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Hill, Peter G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9745-2120, Stein, Thorwald H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397 and Cafaro, Carlo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8063-4887 (2023) Convective systems and rainfall in East Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4540 (In Press)

Pope, K. N., Holloway, C. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-8989, Jones, T. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7669-1499 and Stein, T. H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397 (2023) Radiation, clouds, and self-aggregation in RCEMIP simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15 (2). e2022MS003317. ISSN 1942-2466 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003317

Gbode, Imoleayo E., Ajayi, Vincent O., Adefisan, Elijah A., Okogbue, Emmanuel C., Cafaro, Carlo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8063-4887, Olaniyan, Eniola A., Ogungbenro, Stephen B/, Oluleye, Ayodeji, Lawal, Kamoru A., Omotosho, Jerome A. and Stein, Thorwald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397 (2023) Verification of multiresolution model forecasts of heavy rainfall events from 23 to 26 August 2017 over Nigeria. Meteorological Applications, 30 (4). e2135. ISSN 1469-8080 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/met.2135

Agyekum, Jacob ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7484-5338, Amekudzi, Leonard K., Stein, Thorwald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397, Aryee, Jeffrey N. A., Atiah, Winifred Ayinpogbilla, Adefisan, Elijah Adesanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3339-5195 and Danuor, Sylvester K. (2023) Verification of satellite and model products against a dense rain gauge network for a severe flooding event in Kumasi, Ghana. Meteorological Applications, 30 (5). e2150. ISSN 1469-8080 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/met.2150

Fletcher, J. K., Diop, C. A., Adefisan, E., Ahiataku, M., Ansah, S. O., Birch, C. E., Burns, H. L., Clarke, S. J., Gacheru, J., James, T. D., Ngetich Tuikong, C. K., Koros, D., Indasi, V. S., Lamptey, B. L., Lawal, K. A., Parker, D. J., Roberts, A. J., Stein, T. H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397, Visman, E., Warner, J., Woodhams, B. J., Youds, L. H., Ajayi, V. O., Bosire, E. N., Cafaro, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8063-4887, Camara, C. A. T., Chanzu, B., Dione, C., Gitau, W., Groves, D., Groves, J., Hill, P. G., Ishiyaku, I., Klein, C. M., Marsham, J. H., Mutai, B. K., Ndiaye, P. N., Osei, M., Popoola, T. I., Talib, J., Taylor, C. M. and Walker, D. (2022) Tropical Africa’s first testbed for high-impact weather forecasting and nowcasting. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-21-0156.1 (In Press)

Roberts, Alexander J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-9032, Fletcher, Jennifer K., Groves, James, Marsham, John H., Parker, Douglas J., Blyth, Alan M., Adefisan, Elijah A., Ajayi, Vincent O., Barrette, Ronald, Coning, Estelle, Dione, Cheikh, Diop, Abdoulahat, Foamouhoue, Andre K., Gijben, Morne, Hill, Peter G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9745-2120, Lawal, Kamoru A., Mutemi, Joseph, Padi, Michael, Popoola, Temidayo I., Rípodas, Pilar, Stein, Thorwald H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397 and Woodhams, Beth J. (2022) Nowcasting for Africa: advances, potential and value. Weather, 77 (7). pp. 250-256. ISSN 0043-1656 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3936

Parker, Douglas J., Blyth, Alan M., Woolnough, Steven J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-8514, Dougill, Andrew J., Bain, Caroline L., de Coning, Estelle, Diop-Kane, Mariane, Foamouhoue, Andre Kamga, Lamptey, Benjamin, Ndiaye, Ousmane, Ruti, Paolo, Adefisan, Elijah A., Amekudzi, Leonard K., Antwi-Agyei, Philip, Birch, Cathryn E., Cafaro, Carlo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8063-4887, Carr, Hamish, Chanzu, Benard, Clarke, Samantha J., Coskeran, Helen, Danuor, Sylvester K., de Andrade, Felipe M., Diakaria, Kone, Dione, Cheikh, Diop, Cheikh Abdoulahat, Fletcher, Jennifer K., Gaye, Amadou T., Groves, James L., Gudoshava, Masilin, Hartley, Andrew J., Hirons, Linda C., Ibrahim, Ishiyaku, James, Tamora D., Lawal, Kamoru A., Marsham, John H., Mutemi, J. N., Okogbue, Emmanuel Chilekwu, Olaniyan, Eniola, Omoshoto, J. B., Portuphy, Joseph, Roberts, Alexander J., Schwendike, Juliane, Segele, Zewdu T., Stein, Thorwald H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397, Taylor, Andrea L., Taylor, Christopher M., Warnaars, Tanya A., Webster, Stuart, Woodhams, Beth J. and Youds, Lorraine (2022) The African SWIFT project: growing science capability to bring about a revolution in weather prediction. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103 (2). pp. 349-369. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0047.1

