Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications (17 out of 27 publications)

▪   Erfani, E., N. Burls, and B. Cash (2025). Strongly forced North Atlantic decadal variability within anomaly initialized CESM2 decadal reforecast experiments. Paper in preparation.

▪   Erfani, E., and N. Burls (2025). The role of surface shortwave flux correction in reducing climatological temperature biases. Paper draft ready.

▪ Erfani, E. and Hosseinpour, F. E. (2025). A Novel Approach for Reliable Classification of Marine Low Cloud Morphologies with Vision–Language Models. Atmosphere. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16111252 

▪  Erfani, E. and Mitchell, D. L. (2025). Constraining a Radiative Transfer Model with Satellite Retrievals: Implications for Cirrus Cloud Thinning. EGUsphere, 2025, 1-44. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1165 

▪   Sun, H., Blossey, P., Wood, R., Erfani, E., Doherty, S., Chun, J. (2025). Using Large Eddy Simulations to Study How Climate Change Influences Aerosol-Cloud Interactions. arXiv (Submitted to Science Advances), https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.01319

▪ Erfani, E., Wood, R., Blossey, P., Doherty, S. J., Eastman, R. (2025). Building a comprehensive library of observed Lagrangian trajectories for testing modeled cloud evolution, aerosol-cloud interactions and marine cloud brightening. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 8743–8768, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-8743-2025 

▪Erfani, E. (2025). Investigating the Relationship between El Niño Southern Oscillation and Cirrus Clouds. Final report to NASA EPSCoR, 10pp. http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13337.33120

▪   Mitchell, D. and Erfani, E. (2025). Cirrus Cloud Thinning. In Geoengineering and Climate Change, M. Beech (Ed.), 297-306, Wiley, USA https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394204847.ch18

▪   Tierney, J., King, J., Osman, M., Abell, J., Burls, N., Erfani, E., Cooper, V., Feng, R. (2024). Pliocene warmth and patterns of temperature and hydroclimate change inferred from paleoclimate data assimilation, under review for AGU Advances, 6, e2024AV001356. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024AV001356 

▪   Mehdizadeh, G., Erfani, E., McDonough, F., Hosseinpour, F. (2024). Quantifying the Influence of Cloud Seeding on Ice Particle Growth and Snowfall Through Idealized Microphysical Modeling. Atmosphere, 15(12), 1460. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15121460

▪   Erfani, E. (2024). The Impacts of Western US Wildfire Smoke on Clouds, Radiation, and Precipitation. Final report to NASA EPSCoR, 10pp. http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35436.37762

▪   Erfani, E., and Mitchell, D., (2024). Development of a Snow Growth Model for Rimed Snowfall, EarthArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31223/X5QM51

▪   Erfani, E., Blossey, P., Wood, R., Mohrmann, J., Doherty, S. J., Wyant, M., and O, K. (2022). Simulating aerosol lifecycle impacts on the subtropical stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition using large-eddy simulations. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 127, e2022JD037258, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037258

▪   Khalid, A., Miesse, T., Erfani, E., et al. (2021). Evaluating storm surge predictability on subseasonal timescales for flood forecasting applications: A case study for Hurricane Isabel and Katrina. Wea. Clim. Extremes, 100378, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100378

▪   Erfani, E., Mitchell, D. (2021). Progress in understanding North American monsoon using a climate model, Acad. Lett., 2, AL463, https://doi.org/10.20935/AL463

▪   Erfani, E., and Burls, N. (2019). The strength of cloud feedbacks and tropical climate: a CESM sensitivity study. J. Clim., 32(9), 2497-2516, doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0551.1

▪   Lawson, P., Woods, S., Jensen, E., Erfani, E., et al. (2019). A review of ice particle shapes in cirrus formed in situ and in anvils. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 124(17-18), 10049-10090, doi.org/10.1029/2018JD030122

▪   Mitchell, D., Garnier, A., Pelon, J., and Erfani, E. (2018). CALIPSO (IIR-CALIOP) retrievals of cirrus cloud ice particle concentrations. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 17325-17354, doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17325-2018

▪   Erfani, E., and Mitchell, D. (2017). Growth of ice particle mass and projected area during riming. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 1241-1257, doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1241-2017

▪   Eidhammer, T., Morrison, H., Mitchell, D., Gettelman, A., and Erfani, E. (2017). Improvements in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM5) microphysics using a new, consistent representation of ice particle properties. J. Clim., 30(2), 609-629, doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0050.1 

▪   Erfani, E., and Mitchell, D. (2016). Developing and bounding ice particle mass- and area-dimension expressions for use in atmospheric models and remote sensing. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4379-4400, doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4379-2016

▪   Mitchell, D. L., Garnier, A., Avery, M., and Erfani, E. (2016). CALIPSO observations of the dependence of homo- and heterogeneous ice nucleation in cirrus clouds on latitude, season, and surface condition. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., doi.org/10.5194/acp-2016-1062

▪   Erfani, E. (2016). A partial mechanistic understanding of North American monsoon and microphysical properties of ice particles. University of Nevada-Reno, Ph.D. Dissertation, 229 pp, http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.26526.79685

▪   Mitchell, D., Erfani, E., Garnier, A., Lawson, P., Morrison, H., & Avery, M. (2016). Final DOE-ASR report for the project “advancing our understanding and the remote sensing of ice clouds” (No. DOE-DRI-0008871). DRI, Reno, NV, USA, https://doi.org/10.2172/1337701 

▪   Erfani, E., and Mitchell, D. (2014). A partial mechanistic understanding of the North American monsoon, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 13,096–13,115, doi.org/10.1002/2014JD022038

▪   Erfani, E., and Mitchell, D. (2015). Evolution of snow-size spectra by the growth processes of vapor deposition, aggregation, and riming. Proceedings of the AMS 95th Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 4-8 Jan. 2015, (conference paper) http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.26928.64009 

▪   Erfani, E., and Mitchell, D. (2013). Mechanisms for the onset and evolution of North American monsoon. Proceedings of 38th NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, College Park, MD, 21-24 Oct. 2013, (conference paper) http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17772.74885

▪   Erfani, E., Mitchell, D., Ivanova, D. (2013). Mechanisms governing the onset, extent, and strength of the North American monsoon. Proceedings of the 14th Annual WRF Users' Workshop, Boulder, CO, 24-28 Jun. 2013, (conference paper) http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28677.93923/2

▪   Erfani, E., Mohebalhojeh, A. R., and Farahani, M. (2010). A case study of orographically modified synoptic cyclones in the lee of Alborz Mountains. Proceedings of Annual International Fluid Dynamics Conference, Shiraz, 26-28 Oct. 2010, paper no. 103, (conference paper)

▪   Erfani, E. (2009). A case study of the interaction of mid-tropospheric Rossby waves in the Caspian Sea and Alborz Mountains in 2007-08 winter, University of Toran, M.Sc. Thesis, 118 pp, http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21493.63206

Invited Talks

▪   Erfani, E., 2022: (Invited Talk) Simulating Aerosol Impacts on the Stratocumulus-to-Cumulus Transition, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, 16 Jun. 2022.

▪   Erfani, E., 2020: (Invited Talk) Progress in Understanding Ice Particles Properties, University of Washington, Virtual, 30 Oct. 2020. 

▪   Erfani, E., 2019: (Invited Talk) A CESM Sensitivity Study of The Strength of Cloud Feedbacks, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, 19 Feb. 2019.