U.S.- Venezuela Cooperative Research on Climatology

该奖项将支持大学的罗杰巴里教授 科罗拉多-博尔德大学与A. Moreau和M. 环境部的Perdomo和R.安德烈森 位于委内瑞拉梅里达的安第斯山脉大学。 的 合作的目的是扩大目前支持的 研究南美洲北方的降水状况。 通过 开展长期气候学和气候变化研究 在委内瑞拉，研究人员将获得一种独特的 地理环境，其气候实际上是未知的。 更具体地说，PI打算研究降水 及其与大气动力学的关系， 地形强迫，其年际变化的原因 变化，以及海拔和地形对 低纬度地区的降水。 美方将作出贡献 他们的专业知识和资源的合作，而 委内瑞拉调查人员将提供进入 水文气象数据及其台站提供援助 网络. 这项研究的结果将提供重要的 向对热带和全球气候变化感兴趣的研究人员提供信息 气候学和气候变化。

This award will support Professor Roger Barry of the University of Colorado-Boulder in collaboration with A. Moreau and M. Perdomo of the Ministerio del Ambiente (MARNR) and R. Andressen of the Universidad de los Andes (ULA) in Merida, Venezuela. The purpose of the collaboration is to extend currently supported work on precipitation regimes in northern South America. By conducting research on long-term climatology and climatic change in Venezuela, the researchers will gain access to a unique geographical setting whose climatology is virtually unknown. More specifically, the PI's intend to study precipitation regimes and their relationship to atmospheric dynamics and topographic forcing, the causes of their interannual variability, and the effects of altitude and topography on precipitation in low latitudes. The U.S. side will contribute their expertise and resources to the collaboration while the Venezuelan investigators will provide access to hydro-meteorological data and assistance from their station networks. The results of this study should provide important information to researchers interested in tropical and global climatology and climatic change.