Julia Lu

Assistant Scientist

Spalding 1st Floor
email: julialu [AT] caltech
fax: (626) 796-2591

Ph.D., Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology
B.S. and M.S., Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipai, Taiwan

link to personal website

Research Interests

Aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions, large eddy simulation of marine stratocumulus

Publications

Lu, M.-L., R. A. McClatchey, and J. H. Seinfeld, 2002: Cloud halos: numerical simulation of dynamical structure and radiative impact. J. Appl. Meteor., 41, 832-848.

Lu, M.-L., J. Wang, A. Freedman, H. H., Jonsson, R. C. Flagan, R. A. McClatchey, and J. H., Seinfeld, 2003: Analysis of humidity halos around trade wind cumulus clouds., J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1041-1059.

Lu, M.-L. and J. H. Seinfeld, 2005: Study of the aerosol indirect effect by large-eddy simulation of marine stratocumulus. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 3909-3932

Lu, M.-L. and J. H. Seinfeld, 2006: Effect of aerosol number concentration on cloud droplet dispersion: An LES study and implications for aerosol indirect forcing. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D02207, doi:10.1029/2005JD006419.

Sorooshian, A., M.-L. Lu, F. J. Brechtel, H. Jonsson, G. Feingold, R. C. Flagan, J. H. Seinfeld, 2007: On the source of organic acid layers above clouds, Env. Sci. Tech.,doi:10.1021/es0630442

Lu, M.-L., W. C. Conant, H. H. Jonsson, V. Varutbangkul, R. C. Flagan, and J. H. Seinfeld, 2007: The Marine Stratus/Stratocumulus Experiment (MASE): Aerosol-cloud relationships in marine stratocumulus, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029:/2006JD007985.