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
| 4 June 2024 | Juliana has been admitted and received travel support to attend the IGAC Early Career Short Course and conference in Kuala Lumpur. |
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| 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. |
| 13 December 2023 | Edgardo and Thabo are presenting at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco! |
| 6 December 2023 | Sylvia is visiting Lund University for a seminar and thesis defense. |
| 3 October 2023 | We were featured in the UofA’s Information Technology news. |
| 1 October 2023 | We have been awarded funding from the NCAR Collaborative Opportunity for Research Engagement (overviews here and here). |
| 1 August 2023 | Welcome to Juliana Mejía, our newest member! |
| 6 July 2023 | Edgardo is visiting our collaborators in Karlsruhe and will travel to the IUGG conference in Berlin next week. |
| 31 May 2023 | Our newest member, Juliana Mejía, was awarded the George and Dixie Shirley Graduate Fellowship for environmental engineers. |