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Stephen Nesbitt

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Contact Information

Natural History Building 3074
1301 W Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801

Professor

Education

Meteorology, PhD, University of Utah
Meteorology, MS, Texas A&M University
Meteorology, BS with Honors, State University of New York College at Oswego

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Head, Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

Recent Publications

Berman, M. T., Trapp, R. J., Nesbitt, S. W., & Di Girolamo, L. (2024). The Observed Impact of the Lower Stratospheric Thermodynamic Environment on Overshooting Top Characteristics During the RELAMPAGO-CACTI Field Campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(10), Article e2023JD040348. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040348

De Vera, M. V., Di Girolamo, L., Zhao, G., Rauber, R. M., Nesbitt, S. W., & Mcfarquhar, G. M. (2024). Observations of the macrophysical properties of cumulus cloud fields over the tropical western Pacific and their connection to meteorological variables. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24(9), 5603-5623. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5603-2024

King, F., Pettersen, C., Bliven, L. F., Cerrai, D., Chibisov, A., Cooper, S. J., L’Ecuyer, T., Kulie, M. S., Leskinen, M., Mateling, M., McMurdie, L., Moisseev, D., Nesbitt, S. W., Petersen, W. A., Rodriguez, P., Schirtzinger, C., Stuefer, M., von Lerber, A., Wingo, M. T., ... Wood, N. (2024). A Comprehensive Northern Hemisphere Particle Microphysics Data Set From the Precipitation Imaging Package. Earth and Space Science, 11(5), Article e2024EA003538. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EA003538

Kosiba, K. A., Lyza, A. W., Trapp, R. J., Rasmussen, E. N., Parker, M., Biggerstaff, M. I., Nesbitt, S. W., Weiss, C. C., Wurman, J., Knupp, K. R., Coffer, B., Chmielewski, V. C., Dawson, D. T., Bruning, E., Bell, T. M., Coniglio, M. C., Murphy, T. A., French, M., Blind-Doskocil, L., ... Turner, D. D. (2024). The Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms (PERiLS) Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(10), E1768-E1799. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0064.1

Chug, D., Dominguez, F., Taylor, C. M., Klein, C., & Nesbitt, S. W. (2023). Dry-to-Wet Soil Gradients Enhance Convection and Rainfall over Subtropical South America. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(9), 1563-1581. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-23-0031.1

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