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ANNUAL NEWSLETTER 2020
View from ATG rooftop. Photo courtesy of Steven Domonkos and David Warren
Winter Storm Chasing in goal, but equally important is about the broader environment. applying what we learn to improve Mobile ground units drove to the Northeast U.S. both forecasting in numerical where the storms were models, and detection of snowfall forecasted to hit hardest, and from space. deployed additional radars and
rawinsondes to complete the By Victoria McDonald, graduate picture. student in Atmospheric Sciences I travelled to Wallops Flight Every year snowstorms cause Facility in Virginia, where the P-3 millions of dollars in property and the operations center were damage, economic loss, and based, to help with storm personal injury via major traffic forecasting. Winter cyclones can accidents, shutting down cities, occur at any time of day or night, grounding air traffic, and causing Victoria McDonald in front of the so multiple people were needed power outages. Improving NASA P-3 at Wallops Flight Facility to constantly watch the weather in Virginia. (Photo courtesy of forecasts of both the location and models and airport conditions so intensity of snowfall is critical for Victoria McDonald, taken by Joe that we could optimize flight time communities to be able to Finlon) without getting snowed in and adequately prepare for and Our first deployment was held in having our own aircraft grounded. mitigate the effects of major January and February 2020. Over UW Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. snowstorms. And we have the the course of 6 weeks, we Joe Finlon led the forecasting technology to help. The collected observations in 10 effort. From coordinating the Investigation of Microphysics of storms. During each event the forecasting process to designing Precipitation for Atlantic Coast- high-altitude NASA ER-2 aircraft an automated weather briefing Threatening Snowstorms flew above the storm in the template, he led a team of (IMPACTS) is a five-year Earth stratosphere. Equipped with three forecasters from NASA Goddard Venture Suborbital (EVS-3) NASA active radars, two passive radars, and several Universities, project led by UW Research and one LiDAR, it essentially acted including students working with Associate Professor Lynn as a satellite whose movement we UW Alum Professors Brian Colle McMurdie. Over the course of could control. (SUNY Stony Brook) and Sandra three deployments, two aircraft Simultaneously, the NASA P-3 Yuter (North Carolina State and a host of mobile ground crews aircraft flew at different altitudes University), and fellow UW go storm chasing to collect critical inside the clouds and took graduate student Andrew new observations that will measurements of liquid and DeLaFrance. elucidate how and why snowfall frozen water content in clouds, With rapidly changing weather organizes into narrow bands of and images of snow and ice conditions and occasional back heavy precipitation. particles with various to back storms over multiple Understanding the processes that microphysics probes. The P-3 also days, the operations center contribute to snow band used dropsondes and turbulence could get quite hectic at times formation and life cycle is the first sensors to collect information while we tried to determine which models to trust and plan allow the mission to go forward flight routes that would give us this year, and analysis has already the changing weather begun on the initial observations conditions and occasional back from this past year. to back storms over multiple With the help of UW’s Stacy days, the operations center Brodzik, who is the IMPACTS Data could get quite hectic at times Manager, datasets from the 2020 while we tried to determine storms are now available which models to trust and plan Three of the microphysics probes publicly. flight routes that would give us mounted on the wing of the NASA the best chance of being in the P-3. Photo courtesy of Victoria Learn more about IMPACTS at: right position to intercept McDonald https://espo.nasa.gov/impacts/c ontent/IMPACTS, snowbands. IMPACTS is set to continue in and http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/i I came to UW with no 2021 and 2022, although with mpacts_2020. background in meteorology, so COVID-19 still posing a significant being thrown into the deep end threat to in-person work, we are Follow us on Twitter of an active high stakes adjusting plans to ensure safe (@snowIMPACTS) and Facebook forecasting mission was an working conditions and minimal (Snow_IMPACTS) as we go invaluable experience that I am threats of exposure for everyone. forward with our next grateful to have been part of. Plans are still being finalized to deployments in 2021 and 2022.
