Publications:

Last updated: September 2021
[39] Nair, V., Heus, T., & van Reeuwijk, M. (2021). A Lagrangian study of interfaces at the edges of shallow cumulus clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[38] Mónica Zamora Zapata, Thijs Heus, Jan Kleissl (2021). Effects of surface and top wind shear on the spatial organization of marine Stratocumulus-topped boundary layers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
[37] Bickel, J., Bunnell, L., Heus, T. (2021). Utilizing Peer-Teaching and Metacognition on Low-Stakes Quizzes to Improve Concept Learning-Outcomes in Introductory Calculus Based Physics Classes European Journal of Physics
2020(4)
[36] Griewank, P. J., Heus, T., Lareau, N. P., and Neggers, R. A. J.: Size-dependence in chord characteristics from simulated and observed continental shallow cumulus, Atmos. Chem. Phys., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-338
[35] Barron, N., Ryan, S. D., & Heus, T. Reconciling Linear Measurements of Cloud Structures. Atmospheres.

[34] Anthony Sulak, William Calabrase, Shawn Ryan, and Thijs Heus. The Contributions of Shear and Turbulence to Cloud Overlap for Cumulus Clouds, Journal of Geophysical Research ¿ Atmospheres
[33] Nair, V., Heus, T., & van Reeuwijk, M. (2020). Dynamics of Subsiding Shells In Actively Growing Clouds With Vertical Updrafts. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[32]  Ghate, V.P., P. Kollias, S. Crewell, A.M. Fridlind, T. Heus, U. Löehnert, M. Maahn, G.M. McFarquhar, D. Moisseev, M. Oue, M. Wendisch, and C. Williams, 2019: The Second ARM Training and Science Application Event: Training the Next Generation of Atmospheric Scientists. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 100, ES5¿ES9, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0242.1
[31] Neggers, R. A. J., Griewank, P., & Heus, T. (2019). Powerlaw scaling in the internal variability of cumulus cloud size distributions due to subsampling and spatial organization.
[30] Osman, M. K., Turner, D. D., Heus, T., & Wulfmeyer, V. ( 2019). Validating the water vapor variance similarity relationship in the interfacial layer using observations and large¿eddy simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 10662¿ 10675. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030653
[29] Volker Wulfmeyer, Pd.D.; David D. Turner, PhD; Bruce Baker, PhD; Robert Banta; Andreas Behrendt; Tim Bonin; W.Alan Brewer; Michael Buban; Aditya Choukulkar; Edward Dumas; R. Michael Hardesty; Thijs Heus; Joachim Ingwersen; Diego Lange; Temple Lee; Simon Metzendorf; Shravan Muppa; Tilden Meyers; Robert Newsom; Mohammed Osman; Siegfried Raasch; Joseph Santanello; Christoph Senff; Florian Späth; Tim Wagner; Tammy Weckwerth, A New Research Approach for Observing and Characterizing Land-Atmosphere Feedback, BAMS, 2018
[28] Osman, M. K., Turner, D. D., Heus, T., & Newsom, R. (2018). Observation of water vapor turbulence profiles in stationary and well mixed convective boundary layers over the ARM Tropical Western Pacific site. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres.
[27] Ghonima, M. S., Yang, H., Heus, T., & Kleissll, J. (2017). Evaluation of WRF SCM simulations of stratocumulus topped marine boundary layers and proposed correction to improve turbulence and entrainment parameterization. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.
[26] X. Zhou, T. Heus, and P. Kollias. Influences of drizzle on stratocumulus cloudiness and organization. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2017
[25] C. van Heerwaarden, B. van Stratum, T. Heus, J. Gibbs, and E. Fedorovich. MicroHH 1.0: a computational fluid dynamics code for direct numerical simulation and large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flows. Geoscientific Model Development, 2017
[24] S. Park, T. Heus, and P. Gentine. Role of convective mixing and evaporative cooling in shallow convection. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2017

[23] Peter N. Blossey, Christopher S. Bretherton, Anning Cheng, Satoshi Endo, Thijs Heus, Adrian P. Lock, and Johan J. van der Dussen. CGILS phase 2 LES intercomparison of response of subtropical marine low cloud regimes to CO2 quadrupling and a CMIP3 composite forcing change. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, oct 2016
[22] Maren Brast, Roel A. J. Neggers, and Thijs Heus. What determines the fate of rising parcels in a heterogeneous environment? Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 8(4):1674¿1690, 2016
[21] Mohamed S. Ghonima, Thijs Heus, Joel R. Norris, and Jan Kleissl. Factors controlling stratocumulus cloud lifetime over the coast. J. Atmos. Sci., 2016
[20] G. Corbetta, E. Orlandi, T. Heus, R. Neggers and S. Crewell, Overlap statistics of shallow boundary layer clouds: Comparing ground-based observations with large-eddy simulations, Geophysical Research Letters, 2015. DOI:10.1002/2015GL065140

[19] A. Seifert, T. Heus, R. Pincus and B. Stevens, Large-eddy simulation of the transient and near-equilibrium behavior of precipitating shallow convection Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2015

[18] J. Rosch, T. Heus, M. Brueck, M. Salzmann, J. Mülmenstädt, L. Schlemmer, J. Quaas: Analysis of diagnostic climate model cloud parametrizations using large-eddy simulations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 03/2015; 141(691). DOI:10.1002/qj.2515

[17] Mohamed S. Ghonima, Joel R. Norris, Thijs Heus, Jan Kleissl: Reconciling and Validating the Cloud Thickness and Liquid Water Path Tendencies Proposed by R. Wood and J. J. van der Dussen et al.. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 02/2015; 72(5):150216120037006. DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-14-0287.1

[16] M. Sakradzija, A. Seifert, T. Heus: Fluctuations in a quasi-stationary shallow cumulus cloud ensemble. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 01/2015; 22(1):65-85. DOI:10.5194/npg-22-65-2015

[15] Jeannine Katzwinkel, Holger Siebert, Thijs Heus, and Raymond A. Shaw, 2014: Measurements of Turbulent Mixing and Subsiding Shells in Trade Wind Cumuli. J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 2810¿2822.

