Email: pps@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8953
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, CO, 80301

Professional Interests

Dr. Sullivan's research interests are: simulations and measurements of turbulence in geophysical settings, subgrid-scale modeling, air-sea interaction, effects of surface gravity (water) waves on marine boundary layers, impacts of stratification, turbulent flow over hills, and numerical methods. He uses large-eddy and direct numerical simulations to investigate turbulent processes in both the atmospheric boundary layer and the ocean mixed layer. These turbulence simulation codes run on large parallel supercomputers. Dr. Sullivan has participated in and planned field campaigns, Horizontal Array Turbulence Study , Ocean Horizontal Array Turbulence Study, and Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study focused on the measurement of subgrid scale variables in the atmosphere.

Articles

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. McWilliams, & E. G. Patton, 2025: An investigation of coupled atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers using large eddy simulation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 82,829-846. pdf

Huusko, L., T. Mukha, L. L. Donati, P. P. Sullivan, P. Schlatter, & G. Svensson, 2025: Large eddy simulation of canonical atmospheric boundary layer flows with the spectral element method in Nek5000. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, submitted.

Patton, E. G., J. J. Finnigan, I. N. Harmen, & P. P. Sullivan, 2025: Turbulent flow over isolated forested hills of varying shape and steepness. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, submitted.

Turbulence from Earth to Planets, Stars and Galaxies: Commemorative Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Jackson Rea Herring, 2024. Atmosphere. Editors: Boris Galperin, Annick Pouquet, Peter Sullivan. mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere. pdf

Mironov, D. V. and P. P. Sullivan, 2024: Turbulence structure and mixing in strongly stable Couette flows over thermally heterogeneous surfaces: Effect of heterogeneity orientation. Flow, Turbulence, and Combustion, online,doi.org/10.1007/s10494-024-00593-9. pdf

Oguejiofor, C. N., G. H. Bryan, R. Rotunno, P. P. Sullivan, & D. H. Richter: 2024: The role of turbulence in an intense tropical cyclone: Momentum diffusion, eddy viscosities, and mixing lengths. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 81,1343-1369. pdf

Mazella, E., T. Hara & P. P. Sullivan, 2024: Reduction of drag coefficient due to misaligned wind-waves. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 129,1-22. pdf

Sullivan, P. P. & J. C. McWilliams, 2024: Oceanic frontal turbulence. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 54, 333-357. pdf

Kimura, Y. & P. P. Sullivan, 2024: 2D and 3D properties of stably stratified turbulence. Atmosphere, 15,82. pdf

Fan, R., B. Fox-Kemper, N. Suzuki, Q. Li, P. Marchesiello, F. Auclair, P. P. Sullivan & P. Hall, 2024: Comparison of Coastal and Regional Ocean Community Model (CROCO) and NCAR-LES in non-hydrostatic simulations. Geoscientific Model Development , 17,4095-4113. pdf

Fan, Y., Z. Yu, P. P. Sullivan, & A. Rydbeck, 2024: Dependence of dense filament frontogenesis in a hydrostatic model. Ocean Modelling, 191,102429. pdf

Nuijens, L., & co-authors including P. P. Sullivan, 2023: The air-sea interaction (ASI) submesoscale: physics and impact. Lorentz-Center Workshop Leiden, the Netherlands. pdf

McWilliams, J. C., C. Meneveau, E. G. Patton, & P. P. Sullivan, 2023: Stable boundary layers and subfilter-scale motions. Atmosphere, 14,1107. pdf

Bodner, A. S., B. Fox-Kemper, L. Johnson, L. P. Van Roekel, J. C. McWilliams, P. P. Sullivan, & P. S. Hall, 2023: Modifying the mixed layer eddy parameterization to include frontogenesis arrest by boundary layer turbulence. Journal of Physical Oceanography,53,323-339. pdf