Doyle, A. J., Stein, T. H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397 and Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2021) 2016 Monsoon convection and its place in the large-scale circulation using doppler radars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126 (22). e2021JD035496. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035496

Pope, K. N., Holloway, C. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-8989, Jones, T. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7669-1499 and Stein, T. H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397 (2021) Cloud-radiation interactions and their contributions to convective self-aggregation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13 (9). e2021MS002535. ISSN 1942-2466 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002535

Ferrett, Samantha ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4726-847X, Frame, Thomas H. A., Methven, John, Holloway, Christopher E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-8989, Webster, Stuart, Stein, Thorwald H.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397 and Cafaro, Carlo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8063-4887 (2021) Evaluating convection-permitting ensemble forecasts of precipitation over Southeast Asia. Weather and Forecasting, 36 (4). pp. 1199-1217. ISSN 0882-8156 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-20-0216.1

Da Silva, Nicolas A., Webber, Benjamin G. M., Matthews, Adrian J., Feist, Matthew M., Stein, Thorwald H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397, Holloway, Christopher E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-8989 and Abdullah, Muhammad Firdaus Ammar Bin (2021) Validation of GPM IMERG extreme precipitation in the Maritime Continent by station and radar data. Earth and Space Science, 8 (7). e2021EA001738. ISSN 2333-5084 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA001738

Doyle, Alex, Stein, Thorwald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397 and Turner, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2021) Temporal patterns in radar-observed convective cell development during the 2016 monsoon onset. Weather, 76 (6). pp. 180-184. ISSN 0043-1656 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3969

Masunaga, Hirohiko, Holloway, Christopher E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-8989, Kanamori, Hironari, Bony, Sandrine and Stein, Thorwald H. M. (2021) Transient aggregation of convection: observed behavior and underlying processes. Journal of Climate, 34 (5). pp. 1685-1700. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0933.1

Hunt, Kieran M. R., Turner, Andrew G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Stein, Thorwald H. M., Fletcher, Jennifer K. and Schiemann, Reinhard H. (2021) Modes of coastal precipitation over southwest India and their relationship to intraseasonal variability. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 147 (734). pp. 181-201. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3913

Cafaro, Carlo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8063-4887, Woodhams, Beth J., Stein, Thorwald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397, Birch, Cathryn E., Webster, Stuart, Bain, Caroline L., Hartley, Andrew, Clarke, Samantha, Ferrett, Samantha and Hill, Peter (2021) Do convection-permitting ensembles lead to more skilful short-range probabilistic rainfall forecasts over tropical East Africa? Weather and Forecasting, 36 (2). pp. 697-716. ISSN 1520-0434 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-20-0172.1

Hill, Peter G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9745-2120, Stein, Thorwald H. M., Roberts, Alexander J., Fletcher, Jennifer K., Marsham, John H. and Groves, James (2020) How skilful are nowcasting satellite applications facility products for tropical Africa? Meteorological Applications, 27 (6). e1966. ISSN 1350-4827 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1966

Stein, Thorwald H. M., Scovell, Robert W., Hanley, Kirsty, Lean, Humphrey W and Marsden, Nicola H. (2020) The potential use of operational radar network data to evaluate the representation of convective storms in NWP models. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146 (730). pp. 2315-2331. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3793

Crook, Julia, Klein, Cornelia, Folwell, Sonja, Taylor, Christopher M., Parker, Douglas J., Stratton, Rachel and Stein, Thorwald (2019) Assessment of the representation of West African storm lifecycles in convection‐permitting simulations. Earth and Space Science, 6 (5). pp. 818-835. ISSN 2333-5084 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EA000491