[14] Minghua Zhang, Christopher S Bretherton, Peter N Blossey, Phillip H Austin, Julio T Bacmeister, Sandrine Bony, Florent Brient, Suvarchal K Cheedela, Anning Cheng, Anthony D Del Genio, Stephan R De Roode, Satoshi Endo, Charmaine N Franklin, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Cecile Hannay, Thijs Heus, Francesco Alessandro Isotta, Dufresne Jean-Louis, In-Sik Kang, Hideaki Kawai, Martin Köehler, Martin Köhler, Vincent E Larson, Yangang Liu, Adrian P Lock, Ulrike Lohman, Marat F Khairoutdinov, Andrea M Molod, Roel A J Neggers, Philip Rasch, Irina Sandu, Ryan Senkbeil, A Pier Siebesma, Colombe Siegenthaler-Le, Drian, Bjorn Stevens, Max J Suarez, Kuan-Man Xu, Knut Von Salzen, Mark J Webb, Audrey Wolf, Ming Zhao: CGILS: Results from the First Phase of an International Project to Understand the Physical Mechanisms of Low Cloud Feedbacks in Single Column Models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 11/2013;  DOI:10.1002/2013MS000246

[13] Dick Abma, Thijs Heus, Juan Pedro Mellado: Direct Numerical Simulation of Evaporative Cooling at the Lateral Boundary of Shallow Cumulus Clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 07/2013; 70(7):2088-2102. DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0230.1

[12] Peter N. Blossey, Christopher S. Bretherton, Minghua Zhang, Anning Cheng, Satoshi Endo, Thijs Heus, Yangang Liu, Adrian P. Lock, Stephan R. de Roode, Kuan¿Man Xu: Marine low cloud sensitivity to an idealized climate change: The CGILS LES Intercomparison. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 06/2013; 5(2). DOI:10.1002/jame.20025

[11] A. Seifert, T. Heus: Large-eddy simulation of organized precipitating trade wind cumulus clouds. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 06/2013; 13(11):5631-5645. DOI:10.5194/acp-13-5631-2013

[10] T. Heus, A. Seifert: Automated tracking of shallow cumulus clouds in large domain, long duration Large Eddy Simulations. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions 04/2013; 6(2):2287-2323. DOI:10.5194/gmdd-6-2287-2013

[9] R. A. J. Neggers, A. P. Siebesma, T. Heus: Continuous Single-Column Model Evaluation at a Permanent Meteorological Supersite. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 09/2012; 93(9):1389-1400. DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00162.1

[8] Roel A. J. Neggers, Thijs Heus, A. Pier Siebesma: Overlap statistics of cumuliform boundary-layer cloud fields in large-eddy simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 11/2011; 116(D21). DOI:10.1029/2011JD015650

[7] Thijs Heus, Chiel C. Van Heerwaarden, H.J.J. Jonker, A. Pier Siebesma, Simon Axelsen, Kees Van den Dries, Oliver Geoffroy, A.F. Moene, D. Pino, S.R. de Roode, Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano: Formulation of the Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation (DALES) and overview of its applications. Geoscientific Model Development 09/2010; 3(2). DOI:10.5194/gmd-3-415-2010

[6] Thijs Heus, Harm J. J. Jonker, H.E.A. Van den Akker, Eric J. Griffith, Michal Koutek, Frits H. Post: A statistical approach to the life cycle analysis of cumulus clouds selected in a vitual reality environment. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 03/2009; 114:Article Number: D06208. DOI:10.1029/2008JD010917

[5] Thijs Heus, C. Freek J. Pols, Harm J. J. Jonker, Harry E. A. Van den Akker, Donald H. Lenschow: Observational validation of the compensating mass flux through the shell around cumulus clouds. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 12/2008; 135(638):101 - 112. DOI:10.1002/qj.358

[4] R. A. Verzijlbergh, Harm J J Jonker, Thijs Heus, J. Vilà-Guerau de Arellano: Turbulent dispersion in cloudy boundary layers. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 11/2008; 9(4). DOI:10.5194/acp-9-1289-2009

[3] Thijs Heus, Gertjan van Dijk, Harm J. J. Jonker, Harry E. A. van den Akker: Mixing in Shallow Cumulus Clouds Studied by Lagrangian Particle Tracking. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 08/2008; 65(8):2581-2597. DOI:10.1175/2008JAS2572.1

[2] H.J.J. Jonker, Thijs Heus, Peter P. Sullivan: A refined view of vertical mass transport by cumulus convection. Geophysical Research Letters 04/2008; 35(7). DOI:10.1029/2007GL032606

[1] Thijs Heus, Harm J. J. Jonker: Subsiding Shells around Shallow Cumulus Clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 03/2008; 65(3). DOI:10.1175/2007JAS2322.1