Pham, H. T., S. Sarkar, L. Johnson, B. Fox-Kemper, P. P. Sullivan & Q. Li, 2023: Multi-scale variability of turbulent mixing during a Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillation in the Bay of Bengal: An LES study. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans,128,1-23. pdf

Mironov, D. V. and P. P. Sullivan, 2022: Turbulence structure and mixing in strongly stable boundary-layer flows over thermally heterogeneous surfaces. Boundary-Layer Meteorology ,online,1-23. pdf

Heisel, M., P. P. Sullivan, G. G. Katul & M. Chamecki, 2022: Turbulence organization and mean profile shapes in the stably stratified boundary layer: Zones of uniform momentum and temperature. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, online,1-33. pdf ,

Sullivan, P. P. & J. C. McWilliams, 2022: Atmospheric boundary layers over an oceanic eddy. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79,2601-2620. pdf , supl-pdf

Husain, N., T. Hara & P. P. Sullivan, 2022: Wind turbulence over misaligned surface waves and air-sea momentum flux. Part I: Waves following and opposing wind. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52,119-139. pdf

Husain, N., T. Hara & P. P. Sullivan, 2022: Wind turbulence over misaligned surface waves and air-sea momentum flux. Part II: Waves in oblique wind. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52,141-159. pdf

Mironov, D. V. & P. P. Sullivan, 2021: Effect of surface thermal heterogeneity on the structure and mixing intensity in strongly stable boundary-layer flows: a DNS study. 10th International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, St. Petersburg, Russia. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. McWilliams, J. C. Weil, E. G. Patton & H. J. S. Fernando, 2021: Marine boundary layers above heterogeneous SST: Alongfront winds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78,3297-3315. pdf

Stevens, B. and 292 co-authors including P.P. Sullivan, 2021: EUREC4A. Earth System Science Data, 13,4067-4119. pdf

Large, W. G., E. G. Patton, & P. P. Sullivan, 2021: The diurnal cycle of entrainment and detrainment in LES of the Southern Ocean driven by observed fluxes and waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51,3253-3278. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. McWilliams, J. C. Weil, E. G. Patton & H. J. S. Fernando, 2020: Marine boundary layers above heterogeneous SST: Across-front winds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences , 77,4251-4275. pdf

Fan, Y., Z. Yu, I. Savelyev, P. Sullivan, J.-H. Liang, T. Haack, E. Terrill, T. de Paolo, & R. Shearman, 2020: The effect of Langmuir turbulence under complex real oceanic and meteorological forcing. Ocean Modelling, 149, 101601. pdf

Berg, J., E.G. Patton & P. P. Sullivan, 2020: Large-eddy simulation of conditionally neutral boundary layers: A mesh resolution sensitivity study. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77,1969-1991. pdf

Bodner, A., B. Fox-Kemper, L. Van Roekel, J. C. McWilliams, & P. P. Sullivan, 2020: A perturbation approach to understanding the effects of turbulence on frontogenesis. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 883, A25-1, A25-35. pdf

Liang, J.-H., E. A. D'Asaro, C. L. McNeil, Y. Fan, R. R. Harcourt, S. R. Emerson, B. Yang, & P. P. Sullivan, 2020: Suppression of CO2 outgassing by gas bubbles under a hurricane. Geophysical Research Letters , 47, 1-11. pdf

Sullivan, P. P. & J. C. McWilliams, 2019: Langmuir turbulence and filament frontogenesis in the oceanic surface boundary layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 879, 512-553. pdf

Qing, L., B. G. Reichl, B. Fox-Kemper,, A. J. Adcroft, S. E. Belcher, G. Danabasoglu, A. L. M. Grant, S. M. Griffies, R. Hallberg, T. Hara, R. R. Harcourt, T. Kukulka, W. G. Large, J. C. McWilliams, B. Pearson, P. P. Sullivan, L. Van Roekel, P. Wang, Z. Zheng, 2019: Comparing ocean surface boundary vertical mixing schemes including Langmuir turbulence. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 3545-3592. pdf