Keat, Will J., Stein, Thorwald H. M., Phaduli, Elelwani, Landman, Stephanie, Becker, Erik, Bopape, Mary-Jane M., Hanley, Kirsty E., Lean, Humphrey W. and Webster, Stu (2019) Convective initiation and storm life‐cycles in convection‐permitting simulations of the Met Office Unified Model over South Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 145 (721). pp. 1323-1336. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3487

Stein, T. H. M., Keat, W., Maidment, R. I., Landman, S., Becker, E., Boyd, D. F. A., Bodas-Salcedo, A., Pankiewicz, G. and Webster, S. (2019) An evaluation of clouds and precipitation in convection-permitting forecasts for South Africa. Weather and Forecasting. pp. 233-254. ISSN 0882-8156 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-18-0080.1

Courtier, Ben M., Stein, Thorwald H. M., Harrison, R. Giles, Hanley, Kirsty E. and Wilkinson, Jonathan M. (2019) Intensification of single cell storms prior to lightning onset. Atmospheric Science Letters, 20 (4). e873. ISSN 1530-261X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.873

Barrett, Andrew I., Westbrook, Christopher D., Nicol, John C. and Stein, Thorwald H. M. (2019) Rapid ice aggregation process revealed through triple-wavelength Doppler spectra radar analysis. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 19. pp. 5753-5769. ISSN 1680-7375 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-5753-2019

Feist, Matthew M., Westbrook, Chris D., Clark, Peter A., Stein, Thorwald H. M., Lean, Humphrey W. and Stirling, Alison J. (2019) Statistics of convective cloud turbulence from a comprehensive turbulence retrieval method for radar observations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 145 (719). pp. 727-744. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3462

Young, Matthew P., Chiu, J. Christine, Williams, Charles J. R., Stein, Thorwald H. M., Stengel, Martin, Fielding, Mark D. and Black, Emily (2018) Spatio-temporal variability of warm rain events over southern West Africa from geostationary satellite observations for climate monitoring and model evaluation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144 (716). pp. 2311-2330. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3372

Illingworth, A. J., Battaglia, A., Bradford, J., Forsythe, M., Joe, P., Kollias, P., Lean, K., Lori, M., Mahfouf, J-F, Mello, S., Midthassel, R., Munro, Y., Nicol, J., Potthast, R., Rennie, M., Stein, T. H. M., Tanelli, S., Tridon, F., Walden, C. J. and Wolde, M. (2018) WIVERN: A new satellite concept to provide global in-cloud winds, precipitation and cloud properties. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99 (8). pp. 1669-1687. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-16-0047.1

Hawcroft, Matt, Dacre, Helen, Forbes, Richard, Hodges, Kevin, Shaffrey, Len and Stein, Thorwald (2017) Using satellite and reanalysis data to evaluate the representation of latent heating in extratropical cyclones in a climate model. Climate Dynamics, 48 (7). pp. 2255-2278. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-3204-6

Stein, Thorwald H. M., Holloway, Chris E., Tobin, Isabelle and Bony, Sandrine (2017) Observed relationships between cloud vertical structure and convective aggregation over tropical ocean. Journal of Climate, 30 (6). pp. 2187-2207. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0125.1

Maidment, Ross I., Grimes, David, Black, Emily, Tarnavsky, Elena, Young, Matthew, Greatrex, Helen, Allan, Richard P., Stein, Thorwald, Nkonde, Edson, Senkunda, Samuel and Alcántara, Edgar Misael Uribe (2017) A new, long-term daily satellite-based rainfall dataset for operational monitoring in Africa. Scientific Data, 4. 170063. ISSN 2052-4463 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.63

Hill, Peter G., Allan, Richard P., Chiu, J. Christine and Stein, Thorwald H. M. (2016) A multi-satellite climatology of clouds, radiation and precipitation in southern West Africa and comparison to climate models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121 (18). 10,857-10,879. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025246

