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  1. A composite approach to produce reference datasets for extratropical cyclone tracks: application to Mediterranean cyclones

    Article • Weather and Climate Dynamics, July 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  2. Strong surface winds in Storm Eunice. Part 2: airstream analysis

    Article • Weather, May 2023, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  3. Strong surface winds in Storm Eunice. Part 1: storm overview and indications of sting jet activity from observations and model data

    Article • Weather, May 2023, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  4. Rescuing historical weather observations improves quantification of severe windstorm risks

    Article • Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, April 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  5. Attribution of observed extreme marine wind speeds and associated hazards to midlatitude cyclone conveyor belt jets near the British Isles

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, January 2023, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  6. The role of tropopause polar vortices in the intensification of summer Arctic cyclones

    Article • Weather and Climate Dynamics, December 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  7. The sensitivity of probabilistic convective‐scale forecasts of an extratropical cyclone to atmosphere–ocean–wave coupling

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, December 2021, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  8. Characterising extratropical near‐tropopause analysis humidity biases and their radiative effects on temperature forecasts

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, September 2021, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  9. The Impact of Atmosphere–Ocean–Wave Coupling on the Near-Surface Wind Speed in Forecasts of Extratropical Cyclones

    Article • Boundary-Layer Meteorology, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  10. A process-based anatomy of Mediterranean cyclones: from baroclinic lows to tropical-like systems

    Article • Weather and Climate Dynamics, March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  11. A Physically Based Stochastic Boundary Layer Perturbation Scheme. Part II: Perturbation Growth within a Superensemble Framework

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, March 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  12. Development of a prototype real‐time sting‐jet precursor tool for forecasters

    Article • Weather, December 2020, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  13. Linking rapid forecast error growth to diabatic processes

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, September 2020, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  14. Idealised simulations of cyclones with robust symmetrically unstable sting jets

    Article • Weather and Climate Dynamics, February 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  15. Impact of model upgrades on diabatic processes in extratropical cyclones and downstream forecast evolution

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, February 2020, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  16. Sting jets in extratropical cyclones: a review

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, January 2020, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  17. Downstream influence of mesoscale convective systems. Part 1: influence on forecast evolution

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2019, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  18. Downstream influence of mesoscale convective systems. Part 2: Influence on ensemble forecast skill and spread

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2019, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  19. A simple ensemble approach for more robust process‐based sensitivity analysis of case studies in convection‐permitting models

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, August 2019, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  20. Upstream Cyclone Influence on the Predictability of Block Onsets over the Euro-Atlantic Region

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, April 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  21. Improvements in Forecasting Intense Rainfall: Results from the FRANC (Forecasting Rainfall Exploiting New Data Assimilation Techniques and Novel Observations of Convection) Project

    Article • Atmosphere, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  22. Atmospheric blocking and upper‐level Rossby‐wave forecast skill dependence on model configuration

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2018, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  23. Sting jets in extratropical cyclones: a review

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, August 2018, Wiley

    Professor Peter A Clark, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  24. The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, August 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  25. Scientific Challenges of Convective-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, April 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  26. The role of mesoscale instabilities in the sting-jet dynamics of windstorm Tini

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2018, Wiley

    Professor Peter A Clark, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  27. Increased wind risk from sting-jet windstorms with climate change

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, March 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  28. Convective-Scale Perturbation Growth across the Spectrum of Convective Regimes

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, January 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  29. Processes Maintaining Tropopause Sharpness in Numerical Models

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  30. The weather's response to a solar eclipse

    Article • Astronomy & Geophysics, August 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray, Professor Giles Harrison

  31. Heavy rainfall in Mediterranean cyclones. Part I: contribution of deep convection and warm conveyor belt

    Article • Climate Dynamics, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  32. Sting-Jet Windstorms over the North Atlantic: Climatology and Contribution to Extreme Wind Risk

    Article • Journal of Climate, July 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  33. Climatology of Size, Shape, and Intensity of Precipitation Features over Great Britain and Ireland

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, June 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Professor David M. Schultz, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  34. North Atlantic storm driving of extreme wave heights in the North Sea

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, April 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  35. Coherent evolution of potential vorticity anomalies associated with deep moist convection

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2017, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  36. Modulation of precipitation by conditional symmetric instability release

    Article • Atmospheric Research, March 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  37. Climatology of Banded Precipitation over the Contiguous United States

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, December 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Professor David M. Schultz, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  38. Atmospheric changes from solar eclipses