Richter, D. H., A. E. Dempsey, & P. P. Sullivan, 2019: Turbulent transport of spray droplets in the vicinity of moving surface waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49, 1789-1807. pdf

Husain, N., T. Hara, M. Buckley, K. Yousefi, F. Veron, & P. Sullivan, 2019: Boundary layer turbulence over surface waves in a strongly forced conditions - LES and observation. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49, 1997-2014. pdf

Large, W. G., E. G. Patton, A. K. DuVivier, P. P. Sullivan, & L. Romero, 2019: Similarity theory in the surface layer of large-eddy simulations of the wind, wave and buoyancy forced Southern Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49, 2165-2187. pdf

Large, W. G., E. G. Patton, & P. P. Sullivan, 2019: Non-local transport and implied viscosity and diffusivity throughout the boundary layer in LES of the Southern Ocean with surface waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49, 2631-2652. pdf

Bharti, V., C. W. Fairall, B. W. Blomquist, Y. Huang, A. Protat, P. P. Sullivan, S. T. Siems, \& M. J. Manton, 2019: Variability of air-sea fluxes in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 124, 1-18. pdf

Patton, E. G., P. P. Sullivan, B. Kosovic, J. Dudhia, L. Mahrt, M. Zagar & T. Maric, 2019: On the influence of swell propagation angle on surface drag. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 58, 1039-1059. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., M. L. Banner, R. P. Morison, & W. L. Peirson, 2018: Turbulent flow over steep steady and unsteady waves under strong wind forcing. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48, 3-27. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., M. L. Banner, R. P. Morison, & W. L. Peirson, 2018: Impacts of wave age on turbulent flow and drag of steep waves. IUTAM Symposium Wind Waves, Procedia IUTAM, 26, 174-183. pdf

Sullivan, P. P. and J. C. McWilliams, 2018: Frontogenesis and frontal arrest of a dense filament in the oceanic surface boundary layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 837, 341-380. pdf

Mironov, D. V. and P. P. Sullivan, 2018: Turbulence structure and mixing in strongly stable boundary-layer flows over thermally heterogeneous surfaces. 23rd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Oklahoma City, OK. pdf

Wang, D., T. Kukulka, B. G. Reichl, T. Hara, I. Ginnis, & P. P. Sullivan, 2018: The response of the ocean surface boundary layer and Langmuir turbulence to tropical cyclones. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48, 1921-1940. pdf

Liu, J., J-H. Liang, J. C. McWilliams, P. P. Sullivan, Y. Fan, & Q. Chen, 2018: Effect of planetary rotation on oceanic surface boundary layer turbulence. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48, 2057-2080. pdf

Jiang, Q, S. Wang, & P. P. Sullivan, 2018: Large-eddy simulation study of log-laws in a neutral Ekman boundary layer. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 75, 1873-1889. pdf

Liang, J-H, X. Wan, K. A. Rose, J. C. McWilliams, & P. P. Sullivan, 2018: Horizontal dispersion of buoyant materials in the ocean surface boundary layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48, 2103-2125. pdf

Liang, J-H, S. R. Emerson, E. A. D'Asaro, C. L. McNeil, R. R. Harcourt, P. P. Sullivan, B. Yang, & M. F. Cronin, 2017: On the role of sea-state in bubble-mediated air-sea gas flux during a winter storm. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 122, 2671-2685. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. Weil, E. G. Patton, H. J. J. Jonker & D. V. Mironov, 2016: Turbulent winds and temperature fronts in large-eddy simulations of the stable atmospheric boundary layer. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73, 1815-1840. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. Weil, E. G. Patton, H. J. J. Jonker & D. V. Mironov, 2016: Temperature fronts and vortical structures in turbulent stably stratified atmospheric boundary layers. VIIIth International Symposium on Stratified Flows, San Diego, CA. pdf

Mironov, D. V. & P. P. Sullivan, 2016: Second-moment budgets and mixing intensity in the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer over thermally heterogeneous surfaces. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73, 449-464. pdf

