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bob rauber
Professor - Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
January 30, 2008
3:00 pm: Conversation and Cookies in Room 108 Atmospheric Sciences Building
3:30 pm: Seminar in Room 103 Transportation Building
Shallow, maritime cumuli are ubiquitous over much of the tropical oceans,
and characterizing their properties is important to understanding weather
and climate. The Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean
(RICO) field campaign, which took place during November 2004-January
2005 in the trades over the western Atlantic, emphasized measurements of
processes related to the formation of rain in shallow cumuli, and how rain
subsequently modifies the structure and ensemble statistics of trade wind
clouds. Eight weeks of nearly continuous S-band polarimetric radar
sampling, 57 flights from three heavily instrumented research aircraft,
and a suite of ground- and ship-based instrumentation provided data on
trade wind clouds with unprecedented resolution. This talk will focus on
how the RICO project was conceived, the logistics of developing a large
field campaign, the subsequent deployment, the unprecedented educational
component of the campaign, current data analysis, associated modeling
efforts and publication. |
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