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, September 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  39. The computation of reference state and APE production by diabatic processes in an idealized tropical cyclone

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, September 2016, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  40. Diabatic Processes and the Evolution of Two Contrasting Summer Extratropical Cyclones

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, September 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  41. Eclipse-induced wind changes over the British Isles on the 20 March 2015

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, August 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Prof Suzanne L Gray, Professor Giles Harrison

  42. The National Eclipse Weather Experiment: an assessment of citizen scientist weather observations

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, August 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Giles Harrison, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  43. Characterisation of convective regimes over the British Isles

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2016, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  44. The Utility of Convection-Permitting Ensembles for the Prediction of Stationary Convective Bands

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, March 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Professor David M. Schultz, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  45. The non‐conservation of potential vorticity by a dynamical core compared with the effects of parametrized physical processes

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, February 2016, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  46. A route to systematic error in forecasts of Rossby waves

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2015, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  47. Detection of Coherent Airstreams Using Cluster Analysis: Application to an Extratropical Cyclone

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, September 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Peter A Clark, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  48. A Diabatically Generated Potential Vorticity Structure near the Extratropical Tropopause in Three Simulated Extratropical Cyclones

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, June 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  49. A radar-based rainfall climatology of Great Britain and Ireland

    Article • Weather, May 2015, Wiley

    Professor David M. Schultz, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  50. Secondary Cyclogenesis along an Occluded Front Leading to Damaging Wind Gusts: Windstorm Kyrill, January 2007

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, April 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  51. Cloud Banding and Winds in Intense European Cyclones: Results from the DIAMET Project

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, February 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Professor David M. Schultz, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  52. Synoptic versus orographic control on stationary convective banding

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, August 2014, Wiley

    Professor David M. Schultz, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  53. Can reanalyses represent extreme precipitation over England and Wales?

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, August 2014, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  54. Distinguishing the Cold Conveyor Belt and Sting Jet Airstreams in an Intense Extratropical Cyclone

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, August 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  55. Foehn jets over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, June 2014, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  56. A case study of sea breeze blocking regulated by sea surface temperature along the English south coast

    Article • "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics""", May 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  57. Understanding and representing atmospheric convection across scales: recommendations from the meeting held at Dartington Hall, Devon, UK, 28-30 January 2013

    Article • Atmospheric Science Letters, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr John Marsham, Professor David M. Schultz, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  58. Systematic model forecast error in Rossby wave structure

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  59. Corrigendum: Sting jets in intense winter North-Atlantic windstorms (2012 Environ. Res. Lett. 7 024014)

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, March 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  60. A mixed-phase bulk orographic precipitation model with embedded convection

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, February 2014, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  61. The dichotomous structure of the warm conveyor belt

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, February 2014, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  62. The role of anomalous SST and surface fluxes over the southeastern North Atlantic in the explosive development of windstorm Xynthia

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, November 2013, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  63. Flow‐dependent predictability of the North Atlantic jet

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  64. Quantifying the climatological relationship between extratropical cyclone intensity and atmospheric precursors

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  65. Idealised simulations of sting-jet cyclones

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Peter A Clark, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  66. Diabatic processes modifying potential vorticity in a North Atlantic cyclone

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, November 2012, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  67. Ensemble forecasts of a flood-producing storm: comparison of the influence of model-state perturbations and parameter modifications

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, May 2012, Wiley

    Professor Peter A Clark, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  68. Sting jets in intense winter North-Atlantic windstorms

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, May 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Peter A Clark, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  69. Meteorology and eclipses

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, March 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Giles Harrison, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  70. Case-to-case variability of predictability of deep convection in a mesoscale model

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2011, Wiley

    Professor Peter A Clark, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  71. Objective detection of sting jets in low-resolution datasets

    Article • Meteorological Applications, October 2011, Wiley

    Professor Peter A Clark, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  72. Under what conditions does embedded convection enhance orographic precipitation?

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, September 2011, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  73. Targeted observations of a polar low in the Norwegian Sea

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, August 2011, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  74. Conditional symmetric instability in sting-jet storms

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Peter A Clark, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  75. Ensemble prediction of transitions of the North Atlantic eddy‐driven jet

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, May 2011, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  76. Mesoscale meteorology in midlatitudes by Paul Markowski and Yvette Richardson. Wiley‐Blackwell, 2010. ISBN: 978‐0470742136. 430 pp.