temperature, minimum members earned individual UW Weather Challenge temperature, maximum sustained trophies, including Jonathan Weyn Team Has Another wind speed and quantitative (first overall, second place Successful Year in the precipitation for 10 different category 2 for Lake Charles, LA, cities. Twenty-four of the 30 team and first place category 2 for Cold 2020 National Contest members competed for the full Bay AK), Calen Randall (first place year and several individuals did category 3 overall, first place
extremely well. In addition to category 3 for Boston, MA, and By Professor Lynn McMurdie earning his PhD in spring quarter second place category 3 for 2020, graduate student Jonathan Astoria, OR), Christine Neumaier The UW forecasting team has Weyn took first place overall for (second place category 3 overall, done it again. Over 30 enthusiastic the second year in a row, a feat first place overall for Minneapolis, and talented forecasters joined that has NEVER been done before. MN, first place category 3 Lake the UW forecasting team for the Calen Randall and Christine Charles, LA), Mason Friedman National WxChallenge forecast Neumaier took first and second (first place overall for Cold Bay, contest 2019-2020 and together place in the competition for upper AK, first place overall for Astoria, came in second out of 37 schools division undergraduates (out of OR), Patrick Foster (second place after being barely nudged out by ~750 students in this category). category 0 for Lake Charles, LA), CSU. The team included Post-doctoral researcher, Joe Raphael Bakin (first place category undergraduate students (from Zagrodnik tied for first in the end- 4 for Lake Charles, LA), and Joe freshmen to seniors), graduate of-year bracket contest. Twenty- Zagrodnik (first place overall, students, faculty and staff, and one members of the UW team Kansas City, MO). alumni. For 10 weeks in the fall qualified to enter this contest, the The team benefits from custom and again for 10 weeks in the most of any school. Fourteen software originally designed by winter and spring, the team members of the team finished in former graduate student Luke entered forecasts for maximum the top 100 out of ~1500 total Madaus and updated and contestants. Several team
DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Newsletter 2020 modified by team members Weyn, also entered the contest in the Zagrodnik, and Lloveras. This “model” category along with many software is a dashboard that other operational center models brings together information from and was the best performing more than a dozen forecast model. The 2020-2021 forecast models in one place making it easy contest is currently underway, and for forecasters to assess any the UW team is looking forward to model biases for particular cities another challenging forecast year. or in particular weather situations. If you’re interested in joining the In addition, Weyn developed a team, please email me at Members of the successful 2019- 2020 UW WxChallenge team from machine-learning tool that [email protected], or team compares historical forecasts for a managers, Daniel Lloveras a screenshot of our Zoom end-of- season party. (Photo courtesy of given city with the actual weather [email protected], and Andrew Lynn McMurdie) to learn the models’ biases in DeLaFrance, [email protected]. different scenarios and correct for them. This machine-learning tool
give participants an opportunity to Coffey, from the Learning Active Learning apply them. Technologies department, led us Workshop: Promoting Dr. Elli Theobald, an assistant through the second day. Dr. Zuo Student Engagement teaching professor in the UW demonstrated additional active Biology Department, led the first learning strategies. Dave Coffey day of the workshop. In March went through the best practices 2020, Dr. Theobald and her for using Classroom Response By Kat Huybers (Lecturer), Sam collaborators published a paper in Technologies in our classes, Pennypacker (graduate student), PNAS1 showing that while active whether meeting in person or Robb Jnglin Wills (post-doc) learning benefits all students, it virtually.
offers disproportionate benefits Workshop participants provided At the end of August and in early for individuals from positive feedback, and were September, a total of 38 faculty, underrepresented groups. grateful for the time and space to post-docs and graduate students Implementing active learning consider applying these enthusiastically participated in a strategies narrowed gaps in strategies. We meet again at the two-part workshop on active passing rates by 45%. Active end of the Autumn quarter to see learning facilitated by UW learning can therefore be a how active learning was applied in experts. Active learning strives to strategy for broader inclusivity. our online classrooms, and where put students at the center of the further support would be helpful. classroom experience, whether in Under Dr. Theobald’s guidance, we practiced activating slides that person or online. Some strategies 1 are relatively simple, like asking were provided from our Theobald, Elli J., et al. "Active students to pause and write a community of instructors. Faculty, learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented reflection or to brainstorm ideas post-docs and graduate students with other students. Others are worked together to make these students in undergraduate more involved, like “jigsaw sample lectures an opportunity for science, technology, engineering, exercises” which divide a general students to participate, to make and math." Proceedings of the topic into smaller, interrelated inferences, and to connect ideas National Academy of Sciences pieces, and ask students to share together, rather than just 117.12 (2020): 6476-6483. their expertise to put the whole passively receiving information. concept together. Our goal was to Dr. Wei Zuo from UW’s Center for introduce these strategies, and to Teaching and Learning and Dave
