CMSS @ CCU
Var Limpasuvan

Doctorate Dissertation

• Limpasuvan, V., 1998: Tropical Dynamics near the Stratopause: the Two-day Wave and Its relatives, University of Washington, 234 pp.

Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Lecture

• Limpasuvan, V., 2010: Diagnosing the beating heart of our atmosphere: a puzzle for future generations, Coastal Carolina University, 36 pp.

Peer-reviewed Journals

• Rhodes, C. T., V. Limpasuvan, Y. J. Orsolini, 2023: The Composite Response of Traveling Planetary Waves in the Middle Atmosphere Surrounding Sudden Stratospheric Warmings through na Over-reflection Perspective, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-22-0266.1.


• Orsolini, Y. J, J. Zhang, V. Limpasuvan, 2022: Abrupt Change in the Lower Thermospheric Mean Meridional Circulation during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and its Impact on Trace Species, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, doi:10.1029/2022JD037050.


• Zhang, J., Y. J. Orsolini, V. Limpasuvan, J. Ukita, 2022: Impact of the Pacific sector sea ice loss on the sudden stratospheric warming characteristics, npj Clim Atmos Sci, doi:10.1038/s41612-022-00296-w.


• Rhodes, C. T., V. Limpasuvan, Y. J. Orsolini, 2021: Eastward-Propagating Planetary Waves Prior to the January 2009 Sudden Stratospheric Warming, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, doi:10.1029/2020jd033696.


• Zhang, J., V. Limpasuvan, Y. J. Orsolini, P. Espy, R. Hibbins, 2021: Climatological Westward-Propagating Semidiurnal Tides and their Composite Response to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings in SuperDARN and SD-WACCM-X, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 126, doi:10.1029/2020jd032895.


• Seidai, N., T. O. Sato, T. Yamada1, T. Fujinawa, K. Kuribayashi, T. Manabe, L. Froidevaux, N. J. Livesey, K. A. Walker, J. Xu, F. Schreier, Y. J. Orsolini, V. Limpasuvan, N. Kuno, Y. Kasai, 2020: Validation of SMILES HCl profiles over a wide range from the stratosphere to the lower thermosphere, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 13, 6837-6852, doi:10.5194/amt-13-6837-2020.


• Guttu, S., Y. J. Orsolini, F. Stordal, V. Limpasuvan, D. R. Marsh, 2020: WACCM simulations: Decadal winter-to-spring climate impact on middle atmosphere and troposphere from medium energy electron precipitation, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar–Terrestrial Physics, 209, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2020.105382.


• Hibbins, R. E., P. J. Espy, Y. J. Orsolini, V. Limpasuvan, and R. J. Barnes, 2019: SuperDARN observations of semidiurnal tidal variability in the MLT and the response to sudden stratospheric warming events, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2018JD030157. [EOS Editor's Highligth: "Polar Vortex Deformation Change Tidal Weather in the Mesosphere"].


• Smith-Johnsen, C, Y. J. Orsolini, F. Stordal, V. Limpasuvan, and K. Pérot, 2018: Nighttime Mesospheric Ozone During the 2002 Southern Hemispheric Major Stratospheric Warming, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2017.12.018.


• Orsolini, Y. J., V. Limpasuvan, K. Pérot, P. J. Espy, R. Hibbins, S. Lossow, K. R. Larsson, D. Murtagh, 2017: Modelling the descent of NO during the Elevated Stratopause Event of January 2013, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 155, 50-61.


• Jacobs, C.N., W. Merchant, M. Jendrassak, V. Limpasuvan, R. Gurka, and E.E. Hackett, 2016: Flow scales of influence on the settling velocities of particles with varying characteristics, PLOS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159645.


• Limpasuvan, V., Y. J. Orsolini, A. Chandran, R. R. Garcia, and A. K. Smith, 2016: On the Composite Response of the MLT to Major Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events with Elevated Stratopause, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1002/2015JD024401.


• Gong, J., D. L. Wu, and V. Limpasuvan, 2015: Meridionally-tilted ice cloud structures in the tropical Upper Troposphere as seen by CloudSat, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15, 6271-6281, doi:10.5194/acp-15-6271-2015.


• Stray, N. H., Y. J. Orsolini, P. J. Espy, V. Limpasuvan, and R. E. Hibbins, 2015: Observations of Planetary Waves in the Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere during Stratospheric Warming Events, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15, 4997-5005, doi:10.5194/acp-15-4997-2015.


• Stray, N. H., P. J. Espy, V. Limpasuvan, and R. E. Hibbins, 2015: Characterisation of Quasi-Stationary Planetary Wave in the Northern MLT during Summer, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 127, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2014.12.003.


• De Wit, R. J., R. E. Hibbins, P. J. Espy,Y. J. Orsolini, V. Limpasuvan, and D. Kinnison, 2014: Observations of gravity wave forcing of the mesopause region during the January 2013 major Sudden Stratospheric Warming, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, doi:10.1002/2014GL060501.


• Tweedy, O. V., V. Limpasuvan, Y. J. Orsolini, A. K. Smith, R. Garcia, C. Randall, O.-K. Kvissel, D. Kinnison, F. Stordal, V. Harvey, and A. Chandran, 2013: Nighttime Secondary Ozone Layer during Major Stratospheric Sudden Warmings in Specified-Dynamics WACCM, Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50651.


