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NUNES, ANA

Project Scientist

Degrees:

• M.S., National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
• Ph.D., National Institute for Space Research, Brazil

Research Interests:

• Numerical weather/climate modeling
• Physical processes in numerical weather prediction models
• Precipitation assimilation in global and regional numerical models
• Dynamical downscaling; regional climate projections
• Predictability studies

Gutowski, W. J., R. W. Arritt, S. Kawazoe, D. M. Flory, E. S. Takle, S. Biner, D. Caya, R. G. Jones, R. Laprise, L. R. Leung, L. O. Mearns, W. Moufouma-Okia, A. M. B. Nunes, Y. Qian, J. O. Roads, L. C. Sloan, M. A. Snyder, 2010: Regional, Extreme Monthly Precipitation Simulated by NARCCAP RCMs. J. Hydrometeor. In press. doi: 10.1175/2010JHM1297.1

Gutzler, D., L. N. Long, J. Schemm, S. Baidya Roy, M. Bosilovich, J. C. Collier, M. Kanamitsu, P. Kelly, D. Lawrence, M.-I. Lee, R. Lobato Sanchez, B. Mapes, K. Mo. A. Nunes, E. Ritchie, J. Roads, S. Schubert, H. Wei, and G. J. Zhang, 2009: Simulations of the 2004 North American Monsoon: NAMAP2. J. Climate, 22, 6716-6740.

Mearns, L., W. Gutowski, R. Jones, R. Leung, S. McGinnis, A. Nunes, and Y. Qian, 2009. A Regional Climate Change Assessment Program for North America. Eos Trans. AGU, 90(36), 311

Pryor, S. C., R. J. Barthelmie, D. T. Young, E. S. Takle, R. W. Arritt, D. Flory, W. J. Gutowski, A. Nunes, and J. Roads, 2009. Wind speed trends over the contiguous United States, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D14105, doi:10.1029/2008JD011416.

Nunes, A. M. B., and J. O. Roads, 2009. Dynamical downscaling of short-term climate fluctuations: On the benefits of precipitation assimilation. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D12108, doi:10.1029/2008JD010933.

Nunes, A. M. B., and J. O. Roads, 2007. Dynamical influences of precipitation assimilation on regional downscaling. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16817, doi:10.1029/2007GL030247.

Nunes, A. M. B., and J. O. Roads, 2007. Influence of precipitation assimilation on a regional climate model's surface water and energy budgets. J. Hydrometeor., 8, 642-664.

Nunes, A.M.B., and J. O. Roads. 2005. Improving regional model simulations with precipitation assimilation. Earth Interactions, 9, No. 20, pp. 1-44.

Nunes, A.M.B., and S. Cocke, 2004. Implementing a physical initialization procedure in a regional spectral model: Impact on the short-range rainfall forecasting over South America. Tellus A, 56:(2)125-140.

Chou, S. C., A. M. B. Nunes, and I.F.A. Cavalcanti, 2000. Extended range forecasts over South America using the regional Eta model. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 105:(D8)10147-10160.