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weather ultimately had severe typical hazardous air pollutants, 2020 Fire Season an consequences. On Sept. 7, strong such as car emissions. The smoke Anomaly, but Provides a winds and hot temperatures that socked in Seattle last month Glimpse into the Future prompted the Storm Prediction mainly originated from central Center to issue an extreme fire Oregon and California, traveling weather warning to the Oregon hundreds of miles into
By Anthony Edwards Cascades. Washington state. (Undergraduate student) Over six million Washingtonians have been exposed to “very Wildfires are not a new weather unhealthy” or worse air quality for phenomenon. at least two days this year, For as long as humans have according to the state Department existed on this planet, there have of Ecology. Over five-and-a-half been stories of fires burning million have been exposed for at through the forests. least five days — more than the previous five years combined. But only recently have we seen Smoke over Seattle (Photo the fire season take a turn for the An extreme year, certainly, but courtesy of Anthony Edwards) worst, and it is no coincidence not surprising considering current that these fires can be attributed This was only the second time the climate trends. to global warming. warning has been issued in As fire events become more Oregon or Washington and the The two biggest fire seasons in the common in the future, improving first time it has been issued on the United States since 1983 both forecasts and adapting to more west side of the Cascades. A day occurred within the past five frequent fire weather conditions later, the warning was extended years, as more than 10 million will be key in saving land, saving into more regions of Oregon. acres burned in both 2015 and properties, and saving lives. 2017. This coincides with the five A fast-moving fire burned 80 Reach Anthony Edwards at hottest years in earth’s recorded percent of an eastern Washington [email protected]. Twitter: history, which have all occurred town; a rare urban fire sparked @edwardsanthonyb since 2015. west of the Cascades, closing parts of state route 410 near Sumner; See his UW Daily stories at Warmer temperatures lead to and more than 496,000 acres http://www.dailyuw.com/search more evaporation from the burned in Washington state this /?q=purple+rain ground and vegetation, meaning year alone. that as temperatures continue to rise with climate change, wildfires Oregon experienced troubles too. are also expected to become more More than one million acres have An Interview with the common. been scorched in Oregon, the Interviewer second most in the state’s history, Perhaps this summer provided a behind 1.2 million acres in 2020. glimpse into the future. By Shannon Millican (Assistant to 600 million dollars in damages the Chair) In California, this year’s wildfires have been reported. have burned more than four Not only do these fires have direct I had the unique pleasure of being million acres, more than doubling impacts on the land they burn, able to learn more about Anthony the previous record. there are also many troubles when asking if he would write an In Washington and Oregon, a caused by the smoke from these article for this year’s newsletter. record-breaking heat wave and fires. Many of you may already know of unusually strong winds created Due to their size — smaller than Anthony as our rogue reporter, an critical fire conditions in early human hair — wildfire smoke Undergrad in our department, or September. The hot and dry particles travel much further than
DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Newsletter 2020 perhaps by his column Purple Anthony goes on to mention that has been able to take classes that Rain in The Daily. his childhood fascination with inspire him like ATM S 360: Media Anthony’s weekly blog is the result cloud formations was a clear & Meteorology with Shannon of his vision to combining indication of where he was O’Donnell. journalism and atmospheric headed to in the future. Every When I asked Anthony about morning Anthony would look science and relaying it back to the where he sees his path, he wider U.W. community; curiously out of his window to mentions that he really liked the something The DAILY has never report back to his parents about studio experience he had with the covered before. Anthony the current state of the weather, Dawgcast. Whether he is reporting elaborates, “I like being able to and predictions for the day’s on meteorology or the reciprocity take scientific material and make future forecast. between climate and human it relatable to the public.” interaction, Anthony’s goal is one Anthony’s dedicated reporting has and the same; to communicate also given our department a what he’s learned to others. unique platform to engage