• Limpasuvan, V., J. H. Richter, Y. J. Orsolini, F. Stordal, and O.-K. Kvissel, 2012: The roles of planetary and gravity waves during a major stratospheric sudden warming as characterized by WACCM, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 78-79, p. 84-98.


• Kvissel, O.-K., Y. J. Orsolini, F. Stordal, V. Limpasuvan, J. H. Richter, and D. R. Marsh, 2012: Mesospheric intrusion and anomalous chemistry during and after a major stratospheric sudden warming, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 78-79. p. 116-124.


• Limpasuvan, V., M. J. Alexander, Y. J. Orsolini, D. L. Wu, M. Xue, J.H. Richter, and C. Yamashita, 2011: Mesoscale Simulations of Gravity Waves during the 2009 Major Stratospheric Sudden Warming, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D17104, doi:10.1029/2010JD015190.


• Orsolini, Y. J., J. Urban, D. P. Murtagh, S. Lossow, and V. Limpasuvan, 2010: Descent from the polar mesosphere and anomalously high stratopause observed in 8 years of water vapor and temperature satellite observations by the Odin Sub-Millimeter Radiometer, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D12305, doi:10.1029/2009JD013501.


• Limpasuvan, V. and D. L. Wu, 2009: Anomalous Two-day Wave Behavior during the 2006 Austral Summer, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L04807, doi:10.1029/2008GL036387.


• Jiang, X., S. Pawson, C. D. Camp, J. E. Nelson, R.-L. Shia, T. Liao, V. Limpasuvan, and Y. L. Yung, 2008: Interannual variability and trends of extratropical ozone Part I: Northern Hemisphere, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 65, doi:10.1175/2008JAS2665.1.


• Jiang, X., S. Pawson, C. D. Camp, J. E. Nelson, R.-L. Shia, T. Liao, V. Limpasuvan, and Y. L. Yung, 2008: Interannual variability and trends of extratropical ozone Part II: Southern Hemisphere, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 65, doi: 10.1175/2008JAS2793.1.


• Wu, D.L., M. J. Schwartz, J. W. Waters, V. Limpasuvan, Q. Wu, T. L. Killeen, 2008: Mesospheric Doppler Wind Measurements from Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS), Advances in Space Research, doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.06.014.


• Limpasuvan, V., D. L. Wu, M. Joan Alexander, M. Xue, M. Hu, S. Pawson, and J. R. Perkins, 2007:, Stratospheric gravity wave simulation over Greenland during 24 January 2005, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres,112, D10115, doi:10.1029/2006JD007823.


• Limpasuvan, V., D. L. Hartmann, D. W. J. Thompson, K. Jeev, and Y. L. Yung, 2005: Stratosphere-troposphere evolution during polar vortex intensification, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 110, D24101, doi:10.1029/2005JD006302.


• Limpasuvan, V., D. L. Wu, M. J. Schwartz, J. W. Waters, Q. Wu, and T. L. Killeen, 2005: The two-day wave in EOS MLS temperature and wind measurements during 2004-2005 winter, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L17809, doi:10.1029/2005GL023396.


• Limpasuvan, V., D. W. J. Thompson, and D. L. Hartmann, 2005: Reply to Comments on "The life cycle of Northern Hemisphere sudden stratospheric warmings", Journal of Climate, 18, 2778-2780


• Limpasuvan, V., D. W. J. Thompson, and D. L. Hartmann, 2004: The life cycle of Northern Hemisphere sudden stratospheric warmings, Journal of Climate, 17, 2584-2596.


• Hartmann, D. L. and V. Limpasuvan, 2004: The stratosphere in the climate system, Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC), World Climate Research Programme, 22, January 2004.


• Limpasuvan, V. and D. L. Wu, 2003: Two-day wave observations of UARS-MLS mesospheric water vapor and temperature, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, Vol. 108, No. D10, 4307, doi:10.1029/2002JD002903.


• Orsolini, Y. J. and V. Limpasuvan, 2001: The North Atlantic Oscillation and the occurrence of ozone mini-holes, Geophysical Research Letters, 20, 4099-4102.


• Limpasuvan, V. and D. L. Hartmann, 2000: Wave-maintained annular modes of climate variability, Journal of Climate, 13, 4414-4429.


• Limpasuvan, V., C. B. Leovy, Y. J. Orsolini, and B. A. Boville, 2000: A numerical simulation of the two-day wave near the stratopause, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 57, 1702-1717.


• Limpasuvan, V., C. B. Leovy, and Y. J. Orsolini, 2000: Observed temperature two-day wave and its relatives near the stratopause, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 57, 1689-1701.


• Hartmann, D. L., J. M. Wallace, V. Limpasuvan, D. W. J. Thompson, and J. R.Holton, 2000: Can ozone depletion and global warming interact to produce rapid climate change?, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 1412-1417.


• Limpasuvan, V. and D. L. Hartmann, 1999: Eddies and the annular modes of climate variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 3133-3136.


• Orsolini, Y. J., V. Limpasuvan, and C. B. Leovy, 1997:The tropical stratopause in the UKMO stratospheric analyses: Evidence for a 2-day wave and inertial circulations, Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, 123, 1707-1724.


• Limpasuvan, V. and C. B. Leovy, 1995: Observations of the two-day wave near the southern summer stratopause,Geophysical Research Letters, 22, 2385-2388.