud in the NW Atlantic24
Extension of all‐sky radiance assimilation to hyperspectral infrared sounders24
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Waves and coherent flows in the tropical atmosphere: New opportunities, old challenges23
Role of cloud microphysics and energetics in regulating different phases of the monsoon low‐pressure systems over the Indian region23
NWP calibration applied to Aeolus Mie channel winds22
State, global, and local parameter estimation using local ensemble Kalman filters: Applications to online machine learning of chaotic dynamics21
Local identification of equatorial Kelvin waves in real‐time operational forecasts21
Changes of tropical gravity waves and the quasi‐biennial oscillation in storm‐resolving simulations of idealized global warming21
Air–sea feedback in the northeastern tropical Atlantic in boreal summer at intraseasonal time‐scales21
Spatial and temporal characteristics of extreme rainfall: Added benefits with sub‐kilometre‐resolution climate model simulations?18
Impacts of assimilating polarimetric radar KDP observations with an ensemble Kalman filter on analyses and predictions of a rainstorm associated with Typhoon Hato<18
Drivers of the ECMWF SEAS5 seasonal forecast for the hot and dry European summer of 202218
Impact of sea spray‐mediated heat fluxes on polar low development17
Improving forecasts of precipitation extremes over northern and central Italy using machine learning17
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Phase dependence of growth mechanisms in the daily energetics of the North Atlantic Oscillation15
Tropospheric amplification of stratosphere–troposphere coupling15
Modelling extreme precipitation over the Dinaric Alps: An evaluation of the CNRM‐ALADIN regional climate model15
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A two‐fluid single‐column model of turbulent shallow convection. Part II: Single‐column model formulation and numerics15
A new approach to represent model uncertainty in the forecasting of tropical cyclones: The orthogonal nonlinear forcing singular vectors14
Stability mechanisms and air temperature advection on the marine atmospheric boundary layer modulation at the southwestern Atlantic Ocean14
Accounting for the three‐dimensional nature of mountain waves: Parametrising partial critical‐level filtering14
Effect of increased ocean resolution on model errors in El Niño–Southern Oscillation and its teleconnections14
Diurnal variations of the meridional overturning circulations over West Africa during the premonsoon and monsoon seasons14
Dynamic channel selection based on vertical sensitivities for the assimilation of FY‐4A geostationary interferometric infrared sounder targeted observations13
The role of midlatitude dry air during the withdrawal of the Indian summer monsoon13
Entrainment and detrainment statistics of a stationary shallow cumulus cloud13
Sensitivity of snowfall forecast over North China to ice crystal deposition/sublimation parameterizations in the WSM6 cloud microphysics scheme13
Flower trade‐wind clouds are shallow mesoscale convective systems13
The frictional layer in the observed momentum budget of the trades13
Long‐term single‐column model intercomparison of diurnal cycle of precipitation over midlatitude and tropical land13
Calibration of subseasonal sea‐ice forecasts using ensemble model output statistics and observational uncertainty13
Coupled atmosphere–ocean observations of a cold‐air outbreak and its impact on the Iceland Sea13
A solution to the trilemma of the moist Charney–Phillips staggering13
Comparing the atmospheric and ocean characteristics associated with two distinctly intensified pre‐monsoon tropical cyclones over the Bay of Bengal13
Improving global temperature datasets to better account for non‐uniform warming12
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Supervised machine learning to estimate instabilities in chaotic systems: Estimation of local Lyapunov exponents12
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Development of an offline and online hybrid model for the Integrated Forecasting System12
Reviewing and clarifying the derivation of the hydrostatic primitive equations12
Signal‐to‐noise and predictable modes of variability in winter seasonal forecasts12
Examination of all‐sky infrared radiance simulation of Himawari‐8 for global data assimilation and model verification11
A gridded 30‐year days of thunder climatology for the United Kingdom11
Tropical cyclone life cycle in a three‐dimensional numerical simulation11
Coupled data assimilation at ECMWF: current status, challenges and future developments11
