Derek R. Blestrud

Idaho State Board of Education — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

12h-index750citations32works1.52yr avg

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Research Topics

Atmospheric aerosols and clouds(23), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations(12), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols(10), Aeolian processes and effects(7), Cryospheric studies and observations(6)

Publications32 total

Precipitation Formation in Wintertime Orographic Clouds. Part I: Environmental Conditions and Cloud Characteristics

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology·2025Open Access

Characteristics of Generating Cells in Wintertime Orographic Clouds

3 cited

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences·2024· 3 cited

Vertical Motions in Orographic Cloud Systems over the Payette River Basin. Part IV: Controls on Supercooled Liquid Water Content and Cloud Droplet Number Concentrations

2 cited

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology·2023· 2 citedOpen Access

Mixed-phase direct numerical simulation: ice growth in cloud-top generating cells

6 cited

Atmospheric chemistry and physics·2023· 6 citedOpen Access

Comment on egusphere-2022-1142

2022Open Access

Vertical Motions in Orographic Cloud Systems over the Payette River Basin. Part I: Recovery of Vertical Motions and Their Uncertainty from Airborne Doppler Radial Velocity Measurements

16 cited

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology·2022· 16 cited

Vertical Motions in Orographic Cloud Systems over the Payette River Basin. Part II: Fixed and Transient Updrafts and Their Relationship to Forcing

13 cited

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology·2022· 13 cited

Mixed-phase Direct Numerical Simulation: Ice Growth in Cloud-Top Generating Cells

7 cited

2022· 7 citedOpen Access

Vertical Motions in Orographic Cloud Systems over the Payette River Basin. Part III: An Evaluation of the Impact of Transient Vertical Motions on Targeting during Orographic Cloud Seeding Operations

7 cited

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology·2022· 7 cited

Comparison between Observed and Simulated AgI Seeding Impacts in a Well-Observed Case from the SNOWIE Field Program

28 cited

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology·2022· 28 citedOpen Access

Microphysical Characteristics and Evolution of Seeded Orographic Clouds

22 cited

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology·2021· 22 citedOpen Access

Quantifying snowfall from orographic cloud seeding

66 cited

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2020· 66 citedOpen Access

Wintertime Orographic Cloud Seeding—A Review

90 cited

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology·2019· 90 cited

Snake River Basin Baseline Climate Review

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2018

A Transformational Approach to Winter Orographic Weather Modification Research: The SNOWIE Project

114 cited

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society·2018· 114 cited

Trace chemical evaluation of cloud seeding in the Payette Basin

3 cited

Boise State Data Sets·2018· 3 citedOpen Access

Precipitation formation from orographic cloud seeding

164 cited

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2018· 164 citedOpen Access

Public/Private Research Opportunities, They Can Work

98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting·2018

Assessment of Ground-Based and Aerial Cloud Seeding Using Trace Chemistry

15 cited

Advances in Meteorology·2018· 15 citedOpen Access

Prototype methodology for obtaining cloud seeding guidance from HRRR model data

1 cited

AGUFM·2017· 1 cited

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Frequent Co-authors

Melvin L. Kunkel(27), Lulin Xue(20), Sarah A. Tessendorf(19), Roy Rasmussen(18), Shaun Parkinson(17), Jeffrey R. French(12), Robert M. Rauber(12), Bart Geerts(12), Katja Friedrich(11), Kyoko Ikeda(9), Courtney Weeks(8), V. P. Holbrook(7), Nicholas Dawson(6), Pat Holbrook(5), Troy J. Zaremba(5), S. G. Benner(5), James Mitchell Fisher(4), Marion Lytle(4), Melinda Meadows(4), S. Parkinson(4)