Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

• Mazza, E., Chen S. S., Kerns B. W. Kerns, and Winters A. C., 2025: Multiscale Drivers of Extreme Rainfall and Flooding in Southern California: the MJO, North Pacific Jet, and Atmospheric Rivers During the 2023-2024 El Niño, npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 8, 376 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-01242-2
• Mazza, E., and Chen S. S, 2025: Compound dry-dusty air intrusions during the genesis of Tropical Storm Kate (2021): Observations from the CPEX-AW field campaign and coupled modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130, e2024JD042653. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042653
• Nowottnick, E., Rowe, A., Nehrir, A., Zawislak, J., Piña, A. , McCarty, W., Maring, H., Barton-Grimley, R., Bedka, K., Brammer, A., Chen, G., Chen, S.S., Chen, S., Colarco, P., Cooney, J., Crosbie, E., Doyle, J., Fehr, T., Ferrare, R., Harrah, S., Hristova-Veleva, S., Lambrigsten, B., Lawton, Q., Lee, A., Marinou, E., Mazza, E., Močnik, G., Nunez Ocasio, K., Pu, Z., Reid, J.S., Rios-Berrios, R., Robinson, C., Rodriguez Monje, R., Rodenkirch, B., Salazar., V., Sakaeda, N., Shook, M., Thornhill, L., Veals, V., Vömel, H., Wong, S., Wu, S., Ziemba, L. and Zipser, E. 2024:Dust, Convection, Winds and Waves: The 2022 NASA CPEX-CV Campaign. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 105, E2097–E2125, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0201.1.
• Chiodi, A. M., Hristova, H., Foltz G. R., Zhang, J.R. , Mordy, C., Edwards, C., Zhang, C., Meinig C., Zhang, D., Mazza, E., Cokelet, E.D., Burger, E.F., Bringas, F., Goni, G.J., Kim, H-S., Chen,S., Trinanes, J.A., Bailey, K., O’Brien, K.M., Morales-Caez, M., Lawrence, N.S. , Chen, S. S., and Chen, X. 2024: Surface ocean warming near the core of Hurricane Sam and its representation in forecast models, Frontiers in Marine Science, section Ocean Observation., 10, 1 – 17
• Zhang, C., Foltz, G., Chiodi, A., Mordy, C. W., Edwards, C. R., Meining, C., Zhang, D., Mazza, E., Cokelet, E. D., Urger, E. F., Bringas, F., Goni, G. J., Hristova, H., Kim, H-S., Trinanes, J. A., Zhang, J. Z., Bailey, K. E., O’Brien, K. M., Morales-Caez, M., Lawrence-Slavas, N., Jenkins, R., Chen, S. S., Chen, X., 2023: Hurricane Observations by Uncrewed Systems. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 104, E1893–E1917.
• Mazza, E., and Chen S. S, 2023: Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Climatology, Extremes, and Flooding Potential from Remote Sensing and Reanalysis Datasets over the Continental United States. J. Hydromet., 24, 1549–1562
• Mazza, E., and Chen S. S, 2023: Modulation of Tropical Cyclone Tracks and Rainfall by the North Atlantic Oscillation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD038107.
• Mazza, E., and Chen S. S, 2021: Subsidence Warming in the Tropical Cyclogenesis of Cindy (2017): CPEX observations and Coupled Modeling. J. Atmos. Sci., 78(10), 3385-3400
• Mazza, E., Ulbrich U. and R. Klein, 2016: The Tropical Transition of the October 1996 medicane in the Western Mediterranean: a warm seclusion event. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 2575 – 2595
• Tett, S. F. B., Deans, K., Mazza, E. and J. Mollard, 2013: Are Recent Wet North Western European Summers a response to sea-ice retreat? in ’Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective’. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94 (9)

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In preparation

• Mazza, E., and C. Zhang, 2024: Learning to coordinate: Virtual Sampling of the Tropical Air-Sea Transition Zone with Saildrones and Underwater Gliders.
• Foltz, G. R., Zhang, D., Looney, L., Chiodi, A., Zhang, J., Zhang, C., Mazza, E., Chi, N. H., and Cokelet, E., 2025: Sea‑state dependent hurricane drag revealed by ocean surface drones., Under review, Sci. Adv

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