Using interpretable gradient‐boosted decision‐tree ensembles to uncover novel dynamical relationships governing monsoon low‐pressure systems11
Spectral scaling of unstably stratified atmospheric flows: Turbulence anisotropy and the low‐frequency spread11
Persistent mixed‐phase states in adiabatic cloud parcels under idealised conditions11
An analytical model for daily‐periodic slope winds. Part 2: Solutions11
The role of collision and coalescence on the microphysics of marine fog11
Influencing factors associated with the second dominant pattern of the Indian summer monsoon11
Formation of fog due to stratus lowering: An observational and modelling case study10
Numerical entropy conservation without sacrificing Charney–Phillips grid optimal wave propagation10
Dry and moist atmospheric circulation with uniform sea‐surface temperature10
Role of land‐surface vegetation in the march of Indian monsoon onset isochrones in a coupled model10
A moist‐thermal quasi‐geostrophic model for monsoon depressions10
Impact of assimilation of microwave imager radiance data on simulation of tropical cyclones over the Bay of Bengal using the NCUM‐R modelling system10
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Aerosol–cloud–precipitation interactions during a Saharan dust event – A summertime case‐study from the Alps10
Flow‐ and scale‐dependent spatial predictability of convective precipitation combining different model uncertainty representations10
A composite study of extratropical cyclones accompanied by split fronts in the Northwestern Pacific10
Carbon dioxide and evapotranspiration fluxes in an urban area of Krakow, Poland10
On the corners of the cubed‐sphere grid10
Factors influencing subseasonal predictability of northern Eurasian cold spells9
Assessing the impact of a NWP warm‐start system on model spin‐up over tropical Africa9
Determining precipitable water vapour from upper‐air temperature, pressure and geopotential height9
The equatorial wave skeleton of the Madden–Julian Oscillation9
Sensitivity of simulated rain intensity and kinetic energy to aerosols and warm‐rain microphysics during the extreme event of July 2021 in Belgium9
Processes associated with extremely heavy precipitation in the Meghalaya Plateau region: A case modelling study9
What do large‐scale patterns teach us about extreme precipitation over the Mediterranean at medium‐ and extended‐range forecasts?9
The use of 100 m scale NWP models to understand differences between different measures of mixing height in a morning growing clear convective boundary layer over London9
Warm conveyor belts as amplifiers of forecast uncertainty9
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The characteristic and seasonal variation of mesoscale convective systems' precipitation overNorth China9
Investigation of the thermal structure in the atmospheric boundary layer during evening transition and the impact of aerosols on radiative cooling9
The impact of surface heterogeneity on the diurnal cycle of deep convection9
Impact of the Madden–Julian Oscillation on extreme precipitation over the western Maritime Continent and Southeast Asia9
Observations and modelling of the winter thunderstorm on 4 February 2022 at the Milešovka meteorological observatory9
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Influence of a local diabatic heating source on the midlatitude circulation9
The set‐up and evaluation of fine‐scale data assimilation for the urban climate of Amsterdam8
Soil moisture–precipitation feedbacks in pre‐ and post‐monsoon landfalling tropical cyclones in Bay of Bengal8
Assessing the simulation of snowfall at Dumont d'Urville, Antarctica, during the YOPP‐SH special observing campaign8
The inner life of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone8
Signal‐to‐noise errors in early winter Euro‐Atlantic predictions linked to weak ENSO teleconnections and pervasive jet biases8
Quantifying the related precipitation and moisture sources in the lifecycle of subtropical cyclones in the South Atlantic basin8
Predictors and prediction skill for marine cold‐air outbreaks over the Barents Sea8
Quantitative description and characteristics of submeso motion and turbulence intermittency8
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Classifying precipitation from GEO satellite observations: Diagnostic model8
More accuracy with less precision8
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Representing the effects of building height variability on urban canopy flow8
Formation of maritime convergence zones within cold air outbreaks due to the shape of the coastline or sea ice edge8
