CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Convective Upscale Growth Processes during RELAMPAGO
Research Questions:
- How do microphysics and kinematics within convective systems evolve as they grow upscale?
- Which synoptic and mesoscale factors support rapid upscale growth and how does terrain modify those factors?
Topographic Influences on Extreme Warm Season Precipitation
Research Questions:
- Are the primary forcing mechanisms for extreme rainfall due to unique dynamic or thermodynamic processes, or some combination of both? (Taiwan is a moisture-rich environment)
- Do extreme rainfall events result from fundamentally different processes compared to ordinary rainfall events? (consider role of steep topography and microphysical processes)
- What are the most important factors for predictive skill for warm season extreme rainfall? (use of model data assimilation)
Linking Convective Cloud Processes and Air Motion through Airborne Datasets
NASA ROSES Award 80NSSC20K0894
Award Period: 03/16/2020-03/15/2024 Data sources:
Research Questions:
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PREVIOUS RESEARCH PROJECTS
Radar Observations of Convective Lifecycle Near Argentina's Sierras de CordobaAgency: NSF Physical and Dynamical Meteorology
Award Period: 08/15/2017-07/31/2022 Role: PI |
West Coast Precipitation Processes as Modulated by Storm Structure and TerrainAgency: NSF Physical and Dynamical Meteorology
Award Period: 08/15/2017--7/31/2020 Role: Co-PI |
Shallow-to-Deep Convective Transition in the AmazonAgency: DOE Atmospheric System Research
Award Period: 08/01/2016-07/31/2020 Role: Co-I |
Diagnosis of Convective Organization and Cold Pools using ARM Datasets and Evaluation of a Unified Convection Parameterization (UNICON)Agency: DOE Atmospheric System Research
Award Period: 08/01/2016-07/31/2019 Role: Co-I |