Faculty

Meteorology and climate of the polar regions, regional climate modeling, numerical weather prediction, mesoscale and boundary layer processes

Studies dynamics, predictability, and impacts of global climate fluctuations generated by the tropical oceans, such as El Niño and La Niña. Uses numerical models to investigate drivers of past environmental changes inferred from geological archives with the objective of improving predictions of future climate change.

Investigation of kinematic and microphysical processes relevant for cloud formation and change of precipitation; conduct modeling, analysis and field studies in cloud physics

Large scale ocean dynamics, air-sea interaction and geophysical fluid dynamics

Tropical ocean circulation, dynamics, air-sea interaction, climate variability and change

Astrogeophysical fluid dynamics, planetary atmospheres,and microscopic interfacial phenomena

Climate Modeling, Arctic Ocean and sea ice variability, freshwater, paleoclimate, modeling isotopes and geotracers, climate model evaluation

Dynamics of the coupled Earth system toward useful predictions of impacts ranging from marine ecosystems to human health

Cloud and aerosol processes and their influence on the coupled climate system, recent and projected Arctic sea ice loss, climate model evaluation and improvement using data assimilation and satellite observations, and communicating climate science

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

Marine carbon cycle, ocean climate variability and change, ocean modeling

Boundary-layer meteorology, numerical weather prediction, large-eddy simulations, renewable energy applications, urban meteorology and climatology

Transport of sediment and nutrients in the coastal ocean; Coupled numerical modeling

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

Satellite remote sensing, middle atmosphere chemistry and transport, energetic particle precipitation, polar mesospheric clouds

Evaluation of the mechanisms and impacts of persistent, extreme El Niño events.

Atmospheric and surface remote sensing. Radiative energy budget studies from aircraft, space, and from the ground. Development of aircraft measurement strategies and instrumentation. Quantify cloud, aerosol, and gas radiative effects in different regions of the globe through aircraft/satellite observations and radiative transfer calculations.

Climate dynamics, predictability, data assimilation, and geophysical fluid dynamics

Observations of aerosols and trace gases in Earth's atmosphere from the ground to the middle stratosphere. Influences on climate, chemistry, and air quality

Radiative transfer; cloud physics: atmospheric chemistry; planetary atmospheres

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

Geophysical turbulence, coherent structures, fluid transport, predictability, stochastic models

Synoptic-dynamic meteorology, high-impact weather events, forecast model evaluation, and topics at the weather–climate interface