Tag Archive: cloud physics

Research brief: Climate models under-represent tropical heating variations

August 14, 2018 11:33 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Climate models under-represent tropical heating variations

This research demonstrates how cloud processes, steep mountains, tropical coastlines, the daily changes in solar insolation and planetary-scale waves work together to cause large variations in the tropical heating that drives global circulation patterns. Many of these effects are under-represented in global climate models.

PhD Opportunity: Methods from statistical physics to resolve weather and climate sensitivities

June 22, 2018 4:29 am Published by Comments Off on PhD Opportunity: Methods from statistical physics to resolve weather and climate sensitivities

This interdisciplinary project will apply methods from statistical physics, which are only beginning to be used in the environmental sciences, to better exploit such data, advance our basic understanding, and produce more useful models for weather and climate changes.