HR job title
- Associate Professor
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Rapp, Anita Associate Professor
Positions
- Associate Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
My research interests are in the remote sensing of clouds and precipitation and their application in studying the hydrologic cycle, energy budget, and climate change. Currently my focus is on combining data from multiple satellite sensors to investigate ITCZ deep convection and the role of shallow cumulus and stratocumulus clouds in the tropics and subtropics.
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Chang, K., Bowman, K. P., & Rapp, A. D.
(2023).
Transport and Confinement of Plumes From Tropopause-Overshooting Convection Over the Contiguous United States During the Warm Season. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
128(2),
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Wodzicki, K. R., & Rapp, A. D.
(2022).
More Intense, Organized Deep Convection With Shrinking Tropical Ascent Regions. Geophysical Research Letters.
49(15),
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Sun, L. u., Rapp, A. D., L'Ecuyer, T. S., Daloz, A. S., & Nelson, E.
(2022).
Environmental Response in Coupled Energy and Water Cloud Impact Parameters Derived from A-Train Satellites, ERA-Interim, and MERRA-2. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
61(3), 261-276.
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Smalley, K. M., & Rapp, A. D.
(2021).
The impact of rain rate, raining patch size, and spacing on southeastern Pacific cloud fraction transitions. Environmental Research Communications.
3(5), 051001-051001.
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Smalley, K. M., & Rapp, A. D.
(2021).
A-Train estimates of the sensitivity of the cloud-to-rainwater ratio to cloud size, relative humidity, and aerosols. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
21(4), 2765-2779.
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Chang, K., Bowman, K. P., Siu, L. W., & Rapp, A. D.
(2021).
Convective forcing of the North American Monsoon anticyclone at intraseasonal and interannual time scales. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
78(9), 2941-2956.
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Wodzicki, K. R., & Rapp, A. D.
(2020).
Variations in Precipitating Convective Feature Populations with ITCZ Width in the Pacific Ocean. 33(10), 4391-4401.
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Smalley, K. M., & Rapp, A. D.
(2020).
The Role of Cloud Size and Environmental Moisture in Shallow Cumulus Precipitation. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
59(3), 535-550.
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Ren, T., Rapp, A. D., Mecikalski, J. R., & Apke, J.
(2019).
Lightning and Associated Convection Features in the Presence of Absorbing Aerosols Over Northern Alabama. 124(23), 13375-13396.
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Bartos, E. A., Rapp, A. D., & Wodzicki, K. R.
(2018).
Increasing Frequency of Midtropospheric Dry Layers in the Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone. Geophysical Research Letters.
45(24), 13523-13529.
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Byrne, M. P., Pendergrass, A. G., Rapp, A. D., & Wodzicki, K. R.
(2018).
Response of the Intertropical Convergence Zone to Climate Change: Location, Width, and Strength. Current Climate Change Reports.
4(4), 355-370.
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Daloz, A. S., Nelson, E., L'Ecuyer, T., Rapp, A. D., & Sun, L.
(2018).
Assessing the Coupled Influences of Clouds on the Atmospheric Energy and Water Cycles in Reanalyses with A-Train Observations. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE.
31(20), 8241-8264.
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Ren, T., Rapp, A. D., Nasiri, S. L., Mecikalski, J. R., & Apke, J.
(2018).
Is the Awareness of the Aerosol State Useful in Predicting Enhanced Lightning for Lightning-Producing Storms over Northern Alabama?. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
57(8), 1663-1681.
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Stephens, G. L., Hakuba, M. Z., Webb, M. J., Lebsock, M., Yue, Q., Kahn, B. H., ... Slingo, J.
(2018).
Regional Intensification of the Tropical Hydrological Cycle During ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters.
45(9), 4361-4370.
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Yi, B., Rapp, A. D., Yang, P., Baum, B. A., & King, M. D.
(2017).
A comparison of Aqua MODIS ice and liquid water cloud physical and optical properties between collection 6 and collection 5.1: Cloud radiative effects. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
122(8), 4550-4564.
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Yi, B., Rapp, A. D., Yang, P., Baum, B. A., & King, M. D.
(2017).
A comparison of Aqua MODIS ice and liquid water cloud physical and optical properties between collection 6 and collection 5.1: Pixel-to-pixel comparisons. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
122(8), 4528-4549.
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Rapp, A. D.
(2016).
Observational evidence linking precipitation and mesoscale cloud fraction in the southeast Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters.
43(13), 7267-7273.
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Wodzicki, K. R., & Rapp, A. D.
(2016).
Long-term characterization of the Pacific ITCZ using TRMM, GPCP, and ERA-Interim. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
121(7), 3153-3170.
