Research Interests
My research interests are simple: If a phenomenon is mesoscale, I am interested. My work began in modeling individual clouds or clusters of clouds. That work has evolved into numerical weather forecasting of medium scale phenomena, and now extends to regional climate. Working closely with other scientists and post docs, I study the atmosphere on local to regional scales via quantitative analysis, and have recently begun exploring the interplay between what is observed locally and the atmospheric processes that occur on global scales. This often involves developing novel statistical techniques to tease out the signals we are after. The end goal for all my research is a deeper physical understanding of the Earth's atmosphere.
Pearls
The mind once enlightened cannot again become
dark. Thomas Paine
Research is endlessly seductive...writing is hard
work. Barbara Tuchman
Don't use a long fancy word when a short plain one does
the job. David McCullough
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the
supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
I come from a country that raises corn and cotton,
cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither
convinces nor satisfies me. I'm from Missouri, and you have
got to show me. Willard Duncan
Vandiver
It takes less time to write nobly than to learn to write
lightly and straightforwardly. Friedrich
Nietzsche
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the
unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to
notice what we never expected to see. John
Tukey