William Gallus Publications

Gallus, W. A., Jr., and M. Pfeifer, 2008:  Intercomparison of simulations using 5 WRF microphysical schemes with dual-Polarization data for a German squall line.  Advances in Geosciences, 16, 109-116.

Haan, F. L., Jr., P. P. Sarkar, and W. A. Gallus, Jr., 2008:  Design, construction and performance of a large tornado simulator for wind engineering applications.  Engineering Structures, 30, 1146-1159.

Kuai, L.,  F. L. Haan, Jr., W. A. Gallus, Jr., and P. P. Sarkar, 2008: CFD Simulations of the flow field of a laboratory-simulated tornado for parameter sensitivity studies and comparison with field Measurements.  Wind and Structures, 11, 2, 75-96.

Aligo, E. A., W. A. Gallus, Jr., and M. Segal, 2008:  On the impact of WRF model vertical grid resolution on Midwest summer rainfall forecasts.  Mon. Wea. Rev. (conditionally accepted).

Haan, F. L., Jr., P. P. Sarkar, and W. A. Gallus, Jr., 2008:  Design, construction and performance of a large tornado simulator for wind engineering applications.  Engineering Structures (in press).

Gallus, W. A., Jr., E. V. Johnson, and N. Snook, 2008:  Severe weather reports as a function of convective system morphology.  Wea. Forecasting, 23, 101-113.

Clark, A., W. A. Gallus, Jr., and T.-C. Chen, 2008:  Contributions of mixed physics and perturbed lateral boundary conditions to the skill and spread of precipitation forecasts from a WRF ensemble.  Mon. Wea. Rev., (in press).

Clark, A., W. A. Gallus, Jr., and T.-C. Chen, 2007:  Comparison of the diurnal cycle in convection-resolving and non-convection-resolving mesoscale models.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3456-3473.

Aligo, E. A., W. A. Gallus, Jr., and M. Segal, 2007:  Evaluation of rainfall forecast spread in an ensemble initialized with different soil moisture analyses.  Wea. Forecasting, 22, 299-314.

Jankov, I., W. A. Gallus, Jr., M. Segal, and S. E. Koch, 2007:  Influence of initial conditions on the WRF-ARW model QPF response to physical parameterization changes.  Wea. Forecasting, 22, 501-519.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., M. E. Baldwin, and K. L. Elmore, 2007:  Evaluation of probabilistic precipitation forecasts determined from Eta and AVN forecasted amounts.  Wea. Forecasting, 22, 207-215.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., 2006:  Cyclone at the Cyclone game.   Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 1190-1191.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., C. Cervato, C. Cruz-Neira, and G. Faidley, 2006:  A virtual tornadic thunderstorm enabling students to construct knowledge about storm dynamics through data collection and analysis.  Advances in Geoscience, 27-32, SRef-ID: 1680-7359/adgeo/2006-8-27.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., and J. F. Bresch, 2006:  Comparison of impacts of WRF dynamic core, physics package, and initial conditions on warm season rainfall forecasts.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 2632-2641.

Grams, J. S., W. A. Gallus, Jr., L. S. Wharton, S. E. Koch, A. Loughe, and E. E. Ebert, 2006:  The use of a modified Ebert-McBride technique to evaluate mesoscale model QPF as a function of convective system morphology during IHOP 2002.  Wea. Forecasting, 21, 288-306.

Jankov, I., W. A. Gallus, Jr., B. Shaw, and S. E. Koch, 2005:  On the impacts of different physical parameterizations and their interactions on warm season MCS rainfall.  Wea. Forecasting, 20, 1048-1060.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., J. Correia, Jr., and I. Jankov, 2005:  The 4 June 1999 derecho event:  A particularly difficult challenge for numerical weather prediction.  Wea. Forecasting, 20, 705-728.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., C. Cervato, C. Cruz-Neira, G. Faidley, and R. Heer, 2005:  Learning storm dynamics with a virtual thunderstorm.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86, 162-163.

Chen, T.-C., S.-Y. Wang, M.-C. Yen and W. A. Gallus, Jr., 2004:  Role of the monsoon gyre in the interannual variation of tropical cyclogenesis over the western North Pacific.  Wea. Forecasting, 19, 776-785.

Carmichael, C. G., W. A. Gallus, Jr., B. R. Temeyer, and K. M. Bryden, 2004:  A winter weather index for estimating winter highway maintenance costs.  J. Appl. Meteor., 43, 1783-1790.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., and M. Segal, 2004:  Does increased predicted warm season rainfall indicate enhanced likelihood of rain occurrence?  Wea. Forecasting, 19, 1127-1135.

Jankov, I., and W. A. Gallus, Jr., 2004:  MCS rainfall forecast accuracy as a function of large-scale forcing.  Wea. Forecasting, 19, 428-439.

Jankov, I., and W. A. Gallus, Jr., 2004:  Some contrasts between good and bad forecasts of warm season convective system rainfall.  J. of Hydrology, 288, 122-152.

