Professor Sonia Lasher-Trapp
Purdue University Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Active Projects
Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean - RICO
In December 2004 and January 2005, the Cloud Microphysics Group was funded by the NSF to participate in the Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) field campaign stationed at the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in the Lesser Antilles. This international field campaign was designed to collect data necessary to improve our understanding of trade wind cumulus clouds at a variety of scales...<more>
A New Visualization System for Observations and Simulations of Clouds
The Cloud Microphysics Group is collaborating with a team of visualization experts in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering here at Purdue University to produce a new visualization system for exploration of the multi-scale, multi-variable data sets used in cloud research. This NSF-funded project has allowed the Cloud Microphysics group to explore their scientific questions in new ways, and even helps to open new areas of inquiry...<more>
New Simulations of Hailstorms with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model
The Climate and Extreme Weather (CLEW) group in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences here at Purdue University has had a pilot study funded by the NSF to investigate the feasibility of looking at extreme weather events under different future climate scenarios. The focus of the Cloud Microphysics Group within this larger effort is to evaluate the ability of the WRF model to simulate hailstorms, with the intent of studying the frequency and intensity of hailstorms under different future climate scenarios.