Patton, E. G, P. P. Sullivan, R. H. Shaw, J. J. Finnigan & J. C. Weil, 2016: Atmospheric stability influences on coupled boundary layer and canopy turbulence. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73,1621-1647. pdf

Jiang, Q., P. P. Sullivan, S. Wang, J. Doyle, & C. L. Vincent, 2016: Impact of swell on air-sea momentum flux and marine boundary layer under low-wind conditions. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73,2683-2697. pdf

Weil, J. C., P. P. Sullivan, E. G. Patton, & A. Wyszogrodski, 2016: Concentration fluctuations and variability at local and regional scales: Use of a Lagrangian two-particle dispersion model coupled with LES fields. 35th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application, Crete. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. McWilliams & L. Romero, 2015: Coupling turbulence, surface waves, and submesoscale cold filaments in the upper ocean boundary layer using LES. Model Integration across Disparate Scales in Complex Turbulent Flow Simulation, Penn State University, 15-17 June. pdf

Hara, T. & P. P. Sullivan, 2015: Wave boundary layer turbulence over surface waves in a strongly forced condition. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45, 868-883. pdf

Rabe, T. J., T. Kukulka, I. Ginnis, T. Hara, B. Reichl, E. D'Asaro, R. Harcourt & P. P. Sullivan, 2015: Langmuir turbulence under Hurricane Gustav. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45, 657-677. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. McWilliams, & E. G. Patton, 2014: Large-eddy simulation of marine boundary layers above a spectrum of moving waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 71, 4001-4027. pdf

McWilliams, J. C., E. Huckle, J-H. Liang, & P. P. Sullivan, 2014: Langmuir turbulence in swell. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, 870-890. pdf

Richter, D. H. & P. P. Sullivan, 2014: Modification of near-wall coherent structures by inertial particles. Physics of Fluids, 26, 103304. pdf

Richter, D. H. & P. P. Sullivan, 2014: The spray contribution to sensible heat flux. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 71, 640-654. pdf

Suzuki, N., T. Hara & P. P. Sullivan, 2014: Impact of dominant breaking waves on air-sea momentum exchange and boundary layer turbulence at high winds. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, 1195-1212. pdf

Moeng, C-H. & P.P. Sullivan, 2014: Large Eddy Simulation. Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences 2nd Edition, Eds. G. North, F. Zhang and J. Pyle. Academic Press, 232-240. pdf

Jonker, H. J. J., M. van Reeuwijk, P. P. Sullivan, & E.G. Patton, 2013: On the scaling of shear-driven entrainment: A DNS study. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 732, 150-165. pdf

Richter, D. H. & P. P. Sullivan, 2013: Momentum transfer in a turbulent, particle-laden Couette flow. Physics of Fluids, 25,053304. pdf

Liang, J-H., C. Deutcsh, J.C. McWilliams, B. Baschek, P.P. Sullivan & D. Chiba, 2013: Parameterizing bubble-induced supersaturation and its effect on ocean ventilation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 27, 894-905. pdf

Kukulka, T., A. J. Plueddemann, & P.P. Sullivan, 2013: Inhibited upper ocean restratification in non-equilibrium swell conditions. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 3672-3676. pdf

Richter, D. H. & P. P. Sullivan, 2013: Sea surface drag and the role of spray. Geophysical Research Letters, 40,1-5. pdf

Waggy, S., S. Biringen & P. P. Sullivan, 2013: Direct simulation of top-down and bottom-up diffusion in the unstable Ekman layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 724, 581-606. pdf

Suzuki, N., T. Hara & P. P. Sullivan, 2013: Impact of breaking wave form drag on near-surface turbulence and drag coefficient over young seas at high winds Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43, 324-343. pdf