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Ford, T. W., Quiring, S. M., Frauenfeld, O. W., & Rapp, A. D.
(2015).
Synoptic conditions related to soil moisture-atmosphere interactions and unorganized convection in Oklahoma. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
120(22), 11-535.
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Rapp, A. D.
(2015).
Cloud responses in the AMIP simulations of CMIP5 models in the southeastern Pacific marine subsidence region. International Journal of Climatology.
35(10), 2908-2921.
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Ford, T. W., Rapp, A. D., & Quiring, S. M.
(2015).
Does Afternoon Precipitation Occur Preferentially over Dry or Wet Soils in Oklahoma?. Journal of Hydrometeorology.
16(2), 874-888.
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Ford, T. W., Rapp, A. D., Quiring, S. M., & Blake, J.
(2015).
Soil moisture-precipitation coupling: observations from the Oklahoma Mesonet and underlying physical mechanisms. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
19(8), 3617-3631.
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Ford, T. W., Rapp, A. D., Quiring, S. M., & Blake, J.
(2015).
Soil moistureprecipitation coupling: observations from the Oklahoma Mesonet and underlying physical mechanisms. 12(3), 3205-3243.
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Rapp, A. D., Peterson, A. G., Frauenfeld, O. W., Quiring, S. M., & Roark, E. B.
(2014).
Climatology of Storm Characteristics in Costa Rica using the TRMM Precipitation Radar. Journal of Hydrometeorology.
15(6), 2615-2633.
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Teale, N. G., Mahan, H., Bleakney, S., Berger, A., Shibley, N., Frauenfeld, O. W., ... Washington-Allen, R.
(2014).
Impacts of Vegetation and Precipitation on Throughfall Heterogeneity in a Tropical Pre-Montane Transitional Cloud Forest. 46(6), 667-676.
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DePasquale, A., Schumacher, C., & Rapp, A.
(2014).
Radar observations of MJO and Kelvin wave interactions during DYNAMO/CINDY2011/AMIE. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
119(11), 6347-6367.
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Rapp, A. D., Lebsock, M., & L'Ecuyer, T.
(2013).
Low cloud precipitation climatology in the southeastern Pacific marine stratocumulus region using CloudSat. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS.
8(1), 014027-014027.
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Rapp, A. D., Kummerow, C. D., & Fowler, L.
(2011).
Interactions between warm rain clouds and atmospheric preconditioning for deep convection in the tropics. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
116(D23), n/a-n/a.
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Rapp, A. D., Elsaesser, G., & Kummerow, C.
(2009).
A Combined Multisensor Optimal Estimation Retrieval Algorithm for Oceanic Warm Rain Clouds. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
48(11), 2242-2256.
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Rapp, A. D., Lebsock, M., & Kummerow, C.
(2009).
On the Consequences of Resampling Microwave Radiometer Observations for Use in Retrieval Algorithms. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
48(9), 1981-1993.
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Rapp, A. D., Kummerow, C., Berg, W., & Griffith, B
(2005).
Shedding light on the adaptive infrared iris hypothesis. Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS).
86(12), 1727-1728.
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Rapp, A. D., Kummerow, C., Berg, W., & Griffith, B.
(2005).
An evaluation of the proposed mechanism of the adaptive infrared iris hypothesis using TRMM VIRS and PR measurements. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE.
18(20), 4185-4194.
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Dong, X. Q., Minnis, P., Mace, G. G., Smith, W. L., Poellot, M., Marchand, R. T., & Rapp, A. D.
(2002).
Comparison of stratus cloud properties deduced from surface, GOES, and aircraft data during the March 2000 ARM cloud IOP. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
59(23), 3265-3284.
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Chang, K., Bowman, K. P., & Rapp, A. D.
(2023).
Transport and Confinement of Plumes From Tropopause-Overshooting Convection Over the Contiguous United States During the Warm Season. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
128(2),
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conference paper
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Rapp, A. D., Doelling, D. R., Khaiyer, M. M., Minnis, P., Smith, W. L., & Nguyen, L.
(2002).
Analysis of solar absorption derived from ARM surface and satellite measurements. 43-46.
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Smith, W. L., Minnis, P., Bernstein, B. C., Rapp, A. D., & Heck, P. W.
(2002).
Supercooled liquid water cloud properties derived from goes: Comparisons with in-situ aircraft measurements. 89-92.
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Rapp, A. D., Doelling, D. R., Khaiyer, M. M., Minnis, P., Smith, W. L., & Nguyen, L.
(2002).
Analysis of solar absorption derived from ARM surface and satellite measurements. 43-46.
