«The lightning jump is getting in front of forecasters now so we can get feedback, and fit the lightning jump concept into their forecasting methods,» said Chris Schultz,
an atmospheric science graduate student at UAH and an intern at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
«Clouds are one of the major feedbacks in cooling and heating the surface» of the ice, said Nate Miller,
an atmospheric science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Not exact matches
Graduate students, faculty and professionals in the field of earth and
atmospheric sciences and their applications form a cohort that tackles hands - on exercises, hears from dozens of prominent experts and forges strong professional networking connections.
In fact, many of Princeton's
graduate students in the field have little experience in oceanic and
atmospheric sciences; most come from physics, mathematics, and engineering backgrounds, according to Philander.
These categories describe two low - probability but statistically significant scenarios that could play out by century's end, in a new study by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and
atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and his former Scripps
graduate student Yangyang Xu, now an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.
In addition to Trowbridge and Melosh, the research team includes Jordan Steckloff, who was a
graduate student at Purdue the time of the research, and Andy Freed, a Purdue professor of earth,
atmospheric and planetary
sciences.
«Supercells are more prone to produce severe weather events, including damaging straight line winds and large hail,» said Sarah Stough, a UAH
graduate student in
atmospheric science.
But our paper is unique, in that we use these trends to infer changes in the desert expanse on the century timescale,» said Natalie Thomas, a
graduate student in
atmospheric and oceanic
science at UMD and lead author of the research paper.
Other co-authors and snow collectors were research professor Dean Hegg and
graduate students Cheng Dang and Rudong Zhang, all in UW
atmospheric sciences.