Research

This project is investigating the impact of land surface variability and change on the lower atmosphere and shallow clouds over boreal forests with a combination of observations & large eddy simulations.

I am working collaboratively with faculty in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington to better quantify and communicate potential climate change solutions pathways for Washington state. We are especially interested in pathways that promote environmental justice.

Using a combination of idealized models and observations, we are exploring the influence of variability in the land surface energy budget on continental shallow cumulus droplet number through its role in driving boundary layer convection and updraft speeds. 

We are studying the role that shallow clouds and their impact on solar radiation play in regulating evapotranspiration (ET) over the Amazon on diurnal to seasonal time scales using DOE ARM observations and simple models.

This work highlighted the importance cloud and boundary layer processes in driving extreme depletions of aerosol particles in the remote marine environment using DOE ARM observations from both the northeast Atlantic (ENA) and southeast Atlantic (ASI/LASIC).