CLOUD MICROPHYSICS GROUP
Professor Sonia Lasher-Trapp
Purdue University Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
 

 

 

Local Weather

 

 

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
550 Stadium Mall Drive
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765.494.3258
Fax: 765.496.1210

 

 

 

 

Publications

Barth, M., and coauthors 2006: Coupling Between Land Ecosysytems and the Atmospheric Hydrologic Cycle Through Biogenic Aerosol Pathways. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86, 1738-1742.

Blyth, A. M., S.G. Lasher-Trapp W.A. Cooper, C.A. Knight and J. Latham, 2002: The Role of Giant and Ultra-giant Aerosols in the Initiation of Rain in Warm Clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 2557-2572.

Blyth, A. M., S. G. Lasher-Trapp and W. A. Cooper, 2004: A Study of Thermals in Cumulus Clouds. Quart. J. Roy. Metor. Soc., 131, 1171-1190.

Doswell, C.A. III, and S. G. Lasher-Trapp, 1997: Measuring the Degree of Irregularity in Observation Networks. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 14, 120-132.

Knight , C.A., J. Vivekanandan and S. Lasher-Trapp, 2002: First Radar Echoes and Early ZDR History of Florida Cumulus. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1454-1472.

Lasher-Trapp, S., C.A. Knight and J. M. Straka: Early Radar Echoes form Ultragiant Aerosol in a Cumulus Congestus: Modeling and Observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 3545-3562.

Lasher-Trapp, S. G., W.A. Cooper and A.M. Blyth, 2002: Measurements of Ultragiant Aerosol Particles in the Atmosphere from the Small Cumulus Microphysics Study. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 19, 402-408.

Lasher-Trapp, Sonia G., William A Cooper and Alan M. Blyth, 2005: Broadening of droplet size distributions from entrainment and mixing in a cumulus cloud, Quart. J. Roy, Metor. Soc., 131, 195-220.

Lasher-Trapp, S., and J. Stachnik, 2007: Giant and ultragiant aerosol particle variability over the Eastern Great Lakes region .  J. Appl. Meteor. and Climatol., 46, 651-659.

Song, Y., J. Ye, N. Svakhine, S. Lasher-Trapp, M. Baldwin and D. S. Ebert, 2006:  An atmospheric visual analysis and exploration system.  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12, 1157-1164.