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 -