Research Faculty & Affiliates

Wave Dynamics and Convection, and Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Waves

Air-Sea Interaction, Climate Dynamics, Oceanography, Climate Variability and Change, Marine Ecosystems

Development, improvement and deployment of mass spectrometric-based instrumentation for measurement of hydroxyl (OH), hydroperoxy (HO2) and organic peroxy radicals (RO2) (and other species), and interpretation of the data from those deployments

Arctic climatology and meteorology, cyclones, extreme events.

Indo-Pacific ocean circulation and dynamics

Detailed characterization of the wind conditions that NREL's megawatt-scale wind turbines endure using data from the new meteorological towers at the National Wind Technology Center

Atmospheric radiative transfer; cloud and aerosol remote sensing; radiative energy budget analysis

Geophysical fluid dynamics, extreme events, climate change, machine learning.

Volatile organic compounds

Chaos synchronization, geophysical fluid dynamics, data assimilation, machine vision, quantum foundations

Turbulent fluxes in the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer from UAV observations.

Middle atmosphere

Low-frequency tropical variability

Middle atmosphere

Investigating the key physical processes that govern the upper ocean response to diurnal and high-frequency wind variability

Advanced Laser Technology for Atmospheric Research

Remote sensing of the upper atmosphere

Middle atmosphere dynamics, Lagrangian tracer transport, Model-Observation Inter-comparisons

Wind and Renewable Energy, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Turbulence, Dispersion, Dynamical Systems, Fluid Dynamics, Dynamic Meteorology, Climate, Numerical Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Climate impacts associated with large scale ocean dynamics

Global high-resolution climate modeling, middle atmosphere dynamics, gravity waves, tropical waves and the quasi-biennial oscillation, and teleconnections

Cirrus clouds; ice nucleation; cloud-aerosol interactions; cloud-radiative interactions

Atmospheric chemistry, instrument development and observations

Cloud shortwave spectral radiative properties: Airborne hyperspectral measurements and modeling of irradiance

Algorithm development and climatology from the MODIS instrument on the Terra and Aqua spacecraft, especially cloud optical and microphysical properties

Thermodynamic Structures of Sierra Barrier Jets and Overrunning Atmospheric Rivers during a Land-falling Winter Storm in Northern California

Experimental geophysical fluid dynamics

Extending multiscale modeling capabilities in the Weather Research and Forecasting model for wind energy applications

Ice sheets, polar climate, snow, ice, and atmosphere-surface and ice-ocean interactions.

Climate variability, predictability, and change with a focus on quantifying and accounting for uncertainty in observational data and biases in climate models

Modeling and understanding global ocean circulation, with application to global climate change.

Indo-Pacific ocean circulation, dynamics, air-sea interaction, water mass

Expertise in solving and modeling problems involving complex thermal, mechanical, and fluid dynamics systems, including wildfire behavior modeling

Using large ensembles, and novel tools to investigate climate variability, focusing on Pacific Decadal Variability and its impacts under varying warming levels.

Understanding the chemistry and dynamics of the middle and upper atmosphere, and coupling to the tropospheric climate

Development, improvement, and deployment of mass spectrometric-based instrumentation for the measurement reactive and short-lived species and the interpretation of data from these measurements. These include hydroxyl radical (OH), peroxy radicals (HO2, RO2), sulfuric acid, and other acidic or highly oxygenated species.

Regional Arctic System Model (RASM) to analyze how the characteristics of polar lows and their impact on the ocean vary with increased horizontal resolution of an atmospheric model.

Air quality science and management, aerosols, particulate matter

Marine carbon cycle, stable isotope biogeochemistry

Numerical modeling, squall lines, convective storms, gravity waves, compression waves, energy transfer, airflow around buildings, the atmospheric boundary layer, sources and sinks of carbon dioxide, infrasound and tropical cyclones. He taught classes in numerical modeling, and in extreme weather and its consequences for society

Southern Ocean carbon and nutrient cycling, ocean ventilation, bio-physical interactions.

Global climate modeling, cycles of water and carbon, polar climate variability, large scale dynamics of the atmospheres and oceans

Arctic biogeochemical cycling, ocean modeling, high latitude environments.

Tropical processes & precipitation, monsoon dynamics, air-sea interaction

Supermodeling: combining different models dynamically.

Scientific questions related to the meteorology and climatology of the polar regions.

Clouds, radiation, and atmospheric processes; Arctic system research

Polar oceanography and climate, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding environmental and ecosystem response to climate variability

Remote sensing of snow and ice in the visible, infrared, and microwave wavelengths

Atmosphere-ocean coupling, climatic role of water vapor and clouds, global climate modeling

Microplastic transport in coastal regions and, more generally, particle transport by flows.

Severe convective weather phenomena, including severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and downbursts

Observing clouds from different platforms leading to a greater understanding of cloud physical processes and improving the parameterizations of cloud-related physical processes in climate models

Investigating tornadogenesis, tornado structure, nurricane boundary layers and surface wind damage, as well as radar technology

Arctic atmospheric rivers, arctic cyclones, and their interactions with Arctic amplification.

Climate dynamics