Relative economic value of global ensemble prediction system of NCMRWF, India, for extreme weather events8
Utility of thermal remote sensing for evaluation of a high‐resolution weather model in a city7
An incremental analysis update in the framework of the four‐dimensional variational data assimilation: Description and preliminary tests in the operational China Meteorological A7
Direct assimilation of AVHRR satellite radiance measurements in a reanalysis system7
Characteristics of the low‐level jets observed over Dunkerque (North Sea French coast) using 4 years of wind lidar data7
Machine learning and dynamics based error‐index method for the detection of monsoon onset vortex over the Arabian Sea: Climatology and composite structures7
Explaining heatwaves with machine learning7
Can lightning indicate genesis frequency of tropical cyclones over the South China Sea?7
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Improving the short‐range forecast of storm surges in the southwestern Atlantic continental shelf using 4DEnSRF data assimilation7
Enhanced prediction of premonsoon thunderstorms over eastern India through assimilation of INSAT‐3D sounding data7
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Teleconnections of the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation in a multi‐model ensemble of QBO‐resolving models7
Implementation of a double moment cloud microphysics scheme in the UK met office regional numerical weather prediction model7
Nonlinear diffusion‐limited two‐dimensional colliding‐plume simulations with very high‐order numerical approximations7
Large‐eddy simulations of drizzling shallow cumuli using a turbulence‐aware autoconversion parametrization7
Comparison of uncertainty quantification methods for cloud simulation7
Assessment for operational assimilation of horizontal line of sight winds from the European Space Agency's Aeolus at the Met Office7
Unique moisture transport under abnormal circulations for producing the extreme rainstorm over Beijing on July 31, 20237
An adaptive nonhydrostatic dynamical core using a multimoment finite‐volume method on a cubed sphere7
Quality control and bias adjustment of crowdsourced wind speed observations7
The life cycle of the heatwave boundary layer identified from commercial aircraft observations at Melbourne Airport (Australia)7
Spatial and temporal structure of the fog life cycle over Atlantic Canada and the Grand Banks7
Skill of the extended range prediction (NERP) for Indian summer monsoon rainfall with NCMRWF global coupled modelling system7
Exploring the structure of time‐correlated model errors in the ECMWF data assimilation system7
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Reducing the spin‐up of a regional NWP system without data assimilation7
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Analyzing future marine cold spells in the tropical Indian Ocean: Insights from a regional Earth system model6
Forced trends and internal variability in climate change projections of extreme European windstorm frequency and severity6
Idealized study of representing spatial and temporal variations in the error contribution of surface emissivity for assimilating surface‐sensitive microwave radiance observations over land6
Assessing the role of boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation on the severe heatwave of May 2015 over India6
Decomposing the role of dry intrusions for ocean evaporation during mistral6
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Convergence of forecast distributions in a 100,000‐member idealised convective‐scale ensemble6
Predictability of moisture flux anomalies indicating central European extreme precipitation events6
Impact of Aeolus wind lidar observations on the representation of the West African monsoon circulation in the ECMWF and DWD forecasting systems6
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On the genesis and dynamics of Madden–Julian oscillation‐like structure formed by equatorial adjustment of localized heating6
Extra predictability from a seamless approach for Asian summer monsoon precipitation from days to weeks6
Assimilating atmospheric motion vector winds using a feature track correction observation operator6
On methods for assessment of the value of observations in convection‐permitting data assimilation and numerical weather forecasting6
Irrigation impact on boundary layer and precipitation characteristics in Weather Research and Forecasting model simulations during LIAISE‐20216
A variational Bayesian approach for ensemble filtering of stochastically parametrized systems6