As we feel about many of our campus with the research that we students, I get the feeling that do. Many of his articles have we’re witnessing something great referenced our department, and happening here. I look forward to he’s very eager to collaborate with a time in my eighties when I’ll see both students and faculty for Anthony Edwards wondering how Anthony reporting on some future articles. the waterfall behind him was catastrophic weather event or A true son of the Pacific formed so that he can report back climate change anomaly, and I will Northwest, Anthony states that he to you about it (Photo courtesy of brag to others “I know him, he has always been inspired by the Anthony Edwards) was reporting it was going to rain uniqueness and unpredictability the day after he learned how to that our region’s climate brings. This curiosity led him to talk”. Atmospheric Sciences where he
shyness and cope with only seeing A Message from the Chair 2020 has been quite a year for the each other through what feels like department. It began with the Cecilia Bitz a periscope. I taught atmospheric excitement of interviewing motions to our seniors this fall. In candidates for a new tenure-track spite of the limitations, I was professor. I am pleased to share grateful to see the dozen students that we successfully hired Dr. in class on a regular schedule, Alexander Turner, see below. Alex which helped stem my feeling of started in January 2021. We isolation. Despite the finished interviews a week before awkwardness of Zoom, I felt a the UW moved all classes online. It stronger sense of community with was a chaotic time, and I’m proud this class than ever before. I’m of our efforts to tie up the quarter touched by the efforts of all in the and move operations to our department who created support homes. teams to help each other through Students, instructors and TAs have this disruptive time. proven to be resilient with online I’m excited to share that we added learning these past 10 months. Professor Cecilia Bitz a new undergraduate track and We’ve had to overcome camera
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PhD option in data science this We held a virtual graduation and Assistant Professor Alexander year. Students have already signed virtual holiday party this year. Our Anderson-Frey shared her up for both. Skills in programming graduates’ faces transitioned from experience transitioning to online and data analysis are increasingly looking anxious to all smiles as we teaching and advising after joining important for both applied projected photographs and the faculty only six months earlier. atmospheric sciences and basic Professor Becky Alexander spoke Then department members research. We also taught the first about each of their qualities and performed songs that they wrote, ever seminar class on racial justice announced the awards. Associate some live and others a mix of pre- and equity in the environmental Professor Dargan Frierson recorded tracks to blend their sciences. The class was packed entertained us by performing his music, voices, and dancing. Many with participants eager to learn song “Science Rules”. The holiday listeners had to dry their eyes, about the history of our field, to party was also a big success. including me. better understand our current Students and staff read poems state, and to plan ways that we that they wrote about their can increase diversity, equity and experiences this year. Postdocs inclusion in our community. shared photographs and music.
Atmospheric Sciences College of the Environment, where attention is crucial for academic I can combine my passion for success and retention, especially Welcomes New Advisor supporting students as well as my in these extraordinary times. I also deep interest in the environment. work closely with faculty to What does the Atmospheric update department policies, Sciences academic adviser do? I review graduate applications, work holistically with our ~140 submit course proposals, and undergraduate and graduate implement new curricula, such as students on all facets of the our new Data Science options. academic experience from The personalized, supportive admission to graduation and community in Atmospheric everything in between. This Sciences is what makes the Courtesy of UW Photography includes helping students choose department so special. I’m between our 4 undergraduate impressed with how the students
options and 4 graduate options to have pulled together to get Hello, I’m Jennifer Siembor, the find the path that’s best for them, through these unprecedented new Academic Advisor for the ensure they meet benchmarks to times, and have confidence that Department of Atmospheric make progress towards their these current and future scientists Sciences. I joined the department degree, and help them interpret will help create a better in March 2020, and prior to that I UW policies. I provide tomorrow. I’m proud to do my advised undergraduate and individualized support based on part to support them towards graduate students at the student needs, from connecting those goals. University of Washington in other students with scholarship programs for the past 15 years. It’s opportunities to recommending You can reach Jennifer at an honor to be part of wellness resources on [email protected]. She looks Atmospheric Sciences and the campus. This personalized forward to connecting with you!
