Physical Meteorology and Climate Dynamics

Research Interests


I study how the various processes in the atmosphere conspire to establish climate, how these processes might be expected to control the way climate changes, and how the atmosphere will ultimately interact with the oceans and other components of Earth. Clouds and water vapor are two particular atmospheric constituents that are not well understood but are very important owing to their ability to affect the amount of energy our planet absorbs from the sun and radiates back to space. Tropospheric convection (disturbed weather) is central to each of these and links them dynamically to large-scale flow patterns. Progress in our understanding of climate requires a variety of theoretical and modeling approaches, as well as careful analysis of available datasets. I am interested in each approach and in finding novel ways of combining them.


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