Dynamical & Physical Meteorology Section
Overview
The Dynamical and Physical Meteorology (DPM) Section carries out basic and applied research on atmospheric phenomena spanning a wide range of scales. Using in-situ and remote-sensing observations as well as numerical models, DPM scientists are involved in studies of key microscale and mesoscale processes. Current topics of interest include mesoscale and cloud-scale dynamics, cloud and precipitation microphysics, impact of turbulence on cloud processes, turbulent dynamics of atmospheric and upper-ocean boundary layers, flows in canopies, dispersion and turbulence in the atmosphere, and wild fires. The overarching theme is the multiscale couplings among all these processes that need to be represented in weather and climate models.
Research
- Air-sea interactions
- Boundary-layer dynamics
- Cloud-aerosol interactions
- Clouds: observations and modeling
- Fire-atmosphere interactions
- Laboratory studies of cloud microphysics
- Land-surface interactions
- Mesoscale precipitating weather systems
- Moist convection
- Parameterization development
- Severe local storms
- Small-scale and mesosale dynamics
- Tropical cyclones
- Turbulent dispersion
- Wind energy
People
| Name | Title | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Aaron Bansemer | Assoc Scientist IV | bansemer@ucar.edu 303-497-8913 |
| George Bryan | Sr Scient Sect Head | gbryan@ucar.edu 303-497-8989 |
| Sean Burns | Assoc Scientist III - NE | sean@ucar.edu 303-497-8934 |
| Janice Coen | Proj Scientist III | janicec@ucar.edu 303-497-8986 |
| James Dye | Sr Sci Emeritus | dye@ucar.edu 303-497-8944 |
| Wojciech Grabowski | Senior Scientist | grabow@ucar.edu 303-497-8974 |
| Andrew Heymsfield | Senior Scientist | heyms1@ucar.edu 303-497-8943 |
| Charles Knight | Sr Sci Emeritus | knightc@ucar.edu 303-497-8940 |
| Margaret LeMone | Sr Sci Emeritus | lemone@ucar.edu 303-497-8962 |
| Don Lenschow | Sr Sci Emeritus | lenschow@ucar.edu 303-497-8903 |
| Hugh Morrison | Senior Scientist | morrison@ucar.edu 303-497-8916 |
| Edward (Ned) Patton | Proj Scientist IV | patton@ucar.edu 303-497-8958 |
| Rosimar Rios-Berrios | Scientist I | rberrios@ucar.edu 303-497-8199 |
| Richard Rotunno | Senior Scientist | rotunno@ucar.edu 303-497-8904 |
| Piotr Smolarkiewicz | Sr Sci Emeritus | smolar@ucar.edu 303-497-8911 |
| Peter Sullivan | Senior Scientist | pps@ucar.edu 303-497-8953 |
| Stanley Trier | Proj Scientist III | trier@ucar.edu 303-497-8912 |
Affiliate Scientists
| Name | Title | Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Field | Professor, holds a joint position with the Met Office and the University of Leeds, as Professor of Climate Science | - |
| John Finnigan | Director, CSIRO Center for Complex Systems Science, Australia | Complex systems science, canopy flows, turbulence theory, measurement and applications. |
| Harm Jonker | Professor, Physics Department, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands | Boundary-layer clouds, direct numerical simulation, convection tank measurements |
| Larry Mahrt | Professor Emeritus, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University | Turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer, micrometeorology, submeso and mesoscale motions |
| Lian-Ping Wang | Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Joint Professor of Physical Ocean Science and Engineering, University of Delaware | - |