Nicol, John, Hogan, Robin, Stein, Thorwald, Hanley, Kirsty, Clark, Peter, Halliwell, C. E., Lean, H. W. and Plant, R. S. (2015) Convective updraught evaluation in high-resolution NWP simulations using single-Doppler radar measurements. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141 (693). pp. 3177-3189. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2602

Stein, Thorwald, Hogan, Robin, Clark, Peter, Halliwell, Carol, Hanley, Kirsty, Lean, Humphrey, Nicol, John and Plant, R. S. (2015) The DYMECS project: a statistical approach for the evaluation of convective storms in high-resolution NWP models. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96 (6). pp. 939-951. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00279.1

Stein, Thorwald H. M., Westbrook, Chris D. and Nicol, John (2015) Fractal geometry of aggregate snowflakes revealed by triple wavelength radar measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (1). pp. 176-183. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062170

Hanley, K. E., Plant, R S, Stein, Thorwald H M, Hogan, Robin J, Nicol, John C, Lean, H. W., Halliwell, C. and Clark, Peter A (2015) Mixing length controls on high resolution simulations of convective storms. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141 (686). pp. 272-284. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2356

Stein, Thorwald H. M., Parker, Douglas J., Hogan, Robin J., Birch, Cathryn, Holloway, Chris E., Lister, Grenville, Marsham, John H. and Woolnough, Steven J. (2015) The representation of the West-African Monsoon vertical cloud structure in the Met Office Unified Model: an evaluation with CloudSat. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2614

Stein, Thorwald H. M., Hogan, Robin J., Hanley, Kirsty E., Nicol, John C., Lean, Humphrey W., Plant, Robert S., Clark, Peter A. and Halliwell, Carol E. (2014) The three-dimensional morphology of simulated and observed convective storms over southern England. Monthly Weather Review, 142 (9). pp. 3264-3283. ISSN 1520-0493 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-13-00372.1

Mann, Julian A.L., Chiu, J. Christine, Hogan, Robin J., O'Connor, Ewan J., l'Ecuyer, Tristan S., Stein, Thorwald H. M. and Jefferson, Anne (2014) Aerosol impacts on drizzle properties in warm clouds from ARM Mobile Facility maritime and continental deployments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 119 (7). pp. 4136-4148. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JD021339

Stein, Thorwald H. M., Parker, D. J., Delanoë, J., Dixon, N. S., Hogan, Robin J., Knippertz, P., Maidment, Ross I. and Marsham, J. H. (2011) The vertical cloud structure of the West African monsoon: a 4 year climatology using CloudSat and CALIPSO. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116. D22205. ISSN 2156–2202 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016029

Delanoe, Julien, Hogan, Robin, Forbes, Richard M., Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro and Stein, Thorwald H. M. (2011) Evaluation of ice cloud representation in the ECMWF and UK Met Office models using CloudSat and CALIPSO data. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 137 (661). pp. 2064-2078. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.882

Stein, Thorwald H. M., Delanoë, Julien and Hogan, Robin J. (2011) A comparison among four different retrieval methods for ice-cloud properties using data from CloudSat, CALIPSO, and MODIS. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 50 (9). pp. 1952-1969. ISSN 1558-8432 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2011JAMC2646.1

Ball, Robin C., Connaughton, Colm, Stein, Thorwald H. M. and Zaboronski, Oleg (2011) Instantaneous gelation in Smoluchowski’s coagulation equation revisited. Physical Review E, 84 (1). 011111. ISSN 1550-2376 doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.011111

Horvai, P., Nazarenko, S. V. and Stein, T. H. M. (2008) Coalescence of particles by differential sedimentation. Journal of Statistical Physics, 130 (6). pp. 1177-1195. ISSN 1572-9613 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-007-9466-y

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Da Silva, Nicolas A., Webber, Benjamin G. M., Matthews, Adrian J., Feist, Matthew M., Stein, Thorwald H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397, Holloway, Christopher E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-8989 and Abdullah, Muhammad F. A. B. (2021) Validation of GPM IMERG extreme precipitation in the peninsular Malaysia and Philippines by station and radar data. In: 2nd International Conference on Tropical Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, 23-25 MAR 2021, Jakarta, Indonesia. doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/893/1/012020