Segal, M., E. A. Aligo, and W. A. Gallus, Jr., 2004:  A conceptual and scaling evaluation of the surface wetness effect on daytime moisture convergence along a surface cold front with differential cloud cover.   J. of Hydrometeorology, 5, 363-369.

Knollhoff, D. S., E. S. Takle, W. A. Gallus, Jr., D. Burkheimer, and D. McCauley, 2003:  Evaluation of a frost accumulation model.  Meteor. Applications, 10, 337-343.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., D. N. Yarger, C. Cruz-Neira, and R. Heer, 2003:  An example of a virtual reality learning environment.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84, 18-21.

Prusa, J., M. Segal, W. A. Gallus, Jr., and E. S. Takle, 2002:  Conceptual and scaling evaluation of vehicles' traffic thermal effect on road snow/ice.  J. Appl. Meteor., 41, 1225-1240.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., 2002:  Impact of verification grid box size on warm season QPF skill measures.  Wea. Forecasting, 17, 1296-1302.

Chen, T.-C., M.-C. Yen, W.-R. Huang, and W. A. Gallus, Jr., 2002:  An East-Asian cold surge:  Case study.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2271-2290.

Gale, J. J., W. A. Gallus, Jr., and K. A. Jungbluth, 2002:  Toward improved forecasting of mesoscale convective system dissipation.  Wea. Forecasting, 17, 856-872.

Zhang, J., Pu, J., J. McCalley, H. Stern, and W. A. Gallus, Jr., 2002:  A Bayesian approach for short-term transmission line thermal overload risk assessment.  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Transactions on Power Delivery, 17, 3, 770-778.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., and M. Segal, 2001:  Impact of improved initialization of mesoscale features on convective system rainfall in 10 km Eta simulations.  Wea. Forecasting, 16, 680-696.

Wei, H., M. Segal, W. J. Gutowski, Jr., Z. Pan, R. W. Arritt, and W. A. Gallus, Jr., 2001:  Sensitivity of simulated regional snowmelt characteristics to the selection of the first model level height.  Journal of Hydrometeorology, 395-405.

Goering, M. A., W. A. Gallus, Jr., J. L. Stanford, and M. A. Olsen, 2001:  The role of stratospheric air in a severe weather event:  analysis of PV and total ozone.  J. Geophys. Res., 106, 11,813-11,823.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., D. N. Yarger and D. E. Herzmann, 2000:  An interactive severe weather activity to motivate student learning.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 81, 2205-2212.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., 2000:  The impact of step orography on flow in the Eta model:  Two contrasting examples.  Wea. Forecasting, 15, 630-637.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., and M. Segal, 2000:  Sensitivity of forecasted rainfall in a Texas convective system to soil moisture and convective parameterization.  Wea. Forecasting, 15, 509-525.

Olsen, M. A., W. A. Gallus, Jr., J. L. Stanford, and J. M. Brown, 2000:  Fine-scale comparison of TOMS total ozone data with model analysis of an intense Midwestern cyclone.  J. Geophys. Res., 105, 20,487-20,495.

Gallus, W. A., Jr. and J. B. Klemp, 2000: On the behavior of flow over step orography.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 1153-1164.

Yarger, D. N., W. A. Gallus, Jr., M. Taber, J. P. Boysen and P. Castleberry, 2000:  A forecasting activity for a large introductory meteorology course.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 81, 31-39.

Gallus, W. A., Jr. and M. Segal, 1999: Diabatic effects on late winter cold front evolution:  Conceptual and numerical model evaluations.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 1518-1537.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., 1999:  Eta simulations of three extreme precipitation events:  Impact of resolution and choice of convective parameterization.  Wea. and Forecasting, 14, 405-426.

Gallus, W. A., Jr. and M. Segal, 1999:  Cold front acceleration over Lake Michigan.  Wea. and Forecasting, 14, 771-781.

Gallus, W. A., Jr. and J. F. Bresch, 1997: An intense small-scale wintertime vortex in the midwest United States.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 2787-2807.

Gallus, W. A., Jr. and M. Rancic, 1996:  A nonhydrostatic version of the NMC's regional eta model.  Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 122, 495-513.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., 1996: The influence of microphysics on the formation of intense wake lows: A numerical modeling study.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 124, 2267-2281.

Gallus, W. A., Jr. and R. H. Johnson, 1995: The dynamics of circulations within the stratiform regions of squall lines: Part I: The 10-11 June PRE-STORM system.  J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2161-2187.

Gallus, W. A., Jr. and R. H. Johnson, 1995: The dynamics of circulations within the stratiform regions of squall lines: Part II: Influence of the convective line and ambient environment.   J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2188-2211.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., and R. H. Johnson, 1992: The momentum budget of an intense midlatitude squall line.  J. Atmos. Sci., 49, 422-450.

Gallus, W. A., Jr., and R. H. Johnson, 1991: Heat and moisture budgets of an intense midlatitude squall line. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 122-146.

Johnson, R. H., W. A. Gallus, Jr. and M. D. Vescio, 1990:   Near-tropopause vertical motion within the trailing stratiform regions of squall lines.  J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 2200-2210.