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Assistant Professor Era

J. A. Biello, M. R. Igel, and D. H. Marsico (Pending): Upscale momentum fluxes due to the Coriolis force acting on Poloidal flows.  To be submitted to GRL.

Marsico, D. H., J. A Biello, and M. R. Igel (Submitted): The Weak Temperature Gradient on Convective Scales. Part II: Radiation, Drag, and the Non-Traditional Coriolis Force Terms. Under review at GAFD.

Marsico, D. H., J. A Biello, and M. R. Igel (2023): The Weak Temperature Gradient on Convective Scales. Part I: A Framework for Assessing Radiation, the Coriolis Force, and Drag. Accepted at JAS.

Igel, M. R., P. A Ullrich, and W. R. Boos (2021): Upper-tropospheric troughs and North American monsoon rainfall in a long-term track dataset.  Journal of Geophysical Research. DOI: 10.1029/2021JD034541  IUB

Igel, M. R. and J. A. Biello (2020): The Non-Traditional Coriolis Terms and Tropical Convective Clouds.  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.   77, 3985–3998. DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-20-0024.1 IB2

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Igel, M. R. and J. A. Biello:  A Reconstructed Total Tropical Precipitation Framework (2019). npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. (2) 32. DOI: 10.1038/s41612-019-0090-8. IB

Rydbeck, A. V. T. G. Jensen, and M. R. Igel (2019): Idealized Modeling of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Response in the Western Indian Ocean to Downwelling Equatorial Rossby Waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 76, 2023-2042, DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-18-0303.1. RJI

Falk, N. M., A. L. Igel and M. R. Igel (2019): The Relative Impact of Ice Fall Speeds and Microphysics Parameterization Complexity on Supercell Evolution. Monthly Weather Review. 147, 2403-2415, doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-18-0417.1 FII

Igel, M. R. (2018): Lagrangian Cloud Tracking and the Precipitation-Column Humidity Relationship.  Atmosphere. 9, 289, doi: 10.3390/atmos9080289 Igel

Igel, M. R. and A. L. Igel (2018): The Energetics and Magnitude of Hydrometeor Friction in Clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 75, 1343-1350. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0285.1 II

Postdoc Era

Igel, M. R., S. Herbener, and S. Saleeby (2017): The Tropical Precipitation Pickup Threshold and Clouds in a Radiative Convective Equilibrium Model.  Part I: Column Moisture. Journal of Geophysical Research. 122, 6453-6468. doi:10.1002/2016JD025907 IHS

Igel, M. R. (2017): The Tropical Precipitation Pickup Threshold and Clouds in a Radiative Convective Equilibrium Model.  Part II: Two-Layer Moisture. Journal of Geophysical Research. 122,6469-6487. doi:10.1002/2016JD025908 Igel

Bourgeois, Q., A.M.L. Ekman, M. R. Igel, and R. Krejci (2016): Ubiquity and impact of Thin Mid-Level Clouds in the tropics. Nature Communications. 7, doi:10.1038/ncomms12432. BEIK

PhD Era

Igel, M. R., and S. C. van den Heever (2015):  Deep-Convective Morphology as Observed from CloudSat.  Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussion. 15, 15977-16017, doi: 10.5194/acpd-15-15977-2015. IH

King, J. M., C. D. Kummerow, S. C. van den Heever, M. R. Igel (2015): Modeled and observed warm rainfall occurrence and its relationships with cloud macrophysical properties.  Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 72, 4075-4090. JKHI

Igel, M. R., and S. C. van den Heever (2015): The Relative Influence of Environmental Characteristics on Deep Convective Morphology as Observed by CloudSat.  Journal of Geophysical Research. 120, doi: 10.1002/2014JDO22690. IH

Igel, A. L., M. R. Igel, and S. C. van den Heever (2015): Make it a Double? Sobering Results from Simulations using Single-Moment Microphysics Schemes.  Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 72, 910-925, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0107.1. IIH

Igel, M. R., A. J. Drager, and S. C. van den Heever (2014):  A CloudSat Cloud-Object Partitioning Technique and Assessment and Integration of Deep Convective Anvil Sensitivities to Sea Surface Temperature.  Journal of Geophysical Research. 119, 10-515-10,535, doi: 10.1002/2014JD021717. IDH

Igel, M. R., S. C. van den Heever, G. L. Stephens, and D. J. Posselt (2014): Convective-Scale Responses of a Large-Domain Modeled, Tropical Atmosphere to Surface Warming.  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 140, DOI:10.1002/qj.2230. (Riehl Award) IHSP

Posselt, D. J., S. van den Heever, G. Stephens, and M. R. Igel (2012): Changes in the interactions between tropical convection, radiation and the large scale circulation in a warming environment.  Journal of Climate, 25, doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI4167.1. PHSI