2008 Participants
The Advanced Study Program's Faculty Fellowship Program (FFP) is currently in its fourth year. Below are the program's visitors this year followed by NCAR Scientists who visited other institutions through our program.
Gregory Battle |
 Selvan Ambrose, Gregory Battle & Andrew Heymsfield at the Mesa Lab |
| Home Institution: | Grambling State University |
| NCAR Host Division: | Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division (MMM) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL) |
| Proposed work: | Numerical Modeling of Cirrus Cloud Variables and Other Meteorological Data. |
| Collaborator(s): | Andrew Heymsfield |
| Length of Stay: | 3 Months |
| Students: | Selvan Ambrose |
| Sen Chiao |  Sen Chiao |
| Home Institution: | Florida Institute of Technology |
| NCAR Host Division: | Research Applications Laboratory |
| Proposed work: | Evaluate real-time WRF model simulations that were carried out every 12 hours during the summer of 2006 over West Africa and the Atlantic Basin; Develop an interactive verification database that includes aircraft measurements (e.g., DC-8, G-IV and P3) and ground-based measurements (e.g., NPOL radar) to diagnose model performance; Incorporate a data assimilation system (i.e., WRF3DVAR) to identify and correct model biases; Undertake high resolution (e.g., meso-gamma scale) sensitivity studies of MCS’s over continental areas and their transition to oceanic environments. |
| Collaborator(s): | Paul Kucera |
| Length of Stay: | 3 Months |
| Students: | N/A |
Robert Griffin |
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| Home Institution: | University of New Hampshire |
| NCAR Host Division: | Atmospheric Chemistry Division (ACD) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL) |
| Proposed work: | Formation and growth of biogenic aerosol. |
| Collaborator(s): | Kelley Barsanti |
| Length of Stay: | 3 Months |
| Students: | Meredith Cleveland |
Susanne Grossman-Clarke |
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| Home Institution: | Arizona State University |
| NCAR Host Division: | Research Applications Laboratory |
| Proposed work: | Influence of urbanization on summer monsoonal thunderstorms in the arid phoenix metropolitan area. |
| Collaborator(s): | Yubao Liu |
| Length of Stay: | 3 Months |
| Students: | N/A |
Alam Hasson |
 Yesnia Ibarra & Alam Hasson at the ACD Lab |
| Home Institution: | California State University, Fresno |
| NCAR Host Division: | Atmospheric Chemistry Division (ACD) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL) |
| Proposed work: | Laboratory Studies of Selected Radical Reactions. |
| Collaborator(s): | Geoff Tyndall & John Orlando |
| Length of Stay: | 6 Months |
| Students: | Yesenia Ibarra & Sukhdip Singh |
Malcolm Hughes |
 Malcolm Hughes & Rebecca Franklin at the Mesa Lab |
| Home Institution: | University of Arizona |
| NCAR Host Division: | Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL) |
| Proposed work: | Is tree-ring response to climate changing, and if so, why? |
| Collaborator(s): | Caspar Ammann |
| Length of Stay: | 3 Months |
| Students: | Rebecca Franklin and Suz Tolwinski |
Ernst Linder |
 Ernst Linder behind the Mesa Lab |
| Home Institution: | University of New Hampshire |
| NCAR Host Division: | Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe) in the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) |
| Proposed Work: | To test and further develop computationally effective statistical modeling tools for evaluating space – time dynamics of large spatio-temporal data such as process model outputs. |
| Collaborator(s): | Stephen Sain |
| Length of Stay: | 3 Months |
| Students: | N/A |
Zhengyu Liu |
 Feng He and Zhengyu Liu |
| Home Institution: | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| NCAR Host Division: | Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL) |
| Proposed work: | Assessing Global Climate Response of the NCAR-CCSM3: CO2 Sensitivity and Abrupt Climate Change. |
| Collaborator(s): | Otto-Bleisner |
| Length of Stay: | 3 Months |
| Students: | Feng He |
Fabrienne Lohou |
 Fabrienne Lohou |
| Home Institution: | Laboratoire d'Aérologie |
| NCAR Host Division: | Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division (MMM) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL) |
| Proposed work: | Improve our understanding of cumulus formation and its critical factors, essentially those linked to the surface processes. |
| Collaborator(s): | Don Lenschow, Ned Patton |
| Length of Stay: | 12 Months |
| Students: | N/A |
Steven Reising |
 Sharmilla Padmanabhan and Steven Reising |
| Home Institution: | Colorado State University |
| NCAR Host Division: | Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) |
| Proposed work: | Measurements from a Network of Scanning Compact Microwave Radiometers Deployed in Southern Taiwan to Retrieve 3-D Atmospheric Water Vapor Density: New Observational Technology for Convective Initiation and Precipitation Prediction. |
| Collaborator(s): | J. Vivekanandan |
| Length of Stay: | 6 Months |
| Students: | Sharmila Padmanabhan |
Stephen Vavrus |
 Steve Vavrus |
| Home Institution: | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| NCAR Host Division: | Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL) |
| Proposed work: | The Interactive Roles of Clouds and Sea Ice in Gradual and Abrupt Arctic Climate Change. |
| Collaborator(s): | Marika Holland |
| Length of Stay: | 3 Months |
| Students: | N/A |
Phil Rasch |
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| Institution visited: | University of Washington |
| NCAR Host Division: | Climate and Global Dynamics Division (MMM) in the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL) |
| Goals: | I plan to work on a number of projects while at the University of Washington (UW). In addition to writing up some of the papers that will arise through the evolution of CAM4 I want to spend time on personal research. The general topics for my personal research will be: 1) representations of convection in global models, 2) numerical methods for atmospheric modeling, 3) transport processes in the atmosphere, and 4) aerosol and cloud characterization for the VAMOS OceanCloudAtmosphereLand Study (VOCALS) field project. I have a begun a project with University of Maryland Scientists (Michael FoxRabinovitz and Vladimir Krasnopolski) and University of Washington scientists (Chris Bretherton and Peter Blossey) on the use of Neural Nets trained with cloud resolving models as a parameterization for convection and plan to spend time on this activity under item (1) above. I am on the steering committee for VOCALS (item 4 above) and plan to work with Chris and Rob Wood on stratocumulus/drizzle/aerosol feedbacks and oceanatmosphere coupling off the coast of Peru as a testbed for aerosol indirect effects. The other two topical areas mentioned above are areas that I have a longstanding interest in, and will continue to work in. I may also teach one course while in Seattle. The particular course is still under discussion at this time. It may be a variation on the “Art of Climate Modeling” courses I developed here at NCAR during the 2005 ASP Summer Colloquium. |
| Collaborator(s): | Chris Bretherton |
| Dates of visit: | 1 March 2008 to 28 February 2009 |
NCAR/UCAR/UOP Boulder Locations
Mesa Lab
1850 Table Mesa Dr
Boulder, CO 80305(303) 497-1000
Foothills Lab
3300 Mitchell Lane
Boulder, CO 80301(303) 497-8700
Center Green
3080 Center Green Drive
Boulder, CO 80301(303) 497-2525