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, March 2011, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  77. Forecast Impact of Targeted Observations: Sensitivity to Observation Error and Proximity to Steep Orography

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, January 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  78. A comparison of stratosphere‐troposphere transport in convection‐permitting and convection‐parameterizing simulations of three mesoscale convective systems

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  79. Sting Jets in Simulations of a Real Cyclone by Two Mesoscale Models

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, November 2010, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  80. Can 4D‐Var use dynamical information from targeted observations of a baroclinic structure?

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, July 2010, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  81. Categorisation of synoptic environments associated with mesoscale convective systems over the UK

    Article • Atmospheric Research, July 2010, Elsevier

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  82. Controls on boundary layer ventilation: Boundary layer processes and large‐scale dynamics

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  83. Perturbation growth at the convective scale for CSIP IOP18

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor Peter A Clark, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  84. Synoptic Controls on Boundary-Layer Characteristics

    Article • Boundary-Layer Meteorology, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  85. The impact of targeted observations made during the Greenland Flow Distortion Experiment

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2009, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  86. Horizontal potential vorticity dipoles on the convective storm scale

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, July 2009, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  87. The dynamics of a polar low assessed using potential vorticity inversion

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2009, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  88. On the dependence of boundary layer ventilation on frontal type

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, March 2009, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  89. The Spatial Distribution and Evolution Characteristics of North Atlantic Cyclones

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, January 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  90. THE GREENLAND FLOW DISTORTION EXPERIMENT

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, September 2008, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Kent moore, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  91. Boundary‐layer ventilation by baroclinic life cycles

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, July 2008, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  92. MESOSCALE DYNAMICS, by Yuh‐Lang Lin, Cambridge University Press, 2007 ISBN: 9780521808750

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, July 2008, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  93. The impact of deformation strain on the formation of banded clouds in idealized modelling experiments

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2008, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  94. Analysis of convectively‐generated gravity waves in mesoscale model simulations and wind‐profiler observations

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2008, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  95. An objective climatology of the dynamical forcing of polar lows in the Nordic seas

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, February 2008, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  96. A case study of boundary layer ventilation by convection and coastal processes

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  97. Stratosphere‐troposphere transport in a numerical simulation of midlatitude convection

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, March 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  98. Life‐cycle simulations of shallow frontal waves and the impact of deformation strain

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2006, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  99. Mechanisms of midlatitude cross‐tropopause transport using a potential vorticity budget approach

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2006, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  100. Reply to comments by David M. Schultz on ‘Cloud-resolving model simulations of multiply-banded frontal clouds’ (October A, 2005,131, 2617–2637)

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, July 2006, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  101. Mesoscale simulations of organized convection: Importance of convective equilibrium

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2006, Wiley

    Professor Peter A Clark, Prof Suzanne L Gray

  102. Classifying dynamical forcing mechanisms using a climatology of extratropical cyclones

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2006, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  103. Cloud‐resolving model simulations of multiply‐banded frontal clouds

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2005, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  104. Numerical modeling study of boundary‐layer ventilation by a cold front over Europe

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2005, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  105. The Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclone Lili (1996) and Its Crucial Contribution to a Moderate Extratropical Development

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, June 2005, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  106. The extratropical transition of hurricane Irene (1999): A potential‐vorticity perspective

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2004, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  107. Dynamics of the atmosphere: a course in theoretical meteorology, by Wilford Zdunkowski and Andreas Bott, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003. No. of Pages: xviii + 719. ISBN 0‐521‐00666‐X (paperback), ISBN 0‐521‐8099‐5 (hardback).

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, January 2004, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  108. On a threefold classification of extratropical cyclogenesis

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2003, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  109. A case study of stratosphere to troposphere transport: The role of convective transport and the sensitivity to model resolution

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  110. Quantifying mesoscale variability in ocean transient tracer fields

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2001, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  111. Parcel Theory in Three Dimensions and the Calculation of SCAPE

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, July 2001, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  112. Constraining a North Atlantic Ocean General Circulation Model with Chlorofluorocarbon Observations

    Article • Journal of Physical Oceanography, May 2001, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  113. Potential energy for slantwise parcel motion

    Article • Atmospheric Science Letters, January 2000, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  114. Analysis of the eyes formed in simulated tropical cyclones and polar lows

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 1998, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  115. A simple theoretical model for the intensification of tropical cyclones and polar lows

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 1998, Wiley

    Prof Suzanne L Gray

  116. CISK or WISHE as the Mechanism for Tropical Cyclone Intensification

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, December 1996, American Meteorological Society

    Prof Suzanne L Gray