About Me

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Animations & Highlights

• Frontiers in Earth Science Special Issue  |  Resolving Atmospheric Flow in Complex Environments: Recent Experiments in Terrain and Forest Canopies
• New book chapter published  |  What's Next: Boundary Layer Prediction Methods (Ch. 5) in Conceptual Boundary Layer Meteorology: The Air Near Here
• DOE newsletter feature  |  Improved WRF forecasts of cold pools in the Columbia River Basin
• DOE newsletter feature  |  Animation  |  Large-eddy simulation of wind turbine response to a frontal passage event using WRF with an actuator disk model
• LLNL News feature  |  Animation  |  Large-eddy simulation of nuclear cloud rise in WRF with dynamic downscaling of historical reanalysis data
• Animation  |  WRF-Chem simulation of nuclear cloud rise with aerosol-microphysics interactions and wet deposition
• NARAC feature  |  Animation  |  High-resolution modeling of downslope flows in the atmospheric boundary layer over complex terrain using WRF-IBM
• 3D animation  |  Particle transport animation  |  Direct numerical simulations of breaking internal waves on slopes to study transport and turbulent mixing

Ph.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2016

M.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2011

B.S. Engineering Science, University of Virginia, 2010

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Wiersema, D. J., Wharton, S., Arthur, R. S., Juliano, T. W., Lundquist, K. A., Glascoe, L. G., Schalk, W. W., Brown, M., and Dexheimer, D. (2023) Assessing turbulence and mixing parameterizations in the gray-zone of multiscale simulations over mountainous terrain during the METEX21 field experiment. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 1251180. doi:10.3389/feart.2023.1251180

Zhu, P., Li, T., Mirocha, J. D., Arthur, R. S., Wu, Z., and Fringer, O. B. (2023) A moving wave implementation in WRF to study the impact of surface water waves on the atmospheric boundary layer. Monthly Weather Review, 151(11), 2883-2903. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-23-0077.1

Lundquist, K. A., Arthur, R. S., Neuscamman, S., Morris, J. P., Scullard, C. R., Cook, A. W., Wimer, N. G., Goldstein, P., Spriggs, G. D., Glascoe, L. G., and Nasstrom, J. S. (2023) Examining the effects of soil entrainment during nuclear cloud rise on fallout predictions using a multiscale atmospheric modeling framework. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 270, 107299. doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2023.107299

Sanchez Gomez, M., Lundquist, J. K., Mirocha, J. D., and Arthur, R. S. (2023) Investigating the physical mechanisms that modify wind plant blockage in stable boundary layers. Wind Energy Science, 8(7), 1049-1069. doi:10.5194/wes-8-1049-2023

Lassman, W., Mirocha, J. D., Arthur, R. S., Kochanski, A. K., Farguell Caus, A., Bagley, A. M., Carreras Sospedra, M., Dabdub, D., and Barbato, M. (2023) Using satellite-derived fire arrival times for coupled wildfire-air quality simulations at regional scales of the 2020 California wildfire season. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(6), e2022JD037062. doi:10.1029/2022JD037062

Sanchez Gomez, M., Lundquist, J. K., Mirocha, J. D., Arthur, R. S., Muñoz-Esparza, D., and Robey, R. (2022) Can lidars assess wind plant blockage in simple terrain? A WRF-LES study. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 14(6), 063303. doi:10.1063/5.0103668 (AIP Scilight)

Arthur, R. S. and Angevine, W. M. (2022) What’s next: Boundary layer prediction methods. In Hiscox, A. L., editor, Conceptual boundary layer meteorology: The air near here, chapter 5. Elsevier, in press. ISBN:9780128170922

Arthur, R. S., Juliano, T. W., Adler, B., Krishnamurthy, R., Lundquist, J. K., Kosović, B., and Jiménez, P. A. (2022) Improved representation of horizontal variability and turbulence in mesoscale simulations of an extended cold-air pool event. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 61(6), 685-707. doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0138.1

Wise, A. S., Neher, J. M. T., Arthur, R. S., Mirocha, J. D., Lundquist, J. K., and Chow, F. K. (2022) Meso- to micro-scale modeling of atmospheric stability effects on wind turbine wake behavior in complex terrain. Wind Energy Science, 7(1), 367–386. doi:10.5194/wes-2021-36 (Supplemental Animations)

