1. Maithel, Vijit and Back, Larissa. Moisture recharge-discharge cycles: a gross moist stability-based phase angle perspective. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 79, Issue 9, 2022, pp.2401-2417. Reprint # 8870.
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2. Hansen, Zachary R.; Back, Larissa E. and Zhou, Peigen. Boundary layer quasi-equilibrium limits convective intensity enhancement from the diurnal cycle in surface heating. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 77, Issue 1, 2020, pp.217-237. Reprint # 8495.
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3. Han, Jing; Back, Larissa E.; Liu, Zhengyu and Wen, Xinyu. How far poleward can the seasonal precipitation maxima over land extend under high obliquity?. Climate Dynamics, Volume 54, Issue 9, 2020, pp.4211-4232. Reprint # 8553.
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4. Duffy, Margaret L.; O'Gorman, Paul A. and Back, Larissa E. Importance of Laplacian of low-level warming for the response of precipitation to climate change over tropical oceans. Journal of Climate, Volume 33, Issue 10, 2020, pp.4403-4417. Reprint # 8568.
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| 5. Back, Larissa E. Variations in gross moist stability as a way to describe the relationship between convection and its large-scale environment. David J. Raymond Symposium, Houston, TX, 7-11 January 2018. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2018, Abstract 3.2. |
| 6. Yang, Ke and Back, L. E. A possible mechanism for simulating a stronger Madden-Julian oscillation in atmosphere/ocean coupled models. Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 33rd, Ponte Vedra, FL, 16-20 April 2018. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2018, Abstract 12A.5. |
| 7. Hansen, Zachary R. and Back, Larrisa E. Exploring the impact of the diurnal cycle on the convective intensity contrast between land and ocean. Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 33rd, Ponte Vedra, FL, 16-20 April 2018. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2018, Paper 14D.3. Reprint # 8252. |
8. Serra, Yolande L.; Haase, Jennifer S.; Adams, Deavid K.; Fu, Qiang; Ackerman, Thomas P.; Alexander, M. Joan; Arellano, Avelino; Back, Larissa; Emanuel, Kerry; Kuang, Zhiming; Mapes, Brian; Neelin, David; Raymond, David; Sobel, Adam H.; Staten, Paul W.; Subramanian, Aneesh; Thompson, David W.; Wecchi, Gabriel; Wood, Robert and Zuidema, Paquita. The risks of contracting the acquisition and processing of the nation's weather and climate data to the private sector. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 99, Issue 5, 2018, pp.869-879. Reprint # 8285.
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9. Inoue, Kuniaki and Back, Larissa E. Gross moist stability analysis: Assessment of satellite-based products in the GMS plane. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 74, Issue 6, 2017, pp.1819-1837. Reprint # 7954.
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10. Back, Larissa E.; Hansen, Zachary and Handlos, Zachary. Estimating vertical motion profile top-heaviness: Reanalysis compared to satellite-based observations and stratiform rain fraction. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 74, Issue 3, 2017, 855–864. Reprint # 7885.
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| 11. Back, Larissa E.; Inoue, K. and Hansen, Z. R. Gross moist stability variations, the vertical structure of convection and growth of moisture anomalies. Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 32nd, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 17-22 April 2016. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2016, Abstract 3A.2. |
| 12. Hansen, Zachary R. and Back, L. E. Exploring the tropical land-ocean convective intensity difference through surface Bowen ratio variations and high percentiles of the CAPE distribution. Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 32nd, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 17-22 April 2016. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2016, Abstract 2A.3. |
| 13. Inoue, Kuniaki and Back, L. E. Gross moist stability assessment: Convective amplification and decay. Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 32nd, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 17-22 April 2016. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2016, Abstract 3A.3. |
| 14. Hansen, Zachary and Back, Larissa E. Examining diurnal cycle influences on convective intensity in idealized cloud resolving model simulations. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 December 2016. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2016, Abstract A21M-05. |
| 15. Inoue, Kuniaki and Back, Larissa E. Is gorss moist stability a useful quantity for studying the moisture mode theory?. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 December 2016. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2016, Abstract A23O-01. |
| 16. Back, Larissa E. and Inoue, Kuniaki. Geographic variability in the energetics and top-heaviness of tropical deep convection. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 December 2016. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2016, Abstract A41C-0054. |
| 17. Hansen, Zachary R. and Back, Larissa E. Higher surface Bowen ratios ineffective at increasing updraft intensity. Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 42, Issue 23, 2015, pp.10503-10511. Reprint # 7518. |
18. Inoue, Kuniaki and Back, Larissa. Column-integrated moist static energy budget analysis on various time scales during TOGA COARE. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 72, Issue 5, 2015, 1856–1871. Reprint # 7381.
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| 19. Back, Larissa E. and Inoue, K. Gross moist stability assessment during TOGA COARE: Amplification and decay of convection. Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, 20th, Minneapolis, MN, 14-19 June 2015. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2015, Abstract 17.3. |
| 20. Back, Larissa; Hansen, Zachary; Handlos, Zachary and Inoue, Kuniaki. Estimates of geographic variability in vertical motion profile bottom-heaviness. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December 2015. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2015, Abstract A54F-03. |
| 21. Inoue, Kuniaki and Back, Larissa. On diagnostic applications of gross moist stability. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December 2015. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2015, Abstract A51O-0283. |
22. Inoue, Kuniaki and Back, Larissa E. Gross moist stability assessment during TOGA COARE: Various interpretations of gross moist stability. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 72, Issue 11, 2015, 4148–4166. Reprint # 7503.
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| 23. Back, Larissa E. and Inoue, K. Convective lifecycles and convective self-amplication via below-threshhold gross moist stability. Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 31st, San Diego, CA, 31 March-4 April 2014. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2014, Abstract 13D.4. |
| 24. Shrestha, Archana; Tripoli, G. J. and Back, L. Comparison of 'cloudbursts' in Nepal and Indian Himalayas: From tropical-extratropical interaction perspective. Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 31st, San Diego, CA, 31 March-4 April 2014. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2014, Abstract 14B.5. |
| 25. Inoue, K. and Back, L. E. Moist static energy budget analysis on various time-scales during TOGA COARE. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 December 2014. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2014, Abstract A53F-3281. |