Email: cdavis@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8990
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Professional Interests

If it is mesoscale and it rotates, I am interested in it. This includes hurricanes, but also mesoscale convective systems with rotation. I am especially intruiged by the interplay between high frequency convective motions and low frequency rotational structures. I also am interested in how models simulate these behaviors. Moreover, I am pursuing new ways to evaluate mesoscale models for a variety of problems.

Recent Publications

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Xiao, Q., Zhang, X., Davis, C. A., Tuttle, J. D., Holland, G. J., Fitzpatrick, P., 2009: Experiments of hurricane initialization with airborne doppler radar data for the advanced-research hurricane WRF (AHW) model. Monthly Weather Review. (In Press).

Davis, C. A., Brown, B. G., Bullock, R. G., Halley Gotway, J. E., 2009: The method for object-based diagnostic evaluation (MODE) applied to numerical forecasts from the 2005 NSSL/SPC spring program. Weather and Forecasting. (In Press).

Rotunno, R., Chen, Y., Wang, W., Davis, C. A., Dudhia, J., Holland, G. J., 2009: Large-eddy simulation of an idealized tropical cyclone. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. (Submitted).

Davis, C. A., Galarneau, T., 2009: Corrigendum. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, doi: 10.1175/2008JAS3158.1, 2155.

Musgrave, K. D., Davis, C. A., Montgomery, M. T., 2008: Numerical simulations of the formation of Hurricane Gabrielle (2001). Monthly Weather Review, 136, doi: 10.1175/2007MWR2110.1, 3151-3167.


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