Research
We are broadly interested in scale interactions in the atmosphere and how best to represent these in weather and climate models in order to build resilience in water-susceptible regions. We use laboratory experiments to constrain small-scale parameters, such as ice-nucleating efficiency of different particles or ice crystal growth rates, and high-resolution models to understand the effect of these parameters on large-scale variables of interest, such as surface temperatures or rainfall rates. Some themes of interest include how increasing aridity in the Southwest may feedback on rainfall patterns or affect solar energy output and how the efficiency of precipitation formation may change as the atmosphere warms.
Clouds and their Climatic Impacts
Sylvia led the editing of a new volume available since December 2023 through AGU Geophysical Monographs on Clouds and their Climatic Impacts with Corinna Hoose at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It is available through Wiley, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. A short piece was published on it here by Editors’ Vox blog at AGU, as well as an editorial from KIT here.
Latest News
| 19 November 2024 | Our NASA IIP project received some additional press from the UA College of Engineering news here! |
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| 21 October 2024 | Our group will support PI Dr. Meredith Kupinski in a NASA Instrument Incubator Project to build an infrared polarimeter. |
| 2 October 2024 | Sylvia shared some of our recent results in a virtual seminar with those at NASA Goddard’s Climate and Radiation Laboratory. |
| 6 September 2024 | Sylvia gave a seminar in the UA Department of Physics. |
| 3 September 2024 | Juliana is in Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia for the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry conference. |
| 26 August 2024 | Edgardo gave a seminar for the International Commission on Clouds & Precipitation. |
| 2 August 2024 | Congratulations to Thabo on receiving a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology fellowship! |
| 5 August 2024 | Thabo is at the NASA Climate Summer School in Pasadena, CA. |
| 4 June 2024 | Juliana has been admitted and received travel support to attend the IGAC Early Career Short Course and conference this fall. |
| 22 May 2024 | Sylvia and Edgardo have been awarded funding through the Salt River Project to study aerosol impacts on solar forecasting for photovoltaics. |
| 11 May 2024 | Linda and Tanmay have graduated with their Bachelors of Science in Environmental Engineering and Computer Science, respectively! |
| 19 March 2024 | Thabo won Best Poster Presentation at the Hydrology & Atmospheric Science Department’s El Día del Agua y la Atmósfera. |
| 29 January 2024 | Sylvia is in Baltimore to present at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. |