2022
  • Schiro, K., H.Su, F.Ahmed, N.Dai, C.Singer, P.Gentine, G.Elsaesser, J.Jiang and J.D. Neelin, 2022: Model spread in tropical low cloud feedback tied to overturning circulation response to warming. Nat. Comm. 13, 7119, 10.1038/s41467-022-34787-4
  • Wolding, B., S.W. Powell, F. Ahmed , J. Dias, M. Gehne, G. Kiladis and J.D. Neelin, 2022: Tropical Thermodynamic-Convection Coupling in Observations and Reanalyses. J. Atmos. Sci., 79(7), 1781-1803, 10.1175/JAS-D-21-0256.1
  • Neelin, J.D., C. Martinez-Villalobos, S. Stechmann, F. Ahmed , G. Chen, J. Norris, Y.H. Kuo and G. Lenderink, 2022: Precipitation Extremes and Water Vapor:Relationships in Current Climate and Implications for Climate Change. Curr. Clim. Change Rep., 8, 17–33 (2022), 10.1007/s40641-021-00177-z
  • Mayta, V., Á.F. Adames and F. Ahmed, 2022: Westward-Propagating Moisture Mode Over the Tropical Western Hemisphere. GRL, 49, 10.1029/2022GL097799
  • Dulguerov, L., F. Ahmed and J.D. Neelin, 2022: Extreme Tropical Precipitation Clusters show strong increases in frequency under Global Warming in CMIP6 models. GRL, 49, 10.1029/2021GL096037   [PDF]
2021
  • Ahmed, F., 2021: The MJO on the equatorial beta-plane: an eastward propagating Rossby wave induced by meridional moisture advection. J. Atmos. Sci., 78(10), 3115-3135, 10.1175/JAS-D-21-0071.1   [PDF]   [Supplement]
  • Ahmed, F. and J.D. Neelin, 2021: A process-oriented diagnostic to assess precipitation-thermodynamic relations and application to CMIP6 models. GRL, 48, 10.1029/2021GL094108   [PDF]
  • Ahmed, F. and J.D. Neelin, 2021: Protected convection as a metric of dry air influence on precipitation. J. Clim. 34(10), 3821-3838, 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0384.1   [PDF]
  • Adames, Á.F., S.W. Powell, F. Ahmed, V. Mayta and J.D. Neelin, 2021: The Evolution of Tropical Precipitation in an Empirical Buoyancy-Based Framework. J. Atmos. Sci., 78(2), 509-528, 10.1175/JAS-D-20-0074.1
  • Ahmed, F., J.D. Neelin and Á.F. Adames, 2021: Quasi-Equilibrium and Weak Temperature Gradient Balances in an Equatorial Beta-plane Model. J. Atmos. Sci., 78(1), 209-227, 10.1175/JAS-D-20-0184.1   [PDF]
2020
  • Ahmed, F., Á.F. Adames and J.D. Neelin, 2020: Deep convective adjustment of temperature and moisture. J. Atmos. Sci., 77, 2163–2186, 10.1175/JAS-D-19-0227.1   [PDF]
  • Wolding B., J. Dias, G. Kiladis, F. Ahmed, S.W. Powell, E. Maloney and M. Branson, 2020: Interactions Between Moisture and Tropical Convection. Part I: The Co-Evolution of Moisture and Convection. J. Atmos. Sci. 77, 1783–1799, 10.1175/JAS-D-19-0225.1
2019-2018
  • Ahmed, F. and J.D. Neelin, 2019: Explaining scales and statistics of tropical precipitation clusters with a stochastic model. J. Atmos. Sci. 76, 3063–3087, 10.1175/JAS-D-18-0368.1   [PDF]
  • Ahmed, F. and C. Schumacher, 2018: Spectral signatures of moisture-convection feedbacks over the Indian Ocean. J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 1995-2015, 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0138.1   [PDF]
  • Ahmed, F. and J.D. Neelin, 2018: Reverse engineering the tropical precipitation-buoyancy relationship. J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 1587-1608, 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0333.1   [PDF] 
  • Schiro, K.A., F. Ahmed, S.E. Giangrande and J.D. Neelin, 2018: GoAmazon2014/5 campaign points to deep-inflow approach to deep convection across scales. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 115 (18) 4577-4582, doi:10.1073/pnas.1719842115   [PDF]
2015-2017:
  • Ahmed, F. and C. Schumacher, 2017: Geographical differences in the tropical precipitation-moisture relationship and rain intensity onset. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 1114-1122, 10.1002/2016GL071980   [PDF]
  • Ahmed, F., C. Schumacher, Z. Feng and S. Hagos, 2016: A retrieval of tropical latent heating using the 3D structure of precipitation features. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 55, 1965-1982, 10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0038.1   [PDF]
  • Ahmed, F. and C. Schumacher, 2015: Convective and stratiform components of the precipitation-moisture relationship Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 10,453-10,462, 10.1002/2015GL066957   [PDF]