Faculty Awards for Women

项目计划利用卫星数据库结合风廓线数据，研究热带对流系统及其对对流层和中间层环流模式强迫的影响。她还将研究由卫星获得的大气水汽测量值与热带地区雷达测量的垂直风廓线之间的关系，以便深入了解垂直能量通量的动力学，该动力学将源区域的能量耦合到其他高度。她还计划获得与对流相关的云复合材料的统计数据，以便在旋转球体上建立大气模型，以建立将出现在对流层、平流层和中间层的风场的模式结构。模式生成的模态结构将与雷达观测到的日潮、准两日波和其他较长周期波浪运动的中间层结构进行比较。此外，PI计划获得另外两种大气雷达探测技术的专业知识，即MF/HF雷达和1ghz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.