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Welcomes to our new Faculty Member Alexander Turner
We are excited to welcome Alexander Turner, who joins our faculty as an Assistant Professor. Alex received his doctorate from Harvard University and was a postdoc at the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Turner’s research bridges atmospheric chemistry and the carbon cycle. He uses remote sensing and inverse modeling for his work. Congratulations to our Faculty
Professor David Battisti was awarded the 2021 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Medal, the top Welcome New Graduate Students in Autumn 2020 medal from the American Meteorological Society Associate Professor Kyle Amour was awarded the 2020 James B. Macelwane Vince Cooper, from Harvard University (Armour, Bitz) Medal, an early career award across all Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay, from Tufts University (Durran) fields in the American Geophysical Union. Rohan Jain, from Rutgers State University(Anderson-Frey) Associate Professors Daehyun Kim and Kyle Armour were promoted to Associate Randall Jones, from Ohio State University (Chen) Professor in autumn 2020. Ellen Koukel, from Portland State University (Blanchard-Wrigglesworth)
future science instructors. He Many of us remember that he and In Memorium developed technology-aided Professor Jim Holton often ran learning tools and active-learning together during lunchtimes, out- methods and enabled his pacing everyone else jogging on We were sorry to learn of the department to build a state-of- the Burke Gilman trail. He traveled passing this year of friends, the-art computer facility for nationally and internationally on colleagues, and alumni of this student instruction and research. trips frequently focused on hiking, department. Professors Dave He served as chair of his backpacking or other Dempsey and Tim Liu, and department from 2014-2017, then mountaineering treks. He was an Margaret Holton. became emeritus in 2018. He was avid photographer and wrote also an outdoor enthusiast and detailed descriptions of his trips Professor Dave Dempsey got his maintained a very active lifestyle. that were supplemented with his PhD from our department in 1985. extraordinary photography. Dave His research specialty was will be missed by the students he mesoscale numerical modeling of mentored, his colleagues and topographically-forced friends, and most of all by his circulations. After graduating from family. He is survived by his wife UW, he went on to a post-doctoral Rebecca Douglass, sons Kylan and fellowship at NCAR, then in 1989 Griffen, parents Wes and Phyllis he joined the Department of Earth Dempsey, and brothers Tom, Paul & Climate Sciences (then and Jim and their families. More Geosciences) at San Francisco information about Dave is State University. There, he available at these websites: devoted himself to improving science instruction and training
DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Newsletter 2020 http://tornado.sfsu.edu/InMemo have been recognized by Tim’s cheerful attitude, genuine ryDave.html numerous prestigious awards, interest in everyone’s research, https://www.legacy.com/obituar including being elected Fellow of and enthusiasm for the underlying ies/chicoer/obituary.aspx?n=dav the American Meteorology Society science of remote sensing will be id-prescott- (AMS) and American Geophysical missed by all. He is survived by a dempsey&pid=196245959 Union and the Verner E. Suomi daughter, grandson, two sisters Award of AMS in 2010. and brothers. Dr. Tim Liu was a highly valued Margaret Holton was the wife of member of the ocean-atmosphere Professor James Holton and a interaction and climate research strong supporter of the communities. He received his M.S. department when Jim was alive and Ph.D. degrees from University and in the years since. She was of Washington in 1974 and 1978, part of the glue that held the respectively, under Professor department together the last half Kristina Katsaros. century. As a UW student, he developed an Dinner parties at the Holton house innovative method to were famous for their elegance parameterize air-sea turbulent and stimulating conversation. fluxes. His pioneering paper Throughout his career at JPL, Tim Margaret took great care to make (published in the Journal of continued strong ties with UW and department members and our Atmospheric Sciences in 1979) has remained close friends with many visitors feel welcome. She was been cited close to 800 times and of us here at the department, also a skilled and intrepid remains the most widely used especially his thesis advisor, gardener and dispensed gardening methods today to estimate air-sea Kristina Katsaros whom he called advice to many of us. turbulent fluxes. Tim joined NASA regularly. Margaret was a devoted mother Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in He had a warm and generous to her sons Dennis and Eric. She is 1979 where he continued his survived by Eric. pioneering work and served as the spirit and was a cheerful collaborator. He married his lovely lead of NASA’s Ocean Vector Wind Our thanks to Kristina Kastsaros, Science Team for 17 years and a wife Chia Ling Wang, in Seattle in 1974 and together they created a Cecilia Bitz, and Lynn McMurdie Project Scientist for NASA’s NSCAT for their heartfelt submissions. and QuikSCAT scatterometers beautiful family. Sadly, Tim lost missions. His accomplishments her to cancer in 2003.