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institutional repository document
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Chang, K., Bowman, K. P., & Rapp, A. D.
(2022).
Transport and Confinement of Plumes from Tropopause-Overshooting Convection over the Contiguous United States During the Warm Season
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Smalley, K. M., & Rapp, A. D.
(2020).
A-Train estimates of the sensitivity of warm rain likelihood and efficiency to cloud size, environmental moisture, and aerosols
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Chang, K., Bowman, K. P., & Rapp, A. D.
(2022).
Transport and Confinement of Plumes from Tropopause-Overshooting Convection over the Contiguous United States During the Warm Season
Research
principal investigator on
- Constraining Cloud Feedback Responses Associated With Precipitating Cloud awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2022 - 2025
- Constraining Drivers Of Tropical Precipitating Cloud Shield Areas Across awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2022 - 2025
- Global And Regional Water And Energy Variations Under A Changing Climate (Rapp, Anita) awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2020 - 2023
- Targeted Mobile Measurements to Isolate the Impacts of Aerosols and Meteorology on Deep Convection awarded by Office of Science - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2020 - 2023
- Towards understanding variability in precipitation-anvil area relationships awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2019 - 2022
- Detection of precipitation onset with implications for passive microwave rainfall retrievals awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2014 - 2020
- Multi-parameter diagnostics of cloud influences on the atmospheric energy and water cycle awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2015 - 2018
- Collaborative Research: Understanding Relationships between Dual-Polarimetric In-cloud Microphysics and Satellite-Observed Cumulus Cloud Properties to Predict Lightning Character awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2013 - 2018
- Local and remote effects of subtropical cumulus convection awarded by Goddard Space Flight Center - (Greenbelt, Maryland, United States) 2013 - 2018
- In Tropical and Subtropical Regions Dominated by Stratocumulus and Shallow Cumulus, Rainfall is Driven Primarily by the Warm Rain Process. Recent Estimates in these Regimes show Noticeable Differences in both precipitation occurrence and rates between act awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2014 - 2017
- Quantifying the Water and Energy Budgets of Marine Subsidence Regions awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2012 - 2015
- Rapid: Evaluation of Climate Models In the Southeast Pacific Marine Stratocumulus Region awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2011 - 2013
co-principal investigator on
Teaching
teaching activities
- ATMO201 Weather & Climate Instructor
- ATMO441 Satellite Met Rem Sens Instructor
- ATMO446 Physical Meteorology Instructor
- ATMO484 Internship Instructor
- ATMO485 Directed Studies Instructor
- ATMO491 Research Instructor
- ATMO655 Satellite Data In Metr Instructor
- ATMO681 Seminar Instructor
- ATMO691 Research Instructor
- ATMO691 Research Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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DePasquale, Amanda Michele (2013-07). Radar Observations of MJO and Kelvin Wave Interactions During DYNAMO/AMIE/CINDY2011.
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Howard, Corey Storm (2018-07). How Well Do Era-Interim and Merra-2 Capture ITCZ Characteristics and Precipitation?.
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Marter Jr., Robert Edward (2017-08). Passive Microwave Precipitation Detection Biases: Relationship to Cloud Properties.
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Ren, Tong (2018-10). Aerosol Lightning Enhancement over Northern Alabama: Predictions, Mechanisms, and Simulations.
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Smalley, Kevin (2020-09). A-train Analysis of Low Cloud Structure, Organization, and Warm Rain.
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Sun, Lu (2019-04). Cloud Impact Parameters Derived from A-Train Satellite, ERA-Interim, MERRA-2 and Their Relationship to the Environment.
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Sutphin, Alisha Brooke (2013-07). Characteristics of Tropical Midlevel Clouds Using A-Train Measurements.
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Wodzicki, Kyle R (2021-03). Changes in Tropical Convection and Cloud Populations With ITCZ Width and Implications for the Hadley Circulation.
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Wodzicki, Kyle Robert (2015-11). A Climatology of Pacific ITCZ Characteristics from an Automated, Objective Algorithm.
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Zapalac, Allison (2014-12). Characteristics of a Marine Stratocumulus to Cumulus Cloud Transition.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University - (Fort Collins, Colorado, United States) 2008
- M.S. in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University - (Fort Collins, Colorado, United States) 2004
- B.S. in Meteorology, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2000
awards and honors
- Montague Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Scholar, conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States), 2017
- Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Distinguished Achievement Award, The, conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States), 2016
Contact
first name
- Anita
has last name
- Rapp
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Meteorology
3150 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3150
USA
Other
- arapp@tamu.edu