Faculty Awards for Women

PI计划研究热带对流系统， 它们对对流层和中间层强迫的影响 通过利用卫星数据库， 结合从风廓线获得的数据。 她将 还研究了卫星衍生的 大气水汽和垂直风的测量 雷达在热带地区测量的剖面图， 提供了对垂直能量通量动态的深入了解， 将来自源极区的能量耦合到其它高度。 她 还计划获得云合成的统计数据 与对流有关，以迫使一个模型的一个 大气在旋转球体上建立模式结构 在对流层的风场中， 平流层和中间层。 模型生成模式 结构将与雷达观测到的中间层进行比较 结构的全日潮，准两日波，和其他 更长周期的波动 此外，PI计划获得 拥有另外两种大气雷达探测技术的专业知识， 中频/高频雷达和1 GHz边界层雷达。

The PI plans to study the tropical convective systems and their impact on the forcing of tropospheric and mesospheric circulation patterns by utilizing satellite data bases in conjunction with data obtained from wind profiles. She will also examine the relationships between satellite derived measurements of atmospheric water vapor and vertical wind profiles measured by the radars in the tropics in order to provide insight into the dynamics of vertical energy fluxes which couple the energy from the source regions to other heights. She also plans to obtain the statistics of cloud composites associated with convection in order to force a model of an atmosphere on a rotating sphere to establish the mode structures in the wind field that will be present in the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere. The model-generated mode structures will be compared with the radar observed mesospheric structures of the diurnal tide, quasi two-day wave, and other longer period wave motions. Additionally, the PI plans to gain expertise in two other atmospheric radar probing techniques, the MF/HF radar and the 1 GHz boundary layer radar.