Congratulations to our Alumni Updates Decadal Survey and am the Project Alumna Scientist of the TROPICS Cubesat constellation mission (to launch Jennifer Francis (1994, Ph.D.) ~2022) focused on rapid revisit- won the AGU 2020’s Climate Scott Braun (1995, B.A.) became rate observations of tropical Communication’s Award. cyclones. the Project Scientist for the Global Jennifer is currently a Senior Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Bonnie Brown (2014 Ph.D., 2011 Scientist at the Woodwell mission in June 2018 and a Fellow M.S., 2008 B.S.) is planning a Climate Research Center in of the AMS that same year. I’ve move to Norfolk, VA, with her Falmouth, MA, after 25 years as also been heavily involved in a husband who is a Lieutenant in a research professor in the study of a new observing system the US Navy JAG corps and their Department of Marine and related to aerosols, clouds, dog Banana Bread. She will Coastal Sciences at Rutgers convection, and precipitation in continue to work remotely for University. response to the 2017 NASA NOAA Research's Weather
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Program Office (formerly the Washington, DC area and construct probabilistic seasonal Office of Weather and Air Quality) continued work with various Arctic climate forecasts one to two and was promoted to direct line and Open Ocean buoy seasons in advance. My climate manager with her contracting projects. My last few years have forecasting company can be found company TriVector Services. She been involved with the design and at will start a three-year term on the development of various portable https://www.climate4casts4futu AMS Board of Early Career computer and network related re.com/. Professionals in January 2021. projects with DTECH LABS. I Stephen Po-Chedley (2016 Ph.D.) Melvin Clarke (1974, B.S.) retired in 2016. My wonderful Research Scientist at Lawrence Immediately after graduation in wife and I are enjoying our lake Livermore National Laboratory, 1974, I assisted as a student side home in the beautiful area of working remotely from Seattle. South Central Virginia. observer during the GATE project David Reidmiller (2010 PhD, 2005 (Global Atmospheric Research Peter Dodge is currently at NOAA MS) In August, I left the U.S. Program, Atlantic Tropical AOML's Hurricane Research government after 10 years of Experiment) for the Summer of Division working with ground- federal service (in the Senate, 1974. In the Fall of 1974 I worked based and airborne radars in State Department, White House, as a remote-control boat operator tropical cyclones. Peter is looking and U.S. Geological Survey) to on the US Geological Survey field forward to possibly retiring in the launch a new Climate Center at program near the terminus of the next year. the Gulf of Maine Research Columbia Glacier in Alaska. I Jason Phelps (2013, B.S.) I went Institute in Portland, Maine. More joined the UW Polar Science on to Graduate School and info can be found here: Center’s field work in the Arctic as graduated with my Master's https://gmri.org/our- a Meteorological Observer and Degree in Watershed/Climate approach/press-room/press- technician for the weather Science from Utah State University releases/nationally-recognized- research work at the Ice stations Spring 2019. I'm now trying to climate-scientist-lead-new- in 1975/1976 (AIDJEX, Arctic Ice start a climate forecasting climate-center/. Dynamics Joint Experiment). I company of my own named later (1978) moved to Santa Climate Forecasts for the Future. I Virginia Rux (2016, B.S.) Following Barbara, CA to work for the Polar analyze 60-70 years of past graduation became a Research Research Laboratory assisting with climate data for cities around the Aide with JISAO for the EcoFOCI design and development and western United States and do group from 2016-2018. And since deployment of the Arctic Buoys statistical analysis of this past April 2019, I started my career as a used for a number of years. By climate data versus 20-30 Meteorologist for the National 1989 I had moved to the different climate patterns to Weather Service in Glasgow, MT
Haley Staudmyer is working with "Global Mean Precipitation and Undergraduate Research Dargan Frierson. Calen Randall Energy Budgets in CMIP6 Models” and Jesus Gallegos are working Matthew Charchenko (Shannon with Cliff Mass. Surabhi Biyani is O'Donnell) Poster: "The Dawgcast: working with Cecilia Bitz and Sarah Communicating the weather story We are proud of our Kapnick at GFDL. to the UW population” undergraduates engaged in The following students presented Ian Hsaio and Jeremy Lu (Rob research in the department. posters at our 2020 Wood, Hans Mohrmann, Joe August Mikkelsen, Ian Hsiao, and Undergraduate Research Finlon and Rachel Atlas) Poster: Jeremy Lu are working with Rob Symposium in spring "Identifying cloud phase from Wood. Christine Neumaier is SOCRATES data using a random working with Joel Thornton. Noah Asch and Lukas forest classification model” Naehrig (Dargan Frierson) Poster:
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August Mikkelsen (Rob Wood) Sara Salimi (Becky Alexander and Undergraduate Awards & Poster: "Understanding the Ed Blanchard-Wrigglesworth) Scholarships balance of ice and liquid in Poster: “Relationship between Rikki Parent - Phil Church Award supercooled clouds” sulfur aerosol concentrations from Surabhi Biyani - Cliff Mass Christine Neumaier (Joel a Summit, Greenland ice-core and Weather Research award Thornton) Poster: "Evaluating sea ice area over the last 40 years” Anthropogenic Enhancements to Rose Schoenfeld (Thomas Christine Neumaier - Richard and Lightning” Ackerman and Lauren Schmeisser) Joan Reed Undergraduate Endowed Scholarship Calen Randall (Cliff Mass) Poster: Poster: “Analysis of the "High-Resolution Climate Atmospheric Response to the Calen Randall - Cliff Mass Weather Modeling for the Pacific 2019 Northeast Pacific Marine Research award Heatwave” Northwest: A Regional and Global Rose Schoenfeld - Mindlin Model Comparison” Mika Vogt (Rob Wood and Isabel Endowed scholarship McCoy) Poster: “Exploring How Jordan Rendon (Lynn McMurdie Haley Staudmyer - Bruce Caldwell Precipitation Changes in a and Joseph Finlon) Poster: Memorial Scholarship “Lightning In Cold Air Outbreaks Warmed Climate” Raphael Babkin - Nancy Wilcox Over the Northeastern Pacific” Endowed Scholarship
Antarctic Topography Change Congratulations to Our Master of Science Thesis & (Bitz) UW Faculty Advisor Graduates! Claire Zarakas Plant Physiology Claire Buysse O3 photochemistry Increases the Magnitude and in the western US: mixing wildfire Spread of the Transient Climate Bachelor of Science 2020 smoke with urban emissions Response to CO2 in CMIP6 Earth (Jaffe) Michael Babko System Models (Swann) Namie Costa Yakelyn Ramos Jauregui MJO- Emily Tansey Southern Ocean Emily Culbertson induced Warm Pool Eastward precipitation observed from Brandon Gabor Extension Prior to the Onset of El satellite and ground Justin Kong Nino: An Observational study instrumentation at Macquarie James Lee (Chen) Island (Marchand) Colby Lindgren Edoardo Mazza Subsidence- Dylan Logan induced warming in the genesis of Doctor of Philosophy Thesis & Joseph Paranzino Tropical Storm Cindy (2017) UW faculty advisor Rivkah (Rikki) Parent (Chen) Andrew Vincent Geiss, Observed Shane Peterson Litai Kang Using In Situ and Modeled Cloud Responses to Jordan Rendon Observations from the SOCRATES Climate Variability (Marchand) Anthony Tran Field Campaign to Evaluate Jessica Haskins, Observational Satellite Retrievals of Low Clouds Constraints on Tropospheric over the Southern Ocean Chlorine Cycling (Thornton) (Marchand) Fiona Ai-Ming Lo, Understanding Brittany Dygert Interaction and Forecasting Allergenic Pollen between Convection and SST in in the United States (Hess) Tropical RCE (Durran) Isabel McCoy, A synthesis of Andrew Pauling Linearity of the observations of aerosol-cloud Climate System Response to interactions over the pristine, biologically active Southern Ocean
DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Newsletter 2020 and the implications for global Lauren Schmeisser, The Role of Graduate Fellowships & climate model predictions (Wood) the Atmosphere in Marine Awards Heatwaves (Ackerman) Johannes Mohrmann, Marine Benjamin Barr, Adam Sokol, Boundary Layer Cloud Mesoscale Jonathan Weyn-Vanhentenryck, Carley Fredrickson, and Yuk-Chun Organization: Identification, Sub-seasonal forecasting using Chan - NASA FINESST Awards Influencing Factors, and large ensembles of data-driven Randall Jones - GO-MAP Graduate Lagrangian Evolution (Wood) global weather prediction models Excellence Award Pornampai Narenpitak, A Study of (Durran) Carley Fredrickson and Aodhan Multiscale Processes in Near- Nicholas Weber, Tropical Sweeney - ARCS fellowships Global Aquaplanet Cloud- Convection and Subseasonal Resolving Models: From Shallow Weather Prediction in a Global Ellen Koukel - Provost’s Fellowship Cumulus Cloud Feedbacks to Convection-Permitting Model Award Tropial Cyclogenesis Predictability (Mass) Katie Brennan and Lily Hahn - NSF (Bretherton) Wei Zhao, Retrievals of Drizzle and Graduate Research Fellowship Stephanie Rushley, The Effect of Cloud Liquid Water Contents in Program (GRFP): Orbital Forcing on the MJO's Stratocumulus and Implications Yakelyn Ramos Jauregui - UCAR Amplitude and Phase Speed (Kim) for Subgrid-scale Impacts on Next Generation Fellowship Model Autoconversion and Accretion Rates (Fu & Marchand)
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