Muschinski, A. & P. P. Sullivan, 2013: Using large-eddy simulation to investigate intermittency fluxes of clear-air reflectivity in the atmospheric boundary layer. IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Lake Buena Vista, Florida. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., L. Romero, J. C. McWilliams, & W. K. Melville, 2012: Transient evolution of Langmuir turbulence in ocean boundary layers driven by hurricane winds and waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 42, 1959-1980. pdf

McWilliams, J. C., E. Huckle, J-H. Liang, & P. P. Sullivan, 2012: The wavy Ekman layer: Langmuir circulations, breaking waves, and Reynolds stress. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 42, 1793-1816. pdf

Belcher, S. E., A. A. L. M. Grant, K. E. Hanley, B. Fox-Kemper, L. van Roekel, P. P. Sullivan, W. G. Large, A. Brown, A. Hines, D. Calvert, A. Rutgersson, H. Pettersson, J. Bidlot, P. A. E. M. Janssen & J. A. Polton, 2012: A global perspective on Langmuir turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L18605. pdf

Kukulka, T., A. J. Plueddemann, J. H. Trowbridge, & P.P. Sullivan, 2012: Nonlocal transport due to Langmuir circulation in a coastal ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 117, C12007. pdf

Van Roekel, L. P., B. Fox-Kemper, P. P. Sullivan, P. E. Hamlington, & S. R. Haney, 2012: The form and orientation of Langmuir cells for misaligned winds and waves. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, CO5001. pdf

Weil, J. C., P. P. Sullivan, E. G. Patton, & C-H. Moeng, 2012: Statistical variability of dispersion in the convective boundary layer: Ensembles of simulations and observations. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 145, 185-210. pdf

Liang, J-H., J. C. McWilliams, P. P. Sullivan & B. Baschek, 2012: Large eddy simulation of the bubbly ocean: New insights on subsurface bubble distribution and bubble-mediated gas transfer. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 117 , C04002. pdf

Nilsson, E. O., A. Rutgersson, A. Smedman & P.P. Sullivan, 2012: Convective boundary layer structure in the presence of wind-following swell. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 138, 1476-1489. pdf

Kang, S-L., D. Lenschow & P. Sullivan, 2012: Effects of mesoscale surface thermal heterogeneity on low-level horizontal wind speeds. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 143, 409-432. pdf

Lenschow, D.H., M. Lothon, S. D. Mayor, P. P. Sullivan & G. Canut, 2012: A comparison of higher-order vertical velocity moments in the convective boundary layer from lidar with in situ measurements and LES. Boundary Layer Meteorology, 143 , 107-123. pdf

Sullivan, P.P. & E. G. Patton, 2011: The effect of mesh resolution on convective boundary layer statistics and structures generated by large-eddy simulation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 2395-2415. pdf

Kukulka, T., A. J. Plueddemann, J. H. Trowbridge, & P.P. Sullivan, 2011: The influence of crosswind tidal currents on Langmuir circulation in a shallow ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 116, C08005. pdf

Hanley, K. E., S. E. Belcher, & P.P. Sullivan, 2011: Response to ``Comments on a global climatology of wind-wave interaction". Journal of Physical Oceanography , 41, 1814-1817. pdf

Liang, J-H., J. C. McWilliams, P. P. Sullivan & B. Baschek, 2011: Modeling bubbles and dissolved gases in the ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 116 , C03015. pdf

Suzuki, N., T. Hara & P. P. Sullivan, 2011: Turbulent airflow at young sea states with frequent wave breaking events: Large eddy simulation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68 , 1290-1305. pdf

Patton, E. T. Horst, P. Sullivan, D. Lenschow, S. Oncley, W. Brown, S. Burns, A. Guenther, A. Held, T. Karl, S. Mayor, L. Rizzo, S. Spuler, J. Sun, A. Turnipseed, E. Allwine, S. Edburg, B. Lamb, R. Avissar, R. Calhoun, J. Kleissl, W. Massman, K. Paw-U, & J. Weil, 2011: The canopy horizontal array turbulence study (CHATS). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 593-611. pdf