Arthur, R. S., Lundquist, K. A., Mirocha, J. D., Neuscamman, S., Kanarska, Y., and Nasstrom, J. S. (2021) Simulating nuclear cloud rise within a realistic atmosphere using the Weather Research and Forecasting model. Atmospheric Environment, 254, 118363. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118363 (Article featured in LLNL News)

Arthur, R. S., Lundquist, K. A., and Olson, J. B. (2021) Improved prediction of cold-air pools in the Weather Research and Forecasting model using a truly horizontal diffusion scheme for potential temperature. Monthly Weather Review, 149(1), 155-171. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-20-0234.1 (Article featured in the Fall 2021 DOE Wind R&D Newsletter)

Arthur, R. S., Lundquist, K. A., Wiersema, D. J., Bao, J., and Chow, F. K. (2020) Evaluating implementations of the immersed boundary method in the Weather Research and Forecasting model. Monthly Weather Review, 148(5), 2087-2109. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-19-0219.1

Arthur, R. S., Mirocha, J. D., Marjanovic, N., Hirth, B. D., Schroeder, J. L., Wharton, S., and Chow, F. K. (2020) Multi-scale simulation of wind farm performance during a frontal passage. Atmosphere, 11(3), 245. doi:10.3390/atmos11030245 (Article featured in the Fall 2020 DOE Wind R&D Newsletter)

Davis, K. A., Arthur, R. S., Reid, E. C., Rogers, J. S., Fringer, O. B., DeCarlo, T. M., and Cohen, A. L. (2020) Fate of internal waves on a shallow shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(5), e2019JC015377. doi:10.1029/2019JC015377

Masunaga, E., Arthur, R. S., and Yamazaki, H. (2020) Baroclinic residual circulation and mass transport due to internal tides. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(4), e2019JC01531. doi:10.1029/2019JC015316 (Article selected for the cover image of this issue)

Arthur, R. S., Mirocha, J. D., Lundquist, K. A., and Street, R. L. (2019) Using a canopy model framework to improve large-eddy simulations of the neutral atmospheric boundary layer in the Weather Research and Forecasting model. Monthly Weather Review, 147(1), 31-52. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-18-0204.1

Masunaga, E., Arthur, R. S., and Fringer, O.B. (2019) Internal wave breaking dynamics and associated mixing in the coastal ocean, Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences (Third Edition), 3, 548-554. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.10953-4

Wenegrat, J. O. and Arthur, R. S. (2018) Response of the atmospheric boundary layer to submesoscale sea surface temperature fronts. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. doi:10.1029/2018GL081034

Arthur, R. S., Lundquist, K. A., Mirocha, J. D., and Chow, F. K. (2018) Topographic effects on radiation in the WRF model with the immersed boundary method: implementation, validation, and application to complex terrain. Monthly Weather Review, 146(10), 3277-3292. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-18-0108.1

Arthur, R. S., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., Koseff, J. R., and Fringer, O. B. (2017) How we compute N matters to estimates of mixing in stratified flows, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 831, R2, 1-10. doi:10.1017/jfm.2017.679

Masunaga, E., Arthur, R. S., Fringer, O. B., and Yamazaki, H. (2017) Sediment resuspension and the generation of intermediate nepheloid layers by shoaling internal bores, Journal of Marine Systems, 170, 31-41. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2017.01.017

Arthur, R. S., Koseff, J. R., and Fringer, O. B. (2017) Local versus volume-integrated turbulence and mixing in breaking internal waves on slopes, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 815, 169-198. doi:10.1017/jfm.2017.36

Arthur, R. S. and Fringer, O. B. (2016) Transport by breaking internal gravity waves on slopes, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 789, 93-126. doi:10.1017/jfm.2015.723

Cortés, A., Wells, M. G., Fringer, O. B., Arthur, R. S., and Rueda, F. J. (2015) Numerical investigation of split flows by gravity currents into two-layered stratified water bodies, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120, 5254-5271. doi:10.1002/2015JC010722

Arthur, R. S. and Fringer, O. B. (2014) The dynamics of breaking internal solitary waves on slopes, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 761, 360-398. doi:10.1017/jfm.2014.641

Walter, R. K., Woodson, C. B., Arthur, R. S., Fringer, O. B., and Monismith, S. G. (2012) Nearshore internal bores and turbulent mixing in southern Monterey Bay, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 117, C07017. doi:10.1029/2012JC008115

LLNL Director's S&T Excellence in Publication Award, 2021

LLNL Global Security Silver Award, 2020