Research

Goal: Quantify how entrainment and drizzle affect the evolution of marine stratocumulus clouds (funding from DOE ASR).

How: Aircraft measurements from the SCILLA project (San Diego, June 2023). Collaboration with Lisa Welp-Smith at Purdue University. 

Goal: Evaluate the accuracy of satellite retrievals of cloud properties (effective radius and cloud drop number concentration)

How: Compare aircraft measured cloud properties with co-located satellite retrievals. In collaboration with Mikael Witte at Naval Postgraduate School. 

Goal: Improve the accuracy of cloud measurements from a phase Doppler interferomer.

How: Analyze lab and field data to develop better data processing methods. In collaboration with Artium Technologies.  

Goal: Quantify the aerosol emissions from cooling towers. 

How: Suspend a specialized instrument package over the cooling tower outlet. In collaboration with Tony Wexler and Chris Wallis at UC Davis. 

Goal: Measure cumulus cloud microphysical properties during the EUREC4A/ ATOMIC project (Barbados, 2020).

How: Process data from FSSP, CDP, CIP and PIP instruments onboard the NOAA P3.  Collaboration with Graham Feingold, NOAA.