An initialisation scheme for tropical cyclones in the South China Sea6
Northern Hemisphere extratropical cyclone biases in ECMWF subseasonal forecasts6
Illustration of an object‐based approach to identify structural differences in tropical cyclone wind fields6
Investigation of the trigger perturbation for a simulated case of arctic oscillation transition using initial‐condition perturbation denial experiments6
Relative contributions of local heat storage and ocean heat transport to cold‐season Arctic Ocean surface energy fluxes in CMIP6 models6
Non‐Gaussian variational data assimilation with reverse‐lognormal errors6
Landfalling tropical cyclone characteristics and their multi‐timescale variability connected to monsoon and easterly formation environments over the western North Pacific6
Potential‐temperature variance budget in a saturated coastal‐fog environment6
Forecast verification: Relating deterministic and probabilistic metrics6
Beyond probabilities: A possibilistic framework to interpret ensemble predictions and fuse imperfect sources of information6
Data assimilation for nonlinear systems with a hybrid nonlinear Kalman ensemble transform filter6
The characterization and impact of Aeolus wind profile observations in NOAA's regional tropical cyclone model (HWRF)6
Microphysical mechanisms of wintertime postfrontal precipitation enhancement over the Australian Snowy Mountains6
Comments on ‘Theoretical aspects of the size distribution of fog particles’6
Ensemble‐based estimates of the impact of potential observations6
C‐POOL: A scheme for modelling convective cold pools in the Met Office Unified Model6
A station‐based evaluation of near‐surface south foehn evolution in COSMO‐15
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The capability of 20th‐century reanalyses to reproduce the spatiotemporal variation in surface incident solar radiation over Japan for 1931–20105
On the thermodynamic invariance of fine‐grain and coarse‐grain fluid models5
A scoring framework for tiered warnings and multicategorical forecasts based on fixed risk measures5
Using machine learning to correct model error in data assimilation and forecast applications5
On the intensification of typhoon Damrey with the monsoon gyre5
A high‐resolution climatological study of explosive cyclones in the Mediterranean region: Frequency, intensity and synoptic drivers5
Misalignment between the propagation direction of the bora wind and its pulsations5
Joint estimation of sea ice and atmospheric state from microwave imagers in operational weather forecasting5
The impact of aerosols and model grid spacing on a supercell storm from Swabian MOSES 20215
Assessing the current and future Arctic Ocean observing system with observing system simulating experiments5
A balanced model of a hurricane vortex coupled to a boundary layer5
A case study analysis of the impact of a new free tropospheric turbulence scheme on the dispersion of an atmospheric tracer5
Satellite signature of the instantaneous wind response to mesoscale oceanic thermal structures5
The role of in situ ocean data assimilation in ECMWF subseasonal forecasts of sea‐surface temperature and mixed‐layer depth over the tropical Pacific ocean5
Impact of ocean data assimilation on the sub‐polar North Atlantic in MPI‐ESM5
An assessment of Arctic diurnal water‐vapour cycles in Canada's weather forecast model and ERA55
Antarctic data impact experiments with Polar WRF during the YOPP‐SH summer special observing period5
Latent space data assimilation by using deep learning5
Identifying and characterising trapped lee waves using deep learning techniques5
The relationship between precipitation and its spatial pattern in the trades observed during EUREC4A5
A conditional decomposition of proper scores: quantifying the sources of information in a forecast5
Can a climate model successfully diagnose clear‐air turbulence and its response to climate change?5
Studies of relative contributions of internal gravity waves and 2‐D turbulence to tropospheric and lower‐stratospheric temporal wind spectra measured by a network of VHF windprof5
Towards a new generation of artificial‐intelligence‐based infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer retrievals of surface temperature: Part I – Methodology5
Tropical tropospheric warming pattern explained by shifts in convective heating in the Matsuno–Gill model5
Physics–dynamics–chemistry coupling across different meshes in LFRic‐Atmosphere: Formulation and idealised tests5
Changes in extreme precipitation in Taiwan's Mei‐yu season5
