Carmen Nicole Moelders - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Moelders has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books.

• Mölders, N., 2011: Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes: Impact on Climate and Air Quality. Springer, 210 pp.

• Mölders, N., Tran, H.N.Q., Cahill, C.F., Leelasakultum, K., Tran, T.T., 2012: Assessment of WRF/Chem PM2.5-forecasts using mobile and fixed location data from the Fairbanks, Alaska winter 2008/09 field campaign. Atmos. Pol. Res. 3, doi: 10.5094/APR.2012.018.

• Mölders, N., Porter, S.E., Cahill, C.F., Grell, G.A., 2010: Influence of ship emissions on air quality and input of contaminants in southern Alaska National Parks and Wilderness Areas during the 2006 tourist season. Atmos. Environ. 44, 1400-1413.

• Mölders, N., Kramm, G., 2010. A case study on wintertime inversions in Interior Alaska with WRF. Atmos. Res. 95, 314-332,

• PaiMazumder, D., Miller, J., Li, Z., Walsh, J.E., Etringer, A., McCreight, J., Zhang, T., Mölders, N., 2008. Evaluation of Community Climate System Model soil temperatures using observations from Russia. Theor. Appl. Climatol. 94, 187-213.

• Mölders, N., 2008. Suitability of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to predict the June 2005 fire weather for Interior Alaska. Wea. Forecast. 23, 953-973.

• Li, Z., Mölders, N., 2008. Interaction of impacts of doubling CO2 and changing regional land-cover on evaporation, precipitation, and runoff at global and regional scales. Int. J. Climatol.

• Mölders, N., Kramm, G., 2007. Influence of wildfire induced land-cover changes on clouds and precipitation in Interior Alaska - A case study. Atmospheric Research 84, 142-168.

• Narapusetty, B., Mölders, N., 2006. Evaluation of the soil module of HTSVS by observations and a theoretically advanced numerical scheme. Mon. Wea. Rev. 134, 2927-2942.

• Mölders, N., Walsh, J.E., 2004. Atmospheric response to soil-frost and snow in Alaska in March. Theor. Appl. Climat. 77, 77-105.

• Mölders, N., Haferkorn, U., Döring, J., Kramm, G., 2003. Long-term numerical investigations on the water budget quantities predicted by the hydro-thermodynamic soil vegetation scheme (HTSVS) - Part I: Description of the model and impact of long-wave radiation, roots, snow, and soil frost. Meteor. Atmos. Phys. 84, 115-135.

• Mölders, N., Rühaak, W., 2002. On the impact of explicitly predicted runoff on the simulated atmospheric response to small-scale land-use changes - An integrated modeling approach. Atmospheric Research 63, 3-38.

• Mölders, N., 2001. On the uncertainty in mesoscale modeling caused by surface parameters. Meteor. Atmos. Phys. 76, 119-141.

• Mölders, N., 2000. Application of the principle of superposition to detect nonlinearity in the short-term atmospheric response to concurrent land-use changes associated with future landscapes. Meteor. Atmos. Phys. 72, 47-68.

• Mölders, N., 1999. On the atmospheric response to urbanization and open-pit mining under various geostrophic wind conditions. Meteor. Atmos. Phys. 71, 205-228.

• Mölders, N., 1998. Landscape changes over a region in East Germany and their impact upon the processes of its atmospheric water-cycle. Meteor. Atmos. Phys. 68, 79-98.

• Mölders, N., Raabe, A., 1997. Testing the effect of a two-way-coupling of a meteorological and a hydrologic model on the predicted local weather. Atmospheric Research 45,81-108.

• Mölders, N., Raabe, A., Tetzlaff, G., 1996. A comparison of two strategies on land surface heterogeneity used in a mesoscale beta meteorological model. Tellus 48A, 733-749.

• Mölders, N., Laube, M., Kramm, G., 1995. On the parameterization of ice microphysics in a mesoscale alpha weather forecast model. Atmospheric Research 38, 207-235.

• Mölders, N., Hass, H., Jakobs, H.J., Laube, M., Ebel, A., 1994. Some effects of different cloud parameterizations in a mesoscale model and a chemistry transport model. J. Appl. Meteor. 33, 527-545.