Research Projects

Dr. Dave Henderson

Project: Relating land surface conditions to cumulus growth and thunderstorm longevity

Keywords: Thunderstorm initiation, Land-surface, vegetation influences

Dr. Gabrielle "Bee" Leung

Project: Soil moisture impacts on mesoscale cloud patterns and cloud streets

Keywords: Boundary layer clouds, land-atmosphere interactions

Dr. Ángel Adames Corraliza 

Project: Tropical Deep Convection in a High Resolution Model

Keywords: convection, tropical meteorology, thermodynamics

Dr. Larissa Back

Project: Causes of convective intensity and lightning differences over land versus ocean

Keywords: Deep convection, lightning, thermodynamics

Dr. Till Wagner 

Project: How sea ice melt influences spring algae blooms in the Arctic

Keywords: Oceanography, Biogeochemistry

Dr. Michael Foster

Project : Tracking multi-decadal shifts in cloud patterns over North America

Keywords: Satellite remote sensing, clouds, climate monitoring

Dr. Miguel Hilario

Project: Measuring aerosol chemistry on a mobile laboratory

Keywords: Aerosols, instrumentation, field work, laboratory analysis

Dr. Brad Pierce

Project: TBD

Dr. Stephanie Henderson 

Project: Understanding the impact of atmospheric blocking on the United States

Keywords: Atmospheric blocking, large-scale dynamics

Dr. Andrea Lopez Lang

Project : Assessing synoptic variability during stratospheric wave reflection events

Keywords: Stratosphere-troposphere coupling, extratropical dynamics