Large model biases in the Pacific centre of the Northern Annular Mode due to exaggerated variability of the Aleutian Low5
Compositions of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes of precipitation in Xiamen, southeast China coast: Seasonal variations, synoptic processes, and typhoons impact5
Parametrizing the mesoscale enhancement of oceanic surface turbulent fluxes: A physical–statistical approach5
How inaccurate offshore wind observations impact the quality of operational numerical weather prediction5
A microwave temperature sounder (MWTS)–microwave humidity sounder fusion cloud detection method for land data from the FengYun‐3D MWTS and its impact on error estimation5
On the indices of the normal modes of Laplace's tidal equations for zonal wavenumber zero5
Resolution dependence of the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer in global storm‐resolving climate simulations5
Understanding the relationship of storm‐ to large‐scale environment in the monsoon trough region: results inferred from long‐term radar and reanalysis datasets5
Thermodynamically consistent versions of approximations used in modelling moist air5
Dynamical propagation and growth mechanisms for convectively coupled equatorial Kelvin waves over the Indian Ocean5
Seasonal prediction of UK mean and extreme winds4
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Impact of assimilating Aeolus observations in the global model ICON: A global statistical overview4
Observation impact metrics in NWP: A theoretical study. Part I: Optimal systems4
Influence of horizontal resolution and complexity of aerosol–cloud interactions on marine stratocumulus and stratocumulus‐to‐cumulus transition in HadGEM3‐GC3.14
Spatial variability of forward modelled attenuated backscatter in clear‐sky conditions over a megacity: Implications for observation network design4
Sensitivity of low‐tropospheric Arctic temperatures to assimilation of AIRS cloud‐cleared radiances: Impact on midlatitude waves4
Strong temperature falls as a cold frontal metric in Australian station observations, reanalyses and climate models4
Machine learning based post‐processing of model‐derived near‐surface air temperature – A multimodel approach4
Quasi‐biennial oscillation impacts on Madden–Julianoscillation‐associatedtropical–extratropical interactions and Kelvin waves4
Identification of the atmospheric water sources and pathways responsible for the East Asian summer monsoon rainfall4
Quantifying the mixing of trade‐wind cumulus during the NEPHELAE‐EUREC4A field campaign with remotely piloted aircraft4
An economical assimilation scheme for radar reflectivity in non‐convective region to suppress spurious precipitation4
Genesis of severe cyclonic storm Mora in the presence of tropical waves over the North Indian Ocean4
Irrigation contrasts through the morning transition4
Impact of assimilating lidar water vapour and temperature profiles with a hybrid ensemble transform Kalman filter: Three‐dimensional variational analysis on the convection‐permitting scale4
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Flow dependence of forecast uncertainty in a large convection‐permitting ensemble4
Elucidating the causes of errors in 2.2 km Met Office Unified Model simulations of a convective case over the US Great Plains4
Comparison of multivariate post‐processing methods using global ECMWF ensemble forecasts4
Dynamics of diabatically forced anticyclonic plumes in the stratosphere4
Sampling and misspecification errors in the estimation of observation‐error covariance matrices using observation‐minus‐background and observation‐minus‐analysis statistics4
The changing characteristics of rainfall over the Brahmaputra Basin during 1998–20184
Is a more physical representation of aerosol chemistry needed for fog forecasting?4
Seasonal and regional variation in drop size distributions for different types of rain over northeastern and eastern parts of India4
Northward propagation of convection over the Indian region in multiphysics multimodel ensemble4
Benefit of assimilating satellite all‐sky infrared radiances on the cloud and precipitation prediction of a long‐lasting mesoscale convective system over the Tibetan plateau4
The hectometric modelling challenge: Gaps in the current state of the art and ways forward towards the implementation of 100‐m scale weather and climate models4
Influence of trends on subseasonal temperature prediction skill4
The horizontal and vertical controls on the thermal structure of the tropical troposphere4
Sources of predictability of synoptic‐scale rainfall during the West African summer monsoon4
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