Research

Collaborative Research: Surface-Atmosphere Feedbacks and Holocene Climate Variations in Eastern North America: Linkages, Impacts, and Governing Mechanisms <abstract>

(NSF; Diffenbaugh) Other Principal Investigators: John Williams (University of Wisconsin), Bryan Shuman (University of Minnesota), Lisa Sloan (University of California, Santa Cruz) Other Collaborators: Patrick Bartlein (University of Oregon), Allison Steiner (University of California, Berkeley), Jeremy Pal (Abdus Salam Institute for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy)

Sub-daily extreme precipitation in future climate-change scenarios

(NSF; Trapp, Diffenbaugh, Gluhovsky, Huber, and Lasher-Trapp)

Synergetic use of GPS satellite retrieval and reanalysis for understanding tropical and planetary wave dynamics and climatology

(to be submitted to NASA; Haase and Tung)

Object-oriented analysis of characteristics of precipitating weather systems

(submitted to NOAA; Baldwin and Trapp)

Tropical cyclone-climate interactions

(NSF; Huber)

Purdue Weather Disaster Warning and Decision Support System

(submitted as a Washingon Project; Trapp, Agee, Diffenbaugh, Gluhovsky, Huber, Lasher-Trapp, Niyogi, and Tung; includes collaboration with Alok Chaturvedi, Purdue Homeland Security Institute)

Effect of urban landscapes on thunderstorm and convection evolution

(Niyogi, Baldwin)

Characteristics of precipitating weather systems in current and future climates

(Trapp, Baldwin)

Predictability of high-impact convective weather events

(Baldwin, Trapp)