Current research projects
- Observational and modeling studies of cloud evolution and
cloud-aerosol interaction in the NE Pacific
stratocumulus to cumulus transition, including the MAGIC (Marine AMF
GPCI Investigation of Climate, Sept. 2012-Aug. 2013) and CSET
(Cloud System Evolution in the Trades, July-Aug 2015)
campaigns (DOE/NSF funding).
Collaborators: Rob Wood (UW), Bruce Albrecht and Paquita
Zuidema (U. Miami), Virendra Ghate (Argonne NL).
- Ultraparameterization - explicit simulation of boundary
layer cloud processes and feedbacks in a global modeling framework; DOE funding.
Collaborator: Prof. Mike Pritchard of UC Irvine.
- Applications of near-global cloud resolving modeling.
Collaborator: Prof. Marat Khairoutdinov of Stony Brook Univ.; NSF and Thai govt. funding.
- Machine learning approaches for boundary-layer and cumulus
parameterization; DOE, NSERC, UW EScience, and Thai govt. funding.
Collaborators: Nathan Kutz (UW), David Romps (UC Berkeley/LBL),
Andrew Vogelmann (Brookhaven NL), and Charles Jackson (UT Austin).
- Advancing the representation of clouds and boundary-layer
processes in the NCEP GFS, our national global weather forecast
model; NOAA funding.
Collaborators: Jongil Han and Ruiyu Sun of NCEP, Ming Zhao of
GFDL, and Joao Teixeira of JPL.
- Double ITCZ and cold tongue biases in conventional and
superparameterized versions of the CESM climate model; NSF funding.
Collaborator: Prof. Mike Pritchard of UC Irvine.
- Observational and modeling studies of Southern Ocean boundary
layer clouds and aerosols, including SOCRATES (the Southern Ocean Cloud, Radiation and
Aerosol Experimental Study, Jan-Feb 2018), MARCUS, and MICRE; NSF/DOE funding.
Collaborators: Greg McFarquhar (U. Okla./CIMMS), Roj Marchand
and Rob Wood (UW), Andrew Gettelman (NCAR) and Stephan
Fueglistaler and Yi Ming (GFDL/Princeton), and other Australian and
U.S. collaborators.
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