Bretherton research group and collaborators

Jan. 2018 (left to right): Matthew Woelfle, Isabel McCoy (joint. w Rob), Matt Wyant, Peter Blossey, Sean Santos, Hans Mohrmann (joint. w Rob), Xiaoli Zhou, Jeremy McGibbon, Rachel Atlas, Noah Brenowitz, Beth Sutherland, Ping-Ping Narenpitak, Chris Bretherton.

Graduate students

• Ping-Ping Narenpitak (Atm. Sci.): Near-global cloud-resolving model analysis of cloud feedback, cumulus convection, and cumulus parameterization
• Jeremy McGibbon (Atm. Sci.): Improving a higher-order turbulence closure parameterization using LES-trained machine-learning
• Rachel Atlas (Atm. Sci.): Large-eddy simulation of mixed phase cloud and cloud-aerosol interaction over the Southern Ocean
• Sean Santos (Amath): Development of robust numerical discretizations of microphysics parameterizations in the Community Atmosphere Model
• Jacqueline Nugent (Atm. Sci.): Analysis of global cloud resolving simulations of deep convection over land

Jointly supervised graduate students

• Sami Turbeville (with Ackerman)
• Isabel McCoy (with Wood)
• Hans Mohrmann (with Wood)

Postdocs

• Noah Brenowitz: Machine learning to develop stochastic cumulus parameterizations for weather forecast and climate models.
• Xiaoli Zhou: Simulation and observation of mesoscale cloud organization and transitions from stratocumulus to cumulus convection.

Research scientists

• Peter Blossey
• Matt Wyant

Funded collaborating PIs:

Southern Ocean Atmosphere Research (SOCRATES, MARCUS):

• Rob Wood, UW
• Roj Marchand, UW
• Greg McFarquhar, U. Oklahoma
• Bob Rauber and Sonia Lasher-Trapp, U. Illinois
• Paul DeMott, Colo. State U.
• Andrew Gettelman, NCAR
• Yi Ming, GFDL
• Alain Protat, Australian BOM
• Steve Siems and Yi Huang, Monash U.

DOE CM4 CMDV (shallow cumulus modeling; Jeremy McGibbon PhD thesis):

• David Romps, UC Berkeley/LBL
• Andy Vogelmann and Pavlos Kollias, Brookhaven Natl. Labs
• Charles Jackson, UT Austin

Numerical convergence of E3SM Microphysics (Sean Santos PhD thesis)

• Peter Caldwell, LLNL

NCEP GFS boundary-layer parameterization development

• Jongil Han, NCEP

Ultraparameterization:

• Mike Pritchard, UC Irvine
• Marat Khairoutdinov, Stony Brook U.