Atmospheric Science

Atmospheric Convection

    • Adam Houston
    • Steve Hu
    • Matthew Van Den Broeke
    • ⟵ Dr. Adam Houston's students participate in the field phase of an NSF National Robotics Initiative-funded project to test the use of drones to improve storm-scale numerical weather predictions.
    Dr. Adam Houston's students participate in the field phase of an NSF National Robotics Initiative-funded project to test the use of drones to improve storm-scale numerical weather predictions.

Climate Change and Variability

    • Steve Hu
    • Dawn Kopacz
    • Liang Chen
    • Clint Rowe
    • ⟵ Analysis by Dr. Dawn Kopacz showing the rapid decline in September Arctic sea ice extent (thick blue line) relative to the long-term average sea ice extent (thin blue line).
    Analysis by Dr. Dawn Kopacz showing the rapid decline in September Arctic sea ice extent (thick blue line) relative to the long-term average sea ice extent (thin blue line).

Mesoscale Processes

    • Adam Houston
    • ⟵ Numerical simulations of mesovortices conducted by Dr. Adam Houston in an effort to examine the sensitivity of mesovortices to the vertical wind shear.
    Numerical simulations of mesovortices conducted by Dr. Adam Houston in an effort to examine the sensitivity of mesovortices to the vertical wind shear.

Instrumentation

Severe Weather

Climate Diagnostics

    • Adam Houston
    • Steve Hu
    • Liang Chen
    • Dawn Kopacz
    • ⟵ Two global climate models that produce vastly different future sea ice trends exhibit similar surface albedos prior to their transitions (vertical black lines), effectively excluding the sea ice albedo feedback as the driving force of sea ice changes within these models.
    Two global climate models that produce vastly different future sea ice trends exhibit similar surface albedos prior to their transitions (vertical black lines), effectively excluding the sea ice albedo feedback as the driving force of sea ice changes within these models.

Remote Sensing

    • Mark Anderson
    • Matthew Van Den Broeke
    • ⟵ Radar reflectivity image of simultaneous tornadic and nontornadic supercell storms in Oklahoma, being analyzed by Dr. Matthew Van Den Broeke.
    Radar reflectivity image of simultaneous tornadic and nontornadic supercell storms in Oklahoma, being analyzed by Dr. Matthew Van Den Broeke.

Climate Modeling

    • Clint Rowe
    • Liang Chen
    • Steve Hu
    • ⟵ Climatological annual precipitation over southern Brazil downscaled from ERA-I reanalysis as part of a project led by Clint Rowe
    Climatological annual precipitation over southern Brazil downscaled from ERA-I reanalysis as part of a project led by Clint Rowe

Paleoclimatology

    • Steve Hu
    • ⟵ Results of research by Dr. Steve Hu showing growing season precipitation change for extreme paleo- and historical droughts in India and north-central China from reconstructed Eurasian precipitation.
    Results of research by Dr. Steve Hu showing growing season precipitation change for extreme paleo- and historical droughts in India and north-central China from reconstructed Eurasian precipitation.

Weather Analysis and Forecasting

Dryline Trajectories

Backward trajectories of air at the surface (right) for a complex low, indicating that the eastern cold front analyzed on the surface map (left) is actually a dryline.

    Matthew Van Den Broeke

        Weather Impacts

        Frequency of blizzards

        Liang Chen

        Results of research by Dr. Liang Chen showing the climatology of blizzard occurrence (number of events per year) derived from the Storm Events (SE) dataset provided by National Weather Service.

          Mark Anderson
          Steve Hu
          Matthew Van Den Broeke

              Land-Atmosphere Interactions

              Sensitivity of LST

              Liang Chen

              Results of research by Dr. Liang Chen showing the sensitivity of summer daytime land surface temperature to global deforestation using satellite-based observations.

              Clint Rowe
              Steve Hu