Sullivan, P.P. & J.C. McWilliams, 2010: Dynamics of winds and currents coupled to surface waves. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics , 42, 19-42. pdf

Sullivan, P.P. J.C. McWilliams & T. Hristov, 2010: A large eddy simulation model of high wind marine boundary layers above a spectrum of resolved moving waves. 19th Conference on Boundary Layer and Turbulence , Keystone, CO. pdf

Mironov, D. V. & P. P. Sullivan, 2010: Effect of horizontal surface temperature heterogeneity on turbulent mixing in the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer. 19th Conference on Boundary Layer and Turbulence , Keystone, CO. pdf

Sullivan, P.P., E.G. Patton & K.W. Ayotte, 2010: Turbulent flow over and around sinusoidal bumps, hills, gaps and craters derived from large eddy simulations. 19th Conference on Boundary Layer and Turbulence , Keystone, CO. pdf

Moeng, C.-H., P.P. Sullivan, M.F. Khairoutdinov & D.A. Randall, 2010: A mixed scheme for subgrid-scale fluxes in cloud-resolving models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences , 67, 3692-3705. pdf

Kukulka, T., A. J. Plueddemann, J. H. Trowbridge, & P.P. Sullivan, 2010: Rapid mixed layer deepening by the combination of Langmuir and shear instabilities: A case study. Journal of Physical Oceanography , 40, 2381-2400. pdf

Hanley, K. E., S. E. Belcher, & P.P. Sullivan, 2010: A global climatology of wind-wave interaction. Journal of Physical Oceanography , 40 , 1263-1282. pdf

Nilsson, E. O., A. Rutgersson, & P.P. Sullivan, 2010: Flux attenuation due to sensor displacement over sea. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology , 27 , 856-868. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., 2009: Simulations of marine turbulence and surface waves: Potential impacts of petascale technology. Oceanography in 2025: Proceedings of a Workshop, Ocean Studies Board, The National Academies Press, 84-88. pdf

Kukulka, T., A. J. Plueddemann, J. H, Trowbridge, & P.P. Sullivan, 2009: Significance of Langmuir circulation in upper ocean mixing: Comparison of observations and simulations. Geophysical Research Letters , 36 , L10603. pdf

Kelly, M., J. C. Wyngaard & P.P. Sullivan, 2009: Application of a subfilter-scale flux model over the ocean using OHATS field data. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences , 66 , 3217-3225. pdf

Sullivan, P.P. & E.G. Patton, 2008: A highly parallel algorithm for turbulence simulations in planetary boundary layers: Results with meshes up to 10243. 18th Conference on Boundary Layer and Turbulence , Stockholm, Sweden. pdf

Jonker, H.J.J., T. Heus, & P.P. Sullivan, 2008: A refined view of vertical transport by cumulus convection. Geophysical Research Letters , 35, L07810. pdf

Sullivan, P.P., J.B. Edson, T. Hristov, & J.C. McWilliams, 2008: Large eddy simulations and observations of atmospheric marine boundary layers above non-equilibrium surface waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 1225-1245. pdf

Lin, M., C-H. Moeng, W-T. Tsai, P.P. Sullivan, & S.E. Belcher, 2008: Direct numerical simulation of wind-wave generation processes. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 616, 1-30. pdf

Sullivan, P.P., J.C. McWilliams, & W.K. Melville, 2007: Catalyzing Craik-Leibovich instabilites by breaking waves. Fifth International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics , Tempe, AZ. pdf

Sullivan, P.P., J.C. McWilliams, & W.K. Melville, 2007: Surface gravity wave effects in the oceanic boundary layer: Large-eddy simulation with vortex force and stochastic breakers. J. Fluid Mechanics, 593, 405-452. pdf

Moeng, C.-H., J. Dudhia, J. Klemp, & P. P. Sullivan, 2007: Examining two-way grid nesting for large-eddy simulaiton of the PBL using the WRF model. Monthly Weather Review , 135, 2295-2311. pdf

