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My research interests include remote sensing of clouds and precipitation from satellite and ground-based platforms to understand the wide range of dynamical and microphysical processes associated with precipitating cloud systems, and their interactions with topography, the land surface, and the ocean. I am also interested in synoptic and mesoscale meteorology in the Tropics and Mid-latitudes.
My research is involved with many aspects of developing and using remote sensing tools to better our understanding of how modes of precipitating cloud microphysics, dynamics, structure, and life cycle vary on a regional basis. As part of the earth's water cycle, variations in precipitating cloud characteristics have broad impacts on regional meteorology, hydrology, climate, and society. Understanding the mechanisms by which precipitation characteristics vary is part of a broader goal of verifying and improving the representation and predictability of cloud systems in regional and global models through careful model-observation comparisons. As a necessary, yet challenging step in increasing our confidence in climate predictions, understanding how well the distribution, intensity, organization, and broader impacts of precipitating systems (including extreme events) are represented in global and regional models, as well as how their impacts will change in a warming climate, will be a key research question in the Atmospheric Sciences for this century.
I find DAS a great environment to explore my scientific and teaching interests while working with a great group of motivated colleagues and students. If you are interested in collaborating or pursuing a graduate degree in atmospheric sciences relating to coupled precipitation, weather, and climate variability, convective systems, or the remote sensing of preciptiation, please check out my web site or contact me with your interest.
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