Welcome to the Boundary Layer Meteorology Research Group at Tech! 

Boundary Layer Meteorology Research Group is a newly built research group in the Division of Atmospheric Sciences of the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech. Dr. Sandip Pal is the group leader. The focal points of this research team include kinematics and thermodynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer, diurnal evolution, aerosol-cloud microphysics and convection initiation; ground-based, airborne and satellite borne observations of boundary layer physics and land-atmosphere interaction; wind energy applications, and biosphere-atmospheric interaction with special emphasis on carbon cycle. 

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• Group Leader: Dr. Sandip Pal

• Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, TTU Department of Geosciences

• Affiliated Faculty: TTU National Wind Institute; Link here

• Undergraduate Advisor: Atmospheric Science Minor Program (ATMO Minor). Link here

• Coordinator: ABL-ROAD (Atmospheric Boundary Layer Research Over Arid Domain). Project Website Link here

• Science Team lead, NOAA funded project on Urban Heat Islands of Small US cities. Project Website Link here. 

• Science Team lead, NASA funded project: Synergetic Surface-based and Satellite-borne Measurements of Arid-region Aerosol and Precipitation (S3-MAAP). Link

• Science Team Member, ACT-America Project of NASA-Earth Venture Suborbital Mission Program

• Science Team Member, NASA-SBIR Project  

• Faculty Mentor, India Student Association @ TTU

• Associate Editor, Atmospheric Science Letters of Royal Meteorological Society. Link here

• Special Collection Organizer, American Geophysical Union

Keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Turbulence and mixing; Lidar; Clouds and convection initiation; Complex Terrain; Micrometeorology and fluxes; Boundary layer dynamics, Biosphere-atmosphere interaction, Eddy covariance techniques, Spatial scale from local to regional; Ground-based remote sensing; Atmospheric aerosols, Greenhouse gases and trace gases, Radon, Aerosol and boundary layer height climatology, Urban Heat Island, Surface-atmosphere interaction; Wavelet analyses; Environmental pollution. 

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