Wilson, D. K., E. L. Andreas, J. W. Weatherly, C. L. Pettit, E. G. Patton, & P. P. Sullivan: 2007, Characterization of uncertainty in outdoor sound propagation predictions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121 (5), EL177-EL183. pdf

Edson, J., T. Crawford, J. Crescenti, T. Farrar, J. French, N. Frew, G. Gerbi, C. Helmis, T. Hristov, D. Khelif, A. Jessup, H. Jonsson, M. Li, L. Mahrt, W. McGllis, A. Plueddmann, L. Shen, E. Skyllingstad, T. Stanton, P. Sullivan, J. Sun, J. Trowbridge, D. Vickers, S. Wang, Q. Wang, R. Weller, J. Wilkin, D. Yue, & C. Zappa, 2007: The coupled boundary layers and air-sea transfer experiment in low winds (CBLAST-Low). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88, 341-356. pdf

Beare, R. J., M. K. Macvean, A. A. M Holtslag, J. Cuxart, I. Esau, J-C. Golaz, M. A. Jimenez, M. Khairoutdinov, B. Kosovic, D. Lewellen, T. S. Lund, J. K. Lundquist, A. Maccabe, A. F. Moene, Y. Noh, S. Raasch, & P. Sullivan, 2006: An intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 118, 242-272. pdf

Sullivan, P.P., J. B. Edson, T. W. Horst, J. C. Wyngaard, & M. Kelly, 2006: Subfilter scale fluxes in the marine surface layer: Results from the ocean horizontal array turbulence study (OHATS). 17th Conference on Boundary Layer and Turbulence , San Diego, CA. pdf

Sullivan, P.P., J.C. McWilliams, & W.K. Melville, 2005: Surface waves and ocean mixing: Insights from numerical simulations with stochastic surface forcing. 14th Aha Hulikoa on Rogue Waves , 147-155. pdf

Patton, E. G., P. P. Sullivan, C.-H. Moeng, 2005: The influence of idealized heterogeneity on wet and dry planetary boundary layers coupled to the land surface. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 62, 2078-2097. pdf

Rutgersson, A. and P. P. Sullivan, 2005: The effect of idealized water waves on the turbulence structure and kinetic energy budgets in the overlying airflow. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 38, 147-171. pdf

Sullivan, P.P., J.C. McWilliams, & W.K. Melville, 2004: The oceanic boundary layer driven by wave breaking with stochastic variability. I: Direct numerical simulations. J. Fluid Mechanics, 507, 143-174. pdf

Weil, J.C., P.P. Sullivan, & C-H. Moeng, 2004: The use of large-eddy simulations in Lagrangian particle dispersion models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 61, 2877-2886. pdf

Moeng, C-H., J. C. McWilliams, R. Rotunno, & P.P. Sullivan, 2004: Investigating 2D modeling of atmospheric convection in the PBL. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 61, 889-903. pdf

Kelley, N., S. Shirazi, D. Jager, S. wilde, J. Adams, M. Buhl, P. Sullivan, & E. Patton, 2004: Lamar low-level jet project interim report. NREL/TP-500-34593, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. pdf

Sullivan, P.P, T.W. Horst, D.H. Lenschow, C-H. Moeng, & J.C. Weil, 2003: Structure of subfilter-scale fluxes in the atmospheric surface layer with application to large-eddy simulation modeling. J. Fluid Mech., 482, 101-139. pdf

Sullivan, P.P and J.C. McWilliams, 2002: Turbulent flow over water waves in the presence of stratification. Physics of Fluids, 14, 1182--1195. pdf

Dubrulle, B., J-P. Laval, P.P. Sullivan, & J. Werne, 2002: A new dynamical subgrid model for the planetary surface layer. I. The model and a priori tests. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 59, 861-876. pdf

Dubrulle, B., J-P. Laval, & P.P. Sullivan, 2002: A new dynamical subgrid model for the planetary surface layer. II. Analytical computation of fluxes, mean profiles, and variances. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 59, 877-891. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. McWilliams, and C-H. Moeng, 2000: Simulation of turbulent flow over idealized water waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 404, 47-85. pdf

Saiki, E. M., C-H. Moeng, & P. P. Sullivan, 2000: Large eddy simulation of the stably stratified planetary boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 95, 1-30. pdf

Davis, K.J., N. Gamage, C. R. Hagelberg, C. Kiemle, D. H. Lenschow, & P. P. Sullivan, 2000: An objective method for deriving atmospheric structure from airborne lidar observations. Journal of Oceanic and Atmospheric Technology, 17, 1455-1468. pdf

McWilliams, J. C. and P. P. Sullivan, 2000: Vertical mixing by Langmuir circulations. Spill Science and Technology Bulletin, 6, 225-237. pdf

Stevens, B., C-H. Moeng, & P.P. Sullivan, 1999: Large-eddy simulation of radiatively driven convection: Sensitivities to the representation of small scales. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56, 3963-3984. pdf

McWilliams, J.C., C-H. Moeng, & P.P. Sullivan, 1999: Turbulent fluxes and coherent structures in marine boundary layers: Investigations by large-eddy simulation. In Air-Sea Exchange: Physics, Chemistry, Dynamics, and Statistics, G. Geernaert, ed., Kluwer Publishers.

Muschinski, A., P. P. Sullivan, D. B. Wuertz, R. J. Hill, S. A. Cohn, D. H. Lenschow and R. J. Doviak, 1999: First synthesis of wind-profiler signals on the basis of large-eddy simulation data. Radio Science , 34, 1437-1459. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., C.-H. Moeng, B. Stevens, D. H. Lenschow, and S. D. Mayor, 1998: Structure of the entrainment zone capping the convective atmospheric boundary layer. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 55, 3042-3064. pdf

McWilliams, J. C., P. P. Sullivan, and C.-H. Moeng, 1997: Langmuir turbulence in the ocean. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 334, 1-30. pdf

Lin, C-L., C-H. Moeng, P.P. Sullivan, & J.C. McWilliams, 1997: The effect of surface roughness on flow structures in a neutrally stratified planetary boundary layer flow. Physics of Fluids, 9, 3235-3249. pdf

Lin, C-L., J.C. McWilliams, C-H. Moeng, & P.P. Sullivan, 1996: Coherent structures and dynamics in a neutrally stratified planetary boundary layer flow. Physics of Fluids, 8, 2626-2639. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. McWilliams, and C.-H. Moeng, 1996: A grid nesting method for large-eddy simulation of planetary boundary layer flows. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 80, 167-202. pdf

Ayotte, K.W., P.P. Sullivan, A. Andren, S.C. Doney, A. Holtslag, W.G. Large, J.C. McWilliams, C.-H. Moeng, M. Otte, J. Tribbia, & J.C. Wyngaard, 1995: An evaluation of neutral and convective planetary boundary layer parameterizations relative to large eddy simulation. Boundary-Layer Meteorology , 79, 131-175. pdf

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. McWilliams, and C.-H. Moeng, 1994: A subgrid-scale model for large-eddy simulation of planetary boundary-layer flows. Boundary-Layer Meteorology , 71, 247-276. pdf

Moeng, C.-H., and P. P. Sullivan, 1994: A comparison of shear and buoyancy driven planetary-boundary-layer flows. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 51,999-1022. pdf

McLean, J.D., George-Falvey, D., and P. P. Sullivan, 1987: Flight test of turbulent skin-friction reduction by riblets. Turbulent Drag Reduction by Passive Means, Vol. 2, pp. 408-424, Royal Aeronautical Society, London. pdf

Parkinson, G.V. & P.P.Sullivan, 1979: Galloping response of towers. Journal of Wind engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics, 4, 253-260. pdf


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